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Vladimir and Valentina met on an ad in the Lonely Hearts Club newspaper. To start a new life and create a family, he comes to her – from Altai Krai to St. Petersburg. However, it turns out that things are not so simple.

Film is about communication. Kobrin pays homage to Vasili Nalimov, to his work and life. Nalimov was a mathematician and philosopher, but was also an eccentric anarchist with mystic tendencies who spent eighteen years in a concentration camp. Nalimov’s philosophy relies on probabilistic methods in the natural and social sciences and applies them to the study of language and consciousness.

Swarm works with the image of a buzzing crater formed by young male bodies twisting into a common mass — erasing the personal. It is similar to battlefield rituals: inspired by one youtube video in which volunteers from Ural (War in Donbass) performed the dance of death I recreated the rhythm of military ritual saturated with sensе of suspense and horror. While creating this video, I raised an issue of the legitimacy of compulsory military service through which the government persuades young men to get involved in its military operations.

The film is about an expedition that is looking for the lost biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. “Turning to the biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we wanted to establish whether these cities really were, and if so, where they were. After all, these cities are mentioned simultaneously in the Bible and the Koran. Nobody seems to doubt that they existed, but where they were, nobody can say for sure today, ”the author writes about the film.

Family excavations.

Ural stand-up comedian Denis in one minute tells his whole sad life.

The boy, who was bullied at school, looks for ways to solve the problem, and everything turns out in an unexpected way.

“Girls” are six stories told by the residents of besieged Leningrad themselves. After the war, their fate was different, but in the years of the blockade, their stories were intertwined with the history of the victory of an entire people. This picture is a sincere and honest story of one of the few witnesses of the blockade who have survived to our days, about their fate, the fate of Leningrad and about the will to live.

Colleagues from the Union of Artists know Elena K * as a modest watercolor painter. Among the visitors of nightclubs, she is known as the singer of porno-chanson Albina Sexova.

Fear and Loathing in Saratov. Russian elections through the eyes of direct participants in the process. The story of what measures are being taken in a quite ordinary Volga region in order to “elect” the governor. Juggling documents, deception, fights and hostage-taking - this is not a complete list of what observers had to face in the elections in Saratov in 2017. The film restores the history of the voting day, recorded in the general Telegram chat.

Following the death of her father, Belekmaa moves into his shepherd’s encampment. She is living through the first serious bereavement in her life and she hopes to see her father at least in her dreams, up to the day when, according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased will be sated and given an ultimate send-off.

A surreal fairy tale set in an Uzbek pastoral.

They work in the rear to support the soldiers on the front line. A doc about humanitarian mission volunteers from all over Russia

How do you find the right way out of a difficult situation when you are a lonely teenager? Ksyusha lives in her own reserved world, and the only person with whom she has developed a trusting relationship, is now in prison. In 2017, Ksyusha's boyfriend walked into a school with a weapon and was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months. Soon he will be released from prison, so the heroine will have to think this relationship over and understand if she really wants to be with this guy.

A quarter of a century ago, the documentary film by Juris Podnieks “Is It Easy to Be Young?” was a triumph on the cinema screens of the Soviet Union. Has it become easier for today's youth of Russia than it was for their peers in the USSR?

In Greek mythology, the Heliades ("children of the sun") were the daughters of Helios and Clymene the Oceanid. Their brother, Phaëthon, died after attempting to drive his father's chariot (the sun) across the sky. He was unable to control the horses and fell to his death (according to most accounts, Zeus struck his chariot with a thunderbolt to save the Earth from being set afire). The Heliades grieved for four months and the gods turned them into poplar trees and their tears into amber. According to some sources, their tears (amber) fell into the river Eridanos, in which Phaethon had fallen. According to Hyginus, the Heliades were turned to poplar trees because they yoked the chariot for their brother without their father Helios' permission.

