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The film is about the complicated and even paradoxical relationships in the world of academic music. The character of Aleksandr Maslaev represents the Maestro, a kind of modern Mozart, wallowing in corruption, plagiarism, and envy. Once a talented composer, he's totally lost his gift and cynically buys new music from young composers, then plays it under his own name. Yet, the Maestro does not close this chain, for everyone pays his debts...
The end of the 19th century. The girl Varya cannot sleep because she has to lull a crying child to sleep. An icon looks at her from the corner opposite. The warm image of the infant Christ beckons and promises another life. But he never comes to the rescue. And the living baby in the cradle continues to cry.
One day a young man named Gleb decides one day to abandon ... his gay orientation. With the help of ex-boyfriend Vladik, he tries to establish his new “male” life, but everywhere he stumbles on his own kind, or on primordially Russian homophobia, which ultimately leads him to a tragic and paradoxical ending in the form of death from above.
Deep at night, a dedicated cyclist traverses the wintry forest. The challenge: make sure this new day gets off to a fresh and timely start.
A story about two Moscow young girls one of them is trying to become an architect and other is a beginner singer.
The head coach of the Russian national rugby team returns to his hometown. He needs to start all over again - become an ordinary physical education teacher, assemble a team and make it a champion. But the team is too bright a definition for guys who can't stand each other. Yesterday's hooligans will have to unite to get the right to a better life and master the most gentlemanly sport.
Maxim Shugaley and Samer Sueifan are finally returning to Russia after a long captivity in the Libyan prison "Mitiga". A few months later, a former bank manager in Tripoli, Farid, comes to Shugalei and offers to meet in Egypt — he has new information about terrorists in Libya. But the meeting of friends in Cairo will not take place. To help Farid avoid his own fate, Maxim will have to postpone his plans for a while…
Sasha is a manicurist, agrees to the offer of the mysterious client to have a good time together. The main character does not even suspect what this adventure will result in.
Ivan is the only man in his family. He's constantly surrounded by the attention of his mother, grandmother, and two sisters. The women don’t give him a moment of peace, bombarding him with advice about his personal life. One day, he strikes a deal with a wild and reckless young woman, introducing her to his family as his wife. Ivan does this on purpose — so that when he eventually brings home the woman he truly loves, his family will welcome her with open arms.
Three old fiends decide to take vacation from the everyday life and join the archeological expedition.
The biggest worlds are built one brick at a time.
The story of Andrei Borzenko, a Soviet boxer who passed through the Buchenwald concentration camp, is a real confirmation that the fortitude of the human spirit can work wonders. Borzenko spent more than 80 fights and was never defeated, even though he was in terrible conditions, almost incompatible with life. The film shows the resilience and patriotism of specific people during the Great Patriotic War. The documentary film includes scenes from the life of the characters, played by the artists as a reconstruction of real events and supplemented with stories from relatives and friends of the main character.
The dramatic chronicle of the Meshchersky family is a story about the post-revolutionary life of three representatives of the Russian intelligent family, the history of which reflected the fate of the whole generation. Life on the estate, holidays, youthful hobbies - and after the hell of a civil war, the bitterness of emigration. They held on and knew how to hide their confusion. But the pain destroyed the soul, manifesting itself in short novels that did not bring happiness and unfulfilled hopes ...
200 to 300 thousand years ago the banks of the river now called Kama were inhabited by mammoth’s and elephant’s ancestors. Presently fishermen have found the fossils of these in the steep banks of Kama. All of it started from there… In the film, you can see how the discovery of the trogonterii mammoth’s fossils became the center of the social initiative for people from the nearest villages and even the Krai’s administrative capital.
The short film The Muse tells us a story about the artist and his inspiration. The characters, created by I. Bunin in his novel a century ago, are shown in the today Moscow for the only purpose - to demonstrate us the philosophy attributed to one of the greatest writers of the first half of 20th century.
