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In the winter of 2021 rallies were held in Russia in support of Alexei Navalny. People protested against the arrest of the politician. The number of those detained at the rallies exceeded 17,000 people, many of whom received administrative punishment in the form of arrest. There were not enough places for detention in Moscow, and therefore the detainees were sent to the Center for the temporary detention of foreign citizens in Sakharovo near Moscow. As a result, an unusual group of people gathered in the special detention center - almost a thousand young men and women who were close in spirit. This film is their memories of their days behind bars.

The hero of the picture decides to fall back to his native roots and leaves the capital for the village. But this does not bring him the desired freedom – he suffers one defeat after another...

This is meeting with vainakh underground from probably one of the most conservative region of North Caucasus. This is a story about young people for whom it's important not to loose connection with their culture and nation. This is a story about desire to change your region in a better way, however it's also about vacuum in Ingush community, understatement and feeling of the looking glass.

Playwright and poet Aleksandr Volodin looks back at his life and career.

A movie about the Great Patriotic War seen though the eyes of the well-known Russian writer Victor Astafiev. The rare interview was recorded two years prior to the writer's death. Those bitter memories reveal the horrible truth of the war seen through the eyes of a common soldier and lived with his heart.

The film is about Alexey Popogrebsky's film "How I spent this summer". In the film, there are no tedious reflections of the actors and the director about their film against the background of posters of the same film. But there is life itself, real, unmasked, and, despite the sea of comicality, it makes you horrified at how the Russian film process can take place…

Garik Martirosyan speaks with his large stand-up program, in which he will talk about his friends comedians, about modern trends, about Vatsap users. About how he posted the poster of his concert on Instagram and why it is compared with Petrosyan. Why is he not joking on the topic of Russian rap. How he writes his famous friends in a notebook and much more.

Mom and Dad have just moved into a new house and are preparing for their Baby daughter's first birthday. Balancing between work and family, Dad buys a gift in an unusual store without even looking into the box. And there are small animated toys — Malyshariki. While the parents are preparing for the holiday, the little ones get out of the box and go in search of their own house.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Rebuilding of the destroyed Siberian village of Taseevo / Railroad station Sljudjanka / Abandoned mica pits near Lake Baikal / Soči health resort / Chudjakovskij-Park / Beach near Tuapse / The loading of silk / Afghanistan, Kabul / Peacetime use of tanks / Mountain road / Chapel in the Caucasus.

A friendly group of children spends their summers in an old dacha village year after year. The kids have their own headquarters hidden from prying eyes in a corn field and a legend that says that a treasure trove of treasures of a princess who fled from Napoleon is hidden not far from the village. When a new girl Katya comes to the village with her mother, she becomes a bone of contention for best friends Sonya and Dasha. But it is not only friendship that will have to endure a test of strength. A certain businessman is going to buy a field with a hut and organize a construction market in its place. The children decide not to allow this to happen at any cost and after failed negotiations, they move on to active actions.

After a visit from a computer repairman, a pensioner's laptop becomes infected with a virus that has a strange effect on her consciousness.

After twenty years abroad, Natalya returns to her homeland and tries to change life in her native village - to repair roads, remove garbage and build a first-aid post. Will the Western experience take root in its native soil?

A soldier, Private Statsenko, guards a warehouse with uniforms. The order says to guard the military facility at all costs and in no case to keep outsiders out! But what if the person who gave the order invaded his territory?

While the bride is late for the wedding, the guests tell various marriage stories, which confuse the groom.

Captain 2nd Rank Alexey Barsuk, facing downsizing, returns to his hometown, takes over his father's position as a forester in the Chernobyl zone, and begins a battle against the local mafia.

The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she made some good friends at school. Suddenly her father was announced dead in a mine accident and Sarah became an orphan. Now she goes on a long and dangerous journey to find her father, who loved her and called her a "little princess".

A unique ring has been stolen from the Hermitage! A rare artifact that has been passed down from generation to generation of the imperial dynasty has disappeared! A detective agency, 'Michelle,' has taken on the search. However, they face unprecedented pressure. It is at this point that a true journalism ace, paparazzo Yegor Leonov, gets involved in the investigation. For him, this is a way to earn money, as it is already known that General Burlyaev, criminal authority Vasily, and monarchist Prince Sokolov are involved in the theft! The main task for Yegor and the staff of the 'Michelle' agency is not just to find and return the ring to the Hermitage, but to do so discreetly. After all, the loss of such a rarity could cause an international scandal!

