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By the middle of the 12th century, the borders of the Mongolian Empire stretched from the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas in the west to the southern lands of China in the east. The Mongolian army, under Khan Batu’s command, was known for its invisibility, destroying anyone who dared to challenge them. Yet, even within their central territories, some areas refused to bow to the Genghisids. Kozelsk was one of them. The Mongolian armies bypassed the high walls of this small town, considering that "the skin of the wolf was not worth the risk of encountering its teeth".However, one of the Khan’s commanders harbored a grudge against the town's citizens. Now, the people of Kozelsk must face a battle against the strongest army in the world, with no hope of victory. This is a story about people facing their death. Some try to escape, others are willing to do anything to survive, but most are prepared to protect their city from the relentless storms of the Mongolian hordes.

Maks is a typical Moscow teenager from a wealthy family: spoiled, stubborn, childish. Maks is alone - both internally and externally, and he experiences this state painfully. Maks's mother is the chairman of the Committee on Family and Children in the Duma and is preparing for another re-election. An authoritative, decisive woman, she planned Maks's fate for years to come: prestigious studies, prestigious work, career - but she herself forgot the last time she had a heart-to-heart talk with her son.

A Russian missile submarine disappears without trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A vessel is deployed to search for it, captained by the brother of the missing submarine’s commander. The search crew is tasked with locating the submarine and preventing a top-secret weapon from falling into enemy hands. Meanwhile, a geological research operation at the North Pole awakens the Kraken, a giant deep-water monster with an incredible ability to camouflage and an uncanny intelligence. As the search party narrows in on the missing submarine, they will encounter the legendary creature of the deep.

Armenia, 1991. Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's collapse, one family dreams of the future, says goodbye to the past, and faces a choice - to stay or to leave. A lyrical drama about love, separation, and the eternal longing for home.

1943. Sasha is 8 years old, he has become mute after losing his parents. Now attempts to contact the outside world occur through the "dots" and "dashes" of Morse code. When Mikhail Viktorovich, an elderly tuner, appears in their communal apartment, the boy is convinced that he is a spy. Now his task is to save his loved ones by telling them about it.

After leaving commercial aviation, Vyacheslav Lazarev and his family move to the countryside, where he continues to go flying, but now on a small propellered AN-2. And the life of the Lazarev family goes on as usual, until one day a small bear cub, to whom Kolya, the pilot’s son, gives the nickname Mansur, bursts in. When Mansur is kidnapped by local poachers, the faithful sheepdog Palma comes to his aid. The two animals need to find their way home through a forest full of wild animals, hunters and other dangers. And the Lazarevs, who set off in search of their four-legged friends, will have to remember what it means to be a real family.

Aleksandr Shmidt is the grey cardinal of the escort services market. But big money is not enough for him anymore - he craves real power. Shmidt's ambitions attract dangerous people, and an international cartel begins to hunt him. Shmidt faces a threat of such a scale for the first time. Now, not only his business, but also his life is at stake.

Anya takes the blame for her friend and becomes the target of bullying from classmates in the real world and on social networks.

Katya is a successful lawyer and the best in her field. She makes a deal with her conscience and helps to put an innocent person in jail for a large sum. Having learned about Katya's actions, her son runs away from home. Together with his friends from the sports section, he decides to administer justice himself. And now the mother sets out to find her son, trying to fix everything.

34-year-old Moscow writer Igor Angelevskiy for the third time failed to win Russia's main literary prize. After the award ceremony, the hero's wallet is stolen, which contains the only memory of his mother. Hearing the news about the theft, 20-year-old pickpocket Aldar decides to read Angelevskiy's books and is so fascinated by them that he becomes Igor's student. The writer sees in the young man a brilliant storyteller with rich life experience. After a while, Angelevskiy and Aldar become friends.

Vaso lives in Tbilisi. He has been happily married for more than thirty years and has two adult children. Life goes on as usual until, on New Year's Eve, his family receives a letter from the past from a stranger, Margarita. In which it is written that in Russia, in Krasnoyarsk, he has an illegitimate daughter. The wife and children create a real drama about this and forcibly send Vaso to Russia to look for an "abandoned child."

The story of one day - August 12, 2012. The Earl's Court Exhibition Center in London is filled with fans. Millions of viewers around the world are waiting for the start of the broadcast of the final volleyball game among men's teams, which will determine the winner of the XXX Olympic Games. The Russian team that has never won gold. And the Brazilian national team, caressed by contracts, victories and loyal fans. Many people think that the outcome of the game is predetermined. But few people yet know what place this final occupies in the life of each of the Russian athletes.

