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On October 25, 1917, construction of a new world began in Russia. One of the foremost workers in this construction was the writer Andrei Platonov. But a bright and fair future, his art and literature were seen by everyone in different ways. Its truth became impossible, and the new world was not built in the way it was conceived. Demanding millions of lives for its existence, a brighter future took the life of the writer’s son, who was arrested at the age of fifteen, and then Andrei Platonov himself. The story of the creation and death of the new world in seven days.

Women of different nationalities live in central Dagestan: Avars, Kubachinks, Lachki, Godoberinki, Didoiks. In 1994, obstetrician-gynecologist Aishat Magomedova opened a charity hospital for them in the center of Makhachkala. She was worried about the situation of mountain women in the villages of Dagestan, where there are no roads, gas, and water. According to local traditions, all the physical labor in the family household falls on the woman: caring for the livestock, in central Dagestan women of different nationalities live: Avars, Kubachinks, Lachki, Godoberinki, Didoiks. In 1994, obstetrician-gynecologist Aishat Magomedova opened a charity hospital for them in the center of Makhachkala. She was worried about the situation of mountain women in the villages of Dagestan, where there are no roads, gas, and water....

Masha dreams of becoming an actress and takes part in the new production of the inclusive project “Interaction”. But the fear of the stage, because of which it falls into a stupor, jeopardizes the first international tour of the troupe.

He gave us an unforgettable and unique childhood. What was the great Russian storyteller really like? A documentary film about Eduard Uspensky.

The memory of World War II is the only thing that makes a small Russian town alive. Like a great treasure this memory is preserved here in every home and is passed on from generation to generation. Yet exactly this memory prevents people from understanding that despite their own will they are getting involved in a new war.

Sami culture in the Soviet Union and today's Russia is a source of life tests and struggle. The film moves in the free-flowing memory tracks of a small indigenous people and tries to create a common memory image of the past 100 years from the diversity of the protagonists. The focus of the film narrative is the Russian territory of their homeland "Lapland", which is now divided between four countries. Grandmother of Zoya Mikhailovna was born in Finnish territory. In 1937, this was sufficient reason to upset the father of the little Zoya. Together with Zoya 18 Sami people of Kola Peninsula recall their past life memories in film. The past and the present flow into each other. However, you can feel a huge gap between "today" and "yesterday".

“Homo Sperans” is a portrait of a Russian person composed of many images. The film's heroes are common men who answer with their lives the universal questions: what is the purpose of our existence, what is happiness, what is it to be a patriot. Their strength is in their ability to keep their chins up and always believe in a good outcome.

Konstantin Khabensky and Zelfira Tregulova, General Director of the Tretyakov Gallery, will tell the audience about the masterpieces of the Russian avant-garde from the collection of the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val.

This film tells about people whose hands create the main components of life on the planet every day. And it’s not just the material basis of our world made of metal, concrete or wood, but it’s also something that gives meaning to our lives, inspires and gives hope. The film’s characters — a locksmith and a fisherman, a steelworker and a farmer, a furniture maker and an anesthesiologist — are followed by the film’s Director, who suddenly turns from an observer into a creator.

The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The film raises questions about the nature of the student-teacher relationship, which inevitably involves submission and conflict, and the nature of the director and hero relationship, which is based on love and a little manipulation.

Our house immerses into the silence of the night, is covered with long shadows, plays with occasional flashes of the warm flame of a kerosene lamp. Darkness for little Stesha turns out to be a tool for the discovery of another world, sometimes scary, sometimes fascinating. Fragments of vague memories, voices, flashes of light – the precious feelings of early childhood that remain with us forever.

In the mid-1990s, Guerra wrote scripts for two animated films by A. Khrzhanovsky, thus making his debut as an author in animation. These are the famous films "The Lion with the Gray Beard" and "The Long Journey". Animated films, where impossible fantasies come to life, seem to be the true territory of Guerra. The movement towards Russia becomes for the Italian master a movement along the vertical of creativity, a metaphor for the limitless possibilities of imagination.

