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Two people, not counting the cat, go on an anti-crisis trip by car to see the beauty of Russia and talk about how to relax in an interesting and budget-friendly way.

The film is about the melon growers of the Orenburg region, who plant watermelons and melons every year at their own risk. It is not easy to grow an environmentally friendly red berry. It's even harder to sell it…

Lisa is twenty years old. Liza is a child of Moscow. She is gentle and beautiful. She has a bottle of wine stolen from her father and some peonies she gave herself. And it seems to be flying on wings, but it is confused. I don't know why. And about her maeta, she tells the "strangely painted" window.

Teriberka is an ancient Pomeranian camp on the shore of the Barents Sea. Since ancient times, people lived here. They were not afraid of the long polar night, nor of the winter blizzards and storms, nor of the barrenness of the stony earth and sand. Only by sea it was possible to reach Teriberskaya Bay, where the first artels of Pomor fishermen settled on the sandy shore. At the beginning of the 21st century, Teriberka lost its status as a regional center, turning into a dying village with a surreal landscape. The taciturn inhabitants remained devoted to their native Land, which is divided and sold behind their backs, evicted from their homes and deprived of fishing. But the sea gives them inner freedom. Without looking back.

The art of calligraphy refers to the Islamic heritage, culture and tradition. At the dawn of Islam, the use of Arabic script was considered sacred, and sacred texts gave rise to a rich abundance of manuscripts and initiated the tradition of calligraphy, which for more than a thousand years was preserved and developed not only for the design of manuscripts, but also in the art of architecture, ceramics and miniatures.

According to statistics, every third Russian in the summer-autumn season becomes a real mushroom picker. And we are not looking for mushrooms for food, but because we love to do it, because for many it is a real passion called "silent hunting". At the same time, many mushroom pickers do not even know what these unique creatures of nature are, appearing and disappearing completely suddenly. This amazing, third kingdom of wildlife is still largely a mystery, even for scientists.

In Yekaterinburg, non–professional retired artists play in the social theater "New Start". Thanks to the ideological inspirer and director Vlad Sakhnov, these people discovered their creative possibilities and forever became infected with the love of the theater.

Documentary-poetic film about the life of the poet and front-line soldier Boris Abramovich Slutsky.

At 235 kilometers from Omsk, in the heart of Siberia, there is a seemingly ordinary village of Okunevo. For the last 20 years, it has been one of the main places of attraction for believers of various religions - from Hindus to Old Believers and Muslims.

Cystic fibrosis is a very severe chronic genetic disease in which a person actually drowns in the fluids of his own body. There are three thousand patients in Russia, 80% of them are children.

After 56 years of marriage, the hero buries his wife and remains alone. Now he tries to find a place for himself in a new devastated world and understand what is better – to be alone or together.

A film about mother and son.

The time for letters has passed. The last words that came from the Gulag became a document. The time for letters stopped then, but continues to shudder today. Evil repeats itself invariably. We try to remember events and destinies, but the unceremonious history teaches nothing. Letters from eternity. Letters to the future.

Lena hides not only her real name, appearance, but also the source of income - from her mother. She did not fit into adulthood, and became one of those who own at night the central bridge between Victory Square and the circus. The conversation with her was filmed several years ago as a reflection on the next financial crisis, but, unfortunately, it is still relevant.

A young girl leaves the capital for a monastery.

This is an insight into unconscious state of mind. Through the story of Afghanistan war on Soviet side veteran who is working at the ship and experiences problems with aggression and through the ancient world that shows the true essence of war - from its birth to the the tragical consequences. The history repeating - the archetypes of war inside humanity.

What do we know about human clinical trials of drugs? Sometimes strange things happen outside the doors of medical institutions, which are usually kept silent. The film tells about several volunteers who decided to exchange their health for money without thinking about the consequences.

