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The young Soviet country is becoming a country of unique opportunities, labor and cultural victories. Bashkortostan, as the first republic to become part of the new Russia, is experiencing its heyday. Science and culture are developing rapidly. Art is getting closer to the people. The sudden murder of Kirov causes a wave of party purges. The flywheel of repression is inexorably unwinding…

In a small, snow-covered town in Belarus, a former English teacher manages to scrape a living distributing leaflets to people’s letterboxes. In the evening, he joins his wife in their dingy apartment, and together they reminisce about their son, a student in Minsk they rarely see. Possibly their only excitement of the week is buying a lottery ticket, which, for a few seconds, gives them a chance to dream. Yuliya Shatun’s camera, at first oddly focused on the white expanses along every roadside, then begins to scrutinise the teacher in his comings and goings – a precise recording with, however, a hint of the moroseness of a terrain so rare in today’s cinema. The teacher has stoically adapted to a degenerate world and a life fuelled by stifled shame. An odour of neglect wafts between the apartment blocks, the uttered words and the background noise of the television. A certain irony floats in the air too, and it needs Yuliya Shatun’s patience to grasp and take responsibility for it.

Hate posts in social networks have driven 13-year-old Maya to an attempted suicide. The girl was saved, but the mother decided to find the offenders and take revenge. With the help of a friend in the security service she finds one of the instigators of the hate campaign: Katya Ryabkina. The attempted revenge forces the heroines to come to terms with their own lives.

A young boy falls in love with his school teacher and desperately tries to attract her attention. Very soon the teacher shows an interest in this boy and realizes, that he stands out in a crowd. She feels something…but it’s not to the boy’s classmates liking. This can’t continue. This story describes the possibility of high and chaste feelings between people of different ages and shows, how these feelings can transform a person, making it better.

About the love of Lenin and the Finnish girl Mariot, from whom he had a child, who subsequently disappeared without a trace.

Nina is a successful family woman, but she has her “Achilles’ Heel”: her younger sister, the reckless Alla. Nobody understands why Nina looks after her all the time. One day Nina’s patience comes to an end, but she has to face a difficult choice...

European journalist visits Russia for the fist time. By chance he picks up a phone call at his fellow journalist Moscow office and this call sharply and irrevocably changes his life. He travels to a strange and ghostly provincial Russian town which seems to be real but couldn't be found on any road map. He meets there his dreams and fantasies, his love and his final day. By taking the identity of his friend he enters the ultimate adventure of living somebody Else's life and experiencing somebody Else's fate. But a price for that is his own life.

A contemporary story set in a deep Russian province.

Estranged siblings meet again at their father's funeral. The brother appears aloof, while the sister is clearly hurt and resentful towards her brother. Now that both their parents are gone, nothing binds them, so then why is it so hard for them together.

The Bolshoi with Alexei Ratmansky, revive Shostakovich’s ballet

The action of the play has been transferred to our time. Can a lie be a salvation? Is it possible to save a person by lying?

New project by Vincent Cespedes

A documentary fiction propaganda film about the famine in Ukraine in 1921-1922. Among the causes of the catastrophe, in addition to drought, the film mentions the consequences of revolutionary events. It shows swollen children, destroyed factories and plants, burning villages, dead cattle, and a number of actions aimed at helping the victims: the work of the Commission for the Relief of the Starving under the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, the organization of feeding stations, workers donating their three-day salary to help the famine victims, etc. The very first film made in Odesa under the auspices of the newly founded VUFKU in nationalized pavilions that until recently belonged to film magnates Kharytonov and Borysov.

A Russian family lives in an Abkhazian town, which was destroyed by the war. They grow hazelnuts for sale and hope to get rich thanks to the sudden "nut fever", the soaring prices of Abkhazian nuts. But a gang appears in the village stealing nuts.

Academic work of 4th courses of training of Kabardino-Balkarian State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).

Masha tries to hide her mother's disappearance from her younger brother. Trying to maintain her usual way of life, the girl goes to work on the highway, while the boy accidentally finds an unknown phone at home, which again gives the children hope for their mother's return.

She loved to receive flowers from him as a gift. He liked to give her flowers. She died years ago. He continues to give flowers to the one who looks like her. Taking your life in return...

The world of the novel is fully and completely hanged around the unique instrument which got through all horrors of the war. The story begins in a violin shop in Nuremberg, where in the beginning of the XX century the violin was created. Hundred years later, through the hands of various owners, the violin finally ends up at the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem.

Pavel Vladimirovich Savin (nickname Sova — the Owl) has long wanted to leave his business. To this end he advances Denis for the post of city head. Things are going smoothly, but suddenly Denis is kidnapped by his own employees. As he is taken away in an unknown direction, Denis tries to remember what it is that he has done to draw all these troubles upon himself.

Spending his days in a cheap hotel, medical student Klochkov entertains himself by mistreating his meek roommate Anyuta.

Having come to visit a friend, Zhanna encounters a force which she can’t stand up against.

Ksenia Rappoport’s shrill monologue about the horror of a beautiful woman growing old, which turns into a lyrical and light story about love.

