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A documentary journey-essay about memory and home. The film's director Daria Likhaya returns to her childhood home and her trip is followed by veracious stories. A spotted dress, a KAMAZ left in a courtyard, a woman's face in the window—every detail becomes a source of memories. The impressions of strangers are intertwined and mixed, the border between the virtual and the real becomes blurred.
An episode from the almanac "Poets of the Silver Age for children". Based on a poem by Valery Bryusov. When we fall asleep, magical worlds let us in and rush to reveal their secrets. With the dawn, everything disappears.
Nikita Yefimov brings his camera into a Russian high-security detention centre. The head of the penitentiary department offers to personally enact moments from prison life to control its image.
A young woman gets a job as a maid in a weird family's house. Their dysfunctional dynamics unfold as she tries to help them.
He wakes her up in the mornings and brings her coffee to bed. She does not notice his embarrassment and takes his efforts for granted. Trying to find answers to his questions he turns to strangers though an open-hearted talk with her would be sufficient. He wants to live with her as a man. They are brother and sister.
Two single boys - an intellectual from a middle-income family and a courtyard kid dreaming of his own smartphone - unexpectedly become friends when the first enlists the support of the second to return the violin from the hooligans who took it away. In this story of growing up, there was a place for class conflict, and action with chases and fights, and reflections on the importance of being human, supported by the impressive performance of young actors.
On December 23, 2020, the smelting shop in the village of Nickel carried out the last melting and was stopped forever. The workshop began to be built back in the 30s, when this territory belonged to Finland, and the village was then called Kolosjoki. At the end of World War II, when the territory was ceded to the Soviet Union, the destroyed plant was restored, and the village was named Nickel. It is located west of Murmansk, a few kilometers from the border with Norway. In the 80s, the plant emitted about 400 thousand tons of sulfur dioxide into the air per year, and in 1990 an environmental campaign was even launched in Norway “Stop the Soviet clouds of death”" The Norilsk Nickel company, which was transferred to the Nickel mining and metallurgical plant in the 90s, initially agreed with Norway on the modernization of enterprises on the Kola Peninsula, but then abandoned the program.
SEDATED is an experimental rave film by Ampersand duo, Russia. The film consists of documentary and feature shots, insta videos, and CG. A club night is retrospected through a three-channel video installation. A young couple agrees to film each other during the party. There is the only rule—persistent following without distracting the present. Characters are surrounded by horrors in the night and the following morning turns into post-apocalypse.
Former rescuers organize an extreme expedition called "Find a Fallen Star" to feel the high of their work again and share it with friends.
A documentary-animated fairy tale about the painful relationship between a mother and daughter.
The film "Don't Be Afraid" tells about the struggle of the Belarusian people for fair elections. The fates of people who responded to the call of blogger Sergei Tikhonovsky and who took part in the 2020 presidential campaign are shown.
Khetag Khugaev about popularity in social networks and ambitions, an apartment in Moscow, savings, rich old age, male pastime and female solidarity.
A member of the special police force is sent to cease a criminal. On his way he recalls how a day earlier he and his colleagues enforced order at a protest demonstration, arrested people, used bludgeons. On arrival it turns out that the «criminal» is a young opposition blogger. And the only person who has risen to his defense is his younger brother.
A study based on the painting by Joan Miro "Le Port" and a poem by the film director. One of the family members, leading a carefree lifestyle, one day notices that someone else began to live with them…
Yulia is not yet 20, but for several years she has been left to her own devices. Alcohol and night parties become the only option sometimes to forget about responsibility and completely surrender to the elusive youth.
Based on letters, diaries and archival documents, the participants of the film reveal step by step the life of Marina Tsvetaeva from 1917 to 1922.
From behind the trees comes the alarmed cry of a bird, moss rustles underfoot, and the sky, with the cosmos beyond, is reflected darkly in the black bogs. Scientist Konstantin Yakovlevich Kazakov is 87 years old, and he knows that there’s no better place on earth than the swamp.
Short story about guy with horns
Earth is undergoing abnormal climate warming. In order to protect it's biosphere, scientists are creating a race of humanoid temperature controllers. Some of them disagree with assigned mission. Scientists find a way out: perform a brain transplantation. Finally, Earth climate has restored but the humanoid race is spiraling out of control.
A student of the sociological direction Slava can not choose a topic for a graduation project in any way. The thesis supervisor recommends reading one little-known old book. Slava agrees and does not even suspect that his attempts to find the book will turn into a real treasure-hunting adventure.
Today, corporations are fighting for you. They will improve the quality of life. But they will collect data about each step and make decisions for you. What do you eat for dinner? What will you watch tonight? What will you do tomorrow? This will be decided by the ecosystem.
The heroes of this story are residents of the village of Purnema, located on the shore of the White Sea. The events of their lives take place in the rhythm of the sea: the tides change, and nothing can change this order of things.
The Italian island of Sardinia is a pearl of the Mediterranean with a magnificent nature and ancient history. For more than five thousand years, different peoples, cultures and religions have existed on it. Now there are three Russian Orthodox parishes on the island. This film will tell about the spiritual pastors and believers of Orthodox Sardinia.
