Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?
Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.
Nowadays. Time of tolerance, universal equality and brotherhood. A trainee, a test swallow of the experimental national program "Tolerant Russia", enters the police station of city N. Young law-abiding brown bear Arkady Chizhikov, erect and Russian-speaking. A modest and quiet trainee tries with...
Plucked from an orphanage as a literal love slave, the now adult Natalija (a luminous Kseniya Kutepova) serves her ape-like husband by tending his prized cow—whose milk they sell to customers on passing trains. When hubby suddenly drops dead, however, Natalija’s narrow life of cows and rails...
Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is...
A cinematographer is a person who is most often not particularly visible, but what he is doing is always visible. The Director of Photography is a rare opportunity to talk to filmmakers about filmmakers. This is not a conversation about their life, but about the profession that is the meaning of...
A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio...
Young, unmarried, a successful surgeon, Dmitry Gorin, on the advice of his sister invites a friend for a date. Attractive teacher, beautiful creation Ana Svetlova loses control of herself under the influence of alcohol and the date turns into a nightmare.
A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia.
Renata Litvinova's short film for Ulyana Sergeenko's Fall-Winter 2021/2022 Haute Couture collection, inspired by the beauty of Karelia: its lush green forests, winding rivers and idyllic Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega.