Official selection

An awkward first date at a pub, spirals into a comedic series of misadventures, revealing the quirky and heartfelt path to connection between four unlikely souls.

In 1934, Professor Vangengheim is condemned to the Gulag on the Solovki. As he pretends to be on a grand voyage of exploration, he crafts imaginative tales in letters to his daughter Eleonora, shielding her from the truth of his sentencing as a "traitor to the motherland”.

Sometimes what seems to be the end is just the beginning.

A Man is forced to escape his own mind through a window.

An elderly man, suffering from Parkinson's disease, desperately wants to restore a family chess set, but when isolation and illness blur reality, he's thrust into a gripping confrontation with the death itself.

Inside a cold and rusty bunker, Irina and Georgi endure the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.