Minsk

Maria is the prototype of the woman from Moldova: she lived her life next to a depraved, petty husband, who abused her physically and psychologically, being sure that these things are normal in society and the woman must endure and endure.

Conrad Harland is the country's top astronomer in the year 2035, and he alone has access to the most powerful observatory in the world. One night both he and his co-worker Michelle Quinton discover a catastrophic event on the horizon that is sure to bring the end the universe. And with them having the most powerful view into the stars, nobody else will see it coming until it's too late. The two are conflicted as they try to come to terms with the fate of humanity, while also trying to not let the grim truth get out.

They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of investors, colleagues, friends and family, searching for money to finish his film. They Shoot Movies, Don't They? offers a line-blurring examination of what one might give up, in order to succeed.

A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.

They say that the world got silent. They say that you went far away, with the cries, the laughs, the tomorrows. But Oscar, he hears them whisper at night. Behind the walls, far from the men, at the end of the corridor...