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In the film, his daughter Aliki, artists A. Brusilovsky, O. Tselkov, I. Shelkovsky, art historians and museum staff tell about the legendary collector Gergia Kostaki. They argue with each other, put forward various versions of the vicissitudes of Kostaki's life and fate, and from fragmentary reflections of the facets of his difficult, and sometimes mysterious personality in the eyes of contemporaries, a portrait of a man who saved and preserved the art of the Avant-garde, which Russia is proud of today, is formed.

What happened to Ophelia two minutes before death? What did Lady Macbeth do in prison? What if Romeo had a girlfriend before Juliet? What if the heroes of various plays know each other?

Kresty is one of the oldest and largest prisons in Russia, located in the center of Saint Petersburg. The history of Kresty reflects the history of Russia. Throughout 130-year existence of the prison, thousands of people have passed through these walls: revolutionaries, engineers, generals, writers, poets, scientists, thieves, serial killers. The Kresty prison is society in a nutshell, where human vices as well as fortitude, freedom and dignity reveal themselves to the fullest.

Eva is a talented artist. However, she fails to break through the harsh world of cash. Sometimes there is not enough money even for brushes. She decides to do a new project - to create a galaxy of vulvas. To fulfill her desire, Eve needs models. All the girls posing for the artist are lonely, like the heroine of the film herself. And each has its own sad story ...

A documentary series about living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project participants are people from different countries who have different attitudes towards forced seclusion and are ready for a lively discussion. “When it's time to close at home, it's time to open up to the world,” is one of the series' slogans.

Journalist and producer Alexander Radov, too, probably would never have come out of the shadows if he hadn't been one of the first to be taken by the coronavirus. This talking name would have remained in the credits of several hundred issues of the program "More than Love" and other first-class documentaries. But what is she talking about? Why the shock of his sudden departure?

After the ecological catastrophe, only a small population of people survived, who built the "sterile world" underground. Only renegades who have committed crimes against the system live on the surface. What happens if one of them is allowed to return?

A vast, sun-scorched steppe on the border with Kazakhstan. Here, in the small village of Bursol near the lake of the same name, live people who risk their lives every day, and perform the hardest work, for the sake of one thing-the extraction of salt.

Russian-speaking Katja was born in 1992 in the Estonian city of Narva, not far from the Russian border. She represents the entire generation of the 1990s, which sees itself as a house with no address or railway tracks leading nowhere. In the ruins of the Soviet Union, she searches for her national identity and learns to breathe freedom.

The sixth episode of the joint project of the artist Sasha Svirsky and the composer Alexey Prosvirnin "Music videos for non-existent ensembles".

Experimental film from the almanac of classical music for children "Children's Album". It is dedicated to the constructivist period of Alexander Mosolov, as well as architecture and cinema of this direction and consists of three parts, with conditional names: 1. "Shadows", 2. "Movement", 3. "Volume". The structure of the film is visually and rhythmically close to constructivism.

Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway, this documentary details the current state of the Russian queer community - giving both broad societal overviews and deeply personal accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows Paul Rice and Liam Jackson Montgomery, a gay couple from Ireland, as they travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, meeting with a diverse range of LGBT+ people-from Nobel Peace prize nominees and drag queens to those who have suffered brutal homophobic and transphobic attacks.

A group of scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), led by Innokentiy Pavlov, with the support of residents of the Alaikhovsky ulus, in early June 2019, went to the northern tip of Kotelny Island of the Novosibirsk Islands archipelago in the Arctic. The goal is to extract fragments of a mammoth carcass in the intertidal zone of the Arctic Ocean.

Female circumcision is the name given to female genital mutilation. Female circumcision is practiced, including in the North Caucasus. There is no age limit; both an adult woman and a baby can trim the clitoris and labia. Most often girls 5-12 years old are circumcised. The authors spoke with women who were circumcised, found out where this mutilating rite came from and how it relates to Islam, and also answered the question of why the numerous victims are silent.

The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration and Shevardnadze, Pirosmani and Danelia, Balanchine and Andronikov.

A specific picture shot about the rap artist Chipinkos, who in this film his autobiography with various shots and ideas. He immerses you in his rap world, the picture differs from the standard cinema with its unusual shots and eerie black and white style. Voiceover throughout history about the difficulties of his life, about the world and people he met on the way...

