Zaur Bolotaev

딸을 잃고 최근 아내와 이혼까지 한 알렉산드르는 아버지와 함께 지내고 있다. 어느 밤, 차를 타고 가던 두 사람은 한 주유소에 들른다. 우연히 그곳을 지나던 갱단 두 명과 시비가 붙어 알렉산드르는 중상을 입고 아버지는 살해 당한다. 갱단은 유일한 목격자인 그마저 제거하고자 하지만 실패한다. 가까스로 살아난 알렉산드르는 영원히 기억 뒤에 숨기려 한 잔인한 과거를 끄집어내고 무자비한 복수를 시작한다.

1,800년대 중반 러시아에서는 망자의 영혼을 지키기 위해, 죽은 사람의 눈에 그림을 그리고 사진으로 남기는 기이한 풍습이 일어난다. 한편, 한 사진사는 여자 노예를 이용해 결혼식 전 세상을 떠난 신부를 살려내려고 하지만 신부의 의식이 돌아오지 않자, 그녀의 원화를 집안에 숨겨 망자와의 재회를 꿈꾼다. 한편, 바냐와 혼인 서약을 마친 나스티아는 바냐의 친척을 만나기 위해 고향을 찾지만, 그곳에서 환영과 환각을 경험하며 불길한 기운을 감지하는데…

The last twelve months in the life of Dejan Stanić, a former general in the Balkan war. For ten years, he was forced to hide from justice, especially the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, on various undisclosed military bases. He finally found refuge with Slavko, an old man living in a small village in the mountains. Suffering from extreme isolation, Dejan will not only have to face a new environment and a new reality but won’t be able to escape his past.

By My Side is a poetic meditation on our inability to notice the most important thing in live: love. It is an exploration of our tendency to hide from love and bar it from our lives; to unknowingly push it away, bewildered by our own feelings, even when it appears in the guise of a regular, flesh-and- blood woman. And yet, it always comes back...

Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape which is so blurry, and for love which is so insecure.

A group of Russian tourists go on a shopping spree to the neighboring Finland - only to be attacked by Finnish cannibals. We focus on a middle-aged woman and her teenage son who is shooting the film, as we watch it, on his cell-phone.

Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.

A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.

A mother is informed that her only son, who is serving in a military combat zone, has gone missing in action. A soldier who served alongside her son soon arrives to confirm that he has probably been killed. Nothing interrupts the everyday course of events. After a short while, the mother notices a homeless boy - an immigrant worker with an injured hand. She takes him in, but doesn’t realize that in some way she has decided the fate of her son, who is actually about to return home.

A novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.

Until her unexpected death, grandma Ada was the head of the entire family. But even after death, the business-like old woman does not leave her relatives to their fate. Ada's Ghost appears on the doorstep and informs that the family may lose their apartment in the near future. Discouraged descendants under the guidance of a Ghost grandmother must pay off their debts, win back their rightful inheritance, and at the same time learn to live independently. Otherwise, the spirit of my grandmother Ada never rest in peace.

페레스트로이카 이전 시대를 배경으로 한 잔인한 스릴러물. 광적인 경찰관과 그의 어머니, 지역 공산당 지도자와 그의 딸, 그리고 레닌스크의 여러 사람들을 이야기를 다루고 있다. 발라바노프는 구소련의 죽어가는 '몸체'를 그려내면서 최근 일어나고 있는 소비에트에 대한 향수에 대해 항변한다. 작은 뉴스기사 하나가 부식 되어가는 이 시기를 반추하는데 영감을 제공했다. 지역 공산당 지도자의 딸이 디스코 클럽을 떠난 이후 흔적도 없이 사라지고 잔인한 살인사건이 마을 변두리에서 일어나게 된다. 두 가지 중요한 사건들을 해결해야만 하는 광적인 한 경찰이 자신만의 법으로 기이한 사건을 만들어가게 되는데... 80년대의 소비에트 러시아에 관한 극단적인 사실주의 스릴러.