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(By the Will of Genghis Khan)
Director: Andrei Borisov
Producer: Vladimir Ivanov
Stars: Eduard Ondar, Orgil Makhaan, Efim Stepanov, Suzanna Oorzhak
Genghis Khan, the great Mongol warrior, recast as a hero of Russia's Far East Yakuts, and a man in tune with nature.
Sales: Raisa Fomina, Intercinema
VANECHKA
Director: Yelena Nikolayeva
Producers: Andrei Bondarenko, Nadezhda Kopytina
Stars: Elena Velikanova, Maksim Galkin, Andrei Panin
Aspiring actress Nadya comes to Moscow to attend film school, but her life is turned upside down when her best friends die in a car crash, leaving her to care for their orphaned baby boy.
Sales: Swipe Films
SHULTES
Director: Bakur Bakuradze
Producer: Sergei Selyanov, Yulia Mishkineniye
Stars: Gela Shitava, Ruslan Grebenkin
Lyosha Shultes, a former sportsman, becomes a pickpocket after a serious road accident robs him of his health. It's a job with no room for love, friendship or attachments until one day a video clip containing a message from a young woman he has stolen from changes everything.
Sales: Raisa Fomina, Intercinema
NIRVANA
Director: Igor Voloshin
Producer: Sergei Selyanov
Stars: Olga Sutulova, Maria Shalayeva
Alice helps her new friend Vel raise $10,000 to save her boyfriend after gangsters he owed money to cut off his little finger. Vel's only thanks are to be dumped by the boyfriend, leaving Alice the only person she can trust.
Sales: Raisa Fomina, Intercinema
