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The film is about the life and fate of Ismail Gasprinsky, an outstanding educator of the Turkic peoples. He was born in Crimea, lived in France, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt. But he returned to Bakhchisarai to become a great educator of the peoples of the Islamic East. His innovative works in the field of education and employment have become relevant and in demand today.
Igor and his friends dream of having a rave in Chernobyl to rethink the space of a man-made disaster through life and art. However, they are faced with a reality where their idea is opposed by unfounded fears, corruption and hypocrisy of officials. The film by the Guatemalan director Pablo Rojas Castillo, a graduate of VGIK and the School of Documentary Film and Theater Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov, is not only about the company of dreamers and the rave at the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but also about the need to recycle the Soviet heritage and the clash of values of different generations.
A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced writers such as Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Sharov, Viktor Pelevin. True, so far little has been known about Sokolov itself.
A story about the cardiac surgeon R.S. Akchurin, his work and life.
Since 2020 organizers of “Returning the Names” have been repeatedly denied authorization. In Moscow, the main public readings are effectively banned, formally due to lingering COVID-era restrictions. In 2022 Russia’s Supreme Court liquidated the International Memorial, and pressure on the memory movement intensified. With mass gatherings impossible, activists seek legal ways to keep the ritual alive. “Returning the Names” is an annual commemoration in which participants read aloud the names of people executed during the Great Terror. Since 2007, thousands have joined across Russia and abroad on the eve of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression. Traditionally Muscovites gathered at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka Square, opposite the security services’ headquarters. Now the readings scatter across the city, during historical walks or in forests at mass graves. With no publicity, amid fear and the risk of prosecution, dozens take part, and their number keeps growing.
The creators explore what the cross is like as a cornerstone symbol for humanity, what its installation on Earth means for people and how this changed the picture of the world of peoples and generations.
Have we transferred from the past, from the 30-50s of the Soviet period, the traits, behavior, character, habits and values of that time? Has the lived period changed our cultural identity?
On June 12, Russia Day, opposition leader Alexei Navalny moved the protest from Sakharov Avenue to the very center of the city, on Tverskaya Street, where the reenactors ' festival was held that day. People in armor mingled with the streams of protesters, with the police in full combat gear... The result - tough detentions, a stampede and flags from the window of the paddy wagon.
A documentary film looking at the lives of two women who have turned their back on having children or husbands. The one because she has entered into a convent, and the other because of her career as a bodyguard.
The film describes the effect of contraceptives for nulliparous women.
Filmed in the latter half of summer, 2019, 'Narodnaya' follows the travails of a garage gallery opened by members of the Nizhniy Tagil underground as it prepares and hosts concerts and an exhibition, revealing in the process the philosophies and principles of the curators and artists who create this one-season gallery.
A small radio can disrupt family life and lead to the disappearance of folk culture.
A fantasy film about the great actress of the national cinema Margarita Terekhova. The transience of human life is like a dream in which reality and art are intertwined, personal joys and dramas with the feelings and emotions of the characters played.
Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia. It made him a local hero, while the annual Diaghilev Festival under his guidance became one of the country's biggest contemporary arts events. This story focuses on the last two weeks of Currentzis' tenure in Perm in an attempt to understand how modern Russia and its art come along.
And again Koktebel. New destinies. Secrets and insights of the culture of the Silver Age.
“To get up, you have to fall down,” the legendary boxer Kostya Tszyu understood this from his own experience. During his career in professional boxing at the time of filming, he suffered one defeat. But it turned out to be more important than all his victories.
A family of British descent settled in the Russian countryside is investigating its grandfather's mysterious death. One small step for men, women, children, dogs, and pigs - one giant leap for humanity.
A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin's heir apparent; when he led Russia's democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin.
He was arrested on the night of December 2 to 3, 1934. It's amazing, even 3 hours ago he was hotly arguing with the film's director Abram Room, how to play the key scene of the film "Strict Young Man"! The damned phrase about suffering and mercy did not work out in any way... Mercy and justice, now Dmitry Konsovsky will have to rely only on them. Yesterday he was the leading actor of the studio "Mezhrabpom-film", who has a dozen films on his account, the performer of the main role in the new film "Strict Young Man", an artist of the Vakhtangov Theater, today he is a prisoner of the Butyrskaya prison. His brother, the artist Alexey Konsovsky, died in 1991, but he could not get permission to get acquainted with his brother's investigative case, did not find out what his last words were. Now, 70 years later, Alexey Konsovsky's grandson, Nikolai Vershinin-Konsovsky, will tell us about all the dramatic events.
How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily challenges the girl.
After the start of mass protests in Belarus, demonstrators also appeared in Moscow - at the Belarusian embassy.
