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Director Philip Zadorozhny met Vasily Beilin many years ago. Later, the group AkmelikA grew up around Vasily — and a musical Odyssey began, which continues to this day. During the quarantine, the Director went to visit friends and made a film about their world, in which nothing has changed.
The Association of DJs of Flammable Beats — these are the people who made soul, funk and hip-hop familiar at Moscow parties: for 20 years, they systematically educated the public, offering an alternative to a straight barrel. "Box of Matches" tells about the times when broken rhythms were not yet mainstream, and immerses us in the current life of each of the characters, interrupted by musical pauses.
An ensemble of Russia’s elite rippers and street artists team up for a plaza-packed full-length that also features huge hubbas and a dreamy soundtrack. Step through the post-Soviet portal to see a granite-covered vision come to life.
A documentary film almanac of 9 short stories about people who returned from different parts of the mine to their small homeland, to the Perm Territory, and successfully realized themselves in creativity, business or professional activities. These are real, successful, sometimes sentimental, sometimes funny, with ups and downs, but most importantly, these are happy stories of returning home.
Morning Star flew through cities, deserts, and forests until she met her mate.
The moment when something wonderful happened in the swamp.
From the memoirs of Marina Gustavovna Storkh, the daughter of the Russian philosopher, polymath and thinker Gustav Shpet, who was shot in 1937. A tragic story connected with the founders and the last years of the famous Alferov Gymnasium in Moscow, where the daughters of Chaliapin, Polenov, Nesterov studied…
The famous traveler, scientist and philanthropist Frederik Paulsen, who conquered all 8 poles of our planet, plunged into the depths of the Arctic Ocean, studied the bottom of Lake Baikal and the Novosibirsk Islands, in the company of actress Agnia Ditkovskite went on a new expedition to Tuva. Their goal is to reach the top of the sacred mountain Mongun-Taiga. Tuvans believe that there, at an altitude of almost 4 thousand meters, dwells a spirit that protects the entire Tuvan land. And they don't let outsiders in there.
Moscow, the 9th of May. The city is celebrating the commemoration of the end of World War II, but Sasha can’t find peace.
15 days before the Christmas concert in Sunday school. Sasha and Tikhon, pupils of the school, will spend all this time with their parents, argue with them at family evenings with or without a reason, and gradually begin to realize that the "children" truth can be more true than the "adult".
Sabina dreamed of an ideal place to live away from civilization. To find him, she leaves the parental home and goes with her husband Sergei and one-year-old Yaseya to Altai. The road turns into a nightmare of daily quarrels: Sabina does not want to help with the child, clean up and cook, and Sergei gets tired of endless scandals. Against the background of growing irritation with each other, Sabina's dreams are increasingly detached from reality. And yet, the journey continues.
A midwife and single mother who “drinks too often and cries too much,” according to her kids, is looking for companionship. Post-divorce, she’s lonely, with a limitless resource to love that’s not being used. Will a sexcation with a married man fill her need? Or will finding a way to love herself?
"Triptych" is a short experimental three-act film that reflects an attempt to visualize the laws and theories of the astrophysics in an art way.
Polina is a bisexual Russian girl. This documents her coming out to her family.
What do people with Down syndrome feel, living behind the wall of incomprehension? Although they are different from us, they experience the same feelings. These people are also diverse in their behavior and character. And they have a strong desire for others to understand them. But the lack of knowledge about their lives, the prejudices of those around them do not allow a person with Down syndrome to go to work or study, to be a full member of society. In times of global confinement we all understood what it meant to be cut off from society. And now imagine that people with Down syndrome live in permanent isolation, rejected by society. This film is an attempt to reflect on our differences and our similarities regardless of our particularities.
Maria is an English teacher from a provincial city , and one day she was unfairly dismissed for religious reasons. Now she has no money, no job, so Maria is forced to find a way out of a difficult situation, which in the future will completely change her fate.
A film about punk enthusiast and rock tour organizer Denis Alekseev, who traveled across Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok in a falling apart Gazelle. Once he took the band Jars on tour. But something went wrong, and he returned alone.
A journey to the other side of the forest with meetings of the spirits of Salt, Mercury and Sulfur.
On the banks of the Tym River, on Sakhalin, a village with the indigenous peoples of Sakhalin, the Nivkhs, lives its life. Lyuba has long since left her native village for St. Petersburg. However, the memory of her father, a war veteran, and those who fought for greater Russia from a small Sakhalin village haunts the heroine of the film.
The story of an ordinary family of the country from the height of a kitchen chandelier. How the spirit of the times, its attributes, the atmosphere of the house and family members have changed in 40 years.
The film based on the drawings that are made by the children who are the hospices patients. The film tells that even in the most difficult situation, there is a place for joy and laugh.
The story is about a man and a woman, who are married for a long time, try to regain theirs love and hope on the seashore under the steamer`s beeps.
This cartoon was created in the Republic of Yakutia-Sakha. The person who leads us into the world of Yakut traditions was a blacksmith Kuday Bakhsy. Was he a blacksmith or a demiurge?
