Tatyana Drubich

A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets the others. (imdb)

The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the forest when a mysterious figure pops up and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. The man then starts to ease himself into the couple's private space. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry. (allmovie.com)

Ten people are invited to a desolate island by a mysterious host. Upon arriving, a mysterious voice recording accuses each of them of a murder committed in the past. (imdb)

Moscow in the late 1990s: Mike is a businessman involved in shady deals; Irina, the owner of a night club, is deeply in debt; she has two daughters, Masha, Mike's girlfriend, and Olga, who suffers from autism; Mark sleeps with Irina and is Olga's therapist; Lev works for Mike as an international cash courier. The disappearing Soviet Union, the new capitalism and a big sense of decay.

The film speaks about universal themes of love, hate and search for love. The portrait of three women represents these three states. Tanya Neubivko has never been in love but optimistically is searing for it. Her unfortunate and even dangerous encounters with strangers on dates almost got her killed. Rita is happily engaged and planning a wedding after a routine medical check-up, and Nadya is a very unhappy doctor who hates her husband and finds relief in alcohol. (imdb)

In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union. (imdb)

A man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent, and utterly unhappy. (imdb)