The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.

Running from war, Lyuba, a Ukrainian little girl, is always holding her teddy bear Yuri in her arms – it represents the need to hold on to memories and certainties. Once in Italy, she meets Bruna, a former circus performer, who takes her into a world of magic and fantasy. One day, the boundary between reality and imagination breaks, and Lyuba must cope with her fears to regain hope.

Creative differences arise during rehearsal of a play about a love affair.

Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the director's theatrical nature clashes with the movie star's Hollywood attitude, they must figure out how to make this work because on way or another, the show must go on!

About how music brought the little animals together.

An ageing actor making his debut as director and playwright for a small local theatre is doing a new adaptation of a now popular book. We enter into a rehearsal session with him and the lead actress where his vision for the play is questioned by a stage critic.

After Evgeny Mravinsky, Yuri Temirkanov is one of the main representatives of Russian music. He is the current principal conductor of the Mariinsky's Orchestra and conducted St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra during twelve years. During the Verbier Festival 2011 he performed with the great Yuja Wang in a programme including Liadov, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.

Andrey Konchalovsky's project "the Burden of power" is about unpopular decisions of heads of state and political figures in power. The heroes of the cycle "Burden of power" can not be called fighters for liberal ideas, but they paradoxically had a huge impact on the fate and development of their countries. "I am very interested in documentaries. It has a different function than the artistic one. I can Express my thoughts directly here. In documentaries, I speak in the first person, and I am responsible for my words. I am seriously concerned with the relationship between power and culture. The "Burden of power"series is about people who are most often perceived from the point of view of cliches ("Secretary of the Central Committee"," dictator"), and little thought is given to what role they played in the life of the nation."

First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.