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With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the International project "Cinema in 7 Days" was implemented in Kazan for the third time in December 2021 (7dayfilm.ru ). Ten international teams had to shoot, edit and submit 10 short feature films to the international jury in 7 days, with the condition that Kazan must be chosen as one of the filming locations. In the conditions of the pandemic, part of the work was organized remotely using Second Unit and filming took place not only in Russia, but also in Finland, Iran, Latvia, China with the participation of more than 250 young filmmakers.

When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to.

A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct participants and eyewitnesses.

The story of how three polar bears settled in the Arctic at a weather station and what came of it.

Vasily Pronchishchev and Vasily Chelyuskin were young lieutenants of the Russia fleet, who set out from Yakutsk along the Lena River to the Arctic Ocean on a sailing ship under the leadership of the commander Vitus Bering in the summer of 1735. Contrary to the imperial prohibition, incredible trials and deadly danger lying ahead of all the members of this expedition, a young girl enamored with one of the characters got onto this ship. However, neither storms or severe northern frosts and hunger were able to stop them, since fulfilling of their duty, reaching of the most northeastern point of Eurasia and putting of the vast Arctic territories on the world maps were their main purpose in life.

The major of special forces Ilya is young, beautiful and, we can say, happy! He marries, and for him it is a profitable party — his wife is not beautiful, but the daughter of rich parents. However, on the wedding day begins a nightmare. Yana Yanovskaya — the former mistress of Ilya who came to congratulate him is killed, and he is suspected of murder. The investigation begins, during which it turns out that Ilya is innocent. However, the shadow of suspicion still hanging over him, and, wishing to prove that he is innocent, Ilya begins his own investigation. He finds the real killer — and this discovery will stun him…

Based on the short story of the same name by Yuri Kazakov.

The main characters, or rather the heroines, were 13-year-old girls. Different in character, in social status, they are in love with the same guy - a musician by profession, a rising star of local importance. After one of the concerts, his car is stolen. From this moment, dramatic events develop in the life of our heroes.

Ever since he was a child, Dmitry was finding soldiers that went missing during the World War II, keeping their memory alive. Now he immortalizes the lost soldiers as sculptures, frozen in battle. What did they fight for? Why did they come back into this wretched world?

At a social event, Pavel Grichikhin, a journalist and editor-in-chief of the online publication for women who have been subjected to domestic violence, sees a fragile, pale girl who whispers to him with one lips: “Help ...” Then she, taking some medications under the watchful supervision of her husband . Pavel understands that there is some kind of secret and decides, no matter what, to get to the bottom of the matter and save the girl ...

A musical battle mystery with a cheerful war and pure love, with circus attractions and a real Lyuboffyorlova, as well as the recorded phenomenon of the Blessed Virgin Mary and strategic night flights of an absolutely naked pioneer!

fell into the belly of a snake And spent the night without a dream of coming back. If serpent chose to spit what’s left of me Then at the break of dawn what will I be?

A kitty, trying to escape from an evil Doberman, hides behind a griffin statue. Suddenly, the griffin comes to life to protect the young lady from the dog and show her all the beauties of St. Petersburg from a bird's eye view.

The whole world is a theater, and the people in it are movie actors. Dulustan Mukhin, a simple guy from a Yakut village, once became a star. Hollywood is ahead. There are a couple of Yakut films behind. Now why not try yourself at Mosfilm? Moscow will amaze, inspire, but also ask the most important question: who are you?

Alina, a theater student, has difficulty studying, loses feelings for her boyfriend and takes antipsychotics. In order to finally understand herself, she goes through the entire hierarchy of help: a psychotherapist, a fortune teller, and even disappearance from the face of the earth. But when Alina sinks to the very bottom, she suddenly finds a way out of the situation.

A psychological thriller telling the story of a hikikomori obsessed with a female vlogger. The screenplay is based on the now-deleted blog by "quickpaws321", a man obsessed with Rose from the randytaylor69 channel.

A failed suicide attempt became the beginning of a long and happy life.

The relations in the happy family of 15-year-old Sasha begin to crack: his father spends days and nights at work, in a battery store, his mother is preparing to move.The boy feels something goes wrong and tries to sort out the situation, but do not know how... Another world means life after childhood, in which there is discord, despair and hope.

