Love comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?
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Love comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?
A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.
The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes sailing, and as a farewell, the wife ties a thread to his button so that she knows where her beloved is.
A story about a provincial theater, where the main character is trying to understand his relationships with his wife, colleagues and his own life.
Zero. Winter. Ural city. A high school student is beaten on the street. He is dying. Parents experience the tragedy in different ways. Mother finds the diary. Only after the death of her son does she begin to understand how he lived. The father is obsessed with revenge and is looking for killers.
Anka's once-large family is falling apart: her younger brother was killed at school, and her own mother pretends that this did not happen, diligently trying to convince everyone around her of this. Anka's grandfather unsuccessfully struggles with progressive Alzheimer's, talking to his deceased grandson in between searching for a wiretap hidden, as it seems to him, in the house. The father, who, according to his mother's stories, is a diplomat traveling around the world, actually turns out to be an alcoholic who drank the last thing they had: an apartment. In an attempt to get justice and help her family, Anka, unbeknownst to herself, slides into the abyss of insanity so deeply that it seems there will never be a way back.
In a kingdom shrouded in darkness, the malevolent VileGuile seized power, casting a wicked enchantment over the Queen and imprisoning the blind little princess, Darya, within the Enchanted Tinderbox. Fate intervenes as the box finds its way into the hands of the carefree roisterer Johnny whose only dream was to live an easy life. Travelling with Darya, John undergoes a profound transformation. His once-selfish nature gives way to courage and generosity, evolving into a true hero. Alongside their faithful companions, the merry aeronaut Jean and the magical horse Good Pathfinder, John and Darya's journey takes them to the sombre caves of dwarf miners, where they forge the unbreakable friendship, and to the ethereal sky kingdom of magic ladybirds, leading John to understanding the boundless power of love and self-sacrifice.
This is an important event in the life of a young family. The child goes to kindergarten for the first time! And the young mother, who spent five years on maternity leave, encounters a feeling of freedom for the first time. Not knowing where to apply herself now, she falls in love. The daughter witnesses an innocent flirtation and, misinterpreting the situation, tells everything to her father... Until recently, an absolutely happy “unit of society” begins to collapse. And young parents have to grow up before our eyes in order to be able to save their family.
Ivan is just over twenty, but has already been behind bars for several years. Olga is in her forties, single, but still looking for love. What lies ahead for them? A long happy life or a short fairytale journey whose ending is doomed?
After the divorce of his parents, 15-year-old teenager Valya Lapin is forced to move with his mother to the province, where everything disgusts him. But he knows that as soon as the school year ends, he will move to his father in Canada. Lapin decides to lie low, wait, just exist in anticipation of moving. The only thing he lets in from his new life is running. After all, it helps to escape from reality.
The year is 2010. The base of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation. On the destroyer "Bystry" there is a breakthrough in the fuel pipeline with fuel oil. Short circuit, fire. There are 348 people on board. Aldar Tsydenzhapov, a 19-year-old sailor from Transbaikalia, who has dreamed of serving in the navy since childhood, like his grandfather, decides to resist the fire without hesitation.
Aspiring actress Sonya, having lost all hopes of getting an audition for the eminent artistic director of the theater, gets a job on the set of a film in which he is taking part. The girl, who is in love with her, helps the girl get closer to the artist, Vanya, an assistant sound engineer and part-time talented playwright who wrote a play especially for Sonya. However, due to excitement, all attempts by the inexperienced actress to express herself turn into awkward incidents. Time is running out, and soon Sonya will be faced with a choice: stay true to her friendship or carve out a place for herself in the sun.
USSR, 1970s. Lena has a real talent for writing - her school essays reflect with incredible precision and warmth not only the world around her and her loved ones, but also her personal experiences, dreams, and hopes. Her mother works in documentary film, and she has her own problems and dreams. It so happened that the daughter's adolescence coincides with her mother's midlife crisis. The story of their touching relationship is told with a kind smile and notes of sadness.
Twelve-year-old Ada lives with her mother in a tiny town on the picturesque banks of the Oka. Life unobtrusively but clearly teaches her its lessons, and the girl learns to understand and forgive.
Mikhail is a former aircraft designer, and now just a grandfather who constantly gets into ridiculous situations. One day on December 31, she and her grandson Seryozha sheltered a dog who was hiding from New Year's fireworks. The dog was given the name Stepka. Soon after his grandson was taken away by his parents, Mikhail becomes ill. And now Stepka has very little time to call for help and save his master's life. But it is very difficult to do this, because none of the people knows the dog language. The only way out is to find Seryozha, who, as it seems to Stepka, understands him. And then the four-legged hero goes to the other side of the city to meet incredible adventures.
The basis of the picture is not only the storylines of the heroes, but also the principle of continuous action of actors with the audience. Each of the five different short stories leads to the fact that for the decision: to maintain relationships or destroy them? This choice has to be made by the viewer himself.
Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.
The former special forces soldier is accused of murder. To clear his name, he must find the real culprits. A man is going to have a hard fight for his own life.
