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The traditional screensaver for the Big Cartoon Festival (December 1 – December 15) this time was created by Varya Yakovleva.

A desperate woman, deprived of the opportunity to take part in the Immortal Regiment, is saved by a little girl, a platform near Moscow and the odour of a grandma’s pastries, recalling the memory of her father.

The action takes place in a dark and absurd world where crime pulls its hands even to music. But the music is pouring from everywhere, it is very difficult to keep it under control.

Through the lives of three outstanding perseons, innovators and selfless workers who had a great influence on the development of domestic and world football – coach Mikhail Yakushin, goalkeeper Alexei Khomich, striker and subsequently successful coach Konstantin Beskov, the authors trace more than a century of history of Russian football in the context of time and the life of our country.

A person is facing severe difficulties, a stranger helps him to escape. He expressed gratitude, but for some reason the girl was very upset.

Montage film by Vyacheslav Ivanov.

The film tells the story of the World Chess Championship match that took place in Dubai at the end of 2021. For millions of chess fans it was a dramatic three-week tournament between norwegian magnus carlsen and russian jan nepomnyaschy. “the dubai story: behind the scenes of world chess” offers a unique opportunity to see that match from a completely different perspective. never in the entire 136-year history of championship chess matches has a wide audience had a chance to see what goes on before, during and after the event – behind the scenes. unique footage takes viewers on an amazing journey through the atmosphere of preparation for the match where every little detail matters, revealing what challenges the organizers face and what the audience does during the three weeks that the tournament is taking place.

«What are they doing? Making a human shield! They hid behind old men! Idiots! Damned Ukraine! It makes me so angry!» Mariupol residents who had to hide in the cellar during Ukrainian shelling share their stories. Over 400,000 people in Mariupol had to go underground because they weren’t allowed outside the city by the Ukrainian units. The film features stories of courage and perseverance people displayed in crisis. For example, a Russian soldier drives under gunfire to distribute humanitarian aid; a volunteer from Texas helps reunite families separated during the evacuation. A courageous OB-GYN helps 25 women give birth during the bombing. Where did they find the courage, and what awaits them?

First solo stand up concert by Sasha Ne.

The assignment of a young lieutenant is under threat. The regiment is broken, there are only 30 fighters left. But the soldier is not confused, he leads the regiment, orders to unfold the banner and, to the sound of the Lyubushka song, goes into the unknown.

One day, the girl came by chance to the city where she was living in her childhood. Everything had changed markedly since then. the heroine was captured by memories. she found her street, her yard, her old abandoned house...

The film tells about the duality of human nature, about the problem of choosing between a beautiful dream and the prose of being.

An animated jam in which different authors selected art objects and brought them to life.

The protagonist's wanderings do not stop when he goes to bed after a long journey home. Sleep is just a continuation of adventures in unseen worlds. But where does this road lead from and where does it lead? And who dreams this dream?

Once incredibly talented and energetic young people - the artist Ilya Epelbaum and the actress Maya Krasnopolskaya - were lucky to meet, and then find themselves "at the right time in the right place." This is how their unique creation appeared in Moscow: the first private, family puppet theater "Shadow". They toured half the world and won countless professional awards, including eleven "Golden Masks". For 35 years, luck and success have not left this happy married couple. Until trouble came into their lives...

Summer evening at the resort. He is a photographer who came here for work. She is a local who is looking for her lucky ticket. She assures him that they know each other and lures him to a restaurant. He succumbs to this provocation.

Sasha is used to hiding from the problems of her personal life at work. But what if the refuge no longer saves and all that remains is to follow a light that flashed only for one night?

Before the arrest, the criminal, with the help of the investigator, tries to become a hero for his little son.

The plot is based on a poem “Winter Evening” by A.S. Pushkin (1825). this is a story about a boy doing his literature homework late at night. pushkin’s images are intertwined with the hero’s own fantasies.

My concert is about how I moved to Moscow at forty. I didn't get any sense, the rest is in the video.

This is a dramatic story about the incredible earthly and spiritual journey of a Buddhist monk from Russia, who became one of the first preachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States. In 1923, as a young man, he left his home and spent over 30 years in Tibet and India, attaining the Buddhist degree of Geshe. He was a friend of the Dalai Lama and taught at Columbia University, dedicated his life to putting the Buddha's teachings into practice, and trained many talented students, increasing interest in Buddhism in the West.

The Young Audience Theater is preparing for a premiere. Each member of this ship's crew is bringing the concept closer to realization. A light, ironic story about the meaning of life.

The documentary is about a young guy Sasha: during the day he is an office manager, but in the evening he transforms into a gorgeous lady Doyana Cheeseburger. The film opens up the problem of discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community in Russia.

Alexander Grigorievich is a lonely man. Both sons emigrated abroad many years ago, each arranged his own personal life and no one remembers his father. Relations with the ex-wife are spoiled, they are not interested in each other's lives. Collecting scrap metal from garbage dumps and handing it over to collection points, only a cat meets him at home.

End of summer, 1991. USSR. Yura works at a factory and dreams of escaping to America. His son’s dream is for the whole family to be together every night. Both desires can come true if a VHS appears in the family.

An informational video telling about the types and consequences of eating disorders.

