Ten young guys come to Moscow in search of happiness and good luck. Film authors asked them to write their bios, then gave these texts to professionals who should think out possible versions of their future life. Young but already well-known Russian writers and playwrights took part in the cine experiment: Yaroslava Pulinovich, Mikhail Durnenkov, Andrei Gelasimov, Alisa Ganieva, Sergey Shargunov, Upyr Likhoy, Zakhar Prilepin, Olga Stolpovskaya, German Sadulaev and Alexander Snegiryov.
In 1929, music teacher Paul Leinert receives an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto Schiffmann, a talented composer who has moved away from Berlin after a failed marriage. Otto invites Paul in his forest cabin to get to know his new, long-awaited symphony. Paul, his wife Anna and his friend Willi find the cabin, but Otto is nowhere to be seen. As they go looking for him, Paul notices something odd about the song of the local birds…
A sewage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is arrested and accused of performing an inflammatory song, which may have incited the worker to commit suicide. The trial unfolds in a lower court, where the hopes and dreams of the city’s ordinary people play out. Forging these fates are the lawyers and judge, who are observed in their personal lives beyond the theatre of the courtroom.
When his mother disappears one autumn, a thirteen-year-old boy leaves his younger sister with his grandfather and goes on a journey in search of his mother. The boy wanders alone along the valley of the polluted Yellow River with nothing, except a letter from his mother. On his way he befriends another lost soul: a boy who introduces him to a gang of thieves and to drugs. His life now revolves round stealing, smoking drugs and the search for his mother, whom he can find nowhere. One day he decides it is better to die under the train. But as the train thunders past, his desire to die vanishes. The boy walks back through the snow to his grandfather and sister. Upon arriving in his village he learns that his grandfather has sold his sister. With nothing but a photo of his sister and the clothes he is wearing, the boy embarks upon yet another journey along the dirty Yellow River.
Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.
Bahadir, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions.
The film is based on a true story. In the Spring of 1988 a wild boy is found deep in the Bosnian mountains living amongst wolves. He is randomly given the name Haris and sent to an orphanage in Belgrade to be taken care of by Ilke. He becomes inseparable with another boy Žika and slowly starts to show progress. In 1992, after he became a fairly socialized young man, local authorities force him to go back to war torn Bosnia.
One love, ten bottles of vodka and a town, which must go down. An aging man goes back to Sozopol and brings along his memories and ten bottles of vodka. It is clear that when the vodka is over, something must happen. Something that will change his life forever. Because when hope is gone, Miracle is the last resort.
“Dog Lady” is a film propagandized by a woman with a quirk: she lives with ten dogs in a shack that she built herself on the outskirts of the city. To some extent, this is the story of a woman who lives on the edge, not only geographically but also of her own humanity. The character remains as a kind of spectator of her own environment and she can barely interact with it. She does so as little as possible in order to survive and get by. She eats, she hunts, she has sex, she looks for water. She barely speaks. When she speaks, we don’t hear what she says. We do not know what her voice sounds like. You can see her as a hunting Diana wandering around Buenos Aires outskirts: a lonely, silent, weary goddess.
