Doctor Lisa

The film covers a single day in the life of Elizaveta Glinka in Moscow in 2012. Her family is preparing for their thirtieth anniversary that day; the sons have arrived, the closest friends are invited. But Glinka has to stop by the foundation she runs and see her homeless patients at Paveletsky station, and the day goes the way her days always go. In a hospital on the outskirts, a five-year-old girl with cancer has been left without painkillers over missing paperwork; her father, out of options, turns to Glinka, and when she cannot find a way through the system she decides on something that will cost her. Oksana Karas directs, with Chulpan Khamatova as Glinka, a performance that won her the Nika for best actress. Four years after the day the film describes, in December 2016, Glinka died when a plane carrying aid to Syria came down in the Black Sea.