The "self-isolation" regime due to the coronavirus epidemic was announced in Perm on April 2, 2020. Patrol cars drove around the districts and an appeal was read through loudspeakers: "Citizens, we ask you to stay at home." It was forbidden to leave the house further than 100 meters, and move around the city without a pass. It was allowed to walk the dogs, go to the nearest grocery store and to the pharmacy, if required to keep a distance and wear masks. People over 60 were encouraged to stay at home. Streets and courtyards were patrolled. During the first week of quarantine, the streets were empty. The main points of congestion of residents were grocery stores and pharmacies. By the end of April, people began to go out for walks more often and treat themselves to irgi berries.

"I will become a mother" - the heroine of the film dreamed of saying these words for the second time. However, she lost her daughter late in her pregnancy. After the tragedy she experienced, Anastasia decided to share her story. She will talk not only about how to survive the death of a child, but also about her eldest son David, who also suffered at birth.

Vika, Sasha, Nika are ambitious girls who were united by a love of clothes and a desire to do charity work. Together they open a secondhand store. Each of them has her own reasons for doing this. Gradually, the working relationships between the them develop into a strong friendship. But volunteering comes with many challenges, and not everyone on the team can handle them.

Every Saturday in his studio Yuri Norshtein signs books, talks to readers and viewers. The audience has a rare opportunity to overhear what the genius of today, the famous cartoonist, is talking about in the kitchen of his studio, under a cozy yellow lampshade. Poems, folk art and the secret of the subtle matter of talent, which can be felt in the magical chime of bells ...

Documentary

The film tells about the physical therapist of the Moscow children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" Ilona Absandze. The story of a strong woman, with an iron rod, behind which a subtle sensitive soul is hidden.

A Belarusian vlogger arrives in Moscow to celebrate New Year's without money and with no cell phone.

A documentary about Oleg Sokolov, an associate Professor at St. Petersburg state University, who killed a graduate student, Anastasia Eshchenko. In the film, for the first time, Sokolov's previously silent victims — his former girlfriends and students, as well As Anastasia's relatives-spoke up. The film was created as part of the non-fiction cycle "Born killers", which tells about the most high-profile Russian crimes, in which still not all the circumstances are clear to the end.

A retired federal judge, Olga Andrianova, has a second home. One is her own family: her husband, son, daughter and three grandchildren, and the second is a motley, restless and very defenseless company of people of different ages: residents of a psycho-neurological boarding school in Torzhok. So she lives in two houses.

About the life of four feminists living in Bashkiria and holding completely different views. What are they fighting for? Why are they opposed to each other and to the society in which they live? The film as an occasion to reflect and rethink your experience, regardless of what beliefs you are used to following.

There are three eras in memories.

The story of a girl with a mental disorder who does not trust drug treatment and puts herself into the trap of her own consciousness. A face-to-face meeting with the past helps her to finally return to reality.

A film album with stories of people who go beyond the division into women and men who do not feel that they are neither female nor male. “Are you a girl or a boy?” Is the most common question for the characters in the film. How to answer it? And is it worth answering?

Alina, Olga, Marina, Natalia, Alena and Vesta, like many other women, dreamed about love and family. However, their dreams didn’t come true. The women were in danger after divorces. The documentary shows the problem of family kidnapping, which is so often ignored in Russia.

This story is about Pasha, a musician from the city of Ryazan. How music changes the reality of his life and un-limits the opportunities.

Left without work, the thirty-two-year-old Dmitry decides to make repairs in the apartment inherited from his father in order to start a new life. Freeing the house from family heirlooms, he will discover an amazing similarity between his and his father’s fate.

The film consists of three short stories - three stories. Styopa, Volodya and Maliki. Each of the guys has their own problems, dreams and goals. And the only thing that unites them is that they are young.

One of the symbols of musical Moscow, the heart of the Great Hall of the Conservatory, is the historic organ of Cavaillé-Coll. It was created in the 19th century, and was first heard in 1900 - at the World Exhibition in Paris, where it represented Russia and won the Grand Prix. A year later, the instrument was installed at the conservatory. Since then, he had to go through a lot of events that undermined his health: wars, revolutions, flooding ... Restoration, carried out in 2014-2016, revived the creation of the French master Aristide Kawaye-Call to life. The film, created on the basis of unique filming inside an organ, demonstrates the restoration process and offers to look at the instrument as a living organism - a breathing giant with a thousand voices.

