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This ten-minute film is based on a complicated dialogue between a director and an actress, who are trying to work out some crucial issues in their working relationship. Their conversation turns out to be a study of the boundaries between cinema and reality. Having trust in each other does not negate the need to problematize several key points in filmmaking.
Evgeny Granilshchikov's debut full-length film pursues the exploration of the social and political landscape of contemporary Russia started in his short video works and drawings about a decade ago. Like in many of his previous works, Granilshchikov's characters are young creatives, whose lives and careers develop to a backdrop of current political affairs.
Igor thought he could overcome any obstacle. After a series of events that changed his life, he reconsidered many events that happened to him.
A film about Andrey Shestakov, head of the microbial biotechnology laboratory at Moscow State University. Together with his team, he travels all over the planet, from the Caucasus to the White Sea, with the goal of finding and testing microbes useful for mankind.
Thirty-year-old Tanya really wants to get married. However, her fiance is not as perfect as it might seem at first glance. Therefore, the girl decides to find a replacement.
Valentin Stepanovich is the last inhabitant of an abandoned settlement in the Leningrad Region. His wife is in hospital, and now his only contact with her and the outside world is his mobile phone…
More than 70 years ago, childhood ended abruptly for Olya, Tolya, Zhenya and Vova, just as it did for five million Soviet children. They were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, but survived to tell their tragic stories. Despite their memories of the horrors of camp life, of hunger, torment and death, throughout their lives these people have carried a bright faith that things will turn out for the best...
Roman Yurinov is a motaur, a motorcycle man, and the organiser of the Russian movement Motodonors for Kids. Helping people who have fallen on hard times is his credo.
Sold-out stadiums, the roar of the fans, oceans of alcohol and easy-going friends... isn't that the life of a rock 'n' roller? But what's left when your friends abandon you, the fans find new idols and you find a court summons on a murder charge in your mailbox? This film tells the story of the life of the drummer for the cult Soviet band Zoopark.
A short review of one day in the life of young artists, mostly women, from different countries, students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Documentary episodes are interspersed with scenes, that mimic everyday life, and with the excerpts from the work by Sabina Spielrein, the first female psychoanalyst. What happens to life when nothing is happening, and what is the motivation of young artists, but already not so young people, to make art? The work continues the theme of the video “Interview” (2013), in which the author asked this questions to himself.
In Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth, marriage, and death. Why were physicians of no help to women enduring the pains of labor and the dangers of childbirth? Why were newly married couples "put to bed" by the priest on their wedding night? What did it mean to "die well" and why was death such a communal affair, both before and after it happened?
Nikolay Litvin is a 92-year-old paratrooper, a veteran of the Second World War and, as he calls himself, "the head of the Litvinov clan". Despite his age, he appreciates life in all its manifestations, dreams of yet another parachute jump and spends years telling his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren about the war. This is the story of a typical Russian family and the common attempt of its several generations to understand how much the shock of war matters to them and... does it matter at all?
A short life of a dance.
The Samodurov family lives in the village of Ugljanets, Voronezh Region. Shura and her brothers Alyosha and Petya are blind from birth. After the death of her parents and her older brother, Shura refused to take the sick brothers to a psychiatric clinic. The last 10 years they live together three.
In the vast fields of Altai, a territory at the other end of the world, some isolated teenagers search for meaning in their life. The possible answers seem doomed from the outset by a time without utopias. Though there is still poetry; that of words and that of images.
The video work revolves around a single bicycle ride—from the author's home to the home of his grandfather, who is supposed to hand over tapes from his personal archive for digitalization. While the visual component is entirely focused on the meditative spin of the wheels, the narrative is detached from the image.
A local history documentary film by Denis Platonikhin, chronicling the formation and development of the Orenburg region from ancient times to the present day. The film was produced with financial support from the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), and with the participation of the Orenburg Branch of the Russian Historical Society, the Department of Russian History at Orenburg State Pedagogical University, the Department of History at Orenburg State University, and the Chernomyrdin Museum. Project partners include the Orenburg Governor's Museum, the Museum of the History of Orenburg, the Joint State Archive of the Orenburg Region, and the Orsk Museum of Local History.
A man draws around himself using a point of reference.
