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The main character, a fisherman, lives in a small house on the beach. One day he came to the sea, but not to fish, but to invite a mermaid on a rather unusual date.

Song from the album "In the meter" of the group "Time Machine".

Arkady Zverev is a serial killer. Behind him is the tail of crimes in several large cities of Russia. He is detained after he eats a man with his 12-year-old girlfriend. Soon Zverev takes his own life, and the official investigation is stopped. Relatives demand a trial, and the dwarf, obsessed with criminal plots, falls in love with the image of Zverev and tries to prove his innocence.

Constant physical and psychological violence, forced abortions, punitive psychiatry, complete lack of privacy, inability to be with a loved one, children taken away – for tens of thousands of women trapped in the stumps of Russia, this is an ordinary life. Capable and recognized incapacitated women, who are quite able to live independently or under the supervision of a social worker, are locked up for life in the barracks of the PSNI, where hundreds of people are kept under one roof, treating them like prisoners of high-security colonies. Those who managed to get out told us their stories.

Reflection on several days spent in Irkutsk, Baikalsk, on Lake Baikal on the island of Olkhon.

A literary and musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

The heroine of the film is jogging, preparing for the marathon, but this is not at all a reason to remain indifferent to people! A funny story about the cycle of good that took place in a city park.

New animated film by Savva Karmanov.

The film is based on the stories of veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War collected by the author and director of the film Sergey Masalsky.

One day spent waiting for the approaching happiness: walking around the city, from store to store, two sisters check long ago selected gifts - for the ever–approaching birthday. Whose? Sony dolls. Yes. It remains only to wait, just a little bit, for an eternity to be together forever, and not to see each other like this sometimes through the glass of a showcase... But what if Sonya leaves for another one without waiting for the cherished day? Everyone knows how easily the adult world can destroy children's plans, but in this story everything will happen the other way around.

This story begins with a horse that walks independently in the middle of a small German town and leads us to its owner, Werner– an elderly pensioner with a unique destiny who has devoted his whole life to caring for animals and plants. He does not just profess an ecological lifestyle, but by his example teaches the residents of Fechenheim to take care of nature.

Mikhail Petrovich Zorin is the last surviving signalman of the first composition of the legendary 330th Infantry Regiment (86th Infantry Division), who heroically fought on the Nevsky Piglet during the defense of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. In April 1942, in the course of a powerful onslaught of the German group, almost all the soldiers who were at that time in the regiment's location were killed, and the wounded were taken prisoner. Mikhail Zorin survived thanks to a unique combination of circumstances.

Who promised Muscovites that the war of 1812 would not affect them? How was it punished for retelling news to friends in the XIX century? How did Napoleon and the French behave in captured Moscow? And the main question is: who really burned Moscow?

The events that happened to the boy, who came to the village for the summer to visit his grandmother, taught him to empathize with someone else's misfortune, to be responsible for those who were "tamed".

Alexander Viktorovich lives near the village of Mokhovoye, on the shore of a pond. This is a fishery site where he breeds fish for sale. Every day fishermen come to him to relax and fish. Alexander Viktorovich is an elderly, sick person, and constant hard physical work is not easy for him.

He is jealous of her because his friend has invited her to the rehearsal of his group. She has not chosen anybody, but it seems they have done this for her.

The story of a man who missed his flight, and the next one also fell overnight and that he would not fall asleep, peers with all his might into the reality surrounding him.

Today, indifference to each other, devaluation of the other person's personality have become, unfortunately, the norm of life. The habit of ignoring the desires and aspirations of another person, not even allowing the thought of their existence, leads to cruel, and sometimes criminal actions. Understanding that each person is a unique universe, a unique world, could save humanity from many tragic events. Humanity can be saved, but does it want to?

Settled on earthen counters, lying under the endless steps of buyers and onlookers, the history of the country for the last 100 years in the stories of the inhabitants of the flea market on Udelnaya.

Welcome to our museum! Even if you do not know what to do in it, our qualified staff will show you everything and will not let you get bored! The main thing is not to forget to feed the hamster ;)

Based on Soviet technicolor melodramas from the 1950s the film recreates the macabre choreographies of poststalinism. Everybody is spying on everybody else. Nobody is sure anymore how their sweetheart looks like.