The year 2006 was, perhaps, one of the most tragic in the recent history of the Russian theater. Two great theater artists - David Borovsky and Oleg Sheintsis - died at once. Both of them were the true creators of the theatrical space, who defined the style, trends and language of scenography of the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. We would like to tell about the life, creative destiny and the main artistic discoveries of these outstanding masters in this film...
100 years of Russian history, 7 major wars. They took human lives, destroyed cities and even countries. The footage of a unique historical chronicle returns to the past to explain only one thing: the weapons change, the place changes, but the horror of death in war remains the same. And along with a person's life, unique worlds, ideas that have not been realized, children who have not been born are being destroyed...
A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.
The film "Artyom Tomilov" tells the story of a modern-day Odysseus with an ironic and elegiac tone. Theater director Artyom Tomilov, who grew up in the marginalized outskirts of Omsk, returns to his hometown after 15 years to stage an autofictional play about himself. The events unfolding during the production become part of the play, alongside the myths, spirits, and memories of the hero's past and the people of Omsk.
The Perm Region in the fate of Osip Mandelstam is a separate tragic page. In 1933, the poet wrote a poem "We live without feeling the country under us..." and on June 3, 1934, he was deported to Cherdyn, a small Ural town. The exile lasted two weeks, then there was Voronezh, but Cherdyn left her deep mark in Mandelstam's poetry. The film is a psychological reconstruction of Mandelstam's exile, "administratively exiled" under the number "1044".
The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.
March 2022, Mariupol. Marines, special forces and tanks of the Russian Armed Forces unsuccessfully storm the city of half a million, which has become a large-scale battlefield. The Somali assault battalion comes to their aid. A Russian propaganda war film about the siege of Mariupol.
People came to the rally. Why are they here, what do they want to change and why do they leave so early? In a role of themselves - young and elderly citizens of Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The history of the creation and formation of the innovative online bank of Central and Eastern Europe - Tinkoff. This is a story about how to create a digital bank without branches, and then turn it into a lifestyle ecosystem.
Every year Kamchatka hosts the Beringia, the longest dog sledding race in Russia. Participants overcome more than 1000-kilometer route in more than three weeks. For Kamchatka, the race is an event of the greatest importance.
10 June 2013 with a budget of 100 rubles a day, hoping to hitchhike, I went from Obninsk Russia to the east. The ultimate goal was Vladivostok. Had to overcome a distance of 9200 km. During the time I was not restricted. With people, you see, I spent a few hours with someone a few days, but none of them I did not know until this trip
A documentary film-portrait about Veronica, the head of a veterinary clinic in St. Petersburg.
A revolution changes the social and political 'landscapes' of a country, but first and foremost it changes the physical landscape. For centuries none of the city centers of the world capitals looked nothing like the Maidan in the last few months, which resembles a medieval town and a futuristic fantasy at the same time.
The dacha is a religion. The dacha is an art. The dacha is a kind of time machine, once you get into it, you return to the most carefree moments of life. In its depths you can find real artifacts: from the magazine "Youth" to vintage clothes from all corners of the planet. What makes up the amazing dacha world? And why is it so important?
A film exploring the tense relationship between a young female boss and her delivery courier subordinates, who, like true knights, strive to meet her lofty expectations.
On December 23, 2020, the smelting shop in the village of Nickel carried out the last melting and was stopped forever. The workshop began to be built back in the 30s, when this territory belonged to Finland, and the village was then called Kolosjoki. At the end of World War II, when the territory was ceded to the Soviet Union, the destroyed plant was restored, and the village was named Nickel. It is located west of Murmansk, a few kilometers from the border with Norway. In the 80s, the plant emitted about 400 thousand tons of sulfur dioxide into the air per year, and in 1990 an environmental campaign was even launched in Norway “Stop the Soviet clouds of death”" The Norilsk Nickel company, which was transferred to the Nickel mining and metallurgical plant in the 90s, initially agreed with Norway on the modernization of enterprises on the Kola Peninsula, but then abandoned the program.
The Kuban choir "Elizavetintsy" consists entirely of amateurs—ordinary villagers. Teachers, doctors, farmers, and entrepreneurs—50 people in all. The choir is led by Alexander and Anna Kosaty. Their task is to prepare the ensemble to compete in an all-Russian contest in Moscow.
One of kind go pro footage takes you inside the world of 19 year old Kyrill Oreshkin, who has garnered a resputation for freeclimbing moscow's tallest structures.
Academician Konovalov is one of the ten outstanding surgeons of the 20th century, who for many years headed the N. Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery. The slightest careless movement of a neurosurgeon, imperceptible even under a microscope, can result in a loss of memory, speech, the ability to think or feel for the patient. That is why neurosurgery is recognized throughout the world as the most elite field of medicine, because the area of influence of a doctor is the most delicate, the human brain.
