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The film tells the story of the World Chess Championship match that took place in Dubai at the end of 2021. For millions of chess fans it was a dramatic three-week tournament between norwegian magnus carlsen and russian jan nepomnyaschy. “the dubai story: behind the scenes of world chess” offers a unique opportunity to see that match from a completely different perspective. never in the entire 136-year history of championship chess matches has a wide audience had a chance to see what goes on before, during and after the event – behind the scenes. unique footage takes viewers on an amazing journey through the atmosphere of preparation for the match where every little detail matters, revealing what challenges the organizers face and what the audience does during the three weeks that the tournament is taking place.

Biblical motifs combined with Suprematism, plus a brilliant idea of integrating the movement of water in the Volga–Don Canal into the action.

When Denis Lapshinov came to the Moscow branch of BBDO as a junior art director in 2007, foreigners - natives of England, Brazil, Germany, Italy, the USA and even Turkey - occupied leading positions in the city's main creative agencies - this era lasted about ten years. “The Pioneers” is Denis's attempt to show their views not only on the evolution of the Russian advertising industry, but also on our culture, our features, our strengths and weaknesses.

Among those who took to the streets of Russian cities in recent months are people of various political views. This is the story of a young Russian nationalist.

The film is dedicated to the founder of the world-famous circus "The Alibek Djiguit", Alibek Touzarovich Kantemirov who, 110 years ago, entered the circus track.

The girl is doing her best to escape from loneliness, and the young man is trying to keep it. But one day these very different heroes meet.

Author's family history. We can say that this is a movie about my grandfather. It can be said that he is about a horse and about the relationship between a man and a horse. And you can do it like this: how the horse influenced the history of the country and the world. And everything will be true, because my grandfather Zavilgelsky Boris Dmitrievich was the director of the First Moscow Stud Farm, where the legendary stallion Kvadrat was born and the equally legendary groom Uncle Vasya worked.

Fences are an integral part of Russian culture. They love 3-meter fences in dachas and private homes. City streets are dotted with fences, which often only interfere with normal movement around the city. They like to isolate themselves from the world with an iron curtain. The film is a visual reflection and an attempt to answer the question why life in Russia is surrounded by a fence.

The authors selected four of the most popular sports in Russia. And their brightest "stars" who survived the "conflicts of the century." Biathlete Alexander Tikhonov, football player Pavel Sadyrin, hockey player Alexander Mogilny, chess player Viktor Korchnoi. They confronted, each at his own time, rivals, outdated rules, and even the political system...

“The most paradoxical, curvilinear Russian poet,” as Nikolai Glazkov was called, lived the same curvilinear life. Colleagues considered him a genius, and his poems remained unknown.

The documentary film “To the Arctic,” filmed by director and ethnographer Leonid Kruglov, is dedicated to the discoveries and research of the largest icy desert in the world. For the first time, the film captures all the most remote and inaccessible Arctic archipelagos of the Russian high-latitude Arctic, which are scattered over an area of more than 10,000 km. Among them are Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, Ushakov Island and the New Siberian Islands archipelago, Wrangel Island and the De Long archipelago, as well as many other hidden corners of the North.

This film was shot in an amazing place - in the very north of Transbaikalia, in the Chara basin, surrounded by the peaks of Kodar, Udokan and Kalar ridge. Since ancient times, only Evenks and reindeer herds roamed here. Civilization came here only in the middle of the twentieth century-for the first Soviet uranium, which was extracted by the Borlag prisoners, and for the copper of the unique Udokan deposit... But what brought our contemporaries-the heroes of this film-here? Who are they? What trials, sins, and memories do each of them bear? What do they (and any of us) have?) A mission?

Haystacks in the field behind the house, ice stream over already quite rotten bridge, river dam - The author returns to Shuvoe following his child's memory. The dramatic Change of the village's image may not leave him indifferent. Bygone traditions, the faces of the beloved ones, that are about to vanish.

This is a film about a director's workshop, which was led by People's Artist of the Russian Federation, director-producer Sergey Snezhkin and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, actress Margarita Bychkova. The film was shot by one of the students of this workshop and tells about the same students who studied directing and acting for five years and dreamed of a long and happy life in art, not yet realizing that on the path to a director's career there are no rules and guarantees, and after training the struggle for happiness will only begin...

