Valentin Samokhin

Life on Earth has changed after the visit of alien ships hovering in various parts of the planet. Their passengers — biopages or "Vitaliki", as they are popularly called — produce a substance called "prak". Its purpose, as well as the purpose of the aliens' visit, is unknown, but nurse Nina (Irina Salikova) from a quiet provincial town hopes to help her sick father with the help of prak. After contacting Vitalik, Nina learns the truth about extraterrestrial beings, which completely changes her life.

The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders live for joy. At first, Nadia is involved with the local guy Nesha, and then with his relaxed, semi-vagrant way of life. She takes the impulsive decision to give up her dull job and Moscow for the sake of love, freedom and Belgrade. Both this love, and this freedom must undergo the test of reality, which is always more difficult than our expectations.

100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?

Director Mitya escapes from the set of the next television series. In this he is helped by the ghost of Marcello Mastroianni. The decision to escape launches a chain of events with the participation of Mitya's family and friends, which can only be unraveled by the answer to the question of what kind of director he wants to be: great, talented, or just normal.

The 60-s of the past century. A school cleaning lady, who dreams of being a ballet dancer, miraculously learns to perform the most complicated jumps. The one who helped her was a strange teacher who taught music and dancing at that very school. The outcome of their relationship was more than unexpected.

USSR, 1979. A guy meets a girl at a party. The girl is a hairdresser, the guy helps his father at a meat-processing plant. Soon a son is born and the couple become a family. The beginning of 2004. The boy has grown into a lyric poet but, nevertheless, follows the father’s footsteps and works at the meat-processing plant. A reflection on happiness gets him into a dead end, from which, apparently, there is no way out. But here in his life enters the accountant Liubov, or Love, and there comes the time of the wedding…

Lena es una comadrona y ginecóloga con talento, su esposo Serezha es actor en un teatro de teatro provincial. Son cercanos y gentiles entre sí, pero no hay sexo. Lena sospecha que Serezha tiene una aventura amorosa, pero se preocupa en silencio y no revela sus celos. En lugar de resolver su relación con su esposo, Lena comienza a traicionarlo con conocidos casuales. Poco a poco, la vida paralela de Lena se sale de control y cambia su vida original.

Eighteen-year-old Vasya Tikhonova is travelling with her parents to a medical resort near Moscow, seeking treatment. She has a congenital heart defect, and her mother has always been overprotective. But when the Tikhonov family arrives, a murder is committed at the resort. And within seven days, Vasya’s life will change dramatically. She will meet her first love, she will take a big risk fighting for it, and she will make a discovery that is scary, but grants her freedom.

Un banquero influyente está haciendo todo lo posible para no compartir la propiedad con sus hijos ilegítimos. Pero cuando se le priva de todo el dinero, resulta que solo ellos pueden ayudar a Matvey ... Para recuperar su fortuna, el multimillonario se verá obligado a robar su propio banco en Monte Carlo. Y para esto, tendrá que realizar una tarea aún más difícil: recuperar la confianza de los niños que crecieron sin un padre ...

Two friends, young psychiatrists, perceive life in different ways. One wants to do the right thing. The second is to experiment. One is a diligent student. The second is the troublemaker. One loves, hating. The second hates, loving. It's a pity that they have only one passion - Katerina Sergeevna. For one, she is Mom, Dad's wife. For another - a lover.

Five unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.

The story of a hipster who has reached power, who has become the prefect of the fictional metropolitan area of Vostochnoe Medvedkovo. Finally, talking about tile, cycle paths and the rescue of old estates can be supported by real deeds! Or not?

The 18-year-old Sasha is in love with her dorm neighbour and passionately hates the latter’s boyfriend, Egor, who illegally lives in their room. More than anything Sasha wants to get rid of Egor — at any cost. She doesn’t know yet that sometimes a dream coming true is the worst that can happen.

'Dovlatov' sigue durante seis días al brillante e irónico escritor que vio más allá de los rígidos límites de la Unión Soviética de los 70. Sergei Dovlatov luchó para conservar su propio talento y su decencia con el poeta y escritor Joseph Brodsky, mientras veía cómo sus amigos artistas sufrían ante la maquinaria del estado.

A monotonous and predictable life of a supermarket backdoor guard is forever changed after an eccentric drag queen, named Hurricane Rita, with her daring escapades turns the guard's night shift routine into a night of exciting adventures.

The drama based on hidden implicit faith in miracle unfolds between the members of the family with an unhappy love story of a desolate teenage girl who tries to withstand this family madness after their devotee grandmother came to their flat from upcountry.

All day long the TV shows an ice-hole. Ice-holes are the theme of the day, a winter tradition that unites believers and sportsmen, stars and walruses, the president and the unemployed. In the centre of the news reports are the topics of Baptism, fishing and the criminal chronicle. The president and a pike, the artist and the crit- ics, the oligarch and the law enforcement team – they all meet at an ice- hole in search of solutions for their problems. The jobless Muscovite, with bad habits, dives down an ice-hole for a wife, just like Sadko. The fairy- tale plots intertwine with documentary context, and it is no longer clear where reality ends. Remember Nietzsche: if you long gaze into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.

The main character is a young girl Nastya who studies in one of the Moscow universities and lives in a usual dormitory. She is not happy with herself and her life. One night , Nastya finds a mysterious website «No man- no problem» and orders her death.

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

Puede ocurrir que uno un día se despierte, mire a su alrededor, y se pregunte cómo ha llegado donde está, y si no está acaso viviendo la vida de otro. Sólo que ese momento está precedido de un millar de sutiles movimientos que, en el espacio de un año, le convierten a uno en otra persona. Como les pasa a Yegor (en paro, con una taxi ilegal) y a Zhenya (diseñadora gráfica), tremendamente jóvenes, amantes y cómplices, pareja en feliz convivencia en el Moscú de hoy y para la que ese año, y todo lo que en él ocurre, cambiará todo lenta pero implacablemente.