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About life and artistic path of the Ural poet Alexey Reshetov (1937-2002), a man of unique destiny and unique talent. For most of his adult life, he worked as an electrician at one of the potash mines in the city of Berezniki. There he began to write poetry and gradually publish, first in local newspapers, then in Perm and Yekaterinburg. He never lived to fame in the capitals and great regalia but managed to have a strong influence on the spiritual formation of several generations of his readers.

Somewhere deep in a large country, along a river surrounded by forests and swamps, there is a small Siberian village. Seven months of the year, this village becomes inaccessible: you can only reach it in the summer. Time seemed to have stopped there. The Director returns to his birthplace with a camera to answer the question: what are we looking for when we leave home?

Nestled in the hills of Transcaucasia, and entirely preserved in time, there are several villages founded by the Molokans – a Russian sect of Christians. They were exiled to the mountain Azerbaijani region of Kabristan by Czar Nicholas I in the 1830s. The Molokans now have all but become extinct. The remaining settlers now lack a succeeding generation to whom they could pass on their original traditions, and the film intends to make it possible for the local Molokans to reproduce their history for their descendants sprawled across the world. The film discovers the traces of hidden life left in Kabristan, while simultaneously unveiling the present-day lives of the locals.

New animated film by Ilya Yudovich.

The documentary is an investigation into why disputes and passions around the personality of Alexander Kolchak are still boiling, as a generalization – questions of historical truth, rewriting history, new views from a new time.

Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, the founders of the Theater.Doc, died in 2018 with a difference of 45 days. Now their student Zarema Zaudinova puts on performances, comes up with new projects so that the theater, which has suffered so much persecution from the authorities, will survive and live a new life.

The one act performance by choreographer Yuri Possokhov pays homage to the celebrated founder of the fashion house that bears her name and features a stunning display of Chanel costumes specially created for the ballet. Created specifically for Zakharova, the ballet "Gabrielle Chanel" recounts the most memorable moments of the work and life of the French fashion designer, who died in 1971 aged 87.

From the project "Multipelki", issue 2 On the song of George Vasiliev. Patience and work, a needle and a thread – these are the real helpers in the fight against evil creatures that gnaw holes, trying to destroy all the clothes of the heroine.

Reality demands radical changes in the construction of a human being.

A short Psychological Thriller film about Oskanna and her daughter Vera. Vera is Oskanna's life and she's willing to do anything to help her. Once she finally finds out the true sickness that is affecting her daughter, Oksanna realizes there may be nothing she can do.

Mikhail Abramenko came to work in the police in 1998. After serving 21 years, he resigned with the rank of lieutenant colonel from the post of commander of a mounted police battalion. Now he is a tour manager of the punk group "Pornofilms".

The second concert of Alexey Kvashonkin. Moscow, December 2019.

Listening to the persistent humming sound, we follow the author on her existential journey through four cities consisting of real images and footage taken by the director’s father 25 years ago that always bring us to some visible or invisible border.

Wadi Al-Salam in Najaf, Iraq, is the world's largest cemetery, with over 5 million graves. Its hereditary undertakers share their stories.

A story about love, told by my dad on the air of radio "Zazerkalie" (radio, where people with mental disorders perform).

The conflict between teachers and students in a proper pirate school is resolved simply. Both of them are sent to the galleys.......

A poor but happy life in anticipation of the first-born can end forever. Anis, Ian’s beloved wife, was taken for debts, which the main character couldn’t recover. And then he chooses the path of revenge. But he will take revenge on God himself, who committed such injustice. In search of a higher power, Ayan discovers a new world full of magic and mythical characters. Here, tales and tales cease to be fiction.

Women around the world are often subject to harmful stereotypes depicting them as being weaker or inferior to men. The world of sports is no exception. This film tells the stories of girls who have broken through stereotypes and are participating in sports that are usually dominated by men. It wasn't easy for them to get there, but it was certainly worth it.

About the new generation of Russian protest. Milena, Kolya and their associates are twenty years old. They grew up during the presidency of Vladimir Putin and do not know other rulers. At a time when their parents might be afraid to go to a protest rally, these young activists are ready to take risks and fight for their ideals. The year before the presidential election in 2018, the characters in the film were inspired by the calls of Alexei Navalny and took on the task of convincing Muscovites not to vote for Putin.

Traveler Andrey sent to conquer Elbrus. At the entrance, he meets an abandoned kitten. Before Andrey there is a choice: to save the kitten or conquer the treasured summit.

