Aleksandr Pal

A story about the harsh times during colonization and famine of the 1930’s. The main character, gravedigger Isatai, played by Yerkebulan Dairov, will find himself faced by a hard choice that will predetermine the fate of his village.

On Parents’ Saturday, the ancestors’ memorial day, a mother and her son travel in an old Sedan. They have far to go: in a day they have to visit five cemeteries, scattered across the region. From the very beginning nothing goes according to plan.

"모난 돌이 정 맞는다"는 속담이 있다. 대학교수 다비트는 시장의 부정부패를 풍자하는 캐리커쳐를 그렸다가 도리어 횡령으로 고발당해 가택연금에 처하게 된다. 우리 엄마와 우리 고향 사람들이 모두 자랑스러워하는, 6개 국어를 구사하는 지성인으로, 떳떳함과 결백함을 주장하며 골리앗에 무릎 꿇지 않겠다고 다짐하던 다비트는 싸움이 길어지면서 점점 망가지는 아파트처럼 건강이 피폐해지고 가족들까지 위협에 노출된다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)

비범한 과거를 숨긴 채 남들과 다를 바 없는 평범한 일상을 사는 한 가정의 가장 ‘허치’ 매일 출근을 하고, 분리수거를 하고 일과 가정 모두 나름 최선을 다하지만 아들한테는 무시당하고 아내와의 관계도 소원하다. 그러던 어느 날, 집안에 강도가 들고 허치는 한 번의 반항도 하지 못하고 당한다. 더 큰 위험으로부터 가족을 지키기 위한 선택이었는데 모두 무능력하다고 ‘허치’를 비난하고, 결국 그동안 참고 억눌렀던 분노가 폭발하고 만다.

Kheifets - this is the name given in Gitis slang to those who graduated from the workshop of Leonid Efimovich Kheifets. The last of the Mohicans, one of the most significant Russian directors of the late twentieth - early twenty-first centuries, master, teacher. A student of Knebel and Goncharov herself. Arbuzov and Zorin called him "the young man". Ravenskikh and Andrei Popov were friends with him. Oleg Borisov, Sergey Shakurov, Alina Pokrovskaya worked with him. Today we can confidently say that the Heifetz school exists. And how many of today's stars proudly say: I am a student of Leonid Efimovich! Derevianko, Petrov, Pal, Ardova, Tolstoganova. What did he teach them?

Slava is a girl who is used to living with emotions, her actions are impulsive and unpredictable. On New Year's Eve, she makes a wish that her husband Valya will become a cool startup in Silicon Valley, and she is "just" a superwoman who will save the world. But time passes, and the miracle does not happen, and Slava, having collected things, leaves her husband. However, the wish made becomes fatal: everything starts to work out for Valya, and Slava continues to live with the expectation that the world will revolve around her.

In this satyrical story, a rather unlucky young theater director finds himself without work and means of subsistence. To somehow make ends meet, on the advice of a friend he decides to become a director of pornographic films, using creativity and psychological aspect in his work...

산부인과 의사로서 동료와 환자들에게 존경 받는 레나. 그녀의 남편 세르게이는 지방 극단의 배우이다. 두 사람은 서로 친밀하지만 부부관계를 멀리하는 남편 때문에 레나는 서운하기만 하다. 어느 날 세르게이의 휴대폰 메시지를 몰래 읽은 레나는 그가 바람을 피우고 있다고 확신하고 남편에게 복수하듯 낯선 남자들과 대담한 성관계를 가진다. 이후 남편이 바람을 피우지 않았다는 사실을 알게 되지만 그녀의 문란한 사생활이 알려지면서 커리어와 일상이 위협받게 되는데...

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.

Near the walls of the Kremlin, a real duel unfolds between two former friends over a girl of exceptional beauty and supernatural powers named Olesya.... But who is Olesya?... a 16-year-old feeble-minded girl, the week-long wife, a blessed fool with superpowers, able to light up lamps and electrocute in the bedroom. She is a literary character living in 21st century Moscow, unaware of her own beauty and power. For the two young and rich playboys, Olesya's 'spicy make-up' takes on a whole new meaning. But what can this pretentious duel change in an iPhone-world full of infidelity, vanity, and cruelty?

A story about attraction and parting, the laws of physics and Gippius’s poetry.

The tragic and ironic reasoning about the fear of growing-up is shown through the prism of the personal relations of two protagonists. In a restaurant that is appropriate for the occasion a young man proposes to the girl he loves — and is unexpectedly turned down. The protagonists stay together for a few more hours, trying to understand what happened and come to grips with their selves. Gradually they get closer and closer.

Old classmates finally meet each other after 15 years since graduation from school and that's an amazing opportunity to travel back in time. Old secrets and personal vendettas, hard feelings and first loves turn to fever pitch.

