Short Stories

Short Stories (Рассказы, 2012) — watch online on iFILM. Russian director Mikhail Segal's anthology opens with a deadpan premise: a young writer leaves his manuscript at a Moscow publishing house, and anyone who reads even a single page finds their life shifted. Four stories, four readers, four unexpected outcomes.

Each episode changes register — deadpan comedy, social satire, near-thriller — so the film never settles into a formula. Andrei Merzlikin, Igor Ugolnikov and Tamara Mironova head a large cast. Segal is less interested in plot mechanics than in how people rationalize their own decisions; the manuscript is just a lever to get at that. Smart and a little subversive. Stream Short Stories online on iFILM.