Production Design
Teenagers celebrate graduation from an orphanage by spending all the money in two days. They rent a luxury cottage and arrange a real holiday. These two days are the time when dreams come true. The rental of the house ends, but the holiday should not end: the house turns into a fortress. And even when the assault begins, the guys expect that everything will end soon and dawn will come.
Production Design
The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.
Production Design
El mundo como un absurdo cosmos de una sola habitación. Diez personas practican diariamente rituales, caminando en círculos. No saben quiénes son o de dónde vienen, ni tampoco tienen nombre. Los hombres llevan números impares; las mujeres, pares. En este sistema de gobierno se priva al sujeto de toda independencia hasta que la llegada de un niño perturbar el orden establecido. Es entonces cuando comienzan a sucederse una serie de historias distópicas. Así es como entiende el mundo Oleg Sentsov, el prisionero político más famoso de Rusia desde 2014 hasta 2019.
Production Design
Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.
Production Design
Riga in the 30s. Wild bohemian lifestyle is the name of the game for every artist worth his salt. A young man from the countryside, poor but ambitious, arrives in the capital, where he hopes to make his mark in the artistic circles. What follows is a string of events, fraught with confusion and misunderstanding, hilarious and heart-warming at the same time.
Production Design
En la histórica región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, a pesar de la cruel guerra que se viene librando desde 2014 entre las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Luhansk y el Gobierno ucraniano, la gente trata de sobrevivir en el podrido corazón del caos, donde la violencia se disfraza de paz, la propaganda se convierte en unívoca verdad y el odio reina en nombre del amor.
Production Design
Lukas, un intérprete que acompaña a un equipo de controles militares, se queda tirado en un lugar remoto del sur de Ucrania, donde encuentra cobijo en la casa de Vova, un lugareño que le descubre un universo anarquista. El debut en la ficción de Roman Bondarchuk es una inclasificable tragicomedia fronteriza cuyos sorprendentes efectos visuales dan vida al colorido mundo del sur de Ucrania, un lugar que aún es inconfundible, también indescifrable. Rastros del pasado lejano y no tan lejano en el que los universos de Sergei Loznitsa y Terry Gilliam chocan de bruces.
Production Design
Inspirada en el relato de Dostoyevski de 1876, 'La sumisa'. Una mujer viaja a una cárcel en una región remota para averiguar qué le ha pasado a su marido después de que un envío para él fuera devuelto sin explicación.
Production Design
Production Design
Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was just announced by all communication sources: the end cannot be avoided. Moreover, it will happen tomorrow. There is one day left until... People of different classes, nationalities and faiths in different parts of a large country - each in their own way - are trying to spend this last day of their lives.
Production Design
It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
Production Design
Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1942. En la frontera rusa, los partisanos de la resistencia bielorrusa luchan encarnizadamente contra la ocupación nazi. A través de la historia de dos partisanos cuyos caminos confluyen, el relato denuncia la irracionalidad y la crueldad de la guerra. Adaptación de la novela homónima del prolífico escritor bielorruso Vasiliy Vladimirovich Bykov.
Production Design
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
Set Decoration
Ivan Dunaev es granjero y se levanta temprano: tiene que alimentar a los cerdos, repasar la contabilidad, ocuparse de su tractor y cortar la carne que venderá en el mercado en su vieja furgoneta. Vive con su mujer, su hija adolescente y su hijo pequeño. Y caza...un mundo rutinario, hasta el día en que dos nuevas obreras aparecen en la granja: Lyuba y Raya, encarceladas en la colonia penitenciaria vecina. Y sin que Ivan se dé cuenta, su vida comenzará a cambiar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Ivan Dunaev es granjero y se levanta temprano: tiene que alimentar a los cerdos, repasar la contabilidad, ocuparse de su tractor y cortar la carne que venderá en el mercado en su vieja furgoneta. Vive con su mujer, su hija adolescente y su hijo pequeño. Y caza...un mundo rutinario, hasta el día en que dos nuevas obreras aparecen en la granja: Lyuba y Raya, encarceladas en la colonia penitenciaria vecina. Y sin que Ivan se dé cuenta, su vida comenzará a cambiar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
Production Design
Lesha Shultes, a pickpocket, leads the ordinary life of an average urban creature. The only extraordinary thing about Shultes is that he carries a little notebook with him and notes down everything. This minimalist drama of a 'small man' in a metropolis delivers an existential message with a distinct Russian flavour.
Set Dresser
A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
Assistant Art Director
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism.
Production Design
A few days from the life of a Kyrgyz family in Moscow. Nurik works on a construction site as handyman. His elder brother Mansur is without work. The mother, Mukhabbat, tries to help her sons solve their problems.
Screenplay
Set amidst stunning Ukrainian winter landscapes, vanishing villages and emerging feeling of alienation between people in a post-Soviet society, Stepne is a story of a mature man who comes back home from the city to take care of his dying mother. The mother’s passing, together with a meeting with his brother and a woman he loves make him reflect on the life he’s had and choices he’s made along the way. And then, just before her death, the mother tells Anatoly about a treasure she has buried inside the shed…