Based on real events. November 1943. The Nazis bring a new batch of Soviet orphans to Vyritsa, where a so-called "children's shelter" is set up in a former pioneer camp. The conditions here are unbearable: cold, hunger, forced labor, a punishment cell for disobedience, and execution for attempting to escape. But the worst thing is that children are used as blood donors for wounded Germans. Despite all the horror and inconceivability of what is happening, having united, the young heroes find the strength and courage to resist and decide to escape.

An elderly trumpeter Oleg, stuck in the routine of the orchestra pit and his own failures, suddenly finds himself on the brink of change. His familiar world begins to collapse, and the management sends him into retirement. The "pit" seems hopeless. But one fateful night in the cemetery changes everything.

June 21, 1941. Young lieutenant Kolya Pluzhnikov, having received an appointment to a permanent place of service, arrives in Brest. The crowded waiting rooms of the station and the crowd of people weighed down with luggage do not alarm the young man, filled with joyful hopes. Kolya hurries to the location of his unit - the Brest Fortress... The soldier does not have time to enlist in the personnel of the military, and at four in the morning artillery explosions are heard - the war has begun. He was not enlisted in the ranks of the military personnel of the Brest Fortress, but still took part in the first battle in his life, which lasted ten months.

On the verge of divorce, Max comes to his ex Irina's to pick up his son Dima for the autumn holidays, but then it turns out that the child has run away from home. The worried parents set off in search in the car of family psychologist/Irina's part-time boyfriend Vlad. Learning that Dima ran away to the village to Max's father, Bata, Max recalls, on the drive, how his parents, during their divorce, sent him to the village, about their life together, his first love and childhood friends.

A movie about a married couple of elderly intellectuals from St. Petersburg. About their wisdom, calmness, optimism, patience and forgiveness. That is, about everything that contemporary people lack. That is why they themselves, their warmth and their house attract those in need of warmth, help and support like fire.

Marinka and Kolka's provincial wedding takes place in a roadside cafe, where the newlyweds were only able to rent half the room. The reason for this is an expensive wedding ring. The second half of the room is unexpectedly occupied by a wake. The party does not go according to plan, the bride unsuccessfully tries to make perfect content for social networks and takes out all her indignation on the quiet groom. The offended groom puts the wedding ring on the line in a competition. The offended bride runs away from her own wedding with a widower from the wake, who turns out to be a rapist.

The custom of making motanka dolls is ancient, rich in myths and legends. There is a belief that they help their owner. The main character of the film is a 12-year-old teenage girl, she studies at an art school, but does not believe in her abilities and goes through a coming-of-age crisis with the help of a Slavic doll. By wrapping a doll, its owner goes through a certain stage of growing up and forms her inner world. The doll sometimes helps her cope with difficult situations, and sometimes it does the opposite.

In a reserved seat carriage of the Chelyabinsk-Moscow train, forty-year-old Gena and twenty-five-year-old Sanek, a young film director, meet. Gena is going to visit his dying grandmother in his native wilderness, and Sanek is going to the premiere of his film. Gena tricks Sanek into getting off the train with him. Hundreds of kilometers from Moscow, they spend an eventful day and a half until the next train. Gena introduces Sanek to the whole cross-section of his life: the history of his family, love, friendship. Thus, experiencing all the troubles together, Sanek and Gena become true friends. This chance meeting becomes fateful for Sanek, changes his worldview and determines the theme of his future film.

Rita is a poetically gifted girl who is just beginning to search for her place in this world. To realize her dreams and escape from her father, who began dictating his rules to her after her mother's death, Rita gets a job as a nurse for the daughter of a former teacher. Faith in herself will help her gain independence from the people and circumstances around her and go towards her dream.

An orphanage resident, Nikita, flees justice to Moscow, where he meets Den, a rich orphan who offers Nikita a ticket to a better life in exchange for his friendship. Nikita agrees, not knowing what price he will have to pay for it.

Katka dreams of becoming a cool fashion designer, but in an urban-type settlement with a funny name, her talent is somehow cramped. And then her mother forces her to get married and Katya decides to run away to Moscow. But then something strange happens — the girl gets caught in a time loop of one crazy day. She has to figure out the reasons for this cycle of events and find the only right way out.

The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Catherine the Great. She could have settled for the role of Emperor’s wife, but her persistence and determination eventually proved that her rightful place was on the throne. She was still a child when she learned that she was to marry Peter III and produce an heir. Catherine, however, wanted to rule Russia herself. She saw the potential of the Russian Empire, and she wanted to implement the ideas of the Enlightenment. Will Russia experience a renaissance of culture and sciences under Catherine? Will her ideas eventually play to her detriment?

