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In Poor Folk, Ilya Kabakov talks about his sources and influences, including the tragic life of his mother, which had a profound effect on his views and artistic career. Together with his wife and collaborator Emilia he discusses Soviet underground art, the birth of Moscow Conceptualism, the couple’s emigration to the USA, and international acclaim after thirty years of almost no exhibitions (Kabakov did not show his work at state-sanctioned exhibitions in the Soviet Union): today the duo’s works are in the world’s leading museums, including MoMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

The tale of how in St. Petersburg watched the match "Russia-Croatia".

A little dinosaur sees snow for the first time. And, it looks like he likes it.

Vladimir doesn't have instagram, he's never watched a rap battle and never heard the word "hype". He has a completely different life.

The film is about the horrors of war. It tells the fate of the tailor John Bottom who during the war against the Germans lost an arm and died, but he was buried with the arm of a carpenter. John's earthly suffering continues after his death ... John's unfortunate ghost can not accept this error, indeed he is a tailor! and Mary, his beloved, can not recognize him with the arm of another ... The apostle Peter can not afford to change the order established in heaven and John will remain alone paradise.

There are those who follow the course of time. As in Soviet times, they adjust the accuracy of the clock in the astronomical institute every day. The clock runs fast, then slow, and we are left to wonder exactly what time we live in.

New technologies come into our lives sometimes in the most unexpected way. A group of developers of intelligent machines led by the hero of the film Sergey Markov creates robots for calling debtors on bank loans. One day they come up with the idea to teach a robot to speak in the voice of a famous artist who died several decades ago...

A soldier is transported to the future through a time portal and ends up stranded in a post apocalyptic world devoid of any life, or so it seems.

A large father and a psychologist are daily in a multi-week routine. It, like many residents of the metropolis, overcomes the fear of living a life in vain. He is trying to find a way out - gathers a group to hike in the Himalayas. But on his return from India to Moscow, another peak grows in front of him, and he must overcome it.

Seven different stories of world travel. Seven different approaches to travel and life. Nine people who share a passion for exploring the world and finding yourself. Have you already thought about how cool it would be to travel around the world? Heroes will answer the main questions of anyone who has ever thought about the biggest journey in his life.

The film DISCOVERING UTOPIA tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE – the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics. Formed in the USSR in 1962 it brought together most progressive Soviet designers and became the head organization for the nationwide design system. But more than fifty years later, the organisation is all but forgotten. Until now, that is. Thanks to the efforts of the Moscow Design Museum the story of this remarkable organisation is being pieced back together.

Five of the six heroes of the film came to Kazan from different parts of the earth to go beyond their fear and for the first time openly declare their HIV status by running a marathon in a special uniform. For Deanna, who flew in from Australia with her 70-year-old mother, talking about her diagnosis is a daily job throughout her life. She is an example for the American Sean, who prepared for the "coming out" long and carefully. Seam is sure that his parents in an Indonesian village will hardly ever know about his participation in the Open Faces team in distant Kazan. Zhandos, a young doctor from Kazakhstan, only worries about how the news will affect his mother.

The young scientist Alexey invites his colleagues to present his invention. The real reason for the presentation lies in the teacher Alexey, whom he wants to publicly surpass.

New Moscow is an essay film about the city and its residents. Three different stories unfold in front of the lens, but all of them are united one way or another by the motif of nostalgia for youth, its achievements and traumas. The reverse movement of time becomes a form for a poetic conversation about the changeable nature of space.

Derby scooter is a sport born of dance marathons that has passed in almost a hundred years, from demonstrative female fights and tracks with alligators to a space where everyone is welcome and everyone is equal. Where is your derby name - a password that opens the door wherever there is a derby rollerball: in the whole world you will find like-minded people, you will be sheltered, fed and warmed. The film tells the story of the first Russian derby rollerball team - White Night Furies from St. Petersburg.

Together with the characters, viewers will find out who is the strongest of Mi-Mi-Bears and whether it will be possible for the wizards to find the key of Air. Also in the new release of the new episodes of the animated series “Kati and Ef. Anywhere - the door "," Houses "and" Four in the cube.

Fantasy on the theme of a poem by Vladislav Krapivin.

Mark is 18, and his buddy Kirill is 20. They’ve been friends for just a month but they’re obviously meant for each other. They both crave attention and have a provocative attitude to the world around them. They dance together on the railings of Moscow’s Krymsky Bridge, gatecrash parties, hang out on their skateboards, challenge authority figures and mouth off to everyone who crosses their path. “I’m young, I can do what I want,” Kirill tells us.

"Vacation" is a story about a big family, a small town and a strong feeling. The life of a foster family, where there is one mother for five, is strict discipline and established rules. Everything collapses when the eldest daughter's boyfriend comes for the New Year holidays. He is 17 years old, he is eager to become a new member of the family and happily pronounces the word "mother-in-law".

The film is dedicated to a unique artistic phenomenon—the work of musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who with great strength embodied the understanding of “The Spirit of St. Petersburg” in our time. About this film composer who wrote music for more than 100 movies, and the creator of virtuosic piano, improvisations, Dmitry Shostakovich said, “Karavaichuk is not a talent; he is a genius.” This is how he was discussed, as the last musical genius, in June 2016, when Oleg Karavaichuk passed away. The next year, 2017, he would have turned 90 years old.

The story of how the three-year-old philosopher Valya, with the help of his mother and doctors, defeated the disease and took his first step on his own.

Hikers on an idyllic trek through the peaceful southern countryside come across an old cemetery where every plot has a story and the day takes a most unexpected and most dreadful turn.

