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A deaf-mute girl, a wheelchair user, does not walk. He cannot speak either Russian or the language of the deaf and dumb. On vacation in Italy, this does not prevent her from easily and cheerfully communicating with hotel employees and guests from different countries. The film is about her and her friend, a little boy who knows why some children are born healthy and others sick.
A film about an entire era of reusable manned space exploration, the unique Space Shuttle and the tragic pages of its history. It was conceived as a formidable weapon for Star Wars, and ends up as an effective tool for international cooperation. For the first time, a film crew from Russia visited the territory of the American Space Center, where the crew of the last "shuttle" in the history was trained.
Albert is haunted by the dreams of his childhood, reminding him of a world within he lost.
Polina Svezhentseva's film captures the passing of time and the change of epochs with him. The Torpedo Boxing Club is more than 80 years old, dozens of champions have come out of its walls. Now the members of the club are forced to adapt to the changes, having lost their native hall. Looking into the faces of athletes and listening to their stories, the director shows that people united by one idea cannot be destroyed by an excavator.
About the strange, little-studied, mysterious inhabitants of the metropolis, whose life is almost unknown to the layman. That is, about the usual Moscow gates. Gray crows are very fond of Moscow and especially the Kremlin. Ornithologists cannot determine the reasons for this feature. The soldiers of the Presidential Regiment shoot them every morning, scare them with hawks, but the crows still come back…
The organization E. N. O. T. Corp names as its activities "preventive measures against illegal migration, drug trafficking and organized crime, escorting humanitarian supplies to places of combat operations." On its website, you can find letters of thanks from regional administrations, the military, representatives of the church – and from various organizations in the so-called "LPR" and "DPR". But, in addition, E. N. O. T. Corp conducts training camps and war games for teenagers: "We do not forget about such an important matter as the military-patriotic education of young people." This is what the film is about.
The Solovetsky Monastery, built in the 15th century, is a sacred place, in the history of which holiness and tragedy, unity with God and the terrible test of the special camp merged. This is the place where today everyone is looking for the answer to the main question "who am I?" The protagonist of the film goes there to shoot a documentary, and everything starts to go wrong.
This film tells the story of a remarkable Russian filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and actor. His films "The Outskirts" and "The Spy's Feat" have become part of the world's cinematic heritage.
The fate of the heroine of the film Olga Glazatova. The viewer gets to know her in the last weeks before her release from the general regime colony, where she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 18. The way of life, customs, customs of the women's zone, in which the painfully familiar features of our "free" life manifest themselves, where Olya is so eager, make up the background of the heroine's portrait. The warm, kind intonation of the film awakens what we all lack so much – sympathy.
Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. At the center of the story, the founders of the Kamchatka surf movement are athlete Anton Morozov and director Mikhail Moroz, who embark on an extraordinary journey to conquer previously unseen waves and discover the nature of Kamchatka in its original form. This is not a biography of one person, but of many destinies, a reflection of the state of that time. About how surfing and snowboarding covered the Far East with their wave and spread to the whole of Russia.
We remember dates and facts, while losing tiny details – like a bouquet of summer wildflowers, tears from onions, winter cold on a bus stop bench. We remember the birthdays of our beloved and how they like their tea, but we forget unexpected touches, floating glances, casual chats. And sometimes – when we are rapidly torn apart from each other – we engrave such moments into our memory.
The story of 36-year-old Albert, an experienced tire changer, who once sang in a dusty hangar on camera and suddenly became famous in Tik Tok. The film reveals the issue of illusory happiness by the example of the character’s fate. False and genuine values is the main theme and motivation for the plot development and the plot includes an unhappy family and a dubious career, a son missing his father, and a father who is busy with his own affairs and has no time for the family.
A film about curses sent by ancestors and the Komi-Permyak people, for whom these are still very real, perhaps even more so than material things.
A documentary comedy about a father, a son and a large family living in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.
Life in art - is it a departure from reality or an acceptance of it to the full? Self-denial or self-return? "Dmitry from Demerdash" is a story about the paradox of self-knowledge through a foreign culture. A story about a musician who left Russia to play authentic Arabic music.
A team of talented and cheerful people have come together to realize an ambitious idea – to create giant puppets of Russian writers. The process of bringing the puppets to life takes on the character of an unusual experiment, going beyond the traditional craft of puppet theater. The writers’ first journey ends in a completely unexpected way, forcing their creators to see their creations in a new way…
A dancer in a static pose on the screen. Is there movement? It seems not. But the film of the movie camera is moving, filming the dancer. Electrons are running, pixels of the digital matrix are changing. Does this mean that movement is happening? The dancer's body comes to life within the frame set by the cameraman. How does this frame and the dancer's choreography interact? Should the frame obey the laws of choreography or exist in counterpoint with it? Or, perhaps, should it freeze, allowing the dancer to create his own pattern within the frame? The dancer makes his body move according to the laws of choreography. But at the same time, his nature determines how the body will exist within this choreography. After all, nature created the plasticity of the body outside of choreographies and directorial tasks. So what is more interesting to watch? What is the real beauty - in an artificial, memorized choreographic movement or in a natural, random gesture?
