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You speak—I listen. It rains—I feel. You move—I stand still. If I am not here—it means nothing ever was.

In modern Romania, there is an old Russian village with the Turkish name of Sariköy. For over 300 years, Russian Old Believers have lived there, whose ancestors once fled Russia to save their faith from the new church reform of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of the 17th century. How do these people manage to preserve the Russian spirit in themselves for so many centuries, far from Russia? What do they consider their homeland: the country where they were born, or the one that is in each person’s soul? And what is a homeland? Residents of the village of Sariköy reflect on these and other topics.

Simon is a successful popular photographer. Once something inside him, in his life and work breaks down. Now he sees only cucumbers in everything. He cannot exist as before and is trying to cope with his problems ...

Maxim Ilyin, an expert in the field of painting, a consultant for fashion magazines, a loner and a misanthrope, agrees to pose for the young artist. They make an appointment, but on the appointed day the girl does not come.

The relationship between the spouses Vika and Max has been cold for a long time, Max is not ready to lose Vika, so he is looking for different ways to return the former intimacy to the relationship with Vika. Max is even ready to have a child, but, unfortunately, he is infertile.

A former neo-Buddhist who has become an ardent defender of Orthodox values, Dmitry Enteo riveted public attention after performing several eccentric actions on himself. He calls himself an orthodox ‘actionist’ and gathered a movement of Orthodox activists around himself called ’God’s Will’.

Olga travels to her native village to visit her mother, with whom she hasn’t spoken in years. Her mother, the village’s “whisperer,” is sought out by those in need of help when all else fails.

The film tells about the inhabitants of a small mining town in the Chelyabinsk region. Having devoted their lives to work for the benefit of the state, people themselves did not notice how they turned into coal dust for it.

A filmic kaleidoscope of a group of scientists who live and work at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, located in an isolated village in the Caucasian Mountains. Faced with the magnitude of the Universe, the protagonists seek meaning through science, philosophy and art, in order to deal with the mundane realities of their daily, tangible lives and the terrestrial existence in general.

The story of a couple entangled in string theory and their own relationships. An excursion to the quantum multiverse, where every action of the heroes, every decision they make, exists in all possible variants simultaneously.

A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.

Boris Kostikov is an absolutely ordinary guy. An unfinished higher education, a junior manager position, a mortgage, a disgruntled wife, watching football on weekends - nothing sets him apart from millions of people on the planet. But one evening Boris's usual life changes, the secret services report that he was chosen to introduce our civilization to alien guests. What is it: a hoax or the truth? What do you need to do in the last week on earth? And what will he tell you about our universe? What is the meaning of life?

Can one escape from family to get into a mental hospital? An overdose of drugs – and you are “free”. Now Dasha lies on a hospital bed, paints and smokes. She smokes. And smokes. And smokes... A closed space of the mental hospital is more and more hard to endure. How much is she going to stay in this box? A day of discharge comes. She is going to return back home.

The film introduces the secret plan of the Third Reich. The film crew got access to a document from the German federal archive entitled "The Ost Master Plan — the foundations of the legal, economic and territorial structure of the East."

The film "Translation" is a monument to all Russian translators, who, each in his place, contributed and are contributing to the much-needed dialogue of cultures now, helping to convey to the planet the image of Russia as a world cultural power.

Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.

Andrey Beburishvili's solo concert "The Age of Condemnation". About parents, sex, shame, separation, friends, sports and the poem "Mtsyri".

What is it like to be HIV-positive in Russia? The authors of the film spent several days with the HIV-infected characters Alexandra and Olesem and made a film about how they live. This is a kind of chronicle - the characters in the frame live their lives. Moments of sadness, moments of joy. They live as they know how and as they really live.

On August 15, 1990, Alice received a brand new VHS camera as a gift from her dad, and then learned that her idol had crashed in a car accident. She does not believe in his death and goes in search.

An inspiring poetic-aesthetic fairy tale about the search for love.

jason from the lake is an imaginary, nomadic electro-industrial band that has existed forever, yet debuted live in 2024 at the legendary Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival. Emerging from the Siberian experimental noise scene of the 90s, their performances weave dense electro soundscapes with visuals, creating immersive night rituals, haunting collages and visceral audiovisual experiences that bridge memory and technology.

