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The tale of how a Nenets young man named Maimai conceived the idea of conquering airspace to fight an extraterrestrial being who stole people.

The film is a farewell. Farewell to the native land, the primordial banks of the river and the people who have lived on the Hangar for centuries. History repeats itself. And again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratskaya HPP, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three heroes - the writer Valentin Rasputin, the publisher Gennady Sapronov and the critic Valentin Kurbatov. The film was awarded the Award of the Academy of Russian Television TEFI-2011 in the categories "Television documentary" and "Director of a television documentary / series".

On a remote almost uninhabited island, there are two gently friendly representatives of the once opposing sides. They have long been accustomed to each other and do not expect any changes in life. And all of a sudden a woman appears on the island!

A film about the hard fate of a decommissioned pilot, who not lost the ability to fly, as well as about male solidarity, cemented by national drinking traditions, about two truths - for male and for female, and about the love that will reconcile everyone.

Two young intellectuals, Katya and Vassya, come to a small industrial town to work as teachers. They want to change the system of scholastic education and the social situation in difficult regions. The school is a closed conservative world, where obedience and discipline are of the highest value. Young teachers discover that nationalism, sexism and homophobia are typical for their new environment. Children see the school as a prison and are completely indifferent to any new ideas. During one school year we observe attempts of our protagonists to bring new practices into the system. Young teachers try to speak with children about feminism, human rights and Russian politics, but the system pushes them out, and a comedy turns into a drama.

Three days in bright May Moscow. Three days, when Senior Lieutenant Pechalin, who has long forgotten the smell of peaceful life, will again feel all its charm. Meet with an old friend Gaevsky, fall in love with a casual acquaintance Victoria, celebrate Victory Day with her and dance a romantic waltz on the Bolshoi Theater Square...

In a snowed-under village lives the shepherd Ivan Sergeyevich. Every morning he cleans up the manure and feeds the cows. Day after day goes by in this way. One winter morning a stranger arrives in the village in an expensive car and offers Ivan Sergeyevich good work in the city. Ivan Sergeyevich agrees with pleasure. The stranger takes Ivan Sergeyevich away from the village to the city...

A maniac terrorizes a town during rainy nights. And exactly on one rainy night a student has a night shift in a 24-hour shop. And exactly on this night the owner of the shop goes to play in a casino, his wife wants to be entertained, a detective is awaiting for a crime to be committed and certainly... the maniac begins hunting.

Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi

Insecure 18-year-old comic author Alex seeks recognition at a young authors' forum but loses the spotlight to Masha, known for sappy Shiny Girl comics. They're forced to collaborate to win.

Is life perfect? It happens. When the spouses have strong, stable relations, connected not only by marriage, but also by the joint business that Tatiana received from her father, and her husband Mark manages all the affairs of the late father-in-law construction company. But if you look into the keyhole and take a closer look, the ideal will suddenly seem imperfect, and a hint of hatred will appear in love and decency. What can break a strong family bond? Passion or deceit? Treason or thirst for vengeance? And if high feelings and low human passions mix up, intertwine and drag on with a strong knot, which can be unleashed only by death?

Evfrosinia Kersnovskaya, who challenged the Stalinist repressive machine, not only left us her memories, she created a unique archive of drawings, which can best be defined as a Gulag comic. In addition to horror, there is a lot of sarcastic, funny and, oddly enough, life-affirming in it.

A documentary about naturism in St. Petersburg, Russia, with discussions with Russian naturists about how they got involved in naturism and the problems they have faced due to being a naturist.

Koenigsberg, East Prussia, June 1944. Boys from the Hitler Youth are rushing to the front, and two Soviet boys who escaped from a concentration camp are trying to break through to their own.

Valentina is over seventy, and she plans to live forever. And when he does die, make a comfortable transition to a new body according to Hindu laws, for which cremation is mandatory. But her daughter does not agree with her, Marina thinks that her mother should be buried according to normal traditions.

The history of mankind is also the history of wars. The film contains military footage of the twentieth century, never included in the official chronicles. The so-called "cuts" are, as a rule, of a "household" nature. The film is an image of a huge and hopeless war, where men wander through the twentieth century, where there is no front line, where the war turns into a mass sexual perversion that destroys the very logic of human existence.

Their first night is a chain of random coincidences. However, some time later, she shows up at his office under a different name and a suspiciously clean biography. And this seems to be no coincidence.

A conversation between famous politician and a teenager changes both of them...

The film takes place in 1951 in a large provincial city. The young wife returns from the resort, and after her comes the “spa card” from the man with whom she somehow walked along the shore, listening to the surf under the starry night sky. A husband receives a postcard ... He does not arrange a scene of jealousy and, experiencing pain inside himself, decides to write him an answer on behalf of Vera.

