Valentyna Oliynyk

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

Los miembros de una familia de granjeros repiten las mismas líneas de diálogo mientras un estudiante se prepara para irse de su casa y estudiar; en una interminable fiesta de bodas los invitados no dejan de hablar maniáticamente mientras que el fantasma del novio interfiere en la ceremonia. (

A couple of post-Soviet slackers want to record a video message for their friends who have moved to the United States. Muratova’s view of different types of freedom and pleasure.

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odessa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusually affectionate and cozy relationship, decide to try and adopt the little one. What they must go through to accomplish that goal is anything but straightforward.

Retrato profundo e ingenioso de la «condición humana» que afligía a la sociedad rusa contemporánea.

A tragicomic story about a long going duel between experienced detective and young and pretty girl in the start of her grafter career.

A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.