ARTEMIEV. The Interview

The young Montenegrin Kabir lives in Moscow with the Russian girl Nastya, the daughter of a Modern Art Gallery owner. Professional collaboration – installation of exhibitions, meeting guests, communication with customers – are the only things that now connect a couple being in crisis. One day Kabir disappears. He returns home to the coast of Kotor Bay. By and by, he is forgetting the Russian language, and Moscow, and the metropolitan art circuit seams nothing but a dream…

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

Yulia, a young go-go dancer, loses her job after suffering a seizure during a performance, and her mother, Irina, becomes the victim of a scam. Yulia doesn't despair and quickly finds a job at a new nightclub.

Animated actors and vases tell stories from Greek mythology. Part of a 100-film international project on the theme of world culture. (Robert Donn)

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.

"Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut" tells us a story that happened the day before - The New Year. It is the time when we wait for the wishes to come true. The picture is about our dreams that change with time and, unfortunately, become more pragmatic. The characters dedicate their lives to the career without noticing anything around them even their lovers' worries. Living this day together with characters, a viewer understands that it is never too late to implement in life their dreams. A businessman and a housewife; a cab driver and a man-hater; a secretary and a barbershop; a director and an ordinary tutor - everyone has their own New Year. For someone it is a pleasant fuss and an opportunity to make a secret wish. For others it is an annual tradition to make fun of oneself and to laugh at others during "Jester's Night".

Boys of fourteen end up in the Suvorov School, some thanks to family tradition, some for the sake of high ideals, and some not even of their own free will. Having entered Suvorovskoe, the guys at first do not imagine the full extent of the load, and most importantly, the responsibility that will have a profound impact on their subsequent lives.

In the summer camp, a serious war broke out between a detachment of disabled children and hooligans who suddenly appeared. And only one thing can reconcile them - saving the camp from demolition, which was conceived by the local director and the mayor for the purpose of profit.

The main character is an Opel Astra car. The car has become an integral part of every person's life. In the short stories the characters work and rest together with the Opel Astra, meet, get to know each other and fall in love, quarrel and make peace.

The talented and autistic maths student Sergei inherits from his grandfather a mysterious album with cryptic formulae. They help Sergei create a smartphone app allowing normal people to use magic – but then a most real imp comes to claim the album...

While the ex-wife of forty-year-old radio host Andrey is building her new life, he realizes that he has lost everything through his own fault. In an attempt to understand his place in their lives, Andrey comes to the day of their common daughter's coming of age.