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New animated film by Elena Lapshina.

Animation for the song "Gravity" by the Greek band The Motiff. A song about gravity. Every child that is to be born meets gravity.

One day in the life of a man whose home was a bench on a railway platform.

The story of 36-year-old Albert, an experienced tire changer, who once sang in a dusty hangar on camera and suddenly became famous in Tik Tok. The film reveals the issue of illusory happiness by the example of the character’s fate. False and genuine values ​​is the main theme and motivation for the plot development and the plot includes an unhappy family and a dubious career, a son missing his father, and a father who is busy with his own affairs and has no time for the family.

Adversarial Infrastructure is an investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method. Dissecting the Crimean Bridge, the crystallised artefact of Russian colonial violence that spans through cyberspace no less than an offline landscape, this film aims to assemble the new image of logistical infrastructures as a type of hybrid warfare.

Kirill Sietlov's solo concert, recorded in St. Petersburg at the STAGE club on October 17, 2020.

UNEARTH presents research into processes connected to resource extraction and zooms in on material transformations and mining machines. It weaves together fragments from conversations that were recorded in the Russian Ural Mountain region, dealing with the emergence of new minerals, an obsession with stones and the life cycle of machines.

When the world falls apart, all that remains is to assemble a new one. Eliko is 90, and she has been painting all her life, or rather, assembling her paintings from scrap materials - pieces of other people's dishes, pebbles, glass, and her own memory.

The story of the writer's life and work, telling about the search and finding the Way, about the fusion of reality and fairy tales. The hero finds answers at the junction of two worlds — material and spiritual. In his books, he gives the reader the opportunity to see this facet as well. So what is hidden between the lines? The film will answer the main question: where is the truth here, and where is the fiction?

A little girl wakes up in the middle of a watermelon melon. She hears voices from watermelons. These are the stories of women - their fears. "Watermelon Bone" is a documentary animation about the fears of motherhood. The film is about love - the most sincere love – maternal.

Documentary animation about the skin and the experience of living with atopic dermatitis. She explores the feelings of control over her body, how the events of the past are intertwined with the present and how art helps to become the narrator of her story again. The film is based on a recording of a conversation with a partner and was made in a diary format, without a script and storyboard.

Sometimes I want to turn into a big cat…

The cat Maruska lives happily with her owners, until one day a child appears in the house.

Tomorrow we will stop being afraid of death. Thanks to cybernetic implants. Digital consciousness. Cryogenic freezing. Other life extension technologies. Humanity is on the verge of immortality. Or not?

What if?...

Kirill arrives at his parents' house to inform his family that he has been expelled from the university. It turns out that in the 3 years they haven't seen each other, everyone has their own secrets.

A documentary about vintage amateur runner Andrey Chirkov. At the age of 54, he argued with colleagues at work over a glass of vodka that he would prepare and run the Moscow Peace Marathon in four months. Now he is 81 years old and has 180 marathons behind him. Including in Antarctica and the first marathon at the North Pole. Andrey Chirkov is the author of 6 books about running and more than 200 publications in various publications on the topic of sports. The main idea is to show the spirit and essence of amateur running using the example of one person.

Three guys in a small town decide to get money by robbing a store late at night.

A crime story about two underdogs who accidentally kill a man and try to get rid of the corpse

Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?

A film about half-hints and half-presences: are they happy or not? Everything flows into everything, is it love or is it separation?

One day a little boar wanted to find out what is beyond the horizon, what hides the distance, where do the birds fly? Thanks to a chance meeting and his kindness, he was able to realize his dream and saw a big and beautiful world!

Modern Moscow, Russia. A young girl lives together with her friend. Exams are completed, a carefree summer has come: there is time for playing the guitar, reading the poetry of Joseph Brodsky and a cup of coffee on the veranda. An accidental touch of her friend turns the heroine's world upside down. She becomes the object of her sensual desires. Gradually the heroine begins to exist in two worlds: real and transcendental. On one hand, there is a fear of appearing misunderstood, betraying a friend's trust. On the other hand, dreams of touching and intimacy drive her crazy. Sexual fantasies, jealousy, confusion - Attempts to get away from problems with the help of drugs lead to a fatal end.

Elderly Victor painfully experiences the death of his beloved wife with his son. Once in their lives, a social worker Irina appears, revealing the unexpected truth about each of them.

Medical workers tell us what difficulties they faced during the peak moments of the epidemic, saving lives of people across the country. The film also features comments by scientists, psychologists and journalists about the causes and consequences of the pandemic.

Video essay in the found footage technique. The film is built on a visual metaphor, it uses an ironic juxtaposition that tells about the strange force that makes humanity at all times, as if by itself, line up in even rows and arrange itself.

A late declaration of love. A visual essay on the Kaliningrad environs on the poem "The Great Elegy to John Donne" by Joseph Brodsky.

This is a film about DJ, vocalist, host and showman, former lead singer of the "140 beats per minute" group Yura Abramov, who left this world in January 2020.

Will Russian courier services interfere with the delivery of large consignments of drugs?

The film is set on New Year's Eve. Three stories from different heroes - about the teenager Nyurgun, Nadia's teacher, the boy Algys and the girl Saina. This is a film about magic, kindness and fulfillment of desires. And you will find out later how their stories are connected...

