Chuzhaya

Demons are people too. At least, they used to be. Interview with a Demon puts one such diabolical eyewitness on the hot seat to explain what really happens when we "pass on".

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

Diagnosed with a terminal disease an angst-ridden woman is seeking therapy to be treated with Psilocybin (from magic mushrooms) and meditation where she is transferred to her subconscious, confronting her old self and her former husband.

Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of resolution to his life.

Little Lojzík, whose mother was struck and killed by lightening, lives on a farm with his father and their old manservant. He perceives the raw surrounding world as images promising him his mother's lost embrace. The young boy searches in vain for someone out of all those near him to connect with. He can't get support and security from his father, from his mother's sister, nor even from his stepmother who, at least at the beginning, sympathized with his troubles. The only one, in fact, with whom Lojzík can share his lonely fate as an abandoned young one is an ordinary chicken.

In an atmosphere getting darker, and darker and almost without any dialogue, a young woman is kidnapped over and over by an obsessed man.