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Sergei leads the ordinary life of an ordinary family man with a small business, but through a fatal combination of circumstances he becomes the target of killers. His last words seem to suggest an unexpected recognition, after which he is ready to carry out the lethal shot. Apparently we all have something to confess before death, and sometimes it is more difficult to live with it than die.
The 1970s. On May 9, a war veteran is going to a meeting with fellow soldiers. Before leaving, he has a difficult conversation with his son, a writer, who came with a little daughter to inform about the upcoming divorce. The father reproaches his son that he is going to get a divorce, remembers what an unfortunate name he gave his daughter, and also criticizes his story about the front-line soldiers "Station", in which the son, according to his father, instead of glorifying their feat, exposed them as losers.
Three old fiends decide to take vacation from the everyday life and join the archeological expedition.
Tima wants to gain some money for the Girl and starts working for drugdealer. When he gets involved with it, he unwittingly kills his brother.
Why don't people fly? Just because they don't believe… And once, in childhood, people could fly!
An inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?
A short film by Valeria Gay Germanika.
A stage production of Anton Chekhov's play at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.
A bunch of funny and romantic stories from the life of a military base in Russia.
Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.
In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
In the future, all diseases have disappeared, and people don't need medicines. They come to the pharmacy for spiritual joys: a languid look, an anti-scandalous vaccine and vitamins against lies.
During an unplanned journey, a young woman calls at an unusual café where she meets a strange man. Following him, she sees herself in the past.
The film with hooligan humor and serious sarcasm offers viewers to reflect on eternal, timeless values.
Follows the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement.
18-year-old Sasha is in love with her dorm neighbor and passionately hates the latter’s boyfriend, Egor, who illegally lives in their room. More than anything, Sasha wants to get rid of Egor — at any cost. She doesn’t know yet that sometimes a dream coming true is the worst that can happen.
A teenager, in search of his place in the world, finds himself in a social network group that recruits children into a mysterious brotherhood. After going through a series of tests, teenagers must prove that they are special. The next task is a real murder. Having thought it over, the hero must escape from yesterday's "friends" and expose the real criminals.
Victor aka Hammer is an MMA champion with the world title fight ahead. After running into the mobster Shark Hammer gets injured but is still determined to win. Victor doesn't know Shark will stick at nothing to make Victor lose.
The story of the growing-up of a teenager unfolds against the background of a town lost in the steppe. A little, scared man can become big when he can understand and forgive the enemy.
An unusual illness — fear of movement — comes over Dmitry Shostakovich, depriving him not only of performing, but also of composing music. In order to receive a diagnosis from American doctors, the composer embarks on a journey from Europe to America aboard a legendary Soviet cruise ship. The origins of his illness take us into the past, and everything snowballs from here: from breaking up with his wife to a denunciation of him by his cast-off lover; from an orchestra withdrawing to rehearse a new symphony, to an unexpected call from Stalin. The symphony will be performed, but at what cost?
Diyor who is eleven years old, lives in the little town with his mother. Life lost it's meaning for him. After his father's death, he is having nightmares all the time. He is not able to go back to normal life. The past again overtakes him, when he once, lost in the woods, meets his dead father.
Five friends go to the village to celebrate a birthday party. Igor has to take his small sister with them. The friends are full of hormones, alcohol, cigarettes, intrigues and fun when they suddenly realize the terrible: they've lost their sister. Igor is sure the reason is the locals with whom they have recently had a fight. The story becomes a bridge for teens from the childhood to the adult life.
When you feel you need a fresh start, do something remarkable. Shave your head. That’s what Sasha did when she discovered that she was no longer able to live with her grandpa, who raised her, but is now hospitalized with cancer. Sasha has to move from a small town to her Dad’s in the Moscow suburbs. Unexpectedly everybody in Moscow takes her — shaved and lost — for a boy. From that point Sasha begins her wandering through the big city and its lonely, hidden places.
After the death of Anya's lover she has no reason to live. Suddenly she comes across a rooster who is a spitting image of her late lover. She decides to build a proper romantic relationship with this rooster in spite of that everything and everyone are against it.
An expelled journalism student, trying to make sense of his life, carefully documents his summer, as well as the story of the disappearance and death of the founders of one of the first startups on the Russian Internet.
Despite living in luxury, Vera is lonely and discontented. When she accompanies her mother, the Countess, on a charity visit to the poor, she is troubled by what she sees, and she resolves to do whatever she can to help them…
Once Vlad discovers a strange object in the lining of his coat, he immediately decides that the insidious damage is to blame for all his recent failures. Trying to dissuade Vlad, his girlfriend Sasha turns their supernatural problems into real ones. The film explores a young couple's attempt to mend their lives and rebuild a dying relationship through flirting with religious esoteric themes. Is it possible to successfully convince yourself that your problems will be solved through a mystical ritual or will you still have to face reality?
Fate brings the heroine together with different men, but her novels are unhappy: one lover returns to his homeland in Egypt, the other dies in a car accident. There is still hope for a third. Maybe we'll get lucky with him?..
