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The film 'Edem' reflects on the fate of humanity after the first fall.

Russian media frequently highlights pardoned prisoners, emphasizing how they "atoned for their crime with blood." Surprisingly, now even orphans are being presented with a similar proposition involving shedding blood. These youngsters, who often have vague memories of their parents and lack significant adult guidance, might be even more vulnerable than prisoners. Authorities urge them, saying, "Go for six months. There will be a salary ohow can they decline? They are not afraid of encountering violence: life in an orphanage is full of it, it is familiar. This film serves as another endeavor to explore the reasons behind Russians' willingness to take up arms. This film is part of the documentary project «The Assignment» made by Novaya Gazeta journalists who remain in Russia and continue to work under war censorship and risks. Film editor – Kirill Sakharnov.

The film tells about the life and work of Russia's first professional film director Peter Chardynin.

Almost 30 years of work in television. His films and programs have won prizes at prestigious television and film festivals. But he never realized his most cherished dream. 27 documentaries, 3,000 hours in the filming pavilions of the Kultura TV channel – and in each of the works in the credits the name of the Cameraman Oleg Kochubey. He teaches students Camerawork, instills in them a love for the profession, but he no longer harbors illusions.

The film is about interethnic relations in the modern Kuril Islands through the demonstration of the activities of the Russian-Japanese friendship club "Russia-Kunashir-Nippon" ("ROKUNI").

A unique event in the country's sports life – crossing Lake Baikal in one of its widest parts on a windsurfing board. Dmitry Shumilov, a seasoned windsurfer and brave romantic, dared to take such a risky step.

A young entrepreneur from St. Petersburg sells his restaurant business to create a device for communication among the deaf-blind community. However, he faces misunderstanding and resistance when trying to introduce this innovation into the established system of communication using tactile cards. His determination and willpower eventually lead to the recognition of his device on an international level.

The film tells the story of the creation of a post-industrial creative space called "Textil" within the premises of the once-famous but now barely surviving Yaroslavl textile factory "Krasny Perekop", which has no analogs in our country.

What are creative clusters, who creates them, why are they needed, and how can they help every creative individual in our country unleash their potential and earn from their hobbies?

The Young Audience Theater is preparing for a premiere. Each member of this ship's crew is bringing the concept closer to realization. A light, ironic story about the meaning of life.

Mom and dad were brought up in an orphanage. Now they are 50 years old, and a great desire for life does not leave them to this day. This is a love story of mother and father, through which the director could actually see his parents.

They were born in the village of Dolomite, lived on neighboring streets. Together they went to the first grade, together graduated from the tenth. He entered the flight school, she entered the architectural institute. After studying, he was assigned to Kirov, she followed him. He was flying, she devoted herself to the Dymkovo toys.

The film is about "maroon berets", soldiers of the special forces "Vyatich", who serve in Chechnya. About war, about peace and about how shaky the border separates these concepts from each other in the minds of people in the North Caucasus.

"Shift" is a new look at the construction site. "Shift" is the time spent with the characters. "Shift" is the question, whose shift will be next?

In Tsirk, student clown Alexei is our guide to the State School for Circus and Variety Arts, in Moscow. It's a shabby relic of a vast Soviet circus system instituted to entertain the masses and spread propaganda. While Alexei hones his pratfalls, the committed and underpaid staff remember better, but less free, days.

The protagonist of the film lives in the former capital of barge haulers, the city of Rybinsk. His values in life can be summed up in a phrase from The Beatles song "Nothing's gonna change my world". The rules of life of the "last hippie of the USSR" and his political principles against the backdrop of the everyday life of a small Volga city and the holidays of a large country.

This documentary takes us through the history of Murmansk, the biggest city north of the Arctic Circle.

The film is based on the real diaries of the former Nord-Ost hostage Irina Fadeyeva, whose 15-year-old son Yaroslav was killed during the assault. These are her reflections on the tragedy that happened and her silent appeal to the Russian authorities, which hide the true cause of the death of the child.

A film about parents who have not given up on their disabled children. When a disabled child is born in a family, parents in most cases face the same problems. But everyone solves them alone. Being left alone with your misfortune is the most difficult period in the life of parents of disabled children. Not everyone manages to overcome it and enter society.

From 2001 to 2007, Russia lost more than 3,000 soldiers killed. There were no wars, at least no official ones, at that time. But the soldiers died. Mostly conscripts. The reason is army crime.

A film about the life and work of the outstanding Russian literary critic, writer, screenwriter, leader of the Russian formal school Viktor Shklovsky. Tracing the brightest moments of this life, tightly intertwined with the life of the twentieth century, is the main task of the film. And, of course, the creators of the documentary could not ignore the writer's love interests, which he wrote about in the famous "letters not about love."