Gifted girl Darina, who lives out in the sticks on the island of Sakhalin wants to move to Moscow. She longs for love and recognition, but so far she can’t even find a job. Parents believe that their 40-year-old daughter has her head in the clouds, but Darina pays no attention.The island girl brightens up her routine with a unique vision of beauty and an active social networking, while she continues to stay in her personal Wonderland.

Adversarial Infrastructure is an investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method. Dissecting the Crimean Bridge, the crystallised artefact of Russian colonial violence that spans through cyberspace no less than an offline landscape, this film aims to assemble the new image of logistical infrastructures as a type of hybrid warfare.

"When I was born, all the fingers on my right hand were stuck together. I had two operations in St. Petersburg, in the city of Pushkin, if I'm not mistaken. First, one finger was peeled off, then, a year later, the second. I was just a baby. So I got three fingers. At the moment, I have on my right hand, it turns out, there is a little finger, index finger and thumb. From the ring and middle-only the metacarpal bones..."

Leading political strategists Wolf and Hare are busy discussing news of current politics! They are destroying the political elite from Putin to Trump, from Erdogan to Merkel. They reveal all the scandals, high-profile events, intrigues. Politics is available and without embellishment-in the satirical show DW "Zapovednik".

A techno-melodrama about the past, imaginary and present of Nikita Computer.

The film tells about the work of the Dutch artist Vincent Willem van Gogh.

A documentary film exploring the life of an ordinary fox in its natural habitat.

The film shows the quiet life of the old woman on the outskirts of the village, immersing the viewer in the life of the heroine and the surrounding nature. The film pulls the cine-goer into its rhythm, like falling snow outside the window, like the sound of a train passing by, like the silence of the corridors.

The Russian North, in the basin of the Mezen River. For decades, spent rocket stages launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome have fallen here. The film is based on footage from the 2000s, shot by Chechen, the head of a scrap metal harvesting crew. With obsessive persistence, he spends months groping his way through northern forests and swamps in search of rockets.

A pony named Dietrich is one of the rare cases of a volunteer therapist who visits patients in palliative care units and hospices. Dietrich is a guide who will help to present difficult topics for the viewer through bright emotions.

Sinara is a gynecologist and a surgeon. She is the last hope for hundreds of women. Women from all over the country come to her on the brink of despair. If she can’t help them, then no one can. And Sinara always helps. To save the possibility of becoming a mother for her patient the doctor performs a risky operation and lets the women experience the joy of maternity.

In 1991, almost an entire keel structure of a large Pomeranian vessel was washed up on the White Sea coast by a storm. Now the matrix is in the Solovetsky Maritime Museum. A former military pilot, a builder and a future artist came here to build a sailing wooden ship.

A documentary about two generations and two couples who are united by one strong feeling.

Siberia stands as Russia's most abundant macroregion in terms of natural resources, yet paradoxically, it grapples with significant disadvantages. Boasting 88% of the nation's natural gas reserves, only 16.8% of households have access to this vital resource—lower than anywhere else in the country. Historically, the state has extracted resources from local residents, and recently, this trend has escalated to include the relocation of residents themselves, sending them to Ukraine. As a compensation for fathers, husbands, and sons being sent to the front lines, their families receive firewood to endure the harsh winter of 2022-2023 without freezing. Correspondents from Novaya Gazeta traverse Siberia, engaging with ordinary residents, local officials, and the families of those mobilized, delving into their perspectives on poverty, the ongoing special operation, and the contentious necessity of sending their loved ones to the front lines.

The film is an intrigue, where it is impossible to guess where its hero is until the last frame. He thinks, smokes a pipe, eats, prays, wanders around a lonely apartment and the city, then goes to a concert, where the secret of his profession is revealed. But you still try to guess earlier!

About the units that represent the Russian army and Navy. Five novels of the almanac are devoted to different branches of the armed forces.

In the age of total earning or extraction of money, such concepts as a favorite profession or dream are less and less common in our lives. How can you love a man who has long since died?

