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The film tells about the life of the mountainous Dagestan village of Chokh in the period between the engagement and the wedding, which was witnessed by a traveler around the world from South Korea.

This is a movie about the life and work of the Merited Worker of Arts of Russia, stage and film director Valery Akhadov. His professional life was a success, but his personal life was hardly easy. In the early 90-s at a highpoint in his career the director and his family had to leave Dushanbe together with his friends and colleagues from the Russian Drama Theatre. They all relocated to Magnitogorsk and began to work at the Pushkin Drama Theatre. 13 years later the VGIK graduate returned to the town of his youth and has been teaching young directors ever since. As usual he is full of creative ideas and plans.

This is a story about a boy who lost his father. Finding himself in a playful, unreal space, the boy is looking for him. And when the game ends, it turns out that my father was there all the time.

Mother of a girl who committed suicide due to bullying at school; yesterday's teens who have experienced bullying; a girl who herself was involved in bullying. All the characters in this film have something in common: pain, complexes, self-doubt, indifference of adults. But the problem can be solved, and the heroes of the film talk about what to do in such situations.

There are around 10 thousand imprisoned for minor drug-related offences in Belarus. Young people caught using cannabis are forced to work hard for the state in penal colonies across the country. Generation 328 is a story of mothers who are living everyday life with a single hope: to bring home their unfairly convicted children. How far will the mothers go to find justice for their children?

A short study of an old photo found in Oberhausen last year.

A video that encourages people to be careful during a pandemic. One day a man came out of the house and sneezed.

Mass protests across Belarus erupted following the widely disputed election that put President Lukashenko in office for a sixth term. Three Belarusian filmmakers document personal stories of people caught up in the political turmoil. Filmmaker Maksim Shved was arrested, imprisoned and then released while the protests around him swelled. Meanwhile, Ekaterina Markavets observes the psychological burden of her fellow citizens and worked with professional psychologists to set up a volunteer support service for people affected by current events. Andrei Kutsila followed a celebrated Belarusian broadcast journalist who worked for State TV for nearly 40 years, now in hospital recovering from injuries she sustained while at a protest. All three filmmakers wonder what the future holds for their country and fellow citizens.

The fairy tale plot about the old wife and husband without children in new realities. The old woman finds a baby in the cabbage and decides to take him home. She hurries back to her husband to show him the child. But sees him preparing for death.

Papa Srapa is the main shaman of the Russian avant-garde sound. Noise musician known for his insane, mind-blowing noise performances. An artist and inventor who creates completely unpredictable synthesizers, each of which is a unique object of art. Surprisingly, it is the USSR that is the birthplace of industrial music. Back in the 1920s, Dziga Vertov recorded musical compositions from the sounds of a sawmill, and Arseny Avraamov created a symphony entirely consisting of the sounds of the city: factory whistles, whistling steam and the sounds of aircraft. With this film, we want to introduce to the world a modern representative of a century-old underground tradition who has dedicated his life to noise, performance and synthesis.

The film consists of records of mother's phone call conversation with her son. She lives in accordance with astrological predictions, he complains about problems with his boyfriend. She sings in karaoke, he travels all over the world, she is ill - he is silent. But in the White Moon Year the invisible karmic planet Selene will show them the way of Light and Grace, giving their lives a higher meaning. Tragicomedy about the conversation of two closest people who live far from each other and cannot really hear each other.

The plot is based on an old Russian legend about the Queen of Rain. The village boy learned a good lesson for his irresponsible act.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Natasha immigrates as a child with her family to Germany. The film begins today, twenty years later, when Natasha returns for the first time to her unknown home. Natasha's time in Baikal Port is mainly structured through her everyday encounters with the people who live there. In different situations, she meets them and gets into conversations about employment and living conditions that are still marked by the effects of the Perestroika. While Natasha gains these intimate insights into different ways of living, she reflects on her own position and tries to make a connection with this place, which is a part of her identity. The cinematic drawing of intimate portraits of people living in Baikal Port as well as Natasha’s play- acting as a returning, identity-seeking figure is accompanied by an ever-present recording camera.

During the years of socialism, Moscow has turned into a kind of museum - a sort of glyptotek (collection of sculptures) of the Soviet period. But city monuments are not just museum exhibits, they "live" among us on the streets and squares, their fates are closely intertwined with the fates of the city and its inhabitants, with the events taking place at their pedestals. What place does the Soviet monumental heritage occupy in our cultural consciousness and in the space of a modern city?

The film tells about a man living with a diagnosis of "Paranoid schizophrenia with an episodic course." Despite everything, he does not give up to this day.