The chronicle of the events of 2019 in the student media The Vyshka, whose editorial staff wrote loud texts, held planning meetings, went to rallies and reported from court hearings. But, more importantly, the film chronicles the confrontation between Russia's largest student media: from the outbreak of conflicts with the administration of the Higher School of Economics to the deprivation of the status of a student organization. He also talks about the change in editorial management, the difficulties in the development of an independent media and why The Vyshka is so much more than working chats.

An experimental feature film, shot by a team of artists from Moscow and Saint Petersburg without any institutional or production support. Gloomy but not entirely devoid of comedy, it represents a rather amusing mixture of slapstick, early avantgarde, Švankmajer-esque animation and Leningrad Necrorealism. At the heart of it is the life story of a depersonalised hermit who has been thrown out of historical time and is stuck in a looped timelessness. This is the story of a solitary war, fought simultaneously in external and internal territories, while blurring the boundaries between them in the dreams and reveries of a madman.

Collection of documentary works of students of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov about the pandemic.

Does it infuriate you too when neighbors are endlessly noisy? These unbearable sounds of alarm clocks, loud music, noisy vacuum cleaner. Sometimes this noise brings you so much that you just want to kill your neighbors. But even the worst conflicts can lead to unexpected results.

Alisa and Max’s mother died early but managed to leave her apartment and debts to her children. Debts are claimed by a man whom Alisa doesn’t know, their aunt is hunting for their apartment. The girl is doing everything she can to relieve her younger brother’s stress which he has after their mother’s death and is also trying to solve the problems with the debts and their aunt.

The film will tell the audience about the life and work of the legendary Japanese textile artist Itchiku Kubota. At the age of 20, while studying the art of dyeing fabrics at the Tokyo Museum, Ichiku Kubota was inspired by the patterns of the special painting on fabric for kimono "tsujigahana". The secret of labor-intensive technology seemed to be lost forever.

Kamancha could die in the Chechen war, could die from wounds or drugs. But he survived and saw the light. He says about himself, "I was a creature, but I want to become God's creation."

The "Akrestino" detention center in Minsk received the gloomy fame of a place where people were especially severely beaten and tortured. However, this did not stop the demonstrations, and the authorities - at least temporarily, stopped their attempts to forcefully suppress the protests - and people freely took to the streets of Belarusian cities, and demonstrations in Minsk became unprecedented in number in the post-Soviet years.

The Samara film studio "Three Comrades" has produced a documentary about Samara—a cinematic love letter to its hometown. The film’s screenwriter is Boris Kozhin—a renowned Samara documentary filmmaker, writer, and local historian—a man who knows thousands of stories about nearly every house and courtyard in the city. Unfolding at a leisurely pace—as languid as a summer evening on the banks of the Volga—the film *Samara and Its Inhabitants* tells the story of the magnificent city of Samara and its residents, both past and present. It speaks of the Volga—a river that not only serves as the city’s foundation but also shapes the unique character of those who have dwelt upon its shores for nearly five centuries—as well as of the winds blowing off the river and the scorching Samara sun.

The hero receives a mysterious letter, inside which he finds a constructor capable of turning any object into a mouse.

The film is about a boy who lives outside and how he tries to get the attention of people living inside with the help of hooliganism.

In the summer of 2019, the largest protest rallies in recent years took place in Moscow after the refusal to elect independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma. Usually attracting the least attention, the Moscow parliamentary elections were the main political event of the year. The film tells about the election campaign of the headquarters of Daria Besedina and Anastasia Bryukhanova.

On a night train, a father tells his son a bedtime story. The day after, they will arrive in Siberia, 500 km away from the closest village, to follow Vissarion, a self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus. With his delicate voice, the boy shares his fears and fading memories. An intimate look at the dark nature of sectarianism.

When Denis Lapshinov came to the Moscow branch of BBDO as a junior art director in 2007, foreigners - natives of England, Brazil, Germany, Italy, the USA and even Turkey - occupied leading positions in the city's main creative agencies - this era lasted about ten years. “The Pioneers” is Denis's attempt to show their views not only on the evolution of the Russian advertising industry, but also on our culture, our features, our strengths and weaknesses.

According to the plot of the cartoon, a dog named Faithful is the only one who remains alive after the treacherous attack of the horde of the Crimean Khan Devlet Giray on one of the fortified prisons of the Bolshaya Zasechnaya Line. His task is to bring the news of the approaching disaster to Tula. Faithful sets out on a journey and, with the help of friends, fulfills his dangerous mission.