Debut short film by Roman Karimov.

A very busy Moscow day can drive anyone crazy...

The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife.

The girl's house burned to the ground. A secret postman brings her things, which someone carefully put in an old suitcase. Attached to it is a letter with the address of the house. The girl gets dressed, takes a suitcase and goes to the specified address. Along the way she meets the Guide. An ominous raven sits on his shoulder. A guide accompanies her to a mysterious house. At first glance, the house turns out to be an amazing place, but at the most unexpected moment the spirits wake up and take the form of old things, forgotten by everyone... A frightened girl runs out into the street in a panic. Finally she finds a bar with the windows on fire. The bar only seems safe at first glance... She finds it difficult to get along with ghosts in an old house, in an old city, in someone's past. For what? Real Home is always inside!

A story about a little young magpie pulling a small one-wheeled wagon across an endless plain.

The mighty warrior Ruslan embarks on a perilous journey to save his beloved Lyudmila from the hands of the treacherous warlock Chernomor.

Zhenya and Roman arrive in Moscow and get a job as a servant in a private country house. For them, this is a temporary stage, an opportunity to settle in Moscow, but hopes for a future happy life together are not destined to come true. Soon they find themselves involved in a difficult family relationship between the owners and guests of the house…

When a son from Chechnya calls his mother in Moscow and says that everything is fine with him, his mother abandons everything and rushes to find him. Svetlana feels that her Sasha is in trouble - you cannot fool her mother’s heart. Meanwhile, a forty-year-old woman who could not save her son from drugs was saved and warmed from the burning wounds of Chechen captivity by a runaway soldier ... Svetlana will do everything to hide her Sasha from this woman, someone else's misfortune and everyone who is next to him. But they will not give it to anyone - they have their own scores and their dreams with him ...

A teenager from peripheral Russia falls under the influence of a young mob. Now he is faced with a tough decision to make.

In a small Siberian village where the forest business is booming, 14-year-old Lyokha wants to buy a dream motorcycle Enduro. But he doesn’t have enough money. Trying to sell his tablet rich Chinese from a local sawmill, he meets his neighbor. The neighbor is ready to help Lyokha in exchange for a small service.

The young man, Isa by name, came back to his native city after leaving the prison. At half-destroyed, dark, left, surrounded by harsh and merciless mountains house seriously ill mother and his wife who lost the hope to have happy family life were expecting him. He did evil and was put in the prison, but the main difficulties are still expecting him in the future.

The film is a reflection on the nature of the charm inherent in St. Petersburg, which never ceases to affect residents and visitors. The city forces those who find themselves in it to rise in their thoughts about it and about life to a philosophical level. St. Petersburg still remains mysterious, undeciphered and therefore endlessly attractive.

The tale of how a Nenets young man named Maimai conceived the idea of conquering airspace to fight an extraterrestrial being who stole people.

In December 1941, the Nazis shot four and a half thousand people in Yalta. Most of them were Jews. The Soviet authorities did not want to bury these people. Even the obelisk at the place of execution was put up after the war with the money of the relatives of the victims... In July 1994, Mikhail Degtyar came to this firing pit and saw a terrible picture - skulls, bones, documents of people shot 53 years ago were scattered very close to the Yalta International Hotel. 9 years later, Mikhail Degtyar returned to the place of execution of Yalta Jews. What has changed during this time? This is the movie "Execution".

Nikolay Dupak. Legendary director of the drama and comedy theater of Taganka. The story of his life is also the history of the country. Son of kulak victim of repression, he found himself at the age of 15 on the professional scene. He learned from Yury Zavadsky and Vera Maretskaya, he shot in the movies of the legendary Alexandr Dovjenko. Then it was the war. He served in the cavalry. Was heavily injured several times. After the war, he continued to study, worked for 20 years at the famous Stanislavsky Theater and, finally, almost 30 years at the Taganka. The blame, the dismissal from work, the ups and downs, all this has spanned the life of Nikolay Dupak.

