Aleksandra Revenko

Liza, a young and optimistic woman, arrives in Saint Petersburg for the first time, enchanted by the city's poetic bridges, legendary embankments, and vibrant bohemian parties. As the day unfolds, unexpected connections form, leading Liza to discover that love might be found in the most unforeseen circumstances.

Dasha, at first glance, does not have a life, but a fairy tale. She holds a high position in the Ministry of Culture, and the young man who bought an apartment for their future family is in love with her. But in reality, not everything is going smoothly at work, the new apartment overlooks a vacant lot, and the lover is more interested in his mother's opinion. Dasha decides to escape - on a business trip around the Perm region. The young bar owner Sergey becomes her unexpected companion. Now people who are strangers to each other will have to travel through Perm cities and villages, meeting people who are alien to the ambitions and bustle of the metropolis.

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.

The Kazakh village Karatas has long been subjugated by a criminal boss called Poshaev. He provides housing and jobs for the locals but will ruthlessly execute anyone who dares to oppose him. This is the lesson the pauper Arzu is about to learn first-hand—his wife Karina has informed the police about the crimes that are taking place there. Arzu is a cripple; now he must raise his little daughter alone. He is so helpless and grief-stricken that he doesn’t even seem to be contemplating revenge. Poshaev takes him under his wing and offers him the position of a guard at a building site. Soon Arzu has a chance to prove his loyalty, and he becomes Poshaev’s right hand. But where do Arzu’s real loyalties lie—with his boss or with the idea of justice?

Slava is a girl who is used to living with emotions, her actions are impulsive and unpredictable. On New Year's Eve, she makes a wish that her husband Valya will become a cool startup in Silicon Valley, and she is "just" a superwoman who will save the world. But time passes, and the miracle does not happen, and Slava, having collected things, leaves her husband. However, the wish made becomes fatal: everything starts to work out for Valya, and Slava continues to live with the expectation that the world will revolve around her.

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality.

What happened to Ophelia two minutes before death? What did Lady Macbeth do in prison? What if Romeo had a girlfriend before Juliet? What if the heroes of various plays know each other?

According to the plot, the film takes place in the near future. Where the overpopulation of the planet has led to the movement of people to digital format and finding them in the "cloud". This is the story of a girl who travels in a virtual world, a simulation of reality, together with her boyfriend. Everything is possible in this world. Even to feel the love of a person who is no longer alive.