To understand what is happening in modern Russia, it is not enough to go out and look around, or read news bulletins. If you want to get insight, the best way is to radically change the angle of view and look at everything, for example, with the eyes ... of a horse that serves in the operational regiment in the center of the capital.
SPARTA is the Agricultural Poetized Association for the Development of Labor Activity. This is how the commune calls itself, which has been engaged in the development of the "Theory of Happiness" in the Ukrainian village "Karavan" for more than 20 years. Unable to reconcile with the collapse of communist utopia, the "Spartans" created their own.
Two twin brothers. Bright and charismatic. One paints temples, the other writes musicals. And for three years they have not communicated and live in different cities. What has separated them? Different views on life and creativity or love for the same girl?
The hero of the film Anatoly Sivak lives in a small town. He has a hard job: he is a sorter at a waste recycling plant. Anatoly also collects toys from the Soviet era and dreams of creating his own museum.
The film consists of six parts - events in different cities of Russia (Moscow, Tutaev, Yaroslavl, Lipetsk, Togliatti). Rallies organized by independent workers' unions and demonstrations in which young people take part are shown. These are the first, not yet confident attempts to defend their rights.
Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 and was held by Vsevolod Gakkel, ex-cellist of "Аквариум". The concept was modelled on cult NY club CBGB-OMFUG. Despite its controversial history this is the place where a new generation of Russian punk music was discovered.
A film about the creation of the Moscow Metro, which has become a symbol of the whole country. The narrative covers the period from the first pre-revolutionary projects to the Khrushchev era.
Six minutes of dancing and trances, a spontaneous orgiastic performance slowed down and drowned in digital effects and overlays. The music heard off screen is written by Sid Iandovka and is as rhythmic as it is viscous. The movements of bodies and costumes hint at both playful carnivals and mysterious rituals.
The life of these people was real hell: they were bullied, manipulated, betrayed by the closest family. Society tried to lock them behind high walls of special institution and to forget about them. they had no hope. no right to the future. everything changed when sports broke into their lives and opened up for them a new world full of thrilling possibilities. but is the world ready to accept them?.. this film is about the test of the ability to love, feel compassion, forgive and believe…
In the land where, after the closure of the state farms, arable land has already become overgrown with birch forests, the farmer Valery Kravtsov is developing his small farm. Struggles for the harvest with bad weather, weeds and out-of-order technology. He gets up at 4 am to be at his "hacienda" at 5 already. He brings up his son, hoping that he will leave the farm for him. And gives the inhabitants of the deserted villages work and hope.
Anya, a young girl from Beirut, comes to Russia to study to become a director. As her coursework, she decides to make a film about love, but faces a problem - she doesn't know what it is. Anya has to conduct her own investigation and look inside herself to find the answer to the eternal question.
During the war in Chechnya, when aviation was actively used, many wild animals left the forests and mountains of the republic and went to Georgia, to Dagestan. Now everyone is talking about a sharp increase in the number of animals. They are returning to their native land. The population is rapidly recovering, not without the help of dedicated people.
Proskurina's personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the master and footage of the shooting of Russian Ark,
The film tells about the inhabitants of a small mining town in the Chelyabinsk region. Having devoted their lives to work for the benefit of the state, people themselves did not notice how they turned into coal dust for it.
Ivanna Zayeva is a karate coach who teaches children not just to win fights, but to overcome their fears. Through her story the film shows how strength is born from inner struggle and passed on to the next generation.
From 1961 to 1995, Alexander Sokurov kept a personal diary, recording both important events and everyday trivia. Now these candid recordings are taking on a new life in a large-scale five-hour documentary, intertwined with footage from iconic films of that era. This is not just the autobiography of a famous director, but a personal look at the history of the second half of the 20th century, full of reflections and observations.
For us, Beslan ended 10 years ago, for them it has just begun. On September 1, 2004, the four heroines of the film lost everything, and the world learned about the existence of the North Ossetian city of Beslan. In a few months, they will create a committee of the "Mother of Beslan" to fight for an honest investigation of the terrorist attack at school No. 1. At first, they did not allow the dilapidated school to be razed to the ground, then they knocked out money for the treatment and rehabilitation of hundreds of victims, blocked roads, clashed with the investigation — but none of them expected that this would drag on for many years, and hope for justice would melt much faster. Rodion Chepel's film "The Committee"- this is a private story of four women, which turns into a political thriller, a judicial drama, or a chronicle of merciless indifference. The heroines of this film have never been silent. We just didn't listen to them—or didn't want to hear them.
In the North people call winter roads the “roads of life”. Even today there are many settlements and villages where foodstuffs and fuel can be delivered only in winter. For mining companies working in inaccessible locations, winter is the only time when large equipment can be delivered.