The phrase "Children's hospice" causes many to be taken aback. People try to isolate themselves from extraneous problems, to close themselves off from someone else's grief. One day, fate brought Olga, a successful actress in the past, a mother with many children and a happy wife, to one of these hospices. What could have prompted her to give up her career and start giving all her warmth to other people's children? What inner spiritual motives make people become volunteers and is it so easy to take on someone else's pain?

Off the coast of Antarctica, in the southern ocean, there is a small island. No one knows about it, except for polar explorers who winter in Antarctica, and their relatives. On the island, right on the rocks, there are sarcophagi. People who are not written about in geography textbooks are buried here. But without them, it would be impossible to develop Antarctica. More than 60 years have passed since the first burial. During this time, the cemetery has never been completely renovated. Our team of 8 people went to Antarctica to make it for the first time.

The life of elite chess players during a prestigious international tournament. Portraits of world Champions, their everyday humor and analysis of games played, interests in gay pride and classical music concerts. Behind the scenes of the beautiful world of chess, where people were able to keep the joy of the profession and communication.

A community of Armenians, refugees from the Soviet Union during the Baku pogroms, live in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet mentality, and American emigration mix in incredible tragicomic proportion.

In November 2017 in Volgograd, the BK-31 armored boat was raised from the bottom of the river. According to historical data, from July 1942 until the month of October, the ship took an active part in the Battle of Stalingrad. Built at the special request of the NKVD "BK-31" at that time was a ship unique to the river fleet. After getting up on board, artifacts, the remains of the team, various weapons and a huge amount of ammunition were discovered on it, the latter indirectly confirms the historians' version of the “special” tasks that the navy had to carry out.

The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.

Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is born in Kamchatkan waters and spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters — to give offspring, start the circle of life, and die. It is an inexhaustible resource that feeds billions of people on the planet, restored every year. But soon, we may find ourselves facing the unimaginable: humans will exhaust the inexhaustible.

Zakura is a bright seven-year-old Bedouin girl. In a few years her father Arafat must marry her off. Traditions say so.

The life story of the legendary music critic, journalist, TV and radio host Artemy Troitsky, who for many years has been recognized as a musical authority not only in Russia, but also beyond its borders.

A new clip from the Russian brand Paccbet featuring quite a few Frenchies.

Liza Monetochka shows archives from a videotape dug out from under the bed with children's chronicles and footage of her b-day — 21 years old on the stage after all!

“Everyone can accomplish a heroic act in their life” hammers home the instructor. But such a destiny is prepared for in the presidential school of cadets that trains volunteer teenagers to serve in the National Guard created by Putin in 2016. Alex Evstigneev photographs these future heroes, whose extreme fragility on the verge of an iron indoctrination he reveals with sound and images.

The film is dedicated to the theater and film Director, screenwriter, producer, teacher, people's artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Solovyov, who turned 75 on August 25, 2019. The film tells not only about the cinematic works of the master, but also about his theatrical productions - "the Seagull" at the Taganka Theater, "Uncle Vanya" at the Maly theater, and about a very important period in his life – the creation of his theater, where the main cast is occupied by his former students. The audience will also see how Solovyov is preparing the annual international film festival "Spirit of fire" in Khanty-Mansiysk, where world cinema stars arrive.

How did the greatest autocrat of the 20th century, who perpetrated horrible massacres for decades, manage to win the sincere, devoted love of 20 million people and still keep it burning in many hearts today? What is the main secret of Joseph Stalin?

In the circus tent „Joy” the same thing happens every day – they dismantle and assemble the tent with a dome full of stars, give performances, and move on to the next place. Lynx and parrot trainers quarrel over every little thing, and Valera the clown always performs alone. Until one day a new partner joins him, the clown Yana, and he starts to dream about conquering the world of the circus together with her.

The water flows on the surface of the Earth and in the underworld, this substance connects both sides of the river as margins of life. The narration is holding out the silhouette from the sketch of an artist to the symbolism of the ancient world reading small gestures. This film accommodates artist’s works by giving them a role of an oracle.

This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with love for cinema.

The protests in Belarus had been going on for the 12th day, but many began to think that they began to slip, and Lukashenko came to his senses and slowly began to regain control. Is it so? Will people get tired? And will they go home, giving Old Man another five years in office?

