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The artist creates her kokoshniks, associating each new work with periods of her life. First love, teenage drama. After a breakup, you hit rock bottom, lead a destructive lifestyle, accumulate strength, push off and become an adult.

When no one is waiting for you.

Fourteen-year-old Egor, having moved with his mother from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad, begins a new life: another educational institution - the Kaliningrad Nakhimov School, new acquaintances, new friends, new circumstances and concerns... He immediately decides to gain authority and introduces himself as the brother of the legendary Nakhimov students Loginov. And the plan works at first - popularity allows him to become the star of the class.

The film gives voice to porcelain figurines struggling to survive in a world obsessed with perfection. Some never passed quality control, others were chosen but faced unexpected challenges at the hands of their owners. Through confessional monologues, they share their stories - absurd, tragic and surprisingly familiar. Mixing irony with existential musings, the film shows how, in a world where beauty is becoming disposable, the pressure to live up to the ideal only accelerates its own destruction.

In the North people call winter roads the “roads of life”. Even today there are many settlements and villages where foodstuffs and fuel can be delivered only in winter. For mining companies working in inaccessible locations, winter is the only time when large equipment can be delivered.

Short film by Yulia Borisova.

Mikhail, who abandoned his wife and daughter in his youth, restores their trust step by step by the age of 50. But after learning about a fatal diagnosis, he decides to leave his family for the second time - on the eve of his daughter's wedding.

Although set in the southern Netherlands and Belgium, the story draws from murders that began in Moscow Oblast, Russia, in 2014. Fedorov, a young man of Russian descent orphaned and raised by his uncle, graduated from a technical university near The Hague but, afflicted by worsening somatic symptoms, failed to secure work. Returning to Russia under sanctions seemed impossible. He wandered the streets, smoking cannabis and throwing stones at drunks. Within this self-made prison he met Helena, a Flemish girl, on an online forum. She lured him into smuggling soap and chemicals to the black market in Liège. The next month he met Helena and two female accomplices at Liège-Guillemins Station. Yet at their suburban hideout—an abandoned factory—he was forced into his first murder and dismemberment. Only then did he realise he had entered their abyss of crime, irrevocably damned. Where will their fates turn in the next manipulative, large-scale ensemble sequence?

ACA 193: Kerimov vs. Selimkhanov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at the Sport Hall Colosseum in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.

The Russian NGO Memorial was founded with the aim of examining human rights abuses committed during the Stalinist period. In the course of a show trial carried out in 2021 in Russia, the organisation was "liquidated". This is the chronicle of its dissolution.

Denis Bokuradze, director of the Gran chamber theatre from the provincial Volga city of Novokuibyshevsk, is eagerly awaiting the opening of the new stage. For the city of chemists and oil workers, this will be the first real city theatre in its history – Novokuibyshevsk has never had its own theatre building before. Construction takes up all the director’s free time from work on performances, distracting him from rehearsals, taking away his health and attention. Not everything is going smoothly: the builders are missing deadlines and at some point it seems that the construction may stop altogether. The director is trying with all his might to prevent this. At the same time, he is releasing a premiere, preparing for new productions and solving a host of everyday, organizational and creative problems that arise daily in the team and make up the life of a chamber theatre…

Four high school graduates meet for the first time after the death of their poet friend Sonya. They wander through an empty summer town, trying to reconnect and become closer to each other. A day, split by the past, turns into an apocalyptic mystery at night, where Sonya's elusive presence becomes increasingly tangible.

On his last night, Rat decides to go to his friend’s closed bar to try, glass after glass, to find meaning with his last strength before dawn.

Three regulars at a village store seek love and understanding in conversations with a dog.

Kristina, unable to bear her husband's constant abuse, made a tragic mistake at the cost of 10 years of freedom by killing him. After being released on parole, she ends up in the "Nechuzhie" center, which helps women who have served time for killing their husbands. Will Kristina be able to start a new life without looking back at her past mistakes and become a full-fledged member of society?

With the pulsating rhythm of its wheels, the train hurtles into the unknown. A lone passenger unexpectedly encounters a mysterious cat with a suitcase, and strange things begin to happen.