To survive the old trauma and free herself from painful memories, Shura is forced to return to an ominous episode from her childhood: a little girl meets a strange stranger in an empty house.

Vera Kotelnikova about the signs of the Universe, saving icons, relationships and weight loss, female masturbation, perceptions of feminism, parents and, in fact, much more.

Military operators-from the great Patriotic war to the present day. The film is about those who, risking their lives, are always in the thick of things, but are behind the scenes.

Belarus is a country of authoritarianism, capital punishment and poverty which is fighting a ruthless war on drugs. Thousands of young people end up behind bars because of the Criminal Code’s infamous ‘anti-drug’ Article 328. When 19-year-old Diana died of an overdose of ecstasy in her boyfriend Illia’s arms, her friends were too scared to call an ambulance. Only Anton asked for help, realising that he was facing up to 25 years in prison.

Mila has taken the puppy of her friend, who has developed an allergy. Her friend talked about it to her teacher, who shared the story with her husband, who discussed it with his trainer, etc. But each time as the story gets told, the meaning changes and soon in the social networks appears a post that Mila is prostituting herself. This story is about the speedy transformation of harmless news into a gossip which literally destroys the life of the heroine.

Animated film from the almanac of classical music for children “Children’s Album”.

An instructive humorous tale about the power of kindness and mutual assistance, based on English traditions. In some parts of England and Scotland, the oldest apple tree in the garden was called the Apple Tree.

A film from the animated musical anthology "Multipelki" (issue No. 3). A backpack is a lifesaver: it contains our whole life and a whole fountain of children's fantasies to boot! We won't go anywhere without a backpack: we won't go to school, not to the forest, not to go fishing, or even fly into space!

Animated film from the almanac of classical music for children “Children’s Album”.

Nastya needs to run away from everything, Nastya needs to stop drinking, Nastya needs to raise her daughter, Nastya needs to leave her husband, Nastya needs, Nastya needs to love-love-love ...

High in the mountains, shepherds watch the clouds work. A meteorologist monitors weather forecasts and alerts shepherds of necessary weather changes. Selyanka lives under the mountain; shepherds sometimes help her to water the garden. Once, having received generous gratitude for their work, the shepherds, in joy, do not notice how the Selyanka's garden is flooded with pouring rain.

A friendsbook was like Facebook during the Soviet times. Many had one. Russian kids called it a Form. Classmates were asked to write in it and say what they thought love is, what they wanted to be when they grow up, what their favourite food was. It was mostly girls who had friendsbooks, of course. Twenty-five years later, Alyona Surzhikova browses her 6th grade friendsbook and decides to go and find her then classmates to ask whether their dreams have come true. She travels to Russia and Germany and even Cambodia and puts together a thought-provoking aggregate portrait of the Russian generation that grew up during the restoration of Estonia’s independence. Many of them have left Estonia by now, with half of Surzhikova’s classmates living abroad. Why did they do that? What do they think about Estonia? And what would they write into the Form now?

While in Moscow thousands of young people are protesting against the current government, corruption in the Russian elite and demanding change, older people in southern Russia, in Krasnodar, are fighting for traditional values and stability. They face misunderstanding and hatred, but all the same, united, they create their own Russia. These women and men created their blog on youtube, in which they post a chronicle of their struggle. They called themselves “Putin Squad”.

A lonely old man lives in the old Moscow courtyard, his gray life is transformed when he finds a helpless little daw that has fallen out of the nest in the courtyard. But the old man himself turns out to be just as defenseless in the face of the thoughtless cruelty of the company of neighboring boys. Is there among them at least one with a pure and kind heart who will come to the aid of the old man and his pet?

This is the story of a Brazilian-Uruguayan family of Old Believers who consider themselves Russian. Alexey Kilin, whose ancestors were once forced to flee from Soviet power to South America, returned to his homeland in the Amur Region and is waiting for his ex-wife Agripina and their son Demyan after 13 years of separation. The attempt at reuniting fails. Nevertheless Agripina decides not to return to Brazil, but to stay in an unfamiliar homeland, in a city with the symbolic name of Svobodny (which means ‘free’ in Russian).

In fairy tales, the wolf has always been the main antihero, but the new version of the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Goats", takes you to a new reality, where the wolf is a vegan. And among the characters there is a goat Finik - he has special features in development and a talent for music. The wolf becomes his teacher.