Crime drama at a Russian hotel
Story of Lendoc (Leningrad Documentary Films Studio). Among the heroes of the film are not only famous film directors who shot films at the studio in different years, but also employees of other professions, like cinematographers, writers, editors, producers, sound designers…
Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister Christina. They enjoy evening festivities with their older teenage friends by the fire, go on mellow skateboard rides, and have a quiet daytime nap in the garden house. Caressed by the sun and the warmth of his relatives, hidden in the quiet tranquillity of the garden and far away from the cruelty of the outside world, Vadim enjoys his childhood days. Acting as a serene lullaby that mimics the movements of a gentle breeze, Summer provides warmth, joy and solace, offering hope and strength for the future.
The final "canonical" episode of the series is a New Year Special.
This is a love story of two people who for ... Life experience does not allow them to fully believe each other, they are afraid of something, they can not step over something. Autumn of life, as well as autumn of the year… It is no coincidence that the film takes place in autumn, early autumn-this corresponds to the life stage of the main characters.
A cycle of mundane violence, lust for art, and existential dread—all chronicled in an unconventional self-titled docu-horror by Nikita Lavretski, who violently edits lo-fi footage of himself from age 0 to age 16.
The life of a brilliant scientist who managed to live in the era of “developed” socialism in accordance with his own ideas about freedom and morality did not leave indifferent either his colleagues or the authorities.
The devil can be smart, charming, articulate, a philosopher, a critic, an ideologue, sarcastic, sarcastic, angry, and forgiving. Especially if it is played by Fyodor Bondarchuk. Or does he not play it?
An unbiased observation of the celebration of Independence Day of Belarus in Minsk on 3rd of July 2018.
"Sneakers" (2021) is a short film written, directed, and starring Pavel Kizhuk. The plot follows a "confused young man" attempting to gain control of a situation that defies his destiny. Shot in Moscow and Malta, the film has competed at international festivals and was recognized at the Abbey Film Festival in London.
Two tourists are going to relax and have a good time, but in fact they are not exactly tourists.....
A film about love, one day in the life of the heroine, a love triangle.
Marina Kazantseva is a third-year student. A romantic girl who read Dumas and Mayne Reid novels while growing up, Marina is in love with her sport's teacher Konstantin Pavlovich, however, while Konstantin is aware of her feelings, he does not take them seriously. Meanwhile her classmate, Varia blames Marina for her abusive childhood and is planning her revenge. Fifteen years ago, Marina's father, Boris had an affair with Varia's mother, Lyudmila. When Boris's wife, Yekaterina discovered the affair, she returned her husband to the family after creating a very public scandal. Yekaterina then used her position as District Public Education Department Inspector to make sure that her husband's mistress was refused employment from every educational institution in town.
1015 year. Prince Vladimir of Kiev is left alone with the approaching death. Memory brings him back to the past, visions of the past arise.
Businessman Sergei Andronov and his housekeeper were shot dead in their apartment. At the same time, Andronov's younger brother, 35—year-old Andrey, an autistic and brilliant mathematician, was in one of the rooms of the apartment and may have seen the killer. Olga Barkovskaya helps the investigation, with whom Andrey communicates through mathematical formulas. Andrei himself, the wife of the murdered Albin, a former friend Ilya Riman, and the husband of the murdered housekeeper Stukalov fall under suspicion.
Newsreel of the trial of the Cossack commander of the 2nd Cavalry Red Army Filipp Kuzmich Mironov. The part of The History of the Civil War—compilation film created by Vertov in 1921.
The inhabitants of a village yard — a kitten, a dog, and a rabbit — are searching for the “villain” who stole their bone, milk, and carrot.
Baba Yaga finds a smartphone in the forest, but does not know what it is and how it works. She pesters forest dwellers with a request to teach her how to use it. But the animals have no time to teach Baba Yaga. And then she, in frustrated feelings, begins to conjure. And everyone who refused her help suddenly turns into someone else. The forest dwellers understand that they were not kind to Baba Yaga, they fly to her to ask for forgiveness. And in the end, they explain to her how to use smartphones and even teach Baba Yaga to take selfies.
The mid-60s, the time of the "thaw" after the terrible Stalin years. There was a "golden youth" - dudes in trousers with a pipe, jazz "on the ribs", the first farcers. Two blockheads cheerfully while away, trying the delights of adulthood - dancing, wine, girls. But in the end, everyone chooses his life path.
