Tatyana Sarana

Having lived in Moscow for many years, successful political consultant Aldar returns to his home in Kalmykia to search for his mother who disappeared in the Steppe. He finds her with the help of the local shaman, and together they make the journey that they didn’t have time to take when she was still alive.

Mikhail is 59 years old, and for more than 30 years he works at the motor transport enterprise, where he also lives in a self-made workshop. He has a beloved pregnant daughter, a hobby to draw paintings and a favourite car of a heavenly color. Natasha, a warehouse keeper, offers him a deal: to hand over the waste metal stored at the warehouse to the scrap metal reception center and divide the money. Mikhail takes pity on Natasha and agrees. On the road to the reception center he gets stopped by the police. In order to avoid litigation, Mikhail asks the director of the company not to file a theft report. The director agrees but fires Mikhail anyway. Now he’s left homeless and unemployed…

«Spitak» cuenta la historia del terremoto armenio más devastador y más grande (en términos de víctimas) que ocurrió el 7 de diciembre de 1988. Este día pasó a la historia como el día de un desastre horrible, que se cobró la vida de más de 25.000 vidas. y dejó a más de medio millón de personas sin hogar. La película «Spitak» es la historia de Gor, que abandonó Armenia en busca de una vida mejor, pero ahora regresa después del terremoto para encontrar su hogar. Su familia. Pero es muy tarde. Todo queda destruido por el desastre. y tiene que volver a aprender a amar lo que se destruyó a sí mismo. Film-Requiem.

Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.

Vanya, a young scientist, has spent all his life in a satellite town next to one of the biggest nuclear stations. Just like his parents, Vanya works at the nuclear station, but only because his girlfriend, Tanya, also works in the facility. When the ambitious Tanya decides to end their relationship, Vanya must find his resolve and steer himself to true love.

Upon learning of his wife’s romance with a rich nouveau riche, the computer scientist Gleb leaves, taking his young son. Trying to prove to her and to himself that he, too, can achieve quick success, Gleb decides on a dangerous adventure. Having found an old acquaintance, a former teddy bear, Gleb begins to take mastery lessons from that ... But this is not even about this film. Love will be the main thing that the hero will gain in this whole story. And she will meet her not in her native Moscow, but in Yaroslavl ...