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This is a modern story of a prosperous family, in whose harmonious way of life a young man, a former partner of her husband in creating a computer network, breaks into. Involving his wife in a love affair, he pretends to be a messenger from Shambhala. At some point, she is ready to believe him, despite her husband's convictions that her chosen one is crazy. The psychologically tense action is set off by episodes of the hero's fantasies, in which the intrigue is given a comic effect, so there is no reason to assume a tragic ending.

The story of an expat musician that sounds like a bad dream. The film was shot in Hollywood in January 2018. The author of the idea of the film and the lead actor is cellist Evgeny Tonkha, composer Anna Drubich.

Two special agents infiltrate the school under the guise of teachers in order to expose a group of bandits operating in an educational institution. During the investigation, they realize that everything is not so simple. Now they have to learn a new profession and find love.

Writer and expatriate Marina receives an invitation to meet graduates. Resigned to the nostalgic impulse, she flies from Europe to Novustoinovsk - a district city in the middle of the country, which has long ceased to exist. There, in the provincial hinterland of the past, her memories and old friends live, all of them ephemeral as television programs from another life. This is a life story about fate of ordinary people, about quarrels, spiritual growth and decline, about hope and changeable memory.

One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual work did not stay in cinemas for a long time.

In the center of events are three teenage girls whose parents are busy solving their problems and almost do not notice what is happening with their children. However, the film is not about children, but about how adults are sometimes inattentive.

The "Good News" is a film dedicated to one of the main holidays of Orthodox Christians: the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. The main idea of this holiday is the beginning of the liberation of the human race from sins and eternal death, the joyful news about the upcoming birth of Jesus Christ. The film shows how people living in the remote Russian village are preparing for the Annunciation, marking the turning point of winter and the beginning of field work. Everyday details of the parish community life help to feel Russian Orthodox customs that have been formed for centuries.

The base of rest "rainbow" comes the accountant, Peter, correct, honest and principled. He refuses to settle on base, after all audit has to be independent, as well as the auditor, especially in a housing question.

Irina Myagkova's second solo stand-up concert "Strong and Independent".

A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.

Artyom, a blind massage parlor worker, decides to run a marathon, enlisting the support of the Yaroslavl running club, which "takes everyone on the team," and zoologist Alyona, who dreams of living in Kamchatka. Despite his father's strict prohibition, Artyom bravely overcomes one barrier after another, because nothing can stop him from pursuing his dream.

In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads there. A long trip on the Ienissei River, first by boat, then by helicopter, is the only way to reach Braguino. Self-sufficient, both families live there according to their own rules and principles. In the middle of the village: a barrier. The two families refuse to speak. In the river sits an island, where another community is being built : that of the children. Free, unpredictable, wild. Stemming from the fear of the other, that of wild beasts, and the joy procured by the immensity of the forest, unravels a cruel tale in which tensions and fear give shape to the geography of an ancestral conflict.

In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.

In a remote village on the seashore lives a boy nicknamed Shumilka, the village mockingbird and mischief maker. A loyal fan of circus master Leonid Yengibarov considers himself his son. But Yengibarov himself doesn’t dare write a letter and ask for advice on how to join the circus. The morals and spirit of the village, its miserable and half-drunk life make thirteen-year-old Shumilka want to take revenge by all means. And the world takes revenge on him in its own way: everyone gave up on the boy - his mother, his grandmother, and his deaf-mute grandfather. In addition, he is expelled from school because he could not restrain himself and hit the teacher with a teapot. And now the boy is threatened with a colony...

Two characters who represent two generations... One is 68 with of plenty Soviet Union background, another 2is 3 and without any targets in his life. They don't know each other and they are both not good at the new Russian reality. Urban high contrast life passes by where rapid wave of advertising, glam and joy are on each corner: 'It's going to be best, man ... Win a million! ... You're the first!' But one human life depends on both heroes and solution is huge amount of money that will unite them in tragic circumstances.

Polina lives on the Black Sea coast with her beloved husband Fedor and her adult son Vyacheslav. Nothing foreshadowed trouble, but his wife soon learns that her former lover, the famous and wealthy artist Dmitry, who is the real father of Fame, is coming to the town. However, the artist quickly reveals all the secrets to him. Meanwhile, two completely different girls arrive at the resort. The self-confident Mila and the modest Lyuba. In search of happiness, they get involved with bad company.

