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As you name a boat, so it will float. According to this logic, only happy people should live on Schastlivaya Street in Krasnogorsk (Moscow Region). Authors Maria Safronova and Vlada Platonova went there to talk to locals about happiness. Despite the fact that the street has seen a lot (for example, fires), its residents really are cheerful. And Schastlivaya is also home to many cats, each with its own nickname and character.
A film about attempts to preserve the disappearing language and dance and song culture of the Naukan Eskimos.
A biographic documentary about Soviet actor Arkady Raikin which for the most part covers his artistic activities during the Great Patriotic War and the performances of his frontline brigade. Arkady Raikin is remembered by his children Konstantin and Ekaterina Raikins and his grandson Alexei.
In a space that seems to be shrouded in complete darkness, light finds a way to protrude, and somehow, warmth emerges. It is the New Year’s, a time to reconnect with family, friends, and have a nice time. It is a holiday of light and happiness. The time is life-affirming: by the celebrations and fireworks, people declare that they exist and that they will break through no matter how cold and miserable life may seem.
Volunteer rescuers from "Spasrezerv" regularly venture into the depressive looking glass of capital life. They often turn out to be the only hope for people left outside the public eye and safely hidden behind the blank walls of their homes.
A documentary about the inhabitants of the village Svetlana. They grow vegetables together, milk cows, dance, paint and eat together. People call them “handicapped,” but they are the ones who open our broken souls to the path to divine humanity and freedom.
In spring, apple orchards bloom in Kursk. Asya and her stepfather Sergei, an employee of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, live here. They sense that trouble is approaching the city - sirens are sounding more and more often, enemy drones are flying into the area of the nuclear power plant, and a local crazy artist predicts the apocalypse.
The author tells about his childhood traumas, comparing them with punches.
Summer school is a place where students live side-by-side with nature. The film's characters reflect on the contacts between humans and insects. But theoretical reasoning quickly fades into the background when people find a wasp hive right in the fire cabinet. What to do with it now?
The story of Cape Kazantip, shown through two heroes with different attitudes to natural resources. A documentary study about how nature will always take its toll.
Documentary by the Russian non-profit VITA Animal Rights Center critically examining the meat industry in Russia. It highlights the ethical, environmental, and health issues associated with meat consumption, focusing on factory farming practices. Through graphic footage and expert interviews it aims to raise awareness about animal rights and promote vegetarianism.
This film is made up of the voices of people scattered all over the world. Someone left their home a long time ago, someone immediately after February 24th in 2022, and someone stayed in Russia. On the first eve of the anniversary of the war in 2023, at the author’s request, the participants sent a video of what life looks like around them. They decided for themselves what was important for them to talk about now: about the war or about life. They decided what to show and how. This is a kaleidoscope of different events of one day, during which everyone is trying to understand how life has changed and what it has become now. The goal of the film was to give the voices of the participants the opportunity to be heard without evaluation or condemnation.
A film about those who left and those who stayed. We meet six protagonists, all from Perm, who opposed the war against Ukraine. Half of them have moved abroad, while the other half remain in Russia. Those who left are learning to live anew, discovering a new world of freedom. Those who stayed are adapting to a new reality of denial and collective silence. Yet, each of them continues to resist Putin's dictatorship in their own way.
A film about punk enthusiast and rock tour organizer Denis Alekseev, who traveled across Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok in a falling apart Gazelle. Once he took the band Jars on tour. But something went wrong, and he returned alone.
Film of Vetrophonia band in 1996 performing a concert with Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's collages.
Behind the scenes is a country house, the frame itself is its “eyes”: surveillance cameras hanging in the corners.
The film tells about selkup, indigenious nation of north. The worldview of it's residents is based around lake Lozyl'-to, which is believed to be the center of the world. Lozyl'-to translates as Devil's lake, lake, where spirits are living. At the very heart of the lake sits island, which is a shelter for recently departed souls, watershed and mainland. By the legend of shamans, temple is the home for mysterious "Black woman" and spirits, which are half people and half bears. Selkup believe that on the seventh day after death the soul of a person transmigrates into a bear. The temple is a place where souls live until the "Black woman" comes.