A strange company on the border of worlds is met by dogs. The dogs, appeased with treats, let the travelers pass to the other side, seeing them off with their howling.

Grandma Yaga is torn between the need to be near her son and the desire to dance the night away with other witches. Will her friends help her solve the problem or will she have to make a choice?

(normally I don’t write a synopsis for it bc any description will point to a certain way of intepreting it and I’d like to avoid that. Usually instead of this I write something like that: “A film created for sublimation, which has various modes of interpetation that the authoress leaves to viewers’ discretion”, if this fits)

An intelligent middle-aged man gets lost in his own thoughts, doubts and guesses, goes crazy and ends up in the hands of cynical medical workers.

The familiar story of Romeo and Juliet. Three points of view. Three truths. The story through the eyes of the mother, the story through the eyes of the daughter and the same private story, through the eyes of the media.

A mother and her son are decorating the Christmas tree. The woman learns that the father of the child will not come to congratulate him, but continues to prepare for the arrival of Santa Claus, and before going to bed reads a book to her son in bed. When his mother falls asleep, the boy orders a bouquet of flowers and a gift via the Internet.

In Donetsk, in the terrible and destructive atmosphere of the war, the violin teacher Larisa is raising a children's quartet. Music lessons help children escape from the effects of total horror. larisa inspires children with her example of resilience and courage, desperately hiding her personal family tragedy. soon the quartet will fall apart and the children will disperse in different directions. before that, they will have their last joint performance in moscow, in which they will enter into far from their last battle with darkness, horror and death.

Once Emilian was a successful businessman, but one day he came to faith, gave up everything and went into volunteering. He created a network of shelters for the homeless "Noah". There are already 18 houses and almost 1000 guests in "Noah". This is a micro empire with its own charter and laws. The most important one is dry. If a person is ready to live by the rules of "Noah", he gets shelter, food and work. If not, it turns out to be on the street.

Next July Altai will again drown in the sea of love for the famous countryman – Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. Altaians will celebrate his next birthday.

They have no experience, no resources, no knowledge, but when has this stopped sincere enthusiasts? A portrait of Russian pioneers of low-budget thrash horror — a genre that rarely comes into the focus of the general public's attention, which director Maxim Poltavchenko lovingly shows in all their grotesque and inventive variety.

A film illustrating the process of personality adaptation in society.

An informational video dedicated to several difficult days of a person who has to deal with a funeral. What exactly will he have to face: Who to call? How to organize everything? When can I take the ashes from the crematorium?

A series of animated videos as part of an advertising campaign about recycling "RECYCLE BOX" for LEVIS.

A short and surprising story about never-ending connection with those we love.

Confessions of a person suffering from alcoholism. Based on the works of Paul Klee.

This is a documentary film about the Abkhazian artist Zurab Achba. He paints pictures on the porch in the New Athos Church. The film will not talk about artistic technique, genres, the style of the artist, it will be about freedom, about a dream, about life, about something near and far at the same time.

Now falconers do not go into the forest for prey. Therefore, falconers become more attached to their birds of prey, which creates more experiences and little tragedies. The characters in the film are five people who are connected in different ways to birds of prey. Someone takes care of the affected birds, someone deeply studies the philosophy of falconry. But all of them once had to endure the hardest thing in the life of a falconer - the loss of a bird.

A dog can’t get used to living in one house with a cat and runs to the woods to join the wolves.

Max, still frowning and prickly, with difficulty pulls out a piece of stale bread from his bosom and begins to gnaw it. He closes his eyes. He and all the clothes around him soar into the air. The "free fall" into memory begins. Clothes rush up, and Maxim himself begins to smile with his eyes closed. All the prickly needles begin to fly off him up - he becomes an ordinary boy again. Everyone needs their own approach. And especially for children with a difficult history.

A frying pan is all that a single woman has left of her family. But not one woman in need of it. The devil appears from hell itself and steals the frying pan, because it is on them that sinners are fried. In an attempt to get her own back, the woman not only takes the frying pan, but also saves all the martyrs from eternal suffering. The plot of Peter Brueghel's painting "Mad Greta" was taken as a basis.

“I want to help people fight not with death, but with life,” says Elina, a clinical psychology student. But only a video camera helps the girl to fight with her life, which she turns on closing herself in her room.

Grumpy old men are set to relax on their favorite bench, but suddenly get into trouble.

A young couple Sasha and Katya, living out their last days in connection with the imminent catastrophe, learn about Katya's pregnancy.

About the life of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Milan and Lombardy, about the spiritual patron of Milan – St. Ambrose of Milan and other Orthodox saints of Milan and Italy.

Three thousand Spanish children were taken in by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Then it was thought to be a temporary measure that would allow the children to wait out the horrors of the Civil War that raged in Spain. Fate had other plans...

A film about young hockey players who, under the guidance of coach Alexander Savchenko, won gold medals at the World Bandy Championship among youth under 18 in Sweden.

The beginning of the XX century was a turning point in both political and spiritual life. Many avant-gardists are trying to form their own approach to art. Alexander Rodchenko writes the "Last Picture" and puts an end to all fine art. Through design and photography, he becomes a "singer of the new regime." This devotion leads him to the White Sea Channel. Rodchenko becomes a photographer of "reforging" people, turning a blind eye to the horror that is happening.