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Russian prodigies! They dream of making discoveries, solving problems that no one else in the world has ever solved. There are more and more of them every year. In 2019, at the 50th anniversary World Physics Olympiad in Israel, Russian high school students performed triumphantly, winning four gold and one silver medals.
Honored Master of Sports, two-time world record holder in long jump Igor Ter-Hovhannisyan, on the day of his 80th birthday, is preparing to receive guests at his house in the village of Zhuravikha and looks back at the years he has lived. It was like yesterday...
How do new technologies affect the development of cinematography? Good or bad? Is it true that film has a magical effect on the viewer? The authors of the film, together with psychologists from the Higher School of Economics and Moscow State University. Lomonosov are organizing an unusual experiment, which should prove the difference between the audience's perception of a film screening and from a digital medium.
From the project "Multipelki", issue 2 A new interpretation of the famous song by Maxim Dunaevsky from the film "Mary Poppins, goodbye". The young poet is resting in the village in the summer, and before him there is a whole parade of amazing cows with different destinies and characters.
Leo is a lonely old man. His wife and only son died long ago. He lives a recluse in a quiet, decaying house on a plot of tall grass. But once the peace in the house of Leva is disturbed by the arrival of his old friend ...
Children grow up and move on to adulthood. But what they cherished in their childhood will linger with them forever.
A documentary short film by Polina Kondratieva, a graduate of VGIK (workshop of the Kott brothers).
During a late winter evening the police visit Nikolaj and Irina at their home. Their son Sergej is reported missing in action in Eastern Ukraine. Nikolaj begins to suspect that he has deserted.
Since I was a child, I didn't understand what it means to be a girl. Being a girl means being neat, neat, and gentle. Not like me? So who am I, then, and where is my femininity?
An acid-crazy catalogue of transportation options of a place far, far away but oh so close.
Peasant summer from early spring to late autumn. Today there are no peasant farms in the Voronezh steppes for a long time, the collective farms are a thing of the past, and the various firms created in their place, the land was bought up by huge holdings. Others today are tractor drivers, those who are lucky with work. Other news on the radios, the Donbass is very close, and in that summer of 2015 there were battles going on there. But summer is still a whole life that still needs to be lived.
Can you enjoy being at a cemetery? Maybe you can - if you are the director of the Jewish cemetery. The main character of the film has held his position for 13 years, and he never loses his optimism and approaches his job with creativity. In the film, the director complains about his life and introduces us to the ins and outs of the funeral business while he smokes and retells national jokes. Along the way, he solves small everyday matters and remembers to share wisdom and moving memories. Viktor Mikhailovich, a manager and a romantic, always knows what could be improved, and why you should never do it. And his dreams go beyond buying a new warm WC for the visitors’ convenience. So what else does he dream about, the man who sends human souls onto their last journeys every day?
Yuri Dud drove along the Kolyma highway, built by victims of Stalin's repressions, and talked with local residents.
Forte is an ensemble cast documentary, featuring Tatiana Berman, Lucia Caruso, and Eldbjorg Hemsing. Directed by David Donnelly (Maestro, 2015), this fast-paced documentary explores the notion of success and excellence from the female perspective. It challenges the popular and perhaps somewhat outdated notions of success in classical music through a fast-paced narrative of three female artists. A young Norwegian violinist on the brink of stardom, a cultural entrepreneur and mother of three who reinvents the traditional concert experience to inspire the younger audience, and a first-generation American from Argentina, whose creative process of composing a film soundtrack is documented and exposed in an unprecedented way.
The story of a family that left a successful life in Moscow and arrived in the Artsakh village. The head of the family is an Armenian, his wife is Russian, his daughter still remembers life in Russia, but speaks more and more about the Armenian nature and the importance of life on the land of ancestors.