Two young intellectuals, Katya and Vassya, come to a small industrial town to work as teachers. They want to change the system of scholastic education and the social situation in difficult regions. The school is a closed conservative world, where obedience and discipline are of the highest value. Young teachers discover that nationalism, sexism and homophobia are typical for their new environment. Children see the school as a prison and are completely indifferent to any new ideas. During one school year we observe attempts of our protagonists to bring new practices into the system. Young teachers try to speak with children about feminism, human rights and Russian politics, but the system pushes them out, and a comedy turns into a drama.

Feature film about Kirill Tolmatsky (Detsl)

How and for what reason do our beloved children turn into difficult teens? At what point does maturity come to them and respect for their parents returns? To answer these questions, you have to live your life. Only cinema can make a simple conversation between father and son overcome time and turn into a dialogue between generations.

His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"

The father of the Director Valeria Gai Germanica, the 91-year-old Alexander Brown, is deeply saddened by the death of his beloved wife. He goes on a summer trip together with the family of his daughter. Together they fly to the sea, and little by little the trip to Italy and Greece takes on the dimensions of an ancient tragedy: mortal danger and miraculous salvation, difficulties in translation and conflicts between generations. Human life turns out to be a journey full of emotions that can hardly be borne.

"If the end is the salvation of the soul, then the end justifies the means." Following the will of his spiritual father, in Soviet times he swore allegiance to the atheists, in the 90s he welcomed money changers in the church, and in the 2000s he turned the church into an ideological department serving the authorities, and all in order to achieve the main goal - the creation of a Russian Vatican, powerful and independent of Caesar's corporation. Like Vladimir Putin, he came as a Westerner and a modernist, and will leave as a guardian and reactionary. A film about the life and ministry of the sixteenth Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill.

A dialogue film with Russian entrepreneurs during the spread of the coronavirus. This is the personal experience of those who had to take great responsibility for themselves, their families, employees and clients during this difficult time. The leaders and representatives of VKontakte, Citymobil, hh.ru, Delivery Club, British American Tobacco, Pyaterochka, Dodo Pizza, Gett and many others shared their stories.

This is the most comprehensive guide to surviving the height of the COVID-19 epidemic. How not to get infected. What are the symptoms of coronavirus? What to do and where to call if you suspect that you are infected. Whether the virus is dangerous for children. How the coronavirus tricks the body of old people. What will happen to the epidemic in a month. All the latest news about the fashion industry in Russia.

The director, who has always been viewed as the black sheep in her family, sets out to the Belarusian town of Vitebsk to talk with her parents about previous grievances and topics that were considered taboo. The effort to find a common language, which runs into stormy emotions and the inability to voice honest opinions, is captured through both personal moments and detailed shots of the protagonists’ faces.

Ilya learned street-smarts in the harsh realities of Russia's Far North, book-smarts in literature class, and the strength of the fist from a father who strived to raise a son following the straight and narrow. His days consist of berating a subordinate and lamenting the days of Stalin; his nights-of scraping metal and composing obscenity-riddled poems. Ilya longs for a life more becoming of his stature, but unbridled personal demons present a major obstacle to his dreams of conquering the nation's capital.

A story about the separation of a mother and her 3-year-old daughter who now live in different countries and cannot reunite due to visa problems. Every day they communicate via video chat and dream about meeting soon.

Coffee machine repairman Roma decides to become a hospital clown at the age of 40. Now he has to joke about terrible diseases, look positively into the eyes of death and cheerfully amuse those who are not laughing at all. A few days in the life of hospital clowns.

Exclusive interview about the Malfa label scandal, forgiveness and hatred of artists, bad Dorn music and talented Billy Elish, future rap artists and the dream to build Madame Tussauds in Bali.

This is not an interview, this is a confession. Revelations of the artist in the form of a monologue. Guf about Keti Topuria's betrayal, drugs and a new girl.

Striptease dancers - student, nurse, former loan officer, former athlete. The girls chose this profession to earn money. However, this is a complex world with complex rules, in a sense, dangerous production. The owner of a strip club is also a difficult profession. Lucky Lee, the head of the Moscow Golden Girls establishment, is a bright character, video blogger, fighter for world peace. To become the owner of a strip club, he gave up banking.

