Anastasiya Shevelyova

The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.

In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.

Trofim Rusanov est un garde-pêche dur et intraitable. Il estime qu’il est la Loi et que les autres sont des “salauds et des voleurs”. A la suite d’une mésaventure il se retrouve isolé dans la taïga, à des dizaines de kilomètres de toute habitation humaine. La trouvaille qu’il va faire dans ce milieu hostile va changer radicalement sa vision de l’existence.

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...

1961, Daniel Pokrovski, un médecin intelligent qui se distingue par son anticonformisme, est chargé de superviser l’entraînement des premiers cosmonautes. Envoyé sur la base de Baïkonour, il se sent déchiré entre son devoir et ses doutes; entre la peur qu’il a de perdre ses hommes dont la vie est en jeu, et l'amour et la compassion qu’il éprouve pour les deux femmes qui lui sont proches. Mais il finit par se consacrer à sa tâche, au risque d’en perdre la raison.