Giya Lordkipanidze

A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.

Neste jogo interpretativo especialmente criado, o famoso final da Copa do Mundo de 2006 e os eventos que levaram a ele emergem sob a forma de um espetáculo místico. Os cineastas transformam Zinedine Zidane, Marco Materazzi e outros futebolistas, treinadores, árbitros, jornalistas, comentaristas e os 2,5 bilhões de espectadores que viram o jogo em heróis de um conto entregue como uma mensagem para toda a humanidade.

This film presents a contemporary view on modern Russian upper-class youth. The film genre is a social drama. The main five characters of the movie are financially secured and socially successful - producing, managing and hosting a popular TV show. They are beautiful, happy and satisfied with their lives. They are good friends to each other and the others. The glass world they surrounded themselves by is full of love and smiles... Until one day something happens to the leading character and suddenly they all face the real world. The glass shatters. Their lives are changed forever. They will never be the same

Liza é uma jovem imigrante russa casada com um português, com quem tem um filho. Vítor, o marido, é na verdade um pequeno malandro que vive de esquemas e de enganar velhinhas. Mauro, o filho do casal, é uma estranha criança que, por vontade própria, deixa de falar. Além de todos os afazeres da casa, Liza tem ainda de cuidar da avó de Vítor, uma senhora que recusa os cuidados que ela lhe dedica. Aproveitando a enorme onda de imigrantes ilegais que existe no país, Fernanda, a espanhola ex-mulher de Vítor, aparece propondo-lhe que iniciem um negócio de falsificação de passaportes. A partir desse momento, e para enorme desespero de Liza, a sua casa torna-se ponto de passagem para inúmeros imigrantes de várias raças e nacionalidades, cada um à procura de um futuro melhor. Com eles chega também Andrei, um jovem ortopedista ucraniano procurado pela máfia russa. Andrei acaba por se apaixonar por Liza, que vê nele a oportunidade de sair dali. Só que as coisas não são assim tão simples.

Max films his friends having lecherous fun at his own birthday party; unaware of how it will change his life. Just out of high school, by haphazard, he becomes a big porno producer. His father, a principled police major, chases porno makers, not suspecting that one of them lives in his own apartment. Hoodlums and girls from good families, corrupted policemen, petty dealers find themselves in a luring and scary world of porno.

WishMaster, Clever Lil, New, Skunk, Fox, Foxy, CatÖ this is a group of people who reckon that their invented life is much more important and real than what their birth held in store for them. They practice a sado-masochism, creating around their passions the romantic image of another world visible only to them. From the position of ordinary citizens they are no more than perverts with mental deviations. And still, who are they? How do they survive in a world that they call ìvanillaî? And why do they use these strange nicknames and carefully chosen, ominous attributes: flogging scourges or latex suits? What do they see in their hobby that we do not see ñ and never shall see, if we limit ourselves by a documentary approach?

They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.