Nikolay Butenin

Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is alive. She begins a grueling public battle with the contractor and the authorities, demanding the return of her son. When it becomes obvious that all efforts to silence Tonya are fruitless, a strange young man arrives on her doorstep...

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?

Dima Nikitine est un jeune plombier qui doit gérer les canalisations des HLM d’un quartier d’une petite ville de Russie. Un soir, il découvre une énorme fissure qui court le long des façades de l'immeuble. Selon ses calculs, le bâtiment est sur le point de s'effondrer et d’ensevelir les 820 locataires qui y vivent.

Saint-Pétersbourg, 1860. Yakovlev, un ancien militaire, est devenu duelliste professionnel. Moyennant rétribution et en accord avec le code de l’honneur russe, il se bat pour le compte de ses commanditaires qui ne veulent ou ne peuvent combattre eux-mêmes, par peur ou par faiblesse. Mais Yakovlev n’a qu’une seule obsession: regagner son honneur et se venger de celui à cause duquel il a tout perdu.

À la mort de son père, un jeune homme rentre dans sa ville natale. Dans l'appartement exigu, il va lui falloir cohabiter avec le cadavre et veiller aux détails de l'enterrement.

The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.

'1210' is a shrilly story of a 'small person' seeking justice from the state. All his attempts are bound to fail. He's a superfluous nasty old spot, rejected even by his own family. Going mad is probably the only way out for a totally forgotten war veteran, burgled and miserable. It still remains a question, however, whether the 'crazy' man is really so in our 'normal' world, or it's the world itself which turned crazy from its own indifference. Knocked down by despair, the man resorts to committing a horrible deed. A deed unlikely to be pardoned...

A powerful life takeoff. A career breakthrough. A renewed passion in a relationship with a wonderful, smart, beautiful wife. Moving to the elite quarter, to the "thickets" of the local provincial paradise. Victor is showered with gifts of fate, he is happy to an incredible extent. Why is it so difficult for him to accept these gifts?

A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.

Cinq jeunes réalisateurs tentent d'expliquer l'Affaire du Col Dyatlov, qui a vu un groupe de neuf randonneurs tués sans explication et nourrissant nombre de fantasmes.