"Witness"
The protagonist of David Dadunashvili's Russian drama is the fictional Belgian violinist Daniel Cohen (Karen Badalov). In February 2022, he came on tour to Kyiv and soon, due to the unfolding Special Military Operation, together with his companion (Serafima Nizovskaya), he found himself in the Ukrainian settlement of Semidveri. There they witness the inhuman crimes committed by local residents. The musician decides to reveal the truth to the world at all costs.
According to screenwriter Sergei Volkov, who has traveled to Donbass more than once, the film is based on real events. Dadunashvili, in turn, told RIA Novosti that he immediately accepted the offer to shoot the tape, having learned its summary.
"You can't create anything without knowing history. It's not fiction, it's what we see and hear," the agency quoted the director as saying.
According to producer Sofia Mitrofanova, "this is a dramatic film shown through the eyes of a person who does not understand the language, does not understand the motives of others. Initially, he does not take sides, but he experiences all the events that take place.
Karen Badalov and Serafima Nizovskaya speak English in the film, so the actors worked to improve it. In addition, Badalov had to learn to play the violin.
"Whisper"
The director of the horror film, Serik Beyseu, admitted to Metro that he does not like pictures with bloody and violent scenes (slashers) like Friday the 13th. Instead, he prefers to focus on pumping up the atmosphere.
"Whisper" (filmed. - RT) in the genre of screamer: basements, dark stairs, something creepy in the dark, "the director explained.
In a small village, there is a series of merciless murders of teenagers. Arthur Beschastny's character, a city detective, comes to investigate the case. His appearance is also connected with a personal goal - a man is looking for an old phonograph. It contains a record of the healing spell of a healer who once lived in the settlement. The hero needs to find a device to save his son - after the accident, he is in a coma. The detective goes to the manor where the witch lived, and meets there a supernatural something, one whisper of which dooms a person to death.
The film also starred Mariana Spivak (TV series "Mediator"), Sofia Shidlovskaya ("Flood") and others.
- © Still from the movie "Whisper" (2023)
"Like the Stars"
When working on the tape, its authors were inspired by the series "Girls" and the films "Sweet Frances" and "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears". In the center of the plot is Sonya and Masha, who met at the auditions of the film. Dreams of art become the foundation of friendship between girls. Gradually, the dreams of friends come true: they find themselves on the other side of the screen (one of them even gets the coveted main role) and attract the attention of popular actors, but they come to understand that the life of the stars is not what they imagined.
In the film of the debutante in the full meter Maria Loiter, the main roles were played by Natalia Zemtsova ("The Eighties") and Nadezhda Ivanova ("World! Friendship! Chewing gum!"). They also acted as screenwriters along with the director and other authors. Previously, Loiter has already collaborated with actresses - Zemtsova and Ivanova appeared in her short drama "Galangal", which was shortlisted for the Arctic Open International Festival in 2018.
"When I met these two girls — the main characters of my film — four years ago, I realized that I wanted to make a movie about them because they are so alive and crazy. I wanted to make a film for others. So that other girls see that you can be alive, sincere, real - different, and not be ashamed of it, but love and accept yourself, "the portal quotes Loiter as saying.
The acting ensemble also includes Gela Meskhi, Yulia Snigir, Timur Badalbeyli and Vasily Brychenko.
"Oh, Lord! 2» (OMG 2)
Amit Raya's film is a sequel to Umesh Shukla's dramatic comedy, based on the popular play Kishan vs. Kankhaya. If in the first tape the struggle against God in the person of Akshay Kumar was led by the atheist Kanji Lalji Mehta (Paresh Raval) due to the loss of business as a result of an earthquake, then in "Oh, Lord! 2" a desperate father (Pankaj Tripathi) got involved in the fight, fighting to save his son.
In the center of the plot is an ordinary family consisting of parents and a son. One day, a teenager is expelled from school for indecent behavior. His father, Kanti Sharan Mudgal, sues the school and acts as a lawyer himself. Because of guilt, the young man has suicidal thoughts. Mudgal in prayers asks Shiva to show him the right path and protect his son. God answers the hero's plea and sends his governor to help him.
According to the artist, the picture should be shown in educational institutions, since it touches on important social issues.
"Robbery from the Future" (The Tomorrow Job)
The plot of the fantastic action movie revolves around a petty crook Lee Warner, who has found a way to travel through time with the help of drugs. In order to carry out the perfect robbery without consequences, Lee and his team have only an hour - that's how much time they can spend in their minds from the future.
"We made it our mission to tell an intricate, mind-blowing, unique time travel story, but to do it in the spirit of a classic casino robbery movie. No time machines, just a purple pill. We hope that "Heist from the Future" will be able to entertain, challenge, confuse and, like any good heist film, ultimately reward audiences around the world, "said the film's director, Bruce Wemple, in a conversation with Collider.
The director has previously touched on the topic of time travel in his debut work "The Warp of Time". The film was recognized as the best at the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, and was also warmly received by the audience at the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival.