Vadim Rutkovsky

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.

How to make a girl fall in love with you using Maslenitsa? That's right - no way. But Ilya and Zakhar will try anyway.

Five aspiring directors, five short stories about the discovery of cinema. Each short story is an independent story exploring how cinema begins, how it influences us and where the line between the screen and reality lies. The film almanac has the widest range of genres, themes, geography of authors, time of action and even frame format. It can be a short sketch from the set, where the lighting technician suddenly changes places and importance with the most influential auteur director; preparation for the first film screening in Rus'; a conversation between friends immediately after the film; a story of a difficult choice between creative freedom and a career; and finally, a free interpretation of the 1986 film about the life of a simple fisherman from Kaliningrad.