Daniil Pugaev

Once Vlad discovers a strange object in the lining of his coat, he immediately decides that the insidious damage is to blame for all his recent failures. Trying to dissuade Vlad, his girlfriend Sasha turns their supernatural problems into real ones. The film explores a young couple's attempt to mend their lives and rebuild a dying relationship through flirting with religious esoteric themes. Is it possible to successfully convince yourself that your problems will be solved through a mystical ritual or will you still have to face reality?

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Five dreams against the walls of a never-sleeping city. The film is a mosaic about the sleepers and the awakened. What kind of Muscovites are they? Thinking, contemplating, doubting, loving and dreaming? What they see when they close their eyes is more important than what they see when they open them.

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In the dead of night, Olya tries to find out: who is Sveta, whom her husband Kolya calls in his sleep? The search for Sveta will reveal many sore points in the shaky relationships of the young family, but the coming wise morning will put everything in its place.

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Former classmates Masha and Pasha are trying to sort out their feelings and the past once again, they are not doing well. Pasha has a child and an unloved wife now, Masha has a new man who beats her. Maybe this is the meeting when they will be able to get out of this circle of unhappiness?

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A man and a woman are fishing on a remote lake, unaware of how their fishing trip will end. When the sun sets, the inevitable will happen.

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Egor lives in a small seaside town and is graduating from high school this spring. He cannot stand the routine of his life much longer, and with his loyal friends Kisa and Hank, they start to look for excitement in their small town.

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The Ferris wheel is a good place for a last date, because the circle describes all the stages of a relationship. At the bottom, you go into a booth together, go up to the peak, and then everything goes down again. Moreover, no matter how much you swear at the top, you still have to get out of it together at the bottom. During this time, the characters manage to piss each other off, drink, make a wish, swear, hug goodbye and even literally leave the heart.

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Minsk, August 2020. Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of peaceful protests. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people are victims of police brutality.

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A subtle melodrama in the old style about youth, memories and the first infatuation that never stops to shine. It is a story about the encounter between two separate universes, of a Russian student and an American researcher, in a tent in nature amidst stunning landscapes of the Caucasus. It begins well and ends well, too. The visual form which illustrates the film contents is an experiment with the format and the use of black, white and colour. With a scent of nostalgia, this cinema evokes the spirit of narration that is rare nowadays. It pays tribute to an old-style romance and is an expression of longing for the little big experiences in life.

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The comedy melodrama in mockumentary format. Maria is seriously ill preparing for death: chooses a coffin, buys a dress, orders a place in the cemetery. Despite his wife has already reconciled to the destiny, Peter is secretly looking for money to pay for expensive treatment abroad.

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Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters.

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Yury Butusov’s final Moscow production is this multi-award-winning work based on Nikolai Gogol’s “Government Inspector.” The play deftly delves into the dual impossibilities of both accepting reality and escaping from it. As with many of Butusov’s stagings, chaos and pathos are seamlessly interwoven, with art presented as both freeing and healing.

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