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Graduated of the institute, Nikita comes to work at the best Kostroma’s factory. Now it is essential for him to learn how to dust down the veneer sheets and to put them into the dryer in the right way.

Fear and Loathing in Saratov. Russian elections through the eyes of direct participants in the process. The story of what measures are being taken in a quite ordinary Volga region in order to “elect” the governor. Juggling documents, deception, fights and hostage-taking - this is not a complete list of what observers had to face in the elections in Saratov in 2017. The film restores the history of the voting day, recorded in the general Telegram chat.

On a clear night, a light comes on in a small house. A man comes out of the house with a gun and shoots at the sky. The sky lights up with stars.

This is the story of the famous first film workshop set up by the filmmaker Alexei German in 1988. The studio debutants are now well-known masters. They share their memories about their teacher who helped them throughout the work process. The core of the film is the story told by Sergei Karandashov, a graduate of Alexei German’s workshop and the author of the project Workshop. The author's version of the film.

A screen-play about the great Russian composer whose life is seen through the eyes of his wife, the Spanish singer Lina Lubera. Having experienced luxury and poverty, high-society parties and loneliness, she found herself in the Stalinist camp but still cherished her love for Prokofiev.

Documentary Web-Series about the amateur football team of the Babushkinsky district of Moscow "Egrisi".

The story of one love, exploring the inner world with animation and trying to make a history of the disease. The film was shot as part of a week-long school of pre-intensive care at the Rudnik festival.

Yuri Vyacheslavovich Arkhangelsky, a pensioner born in 1938, whose whole life is somehow connected with volleyball. He trains the Sphere team, the same veterans. He treats his wards with tenderness, like children, affectionately calling them boys. Yuri Vyacheslavovich leads them, which is not so easy, because each of them has hundreds of sports competitions behind their backs. This time they are participating in a veteran sports tournament, in which they have not risen above third place before. Will Yuri Vyacheslavovich be able to turn the tide?

Why do adults not dream like children? This is a film about Michael Farih, who dreamed to become a pilot in his childhood. However, the life was different: first, he had a brilliant military career in the Soviet army, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and start to run a business, therefore a realization of the dream to be a pilot becomes illusory. Finally in 2013 Farih decided to make a round the world flight. The film set was literally the whole world. As a result, we get something like "Tower of Babel", as all of these are completely different people live on the same planet. Mikhail Farikh realized his dream. April 19, 2016, the year Mikhail Farikh died, crashing in a helicopter.

The video features various images of Kolomna along with fragments of texts in English and Russian. The Russian-English and English-Russian texts are a record of translations done in Google Translate during actual conversations. They represent the speakers' awareness of the possible failure of language as well as their mutual efforts to communicate with each other. The audio is the artist copying the text of Moscow-Petushki by Benedict Erofeev, making reference to the history and culture of the city, Kolomna. ephemeras addresses both the physicality and ephemerality of the act of speaking and writing.

The brilliant film director and writer Alexander Dovzhenko believed that it was possible to create an outstanding work of art only in an environment of beauty. Until now, the gardens planted by Dovzhenko are blooming at the Kyiv Film Studio and Mosfilm. In the film by Ekaterina Tyutina, the story is based on the diaries of the director and the unpublished memoirs of his wife and muse Yulia Solntseva.

In the illegal business that Max is engaged in, his "specialty" is called "pawnbroker" or "kladmen". He took up this dangerous job to pay for his studies at the institute and save up for a good guitar.

A family lives in a house on the mountain. The rhythms of the surrounding nature and love help her to overcome difficult situations.

According to the fairy tale of Stepan Pisakhov "a Month from the sky attic". Senya Malina picks up an old, disused month in the sky. With the help of its wonderful glow, he bargains for a "vacation" from an official to go home to see his family. All sorts of miracles happen to him along the way.

The first documentary about the frontman of the popular rock band "Nerves" Zhenya Milkovsky. This is not only a story about the attitude of a rock musician. It is about constant movement, search, humanity, of course, about music and about you and me.

This is a film about the prima donna of Mariinsky Theatre, laureate of international competitions of opera singers Oxana Shilova, lyric coloratura-soprano. Very justly she is called one of the best voices of the Mariinsky Theatre. She dazzled the scenes of Bolshoi, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden etc. But what had she to sacrifice, to win this world recognition? We have to make a choice between our family and our career. And often it is not in favour of our beloved.

Sisters Leah and Olya are trying to establish their own brand of clothes, but during the work hidden family contradictions and bipolar disorder of the older sister make themselves felt.

A factory director gives an interview, and he does not like it very much. Therefore his answers are extremely short. He says mainly "No" or "I do not know." But nevertheless one can understand his attitude to work, war and salvation.

