Elena Lyadova

Reeling from the death of their son and desperate to ease their grief, Igor and Polina adopt a young boy with baggage beyond your average orphan.

In a Russian town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune. Winner of Best Film at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival.

Ksenia and Maxim are two twenty-year-olds who meet in the psych ward and fall in love. Ksenia is an alchoholic, Maxim is suicidal. They have been both sent here by their relatives, who did not want to deal with their children and their problems. Gradually it becomes clear that the the two lovers, betrayed by their relatives, committed to the psych ward, constrained by regimes and the cult of work therapy, are healthier and freer than many of those who live outside.

A Red Army commander trades ID’s with a thief but, as they start their lives with new personas, one stands brave and the other becomes a rebel outlaw.

Middle-aged couple Elena (Nadejda Markina) and Vladimir (Andreï Smirnov), come from different walks of society. He is a well-off businessman; she is a former medical worker, now a housewife. Having met late in life, each has children from previous marriages. Elena's son is unemployed and constantly asking for money. Vladimir's daughter is a careless young woman whose contact with her father is irregular and strained. Their worlds rupture when a heart attack puts Vladimir in hospital and he makes a significant decision: his daughter will be the only heiress of his wealth. The shy and submissive Elena's hopes of helping her son and grandchildren secure a better life are crushed, triggering a desperate plan.

The USSR, 1957 – a time of hope and genuine belief that the future will be bright. The Soviet satellite is conquering space, and on the Earth, in a little port city, the bright beaming eyes of Konyok and Lara - a naive restaurant cook and his waitress girlfriend - follow the movement of the satellite with hope and excitement. Their romance is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious stranger, Gherman. He knows for sure that one can not run away from this country. One can only fly. Or swim. When Lara is smitten by Gherman's mysterious cynicism a lover's triangle starts to emerge.

Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.