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Three artists rented an apartment in Altufevo and began to create modern art right on the street of the sleeping area.

A poetic documentary about the Russian monotown of Karabash, located in the Ural mountains. Mass media often call it ‘the most polluted town on Earth’. Two centuries of copper mining have left an impact on the local ecology, transforming the woods and hills into a Mars-like landscape. The main force in this place where nothing ever changes is the copper smelting plant – the primary source of both employment and environmental pollution.

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.

Every year, October 26, on the anniversary of the attack on Dubrovka, relatives of the victims and former hostages gather in the square in front of the scene of the tragedy. The next day, clearing the area. And so - every year. A third of Russia's population knows nothing about the Nord-Ost tragedy. News reports of federal channels on the day of the memory of the victims of the tragedy do not exceed 27 seconds.

The film is a study of drag culture in Russia and the life of Russian travesty divas in St. Petersburg compared to similar artists from Western countries, where the sexual revolution took place at the time and they became icons of pop culture. Is travesty an art? What is hidden under a mask of foundation and powder? What brought young people into the travesty business?

‘In front of me is a glass of wine with a thin leg. I look at it and think that I will reach out my hand and it will tremble, and the glass will tip over, fill the table with wine, and everyone will see it’.

In December 2016 was arrested russian historian, specialist in the history of state repressions - Yuri Dmitriev. Most people don't believe in the charges against him, the case falling apart in court. But case is continue and the historian is still under arrest. Life of Yuri Dmitriev and his family was destroyed by the state. This documentary and animation film - is story about friendship one of author of film and girl, who was foster daughter of Yuri Dmitriev and who stood in the center of the process.

Foggy morning. A lone fisherman finds a woman on the shore of the White Sea and brings her to his house. Captured by her amazing beauty, he behaves like a child trying to find contact with her. Despite his concern, anxiety does not leave a woman, and she leaves, wanting to find a new path.

When civilization is on the verge of global conflict, a young man comes to his hometown to look for his mother. The horror of war alternates with warm childhood memories. The search for the mother becomes not only physical but also metaphorical.

The story of a successful MMA fighter who became the best among the best in the world. He lost his family as a child. God gave the boy the gift of winning and being invulnerable. This gift was first seen by his only relative – his grandfather, Nikolai Spiridonovich. It was he who instilled in the boy a love of work and knowledge. A deep philosophical parable, reflections on life and nature, communication between grandfather and grandson about goodness, laws, traditions and family values.

A loft is the space between yesterday’s party and tomorrow’s exhibition. Today, it seems as though time has stopped. Anything can happen. Any incident could become an artistic or near-artistic statement. A rave, an event, an exhibition, even a party, for example for a birthday, can have the spirit of an artistic event if properly decorated and advertised in social networks. Even the absence of events, just hanging out in the creative space, can also be classed as some kind of «creative procrastination» or critical of the world of doing nothing. Modern art — performance, installation, video, becomes part of fashionable leisure time, part of a lifestyle. A kind of «psychedelic» pastime, in which the boundaries between everyday reality and artistic gesture are blurred, becomes commonplace.

Graphic fantasy on the theme of the minuet from the cycle "Everything Dances".

In the strip club, where Katya works as a dancer, she is always surrounded by music. Parties with friends, clubs, bars, portable speakers while walking - in her world there are practically no sounds other than dance music. She gets to the cottage, where she begins to remember about a completely different music, and then about silence.

rina is disabled at 11 years old. Her parents died in a car accident, and she had serious damage to her bone marrow. Doctors say that children with such a diagnosis do not live long. She lives with her grandmother and dreams of becoming an Olympic champion in sport dancing in wheelchairs. Despite everything, she confidently goes to her dream.

In the autumn of 1941, an SS training camp appeared in the small Polish town of Travniki, organized on the personal initiative of Heinrich Himmler. The cadets of this camp were supposed to be, according to the Reichsfuhrer's idea, Soviet prisoners of war. In the first months after the German attack on the Soviet Union, there were millions of them, exhausted, psychologically crushed, dying of hunger.

The author of the film captured director Rimas Tuminas in the process of working on the production of the play "The Queen of Spades" at the Bolshoi Theater in 2017.

The story of a homeless man who finds a baby thrown into the street on New Year's Eve and tries to save him.

One day in the life of a modern six-year-old girl, painted by the clock. Ballet, singing, English, and finally a swimming pool. But for a child, all this "development stuff" pales before the natural process of tooth loss!

A documentary about people who preserve nature, heritage and sacred sites. Filming took place on an expedition to the most beautiful places of Altai, during which the filmmakers talked about past, present and future with the guardians of ancient sanctuaries and ancient epics, the reserved nature and traditions of the Old Believers, the culture of nomads and the knowledge of the Altai wanderers .