Few days, two concerts in the one night in the heart of the Moscow. Film-concert about Moscow's trip of the Nizniy Tagil's underground rock-group «lazy comet» in the end of the winter 2020th. The closing part of trilogy , which have started with «Narodnaya», where director Vadim, will be participate as vocalist. «Me, and my friends!»

In the 90s, Stasya and his dad were spending their summer holidays in Odesa with their grandmother. Their relatives from different cities of Russia were also coming there to enjoy the warm sea. 30 years later they meet again. This time in Moscow.

At the end of June 2019, a flood occurred in the city of Tulun in the Irkutsk region. Hundreds of homes were flooded, and some were swept away by the current. Residents were not prepared for such a scale of the disaster and managed to pick up only the documents and take out the children. Many remained on the roofs of their homes to protect property from looters. But the water level rose higher than expected, and people were evacuated on their boats, picked up neighbors, and later rescuers joined the evacuation. There are fatalities among the population. The authors of the film chose four families and watched their lives for six months from the moment of the disaster. The filmmakers are trying to figure out what caused the flood. How helpless is a person before the elements? How to find the strength to start life with a clean slate?

The violent actions of the authorities did not stop the protests. The film "War" by Daria Demur, Ekaterina Ignashevich, Daria Gerasimenko and Maksia Pakhomov is about the street confrontation between demonstrators and the police.

Home concert by Boris Grebenshchikov from London, where the musician was caught in quarantine. The audience will hear both time-tested favorite hits and new songs. Kvartirnik as a format of musical direction appeared in the period of the USSR, when musicians gathered in the apartments of friends and arranged improvised concerts, mainly in the rock style. Boris Grebenshchikov, one of the founders of the format, together with other then – beginning performers, and today – already legends of Russian rock-arranged apartment parties and sang his songs, which eventually became part of the "Golden Collection" of Russian music. Well! Again "Kvartirnik"– now on a different occasion, but with the same energy!

On the evening of August 9, they celebrated and thought that this was happening all over the country, but then it turned out that Alyaksandr Lukashenka was declared the winner of the Belarusian elections. Now the inhabitants of Borovlyan are pondering what to do, and jokingly propose to create the Borovlyany People's Republic.

The presidential campaign in Belarus in 2020 did not bode well for surprises. The permanent (since 1994) head of state Alexander Lukashenko went to his sixth term. During this time, an authoritarian political regime was established in the country. None of the real applicants were registered as presidential candidates: some were arrested, others left the country. As a result, the only competitor of the incumbent president was the housewife, the wife of one of the political prisoners, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

The film tells about the Siberian penal servitude of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story of the difficult transformation of a young romantic into a great Russian writer. The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Debut short films of Belarusian documentary filmmakers, united by the topic of a social role of internet in modern life.

"Goryanki" documentary film tells the stories of several women from the North Caucasus. In Soviet times women in this region were actively removed from the context of traditional values, but the collapse of the USSR raised many questions for the society. The film examines the problems of feminism, the clash of national traditions and religion. Anyway the heroines of the film found the strength and courage to become successful and outstanding people.

If it were necessary to describe the history of independent rock music in Russia in one word, then this word would be Gorbushka. It is a password that has not needed explanation for more than 30 years. This is the Feelee music company, a celebration of the open-air free industry and a true portal to world music, ranging from Nick Cave and Coil to Sonic Youth and Rage Against the Machine. The film, based on archival footage and eyewitness accounts, tells how Feelee has come a long way, changing with the country and changing the country, and as a result has taken its special place in Russian culture.

The film tells about the former journalist of the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, adviser to the Roscosmos state corporation Ivan Safronov. On July 7, 2020, Safronov was arrested, charged with high treason and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. So far, several months after Ivan's arrest, neither he, nor the defense, nor the public have been presented with a single piece of evidence of the journalist's guilt.

The documentary is a portrait of the German Manfred Missfelder, who in the early 90's on foot went on a journey from Germany to Jerusalem with the reproduced Tablets of Moses to ask for forgiveness for his people, for what was done during the Second world war.