“Olya is cool. Next to her is a little sparkle, from how light and joyful she is. But her ex-man - not cool at all, and left a scar for her, ”- this is how the blog of Rina Tsunami, a tattoo artist from Vladimir, begins. She collects stories of women who come to her studio to hide traces of burns, cuts, gunshot wounds. Covering scars, Rina helps women forget about violence and start life anew. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Valery Panteeva is organizing the project “Tattoos instead of scars” in conjunction with the studio Maverick. Masters of a tattoo studio, like Rina, cover the scars of victims of domestic violence. But some women do not want them to hide their scars. For Rachel from Newport (UK), the trail of a gunshot wound became part of herself, her pride, a terrible story that she could survive. Rachel wrote a book on violence, collects signatures for petitions to amend English law, and creates relief groups for people like her.

The film tells about the Moscow art underground through the history of Moscow squats. What does it mean to live today and not adjust at a time when the king of Oats took away, as it seems to us, all the fairy tales?

New film by Sasha Potapova

"If we are silent, we participate in the evil that is happening in the world. I have to say what I think." George Edelstein has always adhered to this principle: both in his former secular life and during his years of church service. A man of an amazing fate, complex as the century in which he had to live. Not a Soviet person in Soviet society. A connoisseur of freedom, who does not like being called a dissident. A village priest, to whom Ronald Reagan returned the parish, and whose son became an Israeli politician. A man who always spoke the truth – about the state that persecuted for the faith, and about the church hierarchs who participated in it. "My duty is not to be silent. In silence, I am convinced, God is surrendered."

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see the familiar city in this film, it’s a reflection, partly mokeymentari about emigration, - abroad, inside the country or, in the end, deep into yourself. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small city, from which both left - he is in St. Petersburg, she is in Paris. They are surrounded by many people, each with their own reasons and ways to live in this touching and almost mystical place with an underground podcast, doppelgangers, a gang on scooters ... The geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the imagined are blurred while the characters look for the answer to the question “why leave? or why stay, ”if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.

The sisters inherit a house that once belonged to a silent film actress. For many years the house has been empty and is considered damned... At first, Anna does not believe in the terrible past that her relatives warn about. Suddenly strange things began to happen to her. Trying to uncover the secret, Anna finds the diary and tape that belonged to the actress. In the course of reading, she learns the life of an actress, the reasons for the tragedy... Strange things keep happening, and Anna realizes that mysterious predictions are coming true…

The White Guard is the first novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. It describes the events of the Civil War in Ukraine in 1918-1919. The work was conceived by the author as a large-scale trilogy about the civil war, but the author wrote only the first part of it. Confirmation that Bulgakov worked on the second and third parts of the novel are the stories "The Raid", "On the Night of the Third Number", "I Killed" and others. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writing of the novel "The White Guard", to the centenary of the civil war in Russia. This is an attempt to analyze the scale of the historical tragedy through the prism of the views of a great artist.

Let's go somewhere together.

On a deep winter night, a mother with two young children ends up in an isolated box at an infectious disease hospital, where the heroine is waiting for a strange encounter that will change her life forever.

The landing stage is always between. Between water and land, between ship and house, between town and country, between this and that. Debarkader-portal, but where? Russian Director Maria Murashova has made a fascinating, meditative observation film about life by the water.

A short film based on the poem "IT'S WINTER" by Ilia Mazo. The film is set in dramatized kitchens and bathrooms, against the backdrop of household appliances that act as musical instruments. The film is an attempt to show what usually remains behind the scenes - loneliness, a magical moment and quiet human singing in response.

Documentary about Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most prominent Russian writers.

Moscow. Relations 2018.

"School Number One" is a docudrama based on the terrorist attack that took place 15 years ago on September first, in a school in the small Northern Osetian town of Beslan. The three-day siege and it's horrible aftermath. Who is responsible for the incredibly high death toll among the hostages? What provoked the bloody operation to free the hostages 52 hours into the siege? Who answers for the interrupted negotiations, and how are former hostages and their families coping today? What political ramifications did this act of terror leave in its wake. Who benefited from it the most, and how did it affect the every day lives of Russia as we know it today?

Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But she is in full swing at the House of Culture, where local residents rehearse the play based on a play by a Spanish playwright. The heroes poison each other, try to shoot their relatives, die writhing in convulsions - and at some point it is no longer clear where life is and where is the theater.

