Fifteen-year-old Sashka, a combat fencer, is about to join the Olympic team. Unexpectedly, the girl realizes that besides sports there is another life, alluring and exciting, where the laurels of a champion are no longer so significant. But outside the path, her saber and well-aimed blow are powerless.
The main characters of the film are members of the group "Nastya" Nastya Poleva and Yegor Belkin. The half-hour half-documentary tape included footage taken by Balabanov in 1985-1990. In addition to the main characters, the documentary footage captured many prominent figures of Sverdlovsk rock club, in particular Vyacheslav Butusov, Leonid Porokhnyu, and local actors.
On the edge of the forest and steppe, far from people, an elderly Buryat woman Demid lives with her dog. The war took her family away from her, but she doesn't seem to remember it. Years pass, and Demid, as before, washes the laundry of his children and sends the dog to the forest married to the forester. The dog runs away to look for the owner, but always comes back with nothing. One day, Demid's oblivion is broken.
Boris, in a state of deep depression, gets drunk in a bar and meets his childhood friend Kostya. He advises him to enroll in the Society of Optimists Anonymous.
Young and talented theater actor has been acting very weird lately. Nobody understands what is going on with him and everyone is ready to turn away from him, but...
12 y.o. Jewish girl Dinka studies at Machon (Jewish orthodox orphanage). Lone middle-aged Hana, the Machon headmistress, exerts best efforts to educate girls in the spirit of Jewish tradition and to protect them from the temptations of the outside world. Once Dinka has watched a boring b-movie on TV and felt in love with Hollywood actor David Travis, a muscular handsome moustachette. She decides to marry him by the Talmudic rules and writes letters to Hollywood.
The story unfolding during one day, tells about the male vileness and ever-hard female share ... The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group "Nautilus Pompilius" ...
The loser Yaroslav returns to his homeland from a long journey, where he tried to know himself and the universe. The return falls on the birthday of his son, for whom he has long ceased to be an authority. Based on new values, Yaroslav is trying to confront obstacles and improve relations with the child. But the acquired concepts do not work well in the megalopolis, and my son needs something more than words...
In a small Siberian village where the forest business is booming, 14-year-old Lyokha wants to buy a dream motorcycle Enduro. But he doesn’t have enough money. Trying to sell his tablet rich Chinese from a local sawmill, he meets his neighbor. The neighbor is ready to help Lyokha in exchange for a small service.
Grisha was in an unfamiliar hotel. As ill luck would have it, they cut out the light. Meeting with neighbors will greatly change his life.
Once Anna gets an anonymous bouquet which turns her life around. But instead of love, she finds herself on a railway track.
Zhenya fells unhappy because he broke up with his girlfriend. He decides to commit a suicide. But there is a problem - he could not choose the method of killing himself. Jenya decides to flip a coin, but every time he does it, something stays on his way.
Gelya is a full girl 22 years old, lives in a cramped apartment on the outskirts of the city with his despotic mother an invalid, and his entire life is dedicated to her. One day, fate sends her a chance to change all that and puts it in front of a choice...
How far will one go to preserve the world they are accustomed to… Olya is unshakable to the blows of fate, she always strikes first instead of being hit. Everyone who is not with her is against her. However one day the moment comes when she has to reconsider her view of life…
One night experiment.
Victor is alone here. He looks back at his life in order to figure out why he is here. Silence interrupted by the lonely voice of a man pronouncing his own name.
Michael is a general manager of a large company, living in a small apartment in a rundown area of the city of the future. He can't get rid of the hatred for his boss Rudolf. The need to let off steam leads Michael to the office of the company 'New Life', implanting in their clients' memories fantasies that they can realize without the risk of experiencing the events in reality.
A failed suicide attempt became the beginning of a long and happy life.
To help his mother cope with a problem that requires money, the hero decides to sell his guitar combo, which is with his ex-girlfriend. But this turns out to be not so easy.
1942 year. Pavlodar. Kazakhstan. Far Eastern military echelon. Tanker Stepan hopes to meet his mother. The soldier Litovkin is faced with a difficult choice - to fulfill the order or to skip mother to son.