In Tver province, in the God-forsaken village of Perelogi, there are Pamiri Tajiks who fled their homeland in the 90s, when a civil war broke out in Tajikistan. Now, together with a few indigenous villagers, they have to solve a difficult state question – what is "multiculture" in action?
A documentary journey-essay about memory and home. The film's director Daria Likhaya returns to her childhood home and her trip is followed by veracious stories. A spotted dress, a KAMAZ left in a courtyard, a woman's face in the window—every detail becomes a source of memories. The impressions of strangers are intertwined and mixed, the border between the virtual and the real becomes blurred.
From childhood passion to big-time IT: stories about how curiosity, passionate stubbornness, and the habit of finding your own solutions become key professional superpowers.
A documentary about the Erzya poet Ivan Kalinkin
After graduating from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Grigory Gibert did not stay in Moscow but moved to Krasnodar, where he became the leading expert on the history of cinema in Southern Russia. Over 30 years, he educated thousands of students. Now, Grigory Gibert is embarking on a journey to his roots in Yakutia to find his father's grave. This journey is the most important film for him.
Collection of documentary works of students of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov about the pandemic.
The film tells about a day in the life of actors of the Moscow theater "Studio of Theatrical Art". The actors have so much in common that when they go on stage, they feel like a family...
The chronicle of the events of 2019 in the student media The Vyshka, whose editorial staff wrote loud texts, held planning meetings, went to rallies and reported from court hearings. But, more importantly, the film chronicles the confrontation between Russia's largest student media: from the outbreak of conflicts with the administration of the Higher School of Economics to the deprivation of the status of a student organization. He also talks about the change in editorial management, the difficulties in the development of an independent media and why The Vyshka is so much more than working chats.
Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway, this documentary details the current state of the Russian queer community - giving both broad societal overviews and deeply personal accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows Paul Rice and Liam Jackson Montgomery, a gay couple from Ireland, as they travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, meeting with a diverse range of LGBT+ people-from Nobel Peace prize nominees and drag queens to those who have suffered brutal homophobic and transphobic attacks.
Academic work of 4th courses of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).
In contrast, Darya Mareyeva’s Double-sided is shot with a lively, dynamic camera. Its characters are young people crowded in rented apartments of panel housing, where these 21st-century songbirds sing their sad tunes.
On the night of August 13, 2012, the Rus Hotel, which stands on the outskirts of Biysk, was especially noisy. The company of four guests, two guys and two girls, was very noisy, they were constantly walking up and down the stairs, laughing loudly and talking loudly. The receptionist made a remark to them, the guests calmed down and went to their rooms. Ten minutes passed. And then the door of one of the rooms opened with a bang and a barefoot guy in underpants ran out of there, holding his stomach, and rushed down the stairs to the street. The hotel security guard met the runner in the courtyard and saw that there was a deep wound on his stomach. "She cut me with a knife," the wounded man said with difficulty. A day later he died in the hospital. The investigation began. The victim's name was Sergey Cherkaykin.
According to official statistics in Russia, about 2 million adolescents aged 9 to 16 years suffer from alcohol and drug addiction. But in the whole country there is only one state rehabilitation center for teenagers aged 14-18. It is located in the Moscow region, and it has 30 seats. The film tells about the rehabilitation center for adolescents "Ariadne."
Documentary film about the forest fires in Siberia during the summer of 2019.
From Antarctica to Afghanistan. Heroes of real human destinies, military doctors on the line of fire and cold. About what was a feat yesterday, and today it becomes an epic for young polar explorers. Ballad about the struggle for life.
The documentary is dedicated to the Strugatsky brothers, iconic Soviet writers who are still incredibly popular and relevant in Russia. There were queues for Strugatsky's books in the USSR, magazines with their stories were resold on the black market. The brothers were not dissidents: they began their writing career as convinced communists; the world of the future they described is the world of a communist utopia. It is all the more surprising that their entire creative biography is a fierce struggle against censorship. Which they lost.
Lent is one of the most important events in the life of an Orthodox person. The film tells about the quest, doubts, extremes and experiences of a young man who chose a difficult path of abstinence not only from many worldly goods, but also from all thoughts that contradict his own picture of the world, based on religious dogmas. On his way, he encounters, it would seem, everyday and ordinary questions for a modern person, nevertheless, which do not fit his world outlook. Leaving efforts to resist to all that in his opinion "it is impossible, not arbitrary," he tries to get used to, to accept, to reach a balance with the world in which he lives.
Two people live in a small Siberian town: one is cheerful and cheerful, pleases his fellow countrymen with virtuoso accordion playing, the other is gloomy and withdrawn – builds a church in the middle of the town and talks about the imperfection of man.
A documentary elegy about the last days of summer turning into autumn, and about people in a state of transition. They are still enjoying the last day of summer, but they know that autumn has already arrived. Childhood is about to end, the prime of life will fade, old age will turn into decrepitude. But there is this endless day of pure happiness.