The heroes of the film will be real people who have faced blood cancer, whose lives are hanging by a thread, who have received hope for salvation by finding an unrelated donor.

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.

The film "Taxi Drivers" is the story of three Dushanbe natives who earn their living driving a taxi. Two of them are migrants – one turns the steering wheel in Moscow, the other in New York, and the third is engaged in hauling at home.

Children are preparing for a war, preparing to kill. For some, it’s just toys, but for others, it is broken fates. And everywhere they are the toys in the adults hands.

The well-known Slavic fairy tale in two of the most striking versions – Russian and Belarusian.

Would you want to change your life once and for all? Surely, yes. But everything was holding you back. However, the family of circus artists with a beautiful surname Groll did it. They realized their dream: to live in the village in a beautiful place, far from civilization. They were looking for a place for their new life all over the world, and they found it in Russia. Did they find what they were looking for?

There are three eras in memories.

Former fighter of the Belarusian "death squad" Yuri Garavsky tells how he participated in the abduction and murder of Lukashenka's opponents 20 years ago. Then ex-Interior Minister Yuri Zakharenko, ex-head of the Central Election Commission Viktor Gonchar and businessman Anatoly Krasovsky, who supported the opposition, disappeared in Belarus. Garavsky claims that they were kidnapped and killed by the soldiers of the special rapid reaction unit (SOBR) of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Among them was Garavsky himself.

Marina has been doing gymnastics for over 15 years. She is the oldest (read, old) gymnast of the Pearl Olympic Reserve School. She would be happy to finish her career long ago and live a normal life: to study, to have a hobby, and in the end - to love. But by the will of the coach (or fate?), She did not go to the competitions, which she aspired to all her career. Therefore, she is forced to stay in sports for another two years at the age of 20 in order to wait for the next chance, and her coach, “Lena,” is forced to undergo endless trials, because that same Marina’s prison is the life of Elena Anatolyevna.

Film research of design in Russia. Many believe that a specifically Russian approach to design does not exist. But what if they underestimate the influence of culture, history and surrounding reality on the style and aesthetic guidelines of those who shape our visual environment? Natasha Klimchuk, Tim Cherny and Olya Morozova, leaders of the Bang Bang Education online design school, have assembled a company of 33 contemporary Russian designers. Among them are many famous names: Artemy Lebedev, Valery Golyzhenkov, Pokras Lampas, Anton Schneider, Denis Bashev, Oleg Pashchenko. They all speak and think in Russian and are inevitably inspired by what has become part of our everyday life, books, practices, rituals, holidays, economics, historical memory and fashion. With the help of these 33 guides, the almanac will try to find the features and boundaries of our national perception of beauty and look at what ethical and aesthetic values ​​we carry to the world.

As a child, an inventor Alexey Garagashyan drew a detailed map of his village, but he immediately became interested in what was beyond its borders. So his main passion appeared - to overcome the bad roads. Every time he met impassable routes, he just created new modifications of transport. First, they were motorcycles, and then unique off-road vehicles, which became a sensation all over the world. Today, Alexey Garagashyan can travel without being attached to the roads, but only by choosing directions.

The film tells about the past, present and future of the oldest university in the Urals – Perm University, which celebrated the centenary of its foundation in October 2016, about its importance as the most important center of science and culture for the region and for the whole country and as a place of intersection of human destinies. The film is based on the memories and reflections of graduates of different years about their ageless alma mater…

The second solo concert of Alexander Dolgopolov, recorded at the HopHead Tap Room bar in St. Petersburg in February 2019.

A grandmother who is confined to the bed, a devout mother, and a young daughter live as one family in a Moscow suburb. Three parallel lives flow next to each other in the cold space of an eternal winter.

About how real objects lose their figurativeness.

The film centers on a high-school student experiencing the last day of summer.

A Chinese crime writer has a risky plan to help women take revenge on their unpunished rapists. They must not get away with it. They will definitely get what they deserve.

We are constantly under the yoke of unloved work, evil bosses, uncomfortable conditions. But maybe the fact is that we like to be oppressed?

Trees are everything. In a settlement near the Russian-Finnish border, a traditional family keeps shamanistic rituals alive. The children play in the same forest where photos nailed to trees remind us of Stalin's bloody repression. Spirituality and politics meet in this intuitive montage of poetic impressions, historical material, nature shots, family scenes and probing testimony.