Film of Ivan Maksimov's students. An endless journey in the rhythm of Tarantella — the usual everyday life of passengers of an unusual train.

The film tells about the unique Russian village of Alexandrovka, located in Potsdam, in the very center of Germany. This Russian settlement, built at the beginning of the 19th century, to this day keeps the memory of its distant homeland. The village was built specifically for 26 Russian soldiers with families - singing choir. Their descendants survived in this village until the 21st century. Unexpected relations of Russians and Germans, the intersection of "destinies, events" from the beginning of the XIX century to the present day.

Based on the prologue to the novel by V. Krapivin “Ships, or “Help me on the way...””. Contents of the prologue: 1950, Petka Vikulov, nicknamed Gramophone, his mother died, he lives with his aunt. One day he finds an icon frame and hides it, since once upon a time his mother also had an icon. For this he is expelled from the pioneers. He decides to run to his father, about whom, however, he knows nothing. He also sings in the choir of the House of Pioneers, a soloist, his signature song is Jim's song from "Treasure Island". When kicked out of the pioneers, he refuses the choir, but is persuaded to perform one last time. He decides to make his farewell speech and run away...

The plot of the military propaganda movie tells about a young ambitious programmer Alexei Kuzmenkov, who, despite the deferment, goes to the army to learn more about military orders and the device of military equipment to create a computer game. However, while serving, Alexei does a complete "reset" of his entire life. He breaks with illusions about easy victories and quick achievements, overcomes his own weaknesses and temptations, meets reliable and loyal friends, becomes a real man and opens new perspectives of his own life.

Victor is alone here. He looks back at his life in order to figure out why he is here. Silence interrupted by the lonely voice of a man pronouncing his own name.

The hero of the film is a tenth-grader who is fond of tattoos, a typical representative of a certain stratum of modern youth, a representative of the younger generation of the millennium. Not a street boy, but quite homely, he is not going to give up his comfort, but he is not keen on anything more than he has.

11 days, 10 cities, 5300 km - the author of the film traveled so much from Moscow to Baikal, without spending any money on lodging or on food. The purpose of the experiment is to test the community for responsiveness. The film is a journey, changing the mind about compatriots and a look at their daily lives.

A documentary immersion into the creative world of the artist and musician Svyatoslav Ponomarev, who develops Tibetan throat singing in Russia. The film uses materials from the artist's personal archive, newsreels taken from open sources, as well as fragments of texts by Sergei Kuskov and Heydar Dzhemal.

In March 2018, oncologist Andrey Pavlenko learned that he had stomach cancer. Over the years of consultations, Andrey identified three main feelings of patients: confusion, fear, and apathy. And he believes that the doctors themselves are to blame for the fact that patients are afraid and do not understand what is happening. Together with the project" Such things", Andrey begins an experiment. From that moment on, the illness, the changes in his life, the memories, the everyday thoughts become public. Viewers and listeners will learn about the obstacles faced by a person who knows everything about cancer himself. It is not customary to speak publicly about such problems of oncology as training specialists or paternalistic relations between doctors and patients, but Andrey is ready for this, because he believes that the main weapon in the fight against cancer is information.

Swarm works with the image of a buzzing crater formed by young male bodies twisting into a common mass — erasing the personal. It is similar to battlefield rituals: inspired by one youtube video in which volunteers from Ural (War in Donbass) performed the dance of death I recreated the rhythm of military ritual saturated with sensе of suspense and horror. While creating this video, I raised an issue of the legitimacy of compulsory military service through which the government persuades young men to get involved in its military operations.

My grandmother is 96 years old. She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and became an engineer. I made this film because I wanted to understand who she really is, but instead I understood a little about myself.

The fourth installment in our yearly Horror Anthology form Ottawa, Canada. This time, we tell stories focused on the dark side of technology.

A Russian lady Natalya after the events when Turkish military shot Russian airplane in 2015 at the Syrian boarder comes to Istanbul, Turkey to rescue her nephew Masha, who is married a Turkish guy. Natalya has lot's of stereotypes about the country, but on the way to Masha she changes her opinion.

Russian literature is inconceivable without Pushkin. It draws its sustenance from Pushkin; it breathes Pushkin. During his brief 38-year life, he produced a torrent of some of the most wonderful poems, plays and stories. Pushkin wrote the short story The Queen of Spades in 1833, in the space of a few days and ‘in a cold fury’: a brief text, with strong accents and a focus on psychology. More than 50 years later, Tchaïkovski drew inspiration from this story to compose an opera. For the 2018 Salzburg Festival, Mariss Jansons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hans Neuenfels directs Tchaïkovski’s ‘The Queen of Spades’ at the Großes Festspielhaus. Hanna Schwarz plays the Countess. Evgenia Muraveva sings the role of Lisa, Brandon Jovanovich is Herman, Vladislav Sulimsky plays Count Tomsky / Plutus, and Igor Golovatenko is Prince Yelezky.

