Denis Osokin

The Russian North. A place of ancient forces, traditions and ceremonies. Here the song continuously accompanies man throughout life: from mortal lullaby-illusions and recruitment refrains to wedding motifs and funeral laments, helping to live through pain, to share pleasure and to comprehend life.

Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable!

This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Marij women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.

This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Marij women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.

A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the body of the former's beloved wife on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.

12-year-old Ada lives with her mother in a tiny town in the Russian countryside. Both find their happiness without leaving their home and having nothing but love itself, quiet desires and faith. In front of the audience, the girl will grow up rapidly, learn to believe, forgive and remain kind.