Ivan Kukuev

New Year's Chef

Victor is the owner of a trendy restaurant, but things are not going well in it. The only hope is for New Year's Eve, because all the tables are already booked, but December 31 comes and the chef and the whole team leave the restaurant. It would seem that everything is gone, and then Olesya, the owner of the kitchen at home in a village near Moscow, appears in the restaurant. She brought cakes that Victor had accidentally ordered from her and even managed to forget about it. Victor offers Olesya to become a chef for New Year's Eve. She refuses, Olesya promised her son Kirill a New Year's tale with fireworks. Victor persuades her to agree, he believes in her and knows that Olesya has a special gift — to awaken the best memories from people with her dishes. Will Olesya and Victor be able to perform a real New Year's miracle: feed all the guests with special dishes and fulfill the promise made to Kirill?

Winemakers

The story of Chelyabinsk shashlik maker Pasha, who, together with his father and son Kostya, went south to inherit half of a winery. The other half belongs to the aesthete winemaker, a fanatic of his craft, Sergey Gordeev, his daughter Oksana and granddaughter Mila. In order to save their common business from collapse, representatives of two different families will have to become partners. But how can they do this when for Sergey wine is art, and for Pasha it is "tasteless sourness"?

14+: Continued

The story of the growing up of Lyosha, who turned 18 years old. Life asks him more and more difficult questions about love, family, duty and his path than it did at 14. And he, just as then, must answer them himself.

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Маленький шеф

The boy decides to save the family on the verge of divorce by buying an old food truck.

Hitchhiking Trip

We are talking about the events of twenty-five years ago. The young Leningrad boys then went to the mythical country of Shambhala, rumored to be lost among the dazzling peaks of Tibet, somewhere between India and China. The guys wanted to see the country they had heard so much about and believed in. Perhaps it was a search for new ideas and priorities, cleansed of the myths of the past decades.

Two People in One Life and a Dog

A movie about a married couple of elderly intellectuals from St. Petersburg. About their wisdom, calmness, optimism, patience and forgiveness. That is, about everything that contemporary people lack. That is why they themselves, their warmth and their house attract those in need of warmth, help and support like fire.