Nikolay Yankin

The Cage is Looking for a Bird

In a small Chechen village, Yaha spends her days with Madina, with whom she is very close. Both girls dream of leaving their homes after graduation and escaping to the real world, far from their village. Yaha’s older sister Heda also dreams of being free, but the price for this is very high - if she decides to try for a divorce, her only son will be taken away from her, such are the traditions in her culture. Will Yaha, Madina and Heda succeed to get free, and at what cost?

Ties

A young woman is engaged to a much older truck driver who promises to build a house for the two of them. A film in the Cabardino language.

Zhenya and Vanya At The Edge Of The World

Zhenya is the head of the weather station, Vanya is a junior meteorologist and household assistant. The ship "Mikhail Somov" comes to the Kanin Peninsula once a year, delivers food - and then the heroes are left alone until next spring. One day a storm comes to them - and the heroes are left without communication, alone, alone with bad weather and each other for 3 long days.

Fairytale

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.

Alive

Ever since he was a child, Dmitry was finding soldiers that went missing during the World War II, keeping their memory alive. Now he immortalizes the lost soldiers as sculptures, frozen in battle. What did they fight for? Why did they come back into this wretched world?

Tembot

Tembot's dream is to be needed, and, finally, to take his place at least in someone's heart. But in the coveted maternal, there is not even a corner for him, because because of the resemblance to her father, she rejects him over and over again. He is also excluded from the heart of a close friend - he sets him up in a big way. There is no place for an insensitive father, whom he misses. This pain gives him a new beginning...

To Stumble

The "To Stumble" comedy is based on "Death of an Official" story by Anton Chekhov. Trying to catch the ironic intonation of the writer, in whom the comedic side by side with the tragic, the director blurs the boundaries of time and talks about the present day.

Deep Rivers

The youngest son returns home to help his father and brothers meet the targets for a profitable order on cut wood. During his absence nothing has changed: the same back-breaking toil for the sake of a piece of bread, the same resistance from the neighbouring settlement, the same inability of the family members to express their love and understanding for their kin. And the river, which may rise at any time and wash away the parental home that stands on its banks.

Closeness

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.

Sofichka

Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village in Georgia after twenty years of absence. Seeing again home and meeting with villagers take her to memory lane and all Sofichka’s life passes before her eyes: her wedding with Rufus, betrayal of the neighbour Nuri, difficult years of war, exile in Siberia. But in spite of everything, in spite of all the tough experiences, Sofichka continues to believe in people and in life, staying true to the memory of her husband who died young.

One Summer

11-year old Sashka is spending his summer at his grandma's together with his elder brother, and they both happen to fall for the same girl.

Magic Komsomolets

He was arrested on the night of December 2 to 3, 1934. It's amazing, even 3 hours ago he was hotly arguing with the film's director Abram Room, how to play the key scene of the film "Strict Young Man"! The damned phrase about suffering and mercy did not work out in any way... Mercy and justice, now Dmitry Konsovsky will have to rely only on them. Yesterday he was the leading actor of the studio "Mezhrabpom-film", who has a dozen films on his account, the performer of the main role in the new film "Strict Young Man", an artist of the Vakhtangov Theater, today he is a prisoner of the Butyrskaya prison. His brother, the artist Alexey Konsovsky, died in 1991, but he could not get permission to get acquainted with his brother's investigative case, did not find out what his last words were. Now, 70 years later, Alexey Konsovsky's grandson, Nikolai Vershinin-Konsovsky, will tell us about all the dramatic events.