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Collages from the chronicles of warships.

Shoemaker Babayev's stall will soon be liquidated, according to a statement from the city's beautification committee. Only the oriental mantras of the poet Nizami can save the shoemaker.

Writer Mikhail Prishvin kept a secret diary for almost 50 years, from 1905 to 1954. This is a unique chronicle of the life of the country, evidence of the most complex relations between the state and a person trying to understand his time. The film tells about Prishvin's trip to the White Sea Canal and an attempt to write an honest book about this construction site.

This film about the process of technical discovery, insight, and the "theory of the internal explosion" of man is based on the real facts and events of 1988 in the USSR related to the implementation of the treaty with the Americans on the elimination of medium- and short-range missiles. And 1966 - related to the creation and demonstration launches of missiles in front of French President General De Gaulle. And the backbone of the plot was the story of the physicist and lyricist, the uncle of the author of the film, Anatoly Grigoryevich Istratov - the author of the technical monograph "The Theory of aluminum Gorenje". Without the key discovery described in the monograph, not a single solid-fuel rocket would have flown.

A really short film about struggle, hope, life, death and freedom.

The main character, a laborer, has recently come to the monastery to become a monk. His love for God is so fervent and his strength seems to be so great! Because of this, he sometimes takes on more than he can bear. This is where neophyte mistakes happen. This movie is a work on mistakes, which a wise clergyman helps to make a fervent novice. Episodes: "Forgiveness Sunday" "Eh, I'll post!" "Prayed for" "Dry fasting" "Grandma's pies" "Full confession" "Temptation" "Spirited away".

Ivan Paketnyy. This is a fake surname, no one remembers the real one for a long time, even Ivan himself. The fact is that for him the main goal of his entire existence is his collection. But he collects neither stamps nor coins. Ivan collects packages. Ordinary for us - but for him each package is special, because as Ivan himself says: "The meaning of life is not to collect all the packages, but to get to one that will overshadow everything in the world."

The film is about a time when you don't think about household chores, work, traffic jams and fuss. This is a wonderful time on vacation. When half the carefree days have passed, and there is still as much to come!

A comedy about the relationship between a young priest and an old lady who has lived her whole life by the church. They are both very different; each of them loves the church in their own way. It seems they will never be able to find common ground.

It is a documentary dance film revealing the harsh reality of LGBTQ+ persecution in the Chechen region of Russia. The contents of the film were inspired by testimonials of the arrests, torture, and blackmail that gay Chechens were subjected to throughout 2017.

A girl dreams about her paintings of another girl coming to life.

The mysterious Mr. Inverto put all his life experience into the unprecedented art object “Horizon of Knowledge”. Meanwhile, dumb David is considering getting out of life. Will the Horizon of Knowledge help David?

Lena is 47, and she is still in the hope to meet an ideal man with the Simoron’s help. Lena is sure that her life is full of magic and wonders, although she is bound to spend all days with her jobless alcoholic friend in search of a living and food.

During the day, Oxana paints frames as a man; at night, she puts on her female skin. Oxana is a transsexual living in Moldova, where even expressions of tolerance towards sexual minorities can be dangerous.

The action takes place on the stage of a poor theater. The main hero (the buffoon) is jealous of the king of the stage and, sinking into the depths of his mental oppression, kills him. But what exactly does the main hero do? Is he eliminating a competitor or getting closer to the ceremony of his own funeral?

Ural stand-up comedian Denis in one minute tells his whole sad life.

The boy, who was bullied at school, looks for ways to solve the problem, and everything turns out in an unexpected way.

Of my parents exactly one video tape remained. I found it after almost 20 years and I realized: My sister and me never have talked about our loss. We grew up with our grandparents in a Russian-German ghetto somewhere in rural Germany. I want to know what she feels. And I want her to know what I feel.

Alena and Alexey love each other. But due to the fact that they have to live in the same apartment with their relatives, and maybe for some other reason, their life together threatens to turn into a living hell.

Thirty-year-old Tanya really wants to get married. However, her fiance is not as perfect as it might seem at first glance. Therefore, the girl decides to find a replacement.

Raushaniya Badretdinova grew up in the village. After milking, the cow loved to lie on the hayloft and draw. The parents didn’t take the child’s passion for frivolity, so no one supported Raushania’s desire to study for an artist. The girl had to escape. Raushaniya was married twice, suffered cancer, she was diagnosed with "infertility". The girl had to endlessly change rented apartments, work day and night. Will Raushania be able to break out of the vicious circle of diseases, lack of money and become a recognized artist?

One day strangers landed in a Russian dacha. But they failed to leave.

Alexander V. Men was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian and writer, whose influence is felt among Christians, both in Russia and abroad. He was murdered on September 9th, 1990.

The film´s title designates a luxury housing block in Moscow, built around 1930 for Stalinist officials. This is something we cannot see. Not really. But somehow, we can, because we are being shown the interior and the roof of an empty-looking building: dark stairways, rooms, corridors and halls, along with glimpses of a metropolis at night in the background. Most of all, however, this film shows vibration: it is vibration. A phantom-like figure (in the end there will be two) moves through these spaces ditheringly, attached to bright filaments reminiscent of a gigantic web. Vibration pervades everything we are being shown here – all of the house and all of the image. It all jerks in a stop-motion-like non-movement caused by changes in the lighting.

