A special screening for Victory Day will gather short novellas based on veterans' memories. The almanac features stories about children, scouts, cooks, front-line soldiers, and ordinary people whose actions during the war became quiet feats, personal choices, and part of a larger memory understood by audiences of different generations. Short military novellas allow us to speak about the past through specific human destinies. At the center of the almanac is not an abstract story, but people faced with difficult choices: to wait for the impossible, to risk themselves for others, to share their last, to maintain resourcefulness and dignity where ordinary life is collapsing around them. This format helps to see the Great Patriotic War not only through dates and battles but also through private episodes, where the price of courage is especially clear.