Alexander Kalachnikov

Sergei Mayorov, a virtuoso balalaika player of the legendary state dance ensemble of Siberia, whose solo numbers were admired by half the world, was one of the first in the Siberian region to start making Russian folk instruments at the beginning of the 2000s. His kitchen in a two-room Khruschev- era apartment has turned into a workshop in which he and his wife have been huddled for more than ten years.

The film "Prisoners" is a documentary evidence of the unbroken spirit of the generation of war children. This is the bitter truth about the fate of young prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, who carried in their memory through their entire lives sharp and to this day soul-hurting fragments of the past.

Ровно пять историй из разных уголков России — от Архангельска до Сахалина. Современная романтическая комедия «Светлячок» была снята в Северодвинске. Музыкальный фильм «Не для речки» из Архангельска посвящен умению завязывать прочные, как морские узлы, отношения. Дежуривший на трассе казанский сотрудник ДПС, открыв багажник остановленной машины, навсегда меняет свою жизнь («Потерянный путь»). Героиня новеллы «Тамара» из Красноярска, проявляющая жесткий характер в работе, окажется беспомощной в личной жизни. Сахалинская короткометражка «В объятиях моря» в поэтической манере рассказывает историю настоящей дружбы и прощания.

The story of the wanderer fascinated by the beauty of the native nature. The Old Believer and descendant of the famous tiger hunters Seletkovs, a hunter himself, he travels from the Yenisei to the Far East to visit his mother’s grave in the remote village at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. He will also get a chance to see his brothers, one of who has recently returned home with his family from Bolivia where he lived throughout life.

A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no freedom, no work, and no family. The path to reconquer these rights, in the face of fearsome Russian institutional bureaucracy, is long and difficult. At times, someone succeeds, but the new freedom is then a leap into the unknown.

Тамара работает кондуктором автобуса в Красноярске, одна воспитывает сына, в будущее смотрит с надеждой. Сегодня по ее инициативе наконец-то состоится знакомство сына и ее напарника-водителя, с которым у Тамары только завязались отношения.

Atchinsk, 4000 km from Moscow. In a building in this Siberia town, the residents cross paths in the stairs, not prone to discuss the current campaign to elect the next president.. Outside, the city lives by the rhythm of the cold, only the sound of the radio echos the anti-governemant protests of the capital. Those images of a sleeping town blend with some of the salaried-militants of Poutine's party. Iouri, political mercenary for united Russia coldly explains to me the mechanic of the system. The mise en scène of democratic life becomes a theater…