New movie by Nikita Spiridonov
A hypnotic travelogue about an ancient river in the days following the summer solstice.
Gena Chudnevich was born in prison. He returned there as a teenager from the orphanage. His fate would have been typical for such cases: “Stole, drank, went to jail...”, but in the penal colony he suddenly began to build a church. And a miracle happened: a semi-literate guy, who did not even graduate from school, almost single-handedly built a huge wooden church according to all the canons of ancient Russian architecture! That’s how the former convict became hieromonk Gerontius. Having led a team of the similar poor fellows, he began to restore ancient monasteries - monuments of architecture. But when a misfortune happened to Father Gerontius, the official church cruelly “thanked” him for his talent and selfless devotion.
Little Andrey grows up in a family of ornithologists and dreams of studying birds and their language. But one day he finds out that the birds on Lake Baikal are in danger.
Filming of the collection of donations during the cinematic film week "To a Soldier in the trenches" in Moscow at the A. Khanzhonkov Theater on November 30, 1915.
Women around the world are often subject to harmful stereotypes depicting them as being weaker or inferior to men. The world of sports is no exception. This film tells the stories of girls who have broken through stereotypes and are participating in sports that are usually dominated by men. It wasn't easy for them to get there, but it was certainly worth it.
How to find support in this complicated world that is constantly changing? Especially when you are not eighteen yet, you are burning, full of energy for achievements, but you have no support of a close, dear person who will always be with you, no matter what happens.
Life in the provinces is a special world, a special way of life, a special relationship that is different from that in the big cities. Everyone here knows each other, and almost everything about each other. Everything here is like under a magnifying glass. The patriarchal way of life has changed little in recent years with technical progress. The old and the new. Everything here that is ugly bulges out with a vengeance, but the good things also do not go unnoticed. This film is a parable: a story about Russia, about the customs that prevail in the modern village.
Zhgon, matras, pimokats - those who rolled (rolled) felt boots all over Russia called themselves differently. They communicated in their secret languages and kept the craft secret. The authors of the film tried to eavesdrop on secret dialects and spy on the secrets of the craftsmanship of the remaining handicraftsmen, who to this day burn and tumble in their little washrooms.
Shortly after the war, Kaliningrad is populated by Russian newcomers and becomes a bleak home to heroes whose inevitable slide towards a tragedy is somewhat similar to the fates of protagonists of classical Russian literature. The film portraying their story had been shot over a period of more than 10 years and doesn't falter eye to eye with physical pain.
A unique journey to one's own origins. It is divided into four headings symbolizing the main elements of world creation, which are: earth, water, air, fire. The film does not have a narrative-explanatory text, interviews, because it does not aim to be a television film accessible to the public. It is a unique prayer to God.
The film is about a unique social experiment. Will the appearance of the city change if janitors, roofers and other housing office workers are introduced to art and sent to the Russian Museum for educational instruction? “Make it beautiful” records the progress of the experiment throughout the year.
According to experts, over the past year in Russia, panic attacks have been registered in 3-11% of people. Misha Marvin, Bianca and other characters of the documentary will come face to face with their fears and share their experiences, while cognitive therapist Marat Aginyan and clinical psychologist Yakov Kochetkov will tell you how to recognize a panic attack and cope with sudden attacking anxiety.
Tatiana Revina, who has brought up several generations of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing, has lost everything. She lives in a crumbling village house with her daughter and three grandchildren. Her grandson Mark wants to become a rapper and a blogger, and is disgusted with sports. Tatiana is trying to instill high benchmarks in him, but they see life way too differently. The summer is over soon, children will move to the city, leaving Tatiana alone, and will make a decision: how and why to live their lives.
The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narrative that introduces the viewer to today's Khabarovsk territory and its inhabitants. The characters of the film are people of different professions and Hobbies who live in different districts of the Khabarovsk territory, but are United by love for their land and a vision of the future connected only with it. Every day they contribute to the development of the region, sometimes without even knowing how significant.
Among the Indian elephants, the German service, calendars with kittens and Stalin - hundreds of little things. The true story is difficult to discern. Life, told over a cup of tea, is like a mosaic coming together in the terrible history of the country. A country saturated with a cult of personality and rejection of memory. Volunteers of the Gulag History Museum go to witnesses and victims of the Stalinist repressions in order to reassemble the evidence of the time and understand something about themselves.
Do you believe in ghosts? An incantation becomes a refrain in this two-channel projection of sequences from an old film, recaptured on a Lomo lens. It’s all in her* hands shaping his form, her* labour questioning his authority.
A documentary with fully AI-translated voices. Amid post-mobilization Russia Nov 2022, a man navigates personal and collective trauma, Soviet nostalgia, and decolonization discourse. His journey spans Petersburg's underground-from bars to the memorials.
The sequel to the highly valuable almanac “Where Our Home Is” is about extraordinary people from the regions of Russia with different professions, views and cultures, but converging in the boundless love of love for the place where they grew up and live.