This is a story of Nick, a 5th grader of Donetsk school, who stays in the classroom during the bombardment. All alone with his fear he suddenly finds the support. The most common school board becomes a portal to the past. Nick meets the same little boy, but from 1941. They both are locked in the school under fire, and both want to live, be happy and enjoy the childhood.

A group of American doctors travel to a war-ravaged hot spot in the Middle East in order to distribute vaccines. They clash with the Russian military presence, the Middle Eastern locals, and ultimately, themselves, as they learn that being American heroes is not so easy as they thought. Before they can save the world, they have to save themselves.

This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.

A wife and her husband feel remorse for cheating on each other.

The essence of this documentary memoir about a great Russian actor, about the brightest period in his life, lies in the tragic under-embodiment of each fate, of every person.

The documentary play "Nikolina Gora", as well as A. P. Chekhov's play "The Cherry Orchard", represents a cross-section of Russian society at the breaking point of time. The characters of the film are heirs — owners of land in a pine forest on the banks of the Moskva River, allocated in 1924 to outstanding figures of science and art by the Soviet government.

The film is about trying to find yourself through a relationship with relatives who are very far away.

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

In the utopian village of "Red Star" there is a commotion: elections are coming for the candidates for the head of the settlement. The odious Stepan Stepanych (acting head) calls a meeting to keep his post. After long negotiations, Stepan Stepanovich and his retinue come to a verdict: a technical candidate is needed. Who will be chosen as the main victim of the intrigue of the strong "village-this", what kind of rebuff this candidate will give, what ups and downs, circumstances await gullible heroes you will find out on the big screens in the cinema!

Cute Roman, who enjoys an enviable interest in the female, has an obsessive dream in which a beautiful girl is to him. Roman's life has turned into an unimaginable nightmare, which he sincerely loving man helps to get rid of.

20 years ago young soviet programmer has fallen in love with love mate of his boss during joint tourist trip to Paris. Nowadays he comes back to Paris being a thriving business man.

The tragic accident takes away from the surgeon Alexander Remezov memory. Before him closed the door to the past, family, friends and colleagues seem to be strangers, and life loses its meaning. Feeling like an outsider, Alexander struggles to find a way into the world where he was himself. But is he ready to remember everything and find out who he really was?

Musical comedy

A film about the hard fate of a decommissioned pilot, who not lost the ability to fly, as well as about male solidarity, cemented by national drinking traditions, about two truths - for male and for female, and about the love that will reconcile everyone.

Yana and Ilya met during rehabilitation. According to the rules, they need to stay away from each other if they want to stay sober. But the feelings that flared up between them do not allow them to do this. They broke down, parted, sought happiness with others, but the further they ran away from love, the more they were drawn to each other. The story that Ilya and Yana will live in the film will allow them to finally get out of the vicious circle, give them a chance for recovery and give hope for a happy ending...

Moscow 1950s, June. City residents, having loaded all their scrub from mattresses to pots, into commuter trains, go to dachas and villages. Among them is the family of the boy Denis Korablev. Denis's parents don't really want to continue the tradition of renting a house for three summer months in the countryside, but Denis's grandmother is convinced that fresh country air is extremely useful for all of them. Life in the village is in full swing. Denis's dad rides a bike, Denis's mom walks around the village in a white sundress, Denis's grandmother makes strawberry jam, which is a lot this year. Denis has fun in the village - he joins a local gang of boys, makes friends with a girl Lena, goes to the boat station and plays a lot of mischief. One day, the worst thing for every boy happens to Denis - he falls in love.

A comedy about Masha First (the grand-granddaughter of Johnny First) who comes to Russia from USA trying to make her own movie.

The arthouse project is based on the famous play of the same name by William Shakespeare. According to the plot, the family sends the main character to a boarding house, where the main actions of the semi-documentary experiment of the eminent director will unfold. The filming, by the way, took place in a real boarding house for the elderly and people with disabilities. The roles were performed by residents of this institution.