The documentary is dedicated to the history and modernity of the Tyumen region. The main idea of the film is to show Western Siberia as a fundamental part of Russia's power and prosperity through the past, present and future. The characters of the film are extraordinary, creative, freedom—loving and purposeful people with a real "Siberian character". The history, traditions and culture of the region, as a "starting point" for the story of today and tomorrow of the Tyumen region, linking epochs, times and generations. The film was created for the 75th anniversary of the Tyumen region.

The story of an artist who lives in a parallel reality and does not lose contact with real world. Conscious internal emigration. Surreal everyday life. Black and white photography. Fatherland. Brest. Women. Unicorns.

New film by Polina Torshilova

An associative poem about life, love, and the transience of being. A lonely creature wanders around a snowed-in city and stumbles upon a mystery that will change his entire existence. The two minutes of the cartoon fit a lifetime of changes, metamorphoses, and emotional turmoil.

Dmitri Shostakovich called her the "Queen of Russian Poetry". She remained a queen in the memory of those who knew her, a queen who survived great glory and the bitterness of humiliation, trampled down by the authorities and retaining her dignity. She lived a long life. The star of the Silver Age, she died on March 5, 1966 by a whim of fate on the day of Stalin's death.

Powerwolf - Live @ Adrenaline Stadium, Moscow 29.03.2019

Artemy Ulyanov works as a nurse in the morgue. And writes books. Which are published by the largest publishers.

How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily challenges the girl.

Documentary film about the forest fires in Siberia during the summer of 2019.

Weekdays in the office. In between work, employees spend time talking, smoking, doing gymnastics, and personal chores. But a new hobby of one of the employees makes the inner life of the office public.

An amazing portrait of an 84-year-old Leningrad blockade woman living in an apartment in Kronstadt, where she survived the blockade as a child. The film is not so much about the past as about the present. About the daily life of everyone's beloved grandmother Evgenia, who manages everything: to prepare a meal for the priests, to pray, to support a friend of her youth with a word… This is how strong, cheerful children of war live, they know how to love and be friends for 75 years, take care of their relatives and enjoy life, even remembering the terrible past.

The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narrative that introduces the viewer to today's Khabarovsk territory and its inhabitants. The characters of the film are people of different professions and Hobbies who live in different districts of the Khabarovsk territory, but are United by love for their land and a vision of the future connected only with it. Every day they contribute to the development of the region, sometimes without even knowing how significant.

A priest, a scientist and a witch talk about God, the meaning of life and death, each through the prism of their being. The leitmotif here is the image of an immortal jellyfish - it is beautiful, but as the completion of a dead-end branch of development, it seems completely meaningless.

September 26, 2018 would have turned 60 years old Ilya Kormiltsev - an outstanding poet, brilliant translator, prose writer, essayist, literary and musical critic, a multifaceted publisher, a person of the broadest culture - a personality not just bright and large, but legendary in his own way. Ilya Kormiltsev (1959-2007) is widely known as the main lyricist of the Sverdlovsk rock group Nautilus Pompilius. After his early death in the UK at the age of 47, several memoir documentaries were made about him. And now - fortunately, he predicted a lot - the first results of his life and cultural contribution are being summed up in the most unexpected directions. The authors of the picture will try to find a worldview vector that united these so different occupations, but which became the fate of our wonderful contemporary and compatriot.

According to official statistics in Russia, about 2 million adolescents aged 9 to 16 years suffer from alcohol and drug addiction. But in the whole country there is only one state rehabilitation center for teenagers aged 14-18. It is located in the Moscow region, and it has 30 seats. The film tells about the rehabilitation center for adolescents "Ariadne."

Young scientists are highly appreciated outside Russia. Western universities are hunting for them, seducing them with big money and good conditions. In this film, scientists will tell you why and for what they stay, what they dream about and what they think about the world around them.

Newsreels were one of the most powerful tools of Soviet propaganda. They also make up a significant part of the state film archives. In the newsreels, the recent past presents itself as a monolith of silent images, firmly stitched together by the narrator's voice and soundtrack subtly playing the viewer's feelings. It is exactly this original sound that the artist suggests to detach from. Just two or three minutes long episodes retain the original montage, which was meant to follow the upbeat narration. Flickering images of the past, which perhaps can only become enchanting to us today by revealing their muteness.

This movie is about love and hatred, about the fact that the racial-tribal division of mankind, the division between 'us' and 'them' as an animal-instinctive phenomenon, should disappear. It is about the conflict between conscience and duty, honor and a tragic situation, from which everyone is seeking a way out, except for ... the "village idiot' Halois, the childhood friend of Aitech ... And maybe only people like him know the truth, people who are above religious and racial prejudices? Maybe people like Halois are our conscience, honor and dignity?