Filmed via webcam about people who suddenly become the victims of massive online harassment.

The war of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1979 is still full of many secrets. And perhaps the most intriguing of them is connected with the operation "Baikal-79", the beginning of the invasion. The battle lasted only 43 minutes in the Taj Beck Palace, the residence of the head of Afghanistan, Amin. But this was preceded by a long chain of intriguing events in Moscow and Kabul.

The film is about people who are already recognized in the world musical culture, about those contemporaries who are called "our new composers" in musical circles. Vladimir Martynov, Sergey Zagniy, Anton Batagov and Pavel Karmanov, despite their creative difference and difference in attitude, communicate closely and, one might say, are friends. These are four completely different people, who, nevertheless, are called “composers of the same blood” by critics.

The three main characters of the film are people of different generations and destinies, who are united by one thing, the main thing in their life is work. Work is their life. Eight hundred kilometers from Moscow, in the north of the Kostroma region, lumberjacks are felling wood. It will be tied up in 36 huge rafts, and when the river opens in April, it will be possible to go downstream. But even then there will be time for amazing stories about sea voyages to Africa, Kostroma beavers and Russian space. For humor and complaints about the cruelty of the Russian fate.

He was appointed commandant of Kabul immediately after the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan. And three days later, a reward of one million Afghans was announced for his head. Russian soldier of the Guard, Colonel Yuri Dvugroshev, is at the head of one of the most troubled cities on the planet. Assassinations followed one after another. Although in fact his whole life is a continuous game with death. Why was a real hunt arranged for a Soviet officer? Did he know about the true plans of the USSR regarding Afghanistan? And how did you cope with the management of the rebellious city?

Almost like a lab experiment. A 2nd year student decided to live for a month on a scholarship of 2200 rubles.

The queen of Russian silent cinema, Vera Kholodnaya, was only 26 years old. Of these, she starred only 4 years. Of her more than 50 films, only 5 have survived, but she is not only remembered, she is revered. Vera Kholodnaya was a real star of Russian cinema. There were no others like her. To be smart, and beautiful, and pure, and talented, and happy, and loved by everyone. The film is built on the memoirs of Vera Kholodnaya and people who knew her well, as well as on materials from newspapers and magazines of the 10s and 20s. The film features A. Vertinsky's songs dedicated to Vera Kholodnaya.

Over the past year, Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front opposition movement, spent more than two months under arrest. In prison, he declared dry hunger strikes in protest against illegal detentions at rallies, on the way to rallies, just on the street. Many times he was hospitalized due to deterioration of health during hunger strikes. But this most controversial leader of the Russian opposition is surrounded by people almost more mysterious than himself. What leads them, following Udaltsov to rallies, under the batons of riot police, venturing on hunger strikes and ready to jump from the Crimean bridge?

Borisoglebsk. 20 years ago, Russian refugees and "forced migrants" rushed here from the former Soviet republics to escape the interethnic massacre. Did they manage to become their own in their historical homeland? And isn't Russia on the brink of an inter-ethnic war today?

The heroine of the film Marina, it would seem, has already passed her thorny path of dance from distant Turkmenistan to the championship of Russia, Europe, the stage of Los Angeles. However, today her life is a constant race in which Marina strives to ensure the prosperity of the dance company she created. What is more important, to raise a star out of your 4-year-old mulatto daughter Nicole, or still at least once again go on the stage of a giant show with the stars, albeit as a backup dancer, but in your favorite position in the first line in the middle?

The film is not only about Artur Kazakov, his beautiful wife and son Misha, who was born and lives in prison, but also about all of us.

Three meetings. Brother and sister. Hate, love and drugs. Everyone makes a choice.

Ira left the general regime women's colony near St. Petersburg 2 years ago. Is Ira free if she returns there every month?

Back in 1942, at the height of the Great Patriotic War, a major plague epidemic broke out in Mongolia. A detachment of Soviet specialists was sent to fight it, who worked selflessly, saving people, burning corpses, testing new methods of administering the vaccine, and also falling in love, getting married and having children. 70 years later, their children, now elderly themselves, set off on a journey to Mongolia, following in the footsteps of their parents.

A boy from a small town, just out of his teens, tries to find himself by revisiting his parents’ divorce, which happened when he was a child. He plunges himself into memories of the past, fantasies of what could have been, and talks openly with his mother and father, trying to find the strength to heal and forgive.

A film about the difficult life of a female stoker. Working from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in a boiler room that heats apartment buildings, Zinaida – who weighs just 38 kg – has to shovel hundreds of kilograms of coal along with her coworker, Alexander.

Martin Bergau, a former member of the Hitler Youth, confessed in his book years after the war that he had participated in the mass execution of Jews on the shores of the Baltic Sea.Marat Mardakhayev's movie tells this story, which remained unknown for many years.How did it happen?Why?And how did it happen that for decades no one talked about this page in the history of the Holocaust?