On March 25, 2008 municipal services of the small city of Shchekino in Tula region of Russia opened the apartment in the big house and found a corpse of the person on a sofa.These the 68-y woman Valentina Abramova appeared the person. It was succeeded to find out that she approximately in 1994 died and lay dead 13 years. I turned into a mummy. During this time nobody took an interest in its destiny. Nobody came into its apartment. Neither neighbors, nor relatives, neither social services of the city, nor police. Authors of the movie I decided to make the investigation and to answer a question:"How it occurred?". And still authors of the movie wanted to restore an image of this person on the basis of meetings with her acquaintances, search of personal belongings and Valentina Abramova,s photos.
After returning after 10 days spent on vacations in vain, high school student Dima intends to accomplish everything he hasn’t decided for a long time.
The film is about the Lugansk militia, whose fates are traced during the most critical period of the war, which has been going on in Donbas for the fourth year.
The Mariinsky Theater presents Le Corsaire, a ballet in three acts, with a libretto based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.
Documentary about GKB4 Pavlovsk Hospital, created by the Mosfilm Creative Team for the 255th anniversary.
In the Absheron region of the Krasnodar Territory, among the majestic Caucasus Mountains and impenetrable forests, small villages were lost. They are connected to the rest of the world only by a thin thread of a narrow gauge railway winding through the gorges - and this is the only way from there and the only way there. A small old trolley - a motor-car, nicknamed by the locals "Matrix", delivers food, fuel and other benefits of civilization every day. People who, for one reason or another, prefer loneliness and unity with nature to noisy city life, make their journey on it.
In Vladikavkaz, a town nestled in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, an Ossetian women's football team tackles traditional gender stereotypes by challenging a group of guys to a game. They'll prove once and for all that strength and hot tempers run through both the men and women of their culture.
A documentary about the life of a children’s resuscitator. For ten years he has been with children between life and death. Once his world collapsed, and he was left alone with the empty ceiling of a rented apartment. Then he covered his whole body with tattoos. Then he was in the center of two tragedies, to which the attention of the whole world was drawn.
Tatarka Fleur 72. She spent her life helping others: healed people on the island of Sviyazhsk. Now Fleur is alone: the husband is dead, and the children and grandchildren parted. Once a year, the pension routine, consisting of walks in long-studied places, is violated. For a couple of weeks in the summer, the family brings chaos to Fleur’s measured life, temporarily drowning out loneliness.
Three short stories of fairy tales from different peoples of Russia, in each of which one of the main characters is a horned animal: an Elk, a bull and a goat.
A screen version of several conceptual texts by the artist Yuri Albert.
A monologue film in the first person. Alexander Kalyagin talks about his childhood, about entering a medical school and working as a paramedic at an ambulance station, about working with Lyubimov in the Taganka Theater and about the decision to leave. Having survived the early death of his first wife, the artist raised a young daughter on his own. It is precisely in these tragic days that fame comes to him, he acts in his first star role, in the picture of V. Titov “Hello, I am your aunt!”. The film biography of Alexander Kalyagin is about sixty films. His most vivid role is Platonov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s film “Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano.” No less significant was the theatrical history of the actor. He played in the best productions of Oleg Efremov and Anatoly Efros (Moscow Art Theater named after M. Gorky). Alexander Kalyagin devoted the last 25 years of his life to the theater ET CETERA, which, together with his course, created the Moscow Art Theater School.
Wonders of nature is not necessarily something far and unknown, they may be very close. In Khakassia, there are the lowest located glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere, in the scientific world they are called 'Small forms glaciers', and this is an important part of the ecosystem of the entire region. A group of researchers and enthusiasts go on a journey to find out: are these snow-ice formations really glaciers? What plants and animals live in this area? And what threatens this unique corner of the nature of Khakassia?
A short film that deals with a significant problem in Russia – the LGBT minority. It is an excellent sociological experiment for the western world to better understand the horrors that are hiding in one of the largest countries on earth. The testimonies hidden behind knitted dolls are shocking, and any viewer who finds the power to watch ‘Save LGBT in Russia’ should take the short as a door to an unexplored land that can and will be shocking.
The report “I am Irina” is dedicated to a woman who in an instant lost her sight and hearing. After that, a period of deep depression, despair and unwillingness to live began in her life. One day she meets a man who opened the world of theatrical art for her, which gave Irina a second chance.
