Vasiliy Gorchakov

Alexey is shooting a movie about himself. He is in search of a boyfriend. Everything would be alright, if Alexey's mother could accept his sexuality. Alexey comes to visit her and admits that he likes boys, saying 'Don't you anticipate any grandchildren from me'. We find Alexey at Tarkovsky film festival, where he apparently came to rest. Alexey meets Grisha, and a stormy holiday romance begins.

Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love.

The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita's extraordinary family in their mansion on New Year's Eve. Margarita believes in the magical 13th hour that can break the eternal circle of repetition, defeat death and bring her much-awaited love.

Several short stories tell the story of the complex relationships between difficult children and their parents.

Joseph's Dreams

Renata Litvinova's short film for Gucci. Once in a year a clan of magicians gathers to "make their most important wishes and do some magic". To make it all happen everyone should put their letters in a special Gucci bag.

A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.

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

“Time… Hours… Minutes… Seconds… Time does not exist, we invented it ourselves. This is a beautiful illusion that fills our life with mystical meaning. The whole of human history is a search for a loophole in time, a desire to use Him not against oneself, but for the good." The film shows the expectations of twelve people happening in parallel on a certain day at five o'clock in the evening. A subtle, thought-provoking film about the essence and meaning of time in life. For RADO Switzerland.

An unpicked pilot for a web-series, Pavel Grinyov explains the VHS culture of late USSR and post-Soviet nineties and the phenomenon of voiceover translation. Main example provided is a voiceover translation of Back to the Future (1985) by Vasiliy Gorchakov.

Хроники видика: легенды эпохи VHS