The “secret [mis]communication system 2” is a part of a diptych that emerged at the intersection of musical systems and military technology. “Secret Communication System” is a patent by composer George Antheil and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, registration № US 2292387 This technology is based on the transmission of information by random radio frequencies with the principle of a mechanical piano. The musical composition “Signal” is an homage to “Signal System” series painted by Yuri Zlotnikov (based on the study of an impact of a painting on a person). Composer Fedor Vetkalov recorded “Signal” with Virtual ANS — a digital replica of the photoelectronic optical synthesizer ANS by military engineer Yevgeny Murzin.

This is a film about a director's workshop, which was led by People's Artist of the Russian Federation, director-producer Sergey Snezhkin and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, actress Margarita Bychkova. The film was shot by one of the students of this workshop and tells about the same students who studied directing and acting for five years and dreamed of a long and happy life in art, not yet realizing that on the path to a director's career there are no rules and guarantees, and after training the struggle for happiness will only begin...

Saturated by the mystical dystopic musical epic of Alexander Popov "Dren Iz Vineniy". It was based on a powerful crypton-bander experimenters from the notorious band "Won James Won".

The young poet Aleksandr Pushkin, finding himself in exile in a boring village, suddenly finds himself in a whirlpool of incredible adventures.

A young man named Ruslan, disillusioned with people, love, and his profession, and deeply in debt, flees the country. However, at the airport, he meets the girl he once loved, Diana. The young couple embark on a search for a mysterious artifact-the fifth arrowhead, which must be returned to the magical Stone of the Batyrs before the lunar eclipse.

Masha tries to hide her mother's disappearance from her younger brother. Trying to maintain her usual way of life, the girl goes to work on the highway, while the boy accidentally finds an unknown phone at home, which again gives the children hope for their mother's return.

Anya, a young girl from Beirut, comes to Russia to study to become a director. As her coursework, she decides to make a film about love, but faces a problem - she doesn't know what it is. Anya has to conduct her own investigation and look inside herself to find the answer to the eternal question.

Choir girl Sakhaya lost her voice after being struck by lightning. Her sister Alisa is offered a job at a bird biostation, but she does not want to leave her sister. The choir conductor sends the sisters to perform at a distant Youth Theater. Alisa and Sakhaya set off on their last childhood journey before parting.

Today, the world is facing a new challenge — the militarization of outer space. All communications and most weapons are provided and controlled from space. Military and dual—use satellites are a strategically important part of the modern confrontation, without which victory is unthinkable either on the battlefield or in the political arena. Currently, new players are increasingly claiming a military presence in space.

July 2024 — Summer vacation.

When Arkasha's mother suddenly disappears, his dad acts strangely, and his worries grow. After seeing the secret code “WTYM,” he becomes convinced it means "We Took Your Mum." With his friend Lina, the sensitive eight-year-old begins a bold investigation, following clues and sneaking into unfamiliar places to “rescue” his mom. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he must face a difficult kind of goodbye.

A dancer in a static pose on the screen. Is there movement? It seems not. But the film of the movie camera is moving, filming the dancer. Electrons are running, pixels of the digital matrix are changing. Does this mean that movement is happening? The dancer's body comes to life within the frame set by the cameraman. How does this frame and the dancer's choreography interact? Should the frame obey the laws of choreography or exist in counterpoint with it? Or, perhaps, should it freeze, allowing the dancer to create his own pattern within the frame? The dancer makes his body move according to the laws of choreography. But at the same time, his nature determines how the body will exist within this choreography. After all, nature created the plasticity of the body outside of choreographies and directorial tasks. So what is more interesting to watch? What is the real beauty - in an artificial, memorized choreographic movement or in a natural, random gesture?

The documentary is dedicated to the feat of the crew of the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, which in 1962 played an important role in resolving the Caribbean crisis. The Leninsky Komsomol made a unique crossing, conquering the ice of the Arctic Ocean, and for the first time in the history of the Soviet submarine fleet surfaced in the immediate vicinity of the North Pole. The heroic submarine was restored and became a museum. An excursion with the participation of members of the famous crew awaits the audience. Their stories are illustrated with fragments from the feature film "The North Pole" directed by Alexander Kott. Going back 60 years ago, it seems incredible that such a thing was possible, given the technical level of the ship itself. A detailed story about the feat of the submarine crew, thanks to whose heroism a nuclear catastrophe was prevented.

The magic rain washed away and mixed all the shadows, and now they are in no hurry to return to their owners.

Two elderly men are sitting in a dining room and chatting about everything. They don't even notice how the dining room has already closed. And in the empty room they find peace and a little happiness.