Top Russian movie stars play in this drama series about the 1991 civil war threat in Uzbekistan. Musicians from a small military orchestra leave their regimen to play at a local wedding. When they return, they find all their barracks empty. Their regiment has received an urgent redeployment order and left. All of a sudden, a militant group appears from the mountains. They have crossed the border planning to stir a civil war and threatening to kill everyone in their way, even women and children. So, instead of catching up with the regiment, the musicians decide to stay and fight for the innocent civilians.

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.

Three graverobbers find a strange amulet in a mysterious grave. Based on the 1922 short story by H. P. Lovecraft.

Ivory harvesting under the extreme conditions of the Russian Far North is slowly but surely turning into a sort of a «mammoth rush». However, as the demand grows, so does social tension in the area.

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

The provincial businessmen in the tourism industry, who have never really treated seriously family life, children and their work have a very important trip abroad. They dream of successful results in negotiations. But suddenly the responsibility for the three entirely unmanageable children falls to them. Everything would be fine, if they were not the children of a capital business-woman, our heroes’ potential investor. The friends have to deal with the children, their grandmother, who came ostensibly to help, and German rivals, trying not to fail in such an important deal.

A mother and her son Egor live in a certain city. They have a Secret: Egor's father is an alien. Egor inherited strange, literally inhuman abilities from his father. They manifest themselves only when the boy is next to the person he truly loves. No one, except his Mother, knew about these abilities until the grown-up Egor met Angela..

An unexploded shell with a mysterious elixir of love and a test in Greek was found in the forest. While the local garrison is indulging in passion under the influence of the drug, an elite special group arrives from Moscow to clarify the circumstances.

Would it be correct to suggest that none of it happened?

With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the International project "Cinema in 7 Days" was implemented in Kazan for the third time in December 2021 (7dayfilm.ru ). Ten international teams had to shoot, edit and submit 10 short feature films to the international jury in 7 days, with the condition that Kazan must be chosen as one of the filming locations. In the conditions of the pandemic, part of the work was organized remotely using Second Unit and filming took place not only in Russia, but also in Finland, Iran, Latvia, China with the participation of more than 250 young filmmakers.

Parable of men's promises and torments of conscience. The main character is time to finish with a drink. In the morning, a whistle suddenly appears on his neck, and an unknown girl in bed. And everything would be fine, but the wife will be any minute.

We see what is happening through the eyes of a protagonist. A young athlete Yaroslav is not happy in his life: boredom and routine of daily workouts, need of constant self-control, etc. But most of all he is concerned about a strange feeling he has for men. Only his close friend Andrew seems to understand what is happening to him. For Yaroslav it's difficult to admit that he is a gay. Internal problems become external: he fights with a member of the national team and is on the verge of scandalous charges. He is referred to a psychologist who gently opens his eyes to himself.

"Oleg Ptitsyn Died", "Oleg Ptitsyn In Jail" - headlines in all the newspapers and magazines about the famous rock musician. Actually he is undergoing treatment in one of city hospitals. Kate, a teenage girl from the same hospital, which neglects all the doctors and even her own mother becomes his companion in misfortune. Oleg decides to help the girl to get well and love life.

Gena Chudnevich was born in prison. He returned there as a teenager from the orphanage. His fate would have been typical for such cases: “Stole, drank, went to jail...”, but in the penal colony he suddenly began to build a church. And a miracle happened: a semi-literate guy, who did not even graduate from school, almost single-handedly built a huge wooden church according to all the canons of ancient Russian architecture! That’s how the former convict became hieromonk Gerontius. Having led a team of the similar poor fellows, he began to restore ancient monasteries - monuments of architecture. But when a misfortune happened to Father Gerontius, the official church cruelly “thanked” him for his talent and selfless devotion.

Vlada Senkova’s third feature combines comedy and drama to portray three reckless young people willing to risk it all to make money.

Roman runs a bachelor’s life and hosts his own radio show. As a real psychologist, he gives advices to his listeners by adding them with prickly jokes. Until one of these jokes turns against himself. To the question asked by 20 year old Alyona, if she should go and visit her father, he surely replies: “Of course! I’d be glad to!” He does not know that the lady on air is a fruit of his own one night love affair and that he has offhand become not only a father, but also a grandfather of Alyona’s son. Newly-crowned relatives take careless Roman and his girlfriend Sasha, a social lioness and owner of the radio station, straight to hell. Alyona is also still to face the same disappointment. Only miracle can turn these four people into a united family…

This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.

What's wrong with me? Why did Mom leave me? Why don't we know each other? And these are not all the questions that seventeen-year-old Dasha is now asking herself and the world. However, they all invariably come down to the figure of the mother. In search of answers, Dasha escapes from the suffocating care of her father and finds herself next to her mother who has forgotten how to love.

