Aristarkh Venes

The Biggest Moon (2024)

Special people are living among us. Emers: a superhuman species with unusual powers. They can control human emotions but are not able to love or feel physical pain. With the Emer community on the brink of collapse, a young half-breed Denis, sets out to sea ...

Мальвина (2024)

Talented in childhood and completely lost in her thirties, Vasya suddenly realizes that she is sinking to the very bottom, but there is no strength to get out. Malvina comes to the rescue - an imaginary friend from childhood, a freak woman with purple hair ...

Beyond the Edge (2018)

Contemporary Moscow. A talented gambler gathers a team of people with supernatural powers to win big at a casino. But they find a much stronger mystical rival. ...

Maximum Impact (2017)

The agents of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the US Secret Service are forced to work together to prevent a full-scale international crisis. ...

Graphomafia (2017)

Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel. ...

Friday (2016)

Friday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. ...

Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes (2014)

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia's restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer ...

Corporate Event (2014)

Igor, a senior manager at a furniture showroom, dreams of being promoted. One morning, after an office party, he finds the showroom completely trashed. The staff claim that when they left the night before, everything was in order. This is a disaster for Ig ...

12 Months (2013)

Masha Smirnova is a young girl who came to Moscow to conquer the big city. Here she finds a way to make all here wishes come true. But for other people this way is not so pleasant, sometimes even painful. ...

Classmates (2010)

Life is full of fun (2002)

Provincial town near Moscow. Here in a large communal apartment several families live. Each has its own concerns, its interests, its troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. They are all very diff ...