What do we know about monsters? In the old days, this was the name given to people with congenital physical disabilities, or deformities. But today, the word is rarely used in this sense. Nowadays, a monster is usually a fictional character. The hero of a movie or book. Absolute evil and the embodiment of our most secret fears. The personification of horror. But the question is - are they born like this... or do they become like this?

The film is dedicated to the centenary of Alexander Galich. One of the great trinity of bards Galich - Okudzhava - Vysotsky, who for decades determined the social and intellectual climate of the country. The authors of the film tried to understand how it happened that he, a recognized playwright and screenwriter, challenged the authorities and chose the fate of a disgraced bard, an idol of informal culture, went his way from well-being to rejection, to unofficial glory? He was forced to leave the USSR, three years later he died tragically in Paris, and his songs keep coming back and coming back to us.

It's hard to love from a distance. Especially if you are river snails, and the main obstacle to your date is an insurmountable slowness.

Six university professors of math and physics wanted to share the beauty of their research. They organize a competition with the hope of inspiring artists to create ground breaking pieces, based on modern science. A jury of six experts in art, fashion and architecture were invited to judge the results. One may think, that in contrast to mathematical beauty, artistic beauty can be appreciated without a complete understanding. Unexpectedly, mathematical rigor is replaced by artistic rigor; the overconfidence of scientists in the beauty of their research clashes with the modern artists world view.

Vladimir and Valentina met on an ad in the Lonely Hearts Club newspaper. To start a new life and create a family, he comes to her – from Altai Krai to St. Petersburg. However, it turns out that things are not so simple.

Evgeny Granilshchikov's debut full-length film pursues the exploration of the social and political landscape of contemporary Russia started in his short video works and drawings about a decade ago. Like in many of his previous works, Granilshchikov's characters are young creatives, whose lives and careers develop to a backdrop of current political affairs.

Family excavations.

Colleagues from the Union of Artists know Elena K * as a modest watercolor painter. Among the visitors of nightclubs, she is known as the singer of porno-chanson Albina Sexova.

Lent is one of the most important events in the life of an Orthodox person. The film tells about the quest, doubts, extremes and experiences of a young man who chose a difficult path of abstinence not only from many worldly goods, but also from all thoughts that contradict his own picture of the world, based on religious dogmas. On his way, he encounters, it would seem, everyday and ordinary questions for a modern person, nevertheless, which do not fit his world outlook. Leaving efforts to resist to all that in his opinion "it is impossible, not arbitrary," he tries to get used to, to accept, to reach a balance with the world in which he lives.

Once upon a time In Vladivostok, Russia there lived an old woman. She lived all her life with her old man. They lived like two dogs. Biting each other all time. He told her: “Do not smoke, Olya!” She said to him: “Fuck U”. So they lived happily they had children and grandchildren too. They celebrated the New Year together, until one day the old woman died. And the fairy tale here is not the end. That’s where all the fun begins. How to live further?

Following the death of her father, Belekmaa moves into his shepherd’s encampment. She is living through the first serious bereavement in her life and she hopes to see her father at least in her dreams, up to the day when, according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased will be sated and given an ultimate send-off.

This is the story that explains how I was dropped

"Listen to the grass grow" is a short abstract personal memory; sometimes too emotional, sometimes too illogical. But that’s the way our thoughts are floating in the space of our consciousness. This is the story of Maria. We are observing her at the beginning of her ‘new life’ in a new and unknown place. An unfamiliar house, she has no memories here, not yet. Her past belongs to other spaces, far away from here. She’s exploring this new place with her body, in order to awaken its physical memory and to reach an inner authentic movement. Maria is trying to feel this place; her body is trying to feel this space; her movements, driven by old memories, are filling the void.

The pride of Soviet engineers, a secret project hidden in the impenetrable taiga, among swamps and fogs — for a long time the Plesetsk cosmodrome was a serious issue in the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. Today the Plesetsk is a unique launching complex that provides for both Russian defence and scientific space programs. We will go to the extreme north, to the very heart of the taiga, to live one day at the cosmodrome with its inhabitants and witness the launch of a real rocket.

It is the story of a man and a woman, destined to live together, but who have not managed to preserve harmony and mutual understanding in their relationship. Because of a selfish desire to defend their independence, they let go of the single but most important thing that keeps them next to each other: the dim light of the lantern.

The grandson finds the burial of his grandfather, who went to the front in 1941 and died in a fascist prisoner-of-war camp.

An extracurricular lesson dedicated to Victory Day is planned at a city school. However, due to an innocent children’s prank, the event is put at risk of being canceled. The students realize that they will have to take responsibility for their foolish mistake in a mature, adult way.