An affair which starts as a bet between a three girls suddenly become a big love story...

The main character is a teenager named Yura, who took on the guilt of his beloved girlfriend and was convicted of a road accident. The harsh life of the penal colony, the first difficult months in freedom could not destroy the best human qualities in the Jurassic: self-esteem and nobility of the soul.

Max steals a collectible Cadillac from a local reputable businessman, Herman Eduardovich. Gus is trying to help his friend, even though he was taken hostage and forced to clean up unattended garages, on the site of which Herman Eduardovich decided to build the best hotel in Penza. The goose falls under the command of Mikhalych, who also looks after the student of nuclear physicist Funtik. He's working off his sins here too.

The third solo concert by Sergey Orlov, recorded in November 2021.

Lidia Sheveleva, a correspondent for the newspaper "Time, Forward!", becomes a pawn in a big game, having received from an anonymous source compromising materials on Yegor Shubin, head of the legal service of a large holding company. On the assignment of her superiors, she writes a denunciatory article about a despicable thief with "the appearance of an English lord". Justice triumphs - the management of the holding company suspends Shubin from business and gives him a week to try to restore his good name ... But fate likes to joke, and it accidentally collides Sheveleva and Shubin again. At the close acquaintance with Yegor Lydia begins to doubt his guilt, and recent enemies begin their own investigation, despite the dangers and risking their lives.

Two football soccer Mexican fans win a trip to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, during their journey they raffle different adventures that they draw, until a night of partying where they meet two very peculiar Finland girls who offside their lives for ever.

The arrival of a famous writer brings disarray to the lives of an aspiring playwright and a young actress.

Anna - a smart and beautiful housewife suffers from the lack of attention of her husband. She struggles to keep her family overcoming the temptation of having an affair with handsome handyman.

Kirill, a young successful entrepreneur, is invited to an important business dinner that opens up new prospects for his business. However, there is one indispensable condition: he must bring his bride, whom he has not yet introduced anyone to. But his fiancée refuses to keep him company. Fortunately, favorable fate throws up a way out: Kirill accidentally meets the beautiful and sharp-tongued Lisa, who can be passed off as a bride. If our hero knew who he was messing with, he would be careful not to let a stranger into his life.

The toddlers in a Russian playgroup are showing a striking number of adult traits. Here and there, serious romantic relationships are budding, and some tots are determined to marry. One infant may urge her friend to keep his voice low, or else the filmmakers will hear everything they say, but most pre-schoolers are undisturbed and continue their everyday activities. They play with dolls, hang around on the playground and chatter a lot, particularly about who is whose friend and who is whose lover. In this environment, the direct cinema style seems even more natural than it usually is. Two years ago, IDFA screened Victor Kossakovsky’s film Pavel and Lyalya (a Jerusalem Romance), which dealt with the profound and unselfish love of an elderly couple. In contrast, the infatuations of young kids are volatile and playful, because ten minutes later you can be married to someone else.

Documentary film with comments by Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Alexey Balabanov, Sergey Astakhov, Sergey Selyanov about the shooting of the famous film "Brother 2".

Raiders are the hunters for a big business and Spirsky is probably the best of them...

Mary Jane’s favorite parrot is dead. But there’s almost half a package of feed left. So Mary Jane decides to plant it. And something very specific grows from it, dragging the attention of two thief brothers. Convinced that old lady is no threat, brothers break in at night and try to steal the plant. But Mary Jane meets them with a gun. And decides to take a shot and reform two poor souls.

Moscow with its glossy skyscrapers and busy highways is no longer home for Igor Sokolovsky. He took his daughter Sonya and moved to the picturesque countryside in the south. A cottage in the mountains, steep winding tracks, and a new eco-hotel as a family business - that's what his life is about now. But before the hotel's grand opening everything goes awry. The place gets smashed, then Sokolovsky meets another silver-spooner and steps on the toes of a local power broker who wants to destroy an entire residential area and build a winery there.