Senya is a student, a well-known Weiner, confident in his irresistibility. To impress his beloved, he makes her a gorgeous marriage proposal. But unexpectedly, Julia refuses, accusing him of irresponsibility and frivolity. Senya decides to prove his feelings and goes on an archaeological expedition, where they are waiting for incredible adventures, fateful meetings and unique discoveries...

The girl Nina spends time in her parents ' house in preparation for the wedding of her younger sister. Somewhat unexpectedly for her, her husband Nikita arrives there, with whom they are experiencing a crisis of family relations. In order not to overshadow the holiday, Nina and Nikita try to pretend that everything is fine between them. How will this forced joint "vacation" end? Will they succeed in breaking down the wall between them, or will it become even higher?

The sincere wish of a teenager, with the help of a best friend, to wish mom happy birthday live, turns into an irreparable human tragedy and changes the fate of children.

New film by Evgeny Kovalski

New film by Vasilisa Yurenkova and Nadia Krutko

Last road in the ambulance. The driver - a cheerful Armenian - comes to those who can no longer be helped and becomes for them a guide between life and death. The road, meanwhile, shines with bright lights, erodes in an abstract pattern, yells with sirens. There is an inexorable countdown.

The film is about the Molokans living in the villages of Violetovo and Lermontovo, located in Armenia. Local residents here have been loyal to traditions for centuries and try to protect the purity of their world and national identity. That is why they do not marry people from other nationalities and, over the years of communication with the Armenian population of nearby villages, have not merged with local residents. The main character of the film is a blind old man who will introduce us to the Molokans.

This is a candid and emotional project of Russian-Israeli writer and screenwriter Dina Rubina. Together with director and her close friend Stanislav Mitin she goes back to her childhood and youth spent in Tashkent, contemplates her creative early days in Moscow, and shares how she feels about immigration to Jerusalem. The film is full of excerpts from the writer’s famous works, episodes from films based on her writing, and sketches from her current life. It is dedicated to the anniversary of Dina Rubina - one of the most widely read contemporary authors and recipient of many international awards, whose books are translated into 38 languages.

A two-part documentary film about the state of Russia’s prisons today. In-depth interviews with former inmates of all stripes, including those convicted of political, economic, and violent crimes.

Two films based on fairy tales from the collection of Ero Salmelainen, which presents the best examples of oral folk art of Karelians and Finns.

Danya is a young guy who wants to ensure his family by all means. On the way to this goal, he goes through financial pyramids, misunderstanding of his parents, quarrels with his wife but nothing can stop him.

«Rodina» means «homeland». It is a 50 minutes road movie about 2 football fans traveling 3000 km from a rural village to the World Cup. The main hero, Uncle Sasha, has never left his village (the place even without mobile services) for 30 years. For the first time in his life he sees foreigners, big cities and his own country not on a tv screen.

After the ecological disaster, almost no unpolluted water remained on the earth. A young scientist spends his days searching for a solution to a problem and trying to survive. His only comrade only complicates the situation.

At the end of 2018, I was asked to make a short film for a small almanac. The task was to comment on some of the important events of the past year. I, as an active citizen, of course, did not waste time on trifles.

Experimental documentary attempting to create unity by separation with accidental images and music by Joana Sa.

Senya is a brown bear cub with an amazing and terrible fate. Classical literature has long revealed to us that such destinies do not happen only to people. But, of course, Tatiana Skabard's new film is still about us: about our cruelty and indifference, about bloody entertainment involving animals, which are arranged not by medieval barons, but by our neighbors, and about how our other contemporaries, at the risk of life and health, regardless of costs, save and treat birds and animals mutilated in these amusements.

Youth, power and thirst of love connect three characters. Each of them loves his own and his own way. They are ready to do anything for love so their love is holy.

Once mom told Asiya that her dad is a pilot. Since then, the girl looks out for planes in the sky every morning and waves in the hope that dad will see her. One day, mom says that in the evening they will have a guest. Asia is sure that dad finally noticed her from the sky ...

Artom and Lilya husband and wife. They are the children of great scientists. Like me too. We were born in Akademgorodok (USSR), the new Atlantis, built by our parents in the 50s. We saw it, lived there. And meeting each other many years later. Being already from completely different worlds, we decided to spend a vacation together. A serious thought about a possible nuclear strike on our native city, on our homeland, made some changes in our trip. And changed our life too. It was Russia, 2014.