A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to himself.
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A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to himself.
Luna and Grandpa Shnyuk decorate the web. Luna goes outside, where she meets Vupsen and Pupsen. They report that they are decorating a Christmas tree for the New Year. Friends are running into the forest.
The film is dedicated to the history of the execution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
1945. The War has ended. Alyosha is coming home, expecting tenderness and kindness of his beloved wife, Lyba, and his children. But many things have changed. Except one - his wife still extremely loves him. But would he accept that love? Based on a A. Platonov novel.
ACA 191: Tumenov vs. Cruz was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, September 5, 2025 at the Basket Hall in Krasnodar, Russia.
In five European cities: Helsinki, Rome, Budapest, Brussels and Moscow, five directors made a film about the place in which they live. The director of the Moscow series Vitaly Mansky lives in the house where the great documentary filmmaker Dziga Vertov used to live. What Vertov saw in his windows and what a modern director sees today.
From the project "Russian classics for children". A film about the world of children's fantasies, fears and fictions based on the story of Boris Zhitkov about how children made a dog out of a piece of fur.
The protagonist of the story is a workaholic taxi driver who has no one dearer than the voice navigator "Alice". That and support, and joke, and the route prompts, and the song will pick up on the occasion of the anniversary of dating.
Evgeny is a specialist in lockpicking and safe-cracking. For the last ten years he has spent his spare time trying to pick one stubborn lock that hasn’t surrendered to him yet. Andrei works at a bank and seizes real estate from people to cover their debts. In his spare time he reflects on whether or not he lives according to God’s law. Every once in a while the men are brought together by joint work, where each diligently performs his duties.But with every new mission the work grows more personal, and the self-doubt grows ever greater…
In order to put an end to dissent at once, the Soviet secret services organized this show trial. Viktor Krasin and Petr Yakir were convicted of participating in subversive propaganda against the USSR. The liberal opposition was temporarily demoralized. It was forty years ago, but it seems that it will be tomorrow.
Once Vlad discovers a strange object in the lining of his coat, he immediately decides that the insidious damage is to blame for all his recent failures. Trying to dissuade Vlad, his girlfriend Sasha turns their supernatural problems into real ones. The film explores a young couple's attempt to mend their lives and rebuild a dying relationship through flirting with religious esoteric themes. Is it possible to successfully convince yourself that your problems will be solved through a mystical ritual or will you still have to face reality?
One day in the life of a Georgian family in Russia.
Autumn, 1968. Nadia, a young woman with strict views on life, a methodologist at the regional House of Culture, goes to the cinema with her friend Sasha. The premiere of the film "Three Poplars on Ivy" took place in their city. Suddenly it turns out that there are no tickets, and you can only buy one with your hands.
The first love of the young heroine of the film remains unrequited. An adult married man, a friend of her parents, does not believe that he has the right to respond to this feeling. They will meet in a few years other people — and broke out with a new force of love will turn their lives. They do not yet know that they will be separated again. However, their souls are destined to stay together forever…
A gloomy tale or a completely innocent family picnic on the open air ...
A Russian plane makes an emergency landing at an airport in the middle of the steppes. Shortly after, one of the passengers, carrying a valuable cargo in his cabin bag, is found dead.
The melodramatic life story of the modern urban intelligentsia. 45 seconds is exactly that short time during which the life of the heroes of the picture has changed. The main character, Tatyana Chernigova, is a successful business woman, a former fearless climber, and she is experiencing a difficult family drama: unsuccessful attempts to have a baby. The trouble does not come alone, and against the background of the heroine’s psychological experiences, a criminal detective tragedy is played out, according to witnesses and participants, she becomes the culprit ...
“Teenage Rain” is a film-moment, a film-mood. One ordinary morning, a lonely man suddenly experiences a draft in his apartment, which brings back a disturbing memory for the hero... This is a short, touching story about the relationship between family members.
Kostya, a young boy, falls ill with tuberculosis and is sent to a sanatorium. Here he'll have to learn about friendship and injustice, while also learning a lot about the world and himself.
A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.
The whole universe of characters Maximov, showing in this case the skills and talents they possess in their snouts.
Japanese folk tale about a boy-orphan, that convinces an emperor, that topmost in life is beauty of nature.
German shepherd named Brutus got into concentration camp and turned from a harmless pet into a killer.
The story of correspondence between old couple.
Coming back home Max is drawn into the kaleidoscope of events that leads him to the controversial solution.
This is a story about natural coincidence, the battle against time and overcoming the self for the sake of common good. In this black comedy everyone will recognise themselves.
Childhood memories play on the mind of the central character, Garry. Many years on, he returns to his native town. Everything feels alien and strange. Our hero comes back to recover his memories, the good ones and the bad ones, the pleasant ones and the painful ones. Will the old fortune-teller Nina, a well-known dream gatherer in the city, be able to set an already grownup man free of the chains of the past which had become unbearable by that time? Or will our hero, Garry alleviate her life by discovering his freedom?
The violent actions of the authorities did not stop the protests. The film "War" by Daria Demur, Ekaterina Ignashevich, Daria Gerasimenko and Maksia Pakhomov is about the street confrontation between demonstrators and the police.
Near the walls of the Kremlin, a real duel unfolds between two former friends over a girl of exceptional beauty and supernatural powers named Olesya.... But who is Olesya?... a 16-year-old feeble-minded girl, the week-long wife, a blessed fool with superpowers, able to light up lamps and electrocute in the bedroom. She is a literary character living in 21st century Moscow, unaware of her own beauty and power. For the two young and rich playboys, Olesya's 'spicy make-up' takes on a whole new meaning. But what can this pretentious duel change in an iPhone-world full of infidelity, vanity, and cruelty?
Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the adventures begin...
After her father’s death, the daughter of one of the forefathers of modern Russian democracy, Ksenia Sobchak, tries to understand the 18 years of his political fate. Together with the director Vera Krichevskaya she gives the word to Anatoli Sobchak’s colleagues and opponents, gets acquainted with the criminal case which annulled his career, and tries to find an answer to the question what Anatoly Sobchak’s fate would be in today’s Russia.
A young girl Kseniya becomes a nurse in the Russian Army during the WWI.
The story of how the cheating raven was repaid in the same coin, and he suffered from his own greed.
On the coast of the Arctic Ocean of Chukotka live people cut off from the world. Their life revolves around hunting walruses and whales and protecting villages from bears coming from the tundra. This turns the film into a reflection on death. Marine animals become the food of people, animal leftovers are used to feed arctic foxes on a fur farm, human cemeteries become prey for bears. It seems that all the inhabitants of these places are involved in the cycle of food and death. The film departs from the usual rhythmic structure of cinema, being built on the principle of a shamanic ritual, a meaning-forming event for northern peoples.
The film is about a man whose works and the name itself have been under a strict ban for a long time. Ivan Solonevich is a Russian thinker, politician, writer, publicist and at the same time an outstanding athlete, vice-champion of the Russian Empire, one of the creators of the Sambo wrestling. All the activities of Solonevich, all his energy were directed to the fight against the inhuman system of power that arose in Russia after 1917.
Cold autumn of 1942. Second year of war. Former Molotov city, which was renamed after the war to Perm. The Leningrad Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Kirov is evacuated here and in the process of tense preparations for the premiere of the Gayane ballet. In 8 hours Khachaturian writes the most performed creation…
The story of the growing-up of a teenager unfolds against the background of a town lost in the steppe. A little, scared man can become big when he can understand and forgive the enemy.
In a world on the verge of destruction, ordinary family life begins to seem like a utopia. A utopia that can only be experienced in fantasy.
The Caspian Sea washes the shores of five countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenia, Iran and Azerbaijan. So the history of this largest lake in the world has always been intertwined with the history of the people living on its shores. These days, there is a ferry crossing the sea, which is the main setting for Denis Shabanov's documentary Caspian Hub. It is on this ferry that we meet our protagonists, learn their stories and dreams. The camera follows what is going on in their personal lives, their search for happiness against a backdrop of the primordial elements, combining narrative film and documentary elements to show the internal polyphony of individual human stories, with the powerful forces of nature as the backdrop. After all, it is this primordial power that contrasts so aptly with the transience of human life.
Siberian bus driver Tamara sets about introducing her teenage son Max to the colleague she has been dating for a while. But when all three meet in a jolly karaoke bar, the rivalry between the two men she loves releases her from clutching at old hopes.
A drama about a life of ordinary people in a small mining town.
Dmitry is a strong willed, solid guy. He could easily quit the game, if only he knew he was playing.
The film is a unique tribute of the director to his master. The space is empty, in the sense, there are no people there, but the items live their peculiar life until the rooster cries out. And that is be the rooster Parajanov made, God knows of what kind of improvised material at hand. It feels like the wind is a night walker here and it turns over the pages of the books. Glass breaking can be heard. The good thing is there are enough collages made of phials and luxurious tableware set fragments. The dolls sit on the frames, letting their legs hang, just like they do in daytime, but something mystical, something fateful appears in them. And Parajanov is close, built-into some other life, in epaulets or even with the people of past epochs. The lamps are switched on, even the oil stoves – everything is the way Parajanov liked. But then it is daybreak already, the rooms are filled with sunlight, and everything changes.
Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to his previous life are broken. In this new life blind Zuev encounters an exceptional woman capable of seeing more than other people. Her name sounds symbolic – Nadezhda (translates as 'hope' into English) and she works at the local hospital. Nadezhda will help Zuev find his strength and a new sense of existing. These equally strong but otherwise different people spend together what, perhaps, will be the best days of their lives; but everything has an ending.
A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.
An Afghan war veteran reluctantly agrees to lead a caravan smuggling drugs and guns across the desert after his estranged son is abducted.
Director Eduard suffers from prolonged depression. The devil Filimon comes to his aid. The encounter allows the characters to look at their lives from a different perspective. There is always a way out; the important thing is to try to find it.
The family decides to dig a well in the courtyard of their house. After several days of work, it turns out that there is a huge stone lying at a depth of several meters... The director was a volunteer at the VKSR.
A documentary film dedicated to Alexei Balabanov and his latest film "I also want to".
The odyssey of two brothers aged nine and eleven: house entrances in Strogino, the motherís apartment, a boarding school, a gipsy camp and gloomy homecomings. Dramatic adventures, as in every road movie, teach the protagonists a lot about the world, and for the first time they are pushed off into loneliness and treachery.
Rimsky-Korsakov lavished a gorgeous score on this rustic tale of love and the supernatural. This acclaimed 2008 production by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre marks the opera’s first appearance on DVD. The company’s brilliant staging is modern in its dramatic intensity yet firmly rooted in the traditional heart of the work.
A lonely man lives with his pet on a small island and longed to get to 'other people.'
Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled throughout 30 countries to make a route of ivory smuggling and to find out the true culprit of these crimes against elephants.
Andrey Beburishvili's solo concert "The Age of Condemnation". About parents, sex, shame, separation, friends, sports and the poem "Mtsyri".