The year is 2022. Russian ferryman Konstantinich lives in a village in Zaporizhzhia. After the collapse of the USSR, the old bridge across the Azov estuary was destroyed and dismantled for scrap metal, and Konstantinich began ferrying people. He connects the two banks and takes responsibility for everything that happens in his native land.

The real story of a Yakut IT entrepreneur who volunteered to participate in Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Artist Lisa, who lacks color vision, breaks up with her boyfriend. She paints vibrant pictures and works with her dog as a support worker for special needs children at an orphanage. One autumn, on a bridge, Lisa meets Mark—a young, successful, but tired and jaded man who jumps into the cold water every year on this day, hoping to feel something.

A young man named Kesha returns to his village after a long absence. He has completed a prison term but now simply wants to live a quiet, normal life. His younger brother, only 17, has plans for college. However, the brothers’ perspectives on the future shift dramatically when Kesha joins a gold-mining crew.

The guy with whom 30-year-old Lucy was warmly communicating online suddenly and for no reason broke off correspondence with her. To figure it out, she turns to a special detective who helps girls with relationship problems. To Lucy's surprise, the detective turns out to be 17-year-old Eva, who conducts her investigations mainly via the Internet. Together they try to solve the mystery of the missing guy.

Architect Oleg comes to a provincial town on business where he meets a girl Tania. It’s the case of love at first sight and there seems that a long a happy life awaits them…

The story of a composer who has lost his inspiration. He hears melodies in his dreams, but the mysterious Old Man in Black erases them from his memory, turning his dreams into nightmares. When the Old Man in Black comes to life, the pianist decides to give up his dream of writing music forever.

A visiting granddaughter tries to get her withdrawn grandmother to open up and encourages her to sort through her old wardrobe. While sorting through the clothes, the grandmother suddenly recalls stories associated with them, and the granddaughter unexpectedly discovers that the dresses, jackets, and scarves hold much more than just family photo archives. Trying on the past, the grandmother begins to subtly change before her granddaughter's eyes, gradually returning to her own youth.

Nikita Kryukov is a successful hockey player in the past, who ended his sports and then his agent career because of his uncontrollable anger. No one is ready to work with him. Suddenly, he receives a message about his mother's death. He breaks off to his hometown. But it turns out that this message was sent by the mother's youngest daughter from her second husband. After his father's death, Nikita almost immediately went to Moscow, and then to America, and all this time he did not communicate with his mother — he could not forgive the fact that she almost immediately got together with another.

Father Frost decides to quit his profession in order to live for himself in his old age. Having relinquished his powers, he leaves Veliky Ustyug for Moscow, goes on a rampage, finds new friends and falls in love for the first time. Attempts to bring the old man to his senses and return him to his normal life by his family - Mother Winter, Stuzha, Metelitsa and Buran - end in failure. This new stage of his life is recorded by a group of documentary filmmakers, and no one suspects what will happen when Father Frost loses his magical powers...

Five aspiring directors, five short stories about the discovery of cinema. Each short story is an independent story exploring how cinema begins, how it influences us and where the line between the screen and reality lies. The film almanac has the widest range of genres, themes, geography of authors, time of action and even frame format. It can be a short sketch from the set, where the lighting technician suddenly changes places and importance with the most influential auteur director; preparation for the first film screening in Rus'; a conversation between friends immediately after the film; a story of a difficult choice between creative freedom and a career; and finally, a free interpretation of the 1986 film about the life of a simple fisherman from Kaliningrad.

The ordinary middle-aged woman lives on schedule: to take children to the school, to do household chores, to be on time for the meetings with clients and to not forget about her husband’s requests. However, today something is going wrong. She is changing her route.

Shust and his friends commit small-time scams for a living, taking advantage of any opportunity that comes their way. Meeting Ulyanov, the former Soviet Union shot put champion, and his daughter opens Shust's eyes to a completely different way of living. But under his gang's pressure, he uses Ulyanov to plan a heist on a Buryat jade-trading commune.

Successful but lonely Maria and her adult son are already sharing the common space of their apartment with irritation. Having accepted a marriage proposal from Mikhail, who is courting her, the woman hopes to build personal happiness for the first time in many years and moves in with her lover. Her hopes for a family idyll are destroyed by the man's adult son, who has returned to settle scores with his father. And Mikhail turns out to be not at all the person he wants to seem to be. Taking a forced step into conscious solitude, Maria for the first time makes a choice in favor of the most important person in her life - herself.

Philip loves to break the rules. Because of this, he sometimes gets into trouble. Mom is not always able to contain his ebullient energy. He loves his mother very much, loves to have breakfast with her, do exercises, walks and go on rides in the park... But when she is at work, Philip often runs away from home to the nearest coffee shop and watches how coffee is made. Here he has his own life, his own rules and his own dream - Philip wants to become a barista, because coffee makes people happier! But fulfilling this dream is not so easy: Philip is 25 years old and has Down syndrome.

