A girl named Olya from a small village comes to Moscow in the hope of becoming a famous actress to film the most popular Russian reality show, “16-Year-Old Mommies,” but she quickly becomes disillusioned with her dream when she sees how movies are actually made.
Without work, without a dream, alone. A searching soul can so easily create an idol for itself. The crystal image of which usually inevitably crumbles into grains of sand of unfulfilled expectations. Grisha and Andy on the same stool of charm or disappointment.
Masha tries to hide her mother's disappearance from her younger brother. Trying to maintain her usual way of life, the girl goes to work on the highway, while the boy accidentally finds an unknown phone at home, which again gives the children hope for their mother's return.
Varya is looking for a way to wake up her mother, because she is very bored alone at the dacha. The girl's only interlocutor is the voice assistant Alice.
A mother and her six-year-old daughter come to her ex-husband's birthday party, with whom she broke up several months ago. Their former mutual friends are there, as well as Dad's new woman, whom Mom sees for the first time. The adults skillfully pretend to celebrate, trying in different ways to hide their feelings and not talk about the main thing. Mom feels uncomfortable, drinks wine that she doesn't like, with people she doesn't like, in a place she hates. Dad's new woman takes the floor and announces news to everyone, after which Mom can no longer control herself. Everyone is ready for a performance... And the child turns out to be the most adult person at this table.
Taras, Kolya and Lesha have been friends since childhood. A year ago, on the last day of December, life separated them. The boys shook hands and agreed: "In a year, we'll meet on the shore and celebrate the New Year! With fireworks and all that stuff. Because we've never done it in our lives!" The long-awaited day of the meeting arrived, everything went according to plan for Kolya and Lesha. And Taras fell in love for the first time.
Successful but lonely Maria and her adult son are already sharing the common space of their apartment with irritation. Having accepted a marriage proposal from Mikhail, who is courting her, the woman hopes to build personal happiness for the first time in many years and moves in with her lover. Her hopes for a family idyll are destroyed by the man's adult son, who has returned to settle scores with his father. And Mikhail turns out to be not at all the person he wants to seem to be. Taking a forced step into conscious solitude, Maria for the first time makes a choice in favor of the most important person in her life - herself.
In Patagonia, Leandro — the protagonist of Felt like real.— asks himself: is it possible to imagine a virtuous future in a world that seems destined for ruin? Filmed over the course of a decade (2014–2024), the film is built arround a deadly conflict between two brothers. Inspired by the life of Rafael Pinedo, it weaves echoes of “various pasts” in Super 8mm, filmed in the 1960s and 70s, with the present.
Moyer, a man who faces an identity crisis after divorcing his wife, Asiyah, due to hereditary problems.Moyer, a man who faces an identity crisis after divorcing his wife, Asiyah, due to hereditary problems.
Zoran’s awkward, almost pointless life—which features a pothead roommate, an unavailable ex-girlfriend, and a job on reality TV—is turned upside down when his estranged and intolerable father is diagnosed with a terminal illness and Zoran commits himself to helping him through his final weeks.
Cíntia works from home and lives alone, except for the company of Janete, her robot vacuum. Upon returning to in-person work, she confronts the exhaustion and the possibilities of her new routine.
On Christmas morning, brothers Vegard and Martin manage to visit the wrong grave. As they try to correct the mistake, their differing views on death and grief come to the surface, leading to an unexpected confrontation.