《小家伙》是俄罗斯导演谢尔盖·德瓦茨沃伊继2008年《图潘》夺得戛纳国际电影节“一种关注”大奖和东京国际电影节最佳影片奖后十年磨一剑的作品。

2022 年，顿涅茨克十八岁的少年迪马在父亲的葬礼过后孤身一人。他自幼便与母亲分离，早已习惯了家庭的空寂。他不爱运动，也难以理解周遭世界的运转法则。直到一则残酷的真相浮出：遭围困的马里乌波尔被俘平民之中，或许就有他的母亲。 为了寻找母亲的下落，迪马加入突击分队成为志愿兵，奔赴这片步步皆是险境的土地。可越是靠近这座满目疮痍的孤城，他就越发迷茫：在彻底迷失自我之前，自己能否如愿与母亲重逢。

一天晚上，七岁的索努（萨妮卡·帕特尔 饰）不经意间提及自己在学校犯下的一桩可怕行为。他慈爱的母亲苏雷卡（薇迪雅·巴兰 饰）感到十分震惊，决心纠正他的行为。她不想让索努走上家族里其他痴迷于大男子主义的男性的老路。于是，她通过睡前故事，向索努传授平等的真正美德。

一个越南女孩在欧洲小镇长大。当她逐渐习惯了既身处家园又感觉自己像个陌生人的状态时，她的家庭正走向一个致命的决定。谁会离开？谁会留下？谁在这里有归属感呢？

A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing home. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.

Hotte is a petty criminal on probation. He has two teenage children, but he doesn't want to know anything about them. When their grandmother dies, he is given custody of them, which he is not particularly happy about - but he could do with the child benefit. And gradually he starts to like life as a middle-class family man - but probation officer Benno is convinced that Hotte doesn't have what it takes to be a responsible father and does everything he can to sabotage his new start. But Hotte takes care of that himself by getting involved in a crooked deal with his Albanian buddy Ivic. Benno is also plagued by private worries: he can't father any children, but his girlfriend Tanja is desperate to have offspring...

故事讲述了“瓦伦丁星球面临毁灭危机，传说中能够拯救瓦伦丁星球的人将是地球上一位了不起的孩子，于是星球的使者玫瑰仙子来到地球，开始寻找这位能够拯救他们家园的小英雄”的故事。