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

쇄빙선 미하일 그로모프 호는 항해 도중 빙산과 충돌한다. 쏟아지는 빙산 파편은 가까스로 피했으나 오히려 해빙에 사이에 갇히고 만다. 선체가 망가지고 엔진이 고장나서 움직일 수도 없는 상황. 70명의 쇄빙선 선원들이 남극 한 가운데에 고립되고 만다. 과연 그들은 살아남을 수 있을까?

상트 페테르부르크를 배경으로 만들어진 옴니버스 영화. 7명의 여성 감독들이 연출한 각각의 단편들은 사랑과 외로움, 행운과 희망, 그리고 기적에 대해 이야기한다. 현재 러시아의 젊은 감독들이 관찰한 도시의 서로 다른 풍경과 러시아의 잊혀진 영화들에 대한 추억이 특히 흥미로운 작품. (2019 러시아 영화제 - 위대한 유산, 새로운 이름들)

Courier goes to give the order to a married couple and becomes a witness to a chain of random deaths.

The life of the ordinary teenager Vania changes when he makes the acquaintance of three strange guys. Sportsmen, hooligans, dreamers – they call themselves “Rag Union” and believe that they can change the world. Enchanted by his new friendship, Vania puts them up at his dacha and tries to become part of their grand organization. But the neighbour girl Sasha has her own plans with this company.

The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, happen. Semyon and Lyuba, a family of fireguards, have a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to Moscow to take part in their favorite TV show “Field of Miracles” (“Pole Chudes”), where they should make a life choice “trophy or money?” An inexperienced officer of Patrol-Guard Service and at the same time an experienced loser Sanya will have to not only survive his first day of service but also to accept his wife’s labors and to reanimate his partner. Four newly acquainted fellows must by any means fly to Moscow in non-flying weather, and a couple of young lovers must reconcile their irreconcilable parents by some mysterious way. Valera has to decide on a dilemma: to save mankind from the Deluge or just to fly with his karaoke-alien-friends in their old UFO? All these things can happen only once a year – on December, 31!

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.

눈을 떠보니 팔다리가 잘린 채 침대에 묶여 있는 헨리. 기억은 사라진 후다. 이내 스스로를 아내라고 소개하는 에스텔(헤일리 베넷)이 나타나 의수를 장착해주며 헨리를 사이보그로 재탄생시킨다. 음성 모듈까지 연결하려던 찰나, 연구소에 아칸 일당이 쳐들어온다. 헨리는 급히 에스텔과 탈출하지만 얼마 못 가 그녀는 잠복해 있던 적들에게 납치당하고 만다. 알고 보니 도시 전체는 세계 정복을 꿈꾸는 아칸 일당이 점령한 상태. 헨리는 자신을 끊임없이 공격해오는 용병을 상대로 목숨을 건 최후의 전쟁을 시작하게 되는데...

Twenty five years old Kolya starts to work as a cemetery night guard after moving to Moscow from province.

Six various novels united in a one movie.

100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, the royal family and the soldiers of the First World War, progressive poets and the first skaters - everything was different, except ... the holiday. People prepared, lived, believed dreaming and waiting for this miracle - Christmas!

Hoping to break a big jackpot Natasha's stepfather does the financial gamble than substitutes his business partners. The whole family mourns Boris Ivanovich. Everything goes according to plan, until the stepfathers comrade comes.

A couple of hours before the New Year a neighbor comes to an old lady for some salt. And quite suddenly kills her. And now his whole family, that gets together to celebrate the New Year, is to find out what to do now, and who is to blame.

Two brothers - a business man and a musician , have nothing in common and live two different lives. The death of their father brings them together. To distract their beloved mother from grief they convince her to make dumplings for them and their friends everyday. This innocent request leads to unforeseen consequences.

Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding by the sea - but Natasha's stepfather procured a different scenario. Rough official of the city administration considers the celebration as a springboard for their careers, and seeks to arrange all the «how to». Young awaits an unforgettable evening in the restaurant «Golden» with a complete set of the tedious rites. Not fight, the guys decide to spend their dream wedding in secret from conservative relatives. But by accident both celebration come together.

The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition in missile technology, the confrontation of superpowers - the USSR and the USA. In the first group of astronauts were selected from three thousand fighter pilots across the country. In twenty of the legendary got the best of the best. Which of them will fly first, no one knew. In this way, had to contend not only with the pull of the earth ...

The film is based on a true story that happened in Alaska in summer, 1943. Soviet pilot crew is flying new American bomber from the USA to the USSR under lend-lease& The pilot lands at an air base in the town of Nome for refueling only to find out that his partner has disappeared in the middle of the flight. Navigator cockpit is open, and the navigator himself has vanished into the thin air. Soviet and American intelligence do not believe in supernatural power, especially since the solder's missing parachute pack has valuable intelligence data. Recon teams of the two rival countries set out to search it in the depth of Alaska forest, however, soon another mysterious player joins the game, an aleut deity called Bansu.