Anna Kapaleva

Soaring

Having lost his wife in a plane crash, a man tries to find out the real reason for the disaster. Forced to sift through all the lies amassing around him, he temporarily foggets about his grief. He finds a flight crew who survived a crash and celebrates his rebirth with them. Suddenly moments of grief turn into a never-before-experienced flash of freedom for him. This illusion becomes a lulling trap in which he can relive the happiest moments of his life. What we can see on the screen is an ordinary life where simple things become rare and unusual, and where grief turns to joy. Daily routine to which he finally comes back after all shade in a contrast way the brightness of the recent events.

Возмездие

New Russians

Six various novels united in a one movie.

The Lighthouse

Lena returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to try and persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.

The Spot

A story about the life of several girls who came from outskirts of Ukrainian provincial town Makeevka to Moscow.

Clay Pit

In the Russian provinces life seems to have frozen since the 1990s. Here you can hide from the worries of the big world, and heal the wounds of the soul. Thus argues Mila, having decided to return home to the mother’s house after an unsuccessful attempt “to conquer Moscow”. Mila’s sister Galya also wants happiness without thinking about the price. The passion that is aroused in the women by Rustam, a young handsome man from Central Asia, disrupts the family peace. A terrible enlightenment awaits the participants of this family drama.

Vera

Vera lives solely on the problems of her family: her eternally ill husband Kostya and her fifteen-year-old son Romka. In fact, Vera is happy with everything, until her husband's first love suddenly appears on the horizon - the beautiful Lyudmila and her daughter Yulya. There is nothing special about the latter, but, as luck would have it, it is this girl that Romka is interested in. Now she is seriously thinking about divorce and exchanging an apartment, trying to force her son to move away from Yulka.

След саламандры

6.23

6 minutes, 23 seconds from life of an actor

The Stenographer

It’s 1980s. Anna Savelyeva grew up in an orphanage and always wanted to have a family. After turning 18, she heads to Moscow to find her father, General Pechorsky, who doesn’t even know his daughter exists. Soon, he hires Anna for her stenography skills to work on his memoirs. With access to classified documents and state secrets, the government stenographer finds herself dragged into the world of international espionage. This new chapter of her life is full of danger, head-spinning twists, ruthless betrayals and disappointing love.