Production Design
Teenagers celebrate graduation from an orphanage by spending all the money in two days. They rent a luxury cottage and arrange a real holiday. These two days are the time when dreams come true. The rental of the house ends, but the holiday should not end: the house turns into a fortress. And even when the assault begins, the guys expect that everything will end soon and dawn will come.
Production Design
The creators of the legendary tango à trois reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up. Determined to take on the night as if they had never aged they face the realities when their families arrive to join the audience.
Production Design
Ten figures walk around in a circle. All they have is a number. The “Great Zero” monitors them. Based on a dystopian parable by Oleg Sentsov, this film was created between Kyiv and the Siberian penal colony where Sentsov spent five years as a political prisoner.
Production Design
Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.
Production Design
Riga in the 30s. Wild bohemian lifestyle is the name of the game for every artist worth his salt. A young man from the countryside, poor but ambitious, arrives in the capital, where he hopes to make his mark in the artistic circles. What follows is a string of events, fraught with confusion and misunderstanding, hilarious and heart-warming at the same time.
Production Design
Na região da bacia de Donbass, divisa entre a Ucrânia e a Rússia, ocorrem diversos conflitos civis entre grupos de ambos os lados, além do movimento da Nova Rússia, que pretende anexar regiões ucranianas ao país vizinho. Em meio aos conflitos, surgem situações inesperadas, grotescas, articuladas como uma comédia absurda e violenta dos tempos individualistas em que vivemos.
Production Design
Lukas é intérprete em uma missão da OSCE e um dia se perde no meio do estepe no sul da Ucrânia. Sua jornada rumo ao autorreconhecimento e felicidade será marcada por uma série de estranhos encontros e situações bizarras…
Production Design
Nos arredores de uma aldeia no interior da Rússia, uma mulher vive sozinha. Um dia, ela recebe um pacote que enviou ao marido preso, marcado como “retorno ao remetente”. Em choque e confusa, ela não tem escolha senão seguir rumo à prisão em uma remota região do país em busca de uma explicação. Este é o começo de uma batalha contra uma fortaleza impenetrável, uma cadeia onde as forças do mal-estar social estão trabalhando constantemente. Em meio a violência e humilhação, ela embarca em uma luta cega por justiça. Do diretor Sergei Loznitsa. Seleção oficial do Festival de Cannes 2017.
Production Design
Production Design
Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was just announced by all communication sources: the end cannot be avoided. Moreover, it will happen tomorrow. There is one day left until... People of different classes, nationalities and faiths in different parts of a large country - each in their own way - are trying to spend this last day of their lives.
Production Design
It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
Production Design
O filme é uma adaptação do conto de Bykaw Vasil '. A ação é definida em 1942 no território da Bielorrússia ocupada pelo exército alemão. Os alemães enfrentam forte resistência por parte dos Partisans e o ódio da população local. Os Partisans suspeitam de Sushenya, um espião, que colabora com os nazistas porque ele foi preso pela primeira vez e, em seguida, subitamente liberada depois de terem explodido um trem alemão. Dois deles capturam Sushenya e levám-no para a floresta, onde eles vão matá-lo como um traidor. Eles caem em uma armadilha preparada pelos alemães que são severamente feridos por um dos partisans. Sushenya tenta salvar a vida de seu algoz, através da investida dos Partisans ferido nas costas para a aldeia mais próxima. No entanto, Sushenya está sob suspeita. Ele lamenta que ele era um bem-respeitado e confiável residente da aldeia, vivendo com a família em paz, no entanto, a guerra mudou para sempre.
Production Design
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
Set Decoration
Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Ivan doesn't notice it at first, but something begins to change.
Production Design
Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Ivan doesn't notice it at first, but something begins to change.
Production Design
O caminhoneiro Georgy apanha uma carga e segue para seu destino. Forçado a pegar um atalho, se perde, mas gradualmente, e contra a sua vontade, é atraído pelo dia a dia de uma pequena aldeia.
Production Design
Lesha Shultes, a pickpocket, leads the ordinary life of an average urban creature. The only extraordinary thing about Shultes is that he carries a little notebook with him and notes down everything. This minimalist drama of a 'small man' in a metropolis delivers an existential message with a distinct Russian flavour.
Set Dresser
A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece.
Assistant Art Director
Era uma vez uma garota chamada Alisa, que morava numa cidade litorânea, cantava no coral, sonhava em ser bailarina e tinha um dom: transformar desejos em realidade. Aos seis anos, ela parou subitamente de falar e passou a frequentar uma escola especial. Aos 17 anos, se mudou para Moscou e o destino a levou a conhecer um homem com um profundo desejo de ser salvo e protegido. Alisa decidiu ajudá-lo, sem saber que sua vida mudaria para sempre.
Production Design
A few days from the life of a Kyrgyz family in Moscow. Nurik works on a construction site as handyman. His elder brother Mansur is without work. The mother, Mukhabbat, tries to help her sons solve their problems.
Screenplay
Set amidst stunning Ukrainian winter landscapes, vanishing villages and emerging feeling of alienation between people in a post-Soviet society, Stepne is a story of a mature man who comes back home from the city to take care of his dying mother. The mother’s passing, together with a meeting with his brother and a woman he loves make him reflect on the life he’s had and choices he’s made along the way. And then, just before her death, the mother tells Anatoly about a treasure she has buried inside the shed…