A former prisoner and his friend, a retired military man, are carrying an unknown cargo in an ambulance to earn money and finally start a normal life. But for the customer, they are just waste waste, because a lot of money is at stake.
Zhanna returns from Moscow to the city of her childhood, having learned that her father is dying. She did not communicate with him for the last 20 years after he left his family. Zhanna does not have time to catch him alive and plans to return to Moscow immediately after organizing the funeral. But the story takes a new turn: the father's corpse comes to life. He demands to spend the last day together.
A clever businessman intends to build a large commercial complex. But the bad luck is, there is no free space for this in the city center. Then the merchant incites selfish city officials to demolish the building of a boarding school for disabled children. But the children categorically disagree with this and defend their home.
The author of the technology able to copy human mind secretly creates a digital copy of his brother's wife, and convinces the replica he is her husband.
The story of the famous chess match between world champion Mikhail Botvinnik and young challenger David Bronstein.
Tanya, a young educator, accompanies twelve teenagers to a theatre festival in Sochi under the supervision of Maria Genrikhovna, an experienced head teacher. Initially, there's little sympathy between the two teachers. However, they discover a deeper bond in much more fundamental things: aversion to marching in formation and other forms of officialism. Their ability to find joy even in challenging situations unites them.
Anna is independent and principled, she uses a wheelchair, but does not stop in the face of difficulties, inspires others and always relies only on herself. While working as a psychologist in a rehabilitation center, she meets young Maksim, who has just gotten a job at a social center. Maksim was raised by his grandmother. Young, frivolous and irresponsible. This acquaintance will forever change both the fate of the heroes and their worldview.
Filmed as part of Ilya's Exile project.
Autumn 1929. Lina, from the noble Golitsyn family, arrives on a date with her husband Georgy Osorgin, who is serving a prison sentence in the Solovetsky special purpose camp. Lina does not know that after she leaves the island, her husband will be shot. Osorgin received a terrible sentence after he, a deeply religious man, secretly brought holy gifts to the dying Archimandrite so that he could take communion before his death. The camp authorities took the Russian officer's word of honor from Osorgin not to tell his wife anything about his predetermined fate. Only on this condition did they agree to temporarily release him from the punishment cell for his last meeting with Lina. The spouses spend the precious three days allotted to them and feel happy in the most inappropriate circumstances. Osorgin says goodbye to Lina on the pier. When the ship becomes a dot on the horizon, the guards escort George back to the punishment cell, where he carefully dresses for his final journey.
A general's daughter lives in Tambov, in love with a street artist, whom her father disapproves of. The general has a twin brother who heads a criminal gang. Two unsuccessful robbers fail the task, which triggers a string of events that will change lives and destroy families.
Thanks to the change of consciousness, all of humanity on Earth got rid of negative qualities.
Valya is the eldest daughter of a hereditary pilot. She ends up in a flight school, but her real calling is photography. The girl is torn between family traditions and her dreams until she meets a talented cadet, the best pilot at the school, who helps her decide on her future.
In 2009, the stallion Speed Star is brought to Yakutsk from Moscow to take part in the races. At this time, childhood friends Egor and Kolya are working in a small stable. Egor has just dropped out of school, lives right in the stable and finds solace in communicating with horses. His parents and brothers do not understand him, believing that he is doing a worthless job. Ambitious and ambitious Kolya believes that in racing everything depends on the speed and agility of the horse, not considering it necessary to find a common language with them. Egor, on the contrary, always communicates with horses and sees the beauty of nature in them.
Nuclear war has rendered the world a wasteland. In a landscape where survival is not guaranteed and bullets are the only currency, Ronin seeks revenge for his father’s murder. A young girl requests his help to return to her birthplace, a dangerous journey that will require all his fighting skills to survive.
Dina is a young Russian filmmaker working on a film about Stalinist repressions and the massive intergenerational trauma they caused that continues to resonate in modern-day Russia. Together with her friend Johan, a German sound designer whose grandfather went missing in the USSR during the Second World War, she embarks on a journey to the former Soviet labour camps. Almost deserted, the abandoned lands of Gulag still bear traces of those who perished there. Although this trip becomes somewhat therapeutic for the two of them, it also puts their relationship to the test.
Is youth a burden or a gift? New stars of Russian cinema say goodbye to illusions
A young Georgian man named Lado is involved in smuggling antique furniture from Georgia to Russia. Medea, Lado’s girlfriend, buys herself an apartment in St. Peterburg’s historic center. At the time of the unlawful deportation of thousands of Georgians from Russia, Lado is caught and deported.
Lonely young seamstress Masha rents an apartment from widower Valery, who recently lost his beloved wife. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Valery visits Masha almost every day, which prevents her from improving her personal life.
An aged actor, after canceling his last performance, decides to die by applying Stanislavsky’s system and providing catharsis for a random fellow traveler.
Five dreams against the walls of a never-sleeping city. The film is a mosaic about the sleepers and the awakened. What kind of Muscovites are they? Thinking, contemplating, doubting, loving and dreaming? What they see when they close their eyes is more important than what they see when they open them.
Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.
A hundred years ago, a mysterious outbreak of the Red Dawn occurred on Earth, after which people became immortal. This story begins with the banal and seemingly eternal coexistence of two married couples: young and old, and ends with the return of Adam and Eve.
The girl, who works as a fashion designer and tailor for a living, received a new and complicated order. She is stressed over working with a new material. Things get complicated when she starts feeling like someone is stalking her.
Again, a commotion in a small Volga town, a girl disappeared again, they are again looking for a maniac. Zhenya is the only one who knows the truth: the death of the child was an accident. Actually, the girl died almost before his eyes. Only he does not dare to tell this truth to anyone. The fact is that Zhenya was released from prison a couple of days ago, and the sister of the deceased child is Zhenya's ex-girlfriend who left him. The ideal accused. And Zhenya embarks on a difficult, humiliating, dangerous operation to secretly bury a corpse, but if he can go to the end in his deceit, he will lose himself.
Ksyusha's graduation is coming soon, and it's terrible. She doesn't know what to do with her life. Songs for a self-made band are not written, parents cannot file for divorce in any way. And handsome Pogulyaev, whom Ksyusha is in love with, does not pay attention to her, because Ksyusha is fat — well, that's what everyone around thinks. After another round of ridicule, Ksyusha starts a blog. From now on, she is a Fat woman, the queen of kringe, who banters herself, and at the same time the whole world. Fame comes quickly: at first it's fun, then it's even funnier, and then it won't be funny anymore.
Love. Old age. Death. Youth. Two stories about the strange feelings. One tells how a mother's immense love can destroy her son’s fate. The second one shows that the love of a sick old man can give new life to a young girl.
The routine life of the eleventh "B" of the capital's school ends abruptly with the arrival of the new girl Sonya, who turns out to be completely different from her classmates. They will fight for her attention, they will be afraid of her sincerity, and with her... they will not want to be on the same side?
An elderly man suffering from dementia has long forgotten how to remember simple things; time has erased names, routes, and faces. But only one memory has remained with him forever — a winter evening in St. Petersburg, a tram, and a girl whose meeting was imprinted in his heart. The film was shot in support of the Dementia.net foundation on the initiative of the Action charity auction.
Artyom and Natasha are hospital clowns, they keep a blog about their volunteer experience. The girl varia has been in hospital for a long time. they are concerned about her because no matter how hard they try to help her, nothing seems to work. once artyom learns that the girl’s mother has stopped coming to see her. he realizes that only mom can help overcome the disease.
Writer and artist Jeff, who lives in Siberia, cannot integrate into the digital life of the modern show industry, where everything is tied to money. Dreaming of making a film based on the book "12 floors later" written by him in his youth, he shares excerpts of creativity with everyone who is ready to listen to him, and because of this gets into ridiculous situations. Wandering between the worlds, like between the floors of a high-rise building, he is looking for a way out. Russian film and music stars Evgeny Tkachuk, Ilya Del, Oleg Garkusha are trying to help Jeff. Tkachuk and Del, in search of a producer and money, hardly promote the author's idea. Osman Delibash empathizes with Jeff and is sincerely glad that he will star in a non-existent film. One way or another, Jeff makes you think about the deep spiritual needs of each of the participants in the events – both the stars and the simplest people.
Lera streams games for a living. She becomes a victim of robbery and a young stranger comes to her rescue. As Lera and her savior grow closer, she realizes that he knows much more about her than a random passer-by should.
Boris Yukhananov's film triptych based on Andrey Vishnevsky's play "Pinocchio's Mad Angel".
Lida, a student, Olga, a lawyer, and Shura, a gynecologist, are faced with the choice of giving birth or having an abortion. Each of them is going through a life-changing crisis. What should I do if a woman is not allowed to give birth for medical reasons? Will your loved ones support you if you become pregnant as a result of rape? How does a doctor who performs dozens of abortions every day feel?
Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other frivolities the capital can offer a young man. But social life has long tired him, so he perceives the news of the illness of his uncle living in the village as an opportunity to escape. However, having reached the estate, Onegin learns about the death of a relative, which, however, does not upset Evgeniy too much. His financial affairs are very sad, and his uncle is rich and has no other heirs. Onegin locks himself in the estate, living in aimless solitude until the owner, who has returned from abroad, appears at the neighboring estate – a young, enthusiastic Vladimir Lenskiy, not yet satiated with life, who introduces Evgeniy to sisters Tatyana and Olga Larin.
In the early 90s, a father introduces his 7-year-old daughter to chess and notices champion talent in her. For the sake of his daughter’s future title, the father leaves his career and develops a unique training system. Father and daughter will not only have to overcome financial difficulties, but also learn to understand each other and unite for the sake of a dream.
An unlucky father is trying to restore his relationship with his seven-year-old son after a divorce. He takes his son to the final match of his favorite hockey team, but it suddenly turns out that the tickets are fake. Hoping to rectify the situation and introduce the boy to his idol, the father hijacks a bus with hockey players and takes them to his son.