There were many incredible turns in the life of the main character of the film, so surprising that it seems that the biography of one person simply cannot contain them. From Moscow State University to Baghdad University, from there to the Central Committee of the CPSU, and then to work as a watchman in an Orthodox church and a swift church career under the direct tutelage of Patriarch Alexy II. Now this man, remaining a priest, develops new talents of the writer, literary critic and propagandist of poetic creativity Vladimir Vysotsky. He is also an artistic musician and singer. In general, personality.

The film is about the Sakhalin and Nivkh writer Vladimir Sangi. The writer's life is closely intertwined with the fate of the people, the endangered aborigines of Sakhalin – the Nivkhs.

A stupid person gets everyone around, it's impossible to escape from him!

Winter. St. Petersburg after the apocalypse. The world of the future is sad and joyless. But there is hope, of course!

They are told never to tell anyone about themselves in order to appear normal and not be rejected by society. There is an inner tension and fear growing inside the characters. They are intersex people, but there is not much information about LGBT+ in Russian. One day everything changes, and they decide to tell the world about themselves, that intersex people exist, and there are millions of them.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is going to be elected to this post for the sixth time in a row at the August 9 elections.

A six-year-old boy diagnosed with autism suffers from a lack of parental love. The only person he loves and understands is his nanny. Once on the playground during a walk, a monstrous story happens - his nanny is arrested. The boy is left alone in the big world, which is more than hostile to him.

A documentary about people whom the state, the guardianship authorities and the closest relatives recognized as incompetent, perhaps because they are all pupils of the PNI. Our heroes live in a separate house of accompanied residence in the village of Razdolye, where they earn money themselves, partially supporting themselves as far as they can. Famous people often come to this house. The first episode of this series tells about the arrival of the writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin.

The film is based on a series of videos for the Internet dedicated to front-line operators of the Great Patriotic War.

Kolya Voronov, a 17-year-old boy with a synthesizer, who gained viral popularity in the mid-2000s with the song "White Dragonfly of Love" and quickly became the center of attention of journalists. He has been invited to interviews and talk shows countless times, and his eccentric songs have been parodied and covered by famous artists. This went on for several years, and then there was silence. Kolya disappeared. A serious mental illness threw him into real isolation, where only he, the cat and the music exist.

A story about a perfectionist girl. Her fanatical pursuit of perfection sometimes goes beyond reason.

Little Elsa, left without parents, lives with her grandparents on a remote taiga zaimka. But life turns so that the girl is forced to go on a difficult journey to the nearest village. There are only matches and some bread in Elsa's backpack. Ahead-snow, frost and dense Siberian taiga.

This dress has become a family legend. It was worn on especially solemn occasions, passing to each other. Today, family members live in different countries, but the history of the green dress has brought them together again in the virtual space.

St. George Monastery 90 km from Berlin is the only monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate in Germany. About 10 monks and novices live here, most of them in their early twenties. They conduct church services, build and renovate the monastery, the isolated location of which and the absence of parishioners make the daily life of novices from large cities in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia similar to the practice of early Christian hermits. They have different motives for staying here, and for some, the tranquility of a remote German village also means loneliness and doubt.

What if there will be the Last Judgment for artists? Will the decision of the Last Judgment coincide with the conclusion of the Russian court, which doomed the artist to 20 years of exile? As a child, Avdei Ter-Oganian was fascinated by the works of avant-garde artists. So, the harder he tried to be the professional in the field of avant-garde art, the more critical and provocative he seems to be. But his colleagues, artists, who often became objects of Avdei’s provocations, and even representatives of authorities tolerated him. But once, during Moscow's Art Manege Fair in December 1998, Ter-Oganian conducted a scandalous performance: with a hatchet, he destroyed several icons - cheap objects, one he painted over with a profanity. His performance caused public protests towards his mistreatment of these icons, although they were just objects sold for tourists as souvenirs on the streets. As the scandal grew, Ter-Oganian's exhibit was closed, and further performances were prohibited.

My wife, kids and I travelled 6417 kilometers from Moscow to Vladivostok to meet our relatives, living there. 6417 kilometers is a straight-line distance. But paths are never straight…

New movie by Maxim Eruzhenets and Marina Kirakosyan

My father died under obscure circumstances when I was just one year old – one of the millions of Russian men who died too soon in the nineties. Why were those years in Russia so deadly? After 26 years, I want to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Coronavirus has changed the lives of everyone. What predictions can be made and, most importantly, what lessons can be learned from the current situation?