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Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Zina is nice on the surface, but so unable to enjoy normal life, that she is desperately trying to hurt someone. She tries to seduce and compromise a handsome young man, but he is smart enough to see through her and escapes from her trap. Zina manipulates her classmates so she looks like a victim. Now Zina's teacher, Vera, a sweet and loving lady, takes care of her trying to save the troubled girl, but in return, Zina becomes extremely crafty to hurt the teacher.

Jordi was born 51 years ago with cerebral palsy. Although he can’t speak, he tries to communicate using his letter chart. That’s how he tells Maider, the director of the film, that at the age of 21 he felt God talking to him for the first time. But today, now that he has moved out of his parent’s house into a home, he no longer feels God. Once a year, Jordi makes a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, where he searches for his connection with God, despite not knowing if God will come back one day.

The time for letters has passed. The last words that came from the Gulag became a document. The time for letters stopped then, but continues to shudder today. Evil repeats itself invariably. We try to remember events and destinies, but the unceremonious history teaches nothing. Letters from eternity. Letters to the future.

A farmer challenges his comrades to raise production and fight the kulaks who resist the new order. A Kinopoezd - Cinetrain production.

A man researches the death of his political activist father while in police custody.

They still exist: young people who know how to write a love letter. Five people in their twenties read aloud the most intimate letter they've ever written.

Charming young Olga marries a successful businessman. It is surrounded by luxury and well-being. A wealthy husband is ready to fulfill any whim of a beautiful wife. Olga is an airy woman who is fond of doing herbariums, sewing dolls, reciting poems to servants and loves her oligarch husband very much.

Brazil and Angola while on either side of the Atlantic Ocean have the same language, a common colonial past and many shared stories. In this film, correspondence is exchanged between these two places – some people are longtime friends, others have never met. Their stories intertwine and tell about migration, nostalgia, belonging, war, prejudice, exile and distance. The search for identity and flow of memory are driven by the line of affection that binds the seven pairs of speakers presented in this documentary, people whose life stories are traced between Brazil, Angola and Portugal.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Slobodan meets his father Nenad for the first time in twenty-five years to discuss signing over the deed of the house, which Nenad wants to leave him. Their relationship has been strained ever since Nenad left Croatia during the war in the nineties.

Children answer the question, what is Russia. A difficult question, interesting and laid-back answers, developing into a kind of letter to future descendants.

Behind the dark, sensuous and almost hallucinatory images, a grim story is smouldering about a school teacher and social activist, who after a questionable trial was convicted for killing four police officers in a Mexican province.

Through travel records I write a love letter.

The letters of an immigrant from Gytheio who went to America at the turn of the 20th century.