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A technological race of emotionless aliens arrives on Earth. For the mission to find a source of energy and save their kind, the best representatives of the male and female sexes, Alpha 1 and Alpha 2, were chosen, and for the most successful contact with people, the wayward "human scientist" Beta set off with them. Thanks to their gadget bracelets, all three take on human form and receive the names Alexander, Igor and Larisa.

The story is about Anton, who is looking for friends, but everything is not so simple, because he is sick with something.

A woman performs Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” in Russian while Marlene Dietrich’s German version of the song plays in time.

A kind and charming story about a young Tibetan boy who was sent to a Buddhist monastery in South India and the transformations that happened to his way of thinking. His compassionate teacher draws him a map-quest that consists of eight puzzles. Once he has found the answers to all of them, the boy will be able to return home.

Overall, the idea is to make ethnicities, politics, races, nations - to make all of them turn into non-existent objects... ...akin to ovals, boxes, blobs, wardrobes! You might think he's really "someone", really a "representative of the people", but really just a representative of skirting boards, of coffee rings, nothing more. Overall, political invective's that should be perceived solely as poetic invective's. Overall, spreading geopolitics across geology and poetics. Like a question-Eskimo, dancing and waving his ribbons in the air, turns and changes on a pillar, becomes a question-Holocaust. In fact, "geopoetics" is a kind of a Holocaust seen as a choir, as an ensemblement, as an Eskimo.

Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law - the 'Raiders'

Five personal stories of the band members, streamed through a kaleidoscope of magical surrealism with a pinch of steampunk and gothic tale.

In the confined space of a mountain hut, where three people are locked up by insurmountable conditions, and around the house, where soldiers of the Russian Tsarist Army are surrounded, the characters make difficult decisions that forever change the course of events and the life of each of the participants in this story.

A tale about two riot police officers searching the forest for the body of their fellow soldier, hoping he would tell them who killed him.

In VGIK, she was a student of the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, and watched Godard's "Last Breath" and thought, nothing more is needed. Everything is already there. But, in the end, without her, without her 22 films, the history of world cinema would be incomplete. In our country, her name has become one of the undisputed geniuses-Tarkovsky, Parajanov, Herman, Sokurov. The brilliant Kira Muratova looks at a person with irony, as if from a distance and from above, as if at a funny puppet theater, but her gaze is full of sympathy. It divides artists into two categories: preachers and gamblers. Of course, he considers himself one of the latter. Chance is her muse. Improvisation is a feature of the method. And what is life but improvisation? In contrast to Rene Clair with his phrase " my film is ready. It remains only to remove it", goes to the set, opening up to life, the game of chance.

Marina comes to classmates' reunion and feels that her life hasn't changed: she is still divorced, lives with mom and works at school. After looking at her situation from classmates' view, Marina moves to Moscow from Petersburg to change her life radically...

One day in the life of a certain mythical radio station called “AS IF RADIO.” Not one of its best days. Everything is falling apart for the characters, and as luck would have it, on this very day the station is hosting a live music marathon.

Russian pop singer Lolita celebrates her 41st birthday by taking to the stage and delivering a big show, including duets with special guests.

To save his marriage, Anton turns to a family psychologist, but instead of the usual advice and therapy, the psychologist gives Anton headphones. When Anton puts them on, he suddenly stops hearing his wife.

There is an opinion that science is born within the walls of metropolitan universities. But there are other researchers as well. Their inventions appear in small villages and urban suburbs, in home workshops and garage boxes.

Teenage courier Mitya Strekozkin, wanting to escape from the Martian slums to Earth, takes part in a deadly race. But a meeting with the daring racer Vasilisa, whose secret mission threatens his dream, turns his ideas about justice upside down. Soon Mitya will have to uncover a conspiracy, survive betrayal and make a choice between escaping to Earth and fighting for the freedom of Mars.

Plot TBA; the first feature-length theatrical film based on the Russian animated series Masha and the Bear.

Julia is young, beautiful and successful in her career, but there is no personal happiness in her life for a long time. Three years ago, she refused to go to the province with her fiancé Vadim, preferring a lucrative job in the capital, but could not find a worthy replacement for him.

An adaptation of the Stephen King story.

Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov. Raisky falls in love with his second cousin Vera, but she coldly rejects his advances. He soon learns that Vera is having an affair with exiled official Mark Volokhov, with whom She is secretly dating. One day, Vera, in a fit of passion, gives herself to Volokhov, which she immediately regrets doing. Raisky and Tatyana Markovna suffer along with her having learned about Vera’s situation. Volokhov invites Vera to marry him but she refuses his proposal. After all these passions, calm comes and in the final frames of the picture, Raisky draws a portrait of Vera, and then sits down to write a long-planned novel.

Following the tragic death of their parents 20 year old Kira has to look after her 11 yr old brother Danka who suffers from hysterical paralysis. Kira retreats into a world of illusion based on a happier past but suddenly she is faced with a dilemma should she save the life of a child in the street at the expense of her own? Danka has his own crisis and both make decisions which are final.

After seasoned swindler Anatoly Papik was taken into custody in the courtroom, his relatives and accomplices decide to flee to hot countries, away from sin. The wife goes to Greece, the boss goes to Spain, and the “sixes” Shiloh and Bubble go to Turkey. Imagine the surprise of the two scoundrels when, on the Mediterranean coast, they come face to face with Papik, who theoretically should be “steaming on a bunk.” After certain search activities, it turns out that this is not Papik, but his exact copy, the Englishman Michael Smith. The scammers come up with a cunning plan to replace the “twin” Smith with Papik, who is languishing in prison.

A free film adaptation of the director's memoirs. In form, this is the "stream of consciousness" that attracted Sergei Eisenstein after getting acquainted with the experiments of James Joyce. The outer outline of the film is a long foreign trip of the director, which began in 1929, during which he recalls his past life and considers creative ideas. The film is constructed as a free alternation of reality, dreams, and fantasies. The material for it is fragments from the films of Sergei Eisenstein and his fellow contemporaries, documentary footage depicting the director and his time. The wide coverage of the faces and events reflected in the film shows the special role of Sergei Eisenstein in the culture of the twentieth century…

In New Year's Eve in the apartment of major Vlasov and his wife warrant officer Natalya Kiselyova the phone rings. It is the General who calls and congratulates Vlasov on perfect objectives on professional development and general military training of Vlasov's subordinates. The General confirms that the major regains his grade as lieutenant-colonel and orders to come to Moscow immediately as he needs him for a very important mission. Vlasov leaves his wife and daughter Masha nicknamed Mukha in Siberia and goes to Moscow.

He wants to break free from himself or tear himself away from the world. He screams hysterically, eats roses, plunders treasures, and sacred signs appear on his chest. Christ or just another man tired of life. A new prophet of a new faith. QR.

Two young teachers In a home for deaf-mute and blind children decide to see if the children they are in charge of are capable of falling in love, but their experiments have unfortunate consequences.

A psychological thriller. One quite ordinary summer morning five different and unacquainted people leave their apartments at different floors and enter the lift. The doors close behind the last passenger and the lift starts descending. The moments pass, but the lift is not going to stop, the impression of endless moving appears and grows. Panic transforms into fear with every passing minute, situation is getting out of control. The lift cage transforms into closed space, into moving rattrap from which there is no escape. How would the five people behave in such hopeless situation? Their souls are assaulted by doubts and fear, they are filled with overwhelming feeling of inevitability and despair as around them the ordinary is turning into the unreal. Have you ever wondered what your companions in the lift are? Are they really what they claim to be? Or maybe you should fear them?

The first Russian documentary film about the phenomenon of street music. This story is about how artists with different social status, education, views of the world were united, once the decision was made - to go out and turn it into a stage. Underground passages, subway cars, avenues, parks and squares are their battlefields for the indifference of passers-by; the opportunity to do what you burn from; to be heard; a sense of freedom and independence; searching for your audience; a step on the way to the stadiums; not uncommon and just a way not to die of hunger.

A film about the legend of Russian rock, the founder and the undisputed leader of the group "DDT" Yuri Shevchuk. Work on the picture was more than 11 years, the crew traveled with "DDT" dozens of cities in several rounds. Backstage concerts and work on albums, rehearsals and performances in front of many thousands of halls .... The result of working with dozens of hours of the archive from the life of a musician and a band, as well as long conversations between Yuri Shevchuk and the author of the film and his thoughts about the past, present and future of Russia and the world .

