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A cinematographic journey to that very unique time when many Russians got their first palmcorders along with their first opportunity to go on family vacation abroad. Roads, hotels, shops, water parks and cafes - everything was equally impressive and everything was saved on VHS tapes for home archives. At the same time, somewhere on the other side of the Earth the fishermen who go out to the northern seas for a long time, also take a video camera with them for the very first time.

"When I was born, all the fingers on my right hand were stuck together. I had two operations in St. Petersburg, in the city of Pushkin, if I'm not mistaken. First, one finger was peeled off, then, a year later, the second. I was just a baby. So I got three fingers. At the moment, I have on my right hand, it turns out, there is a little finger, index finger and thumb. From the ring and middle-only the metacarpal bones..."

Musical film by actor Sergei Paranyushkin. One person in the frame. A loner in black jeans and a hat. Our contemporary. A man of the beginning of the 21st century. Pausing in his run to talk to himself. And with each of us. About the main thing. About the transience of the passage of time. About the disease of the century-the consumption of everything and everything, near and far. About the loneliness that burns us. About the people who make us who we are. About music as a divine gift. A salutary, timely word to a contemporary who drinks and drinks the cup of poison of the philosophy of infinite pleasure.

One dark, dark night, the villagers could not understand the sounds coming from the latrine…

Artist Kirill Gluschenko’s multidisciplinary project that seeks to understand the Soviet Union’s conception of “ideal.”

An existential dilemma of a religious man Oleg is a religious person trying to become Godfather for a girl he adopted. However, the priest, Father Philipp, knowing that Oleg is gay refuses to baptize her.

A young man goes to India in search of spiritual freedom. Walking along the narrow streets of the city Varanasi, he communicates with local enlightened, looks at funeral bonfires, floats on boat on the Ganges and waiting for him to from his future wife.

A remote corner in the kingdom of nature is the ideal place for reflections about the meaning of life and the hero’s role in this world: this hero is Rodion Raskolnikov. His tactile and sincere communication with the current of the water in the clear mountain river seems to turn to the Koranic question on man’s original matter – the transparent liquid with which Raskolnikov tries to wash his face whilst dirtying himself. Water is the ‘mirror’ in which the hero sees himself, set against the issue of the ‘superflu- ous man’ and his own destination. Is he a worm? Is this worm disgusting?” – Raskol- nikov asks his reflection. The internal experiences, along with visions of the caring Sonya singing him a lullaby – are an invented reality into which Rodion has escaped, but he is forced to return to the former world, where things are not as they seemed...

Phil Esposito, the legendary Canadian hockey player, was one of the brightest participants in the 1972 series of hockey matches between the USSR and Canada. The film covers the period between 2012 and the present day and highlights the most significant visits of Phil Esposito to Russia. Phil talks about how these trips changed his attitude towards Russia - from a sharply negative one, which persisted for forty years after the end of the 1972 Super Series, to a respectful and friendly outlook.

A faded musician is forced to revisit the scarring memories of his past when he hears his melody being played for the first time since his muse left him

"1190," follows a young woman on a dark journey to find her lost home and identity.

The evil Ajaga got into the habit of raiding flocks of sheep. People complained to the Padishah. The Padishah has announced a reward - his daughter - to the one who defeats Ajaga.

Image video for the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin.

This is a film about two women. Both have lost their loved ones. One in the Great Patriotic War, the other in the Afghan War. Each fate released only a few days of happiness. But both carried their love and loyalty through life. Together with them, we reread letters from the front and relive the happiness of love and the bitterness of loss.

The folk hero and skilled archer Saban and his faithful dog Elga go hunting in the forest. Suddenly, Elga runs into trouble, and to save his friend, his master engages in a duel with the evil spirits that dwell in the forest. Displaying courage, tenacity, and resourcefulness, Saban defeats the monster in an unequal battle, frees his friend from captivity, and returns home safely. "Saban" is a story about the finest Mordvin qualities and the eternal values of humanity: friendship, loyalty, and the triumph of good over evil.

The film is dedicated to the journey of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Louis Andreas Salome to Russia in 1900,

God, having created all the most necessary and pleasant things for the eyes and ears, decided to take a break from his labors. And everything would have been fine if it hadn't been for an accident.…

Only a person who is ready to learn everything that our ancestors could do can live on a desert island: understand the sea, live by the ebb and flow, build a boat, catch a fish, find a “common language” with a bear, bake bread. The inhabitants of the hard-to-reach Cape Alevina in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk can do all this. There are only three of them on the island, and suddenly something went wrong.

Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.

After losing land under feet, Svyatoslav chaotically starts to gather himself by pieces. A painful divorce with his wife immerses him in deep depression. To see future, he will have to brake with the past.

In recent years, people have taken to the streets of different cities around the world on February 27... People who remember Boris Nemtsov.

Old people who can not live on a pension, gather at the door of the store from five in the morning. There are enough coupons for everyone: if there are too many people, Anoush, Shavershyan's assistant, prints them, but the pensioners, forgotten by the state, prefer to be safe, they do not believe in charity workers and politicians, they believe only in one thing – in the queue.

This is a mockumentary about people who, for various reasons, have become holograms... So, scientists have launched an experiment - a person has the opportunity to abandon the existence in the body, to become digital by translating into a hologram. It is impossible to return back to the body. A holographic person still has memory, consciousness, sight, hearing, and the ability to speak. Ordinary people see holograms without special devices and can come into contact with them... A new technology that changes the existence of man. Evolution or another form of escape? This is what some of those who have already become a hologram are trying to understand.

