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The film was shot during an unusual women's rally around Lake Baikal. During their journey, four creative residents of St. Petersburg of different professions meet with compatriots living in Siberia and take small interviews with them about life, work, women's happiness, the secret of success. And they ask the key question: "What difficulties have shaped you as a person? And what inspired them to overcome?" The answers turned out to be fascinating and unexpected and formed the basis of the film.

Seven people left the small village of Kedrovoye in the Sverdlovsk Region to fight in Syria with the composition of the PMCs Wagner. After the battle near Deir ez-Zor on February 7, where PMC suffered heavy losses, news is expected in Cedar.

British magician and card shark to the world’s elite, Drummond Money-Coutts, embarks on an international journey, going from London to Paris with a final destination of Bangkok. In this one-off special, DMC explores the thrilling and high stakes world of card tricks. Through breath-taking stunts and street demonstrations, Drummond reveals the secrets behind advanced card play, card cheating and the dark art of card magic. This show ends with his most dangerous trick to date!

This Soviet general was in a special account with Stalin and was known as his favorite. In December 1941, together with Zhukov and Rokossovsky, he was called the "savior of Moscow." In 1942, the Leader entrusted him with a new, responsible mission. No one could have imagined that very soon the name of this general would become as common as the name of Judas.

The film focuses on an extraordinary person called Igor Burtsev. He has traveled half the world in the search for Yeti. And though his friends and colleagues look at his hobby with irony he is not planning to give up. He is sure that Bigfoot is somewhere near, and they are bound to meet some day. In fact? it doesn’t really matter whether the long awaited meeting is to happen, or not. What matters is that Burtsev’s loyal friend called Yeti prompts him every day to keep moving forward.

The film tells what protocols are being treated in Russia and abroad, how the P53 cancer gene was found, what a cancer cell is and whether it is possible to “capture it”, are there killer cells in our body and why they sometimes fall asleep, who and when the disease overtakes. After all, when you know, it's not so scary. After cancer, life goes on.

This is a movie about the life and work of the Merited Worker of Arts of Russia, stage and film director Valery Akhadov. His professional life was a success, but his personal life was hardly easy. In the early 90-s at a highpoint in his career the director and his family had to leave Dushanbe together with his friends and colleagues from the Russian Drama Theatre. They all relocated to Magnitogorsk and began to work at the Pushkin Drama Theatre. 13 years later the VGIK graduate returned to the town of his youth and has been teaching young directors ever since. As usual he is full of creative ideas and plans.

A young American, born in Crimea and adopted by a family from the United States in 1993, returns home for the first time in 25-odd years to meet her long-lost family and find out the details of her difficult past.

A two-part documentary about the Russian Army's disastrous assault on Grozny on New Year's Eve, 1994.

About homeless children in Russia.

Alexander Nevzorov's documentary of the storming of Grozny in 1994-95

Flag (2010, in collaboration with Mikhail Maximov). Dreams of an ever-burning flag.

A documentary about the Tulun maniac. From 2001 to 2012, he committed dozens of crimes: he officially confessed to 25 rapes, but investigators believe that there were at least 50 victims. He killed two girls. The victims of the Tulun maniac tell this story with open faces, not afraid of anything.

“Stroma's funeral” or “grandmother” is the name of the three-day rite, which is held every year in the village of Shutilovo, Nizhny Novgorod region. In its spirit, it is the folk carnival, about which Mikhail Bakhtin and Francois Rabelais wrote: a change of appearance, general merriment, plenty of food, drink, indecent words and deeds. During this game of death and burial, there is no place for genuine grief. But when things are going awry in the non-holiday life of a Russian village, it is very difficult not to cry.

A documentary about a women's youth team from Dagestan, whose members find themselves and friends in the world of football.

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.

The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.

The film is dedicated to the history of the first in the history of the USSR foreign expedition of Soviet archaeologists to Egypt in 1961-1963. Amateur photo and film material, field diaries, as well as an unpublished manuscript of one of its participants found in personal and scientific archives, immerses us in the atmosphere of unique excavations, hopes, failures and discoveries of scientists.