A short film, produced in the USSR, showing the evolution of life on Earth, starting with the cooling of Earth's surface and ending with the rise of man. Most creatures are depicted with 2D animation.
The history of the production of the film "The Tale of Tsar Saltan".
This is a film about a cycling expedition beyond the Arctic Circle. It's about the beauty and authenticity of the Russian North. It's about the motivation to get off the couch and go somewhere you've probably always wanted to go. To see what only you can see. To find meanings that only you can understand.
"Happy people" live on the banks of the Volga River, in the very center of Tatarstan. Three generations of locals have spent more than 60 years to turn this place into a paradise. Suddenly, they find out that the land no longer belongs to them. It was taken over by a local businessman to build his own mansion.
The film is about a physical education teacher at a rural school in the village of Matveevka in the Khabarovsk Territory. Mikhail Nepogodin, a graduate of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute, came to work at a rural school, where he conducts physical education classes and teaches children sports and water tourism, educating the younger generation to love their native land, developing sports and leadership skills. According to M. Nepogodin, this is necessary to take children away from the street and from their phones so that they can see what a wonderful world surrounds them – the amazing Far Eastern nature. Only through such lessons can you instill love for a small homeland, and this is where true patriotism begins.
Each of us dreamed of escaping to the edge of the world at least once in our lives, and everyone had their own motives for this. Someone wanted to reboot, break out of the routine, forget about work for a while, and someone just wanted to prove to himself that he was capable of it. And such a person cannot be stopped. Our heroine traveled the distance of 3,500 kilometers from Stavropol to Teriberka on a motorcycle with the dream of scuba diving in the cold waters of the Barents Sea. During the journey, she faced many difficulties, which she was helped to overcome by casual acquaintances. But the main challenge was the need to constantly negotiate with your own body for the incurable disease type 1 diabetes.
For more than 10 years, high school students from the village of Gary in the Sverdlovsk region, along with history teacher Zhanna Saburova, have been coming to the abandoned village of Pelym in the summer. You can only get there by water on a small boat. Travel time is 10 hours. But the tedious road does not frighten the guys. They come here again and again year after year to put in order the abandoned church, the grave of fellow villagers who died in the Civil War, and the obelisk erected by those who did not return from the Great Patriotic War.
A story about the Nivkh, the indigenous inhabitants of Sakhalin Island.
The documentary film "Unknown Tsvetaeva" is dedicated to Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1894-1993), an outstanding master of the memoir genre, the younger sister of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva. Through the prism of her life, the tragic history of the country and the fate of the people next to whom Anastasia Tsvetaeva's life passed are traced. The writer, art critic Stanislav Aydinyan, who was her literary editor and secretary from 1984 to 1993, her granddaughter and relatives will tell about the wonderful and talented writer.
Yuri Vladimirovich Nazarov is a truly national artist, not only in rank, but also in relation to him by the audience. At the age of 88, he still remains in the profession, continues to delight and surprise. The film uses fragments from Yu.V. Nazarov's autobiographical book "Just not about cinema".
The story is about a young scientist Victoria Shipunova, who is working to create a cure for cancer.
The painting tells the story of the heroic deeds of young Donbass underground fighters during the Great Patriotic War, drawing parallels with modern times.
A blind foal is born in a stable in the Tver region. Usually, such foals are euthanized. Tatiana Akimova, who loves horses, faces an difficult choice: keeping this foal alive means taking full responsibility for its fate. Tatiana's athletic background prevents her from giving up easily.
Alexander Malinovsky, a young, energetic conductor, is the artistic director of the Donetsk Philharmonic's Youth Orchestra of Folk Instruments. It might seem unusual, if it weren't for the war.
An experimenter and inventor of many different film effects, including the "effect" of his name, an improviser and teacher, a decorator of salon melodramas and a revolutionary, an auto enthusiast and a dashing hussar! And this is all the same person – Lev Kuleshov.
The artists embark on an existential journey through the regions of Novorossiya. A documentary project about the national idea
Stories of families from St. Petersburg and Mariupol who survived the Great Patriotic War. A doc about the twin cities
Since March 2022, a resident of Donetsk has been filming everything he saw himself.: the shelling, the great grief of his family, mutual help, love and friendship. A documentary about how ordinary people became participants in the historical process.
