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This documentary explores Russia's fascination with cats.

A Yakutian man against Hitler

The main character of the picture is the Labrador, and the viewer is immersed in his thoughts, desires, which are connected with the main person in his life - the owner.

Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi

Лента рассказывает о реальных событиях конца февраля 2000 года, произошедших в Аргунском ущелье в Чечне. Бойцы 6-й роты 104 парашютно-десантного полка Псковской дивизии ВДВ вступили в жестокий бой с двадцатикратно превосходящими силами террористов. Десантники не дрогнули, не отступили и выполнили задание, ценой своей жизни преградив путь бандитам, прорывающимся из окружения.

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 cartoon tells that with mutual assistance, friendship and consent, it is possible to return the Sun and Moon to the sky, distribute the control of morning and evening light between them.

Leningrad, late 80s. Irina, the composer's daughter, grew up longing for a great father, who is always busy only with music. Now, after his sudden death, she cannot cope with the feeling of emptiness. Thanks to a sudden meeting, she realizes her place in her father's life.

Program on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko was broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura and features interviews with the director’s sister Emilia Tutina and son, Anton Klimov.

The hero tells about himself and all that he has been through.

1937. A wave of repression began throughout the Soviet Union. The repression also affected the family of hereditary doctors, people of a seemingly completely peaceful profession. Oblezova's grandfather, father, and son were repressed on false charges. And the mother, fearing that her daughter will suffer the same fate, accompanies Lydia to the unknown North.

A documentary on the Russian Koreans. The lives of 8 individuals of Korean descent all of whom share the name Victor Tsoy, which is also the name of the biggest Russian rock star of the 1980s, are explored.

A desperate therapist is visited by a very successful person trying to convince him that life is meaningless.

A wish for romantic love, like in dramas, made ten years ago, unexpectedly comes true, turning Ayta's life upside down. There is a gap between fantasy and reality that she must overcome.

Eighteen-year-old Dima is left alone with his younger brother Fedya, scurrying around everywhere. He demands endless attention from Dima, but the elder’s thoughts are completely different. Now he is more concerned about his bold fantasies about his classmate, Sveta. But is Dima really ready to take the first step, overcome teenage shyness and maybe even confess his feelings to Sveta? What will the characters have to go through to rethink their ideas about growing up? Fedya won't bother them? Or maybe even...

A woman wakes up alone in a clearing in the middle of a dense forest. Where she found herself, and how to get out of the thicket is unknown. In order not to die, a woman has to remember everything that she knew about survival. But the forest is not a warm island in the ocean, and therefore the health and psyche of a female robinson are at risk. The situation becomes even more complicated and dangerous when she discovers a hut with a related girl, and saving the “Friday” only complicates the life of the heroine.

Moscow, the 1990s: there is a girl whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic under constant hospital care. On her sixteenth birthday, she leaves her parents' house to start a completely independent life, hoping to find an interesting job, friends, a boyfriend... But her new life looks set to be complicated and tragic.

Zhenya is preparing for her wedding. Her friend is helping with her hair style, her relatives give her gifts before the ceremony. However, Zhenya is going not to the civil registry office, but to an investigative isolator. Her future husband Lenya is under arrest as one of the so-called Bolotnaya Square case, or as one of the accused in the 6th of May case. After the ceremony, Zhenya goes back home alone and starts to wait - for meetings, letters, a trial, a sentence.

Tatyana came from Moldova to the Ryazan region in search of a better life. She has four sons whom she raises without a husband. And somewhere in the world live a few dozen more of her children. “God forbid that everything is fine with them!” reflects the heroine, who is again in position.

The film tells about ancient rituals and traditions, original rituals that were used during weddings and matchmaking... The evening before the wedding in the village of Pskov region. Black-and-white photographs and stories of old women - on the one hand; living rituals, traditions that have come down to our days – on the other. The picture is dedicated to a Russian wedding, but in fact it is about a moment, about the state of a girl's expectation of happiness.

On August 25, 1968, 7 people gathered in Lobnya Square in Moscow protesting against the entry of troops of the Warsaw Pact countries into Czechoslovakia. For 5 minutes of freedom in the main square of the Soviet Union, they paid years of prisons, links and camps. The authors of the film meet three participants of the legendary "demonstration of seven" and show young fighters for human rights in modern Russia. Who are they - the dissenters of our time - and what are they willing to sacrifice for the sake of living in a democratic society?