In 2012 the production at the Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal Peninsula, a remote section of Siberia , had begun. The industrial zone had been located right on the historical migration route of the indigenous reindeer herders- Nenets. This story is about people, whose fates are closely connected with the land, and now they are sandwiched between two epochs, between the future and the past.

20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, young directors come to the borders of a previously united country. Their personal stories are dedicated to people overcoming erected boundaries to be together.

The young singer and her producer, to collect money for the first CD, go on a cruise. The main ups and downs - not so much musicians as frank swindlers - occur on the ship.

A young artist named Victor arrives in the village to decorate the local club for the New Year. The club owner, Mishka, takes his guest to the house where he will be staying. Victor and the owner's daughter, Tatyana, develop feelings for each other, which Mishka, who is madly in love with the girl, senses.

Lyuba Solovyova becomes a witness to the accident, after which Pavel, unfamiliar to her, also Solovyov, ends up in intensive care. In the hands of Luba is his son Shura. Lyuba comes to the hospital, where she is mistaken for Paul’s wife. Unable to abandon a child who does not have a mother, and his father is in a coma, the woman decides to wait for Shura's grandmother to arrive from Germany, and for now, she assumes the role of wife and takes care of Pavel. Perhaps there are personal reasons for this: the whole situation unfolds against the backdrop of a break with her husband Sergei, who is sure that no one needs Lyuba, which means that you can behave with her as you like. And it is important for her to feel necessary - even if it is for an occasional person.

Sasha and Ilya, a bored young couple on a verge of breakup, are spending a New Year's Eve at a secluded beach house in Northern France then a carcass of an unidentified creature is washed ashore nearby. Later that day on his way back from a local bar Ilya meets Masha, a lost Russian girl, who seems to have gotten off the train at the wrong station and has nowhere to spend the night.

Documentary film in memory of Sergey Timofeev (10.05.1959 — 5.06.1993), founder of the Beijing Row-Row group, participant of the Art or Death partnership

1945. Young German soldier is hiding from Soviet soldiers in abandoned house. Every day he sees a girl who moved to the house next door until finally he falls in love with her.

Pasha has just come back from the army. Misha is evading mobilization. akin in their loneliness they have no luck meeting each other.

A trip to get milk at night becomes a night Moscow journey for the main hero - Arseny. During this trip he finds what he was looking for.

A road movie, the story of a journey of the Holy Light from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem to small churches in remote northern Yakut villages. Here everything is different – the way of thinking, values; here Orthodoxy and paganism mix in unexpected ways. A man named Sergey is carrying the Light across the country, to the churches that he himself built...

Marina, once “burned” in matters of the heart, promises herself that she will never get married. And men will... only be “used.” She has a private hotel in the very center of St. Petersburg. With her exceptional beauty, Marina attracts many admirers to the hotel, without giving any of them the slightest hope of reciprocity. But one day, Konstantin Solomatin, a naval officer, captain of the first rank, and... an inveterate misogynist, stops at her hotel. He not only does not have loving feelings for our heroine, but also manages, in a fit of anger, to insult her by hinting that she leads the life of a kept woman. The wounded Marina decides to take revenge on the captain: to make him fall in love with her at all costs, and then make him suffer from unrequited love...

A couple undergoes a 6-day experiment, in which they have to live in a remote village and play perfect people. He is an experimental film director, she is an actress. They must avoid any kinds of conflicts and always be nice. They are doing quite well in playing perfect untill they start shooting their own film trailer. That is where their settings go off.

In the ninth century, after the fall of Rome, the Viking raids, economic devastation and intercine warfare between rival tribes, a young prince Oleg comes into throne. Possessing charisma, prescience, and great military gifts he unites the fragmented principalities into a single state and establishes the rule of law, returning the land to prosperity.

In a village untouched by time, so isolated that it is not on the map of Russia, Sysoy passes on the tradition of Byzantine chant to his son Ivan. Their hermitic family life finds its cadence in the movements of working the land and a rigorous spiritual practice, which seem intended to prepare the young teenager for an imminent change of life.

The trouble with businesswomen is that they have “business” in the first place and only “wumen” in the second. The heroine of this story in business concerns does not notice how she loses the closest person - her beloved husband. But fortunately, there is New Year's Eve with its miracles and the ability to correct any mistakes, even mistakes of love ...