Spatial and time disorientation, sleep disturbances, and severe anxiety—these are common experiences for people with PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. «The huge scale means they all need psychological help, but not everyone has chosen to seek it out yet,» notes Inna Silenok, the Head of Crisis Counselors' Group, People's Front. She and her colleagues travel to Donbass to offer assistance to those who survived Ukrainian shelling and have lost their closest relatives. Employing internationally recognized techniques for dealing with psychological traumas, the team of psychologists guide people through the challenging process of dealing with their hurting hearts, ultimately easing their burden.
VHSEPROSCHENIE is a psychodocumentary series that shows our view of St. Petersburg. This subtle unconscious state can be experienced after a long illness, lack of sleep, shock, or simply because that is how you view life.
In postwar Königsberg, displaced East Prussians and arriving Soviet settlers were forced to live side by side, bound by loss and survival. Through interviews, archives, and stage fragments, this documentary explores the fragile encounters across enemy lines.
In the 1970s, four young people who were deaf and blind became participants in a Soviet experiment that lasted six years. With the dedication of defectologists, all four went on to earn higher education on par with sighted and hearing peers. Journalist Regina meets Alexander Suvorov, one of the participants, to introduce audiences to the extraordinary world of those who experience life through touch, memory, and perseverance.
After parting ways with her boyfriend, a young woman embarks on a quest for new love, navigating a series of awkward and humorous dates. Her three friends follow along in their group chat, offering commentary and support as she searches for the right match.
Former punk rock musician and party-goer Dima “Spike” reunites with friends to visit the graves of key figures from Pskov’s informal music scene of the 1980s and 1990s. However, locating these burial sites proves challenging. As they wander in search of a deceased lover, they drink and reminisce about their youth at the site of Dima’s own symbolic grave.
We're sure you've considered leaving everything behind and joining a monastery at least once in your life. We've done it for you! Our author, Vlad, spent a whole week in a monastery as a laborer, and the experience definitely changed him. In this film, you'll learn about life behind the stone walls, what kind of people become monks, and a lot of useful information: for example, how to harness passion with a screwdriver and a stone cap.
The rector of the church in California, Stepan Pavlenko tells about numerous miracles that occur through prayers to St. John, Bishop of San Francisco.
A documentary film telling the story of Daniel Martindale, who spent two years helping Russian troops in Donbass from behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A portrait film about the sculptor Alexander Burganov, where the master reflects on the futility of everything, especially art, recalls his childhood, his first encounters with death, and sums up his long life, full of disappointments and unfulfilled hopes.
Alexandra and her son Semyon have been on the waiting list for a place in a boarding school for two years. A documentary about a few days in the life of a mother and son.
This film is about «violence and revenge». The film was made using the alternative printing technique of cyanotype.
Farewell to Mekhov is a documentary ethnographic film shot in 2000 in the Pskov and Vitebsk regions. It focuses on the vanishing tradition of Russian village music, capturing the voices, songs, and spirit of rural communities whose cultural practices are fading away. Through field recordings, performances of folk songs, and candid interviews, the film offers a poignant farewell to a way of life rooted in music, memory, and communal identity. The film was created with the support of folklorists Irina Romodina and Alexander Romodin. Cinematography by Alexander Sokolkov (Moscow). Produced for the art channel ZDF (Berlin) with participation from Jochen Krausser and Ulrike Hunt (Bonn).
The almanac consists of six short stories dedicated to the key punk rock bands of the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia, which formed an original musical style and made a cultural contribution to the development of the musical community of Eastern Siberia. Each part is a kind of alternative film chronicle, capturing the history of the Siberian musical underground from the 1990s to the 2000s, as well as a projection of the punk subculture participants to the present day.
The film tells about the life and culture of the indigenous people of the Far East - the Nanai. Their traditions, based on fishing and hunting, are passed down from generation to generation. However, the connection of times and cultural continuity are under threat - young people are leaving their native places. The film tells about the life of the Nanai through observation of their daily life. Particular attention is paid to the connection of the Nanai with the Amur River, their fishing and hunting. National costumes, dances, and belief in shamanism are shown. The film calls for the appreciation of cultural heritage and strengthening the connection between generations.