Marina and Anton, instead of leaving for the Maldives for their honeymoon, find themselves in an elevator stuck on the 12th floor of a high-rise building, along with a strange man in the form of a security guard who set up the breakdown of the elevator, longs for fair revenge and arranges a bloody fight over the guys reprisal.

Alexey and Tusya lived their life together for two. But after a serious diagnosis, Tusya decides that her husband should start life from the beginning, with another, very young girl. Alexey resists the new feeling, but it draws him in more and more. What should he do now, stay with his seriously ill wife or dive headlong into another life? Alexey tries to live a double life, realizing with each passing day that he will still have to make a choice...

Altai. Next to the grocery trailer of a lonely grandfather, they put the trailer of a hippie grandmother, who takes away his clients. He wants to get rid of his annoying competitor, but falls in love with her.

The wayward stove—maker Agnia does not spoil life - she lives in the Far North in an emergency poorly heated house, fishes in an ice hole and raises her son alone. Seasonal work makes it impossible to save up for new housing, and the local head of administration, Boris, is in no hurry to resettle people. Agreeing to Boris's proposal to lay out a stove in his hut, Agnia gradually falls in love with him, but eventually uses him to achieve her main goal — to move to a new apartment. And he does it in a very unusual way.

After the cremation of his beloved dog, Savva is heartbroken. On his way home, he drops the box on a stenciled inscription on the pavement. Thinking that it is a sign from his dead friend, he calls the number on the inscription. Soon, a prostitute Anya appears on his doorstep. Anya deceives him and steals the box, thinking that it contains jewelry. Savva calls the number again and goes to the address. In the brothel, Savva finds the box, defeats his offenders, but now Anya is in danger. He saves her, she runs after him and asks for forgiveness. Villainous bullets overtake both - but Savva is saved by the box ... And Savva himself must save Anya.

The Great Patriotic War. Ordinary situations cannot seriously influence the course of the global world conflict, which unfolded on thousands of kilometers of the front of a vast country, in which tens of millions of soldiers are participating. But it was the human qualities of everyone who stood to the death with weapons in their hands in this harsh time, where all the forces of good and evil came together, and everyone was ready to do anything for the sake of victory, that became the force that crushed Nazism.

Social worker Rita spends her working days in the apartments of lonely elderly people. She refuses no one, helping everyone in need. Rita's life will begin to fall apart as soon as her son finds himself in a situation that leads to his death. And the woman's life will turn into hell.

The artist Lesha is about 45 years old. He lives in a small town near Moscow. He's very talented, but completely unsuccessful. Young film students decide to make a documentary about him, portraying him as a local madman. It's their thesis project. While talking with Lesha, they broach the topic of demand. Lesha shows them his email inbox, filled with offers for exhibitions with renowned gallery owners. The students don't understand why Lesha isn't accepting these offers. He says it's not that simple and doesn't even know how to explain the situation, but if they're willing to go with him, he'll show them everything. The students travel to Moscow with the artist, but meetings with gallery owners mysteriously fall through.

His mother's son returns to her home for her birthday after a long absence. The delighted mother doesn't yet suspect that her son has come to avenge past wrongs.

"Closing" is a film almanac made up of nine verses. Instead of a rap beat, there is beer, rain, a beach, a zoo, random conversations, and a city that lives its own life. These are not stories with a beginning and an end, but statements written into the rhythm of the festival, where cinema becomes a way to be together and a way to be alone. Any almanac is a film cypher: everyone goes to the microphone, says their piece, and leaves, leaving room for someone else. "Closing" is exactly that: a collection of voices in which you can hear laughter, fatigue, love, and meaninglessness. This is a film about how cinema closes the day and opens the night.

Fyodor is a failed actor, he is trying to help his younger brother Nikita learn to walk again. Dressed as Santa Claus, Fyodor goes out on orders, hoping to raise money for an operation during the holidays. He is the saddest Santa Claus in the world, because, on top of all the other troubles, just before the New Year, his beloved girlfriend left him. And so, on December 31, he rings the doorbell of another apartment to give gifts from his parents to another pair of children, and then... the real New Year's magic begins. The girl Masha, seeing Father Frost, immediately decides that this particular Father Frost should fall in love with her mother and become a father for her and her brother Tolya. But that is not all. Each hero of this story, even those who do not believe in Miracles at all, receives their long-awaited gift, finds happiness, love and faith that the New Year is truly a holiday that can completely change life.

The film tells the story of a veteran of the Russian-Turkish War who returns to his village, where his son is accused of having connections with the devil. The story tells about the confrontation between different poles of faith in the struggle for the fate of a child.