The debut of music critic Boris Barabanov as the showrunner of a new documentary series about the small homeland of big musicians. In the pilot series dedicated to Rostov-on-Don, Kirill Serebrennikov, Basta, Shym from "Casta", Vasya Oblomov, Sergey Pimenov ("PPK") and Viktor Pivtorypavlo ("Forbidden Drummers") talk about this city as a home, the first stage and starting station on the way to fame, the neighborhood of blatnyak and metal, hidden doorways, the first toilet actionism, endless southern rave and that "living in the past is the first step in the future."a sign of old age."

Revered by the likes of Banksy and Brian Eno, the members of Russian collective Voina (War) have gained notoriety for public ‘actions’ that have landed their leaders in jail. In Tomorrow filmmaker and former ice-dancing champion Andrey Gryazev embeds himself with the group to create this fly-on-the-wall documentary focusing on Voina’s founders, Oleg Vorotnikov (known as Vor) and Natalia Sokol (known as Koza), along with their two-year-old son Kasper, who accompanies them on all of their actions.

Andrey Konchalovsky's project "the Burden of power" is about unpopular decisions of heads of state and political figures in power. The heroes of the cycle "Burden of power" can not be called fighters for liberal ideas, but they paradoxically had a huge impact on the fate and development of their countries. The film about Heydar Aliyev is part of Andrey Konchalovsky's cycle "the Burden of power" about the great politicians of the twentieth century. This cycle began with a film about Yuri Andropov. It was Andropov who promoted Heydar Aliyev as a politician, because he saw him as a close associate in the upcoming reform of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the story followed a different scenario: the USSR collapsed, and Heydar Aliyev was thrown out of politics. But he managed to return to it as a winner, overcome the turmoil, become the President of Azerbaijan, and give his people confident guidelines for moving into the future.

To earn money, nineteen-year-old Lyosha must lose a Zhiguli race to blogger Shkurny live. But even the younger brother does not know that according to the agreement in the finale, Lyosha must set fire to his grandfather's car. Having penetrated the vibrant world of drifters and learned the story of his grandfather-designer, Lyosha faces a choice whether to succumb to the blogger and destroy the car or defend the honor of his family.

A "Happy Paradise" set with a driving licence as a bonus - this is all 'Mr. Average' needs to make his cherished dream come true and to feel a real human being. An absurdist tragicomedy based on a play 'Apprenez á conduire par correspondance' by Claude Fortuno.

“Berezka. Underground Capitalism ”is a documentary about currency shops in the Soviet times.

The world is going absolutely crazy when the giant meteor is approaching Earth...

Slava Komissarenko's first solo stand-up special. Filmed in Moscow in October 2021.

Kostya and Olya are university teachers. On vacation at a sanatorium, Olya found a more respectable partner for herself - Sergey. He is a wealthy man obsessed with a healthy lifestyle and active sports. Upon arrival, Olya leaves a note for her husband and leaves the house, blocking all contact with Kostya. Sergey has a daughter, Sonya. Kostya finds nothing better than to try to start an affair with her in order to gain access to Sergey and his new lover. Sonya does not find Kostya very attractive. However, the opportunity to irritate her father at a dinner with her potential stepmother seems tempting. After all, her father recently kicked out her boyfriend Maks for "not being serious."

The novice stand-up comic finds very unusual listeners of his program. With the help of sex workers on the phone, he tries to overcome insecurity in himself and in his jokes.

For three years, filmmaker Staffan Julén has traveled with Svetlana Alexievich in Belarus and Russia to document her working method when her reportage books are created. At first, filmmaker Staffan Julén wanted to make a traditional writer portrait on Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich which she was not interested in. Her suggestion was instead that he would tag along with her in her ongoing projects and follow her when she talks to people about love.

A musical New Year's film about how aliens come to Earth in search of a Christmas tree. Funny situations related to the New Year are unfolding in Italy, Africa, Mexico, and America.

In pursuit of his dreams, Igor faces a truth he struggles to accept and wrestles with the temptation to take drastic action in his grief, realizing the profound consequences it could have on his path and identity.

A young guy constantly sees a vision in the form of a beautiful girl. Thanks to this, he remains a "pure" and incorrigible romantic.

On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most free filmmakers of our time; direct speech and fragments of films, forming a single statement about the meaning of art, homeland and pain.

A short story about love and how a man literally from scratch can bring the brain to his beloved woman ... Anna Melikyan's short film for Action!

Tanya Babanina from Protvino near Moscow bakes masterfully and dreams of her own cafe. But to fulfill a dream, they say, you need to get out of your comfort zone. And Tanya goes out on an international scale, finding crazy adventures on her rolls. One in Sri Lanka. Without money, documents and a husband who cheated on her immediately after the wedding. But with a hangover, in a winter coat and ... under the same roof with three guys who are not at all happy with her.

Good intentions are Laziness's sincere belief that with a wave of a magic wand you can change the world. Not the whole world, of course, but at least a God-forsaken village lost in the mountains. It's as simple as that - I came, I saw, I won. Without asking, without the consent of their wards - a handful of residents in a tight ring of mountains.