A film about the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky in the 2018 elections. Anna Artemyeva, a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, spent a month at Yavlinsky's headquarters, accompanying him on his election trips. Much that the presidential candidate warned about then is coming true: the pension reform, the economic crisis, the change in the basic law, the irremovability of power ... In the 2018 elections, 77% of voters voted for Putin. For Yavlinsky - 1%. The film tells about the doomed attempt of a decent person to warn his country and fight for it in modern political realities.

An artist fakes suicide during a performance in order to learn what it's like to be dead.

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

Mark Sergienko on 2020: quarantine and the coronavirus pandemic, Belarus, amendments to the constitution and traditional values, meeting with my father, harassment and much more.

Once upon a time there was a bear that longed for a circus career. To pursuit his dream he leaves his job as a stuffed animal posing in a restaurant.

Time to wake up is an online documentary filmed during the period of coronavirus. It’s an almanac of stories that would not have appeared without quarantine. The crisis revealed two types of people: those who are waiting for instructions, and those who adapt to new conditions. The characters of the film, volunteers, street musicians, founders of charitable foundations, entrepreneurs and artists, find themselves in the same house, called the new reality. Pupils of the “Anton tut ryadom” center collectively practice vocals and dances through ZOOM so as not to become isolated again. The owner of the 3D printer company decides to produce protective shields for doctors, although it is almost impossible to certify these products. A twenty-year-old student teaches free digital professions to people with difficulties appeared during a crisis. Danish street musicians, without earnings, believe that the world broke a couple of eggs in order to find out what kind of omelette it will turn out.

The Great Patriotic War brought an unprecedented number of names to the pantheon of heroes – marshals and partisans, privates, children, and women. This war has become truly a people's war. Alexander Matrosov and Arkady Kamanin, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and Marat Kazei, Zina Portnova and Valya Kotik – their feat has forever remained in the memory of the people.

Tanya is 40 years old, has an adult daughter and a reliable husband, whose birthday it is today. That means, after work the whole family goes to a restaurant. Tanya’s plans are crossed by her first great love, Denis, who has suddenly arrived in Moscow for business. Tanya and Denis spend this day together, and for a while forget that they are no longer 20. This id different from all the other seldom meetings, because Denis puts Tanya before a choice: here is her stable life where there is a husband and a daughter, and there is a ticket to Berlin where they can go together and try to make up all the years they have missed out.

Winter, black and white city zero. There is a spy around every corner, a door ready to come for you, an invasion of your personal space in every movement. The hero runs through the stone city, running not only from the ubiquitous system, but also from himself in it. Its history is a fragment of the everyday life in which we do not even wonder what this is for the next check on the road and who unceremoniously enters our house.

The famous unknown comedian from Kazan Viktor Kopanitsa has collected the best jokes of his entire career in stand-up. At the beginning, Viktor jokes a little about different cities, makes fun of his status as an eternal opening act comedian and talks about his experience with Slava Komissarenko, Nurlan Saburov, Ruslan Belyy and other Russian stand-up stars. Then he tells the most proven jokes about his relationship with his wife, the army and childhood in the 90s.

Feature-length debut of Vyacheslav Ivanov.

A crime scene cleaner hired by a drug cartel is tasked with erasing the traces of a brutal massacre left in its wake.

About how animals, escaping from boredom, played football, and what came of it.

Siberian microsurgeon Vadim Keosyan has been returning lost hands and fingers to patients for twenty years. Such operations often take place at night, which is very exhausting for doctors. To warn people against an accident, Vadim starts a video blog. He films his surgeries, records interviews with patients, and reminds them about safety. One day, a difficult patient who has lost a hand is admitted to the hospital. He doesn't know how he's going to live, and he's not sure if the doctor will be able to save his arm this time.

The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots. Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes became film artists in order to try to understand what happened to their family in the last century and how to deal with this memory today.

The fifth episode of the joint project of the artist Sasha Svirsky and the composer Alexey Prosvirnin "Music videos for non-existent ensembles".

The action explores the surrealistic absurdist ritual called “Elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus”. This procedure, in my understanding, is a ceremony of an eccentric farce, with the intersection of modern form of religious worship and hierarchical animal behavior of primates.