A subtle melodrama in the old style about youth, memories and the first infatuation that never stops to shine. It is a story about the encounter between two separate universes, of a Russian student and an American researcher, in a tent in nature amidst stunning landscapes of the Caucasus. It begins well and ends well, too. The visual form which illustrates the film contents is an experiment with the format and the use of black, white and colour. With a scent of nostalgia, this cinema evokes the spirit of narration that is rare nowadays. It pays tribute to an old-style romance and is an expression of longing for the little big experiences in life.

New movie by Nikita Spiridonov

In a cold, repulsive and chaotic world a man is searching for true happiness, hoping that the simple things can transform into something blissful. But his attempts leave him in an abyss of loneliness and poverty.

The action of the film is built on Macbeth's thought process, in which he again goes through past events. This happens after the death of Macbeth, when the brain is still alive in the last seconds of life, and the person is still in the cage of his mind for some time. Is this happening in Macbeth's head or is it part of the thought process of each of us?

A film by the famous documentarian Tofik Shakhverdiyev about Valentin Dikul and his patients, strong people, strong in spirit, able to stand on their feet when there was no hope for it after an accident...

The story of two girlfriends caught in their city apartment by a global epidemic of a mysterious virus.

A documentary about the Tulun maniac. From 2001 to 2012, he committed dozens of crimes: he officially confessed to 25 rapes, but investigators believe that there were at least 50 victims. He killed two girls. The victims of the Tulun maniac tell this story with open faces, not afraid of anything.

July 12, 2016, Kominternovo settlement. The western outskirts. The battle between the 2nd msb of the 9th OMSP of the DPR Armed Forces and the Azov Battalion and the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the other side

Ira Prikhodko talks about relationships and the peculiarities of male nature, about bathroom procedures and elite restaurants, about boyfriend's children and the phenomenon of squirt.

The film is based on the children's diaries of the Great Patriotic War of the famous storyteller Gennady Tsyferov for the 90th anniversary of the writer, author of everyone's beloved "Locomotive from Romashkovo", "Losharik", "The Frog Who Was Looking for Daddy". Through the prism of naive children's perception and a fabulous view of the world, the picture of the realities of war is reflected. But the thirst for life and the need for paternal love turn out to be stronger than a cruel meat grinder.

The psychotherapist, Mark Minaev, is studying a strange case in his practice. His patient Mikhail Anipkin, a video cameraman by profession, suffers from schizophrenia. The disease gives rise to rare branches. The so-called conversion disorder. The psyche gives the body a signal to play its games. In this case, the patient claims that there was an atomic war, and he took refuge in a bunker...

"Eternal Great Patriotic War", dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War, which forever changed the history of all mankind.

Videos that encourage people to be careful during a pandemic.

A special period - this is what Cuba calls the stage when there is no place to wait for help and you have to survive on your own. What happened to the aged barbudos, who survived the collapse of the USSR, the collapse of Venezuela and the death of the" eternal " Fidel? What inspires the new generation of Cuban revolutionaries to fight? What Cubans sing and dream about on the small Island of freedom in the ocean of capitalism.

A brave little cat nicknamed Masha perfectly catches mice, isn't afraid of a big rat and dreams of a pink bow.

War never changes

A short film about a team of young esports players who enter a real World War II battlefield during a computer game championship. They decide to participate in the battle, because history is being made here and now.

Who are we? What do we know about ourselves? How do we differ from animals? Creativity! That's the only thing that makes us human. Only creativity is a sign of human nature.

The film about the legend of Japanese experimental rock Keiji Haino reveals the veil of mystery surrounding the musician for all 50 years of his career. Haino's reflections on music, culture and life, recorded after a performance in Moscow in November 2019, are interspersed with fragments of the performance itself.

A film about the life and fate of a real Russian patriot. All his thoughts, dreams and hopes are inextricably linked with the greatness of the Fatherland. However, over time, cognitive dissonance suddenly penetrates into his consciousness, which did not know reproaches and doubts. Finding himself in a severe existential crisis, the hero of the film paradoxically and contradictory rethinks the concept of patriotism.

You know, it's like having a dog, and it chooses someone else as the owner, not you. And as soon as the "other" rings the Bicycle bell, the dog, happily wagging its tail, rushes to catch up with him. And you follow her. It turns out that for him, too. But you can't say anything: just stand there and breathe in silence to the beat of the waves.

The first film project of the V – A – C Foundation film almanac “Dreams in the Area” consists of 13 works by various authors and is compiled as a single kaleidoscope of urban life. The main theme of creative comprehension for the workshop participants was personal dreams and collective urban myths. Intertwined with each other, the plots of individual short films are combined into a single narrative field, combining meanings and images in a bizarre manner.