Everyday war correspondents travel to the most dangerous zones of Donbass. Though journalists have no military education, it’s vital to understand how to behave under shelling and be familiar with weapons. In 2014 a reporter, Evgeny Poddubny, went to cover the conflict in Donbass. For Evgeny and his colleagues, reporting the true story is more than just a job. They must be ready to perform their task quickly and with no second chances. Journalists often have to sleep in the streets and take turns guarding each other. They cannot stay at hotels as Ukrainian missiles regularly strike these buildings though they house civilians and journalists. How do war correspondents manage to perform their job in such harsh conditions?

Brodyaga Fisheye gathers his old classmates in order to reconstruct the traumatic events that happened back in year 4 of elementary school.

The film crew travels on a train in a reserved seat across Russia, talking with passengers about the war. The main characters are guys of military age, ordinary Russians, without savings and the opportunity to leave the country. They are against war and are not afraid to talk about it and, moreover, they are not afraid to fight for their rights even where it seems that this is impossible. Bad and good Russians. Who are they and what do they look like? Did all the good people really leave Russia, or is there still someone left there?

The film tells about the most sincere and complex musician and artist in the broadest sense of the word, a favorite of several generations of Russians, Garik.

Feeling lonely, the child walks from room to room in an unsuccessful attempt to touch his father and mother, to find them in his life.

The first film project of the V – A – C Foundation film almanac “Dreams in the Area” consists of 13 works by various authors and is compiled as a single kaleidoscope of urban life. The main theme of creative comprehension for the workshop participants was personal dreams and collective urban myths. Intertwined with each other, the plots of individual short films are combined into a single narrative field, combining meanings and images in a bizarre manner.

In the summer of 2011, Yuri Mamin gave lectures on directing at the famous Middlebury University of Vermont for students studying Russian. Yuri Mamin showed a film about this wonderful event on the TV STO channel.

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.

At the end of summer 2021 boys spend their last lazy days together in a small town by the Volga River. Their childish routine of roaming streets, riding scooters and vaping will change so soon — only Slava stays in Yuryevets with his foster family, most of his friends are leaving to study or work in a week. Vlad dreams about a military career. He wants “to save lives” just like characters in his favorite computer games and to earn enough money for his poor parents who work in a local supermarket. At his birthday party the teens argue and try to dissuade Vlad but he has already made his choice. Hope there will be no war in the future — they say.

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.

Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the last part was being filmed.

In the last years of the USSR, a graduate of a technical university and a researcher at the Research Institute of Chemical Physics, Leonid Katsis, began to actively engage in literary criticism, following only his own ideas about what to consider as an established fact. The appearance of such an uncompromising figure frightens, irritates some professional philologists, and those literary critics who, like Leonid Fridovich himself, came to the profession from technical fields.

Bring the light of love and kindness with your songs, with a wide smile and a wide open soul, travel almost all of Europe on a bicycle, get into the Guinness Book of Records, meet with the President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel and receive the keys to the bus from his hands as a gift - all of which I could not the dream of an ordinary Soviet citizen came true in the life of a simple guy Gennady Chernetsov.

A film about choices in life. Any significant decision can fundamentally change our destiny. What if you're only 16 and the life of another person depends on you? Only standing on the edge of the abyss, you can realize what is really dear to you.

The last days of August: in the early morning a cool fog is felt on the skin, the ranetki in a barrel of water seem to be silver, the rustling of birches is heard everywhere, and in the country house everything is shaking because of the trains passing very close, but it seems to you that these are some kind of huge animals pass by and, perhaps, look in the windows in the evenings, while the lights are on there. You go out on the porch of the house and the movie begins.

Lena managed to find her dream job: she's a crane operator. However, the daily routine has dulled even the liveliest enthusiasm. Climbing a hundred-meter ladder has turned into a regular workout, and even the incredible sunsets no longer bring joy. But Lena is not willing to live and work on autopilot.

Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, hire a car, buy tickets and drive... Their parents built communism, their grandfathers overcame fascism, but for them there is nothing to built and to struggle for. Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, spend time on the internet and do not clearly understand what they are living for, don’t understand their country and don’t see a perspective in the future. Television has plagued them with Big Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and they hire a car, buy tickets and drive throughout the country to see competitions, Black sea and Russian countryside.

About people on the side of the universe, people with mental disabilities. Mute, frightened, shaking, their whole life is a continuous torment. A film-study about the limits of humanity and humanity. Should we help them or should they help us?

The Katyn case over the course of 70 years. A film by the Memorial Association.

The film tells about the Moscow art underground through the history of Moscow squats. What does it mean to live today and not adjust at a time when the king of Oats took away, as it seems to us, all the fairy tales?