During the Russian war with Afghanistan in the 1980s, journalist Charlie Palmer and medic Victor Davis arrive at a P.O.W. camp near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in order to document the sub-human conditions which the prisoners are forced to endure. During their visit, the prisoners seize control of the camp and begin to enact a series of terrible and bloody punishments on their captors. Held as hostages, Palmer and Davis are forced to witness acts of barbarity unlike any they have ever seen before.

A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"

Born in the USSR: 28 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 28.

Vasily works in the office all alone. Suddenly he learns that his boss was replaced by artificial intelligence three years ago. Why did Vasya stay in the office to work on his protracted project?

The film is about the life and death of the outstanding playwright Alexander Vampilov. Life and death, which reflected the era. The two most important meanings are connected in this story. The fate of a simple provincial man who chooses the path of the artist and the love of their native places.

A fictional almanac consisting of three tough and extremely realistic novels, united by the general theme of survival and growing up of difficult teenage girls.

This is the story of a sporting battle. Only the opponent is not a man, but a barbell weighing several hundred kilograms. One day, Fedor loses to his "opponent" and gets seriously injured, incompatible with a sports career. Doctors, relatives, and friends do not believe in the possibility of continuing professional sports, but Fedor, in spite of fate and everyone, finds the strength and overcomes the disease. Fedor is back on the platform one-on-one with his soulless rival. How will this fight end this time?

An underground short film from a “necrorealist” Russian filmmaker. The film is about sadomasochism, possessed by the idea of death and self-destruction. Evocative of the silent films from the beginning of the 20th century.

Karujaht Pärnumaal (Estonian; English: Bear hunt in Pärnu county) is the first Estonian narrative film 1914, directed by Johannes Pääsuke.

The married head of the elite women's club "Decent Ladies" loses her peace of mind when a multi-faced carpenter begins to appear to her in her dreams with ambiguous hints.

Lost Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel

He opened his own film company in his father's garage, shot a short film that won at various Russian and international film festivals and was shown from Canada to New Zealand. Now he is the most promising young film director in Yakutia, hunted by Moscow agencies and producers. But he is not going anywhere and continues to create his own cinema in a remote Yakut village.

Irina was only 3 years old when her mother, a worker at the Kirov Plant, decided to evacuate her from Leningrad. Working tirelessly at the tank production plant for weeks without a day off, her mother had no one to help care for her child. However, the train Irina was commuting in came under Nazi shelling. She was under the rubble for a day before she was rescued. Thus, the girl remained with her mother, enduring the most terrifying months in a city besieged by the Nazis. This is just one story among thousands of heroic Leningrad citizens. Despite hunger and constant shelling, they managed to donate 144 tons of blood over the years of the blockade to aid injured soldiers on the front lines, and never ceased the production of guns, which the soldiers of the Soviet Army desperately needed against the Nazis. In our new documentary, commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade, witness the unwavering resilience of Leningraders like Irina and her mother.

A story about a chance encounter that momentarily destroyed a successful and happy family life. All of a sudden the woman found passion and desire more important than her loving husband and cherished child. The father and son suffer from the realization that they are no longer needed, but try to understand and forgive. The woman, who failed to become happy, is in turmoil.

Early morning in a Yakut village, a shot... Those who committed the crime hide in the forest, where they are accidentally found by local women. They tell everyone in the village about it. Enraged residents decide to carry out lynching.

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In the small town of Kandalaksha, Petya lives out a fantasy life as a traffic cop. He has a holster, a wooden gun, and the locals humor him by following his "orders." When a convict escapes from a nearby prison, Petya joins the manhunt as any good officer would.

People's drama. The movie has been preserved without inscriptions.

Anya, an exemplary housewife, devoted her life to taking care of her family. Relatives are used to the fact that mom is always alone at home with three children, while dad Sasha disappears at work. One day, offended by her husband's inappropriate antics, Anya decides to leave him with the children and find a job, starting an independent life. It doesn't work out all at once. And at this time, the children, being alone at home, make a real commotion.

Short film by Dmitry Davydov

A modern frog comes up with an original way to travel and sets off abroad — to the place she's been dreaming of — together with some ducks.

A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second is a wild and untameable native who becomes his mythical bear-woman. When he accidentally kills a great black bear, his own shadow-creature, he burdens himself with guilt. However, he is given a chance of finding his inner balance. A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.

Alexander’s grandfather, Nikolay, was an acclaimed soviet inventor and often gave the boy lessons in radio engineering. Nikolay’s last wish was just as extraordinary as the life he led: he asked Alexander to create a digital copy of himself in a robotic body. And so the grandson’s quest began…