Early 90s. The carefree youth of St. Petersburg of three friends, students from Abkhazia, abruptly ends with the news about the beginning of the war in their homeland. And now the guys are on the train, leaving behind their studies, their usual life, youth and everything that worried them yesterday.

Moscow protests in the summer of 2019, caused by the inadmissibility of independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma, were brutally dispersed by riot police and the Russian Guard. Peaceful protest actions on July 27 and August 3, which brought thousands of people outraged by the injustice to the central streets of Moscow, inspired and made many more courageous, despite the arrests and a large criminal trial called the "Moscow case". The persecution has mobilized new forces of solidarity among professional human rights defenders and grassroots activists, especially young ones. Supporting political prisoners has become a fashionable pastime. How long?

Cello player Edward returns to the stage after three years pause caused by his personal crisis and absolute desire not to perform anymore. He passed through the emotional frustration and the mental breakdown that followed. This is an important return to the audience and critics which mean a real challenge for him. Svetlana is in the concert hall and her presence doesn't allow him to leave. Edward dives deep into his memories as he plays the music. And it is filled with moments of deepest love and frustration... Edward dives into the darkest places of his mind. He was afraid to step into them for a long time and finally he is realising why he stopped performing.

Everything freezes and listens: residents, houses, ancient chestnuts - the old residents of these places. What news does the wind bring them through the waters of the mountain river?

Among the Indian elephants, the German service, calendars with kittens and Stalin - hundreds of little things. The true story is difficult to discern. Life, told over a cup of tea, is like a mosaic coming together in the terrible history of the country. A country saturated with a cult of personality and rejection of memory. Volunteers of the Gulag History Museum go to witnesses and victims of the Stalinist repressions in order to reassemble the evidence of the time and understand something about themselves.

Ilya Sobolev's stand-up concert. Revelations about parents, family and children. Family is pain, in short.

The third solo concert of Russian comedian Alexander Dolgopolov, filmed in Tel Aviv.

Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?

Roma is 6 years old. His parents are about to divorce. After being asked if he want to stay with mom or dad, Roma becomes silent. His inner feelings that very much remind of swings, Roma expresses in his drawings. The upcoming catastrophe can be easily seen. Will his parents be able to face it?

In January 1989, the Soviet army conducted its last military operation in Afghanistan and began the final withdrawal of troops from this country. Officially, the troops of the USSR completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid-February. Over the ten years of the war, more than 15 thousand Soviet troops died in it. The film of the journalist Katerina Gordeeva “Afghanistan. Man (not) returned from the war ”- the story of those who managed to survive, but could not stop fighting - now in their own country.

An essay about a guy Andrei, aka Vosman, Vosmorych, who lives on the eighth floor of a panel house in a residential area of Moscow. The film is an attempt to portray the complexity of socialization, purposelessness of existence and grassroots urban culture.

A story about a man-legend, soldier of fortune, about the "mad" hero of Constantine Masaleva. A born warrior. About the fighter of the most terrible and ruthless division of the first Chechen war known as the"Mad company". This is a film about a deadly drug called war, about life after the war and PTSD. About love for Russia. And the strange, sometimes cruel" love " of Russia for its soldiers.

Belarus is the only country in Europe where there is still a compulsory assignment of students studying at the expense of the state budget. The best graduates of the country who have passed a large competition for admission and who have earned the right to study for free with their knowledge are sent to places where no one else agrees to work due to difficult working conditions and lack of infrastructure.

The concert of Alexander Dolgopolov, shot in March 2020 in Kyiv. An hour and a half of jokes about traveling around Europe, relationships, guests and putin.

A young woman is going to spend 6 hours underground to face her main fear. She asks her sister to help her bury herself.

House at the edge of the forest. A family where everyone is alone in their own way. Cold mom and faceless dad, resentment and love for each of them. The transparent person approaches, the crack in the ground widens.

The film consists of fragments ("notes") from the life of a girl with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Short film for the Action! 2020

Minsk Komarovsky market is the main food market in Belarus. People call it “Komarovka”. It organically coexists people of all ages, backgrounds and characters. While for some the market has become a second home, others continue to dream of more.

Chronicle of the life of shift workers in a mining pit in Eastern Siberia. Workers spend a significant part of their lives away from home and loved ones, doing physical labor for 12 hours a day for the only decent income in their region.