The poet and publicist Yury Mikhailovich Kublanovsky has many places on Earth that are dear to him. To the poet for seventy, and his flash-memories, being experienced anew, “close” times: what was experienced once and lived now. The film is about the fate of a man for whom the Motherland, wherever he is, is always there.

The cartoon world is like a big music box. Everyone must take his place in this great mechanism. Only by working together and following Chef Cancrelat's baton is it possible to create music and harmony. But alas, no system, no matter how perfect, can work forever.

The researcher gets the task to test a sentient AI and to find out whether it is truly alive.

Every summer, herds of salmon return to Sakhalin Island from the ocean. Every year their number is dramatically reduced. Vanya's family is destroyed like an ecosystem of wild salmon: his parents do not live together. Yielding to the persuasion of his elder brother, his father takes Vanya with him on a journey around the island. He promises Vanya to show him spawning salmon.

Ukrainian wasteland. A girl, whose only treasure is a painted Easter egg, is shocked, as her grandmother puts a freshly slaughtered chicken on the table. Confronted with death for the first time, she leaves the house, questioning her tranquil life, only to face a new tragedy that will force her to give up her treasures. An allegorical journey to freedom and growing up.

The breath of the wind is everywhere ...

Once leaving the house, Misha got lost. Not that he has forgotten where he is going, no. Misha completely lost control of what was happening. The string of visions in his head spins and does not want to stop. And here the pertinent question arises: if there is an end to life, can there be an end to death?

This is the story of four friends who went to the taiga in the hope of making money. But their campaign turned into a tragedy: because of the meanness of his comrade, the main character Anat falls off a cliff, and if not for the help of a mysterious hermit, he would have gone where they are not returning. And at home the bride is waiting for him, and in order to find out the fate of her beloved, she turns to the shaman ...

In their childhood, our heroes became orphans, and it resulted in their mental and social deficiency. For years, they stay inmates of closed psychoneurologic nursing homes: Natasha – for women, Guera and Kolya – for men. Now they’ve got a chance to become self-dependent. On this path they’ve met together and even felt love in their life.

This is a picture of people who find time and energy to search for the missing free of charge, put out fires, rebuild temples, save animals, help children and the elderly throughout Russia and in the most remote corners of the planet. Because for them there is no foreign misfortune.

The rising star of Voronezh-based rock music Zakharov dreams of traveling with his group around the world, writing novels and always being the center of attention. And even more - how to fall in love. There are two options for Zakharova.

Video for the song "Чемодания" by IUN. The story of a man's journey in search of himself and his purpose.

True events taking place in a seaside city on the Russian- Chinese border portraying a relationship between a mother, a daughter and her girlfriend.

One day of life.

Black and white story about the people who pile up every day in the bus taxi that goes through the city.

People find themselves in a garage, barricaded and hidden from the world. It is impossible to restore what happened the day before. Dealing with the situation, one of them will face an eerie truth.

An intimate voyage, an ode to daily routine and an evocative litany to clarify our perception of unknown everyday lives of 30 Siberian people and their issues.

In 2011, 26-year-old Galina Kolyadzinskaya disappeared in Vladivostok. A few years later, her boyfriend, Victor Cohen, was convicted of her murder. At the same time, the investigation did not prove that the girl died, and her whole family is sure that Galina is alive, and Viktor is innocent.

Film about documentary film director Mikhail Litvyakov

A true story, based on the tragedy of the family of the died military journalist in Post-Soviet Tajikistan in 1993. This film is a debut film of young Tajik art activist, a novice filmmaker Anisa Sabiri. Native to rural Tajikistan, she hopes to use her art to shine a light on the history and horrors of the civil war and conflicts that have affected so many in her homeland, but are often forgotten by the rest of the world.

In Indonesia, East Java's traditional dance known as Reog Ponorogo is a colourful spectacle which draws crowds of revellers. But this ancient custom hides a dark secret of abusive relationships between grown men and young boys. The chief organiser behind the Reog Ponorogo show is a revered man known as the Warok. He is believed to have supernatural abilities, which the Warok can lose should he become involved with a woman. However, the Warok can employ servant boys who learn to keep house, dance and anything else that's demanded of them, including providing sexual favours.

The story of the wanderer fascinated by the beauty of the native nature. The Old Believer and descendant of the famous tiger hunters Seletkovs, a hunter himself, he travels from the Yenisei to the Far East to visit his mother’s grave in the remote village at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. He will also get a chance to see his brothers, one of who has recently returned home with his family from Bolivia where he lived throughout life.

The film is about a hero who is too big for the world around him...

From the "Bone Voyage" project. On Christmas eve, the fateful icicle does not hit the person intended for Death, but Santa himself! Time stops, the holiday lights go out, Santa departs for the afterlife, and Christmas seems to never come.

“…The Moscow train pulls into Ulyanovsk early in the morning. These days the city welcomes you with bustling streets and squares, the courtyards and guardians the scarlet shade of leaves that have not yet fallen, the mirrored vitrines of shops, and a myriad of new buildings. If there’s anything particularly characteristic of Ulya­novsk’s new look, it is the construction cranes and scaffolding.”

The film analyzes the reasons why people who have succeeded in their social, personal, professional life devote their energy and time to getting in touch with and helping homeless people. The film is based on the work of members of the theatrical documentary project "The Untouchables" (director: Mikhail Paltasov), dedicated to the theme of the homeless and which was successfully presented on the stages of Saint Petersburg in 2016.

People born in Russia in 1917 tell about their fate. Deep personal memories of long-livers add up to the history of the country of the last century.

Documentary by Dmitry Davydov

A small owl-Sparrow is very sleepy during the day, but it does not get a good night's sleep because of noisy neighbors.