Yaroslav Oktiabrev is a simple guy who works as a freelancer. But then fate presents him with a gift — it is necessary to consult online a former military man with the call sign "Brother", so that he takes old documents from an abandoned building, and you can forget about money problems in life. However, the military turns out to be an uncontrollable schizophrenic, and only a former colleague, crazy blogger Gennady Gorin, knows how to settle him down. On top of that, the customer begins to threaten Yaroslav with violence if he does not have time to do everything in a couple of hours. A seemingly trivial task suddenly turns into a real disaster, because of which the Person is already at risk of losing not only his job, but also his own life.

One day the princess fell in love with a bandit... and what did it lead to. A film based on the poem by Galina Dyadina.

The odyssey of two brothers aged nine and eleven: house entrances in Strogino, the motherís apartment, a boarding school, a gipsy camp and gloomy homecomings. Dramatic adventures, as in every road movie, teach the protagonists a lot about the world, and for the first time they are pushed off into loneliness and treachery.

A TV movie based on the novel "Mrs. Stone's Roman Spring" by Tennessee Williams.

Lesha Stolyarov's contemporary art includes bitumen paintings, pictures made of gas burners, abstract art, in short, everything that is incomprehensible to the layman. Recently, Lesha has been going through a creative crisis; he wants to speak about God, but using the artistic means that are unfamiliar to hm. So he decides to make an experiment and travels to the Spaso-Sumorin Monastery in distant Totma to set up an installation amidst the Vologda snows. Only one monk lives in this monastery – Father Feodosiy. Forty years ago, he was a painter but abandoned his craft to serve God. One would think he should be sympathetic to art. However, the ultra-modern artist clashes with an equally "ultra" counterpart – only an orthodox one. Is it possible to reconcile contemporary art and the church, new trends and two-thousand-year-old traditions?

In Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" there is a character - the daughter of the Turkish Sultan Gaide, whose parents were killed and she herself was sold into slavery. However, this is not an invention of Dumas. The Turkish woman Gayde is a real historical person. A woman whose beauty was admired by Voltaire, Abbé Prevost and Alexandre Dumas... A woman who became a classic of French literature...

The first screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's play of the same name.

An unremarkable episode from the life of a Russian aristocrat.

Ilya learned street-smarts in the harsh realities of Russia's Far North, book-smarts in literature class, and the strength of the fist from a father who strived to raise a son following the straight and narrow. His days consist of berating a subordinate and lamenting the days of Stalin; his nights-of scraping metal and composing obscenity-riddled poems. Ilya longs for a life more becoming of his stature, but unbridled personal demons present a major obstacle to his dreams of conquering the nation's capital.

Eleven-year-old boy Mitya is struggling with an illness. Once in the hospital, he makes friends with Marina, a rebellious girl who is also older than him, smokes and makes up strange stories that look like lies and truth at the same time. Children run away and go on a journey in search of Crooked Cape - a place where wishes come true. Mitya has to find out what he really wants. Marina - to find a person who will really need her. And the father - to learn about his fears and learn to communicate with his son.

XII century. The Prince of Suzdal Yuri Dolgoruky is trying to unite the Russian lands

Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

A film following Richard the Lion-Hearted and the knight Kenneth

Matvey: a simple guy from a small province. What differentiates him from others are his physical attributes such as his strong legs, powerful lungs and an incredible endurance. He uses these talents to help his team win football matches but also takes advantage of his skills when it comes to small criminal adventures. This worries Dasha, his girlfriend, who tries to endlessly protect Matvey, whilst her friends are hopelessly attempting to persuade her to leave. After all, there are better options out there... Especially Vadim. Suddenly, Matvey receives an incredible offer: to go audition for a Premier League football club in Moscow. Not wanting to leave Dasha behind, he realizes he needs to obtain money for them to travel together.

This is the story of two lonely and somewhat similar humans, although one young and one old. First is a thief loser who breaks into the dark and, as he thinks, abandoned apartment on New Year's Eve. And the second one exactly at this time tries to hung himself because of his feelings of loneliness and uselessness.

Retirees Rud and Sem come into possession of a suitcase full of mob money... a comic adventure ensues.

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A story about the separation of a mother and her 3-year-old daughter who now live in different countries and cannot reunite due to visa problems. Every day they communicate via video chat and dream about meeting soon.