Three children and their parents set off on an unforgettable family adventure - a hiking trip to the mountains on the territory of the Divnogorye Museum-Reserve in the Voronezh Region.

Home is the story of four generations of a family of Russian Americans, descendants of the Golitsyns, a distinguished princely family. After fleeing Russia, they made their way to France, and from there to the United States. For more than two decades now they have lived in Alaska. This former Russian territory in some mysterious way provides a link if not to their native country, then to their Fatherland, which none of them has ever seen. In its wanderings this large family has not preserved material treasures, but rather their nobility and dignity—the foundation upon with their Home was built.

The film investigates Muscovites’ attitude to home, it is a story about the tough choices that we make in a big city. The characters of the film are young people who have new values: the importance of living near work, the gym, the city center or being able to quickly put all they have in boxes and move to a new place. Nevertheless, for each of them, it is still important to see their home as a reference point, endowed with special sentimental characteristics, which they are constantly searching.

Nicolas Bersen is a Frenchman with Russian roots. He lives in Paris and works as a toy seller. Neither the mother nor the French bride - the daughter of the Parisian confectionery "king" - disapprove of Nicolas's extravagance, because the Sorbonne education allows him to make an excellent career in business. Before Christmas, Nicolas travels to Russia to learn more about her background. Who could have imagined that this trip would change his life? In Russia, he is going to get the adventure, family treasures, and ... true love.

On Saturday morning, her mother comes to Nadya to take her with her to the cemetery. Nadia has her own plans, but her mother authoritatively pulls her out of the usual schedule. They need to visit the grave of Nadya’s father, whom his mother divorced long before his death. On the way, the mother swears and in every possible way manifests her irreconcilable nature. Nadia suffers, but on the way back, women quarrel violently. Mother slams the door in the middle of the road and leaves, and Nadia pierces the wheel and has to stop.

The film is about volleyball coach Nikolay Karpole.

A montage film about Soviet holiday rituals, made from found family footage. Captured on aged 8mm film, scenes of everyday life flicker, crackle, and disintegrate before our eyes. The film's soundscape is filled with radio noise, voices, and industrial sounds from homemade synthesizers.

An attempt to express the relationship between space and the ability to reflect it. The result of these relations can be considered the non-representational nature of space, as a tangible form, and the tendency of space to have consciousness. We are talking about "inward-directed" vision and "outward-directed" vision. Hence the abandonment of normal voice acting in favor of the aesthetics of silent cinema; on the audio track you will only hear the recorded crackle of a film projector and the quiet off-screen conversations of some people. The film is based on Andrei Platonov's story "The Potudan River", the film adaptation of which for Edward Shelganov, as well as for Alexander Sokurov, became a debut in cinema.

Politics broke the Voronin family. Nina Yegorovna loves Lenin and votes for the Communists. Evgeni Yegorovich does not tolerate the leader of the world proletariat and votes for the party of power.

The International Foundation for the Support of the Arts "Sergey Oskolkov and his Friends" presents "DIALOGUES AT THE FACTORY" The meeting is the 1st. A conversation with the writer, the editor-in-chief of the literary and artistic almanac "Quadriga of Apollo" Evgeny Linov. "And I burned everything I worshiped, worshiped everything I burned." Evgeny Linov, a writer and publisher, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, recalls his life when leaving his homeland. Ups and downs, the USSR and the dashing 90s, big business and life without a corner. The story is in one biography. The author's Community Natalia Legkova Dmitri Frolov Lyudmila Frolova

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The main character of this one - Antonina - a wife, mother, mistress of the house, wakes up after an unusually bright dream and realizes that she has not lived her whole life as she wanted. There were strangers around, people she didn't like, and it wasn't her life at all. She realizes this so clearly that even at the funeral of her own husband, Antonina does not cry, is not killed, and it seems that this death does not concern her at all. And this is despite the fact that my husband lived a long and prosperous life...

A young woman lavishes the last care on her mother's lifeless body. At his side, a woman watch, a babouhcka , as they say among the Russians. The young groped, the day before with a sure hand, wash this body, prepare it. They accompany him, rock him and console him by the last goodbye.