Anna has a sweetheart and a beloved mother. An insane attachment to the mother, who doesn't want to let her daughter go, prevents her from a relationship whit the man, and gives her no chance to lead an independent life.

A stage adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky, directed by Alexander Marin.

During one night in the coldest city on the planet, a man is forced to cross the boundaries of the imaginable in order to save his wife, kidnapped by a mysterious stranger. When a stranger kidnaps a wife, her husband has no choice but to comply with the demands of the kidnapper. The price for the life of a spouse is six people killed before dawn. But who are these six? Do they deserve a harsh sentence? And what boundaries of his conscience is a man willing to cross for the love of his life? In the coldest city in the world, the nights seem endless in winter and you can't wait for the sunrise.

About how a dreamy Russian girl, an elderly American DJ and a pregnant Romanian woman changed their fates.

A lyrical serene drama dedicated to love and loneliness

About a young guy who lives in the pre-war town with his sick mother. At night, he works at the bakery. Once a colleague asked to look after her daughter. After spending the whole day with the girl, the young man is going to return her to his parents, but finds them dead.

Muscovite Andrey Kotelnikov works as a security guard in a jewelry salon and is going to resume his interrupted studies at a medical school. Unexpectedly, an army friend comes to visit him from Siberia. Having found out from Andrey information about his work schedule and the collection system of the jewelry salon, the Siberian organizes a robbery, provides himself with an alibi and arranges everything so that Andrey becomes the main suspect in this case. Cornered, Andrei escapes from custody and, in the company of the thief Yana, goes to Siberia in the hope of regaining his honest name…

Love and death... The choice is difficult. Especially if you are 18.

In a Kafkaesque story about identity and free will, a well-to-do man finds himself suddenly struggling for his place in society in the face of authoritarian corporate and state interference. (Russian with English subtitles).

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape

For the whole day Olga tries to constrain the inner drama the is tearing her apart. When she can no longer manage to keep it inside, she opens up to the first person she meets.

At the funeral banquet, after the death of his beloved mother, Misha decides to run away from his relatives. Wandering around the city, he meets a sex worker who may be able to make up for his loss.

Snow is a form of precipitation of crystalline form, referring to precipitation. For the heroine of the film, the word “snow” has a completely different meaning.

Masha and Kyril meet in the train. They are distantly familiar: once they were in the same company. They do not immediately tell each other where they are going: everyone has something to hide from a barely familiar person. He participates in illegal battles without rules. She dances a striptease, and because of the conflict with one of the visitors to the strip club she had problems. In the regional center, Masha should meet with a person who, she thinks, can help. But things do not go as expected, and instead of solving the problem, Masha has new ones. But now Kyril is next to her ...

The young woman gets the last chance to please her mom. She just has not to spoil her funeral.

Adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story "Hills Like White Elephants".

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.

Physical education teacher Andrey Tikhonov from the countryside travels to the capital to take part in a professional boxing tournament and earn money for an operation for his older sister Polina.

A story about attraction and parting, the laws of physics and Gippius’s poetry.

A professional hereditary hunter easily violates ancient customs and traditions. He kills wild animals not for food, but for pleasure and inevitably encounters the vengeful force of nature.

The project for the 100th anniversary of Artek, a military drama, the story of Artek's men in the summer of 1941.

Newlyweds Vika and Artem managed to get married at a bad time. The "post-Crown", the crisis, everything is going down the drain, as is the future of their company. The company decides to radically change the profile, and the "family contract" is under special control of the authorities — at the end of the working day there will be only one.

In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.

A musical retro drama. The story of the heroes of the film "Everyone is Dancing!" is inspired by the poetry of Leningrad lyricists of the 50s and 60s and partly by the motives of Fazil Iskander's story "Retribution". The film tells about the Ligovka district of St. Petersburg, known to every resident of St. Petersburg as a place where punks live.

December 1942, Leningrad. 11-year-old schoolgirl Anelya Komarcheva keeps a diary while in the hospital of the besieged city.

This is a modern story of a prosperous family, in whose harmonious way of life a young man, a former partner of her husband in creating a computer network, breaks into. Involving his wife in a love affair, he pretends to be a messenger from Shambhala. At some point, she is ready to believe him, despite her husband's convictions that her chosen one is crazy. The psychologically tense action is set off by episodes of the hero's fantasies, in which the intrigue is given a comic effect, so there is no reason to assume a tragic ending.

In a small community in the Ural mountains of Russia in 1953, just after Stalin's death, Barracks begins with the arrival of Olga (Irina Senotova). Olga is alone, her entire family wiped out by a Stalinist purge in Leningrad. She is soon romanced by a militiaman named Alexei, who serves as the community liaison to the government

A story about the end of relationships. How close people, who do not want to talk things over, become absolutely estranged from one another. A story about lack of understanding, about the unwillingness to understand a close person.

A touching, at the same time funny and sad story of love and separation, which fit into one broadcast of the program "Shop on the couch". What is it – a vivid cross-section of modern trends or an old-as-the-world history of the relationship between a man and a woman? He is not ambitious enough, she is not romantic enough, and, of course, there is someone third between them. A story of one love, sold in the "Shop on the couch" for the price of one sweater.

A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1994.