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Danya and Natalya simultaneously lose their closest person - their childhood friend and son. Their reaction to this shock becomes the starting point for the misunderstanding that the boy feels.

Two skaters from Russia and two skaters from American come together to find friendship and redemption.

This is part of the program that Poperechny presents in St. Petersburg as part of tour with Ruslan Usachev. The video is made up of different pieces and some moments were not included in it (for example, the beginning of the stand-up, its middle and jokes).

Schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky, Vladivostok. Students Egor Chernyuk and Oleg Alexeev, Kaliningrad. Entrepreneur Viktor Barmin, Yekaterinburg. Activist Violetta Grudina, Murmansk. Minibus driver Vladimir Semenov, Astrakhan. What unites these people? All of them are activists of regional headquarters created for the campaign of Alexey Navalny, who announced his self-nomination for the post of President of the Russian Federation. And all of them are the heroes of the film "Electing Russia."

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.

Short film.

Two years ago, only a few people knew about the amazing story of a 93-year-old veteran from the small town of Berezovsky near Yekaterinburg. Today, the name of Nikolai Vasenin is known to millions of people not only in Russia, but also abroad. This is the story of a simple guy from the Kirov region, who at the very beginning of the Great During the Great Patriotic War, in June 1941, he was captured during the Bialystok operation in Belarus.

The plot of the film takes place in a small patio in the center of the southern cosy, sunny city. The frontman of the friendly family decides by any means to find out a possible new lover of his daughter. He is allowed to drink, be angry and know moderately. But he is ready even to fall out with his neighbor and best friend in order to make his daughter happy. But neither he, nor their neighbors, who also worry about the girl, even imagine who is the girl's loved one.

In a forest river, hunters find the body of a young singer named Yanka Diaghilev. From that moment on, a confusing chronicle of the last day in the girl's life begins, during which she will travel a long way - from the city to the dacha, and then into the thicket to the river. On this day, Yanka will have time to see and talk with many people, real and imaginary, even with those who are no longer alive. It seems that Yankee's next step is about to shed light on the circumstances of her mysterious death: hopeless love, arguments with loved ones, disagreements with herself, strange meetings with strangers in the forest.

The Okrestin Sisters is a Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) and Creatives Politics Hub production, shot and directed by a film-maker and BFT ensemble member, Kolya Kuprich. This short captures the first moments upon the release and the immediate witness accounts of three BFT members who were arrested in Minks on August 9th 2020, following the Presidential Election. BFT's General Managers, Nadia Brodskaya and Svetlana Sugako, along with the BFT actor Dasha Andreyanova were rounded up and detained while peacefully waiting for the results of the election at a local polling station. What followed their detention, was a surreal cascade of a Kafkaesque, bureaucratic judiciary system met by brutal, Gestapo-type assault on innocent citizens of Belarus. All happening away from the cameras, behind closed doors, inside authoritarian prisons. The creators of the film want the shed light on what took place in Belarusian prisons during the detentions of August 9-14.

Documentary about the making of Renata Litvinova's 2004 film: "The Goddess: How I Fell in Love."

"The Day of the Common Man" is a film about a ninety-year-old grandfather who lives alone in the village.

Young successful businessman, former orphans Artem Vladimirov together with his partner Sergei Tarasov engaged in the ruin of large companies commissioned by crime.

The story of the miraculous appearance of St. Savva Storozhevsky to the French general Eugène de Beauharnais, stepson of Napoleon.

A documentary comedy about the homeless director Igor Konovalov, who sold his Moscow apartment 7 years ago. He spent most of the money he earned on making movies, but went bankrupt and became homeless. Now Igor spends the night on the bus, feeds on free food handouts and tries in every possible way to survive in the big city. But he does not stop making movies: despite the circumstances, he is always looking for ways to do what he loves.

A short film based on Boris Vasilyev's story "Cold, Cold".

An artistic reconstruction of the life of one person, a poet. Although Marina Tsvetaeva is known not only for her work, but also for her difficult fate, the painting "Passion for Marina" deserves the interest of even those who believe that nothing new will be told about Tsvetaeva. The film uses memoir prose, letters and notebooks of M.I. Tsvetaeva, A.I. Tsvetaeva, A.S. Efron, G.S. Efron, diaries, memoirs and letters of their contemporaries; fragments of films from the collection of the Gosfilmofond of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents.

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After the mysterious death of one of Volkov’s patients, Misha decides to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the truth. But what if the dream and reality merged into one, and in the end he becomes the main suspect?

Alexander Pushkin survives in duel. Young inventors of time machine transfer him to XXI century. But, there are too much dangers in modern world. Moscow teenagers must save great russian poet.

The story of a famous actress who had an incomprehensible attack on the set somewhere in the countryside and was urgently sent to a rural hospital. There she spends a sleepless night in complete obscurity and decides that she is leaving this world. The actress calls all the close people with whom she talks very openly, believing that they should find out the truth.

Garbage thrown out of the window during a party becomes a trigger for a chain of events that the guys can no longer stop.

A friendzoned teen deals with rejection by felling trees with his bare hands.

A film about the life of film director Vitaly Melnikov. The son of an "enemy of the people," a student of Yutkevich and Eisenstein, and a witness to Stalin's "personality cult" and its debunking, Melnikov created such celebrated films as "The Chief of Chukotka," "Mama Got Married," "The Eldest Son," "Vacation in September," "Marry the Captain," and "Poor, Poor Pavel." This documentary about Vitaly Melnikov is the director's personal story and the history of our country, inseparable from each other.