Elena Ziganshina’s documentary animation The Fisherman is a deeply personal story about the filmmaker’s grandfather, who suffers from dementia. While physically present at home, he is mentally on a fishing trip, and this imagined space becomes his last refuge.
David Goloshchekin speaks about his music and composing. How is jazz music created, and how does it differ from other styles? What is the process from an initial idea to performing compositions on stage? How is the interaction with performers established? How does individual personality shape the sound of a composition?
Valeria Podbeltseva: “The details of stories get mixed up; the narrative breaks down. The image does not help to build a clear plot. The film plays with words and associations, creating a sort of parody of what is commonly called ‘feminine’.”
Three countries, two weeks, one broken heart, and a very bad camera.
The ordinary life of an ordinary person, summed up in seven days and two quatrains. What happens if you go with the flow until the very end? Obviously, nothing particularly interesting—but it could make for an fascinating obituary film.
Seven teenagers with mental illnesses talking about their fears, dreams and constant battles with themselves.
The Boy's Word: a true story about Kazan street gangs of the late 1980s
In 2023, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet singer Mikhail Pavlovich Ryba. In the 50s and 60s of the XX century in the USSR, his voice boomed in films, from radios and from the stage. The life and work of Mikhail Ryba is a snapshot of the key events of the 20th century. The singer with a unique, inimitable voice has always been at the forefront of current events. His voice resonated in the soul of a child and an adult, a sophisticated listener and a simple worker. It was the Voice of a generation, the Voice of an era.
Peshawar Prison (Pakistan). Meeting with a Kazakh Soviet prisoner of war who had gone mad. He was ransomed from captivity by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Two years in the Swiss disciplinary unit of the Swiss Army. Released. He returned to his homeland in the USSR in 1985.
Is happiness related to lifestyle? Is it available to everyone? And what does it even mean to be happy? The film explores this issue together with the Buddhist teacher Geshe Jump Tinley.
The film is dedicated to the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". It was established on December 22, 1942, when the city on the Neva was still under siege.
The film is dedicated to the story of children who spent most of their lives under the shelling and ruins of the cities of Donbass, as well as doctors, teachers, psychologists and foster parents, builders, military personnel and all volunteers who work daily to help children overcome stress and fears, return childhood stolen by the war and gain faith in a happy future.
Boars are the keyhole to the authentic male world. Let's see?
What is inevitability? To observe with our own eyes a process that we cannot stop. A process that is already running and no one can stop it.
The story of complete misunderstanding, a split in the family and the struggle for their truth. The eldest son Kolya takes care of his mother, is engaged in the manufacture of knives, but one day the situation is turned upside down. His sister arrives, who, together with the hero's wife, wants to clean up the house using psychological pressure. Close people become strangers?
A young guy with mental disabilities leaves his mother, who took away his pension. In search of housing, work and legal assistance, he turns to friends and familiar charitable organizations. He tries to resolve issues on his own, but all this almost leads him to a life on the street. Thanks to determination and faith in himself, he goes to the dream that he will someday find his place. Will he be able to cope with all the problems on his own?
The film tells about modern youth and their attitude to the Great Patriotic War. The protagonist comes from a Russian city to a Belarusian village, where, together with a friend, he finds out how his great-grandfather ended up in a German concentration camp as a child. The difficult village life, joint work and rest, rafting down the river in search of a village burned by the Nazis unite the friendship of the guys even more. Memories of living participants of past events reveal to friends the secrets of the past, which can no longer be read in history books.
The film tells about the unusual fate of a working man. The hero of the film graduated from an agricultural academy in his youth, studied as a veterinarian and wanted to do science, but his collective farm, where there were 40 thousand sheep, fell apart and he had to retrain as a welder.
The film tells about the purposeful younger generation, who love their Motherland and are ready to defend it.
In order to fly only a few tens of seconds, these people are ready to climb the mountain for hours. And they think their efforts are worth it. Wingsuit, a wing of a special design, allows you to plunge into the world of complete freedom for at least a short time, to feel like birds. Base jumping also gives a slightly less thrill – this is what skydiving from fixed objects is called. However, this freedom is deceptive, and sometimes its price is prohibitively high.