Authors of the film make the journey both real and mystical through the Buryatia. They are following their character lama Danzan — the spiritual leader and member of parliament of his mysterious country called Little Tibet. Lama Danzan is modern incarnation of the Agvan Dorzhiev, who was the teacher of Dalai-lama XIII and played an important role in the struggle between Britain, China and Russia for the dominance in Tibet at the beginning of XX century. Today lama Danzan is doing everything possible overcoming natural and mystic obstacles to build magic spokes, suburgans, which are believed by him and his followers to change the life of the country for the better .

The film tells about the work of an outstanding Russian archaeologist, head of the Department of Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, keeper of the Trojan Collection from the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann, head of the Bosporan archaeological expedition Vladimir Petrovich Tolstikov and his team.

Listening to the persistent humming sound, we follow the author on her existential journey through four cities consisting of real images and footage taken by the director’s father 25 years ago that always bring us to some visible or invisible border.

If there is heaven on earth, then this is the village of Ivanovskoye in the Yaroslavl region. And the center of this paradise is the school. When you get there, you want to stay here forever!

The heroes of Soviet melodramas courageously overcame all obstacles in the name of love. They fought and conquered disease and even death. But in real life, the actors who embodied these melodramatic images were often helpless before the traps of fate. What challenge was filming a film about happy motherhood for Natalya Gundareva? Why did Zarechnaya Street become a dead end for the leading actress?

Lieutenant of the Internal Troops, sapper Sergey Arakcheev, who was awarded state awards for demining the territory of Chechnya, was accused of killing civilians, fully acquitted by two jury trials and then sentenced by a military court to fifteen years in prison.

There are places in which space is turned inside out, and time is flowing backwards.

Members of the Society of Amateur Canary Breeders are all male. On Sunday afternoon, they come to Moscow from different parts of the country, united by a single desire to win a canary singing competition.

Returning home, the young rapper Yarik thinks about who would again borrow money for food. Yarik writes a new track-the stakes are high, he wants to change his life. But a series of failures haunts the guy, the financial collapse is compounded – he is fired from his job. Yarik continues to work on the track. He admits to his girlfriend that he was cut, now she does not know how they will make ends meet, but the rapper assures that the release of the track will change everything. The day before the premiere of the song in periscope, Yarik learns that his PR agent will no longer be engaged in its promotion. The next day, Yarik and a friend prepare for the presentation of the song themselves...

The convicts of the female penal-colony Marina, Olya and Albina are waiting to be released. To pass the time they decide to make puppets, sew them and stage a small performance.

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and giving this freedom to the people.

Spring comes every year and brings us hope for recovery and development. But time is inexorable and fleeting. Not for everyone will come next spring ...

In the documentary, the official version of the outbreak of war is questioned and hypotheses are put forward about the preparation of an attack on Great Britain...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Natasha immigrates as a child with her family to Germany. The film begins today, twenty years later, when Natasha returns for the first time to her unknown home. Natasha's time in Baikal Port is mainly structured through her everyday encounters with the people who live there. In different situations, she meets them and gets into conversations about employment and living conditions that are still marked by the effects of the Perestroika. While Natasha gains these intimate insights into different ways of living, she reflects on her own position and tries to make a connection with this place, which is a part of her identity. The cinematic drawing of intimate portraits of people living in Baikal Port as well as Natasha’s play- acting as a returning, identity-seeking figure is accompanied by an ever-present recording camera.

Everyone in life undergoes a personality test, "am I a trembling creature" or "do I have the right"? The case with the old woman falls to the Murmansk judge Yulia Andreyevna Grin. The pensioner may end up on the street after being manipulated by telephone scammers. Due to the loans taken out under their pressure, her apartment is already up for sale. Yulia will have to decide whether to make a standard decision or, at her own risk, defend the victim. If the defense ends in favor of the victim, this will happen for the first time in the history of the practice of the Russian arbitration court.

Blind perfumers seek inspiration to create new fragrances.

Every day, an old woman goes by train alone to the woods to collect wood. A minimal gesture, seemingly insignificant, becomes an extraordinary admission of Russian society in which archival images erupt telling a universal story.