The life story of Ekaterina Furtseva, the first and only woman to serve as Minister of Culture of the USSR.

A story about primeval forests - a world of subtle connections that have been formed for thousands of years. Cedars, spruces, firs grow here, and on the European continent, such forests have survived only in the north of Russia.

Since 2014, many churches have been damaged in Donbass, as well as in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, some have been completely destroyed. But despite the damage and the danger of shelling, services are still being held in some churches today. The documentary by Ekaterina Arkalova tells the story of the restoration of damaged churches, the invincible spirit of Orthodoxy, and the power of human faith and the desire to revive life. The film is based on the stories of churches and people from Avdiivka, Severodonetsk, shelled areas of Donetsk, Svetlodarsk, the village of Kirovo, Belaya Gora, Nikolsky Monastery near Ugledar, as well as stories from soldiers, civilian priests and volunteers of the Maksym Krivonos detachment.

"Listen!" is a hunt for sounds and meanings. In four episodes from four different regions, we will see how modern ethnic music is born, from the concept to the final track, and try to understand why we listen with such awe to music that features the voices of our ancestors?

An elderly man returns to the places of his happy childhood, though they have long since been reduced to ruins. The past cannot be reclaimed, but memory clings to what remains most precious.

Bringing order to a village is a task with an asterisk. Rafimir has just taken up the post of head of a rural settlement in Bashkortostan, and is already forced to answer a hundred calls a minute from worried citizens. Literally everything needs to be fixed, but the budget is not enough. What to do? Rafimir decides to participate in the "Sober Village" competition, which has been held in the republic since 2011.

This film was shot in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in March 2022—during the first month of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which continues until today. It ponders the silences and small acts of resistance by anti-war individuals at a time when mass protest fails and mass migration begins, when the state introduces military censorship, and the full-scale war is not experienced directly.

After long wanderings and the loss of his loved ones, Golovar secretly returns to his hometown. However, enemies and rivals are seeking to destroy this once respected and influential figure. All forces are deployed on both sides, and only one right move can prevent a bloodbath that will never end.

Inside the walls of Dom Radio (House of Radio), a protagonist paves her way through multiple periods in the history of the building, meeting ghosts of the past. Difficult circumstances and severe times force people to change their behavior and appearance—yet even after these alterations, people remain themselves.

Through massive wooden crates inscribed with strange hieroglyphs, the filmmakers lead the viewer into ΚΟΙΝΟΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΣ: a fluid space where history, mythology, and play converge. Here, boundaries dissolve into permeable membranes, allowing fact and fiction, the inner and the outer, the past and the future, the living and the inanimate to exchange forms, meanings, and roles.

The story of the legendary polar expedition of Georgy Sedov

A film about the history of the Volga village of Krasnovidovo, where Empress Catherine I, the great writer Maxim Gorky and the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin left their traces.

The head engineer of a small maintenance shop located in a former bomb shelter must absolutely go to see his pregnant wife in a maternity home but a young trainee has accidentally blocked the only way out.

The dacha is a religion. The dacha is an art. The dacha is a kind of time machine, once you get into it, you return to the most carefree moments of life. In its depths you can find real artifacts: from the magazine "Youth" to vintage clothes from all corners of the planet. What makes up the amazing dacha world? And why is it so important?

Unpopular introvert blogger Yesenia goes to a children's camp at her mother's insistence. Here she is faced with absurd rules and a strict regime. Acquaintance with the hyperactive Sanka and friendship with Karina and Vadik push the girl to fight the system. Together with her new friends, Yesenia decides to resist the oppressive rules of their tutor and director.

A story about the inhabitants of the small Taimyr village of reindeer herders Novy Popigai, who belong to the small endangered northern Dolgan people.

All the resources of the Earth are exhausted. The astronauts were replaced by forwarders who deliver raw materials from distant star systems. After several trips to other planets, the assistant forwarder Gleb realizes that they are engaged in ordinary robbery. To save his mother's life and his love, Gleb has to help the young civilization of the planet Quarry 17.

The extraordinary heaviness of the existence of an ordinary tea bag.

A detective beetle is about to take on the biggest case of his career: he wants to unravel the cause of a man's death! He enters a decomposing body and begins his investigation, but to no avail. The victim's body is in terrible condition due to her unhealthy lifestyle. Which vice led to the man's death?