A paraphrase of the Bergman duet's "Autumn Sonata": a teenage girl and a detached, busy mother.
Scientists break into the international information field every now and then, announcing the imminent transformation of the reality we know, the formation of the "world of the future": rats with electrodes implanted in the brain, lunar probes, artificial intelligence that has learned to predict accidents, and other joys. However, everything that sounds inspiring to some is frightening to others. After all, the notorious cyberpunk, which we are used to seeing in video games, is, of course, fine, but only as long as we are separated from it by a gamepad.
How the postcovid syndrome manifests itself, and what will help to cope with it, are told by people who have felt the effects of the insidious virus.
The base camp at the foot of Mount Everest is a place for strong men. They leave their family and business at home and focus on climbing. Each of them will have to prepare for two months to conquer the main peak of the world. Such men, usually wealthy, are hunted by women under the guise of climbing a peak. One of these girls will keep a diary of conquering, but not Everest, but men.
Memories are the only thing that remains about the past. But a person often remembers the sad moments of his life, because a certain turning point happens in them. However, memories can be supplemented by a recorded chronicle or photographs. This documented memories can diverge from the ones left in your head. What if they differ too much? Does any of this turn out to be a lie?
The film is about the treatment of depression in a psychiatric hospital adjacent to a prison in Russia. The main character becomes a patient, but while in the hospital, she begins to immerse herself in the problems and mental disorders of other patients. Her new friend is a 39-year-old woman, Asya, who jumped from the 12th floor after her husband abandoned her. Every evening, the main character and Asya collect puzzles in the hope that one day they will be cured of mental illness. Asya talks about her life, which she hardly remembers, and subtly tries to ask her new friend how to hang herself. Meanwhile, the main character secretly records life inside the hospital on the webcam of her computer and phone: recording the procedures and experiences of patients like herself.
The film "Generation of Bison" is a documentary drama, somewhat similar in plot to the film "Nine Days of One Year" by M. Romm, probably the most famous feature film about Soviet atomic scientists. There are also 9 stories in it, each corresponding to the stage of preparation and construction of the First nuclear power plant, the announcer is just as restrained and laconic, the plot is just as dramatic. At the same time, each story from the film "Generation of Bison" is a short story about the peculiarities of the life of young scientists, their attitude to each other, their interests and feelings. This is told by the participants of the events themselves – living witnesses of the era.
Irakli Kvirikadze is an outstanding, internationally recognized screenwriter and director. He has changed his ninth decade, but lives the life of a very young man: he travels, brings up a preschooler son and helps his wife, artist and director Tom Stenko, in his work. The family spends most of their time in Goa, and it was there that Irakli, a brilliant storyteller, found time to share the amazing stories of his life.
In 1933, the Technofilm film studio was located on Melnichnaya Street in house number four, which has been known as Lennauchfilm for 80 years of its creative activity. It had another name, Leningrad United Film Studio, which it received on March 30, 1942. It was then, in the square of the shelling on Melnichnaya Street, the cinematographers of the Leningrad United Film Studio were able to realize the great idea – to capture the whole truth about the blockade. In the spring of 1942, the footage of the defending city formed into the film "Leningrad in the Struggle", which showed the world an unprecedented tragedy in the history of mankind and the unparalleled steadfastness and heroism of the city-front.
Andrey and Mikhail got acquainted with modern dance in the 90s in Ufa. They devoted their lives to art. They both speak in the language of dance about love, about tragedy and about the performance they are going to put on.
The documentary drama tells about the tragedy that occurred during the occupation in our city in 1942, when the fascist invaders destroyed 214 disabled children suffering from bone tuberculosis.
Permafrost is a commonly used scientific term. This is the frozen soil as a result of numerous glacial periods. The territory of Russia is covered by 2/3 of it. But it turned out that "eternal" does not mean "forever"... Our heroes are scientists who go on dangerous and exciting expeditions to the most diverse corners of the Russian Arctic - from Yamal to Chukotka. They are watching the permafrost melt, trying to understand its laws, to preserve it.
A story about the fates of military personnel and civilian specialists who participated in the Afghan war.