Father tells a bedtime story near an empty bed
Meek farmhand Sasha and policeman Dima have a fraught relationship. They’re brothers-in-law, travel companions, and—secretly—lovers. Over the course of their journey to visit Sasha’s grandmother, unspoken truths are uttered, intimacy is built, and authenticity is challenged. Although they may be far from the peering eyes of their oppressive society, their relationship teeters on a dangerous precipice.
Artem, a troublesome and difficult teenager, is sent to work as a volunteer at a recreation centre for disabled children. It is only when he forges an enduring friendship with a paralysed boy called Kostya that he is able to conquer his own demons.
A short film ad for Pedigree.
...Every Tuesday, at six o'clock in the evening, the Queen of Great Britain gives an audience to the Prime Minister. No one and nothing obliges them to participate in this ritual, but according to the rules of good form, the Prime minister must inform his monarch about events in the country and the world. For six and a half decades, many politicians have replaced each other in the chair of the head of the cabinet, from Sir Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, the world has changed beyond recognition. Only one thing remains unshakable – the report of the Prime minister, whoever it is, is received by Queen Elizabeth II, who has occupied the British throne for the longest time in history.
We see what is happening through the eyes of a protagonist. A young athlete Yaroslav is not happy in his life: boredom and routine of daily workouts, need of constant self-control, etc. But most of all he is concerned about a strange feeling he has for men. Only his close friend Andrew seems to understand what is happening to him. For Yaroslav it's difficult to admit that he is a gay. Internal problems become external: he fights with a member of the national team and is on the verge of scandalous charges. He is referred to a psychologist who gently opens his eyes to himself.
While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
A group of girls sets off for a remote island to learn kitesurfing. They dream of soaring above the water like their instructors, strange, rude guys obsessed with the waves and wind. The boys aren't exactly thrilled about having to teach someone, but they need the money for a trip to Cape Verde. What is true kitesurfing—the joy of flight or the pain and humiliation? And what is freedom for the islanders—embracing their own path or escaping the big world?
This is a story about a man and about a woman. Or rather, about male and about female. Two halves that search for each other and don’t coincide. He is an ordinary guy from a small mining town. She is a diva from the capital’s art world. Their meeting is accidental. Their relationship is doomed.
A young man called Sharnokhoi rents a small cabin on the outskirts of UlanUde, a small city in eastern Siberia, with his fiancée Garalma. She ran away from home after her parents forbade her to marry Sharnokhoi. Garalma is pregnant. Suddenly on a way home she sees a strange man in a busy city street through the window of the bus – a horseman wearing the ancient armor of the Huns, riding a black horse and carrying weapons. Garalma feels sick, doctors from the local hospital can’t make an accurate diagnosis of her condition and keep making tests and giving her strong sedative injections every few hours. Sharnokhoi meets another patient of the hospital, an old Buryat man who tries to explain to Sharnokhoi that the doctors cannot help his wife and that if he wants to save her a special shaman ceremony should be performed.
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment block from war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh. Fariz's relations with his new neighbors are strained by his accusations that it was people like them who failed to support the Azeris in their conflict with ethnic Armenians. The only one who stands up to him is Alik, who acts as peacemaker between him and the older inhabitants of the building. Alik has no reservations about brandishing his gun in order to keep the peace. One day, the apartment managers want to evict a number of musicians who have been squatting in the basement. Alik gets involved, but soon discovers the situation is more complicated that he first believed.
In December of 1925, renowned American dancer Isadora Duncan arrives at the Soviet-Latvian border, where she makes arrangements for her lover Yesenin to flee from the USSR. All he has to do is get on the train to Riga. The poet secretly travels from Moscow to snowy Leningrad, where he gets caught up in a crazy whirlwind of events. While trying to evade surveillance by secret services, he has a series of fateful encounters. He finds both solace and despair in the city’s criminal underground. Despite the many obstacles he faces along the way, he remains determined to reunite with Isadora.
Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape which is so blurry, and for love which is so insecure.
A conceptual drama, a story with no past and no future.
A devout Christian refuses to fulfill his dead son's last wish – to scatter his ashes over the Volga. He is going through a crisis of faith that causes him to question it.
The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family; how to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country; how to bring a country that no one considered before into world leaders in a few decades, and many others.
Svetlana is a young teacher from the Russian countryside. By the will of fate, she finds herself in St. Petersburg, where she meets a successful oilman, Fedor, and marries him. But soon Svetlana realizes that she lives in a golden cage, and her husband is not at all what he seems. Everything changes when she meets Alexander, a young and honest emergency room doctor.…
Parents of thirteen years old Lena just got divorced. Lena wants to prove that they live nicely even with her mother alone and that she is independent. The girl goes to work at post office utilizing there her resourcefulness and charm. At work everyone talks about a serial killer who keeps the entire region in terror. One night a stranger defends Lena from some hooligans and as Lena thinks, he continues assisting her incognito. The girl is ready to believe and convince others that her protector is that horrible maniac. At first, these relationships with her odd admirer seem as a gamble for Lena, but then she gets convinced that this game became deadly dangerous...
A talented surgeon becomes a target of various forces after inventing a new organs transplantation technique.