A startling documentary about the world’s most brutal serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, a former Russian school teacher who was sentenced to death last October after a dramatic trial in which he was convicted of killing, mutilating, and cannibalising 52 women and children. Chikatilo is currently held in a bare provincial prison cell in the south of Russia awaiting a date with his executioner, giving exclusive interviews before and after the trial and plenty of astonishing footage captured by the police and KGB. We hear from relatives of his victims, former work colleagues, and experts on serial killers with the Moscow psychiatrist who proclaimed him sane. Highlights of the dramatic trial included the judges summing up and the sentencing which brought cheers and spontaneous applause from a packed courtroom in Rostov.

Wanting to prevent the growing number of physically challenged people, Aleksey Novikov has invented a wheelchair that will allow such people not only to move around the city environment safely, but also to play football.

It is not immediately that the cinematic space is filled with fresh shots. The orders of the new government are initially carried out by the filmmakers remaining in Soviet Russia with pre-revolutionary experience. The agitfilm of the Civil War is replaced by a "revolutionary melodrama" by the mid-20s. The expansion of film production requires new personnel: young people come from the "left" theater, who in the very near future will have to create a new revolutionary cinema.

The film is about Russian emigration to Harbin and Shanghai and return to Russia. Who were these people, how and how did they end up in China, what obstacles and hardships had to be overcome? How did they manage to organize themselves and obtain Soviet citizenship, and, most importantly, how did their fate turn out at home? Did you manage to start life over again, take place and become a citizen useful for your country?

Documentary about GKB4 Pavlovsk Hospital, created by the Mosfilm Creative Team for the 255th anniversary.

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!

Trees are everything. In a settlement near the Russian-Finnish border, a traditional family keeps shamanistic rituals alive. The children play in the same forest where photos nailed to trees remind us of Stalin's bloody repression. Spirituality and politics meet in this intuitive montage of poetic impressions, historical material, nature shots, family scenes and probing testimony.

About people who have dedicated themselves to their favorite business. They have different ages, places of residence, and destinies, but each of them realized one day that environmental protection is his vocation.

Documentary about Vir Tavla

Reflection on ascetic monastic life. The main characters are ordinary people who live and work on the territory of the monastery. They help monks, parishioners and themselves. Every day passes within the framework of a clear schedule of services, meals and obediences, and everything is repeated exactly the next day. In this repetition and silence, a pure rhythm of life is created, which at first glance may not differ much from life outside the gates of the monastery. But in the abode of the non-material God, people live somehow especially honestly, some kind of special real life.

11 days, 10 cities, 5300 km - the author of the film traveled so much from Moscow to Baikal, without spending any money on lodging or on food. The purpose of the experiment is to test the community for responsiveness. The film is a journey, changing the mind about compatriots and a look at their daily lives.

For half a century, elderly scholar Professor Igor Vladimirovich Vishev has championed a radically new vision of humanity’s boldest dream: the attainment of de facto immortality. Blind since youth, he is cared for with quiet devotion by Vera, a frail old woman who is not his wife, but a loyal companion of many years. Professor Vishev believes that the physical death of the body is not the end, and he looks with hope toward a brighter future beyond his own passing.

The film tells about the end of the First World War and the events related to the conclusion of the Peace of Versailles, which defined the face of Europe for the next two decades. Twenty years later, the contradictions laid down by the Treaty of Versailles led to the Second World War.

Masha leads a double life: in one she is a photographer, a mother and an unloved wife, in the other she is a medium who daily keeps in touch with the subtle world of spirits using the "phenomenon of electronic voice". One day Masha realizes that the spirit with whom she has been communicating for a year is actually a living person, and really falls in love.

“Olya is cool. Next to her is a little sparkle, from how light and joyful she is. But her ex-man - not cool at all, and left a scar for her, ”- this is how the blog of Rina Tsunami, a tattoo artist from Vladimir, begins. She collects stories of women who come to her studio to hide traces of burns, cuts, gunshot wounds. Covering scars, Rina helps women forget about violence and start life anew. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Valery Panteeva is organizing the project “Tattoos instead of scars” in conjunction with the studio Maverick. Masters of a tattoo studio, like Rina, cover the scars of victims of domestic violence. But some women do not want them to hide their scars. For Rachel from Newport (UK), the trail of a gunshot wound became part of herself, her pride, a terrible story that she could survive. Rachel wrote a book on violence, collects signatures for petitions to amend English law, and creates relief groups for people like her.

The last concert of "Grazhdanskaya Oborona", held on February 9, 2008 in Yekaterinburg.