Night. In the hut Glasha rocking his little sister Dunechka. There is a black cat on the stove, who has lost all his teeth due to his old age, which is why the mice are bothering him. Suddenly strange shadows crawl along the walls, and an old woman appears in the hut. She asks to spend the night, but Glasha says that her parents, when they left for the fair, were severely asked her: do not let strangers into the house. But the old woman persuades Glasha to leave her, and when Glasha goes to bed, the old woman kidnaps little Dunechka and takes her to the forest. The animated film is based on the tales of Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy "Kikimora" and "Vas'ka the Cat" (both written in 1910).

As usual, two people stayed at the research institute overnight – the cleaning lady Gulcha and the security guard Lekha. For the first time, they spoke to each other. Gulcha achieves his goal.

The unlucky popular favorite and pop singer Alex in the company of the hired killer Stepan and nymphomaniac Nastya flee from all-powerful killers with heavy machine guns and a black hammer hired by the production center. The classic American genre in domestic spaces ...

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

Instead of preparing for entering university a young man Tomash mocks at people calling random phone numbers. Especially he bothers old professor of botany Edward Cockerel with one and the same joke all the time. They both got used to these calls at 3pm so much that they are eagerly awaiting them. Meanwhile the Nazis occupy Czechoslovakia.

A life-affirming film-journey into the world of Nikolai Drozdov, which will be loved by those who grew up watching “In the Animal World” and those for whom he is the charming grandfather from the Gucci campaign.

A musical New Year's film about how aliens come to Earth in search of a Christmas tree. Funny situations related to the New Year are unfolding in Italy, Africa, Mexico, and America.

Lev Nikolaevich, Levanka, Levochka, as his many friends call him, is a successful, glamorous, Moscow photographer. He's smart, good-natured. And he is an absolutely cynical person who can be rude to people. He lives in a world where talent, success and fame are valued above all else. At the same time, he is very childish, but does not realize this. The childhood fears are still inside him.

The tale of how Petrushka and the soldier swapped the places of the tsarina and Sapozhnikov's wife, who looked exactly like each other, and what came of it...

“The Interview” tells the story of Sonya, who grew up with her mum. Sonya enrols in the faculty of journalism in Moscow. Once she decides to meet her father, whom never saw, and take an interview with him under the guise of a journalist so she would get answers to the questions that have long troubled her

In Fatalist, a man tries in vain to escape from his fate, while a woman wrestles with the discovery of hers: she is looking for her double and realises that her fate is inextricably linked with that of her other self. In the end, both worlds come together and stare their fate in the eye.

Masha is coming from the city to help hold a village wedding. During the celebration for her rude stick host club and the local rich semen. Girl rescues Sasha, working on Seeds. Sasha accompanies Masha home, and soon their tender friendship grows into a real strong feeling. But semen does not leave the desire to take revenge on an opponent for a story on the wedding. He is stalking the younger sister Sasha Vika and kills her, leaving the corpse near the cell phone, which Sasha gave to Mary. All the evidence against Masha! The court gives her a cruel sentence…

George Balanchine's jewel-themed triptych, strikingly choreographed to the music of Faure, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. This three act masterpiece is renowned as the world's first full-length abstract ballet. The Russian-born co-founder of the New York City Ballet, Balanchine was inspired by the artistry of jewellery designer Claude Arpels to create a trio of distinct movements revealing the essence of each precious stone. Each part also evokes three different cities: Paris, New York and St. Petersburg. 'Emeralds' was conceived as a tribute to the French romantic school, with music by Gabriel Faure. The fiery and energetic 'Rubies' taps into the rich tradition of Broadway musicals, with music by Stravinsky. 'Diamonds' honours the grandeur of Imperial Russia and the Maryinsky Theater, choreographed to the music of Tchaikovsky. With its jewel-like costumes, this is a celebration of the influences on the choreographer who was described as the father of American ballet.

Two employees of a large warehouse on a night shift discover a box of prohibited substances. They decide to hide it in order to discreetly endure it after the shift. But this box is starting to attract the attention of everyone else.