Grigory Kalinin
1983 (42 года)
Закрытые пространства
Igor Vorskla
Leonid Bichevin, Maria Mashkova
The first Russian emo-movie, Closed Spaces is a story about the newest generation of Russians. Having grown up in Russia's crazy 1990s, an era filled with constant and drastic change, these teenagers have no solid ground beneath their feet. They are trapped in a strange world in which their money-obsessed parents lead senseless lives and even kill each other. Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her.
Closed Spaces
Дачники
Alexandr Vartanov
Ekaterina Steblina, Aleksey Maslodudov
After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.
Blueberry Fields
Дневной представитель
Vitaly Vorobyev
Juozas Budraitis, Tatyana Arntgolts
Матерый вампир граф Дарлак возвращается в свой замок после столетнего отсутствия. У него прекрасный аппетит, и вскоре начинают пропадать и умирать люди. И только слуга графа, человек по имени Адам, остается жив и здоров. Хотя единственное его желание... самому стать вампиром. Адам - жертва кораблекрушения. В свое время граф подобрал его на берегу моря, вылечил и сделал его своим "дневным представителем". Адам - послушное орудие в руках зла, но любое орудие однажды может выйти из-под контроля.
The Daytime Representative
Неслужебное задание
Vitaly Vorobyev
Pavel Maykov, Mikhail Prismotrov
Войны заканчиваются не тогда, когда под тем или иным документом поставлена маршальская подпись, а когда прекращают стрелять. Действие фильма происходит сразу после войны на территории Чехии. Германия капитулировала, но в тылах Советской Армии еще продолжают сопротивляться разрозненные фашистские отряды. Командиру разведроты старшему лейтенанту Воронкову поручено обезвредить одну из таких немецких групп. Собственных сил не хватает, поэтому Воронков обращается к соседям — казачьему соединению. Задание поначалу кажется несложным. Но рядовая погоня превращается в смертельную схватку...
Nesluzhebnoe Zadanie
Фея
Anna Melikyan
Konstantin Khabenskiy, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.
Fairy
Пока ночь не разлучит
Boris Khlebnikov
Aleksandr Yatsenko, Yevgeni Syty
A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.
Till Night Do Us Part
Billion
Roman Prygunov
Vladimir Mashkov, Aleksandra Bortich
An influential banker is doing everything possible not to share the property with his illegitimate sons. But when he is deprived of all the money, it turns out that only they can help Matthew ... To regain his fortune, the billionaire will be forced to rob his own bank in Monte Carlo. And for this, he will have to perform an even more difficult task: regain the trust of children who grew up without a father ...
Billion
Ёлки 9
Sergey Naumov, Alexandra Lupashko
Aleksandr Bashirov, Elena Valyushkina
A few hours before the holiday, everyone with bated breath hopes for a miracle. The whole village of Glukharevo is preparing to welcome a foreign movie star in a big way. In Tyumen, a housewife and a future blogger need to win a bet with her husband. In Yekaterinburg, a roleplayer in love is torn between family happiness and epic adventures. In St. Petersburg, the girl, along with the long-awaited marriage proposal, finds out that her fiancé was a fraudster. As always, the fates of the heroes will unexpectedly intertwine and everyone will get their own piece of New Year's magic...
Six Degrees of Celebration 9
Преображение
Tatyana Voronetskaya
Dmitry Sergin, Alexey Ilyin
After the death of his parents, teenager Max discovers in himself an unusual ability to move into other people, penetrating into their minds. The viewer gets acquainted with the grown-up hero, behind whom there are already several journeys into the depths of the human mind, and one of them, the most pleasant for Max, is connected with the beautiful artist Vera. With her help, Max comprehends the true beauty of nature and the harmonious integrity of the world, and also shares his own unique knowledge with the girl. Together, the heroes have to go through a fascinating path, the routes of which lie far beyond the usual perception of reality.
Mindsight
Туман 2
Ivan Shurhovetsky
Irina Gorbacheva, Semen Serzin
During the Victory day celebration, the heroes realize that the themed military party has been replaced by the reality of the fascist rear. Five guys, known to the audience from the first part of the film, find themselves in a German beer hall. In the confusion of the battle, they manage to escape, but in the confusion, "aliens from the 21st century" accidentally injure a red army soldier named Kantaria. Friends understand that if he does not survive, the course of history will change — who will plant the flag on the Reichstag? Now their task is to get to their own, not to let the future war hero die and, of course, go back to their time…
Fog 2
Русское Краткое. Выпуск 4
Alexey Ilyin, Alexey Shabarov
Пять короткометражных фильмов, где реальность и современные герои представлены в необычных жанровых установках. В комедии «Добрый день» курьер становится свидетелем непредсказуемой семейной ссоры. «Африка» — история возвращения стремительно взрослеющей девушки к своей эксцентричной и вечно молодой матери. «Update/Delete» на протяжении дня зафиксирует существование обычного прохожего в объективах нескольких камер, а зарождающийся революционный дух в драме «Акватлон» обернется трагично. В «Доме на голове Клаузеверца» на голове одинокого человека начинает расти дом.
Russian Short. Issue 4
