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A few stories about dreams, death and love in Stockholm.

The film tells about the dramatic fate of Lydia Nikolaevna Delectorskaya, muse, model, love of the great French artist Henri Matisse.

A fatal accident - a hostage taking in a distant country - brings together an important diplomat, his unfaithful wife and her lover. To be saved, they need to act together, but is it possible, when hatred is stronger than the desire to live, a sense of duty is more important than reputation, and betrayal is higher than love?

A teenage girl from a dysfunctional family, whose parents keep an inexpensive roadside cafe, runs away from home. "It's not I who left them, they left me," - so the girl explains her flight.

A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.

Full of irony melodrama about a long history of love, which received an unexpected continuation after many years. About her hero, trying to guess his future and, to his own surprise, sometimes guessing it.

The protagonist in this experimental documentary is the homeless young artist and drifter Katya Krenalinova, who burned down the house of her mother and stepfather. And now she sleeps at her studio, scraping together just enough to survive. Alexandra Lihacheva places Krenalinova center stage in her directorial debut. She is on-screen for almost the entire documentary: in extreme close-up while being cross-examined by the public prosecutor, and muddled but stoical as she reveals her motives. She has no regrets, and she would be just as happy to set the entire city alight. In the rare moments that Katya is filmed outside, she wanders around in the snow near the burned down house. She poses for the camera like a model in an artistic music video, elusive and mysterious.

A young man accidentally turns out to be a witness of a crime. The police try to get him but the family of a poor man are not going to let them have him without a fight.

Bad sound, glitches, fisheye, laser - a guy and a girl communicate via voice messages and think about how to make easy money by making “extreme videos.”

An absurd parody of advertising marketing.

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

The main character Sasha is obsessed with a desire: to find love. He and his father go to Yakutsk for the anniversary of Darya Semyonovna, who in her youth was his father's lover. Darya Semyonovna is a domineering, charismatic tyrant. Her daughter – Masha is cunning, educated, who dreams of marrying a prince on a white horse. It is to them that a young guy Sasha gets with his father. Sasha knows his own worth, but he is very naive, simple and kind. The lack of life experience and excessive desire to please everyone plunge Sasha into a series of collisions, which he will have to overcome on the path of true love.

The first stand-up special of Sasha Maloy. This concert was recognized as the best solo concert at the Punchline Comedy Festival.

Once upon a time, a stage director with German surname Dell read from Saltykov-Shchedrin that «Skopin is such city where any person has no reason to dwell». So he decided to create a real theatre there, in Ryazan region, in a small provincial town, «where any person has no reason to dwell».

The Spanish "comedy of cloak and sword", in which there is both all-consuming love, and withering jealousy, and sophisticated cunning.

A group of traveling goats try to get free food.

Like a lone cowboy, Sergei passionately devotes his life to traditional horse breeding in the impenetrable Arctic Sakha; permafrost and the absence of roads, electricity and channels of communication mean that there is nobody else to rely on but oneself. Sergei is sensitive and introspective; he truly cares about his family, community and treats nature with the utmost respect. He loves the independence and freedom this life brings, despite the immense sacrifices that it necessitates, such as total isolation and being a stranger to his own children. Spectacular camerawork characterizes the Sakha horses in all their magnificence, and juxtaposes the post-soviet towns and the boundless taiga landscapes, where the cold bites through the screen.

The play was directed by Mark Zakharov and is based on the play "Brother Chichikov," inspired by N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls." The performance intertwines the adventures of Chichikov with the phantasmagoric occurrences involving him and Pannochka.

About miracles, true love and a happy rescue.

Even a bright orange orange can tell its fascinating story and remain in the memory of a happy childhood memory.

The main character is a participant in the first Chechen war. He reads a story dedicated to his comrade in arms. A vision comes to the hero during the reading of each letter. Now war, death, love take on peculiar images. After he finishes reading, he leaves the room and finds himself in a cemetery with unmarked graves. Next to him is a Chechen with a severed ear. Men have a short dialogue before they disappear.

A film almanac consisting of three short stories, each of which tells about the fate of a woman, her hopes for love and the vicissitudes of fate. A village girl Mira dreams of a groom, and now an officer stays in their house for the night, and Mira soon discovers that she is pregnant... Valya, who returned from Venice, where she lived for two years, meets Alexei, her sister's lover – and she likes him. Vera, a retired ballerina, teaches yoga at a hotel and falls in love with a married man. And one day a Spanish theater comes to their city with a ballet ... each of the women will have to make difficult decisions in an attempt to find happiness.

The pilots decided to spend time fishing in the vicinity of Berdichev.

A provincial actor once woke up famous.

Maxim is an ordinary guy with a big dream to write the novel. But in a hectic of daily routine it is hard for him to find time to work on the book. In seven years of dreams he only managed to write a couple of lines. But all things change when Maxim learns that in 30 days he will die...

In the ranking of educational institutions of the capital, the lyceum "Second School" is consistently among the top five. But the lyceum's current fame cannot be compared with the incredible popularity it enjoyed in the late 60s of the last century. The second Physics and Mathematics School was the strongest, most prestigious and famous school of that time. Today, few people remember this unique pedagogical experiment, which was not developed, like many initiatives of the thaw. But graduates who consider studying at the "Second School" one of the main events in their lives remember him. There they were taught to deal with cliches, with cliche thinking, with notching, and most importantly — to think.