"Rockstoria" is a large community of rock musicians from the city of Krasnogorsk near Moscow. The creator and permanent leader of "Rockstoria" Dasha Makhortova. Dasha is a producer, impresario, rock singer. It helps young and not-so-young rockers not to get lost on a difficult creative path. Dasha's life is the lights of spotlights and the roar of guitars, a chanting audience and an endless holiday. And also – a lot of domestic and family problems. And also – the upbringing of two little daughters. The eldest of them has autism. Every day is an attempt to solve unsolvable issues. The main one is – is it possible to be a cool rocker and a cool mother at the same time?

Eight-year-old boy Nikita suffers from cerebral palsy. Simple things — walking, talking - are difficult for him. To overcome the disease, he is engaged in diving. The coach treats Nikita the same as the others, without making allowances for disability. And the boy begins to succeed: he jumps from 3, 5 and 7 meters. The last frontier remains — a 10-meter tower... But the gift prepared for him — the railway — goes to another boy, also Nikita, who makes his first jump in his life.

Lyuba is an elderly, nervous woman who works as a secretary at the dean's office. She, like many of her peers, is used to carrying everything on herself: both children and the house. But life passes. The children already have their own families, they live separately, and Lyuba turned out to be completely alone. During the day, there are crowds of students at work, everyone is in a hurry, everyone needs something, everyone has a busy life. Lyuba doesn't change anything, and she is angry at the youth. From day to day, from year to year, she fulfills a fussy working day, then cleans the dean's office (extra money won't hurt anyone) and hurries home. At home she has a cat, wushu classes and phone calls to children — they are her life.

Russia. 2006. Two young people support the ideas of National Socialism. They consider themselves skinheads, and they draw their ideological nourishment from paganism. One of them is more experienced, having a pagan name Ogneyar, helps the second to get to an abandoned village where the ideological inspirer of the Russian pagans, Dobroslav, lives. The second skinhead will also have to adopt a pagan name. On the way, they talk about what led them to nationalists and pagans, and try to explain their point of view to other people...

About love that blooms, without knowing shame, on any piles of rubbish, and when it is, then everything else does not matter much. Yes, I don't want to live like these people, but if I am unbiased, it is clear that they live self—sufficient and ecstatically, that this life, with all its grimaces, suits them quite well, and that it really is life. Regardless of the speculative assessments that we are in a hurry to give her.

The world – full of sensitivity – lies far away. Changeable as the northern sky. Monotonous – like a prayer. Wonderful as stones. At the same time familiar and mysterious. We are advancing by a big river. It's autumn on the river. Somewhat empty – but it is a sensitive void: filled with vital meanings. Downstream and downstream…

A documentary drama based on the personal archive of Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva (in 1960-74 — Minister of Culture of the USSR), recently opened materials of party archives, rare film footage and chronicle, which gives a sense of the rise of our art and culture in a period that is commonly called stagnation.

The story is about a girl who was able to break the negative scenario of the life of an orphanage child, find herself and the profession people need.

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Provincial priest Father Andrey, in his spare time, digs the graves of priests in a country village and digs up the foundation of an ancient church. Excavations and fascination with philosophy lead to conflict with the church leadership. The only ones who admire and support Father Andrey are local weirdos.

Ksenia lives in a small town and works as a secretary in a criminal court. She loves to travel and dreams of moving, but she can't get away from her grandmother, who is getting more and more immersed in the world of dreams and visions every day. An unloved job, a failed romance, pills, depression and trains that pass by every time - all this is about spring, which comes regardless of our mood and problems.

Sisterless revolves around Albina's psychological reality, seen through a young Tatar woman in Russia. Albina dreamed of becoming a psychoanalyst. Instead, she underwent several episodes of psychosis and psychiatric hospitalizations after her sister Almira experienced psychosis and took her own life. Sisterless is an unsentimental attempt to analyze the work of grief, a feminist commentary on the connection between illness, the contemporary political condition and the consequences of post-Soviet displacement. The narrative is based on conversations between the artist and Albina collected over a year and a half.

The word "intersex" refers to people who are born with sexual characteristics that differ from the typical structure of the male or female body. Intersex variation may be noticeable at birth, or it may not become apparent until adolescence or even later. There are about 40 different intersex variations. About 120 million carriers of intersex variations now live in the world. How do intersex people live in Russia?

Mikhail Savelyevich Shaprov (aka the gypsy Shapiro) lived not one, but three lives. Revolutionary romantic and diplomat; "enemy of the people" and political prisoner; a documentary filmmaker who reveals to people all the most important things in this world. The story of Mikhail Shaprov is told by his grandson, director and screenwriter Andrey Raikin.