The Rostov producer decides to make a real hip-hop star out of a street kid. Most recently, the producer himself got out of the "ghetto", realizing the American dream-overnight he received fame, money, and a beautiful life. Having met a young bad-ass mulatto rapper, the producer decides to repeat his feat, but already playing the role of an influential patron and mentor.

12-year-old Alyona is taken from a correctional orphanage to a foster family. She suddenly has a mother, father, grandmother, brothers, sisters, new friends. This is a film about how Alena and her relationships with others change in the first months of her new life.

Russian biggest summer resort Sotchi has been chosen the venue of the Winter Olympic Games of 2014. President Putin has promised enough snow for the Games, no traffic jams and big investments in building the Olympic facilities. How it will effect the neighbouring small villages and if they succeed to survive and keep the living pace they are used to?

The portrait of contemporary Ukraine

An unusual group sets sail from St. Petersburg to Finland. The crew, which consists of vision-impaired people and people with normal eyesight, learns to work together in order to successfully complete their undertaking. The observational documentary shows the crew’s first contact with the boat, which is done by touch, and then follows their daily routine while at sea. The disinterested camera records a reality that overcomes our prejudices regarding the helplessness of blind people. The problem-free journey gives the sailors space for new sensations. Excerpts from the ship’s log show us aspects of the mission – i.e., the transformation of oneself that can change the world.

A middle-aged woman wants to find a husband. It is full of emotions and experiences. The heroine lives with triple strength. But she does not find understanding from her close ones, and her personal life does not add up.

A brilliant handsome man meets a young girl at the ball and tries to seduce her. How will end this attempt, if one of them is an extraordinary creature?

Revolution, devolution, revolt and joyous decay.

“The film is about one of the most terrible and difficult periods in the history of Russia of the 20th century, about the 90s of the last century. For many people it was a shock. The Empire collapsed, human relations and moral values collapsed. Crime and bandits were everywhere. And ordinary people were concerned about how to survive. This period was called perestroika. The people call this time a troubled time. The film reviews social processes from within, not from the outside propaganda side. Much for the modern spectator seems strange, it seems phantasmagoric, but it was so.” -V. Eisner

In this experimental film, shot in glistening black and white, a young saxophonist attends a school graduation celebration in St. Petersberg. Different versions of the same events unfurl as reality, illusion, dream and mystery intermingle leaving the audience to consider what is real and what is not as they are confronted by one astoundingly original image after another.

In the office of a young successful psychologist, women of different ages com- plain about the behaviour of their men. The doctor has the unique ability to solve these problems with a click of his fingers, but all the patients return again and again with new complaints. The dream of his life is to find the one who will be the happiest woman in the world.

The battle of an ordinary thirty-nine-year-old man with the universe – family, children, trams, Mordovia, singularity. And also two geese.

Only the person who is ready to learn everything that our ancestors were able to do can live on a desert island: understand the sea, live by the tides, build a boat, catch fish, find a "common language" with a bear, bake bread… The inhabitants of the remote Cape Alevina in the Sea of Okhotsk are able to do all this. There are only three of them on the island, and suddenly something went wrong.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Russia greets those who come back in different ways.

Using the example of the Dissernet social movement, we will tell you how our actions are related to our genes, and why some become crooks, while others struggle with these crooks...

How to live in abandoned mining villages around Vorkuta.

The camera glides over the blue-green mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau – one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia. It was built half a century ago-away from the bright city lights, closer to the sky – in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia. A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses, a school, a club and an administration. In a small world, lost in space and time – whether it is the Soviet seventies, or the future of the Strugatsky novels – modern artists come with their works. The film unobtrusively confronts opposites-physicists and lyricists, schoolchildren and gray-haired scientists, the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple, artifacts and ancient mountains. But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos, to which people listen with bated breath.

One lady, a director from the province, goes to Moscow to see the dream of her life, the superman of the twentieth century-director Nikita Mikhalkov... And the meeting will take place.

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the TU-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

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.

An animated film, the story of which is collected from quotations from the writings of modern schoolchildren about how people lived in the Soviet Union.

In the Belarusian village of Zarechcha, music is played almost daily. It is performed by Zoya and Valera: he is a multi-instrumentalist, she is a poet. Each of them went through more than one hard turn of fate before they were joined by a song.

The film is set in the Moscow residential area of Severnoye Butovo. The technician-caretaker directs a team of janitors who, working seven days a week, perform tasks for cleaning yards and entrances. Their tasks are created on the portal "Our City" by the second hero of the film - a young, ambitious lawyer.

An unusual family with ten children lives in a Siberian village. They do all the work and household chores together. Children grow up, and everyone has their own life ahead of them. And now, despite all the difficulties, they are together... The head of the family talks about his everyday life and whether it is difficult to have such a large family.

In the forest of Karelia, local pensioners, who have been dubbed "Sun partisans", have been living in tents for several months, replacing each other. These people do not allow you to cut down the forest in which they have been collecting mushrooms and berries for decades. For some time now, the entire life of the "Sunsk partisans" has been spent in the forest, where a real headquarters has developed - here journalists come to them, here they are waiting for news from the court... And on February 8, representatives of the HRC arrived in Sunsky Bor.

The heroine of the film - a young director collects material for a documentary performance. Exploring the topic of online dating, she starts an account in the Tinder app, without even waiting for how things will turn out.

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.

In a dystopian future, Russia is ravaged by militarized tax service. A recently fired blue collar worker wages a one-man insurrection against it

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?

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.

In one day, everything has changed. After a nightmarish sleep, John arrives late to work, again, and loses his job. Attempting to keep this a secret from his girlfriend, Laurie-who wants only the best for him-John tries to find comfort in friends and in solitude, but is unable due to an omnipresent and alluring masked man following him. Twisting reality and nightmares together, the masked man pushes John to the edge.