Sergei Mayorov, a virtuoso balalaika player of the legendary state dance ensemble of Siberia, whose solo numbers were admired by half the world, was one of the first in the Siberian region to start making Russian folk instruments at the beginning of the 2000s. His kitchen in a two-room Khruschev- era apartment has turned into a workshop in which he and his wife have been huddled for more than ten years.

About the life of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Milan and Lombardy, about the spiritual patron of Milan – St. Ambrose of Milan and other Orthodox saints of Milan and Italy.

A little girl wakes up in the middle of a watermelon melon. She hears voices from watermelons. These are the stories of women - their fears. "Watermelon Bone" is a documentary animation about the fears of motherhood. The film is about love - the most sincere love – maternal.

On the border of Russia and Kazakhstan, on the salt lake Baskunchak at the beginning of the XXI century, people had to make a choice. Maybe the most important in life… Having become shareholders of their company, they could breathe new life into it and confidently build their future, but they preferred another, more profitable, at first glance, option.

The cycle is dedicated to the Spanish Civil War, its very special role in the intellectual and cultural history of the XX century. The heroes of the cycle: Hemingway, Saint-Exupery, Malraux, Ehrenburg - participants in this war and its chroniclers.

Dmitri Shostakovich called her the "Queen of Russian Poetry". She remained a queen in the memory of those who knew her, a queen who survived great glory and the bitterness of humiliation, trampled down by the authorities and retaining her dignity. She lived a long life. The star of the Silver Age, she died on March 5, 1966 by a whim of fate on the day of Stalin's death.

Walk along the famous Kaliningrad's Baltic suburb in the company of a local celebrity Seryoga. He has just left the police department, but is not going to stop the fun.

The famous traveler, scientist and philanthropist Frederik Paulsen, who conquered all 8 poles of our planet, plunged into the depths of the Arctic Ocean, studied the bottom of Lake Baikal and the Novosibirsk Islands, in the company of actress Agnia Ditkovskite went on a new expedition to Tuva. Their goal is to reach the top of the sacred mountain Mongun-Taiga. Tuvans believe that there, at an altitude of almost 4 thousand meters, dwells a spirit that protects the entire Tuvan land. And they don't let outsiders in there.

Tomorrow we will stop being afraid of death. Thanks to cybernetic implants. Digital consciousness. Cryogenic freezing. Other life extension technologies. Humanity is on the verge of immortality. Or not?

The "Akrestino" detention center in Minsk received the gloomy fame of a place where people were especially severely beaten and tortured. However, this did not stop the demonstrations, and the authorities - at least temporarily, stopped their attempts to forcefully suppress the protests - and people freely took to the streets of Belarusian cities, and demonstrations in Minsk became unprecedented in number in the post-Soviet years.

After losing land under feet, Svyatoslav chaotically starts to gather himself by pieces. A painful divorce with his wife immerses him in deep depression. To see future, he will have to brake with the past.

What can change a person's life? Vitaly Komyakov's life was influenced by the vast world of electronic music. He works as a DJ in the small Ural city of Verkhnyaya Salda and, like many young people, strives to escape from the provincial routine.

An ordinary boy Khan Dossaev from the provincial town of Taldykorgan considers himself a real Khan, that is, the chosen one. He wants to make an intellectual revolution. Thanks to high ambition and determination, he is ready to move mountains on his way. He is driven by an idea, and he tries to change the structure of society and people's outlook on life with the help of ... dancing. So who is he really - a hero or a madman ?!

The heroes of the picture are members of the esoteric club in Rostov-on-Don who think that practicing Magic can understand God. This is the subjective view of a person who finds himself in a new environment, has passed all the tests, training courses and was allowed to participate in rituals.

Tatarka Fleur 72. She spent her life helping others: healed people on the island of Sviyazhsk. Now Fleur is alone: the husband is dead, and the children and grandchildren parted. Once a year, the pension routine, consisting of walks in long-studied places, is violated. For a couple of weeks in the summer, the family brings chaos to Fleur’s measured life, temporarily drowning out loneliness.