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Roman Carmen. The authors tracked down his former students, whom he brought to the documentary. Almost half a century ago, they, then still children, first crossed the threshold of the VGIK when they passed the exams.

When I was fifteen, I witnessed the creation of the legendary science fiction film of the Soviet Union. The director was my father. I loved taking pictures and took hundreds of shots during filming. Forty years later, based on them, I managed to create a film, as Richard Viktorov makes the film “Through thorns to the stars”.

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.

Dreams of three generations of rural residents on the Volga. The old people talk about their first love, which is best remembered in memory. A young country boy - about how he was in the war in Afghanistan, and how she changed his life. Sixteen-year-old boy remembers childhood, when he swam carelessly, ran, was in love with the girl. This film - funny and sad stories of people of different ages, who believe that their best and strongest times are already in the past, perhaps, just like the whole country.

In the film, we look into the future. How does scientific knowledge change our worldview, culture and environment? On the one hand, the development of technology expands our boundaries of freedom - we live longer, learned to establish communication with paralyzed people, etc. But the more scientists learn about the brain, the more questions arise. Back in the 1980s, Benjamin Libet conducted experiments that, according to many scientists, proved that man does not have free will. Neuroscientists say that our behavior and decisions depend only on the activity of neurons.

In difficult moments of life, the community saves, and when it has saved, it begins to weigh down. This is what happens to the family of our heroes – Eugeny and Elena.

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov, a Soviet football player, hockey player and outstanding coach. Bobrov was an Olympic champion, honored master of sports and coach, as well as the only captain of the national team in history who competed at both the summer and Winter Olympic Games.

Wildlife photographer Igor Metelsky embarks on a journey to find a tiger in the Ussuri taiga. Along the way, he discovers the incredible wildlife of the Far East. But how can the balance be maintained between the needs of people and preserving this extraordinary natural environment?

A documentary film directed by Alexey Rodionov about the legendary photographer, artist and metaphysician Valentin Samarin, the creator of SANKI art.

The film’s protagonist, Svetlana, during the Coronavirus Epidemic, like many, finds herself out of work. In order to keep busy and earn some money, she comes up with a new business – “Online drinking buddy”. For a fee, she’s ready to keep customers company if they’re looking for a partner they can have a drink and a heart-to-heart chat. The film features unique material – recordings of Svetlana’s conversations with her “drinking pal” clients. People share their experiences of how they have survived quarantine and how the coronavirus has had an impact on their lives.

Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.

The story of a boy who suddenly lost his sight as a result of cancer. He has a hard time getting along with new people and spends all his time with horses. One day, the chairman of the local society of the blind calls him and offers him the main role in a play based on Maeterlinck’s play “The Blind,” where all the roles are played by blind people, and the play takes place in the forest.

1925. International Art Exhibition in Paris. The chief architect of the European avant–garde, Le Corbusier, declares: "... the only thing that deserves attention is the Konstantin Melnikov pavilion." Since then, the whole world has been following the fate of the Soviet architect. He designs Lenin's sarcophagus, builds garages and clubs, but, most importantly, creates his own house. The house that would become the pinnacle of his work, and later a prison for the author himself. The architect's career will end with his student, who gave him a ban on the profession. And all subsequent projects will remain on paper. What did the architect-star of the Russian avant-garde leave behind? About this in the documentary "Melnikov".

For many centuries, the beautiful half of humanity has accumulated information about the ways to seduce men. Our charming contemporaries in a new way answer the eternal question "How to attract the attention of a man?" They answer, by the way, very frankly…

May 9 is one of the most important days in Russia, Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. In 2020, during the quarantine period due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people in the small Russian town of Trubchevsk celebrated this day without leaving their homes.

Three artists rented an apartment in Altufevo and began to create modern art right on the street of the sleeping area.

Graffiti appears where the city or society cracks — so argue the St. Petersburg graffiti artist Max Ima and his friends, who are tired of hiding their faces. Together they form one of the best graffiti scenes in Russia, and they have something to say.