'Artel' portrays one day in the life of a small fisher community in the north of Russia.

The story about 40-year-old Vasily, who has been trying to find for more than 20 years happiness in the city. When coming back home to the village, he understands that his already nobody waits and nobody wants it already.

Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable!

The movie is about a children's perception of ordinary things. The boy from the house which placed at the periphery of a city, ensures stability and safety of the whole world every day.

The life of a characters of this movie can be described as a swing - up and down, up and down; each day, each week...

Aleksey spends his day trying to figure out his past. But there is one circumstance. This is the last day of the world.

The film is a unique tribute of the director to his master. The space is empty, in the sense, there are no people there, but the items live their peculiar life until the rooster cries out. And that is be the rooster Parajanov made, God knows of what kind of improvised material at hand. It feels like the wind is a night walker here and it turns over the pages of the books. Glass breaking can be heard. The good thing is there are enough collages made of phials and luxurious tableware set fragments. The dolls sit on the frames, letting their legs hang, just like they do in daytime, but something mystical, something fateful appears in them. And Parajanov is close, built-into some other life, in epaulets or even with the people of past epochs. The lamps are switched on, even the oil stoves – everything is the way Parajanov liked. But then it is daybreak already, the rooms are filled with sunlight, and everything changes.

Two old friends meet in a big empty house which belongs to one of them on a cold winter evening. Women have something to recall. But as they drink more it becomes increasingly difficult for the hostess to hide some dark secrets from her insightful friend

Rukhele's parents make her marry rich Matteus, but she loves poor Shlomo. In two years Rukhele has a child but she can't forget Shlomo and so she leaves Matteus to be with her lover.

A young girl Kseniya becomes a nurse in the Russian Army during the WWI.

The people's favorite, the country's best football player Fyodor Cherenkov, is not going through the best period in his life. The only thing that keeps him from despair is his dream of playing at the World Cup. But the head coach of the national team removes him from the team at the last moment. Fyodor is seriously thinking about retiring, but for the sake of his family and fans, he returns to lead his club to the championship and become the best again.

A story about the creative biography of Alexei German Sr. through the prism of his latest film - It's Hard to Be a God. Many shots from the shooting are published for the first time. Herman did not belong to any school or direction of cinema. Working on his films, he turned to the images of Brueghel and Bosch. Herman's hyperreality is saturated with details so that the viewer is cramped there. His method required such painstaking work that he made only five films in his life - and the last one did not finish. What was this method?

Alexey, a young car service owner, and his wife Irina are preparing to become parents. However, not everything in their lives is smooth - the crime, the "protecting" car service, requires money, which Alexey does not have at the moment, because one of his friends does not repay the debt. Alexey has only one day to pay off his debts. The last hope remains the customer of the car service, who came to pick up his car after an expensive repair.…

The film "All the Vertovs" tells about the Kaufman brothers-David, Mikhail and Boris. All three are world-class filmmakers. Each of them managed to achieve the highest level of proficiency in the profession, each had their own vision of the world and the gift to embody it on the screen in a unique, deeply individual manner.

This documentary was created for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 80th anniversary of the execution of the royal family.

Four veteran pilots were invited by the leadership of the military unit to perform a special task. And it does not matter that they haggle in the market, because everything that happens — it's just a dream…

He went through the war from Leningrad to Germany. He was awarded two medals of valor and the Order of The Patriotic War of the 2-nd Class. Vladimir lives in a small village of the Irkutsk region. Sometimes he goes to the city to his son, grandson and great-grandchildren by the train. But sometimes there are the moments of silence to sit and remember all the living and the dead. And the more silence, the more the memories, the ghosts of war.

She always has a plan. For each his own. For everyone another name. One needs Vera (Faith), another Nadezhda (Hope). And almost all need Liubov (Love). She leaves every one at his own time. She finds a reason. But who knows where deceit ends which people buy only for the sake of money, and when genuine feelings begin? And who knows who she is: just a kept woman in the capital, or an artful swindler, or a talented actress, or a woman who is able only to love? To love them all.

fell into the belly of a snake And spent the night without a dream of coming back. If serpent chose to spit what’s left of me Then at the break of dawn what will I be?