A woman's view of the generation of thirty-year-old men, who fell to the lot of Afghanistan, and the "criminal revolution", and the drug wave, and AIDS...
Levchik, the owner of an Internet cafe, got into jail for financial fraud. His cellmates - the authority Zhuk and the repeat offender Kolyan quickly realized that Levchik had considerable grandmothers left in the wild. But they could not know that the criminally acquired money was pocketed by Levchik’s native aunt, the healer Maria Immaculate.
The main character of the film is a captain from the special services of Russia. He was forced to engage in a private carriage. But when an extreme situation arises - it is the threat of a terrorist attack, the command immediately remembers Captain Stychkin - an unsurpassed specialist who is truly capable of ensuring poverty. Stychkin pushes his grievances and ambitions into the background. The bill is on electricity from the Paveletsky railway station at Domodedovo Airport.
Dasha, nicknamed "Little One," is in love with her older sister Nastya's boyfriend. Wanting to be closer to him, she constantly intrudes, disrupting their relationship and pestering her sister with questions about him. Oblivious to the seriousness of Malaya's feelings, Nastya decides to teach her a lesson, but the "lesson" goes too far. "Little One" is a film about competition, intimacy, and the boundless love of sisters.
The author of the film comes to his Russian uncle Sasha in the German province and helps him in the relentless search for the woman with whom he could live.
After the unexpected death of his mistress, Egor appears as the only possible guardian for her eleven-year-old son Roman. Egor is attached to the boy, but is afraid to lose his wife and two daughters if he tells them the truth about his double life. The boy is about to go into an orphanage. Egor must decide: lose Roman for the sake of his family, or confess to his family and bring home the son of the “other woman”.
When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is blocking their way. An unashamed allegory of the German rape of Belgium.
"Your husband is sleeping with your student" – Olga finds such a note in one of the bouquets that were presented to her in honor of her triumphant speech at the scientific forum. Olga is a mathematician. She can easily figure out who sent this anonymous letter. Except this man is found dead. This is how a dangerous game begins, each move of which is associated with one of the Fibonacci numbers. What do they mean and how are they related to Olga's life? The answer is far in the past. Every mistake will cost the life of someone close to the heroine.
Moscow is a city of women! Both fatal, greedy beauties and naive, hungry for relationships, materially prosperous virgins live here in huge numbers. It is the latter that Vova and Edik use for their commercial purposes. Once the guys meet Olya and Rita, the widow and daughter of a recently deceased large businessman. The girls are rich and naive, their hearts and wallets are open. Edik and Vova are in anticipation of enrichment. But unexpected events make the heroes think that things are not so simple with Olya and Rita.
A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the necessity to reconsider and change his life.
After the start of mass protests in Belarus, demonstrators also appeared in Moscow - at the Belarusian embassy.
Train from Moscow to Vladivostok and back to cope with the task. Freshmen of the Moscow Art Theater School are looking for travel companions to be played upon returning in a new performance. And you feel us - say fellow travelers. Harmonists, ZEKs, whalers, sappers, directors of vegetable bases ... Feel! Drink tea and moonshine with us, listen to our truth and bullshit. All the same, there is no edge. There is only an opportunity to find something important. Over these 14 days. For this road.
An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
ACA 190: Gasanov vs. Aryshev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, August 15, 2025 at the Irina Viner Usmanova Gymnastics Palace in Moscow, Russia.
In the documentary, the official version of the outbreak of war is questioned and hypotheses are put forward about the preparation of an attack on Great Britain...
"Andrey Bitov. The Green Suitcase" is the first portrait film in the work of Viktor Tikhomirov. Initially, the picture was supposed to reflect the process of writing the book "Chaos and Order", which was conceived by Andrey Bitov, and be called like a book. Later, due to objective reasons, the tape was transformed into a cinematic portrait of the writer, whose image is revealed through philosophical concepts: "chaos" and "order". The film features music by the groups "Volkovtrio" and "Auction". The film was awarded a special jury prize at the festival" Literature and Cinema " in Gatchina (2002).