A resident of the Vyatka village of Bezdenezhnye, a pensioner Viktor Odintsov, dreamed of the starry sky from an early age. But he was able to take up astronomy and build three observatories on his estate only now, after completing his service in military aviation. And everything would be fine, but his dearest wife is constantly trying to pull her "astronomer" from the starry heights to the sinful earth. But the wife of his countryman and namesake dentist Alexander Odintsovo does not just support her husband's passion for paragliding, she herself loves to fly with him as a passenger.
A tragicomic video about the difficulties of communication, in which non-professional actors try to build a dialogue by speaking in different languages (Russian, English and German). Like the characters in a Beckett play, they are in an endless wait at an empty bus stop, and the language and cultural gap turn the conversation into an absurd, but characteristic of today's situation of "non-communication". Translation difficulties are a convenient excuse for ignoring those who are nearby and going into cultural escapism. Is it possible to bridge this gap and make the other hear you?
A carefree human life is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a large hole. The hero closes the hole, but what is hidden behind the hole continues to persistently demand attention.
The story of the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov, a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political, state and party figure, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR in 1930-1941, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1939-1949, 1953-1956. The film is about love, friendship, devotion, human helplessness before the fate and moloch of great historical processes.
A Greek translator periodically has sex with random taxi drivers in the car at night, never meeting them again. But the fascinated non-Russian taxi driver still tries to find her, instead he is detained by the police.
On the cinema screen lying the phone. Camera slowly zooming to this phone. Viewers are watching.
A girl from a savage tribe once comes to a resolution that she wants more from life than eating quarry and she escapes the cave for the world outside.
Two students rent an apartment in the city. Their meeting was happenstance. Freedom unfolds in a rather different way through the perspective of a roommate.
The wind is howling! Only someone who has spent the night in a field will understand me. Matsuo Bashō
The film is about a girl with a camera who tries to find herself through other people.
In dystopian near future Chloe, an apt mechatronics engineer, lives a life of a recluse in her shop, and tries desperately to make ends meet by hunting stray androids at night. Meeting Isaac, a naive survivor of her last assault, changes her life... Or, does it?
"Shcha, 5 sec" appeared as a joke exactly a year ago in 2019 in the Animation Club of the "Big Cartoon Festival". Animation director Yevgeny Fadeev joked, and curator Nadezhda Svirskaya took up the organization: in social networks, the reception of 5-second cartoons was announced, which anyone could send, regardless of their professional level. The initiators expected that the entire program would consist of a couple of minutes, because the open call lasted only a week, but almost 150 films were sent, including from abroad.
Maxim Evdokimov on provincial appearance, comfortable life in the regions, education and English, relationships with a rich girl, draft dodgers and military service.
The revolution of 1905. The crowd, which is rebelling against the authorities, has seized the policeman and is leading him to be executed. But then, above all the screams, a child's cry is heard in the middle of the crowd. The policeman's son, having made his way through the crowd, throws himself on his father's neck. He changes the policeman's death sentence to freedom, restoring humanity to both the crowd and his father.
This is a story about a young King whose generosity was rewarded.
The art of calligraphy refers to the Islamic heritage, culture and tradition. At the dawn of Islam, the use of Arabic script was considered sacred, and sacred texts gave rise to a rich abundance of manuscripts and initiated the tradition of calligraphy, which for more than a thousand years was preserved and developed not only for the design of manuscripts, but also in the art of architecture, ceramics and miniatures.
Large-scale protests have not stopped in Belarus for a month now. The riots, which have become one of the bloodiest in the history of the country, were not spontaneous, experts say. And the authors of this political drama, apparently, should be sought on the other side of the Atlantic.
A documentary about how Belarus has changed since August 9, 2020. These are the stories of a little man - our main, most important hero.
The action consists of two parts and is timed to the day of the presidential elections in the Republic of Belarus.
The film is about how our older generation saved our lives and defeated the plague of the 20th century!
In deep space, living matter is recorded on an asteroid. And a rover robot is sent there with a research mission.
Author's animation film "Voices" in the genre of "documentary animation". The plot is based on a true story.
A story about a heroine who is tormented by reminders of space and her confrontation with obsessions.
A dental story about happiness.
Russian folk rhymes for the little ones.
In the Far North, the young wife of an Eskimo fisherman dies in an accident. One day, an inconsolable widower goes hunting and accidentally catches a skeleton, which turns out to be the remains of his wife. The fisherman resurrects his wife with the power of his love.
This film is about a relationship of a man with two women. The women – his girlfriend and his grandmother - are the ones in charge.
A Nigerian girl named Blessing came to Moscow during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. But instead of the promised job, they took away her documents and sent her to a brothel. She worked as a prostitute for 4 months. After her release, she had lived with six friends in a one-room apartment planning to stay in Russia, find a job and arrange her life.
Nadia and Nikolai Fyodorovich's job is to save children in the North. They are both air ambulance doctors, but with different experience: Nikolai Fedorovich has been working for more than 40 years, and Nadia-3 years. About the difficult everyday life of doctors – a documentary by Anna Katorina.