The Cuckoo

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.

The Count of Montenegro

Andrey inherits a map to his great-grandmother's treasure, a gift from her lover, and hidden since the early 19th century. He and Mikhail, the descendant of his great-grandmother's lover, follow the map's clues to Montenegro.

Hop: Exodus

Living With an Idiot

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idi...

Pushkin Hills

Konstantin, a songwriter and master guitarist, runs away from numerous problems to the nature reserve Mikhailovskoye. Kostya has long lost any way of income and has almost given up hope to be heard, living by sheer inertia and often drawing on alcohol. His wife and daughter are going to Canada, and in his head he constantly turns around the question: what exactly has gone wrong? How can he put it right? Does anyone need his creative work at all, or has he just talked himself into that? Maybe Konstantin has enough energy to change things, but...

The 16th

In 2016, Donald Trump became president of the United States, which came as a surprise to many voters. Public discontent with the outcome of the vote has given rise to many versions of what happened, one of which is the external interference of hackers from Russia. American intelligence agencies are entering into a real confrontation with the Russian "troll factory" — talented hackers who influence the global news agenda, shape public opinion and interfere in the internal affairs of the United States. But who is really hiding behind the reson...

Viva Stalin

A village meeting in communist Russia to pay homage to Stalin leads to a gossip marathon, which develops into an endurance test for the participants.

Exceptions Without Rules

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

Batman

Two Russian craftsmen, slightly warmed up by a game of chess, where instead of pieces there are glasses with "strong drink", invent a perpetual motion machine... for a ballerina.

12 Months

Masha Smirnova is a young girl who came to Moscow to conquer the big city. Here she finds a way to make all here wishes come true. But for other people this way is not so pleasant, sometimes even painful.

Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.