An author goes insane while writing a book about the brutal crimes committed by a notorious serial killer.

The artist reads aloud a piece of text written in English and the artist's friend Sofya Melnichuck orally translates the reading into Russian on the spot. The reading was filmed at the communal kitchen of Artkommunalka*. The kitchen was the place where families in the communal apartment exchanged their ideas, arts, and samizdats during the Soviet era. Unlike other works by the artist, this video was made with an awareness that the work would go through a translation in the future (in this case, into Korean). There are multiple translations in the work: from written text to spoken words, from spoken to spoken words, from English to Russian, and finally from spoken words (English) to written text (Korean subtitles). The text that is read and translated in the video keeps referring back to itself by discussing these various translations and the corresponding processes.

The film tells about the path of Firuza Sharipova, a boxer from Kazakhstan, to the first championship belt, through professional and personal obstacles.

What threads can keep a person on earth? Only love, of course!

Chronicle of one summer in the village of Sardayal: mother-anarchy, port wine, an SBPC concert in the school gym, a disco in the 2000s in the house of culture and a Mari wedding-performance.

In 2013, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I want to talk about my experience of living with this disease: everything good, bad, evil. The film was shot as part of a week-long school of pre-intensive care at the Rudnik festival.

Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they're desperate to escape. Timofey Kulyabin, the 35 year old artistic director of the Red Torch Theatre in Novosibirsk, has taken this classic work and reinvented it as an epic parable about finding harmony through suffering. The entire cast, save for one, communicate throughout the performance solely in sign language. By doing this, the selfishness, isolation and lack of mutual understanding are dangerous and laden with disaster, the characters defenseless against a huge "sounding" world. Like a score, every scene is composed with sounds and noises.

At the center of the story – a 12-year-old boy Fedya and his mother. In early childhood, Fedya suffered from severe meningitis and lost his hearing. But his mom was always there – seems that she’s able to carry the whole world on her shoulders and keep all the love of this world in her heart. A special role in the life of this family is given to the music teacher Aleksei Borozdin – thanks to his classes the deaf boy started talking and made it to study in a gymnasium.

Lisa is 12 years old. Vacation she spends in the village. Runs away from grandmother's errands to the river, idle, paints her nails, dresses up and plays the fool with her younger brother. She wants to quickly become a girl. But while femininity is inferior to childishness.

Igor thought he could overcome any obstacle. After a series of events that changed his life, he reconsidered many events that happened to him.

A day in the life of a simple rickshaw driver in Delhi, India.

Contemporaries of “Perestroika” recall their hopes, expectations, and disappointments associated with it. Turning to emotional memory, they realize themselves not only as witnesses and eyewitnesses, but as real participants in the story.

The life of a musician and an artist in Transnistria is not easy, normal work cannot be found, and you think about the meaning of life - the hand itself reaches for the bottle.

Vika and Karina are building a charity clinic in Guatemala. Tropical diseases, drug smuggling, search for sponsorship and true love. Two crazy adventurers change the world for the better and just enjoy the life.

This film was shot during the last year of Daniil Dondurey’s life in Moscow and Tel Aviv, where he was receiving treatment. Dondurey’s monologue is broken up by city landscapes, the animated buzz of a café, the silence of an emptied dacha… Dondurey talks about his pursuits, encounters, and tastes; he recalls his student years in Leningrad. He jokes, smiles, and hopes.

A portrait of a boy who works as an ad booker and dreams of changing his hometown.

VHSEPROSCHENIE is a psychodocumentary series that shows our view of St. Petersburg. This subtle unconscious state can be experienced after a long illness, lack of sleep, shock, or simply because that is how you view life.

A convict is released from prison and is in desperate need of money. He decides to sell his aunt's house but soon discovers that she is a witch and her house contains all kinds of evil horrors.

Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman, they had no children. One day my grandfather took a log and carved a boy out of it, and he suddenly came to life. They called him Tereshechka...

The salty adaptation of Yukio Mishima's novel "The Sound of Waves". In this film, I tried to capture the process of flattening the image: the progressive transformation of the visible properties of reality into sensation, impression, memory, film projection, symbol, sign and, as a result, a spontaneous formation of meaning.

The film shows the stories of modern people immersed in the world of Russian folklore. Together with the heroes, we walk around Moscow at night, go on an ethnographic expedition, attend a rehearsal. We live this hour with unusual people for whom folklore has become something more than just music. The picturesque landscapes give way to the naughty dance of youth; the grandmothers' song takes us deep into the past and seems so close and so dear.

Highway patrolman accidentally witnesses the secret organisation "Men in Gray" engaged in the study of extraterrestrial organisms.

Three Dances is a feature-length documentary film about three generations of ballet dancer boys studying classical ballet at the Hungarian Dance Academy. Each dancer keeps the 600-years-old dance art alive, while struggling with their separation from their families, their strong expectations and having physical and mental pain. While introducing the three main characters in their 1st, 5th and 9th year in the academic year, we would like to establish a general picture of the career path a young student follows in order to become a ballet artist.