In a mall children club, Karina uniform is a red cape. Her job is to be Little Red Riding Hood, day after day, until the day the story finds her.

Ten-year-old Danya lives in the Russian hinterland with his alcoholic father, Vadim, and teenage sister, Nadya. His mother is in prison. The father is occasionally visited by Larisa, a coworker and lover. One day, a phone call reveals that Danya's mother is being released early on parole. Danya is the only one happy about the news; his father is lost in an alcoholic haze with Larisa, and his sister holds a grudge against their mother. Danya tries to arrange a celebration for her return, but soon realizes he is the only one waiting for her, turning the holiday into a tragedy.

Producer Aleksey Pivovarov and director Alexander Rastorguev started working on a documentary film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Norilsk Nickel, moving away from the traditional form and choosing the web-doc genre. As a result, the project team created an interactive website, norilskfilm.com, filled with many short stories, archival materials and virtual panoramas.

How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING.

An almanac of seven short films on rhymes-pies on the topic of relationships.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Congress of the "Living Church" / Opening of the horse racing season / Demonstration of an American movie camera / Operation of mobile projection units.

War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...

Russian pop singer Lolita celebrates her 41st birthday by taking to the stage and delivering a big show, including duets with special guests.

The slang word "Psevdezh" is a free translation of the philosophical term "simulacrum" and means a sign that does not have a signified object in reality. The heroes of the film are trying to understand whether the activity of others is this very pseudo-death. A team of young actors begins to work on a performance that is dedicated to conceptual artists, heroes of the 90s. In the course of work, the two creative groups constantly collide, and with each meeting, both in actors and in artists, mutual irritation will grow.

A reflection on freedom, filmed at the end of summer in one of the closed military camps, the full name of which is "ZATO Svobodny". Residents of Svobodny of different ages answer questions about what is freedom? Are they free? And is "Svobodny" Free?

The film's protagonist, a hearing-impaired high school student named Styopa, is in love with Yulia, with whom he studies at the same school. At graduation, he will have to make an important choice for his fate: to confess his feelings to her or not. The film presents two parallel plot developments, demonstrating alternative outcomes of their relationship depending on Styopa's decision: a long-term relationship leading to the creation of a family, or a breakup. The voice-over in poetic form reveals the inner world of the characters and the peculiarities of communication with people with hearing impairments.

To a man who has never made mistakes, suddenly comes the conscience in the guise of his illegitimate blind son, and now in the life of the hero one mistake follows another. Conscience is an ill-mannered and insolent boy who comes when you do not expect him at all.

The film tells about one of the most familiar to man and at the same time the most amazing substances of the surrounding world, about air, about its natural properties, about the contradictions and costs of its uncontested "cohabitation" with a person. The basis of the film's narrative will be the monologues of recognized experts in various fields of knowledge and various fields of activity, each of which will characterize the air from their professional point of view.

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.

Animated actors and vases tell stories from Greek mythology. Part of a 100-film international project on the theme of world culture. (Robert Donn)

About how a fox, cunning and greedy, got into a friendly team of animals.

Alexander Ostrovsky's textbook comedy in the modern interpretation of Kirill Serebrennikov: about the price of freedom and love in the same ruble equivalent.

Screen adaptation of the play of the same name by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov.

Propaganda film about the "militia" of Donbass. Spring-summer 2014. Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. Radically-minded local residents, who consider what is happening in the country as a threat to their usual existence, form separatist detachments of the "people's militia". Among them are young women - the main character of the film, who becomes a tank gunner, before that she was a modest history teacher, whose husband was afraid to join the militia.

Snow is a form of precipitation of crystalline form, referring to precipitation. For the heroine of the film, the word “snow” has a completely different meaning.

Rimsky-Korsakov lavished a gorgeous score on this rustic tale of love and the supernatural. This acclaimed 2008 production by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre marks the opera’s first appearance on DVD. The company’s brilliant staging is modern in its dramatic intensity yet firmly rooted in the traditional heart of the work.

Musical short film, the second part of the "Becoming a Soldier" duology.

More recently, in the middle of the last century, a group of enthusiasts began to develop a sport unique to Russia: water skiing. Very quickly, riding on the water behind the boat became popular: tricks became more complicated, new champions appeared. And a few decades later, water skiing was replaced by modern wakeboarding — with its own unique path and bright characters.

The fisherman caught one fish, but not a gold one, but an ordinary one. He was walking home through the forest and met Leshy, who was in trouble. The fisherman helped him, treated him to a fish and received a reward from Leshy for his kindness - a mill that can grind salt and give him any food... if you know how to ask for it. The fisherman has healed well! But the happiness of others excites envy. The merchant stole a mill to grind salt, but was punished for greed - he drowned along with the ship. And the mill continues to work at the bottom - that’s why the water in the sea is salty.

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and giving this freedom to the people.

Chronicle of the last day of the life of Alena. Once in winter, she was kicked out of the house ... Memories of her daughter, events of the day, farewell words - everything was mixed in her head.

Portrait of a young man with a difficult fate. Despite the inherent mental illness, the film's hero earns money for his drinking mother and sister.