An inquisitive boy asks his grandfather about a man whose monument he diligently cares for. Who is this man?
The story about my great-grandfather, "sketched" from the words of my grandmother.
The film is about a puppy who got lost in a big and indifferent city and still found new friends.
An audiovisual immersion in the inner world of people with developmental disabilities living in Psychoneurological Institution No. 3 near Peterhof, the documentary short, Mind’s the Limit, tells the story of a place that may look like a treatment facility but is in actuality a place of social adaptation and a space for creative experimentation. Many live under the care of its staff until their final days, while exploring new worlds through abstract painting and electronic music. Creativity is their only way to connect with the outside world. What path do they have to travel for their work to become contemporary art?
The young history teacher organizes the revolutionary communist movement which is fighting to preserve the monument to Dzerzhinsky. However, public mistrust, mockery, and alcohol block his path to the goal.
Documentary short film about weirdest legends from Northern Russia villages and forests. Journey to ethnics and folklore of Komi people. Feel the energy of sacred Parma forest. We made expedition to 8 distant villages and collected this stories by local people.
The fates of three children of different nationalities and faiths intersect in distant India. There, the guys are waiting for incredible challenges that can be overcome only through friendship and dedication.
Short documentary. Interview with contemporary artist Alexandra Soko with fragments of her early works.
New film by Rikhard Romush
The main character regularly visits auditions and film screenings, dreams of breaking into a big movie. Time passes, but success does not come. Will the girl herself on this difficult path?
'Novaya Gazeta'. One of the first independent editions of post-Soviet Russia. One of the last remaining today.
A gruesome collection of Alex Wesley's most bloody and violent scenes from his films.
"A hunter of secretive shares, I entered the forest of being ... " - with the poems of Velemir Khlebnikov, we enter the world of birds, where the flycatcher, orioles, remezes reveal their "secretive shares" to us. And we understand that birds are not our lesser brothers, they are other peoples who have fallen into the net of life together with us, into the net of time, they are the same as us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering.
The author of the documentary comes to the village of Tverregion, where he was not been for about 20 years. Happy memories of his childhood holidays in this village, about his friends and relatives become sad, as now there are desolation and devastation in these lovely places. The different fates of its inhabitants, who 20 years ago were carefree boys and girls, make us think that a human life depends not only on external circumstances, but also on himself, on his mood, efforts and his own outlook!
The film is about the first cooperative house in Moscow, many of whose residents were victims of Stalinist repression. The author of the film’s idea is a long-term resident Dmitry Belanovsky, whose family moved there in 1939. The former owner of the apartment was repressed by the NKVD. For many years, Dmitry was haunted by the thought of who lived before him in this apartment and how the fate of these people was. It took almost twenty years to find the answer.
New film by Maxim Kulkov
A student decides to propose to his girlfriend, and visits his divorced parents to uncover the painful history of their marriage.
Once upon a time, animals and people lived on earth, very similar to animals. And then one day, someone drew a picture on the wall of the cave. That's when Man was born. The Man Is An Artist.
The film "Merciful Sisters" by Yulia Morskaya will tell about the history of the emergence of military field medicine and the Red Cross.
The human right to live on their ancestral land... How difficult it is sometimes to implement it in the Fatherland. And not even in the icy North or the scorching south, but in central Russia itself, where it would be necessary to fight with all the forces of the state for the continuation of the life established there once with hard work, so that our beautiful rural expanses do not turn into a wild, overgrown with weeds, a huge lifeless field. It's hard to survive in a place where everyone is running for a better life. Fortunately, there are still those who remain. And Faith, Hope and Love will help them.
Stories of residents of the city of Tulun who suffered from flooding in June-July 2019. Their life after the cataclysm.
Leading political strategists Wolf and Hare are busy discussing news of current politics! They are destroying the political elite from Putin to Trump, from Erdogan to Merkel. They reveal all the scandals, high-profile events, intrigues. Politics is available and without embellishment-in the satirical show DW "Zapovednik".