A collective image of one day of life in the "red zone" of a covid hospital, where doctors and patients are fighting COVID-19.
It is based on a poem about a modern Kolobok from the comic book "Sonya-9" by poet Alexey Oleynikov and artist Timofey Yarzhombek. "Kolobok" is simultaneously a clip, a comic book adaptation, a video sequence for rap opera and karaoke.
A teenage girl runs into unknown creatures beside the abandoned car in the night forest.
A film about the dedication of doctors in different parts of Russia, who were the first to begin the fight against COVID-19.
New animated film by students of the Studio Shar.
On the last in Russia narrow-gauge railway (UZhD), the felled timber is taken out. Together with the felled forest, the villages located nearby also perish. The void from the felling that has taken over everything around is getting closer and closer to the village where the heroes of the film live.
This is a story about animals that live in a forest where it rains endlessly. They are wet and ill. But here's the riddle... Animals constantly hear a voice from heaven: "The world is beautiful!" By chance, a little gopher reveals the secret of a mysterious voice and finds salvation from the eternal rain.
Igor lives with his friends on the streets of a gloomy city. They drink vodka and fight, coming into conflict with the residents of nearby buildings. One day Igor learns that his father has died, and returns to his family home.
Forty-year-old Olya is a doctor with an ambulance crew. For a long time her life has been lacking in drama. But then comes the pandemic. It brings new anxiety, new risks, new worries about her sick colleagues, and it also brings… love.
Nikita is 25 years old and has a rare genetic condition that makes his skin very fragile and untreatable. Such people are usually called "butterflies". Together with his girlfriend Leroy, they are looking for a way to stop the development of the disease and get acquainted with famous scientists Alla and Vadim Zorin, who agree to conduct an experimental treatment.
Blurry figures multiply in the darkness, an otherworldly light breaks through melting textures, a monkey stares intently at something outside the frame, and disturbing landscapes are buried in digital noise. Yeah might be the most ominous work in the retrospective.
Gifted girl Darina, who lives out in the sticks on the island of Sakhalin wants to move to Moscow. She longs for love and recognition, but so far she can’t even find a job. Parents believe that their 40-year-old daughter has her head in the clouds, but Darina pays no attention.The island girl brightens up her routine with a unique vision of beauty and an active social networking, while she continues to stay in her personal Wonderland.
Kirill Sietlov's solo concert, recorded in St. Petersburg at the STAGE club on October 17, 2020.
Purely by accident the younger brother learns about his elder brother’s nonstandard sexual orientation.
Short film to the music of Los Havtanos
1919, fragments of the Qing Empire. A young Red Army soldier leads a Tuvan arat into the city to be shot because he helped a small detachment of Cossacks escape from encirclement. But a seemingly simple task does not go according to plan and along the way the heroes have to go through many tests.
Based on a German fairy tale about how two wizards - benevolent and sullen - made a bet: which of them will be able to make the same person happy or unhappy faster.
This film is about the love story of the blogger Dan Virlan.
Olga Gracheva decided overnight to radically change her life. In the past, an accountant, now she is an international Master of Sports in powerlifting.
A blinding police floodlight shines, similar to the beam of light flickering on and off from the camera. as an unwelcome witness, the lens observes the city streets from a single vantage point - a window of a passing car. breaking the night and the privacy, the film unrolls an epic image of new york on the verge. the city’s nightlife is revealed in fragments, following lonely dwellers, wandering in masks, hurrying away, and escaping under the cover of the sky until it “breaks and clouds fall”.
In the mid-90s, three business partners gather in a commune, buy up land in the Moscow region and build three houses on one plot. What will become of this place and its inhabitants after 25 years?
By the beginning of the war in Chechnya, the legendary Major Izmailov worked in the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Zhukovsky. Having buried the first conscript who died during the storming of Grozny, he refused to send 18-year-old children to death and went to Chechnya himself to take out the prisoners. And he freed at least 174 people. The film uses a rare chronicle of the Chechen wars from the private archives of mothers who were looking for their sons in Chechnya, as well as negotiating officers from the working group on the exchange of prisoners. For the first time, the heroes of the film tell in detail what they had to go to to free people from captivity on both sides.
When life turns unbearably miserable, a lonely old man takes part in a medical experiment, reviving a long-forgotten story of his love.
The main character is an aspiring actress. Her sensible self-reflection on camera, in conversations with a friend and with a psychologist reveals painful personal trauma as an endless material for life and creativity, from which she can’t get out. The typical problem of a girl who ran away to the capital, a stranger in her native family, is uncover in a fragile chamber story with a blurred border between the haunting past, roles in the theater and everyday life.
The robot as a dancer does not interfere with anything – even wrenches instead of legs.
Interpersonal relationships between a man and a woman, the outcome of which is decided by a coin and " Russian roulette"
The security guard of the registry office is a real romantic who believes in love, but one day the wedding palace turns into a cave of divorces.
Three friends encounter demonic entities in a country house. Experimental horror film.