This work is based on the story of the Soviet scientist-breeder Fedor Zorin, who began an experiment in the 1930s on grafting different types of citrus fruits to one tree.

Three stories – shaman girls, a veteran of the Moscow BDSM club and a young actor with mental development peculiarities. About different types of human relationships with his body, mind, memory, feelings... Ancient cultures knew about this non-identity of a person to his body. Modern people seem to have forgotten about this, but the fundamental human desire to be free from the limitations of the material world has not disappeared anywhere.…

At work, she was always a black sheep and endured ridicule because of her fatness, but suddenly everything magically changed after the lottery ticket turned out to be winning, and she became the owner of a luxury Mercedes ....

Student Inna rents a room from her grandmother and dives headlong into her studies without wasting any more time. But, at the same time, she does not know that a noisy neighbor lives above her, who disrupts her plans for study, and possibly her personal life.

An introduction to the maritime lifestyle of the Crimean peninsula in the summer of 2020 using freely available streams from webcams installed in public places for the purpose of local tourism promotion.

The man is dying. A person is born. Who is next to him at this moment? Almost always today it is a midwife and a nurse. The most feminine profession is often the toughest. Where to draw strength for this work, the essence of which is to be close to a person? How to save yourself and give yourself at the same time?

Andrey Kravtsov went from a car factory worker to the founder of a successful fashion brand: SHU clothes are sold in Milan, Berlin, Copenhagen and in Russia, and Andrey himself is a frequent guest of prestigious international fashion exhibitions. In this film, he talks about how to believe in his dream and what it costs to organize production in China, and the audience looks at the world through the eyes of a designer: Andrey "scans" the clothes of passers-by for interesting solutions and builds perfect order in his own house.

Alex performs and interacts with Russians on a concert tour from Moscow to the Black Sea resort areas, and for a finale, performs at the Russian "50th Anniversary of Woodstock" Concert.

There is snow and ice fragments outside the window. The winter bird sings, the northern deer sings, the wind sings, the high, high edges of the sky sing. The girl sings, but so carefully that the breath does not accidentally scare off the fire at the end of the stick

The butler Austin, the hero of the popular mobile game Homescapes, usually busy with everyday household worries in the game, falls into the viscous fluid space of sleep, into a world falling apart, in which he tries to find at least something permanent.

A sad girl wants to order candy at home, but instead receives an invitation to a mysterious party.

Anton is preparing to become a dad. He himself grew up without a father and therefore is tormented by doubts: will he be able to cope with such a responsibility? Having run away from home under the pretext of buying milk, he meets a man who strongly resembles his father, who went for milk 17 years ago.

Computer sounds and programmed movements erase the boundary between document and fiction. A constructed, almost magical environment is superimposed onto everyday images, imbuing them with an elusive sense of the otherworldly. Mysteries exists in murky dialogue with Signal to Noise, whose subjects appear here ten years later.

INFRA is an audiovisual work dedicated to sound and its electrical nature. The protagonist of the film is a post-human entity traveling through apocalyptic landscapes. The birth and the character's slow motion is followed by soundscapes of field recordings, electric and magnetic fields noises, electric guitar and vocals.

In the video essay the author explores man's place in nature and his co-presence with other things and entities, proposing to abandon anthropocentric optics and consider the idea of collective agency of the living.

Through the encounter of digital and film images, the author attempts to capture the complex relationships between events and their imaginable interpretation. Based on the real love story of two friends, the film questions: “What is more important, reality itself or the result of its artistic transfiguration?”

A video essay about the relationship between literature, politics and art in contemporary Russia. It focuses on the book Mister Hexogen written by Alexander Prokhanov.

Every two years Zhukovsky, a city situated 42 km from Moscow, hosts an international aerospace exhibition MAKS on a former military airfield with around 300,000 visitors per day. Tsagovsky Forest around the airfield is made of pine trees and called the lungs of Moscow. In 2012 an illegal deforestation took place to build a wider highway towards the aerospace exhibition, which led to mass protests and arrests of activists.

The southern Russian hinterland. A schoolboy named Roma, being very late for classes, gets run over by a black SUV in front of witnesses. But no one is in a hurry to call an ambulance and the police.

The story of those who made possible the first human flight into space, but remained behind the scenes. The heroes of the film are Semyon Kosberg and other engineers who worked in the Voronezh design bureau on the third stage of the rocket engine, without which the Gagarin spacecraft would not have entered orbit on April 12, 1961. Memories of Viktor Skachilov, the only surviving member of Kosberg's team, and archive photos are intertwined with animation and an inspired soundtrack created specifically for the film. "Kosberg worked" is about hard work for the sake of a great dream, about scientific breakthroughs and people who do the incredible.

Yasha is 14 years old, and he plays in the band Zavodoy, which he created two years ago. Zavodoy perform at fashionable Moscow venues, participate in collaborations with famous artists and record their second album, but Yasha does not lose her childlike spontaneity. His life is shown through the usual formats for his generation — including screenlife.

Serzhan about the rallies and his background, about dating an active girl and life with his father, about buying bananas and going to the movies.