Russia, Current day. Gynecologist Angela Kuhlmann finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation: she has to leave Moscow and start working within a province. The city is experiencing difficult times: because of the newly built highway to Moscow, it sinks into fornication and sin. Soon after Ms....
Russia in 2000. The end of the post-Soviet era. The province of Ivanovo. The Mironovich family keeps a wake: their youngest son Andrej died in the war. His older brother Anton meets Andrej's last wish: He drives his motorcycle through the city at sunrise. Meanwhile, in love with Anton Vika is raped...
Ogurtsova, 55, lives with her mother and loves Russia with all her heart. Her decision to serve in the country's election unexpectedly leads to her mother's death.
Alexander’s transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country. Being identified as “female” in his passport means he cannot legally find work, either. Since even a visit to the doctor is a risk for him, he has begun hormone therapy to transition on his own...
Pauline, 17, suffers from sudden attacks of narcolepsy and is abused by her father. She is almost dead, emotionally and sexually, from these experiences. Pauline gets to know Ivan and tries to escape with him to a place that seems to resemble the ordinance of her attacks. But the attempt fails and...
In order to escape an ethnic massacre, four children are leaving their hometown. Each individual is leaving in different ways: with the last train, the last ship, the last plane… walking over the snow-covered mountains.
When his two mature children Anton and Linda start leaving the house, after graduation, father Michael stops taking care of his body. Anton sacrifices his body for a bed-rest-study to contribute to spacetraveling, while Linda is in search of her first sexual experience.
The animation film is about a girl, orphaned by war and the way she tries to cope with realities of death and chaos around her. A story about lost childhood, lost memories and growing up.
Invisible People is a multi-layered depiction of the unique Japanese contemporary dance Butoh that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity. The film gradually drifts away from its core issue and becomes a general portrayal of life itself, with...
The ambitious doctor and scientist, Lucy, develops the mom-ballon, an artificial womb, which disconnects the ability to give birth from the female body, thus freeing women from the natural order. Archaic, dislocating figures drive her to either sacrifice her own child for her scientific research or...
An experimental documentary film dedicated to Japanese Butoh dance: a multi-layered portrait of a unique contemporary movement within the gray areas between rebellion, trance, ritual, meditation, prayer, philosophy, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity.
