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Strocha: Trinity Rituals in Kukushka Village of Kochyovsky District

One day in the life of Kukushka village in Kochyovsky District of Perm Krai. This day marks the ritual holiday of Strocha, the Komi-Permyak Trinity. The rituals and traditions that the Komi-Permyaks follow on this day – from gathering special food for deceased relatives and visiting the cemetery to round dances, kissing games, and rituals with birch twigs – immerse you in the authentic culture of this small village in the northern part of the region.

Strocha: Trinity Rituals in Kukushka Village of Kochyovsky District

NR 2023
The Kuriles. On the Southern Shores

Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. Nikita Martianov is the most decorated wakeboarder in Russia. He returns to the Kuril Islands to become the first wakeboarder who ventured to ride in these extreme conditions. Wakeboarding in this place is almost impossible, but the athlete is determined to make his dream come true and show all the beauty of the most inaccessible and most beautiful shores of our Homeland.

The Kuriles. On the Southern Shores

NR 2023
Misha-Icebreaker

Mikhail Klaus, a resident of the village of Rechnikov Zhatai in Yakutia, hails from Austro-Hungarian Germans, as evidenced by his surname, which is rare for these latitudes. It is generally believed that "it's good for a Russian, then death for a German," but Misha's family has become so Russified that it does not fit the saying. Klus is a representative of one of the rarest professions on earth – a shipwrecker. Klus, who works in the wild frost, like other frostbitten people, dreams of going to the sea with his son Sasha. Will he succeed in fulfilling his dream?

Misha-Icebreaker

NR 2023
The Ring

In March 2022, my mother died. After her leaving, the thread connected me with my past life, with the feeling of home, seemed to tear. Despite the fact I had a little daughter and a husband, I still felt very lonely. To overcome the longing for my mother I decided to take a trip through the memories of her. The things remained from her became guides on this path. Old photos ceased to be tied to time. Although mom is not around, she has left traces by which I can find her in myself, in the environment. This is a film about accepting loss, about accepting legacy.

The Ring

NR 2023
The Method

A toothless production team hires a trendy young pretty boy, barely an actor, to star in classic Soviet director's latest film, to play a role of a lifetime, a one he never was meant to play: that of a gruesome serial killer. Powerless before the might of bureaucracy, the veteran cinematographer will have to turn the stuck-up kid into a proper actor in record time, or have the money-making face quit all together; whichever one it will be, he knows just what he needs to put the young one through to get him there.

The Method

NR 2023
Planet D

Could another form of life be waiting for us? Somewhere out there, on a distant Planet D? The film is composed of footage captured in a teenage prison camp, where the author led classes for inmates in 2018, as well as from family video chronicles made in the 1990s. Olesya Rudyka reflects: “When my dad was released from incarceration, we believed we had our whole life ahead of us. He seemed to understand that leaving prison isn’t the end – it stays with you indefinitely and, sooner or later, catches up with you unexpectedly, like a bullet”.

Planet D

NR 2023
Public Domain

Res communis omnium is a Roman law term that defined things that by their nature are of universal human value - such as land, air. The concept has retained its relevance in international law. When the copyright on a work expires, it goes into the public domain (the more relevant modern term is public domain). Based on an analysis of the creativity of over 500 artists, writers, composers, architects, researchers from all over the world, whose works have ceased to be legally protected by copyright since 2022 (50-60-70-80 years after the death of the authors), we are trying to musically and poetically form to re-read what we got into the public domain at this critical time. It turns out. a kind of time capsule, the works were created over half a century ago,

Public Domain

NR 2023
The Sound That Discovered Me

Every artist has a moment when he realized himself as an artist. I chose the path of creativity, chose to manifest myself through music. I discovered my gift, talent. I want to dig deep and understand — is there the same sound that started the process? "The Sound that Opened Me Up" is a short documentary about three artists who are at the beginning of their creative journey, Erika Lundmoen, the Settlers group and the Margosha group. The singing of birds, the sound of a chewed film in the player or the ocean crashing on the rocks. The heroes shared their personal stories about their formation and told what kind of sound launched their creativity.

The Sound That Discovered Me

NR 2023
The Mineral Dreams

The average age of an ordinary stone is about two billion years. Even if a person sits with the stone for a whole day, it will be just one trillionth of its life. This poetic and beautifully shot film attempts to look at stones beyond the human gaze. It sees them through the prism of St. Petersburg and its granite embankments, the ‘Devil's’ megalith in the Leningrad region and the high mountains of Georgia, where the ancient city of Uplistsikhe is carved into the rock. At the edge of time, this film gives us a glimpse of a world that humankind may never reach.

The Mineral Dreams

NR 2023
Wave 41

Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. At the center of the story, the founders of the Kamchatka surf movement are athlete Anton Morozov and director Mikhail Moroz, who embark on an extraordinary journey to conquer previously unseen waves and discover the nature of Kamchatka in its original form. This is not a biography of one person, but of many destinies, a reflection of the state of that time. About how surfing and snowboarding covered the Far East with their wave and spread to the whole of Russia.

Wave 41

NR 2023