Semen Zakruzhnyy

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Dina is a young Russian filmmaker working on a film about Stalinist repressions and the massive intergenerational trauma they caused that continues to resonate in modern-day Russia. Together with her friend Johan, a German sound designer whose grandfather went missing in the USSR during the Second World War, she embarks on a journey to the former Soviet labour camps. Almost deserted, the abandoned lands of Gulag still bear traces of those who perished there. Although this trip becomes somewhat therapeutic for the two of them, it also puts their relationship to the test.

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The dreamer Philip is full of wild and utopian ideas. But the pregnancy of his girlfriend Marina forces him to "grow up" dramatically: to find a stupid job, to give up ridiculous fantasies. However, in this form, he is unloved and no one needs. As a result, difficult childbirth makes it clear: one cannot do without his imagination.

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This is ‘a road movie’ encapsulated in the Moscow metro system and filmed over the course of one year: a documentary film that observes cultural and social issues in modern Russia.

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Misha and Philip have been friends since childhood, but now Phillip has to move to another city with his parents. As their strong friendship suddenly begins to unravel, what seemed like innocent child's play before now turns into new, unfamiliar feelings.

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At a party, a girl is bitten by a vampire. A young man finds her unconscious and brings her to his home. But the bite does not go away, besides the girl is annoyed by daylight.

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A guy and a girl go to look at various apartments, communicate with the owners, building the image of a young couple who are ready to rent a long-term apartment.

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The girl meets another lady at the disco, who has gone too much. Calling her a taxi, the main character finds herself at her house and learns that a fashionable stranger recently broke up with a young man.

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A young guy, recently released from prison, goes to his once beloved girl. After 3 years, she is in no hurry to open her arms. Then the guy decides to seek it at all costs.

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Young guys ride a skateboard. Each of them is trying to build relationships: someone succeeds, someone does not. But what if happiness is much closer than it seems to them, and they only need to make out a loved one - right under their noses.

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A young Tajik woman decides to part with her boyfriend, preferring someone else to him. At a party where the girl comes in a new look, a scuffle takes place - her ex-boyfriend is nearby and stands up for her. The girl runs away from the disco in tears. Will she be able to find her happiness?

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A girl is hit by a bicycle on her way home. Coming out of the emergency room, a persistent young man is tied behind her, offering help - the girl has a plaster cast on her arm, her mobility is impaired. Soon a connection arises between them, but as soon as the plaster is removed, the guy disappeared. What is the girl ready to do to bring back the mysterious stranger?

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A young girl is going to a party with her friend. She dressed up, put on makeup, in a word, seriously prepared. This is understandable - at the party there will be a guy to whom the heroine would like to "drive up". But what if there is not enough experience in these matters, and the chosen one of your heart ended up at a party with a company of older girls?

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Hate posts in social networks have driven 13-year-old Maya to an attempted suicide. The girl was saved, but the mother decided to find the offenders and take revenge. With the help of a friend in the security service she finds one of the instigators of the hate campaign: Katya Ryabkina. The attempted revenge forces the heroines to come to terms with their own lives.

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