New film by Elena Nodel

ACA 195: Kornilov vs. Vakhaev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, November 7, 2025 at the Sibur Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The film is based on five cases of people with implants in the head. Against the backdrop of the growing popularity of the topic of “chipping” and fear of being controlled by artificial intelligence, filmmakers find five dramatic stories where the “chip in the head” is a vital necessity. With the help of implants, doctors cure deafness, remove tremor from patients with parkinsonism, stop epilepsy attacks and treat dystonia. Where can the scientific discoveries of the recent years lead us? Is it possible to control people with the help of technology and what neuroethical issues are encountered in its use?

A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1994.

Another story about the all-conquering power of art. In the city there lived a boy who learned to play the violin. He was very talented. And at concerts after his performances, the audience stood up and applauded him. And three bandits were operating in the city, who had no idea what beautiful classical music was. The bandits robbed everything they could get their hands on. They ransacked the pockets of passers-by, took things out of apartments, unscrewed light bulbs from lanterns, and even ripped off telephone sets. And one day, when the violinist was returning from a concert, the bandits attacked him too. They demanded to give the boy's violin, but he flatly refused.

At a high school reunion, Liza decides to film her best friend Alena so that this recording "would go down in history." However, Alena's ex-boyfriend unexpectedly shows up with a child, and instead of a fun get-together in front of the camera, a drama between the former lovers unfolds.

An ailing theater director tries to turn the lives of two random people into a production of 'Romeo and Juliet'. But what if life and play start to mix?

According to the belief of the Sami people, little chahkli men live underground, mischievous, fussy, but kind. One of the boys gets to the earth and stays with an old man and an old woman. They accept him despite his mischievousness, unwitting pest and restlessness. Realizing that he has found a real family, the boy tries to protect those he cares about from the robbers. Having outwitted the bandits, he returns to the place where he has found a new home.

Irina, a small-town nurse, has a heart defect. According to the doctors' prognosis, her heart has not much time left to beat, and there is no one to take care of her six-year-old daughter Anna. Irina feverishly tries to find a way out and she gets the idea that Anya could be brought up by her grandfather - the father of the young man who left Irina pregnant. All she knows about her daughter's grandfather, Igor Vasilyevich Kutepov, is that he is a rather successful businessman and 63 years old.

'Sometimes people ask me how I can still be alive. It is a miracle', Anna Politskovkaya says to filmmaker Eric Bergkraut. For Letter to Anna he has used images from a film he had planned to make; a film about the human rights journalist who put her life on the line through her critical writings of the Russian government. The material that Bergkraut collected has been used in this film to reconstruct the events which led to the murder of Politskovkaya. As well as a reconstruction, the film is a portrait of a tireless fighter for justice, and a sketch of corrupt and merciless Russian politics. Interviews with Politskovkaya are intertwined with archival footage and conversations with family members, colleagues and other political activists.

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov lived in the era of wars and revolutions. History became a co-author of his works, and the difficult attitude of the authorities had a strong influence on his creative destiny. In Bulgakov's books, there was a place for Russian history, earthly and unearthly love, satire, and the tragedy of a creative personality. About all this – in the author's program of Anatoly Smelyansky.

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This film is about three modern Russian singers (Irina Bogushevskaya, Svetlana Surganova, Anna Gerasimova), whose life and creative path can serve as a model of fortitude. Each of them had to overcome difficult life trials and remain true to themselves and their creativity. The author of the film and their colleague Elena Pogrebizhskaya talks about these outstanding women with a tragic revelation.

According to the plot, 13-year-old Sonya, her younger sister Anya and their mother move to live in the village. Relations with the locals do not add up, and there is little entertainment here. Unless you climb into an abandoned house, shrouded in stupid legends about an evil Dollmaker who allegedly steals children and makes puppets out of them.

The film is based on Ostrovsky's play "Guilty without Guilt", but the action of the film has been transferred to our time. The main character is not a dramatic actress, but an opera singer. She is played by Kazarnovskaya. A new vocal piece was written especially for Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, which sounds in the finale of the film.

John Steinbeck "Breakfast" adaptation. A lost and battered musician tries to find his way home, but at night he notices a mysterious glow on the bridge. Written and directed by Ilya Zhdanov

The stage embodiment of the legend in the ritual-epic context

Animated documentary film about the fate of the writer - Yuri Olesha. About how he was strangled by the grip of the era that fell to him, and in such an embrace he was forced to live not his life. Created on the basis of the writer's diaries, the film tells about the inner throwing of a talented man who died in literature thirty years before his physical death.

Animal photographer Olga Michi shows viewers the rarest and hardest-to-reach representatives of wildlife face to face

A documentary about the Soviet rock group Kino which mixes music video sequences, footage from the band members' day to day lives, interviews and concert footage.

Incredible phantasmagoria of merry-go-round people, who are usually called the dregs of society . The clip of the band "Holy Hares" ("Inflatable pistol"). Vocalist Slava Martov.

This short film is an artistic recreation based on original scene from Silent Hill 2 (2001)

A silent film about a young worker of a soap factory whose love affair ended.

Seven vagrants set off in search of Divine Bar. But they don't know that they have to sacrifice their lives to end up in the Bar.

The film tells that a person, even in very difficult circumstances, is able to turn the tide.