Video mysteria «Ray’ok» is part of the exhibition of the same name.The title of the work sends the viewer to the folk theater, Rayok. This is a wooden fairground box with the views of other countries inside and the latest world news. In fact, such a theater with paper panoramas was a prototype of TV and the Internet. On the other hand, the spelling of the name «Rayok» refers to a network slang in which the anglicisms interlace with Russian words. Six fictional characters in turn perform small musical numbers, running away from the viewer. In the end, they gather in the last frame on an improvised forest scene.

They make a documentary about suicide to answer the question, why life is worth living, and fall in love with each other. Six months later, he will commit suicide, and she will try to make him the main character of the film, adding the footage of accidentally captured moments, phrases and jokes. As a result, the film becomes a reflection on the healing nature of art— the creation of the film becomes for the author a kind of psychotherapy.

The bell is the only musical instrument used by the Orthodox church, and its connection with the Russian spiritual culture is incredibly strong. In 2016, popular techno-producer and DJ Philipp Gorbachev had been trained by a bell-ringing master and later became the bell ringer at the St. Nicholas Church in Aksinino. Being influenced by Peter Mamonov, Moscow-based electronic musician believes in the spirituality of the Russian dance floor. This film is an attempt to reflect it through the prayerful experience of the modern bell-ringer, who hides the red mechanic jumpsuit, Gorbachev’s usual clothes for sets, under the monastic robe. Following Philip, the camera tries to find and capture in detail the fragile atmosphere in which the sound of bells becomes a source of divine revelation and turns people into brothers and sisters.

Lisa is 12 years old. Vacation she spends in the village. Runs away from grandmother's errands to the river, idle, paints her nails, dresses up and plays the fool with her younger brother. She wants to quickly become a girl. But while femininity is inferior to childishness.

The only time when a high school teacher feels like her students at the Unified State Exam is when she needs to say farewell words with the cheat sheet to the young birds that have fled for 8 years, forever leaving their secondary educational nest.

From the Baltic Sea to the Kamchatka peninsula, the search for the perfect wave powers this documentary on surf culture in Russia.

Contemporaries of “Perestroika” recall their hopes, expectations, and disappointments associated with it. Turning to emotional memory, they realize themselves not only as witnesses and eyewitnesses, but as real participants in the story.

Alena and Alexey love each other. But due to the fact that they have to live in the same apartment with their relatives, and maybe for some other reason, their life together threatens to turn into a living hell.

Thinking about what is hidden in the depths of our subconscious. We are trying to convey to the viewer the idea of his personal uniqueness, to awaken in him creative potential.

Jordan Fry was born in the family of a Hollywood screenwriter. The name "Jordan" was chosen by the father in honor of the heroine of the novel "The Great Gatsby", so it seems that Joe came off the pages of Fitzgerald ... After leaving her native New York 6 years ago, she immigrated to Russia. Now Jordan lives in Moscow with a guy from Kaliningrad, plays in the Center. Meyerhold speaks fluent Russian. She is in love with the Russian theater, communicates with relatives only in Skype and constantly drinks tea, which she never did in America. With tours Joe traveled all over Russia, in her free time translates plays from Russian to English and performs with her own band Sauce Kefal in restaurants and bars in Moscow. In the subway she reads Platonov and Rasputin, monitors the presidential elections in the US and considers the monarchy to be the best way of government.

Based around longform interviews, including with some of Russia's most well-known LGBT activists, the film presents one of the most extensive looks to date into the lives and testimonies of ordinary members from any part of the country's queer community. It also presents a horrifying glimpse into the work of organised rings of Russian homophobes dedicated to repeatedly outing, shaming and physically assaulting those they've deceived and targeted.

A day in the lives of six Russian twenty-somethings living in St. Petersburg.