Fifty-year-old Vladimir Ivanovich Prokhorov, relieved of his worldly possessions, takes a journey back in time. Accompanied by a traveling companion barely half his age, he revisits the people and places of his youth and witnesses the dark forces that shaped the 20th century.

Legendary boxer Valery Popenchenko died on February 15, 1975. A decade of his victories went down in the history of Soviet sports as a time of international triumph for our boxing school.

Isn't it a great idea for detective agency - to return missing animals to their owners? Especially if yo steal it first by yourself...

8-year-old Vanya's mother hanged herself, and he decides to find out why it happened.

An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

On April 12, 1961, the whole world learned the name of the man who became the most famous in the history of mankind: Yuri Gagarin. Overnight, he became the idol of millions, and his smile turned into a symbol. However, immediately after Gagarin's flight, a report appeared in Life magazine, in which it was written under the triumphant photo of the First cosmonaut: "This man has everything behind him!". When Gagarin became world famous, he was only 27 years old. The unprecedented fame that befell a simple guy born in a village in the Smolensk region became a much more serious test for Gagarin than his flight around the Earth. People who knew Gagarin well, all as one, repeated: "There was nothing special about him. He was ordinary." But the fact that it was Gagarin who became the First cosmonaut of the planet, if you look into his life, there is an iron logic…

Mockumentary experimental film, which shows one day in the life of a young man. The action takes place on the Day of Soviet Cosmonautics, April 12, one of the last years of the USSR. Outside the window, it is gradually getting warmer, the onset of spring is felt, promising hope for the possibility of changes in the country. The hero of the film is fond of space. The young man, who idolizes Gagarin, is engaged in reconstruction, making the uniform in which the cosmonaut walked in the prime of his glory. Our hero is also a film enthusiast. He makes films with stories of space flights and shows them to his friends. The film is stylized as amateur films of the 1980s and was shot on a 16-mm color film made by the company" Svema", made in the Soviet Union. The quality of this film allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the time of the film, which is dedicated to Soviet cosmonautics and Edward D. Wood Jr.

Ilia, a 20-year-old promising rapper, arrives in a big city to win in a battle. And immediately he becomes one of the top battlers, having captured the public with his sincerity and desire to win. Everybody assures him of a great future. But Ilia meets his first love, a common girl who becomes involved in the criminal business of the city moguls.

Sasha surprises her boyfriend Maks with an unusual present: a romantic evening with a call girl, Lika. Maks isn't aware of what's coming and stays late at work. Sasha and Lika have a lot in common and much to discuss.

A deal on assigning for property reveals more new rules and laws of the society in the nearest future. The rates haven’t been so high. Status is everything. Love is nothing.

In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family prefers. He moves to Havana, hoping to find a new life. Gorgeously photogenic, Havana and the Cuban countryside are exquisitely captured in director Kosyrev-Nesterov's elegiac feature debut.

Have you ever had the hiccups? Well, of course. Who hasn’t dealt with this amusing little affliction? And what’s the best cure for hiccups? No, not this, and definitely not that. The best cure is…

A film about the different destinies of the sixties during the period of perestroika. The young sociologist sacrificed his scientific career for the underground development of his ideas, which became common during the era of “perestroika”. This is a film about the “children of Khrushchev’s thaw” who took a breath of freedom after the 20th Party Congress...

Cinema not only unites, entertains, amazes and educates, but also helps to understand yourself. What do children watch, how do they understand and appreciate in cinema and animation? How do the films viewed affect the behavior of children, their emotions and feelings? Experiments, observations, opinions in a documentary about the interaction of the screen and the young viewer.

Zoya is 14 years old and hates her stepfather. Having run away from home, she wanders aimlessly through the streets of a small southern town on the seashore. But one day she meets Zakhar and sees how this blind man fights off a bandit. A bold and desperate plan is born in Zoya's head.

The documentary is based on 2 parallel lines: one is Valery Gergiev's trip to Tskhinvali after the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and the history of preparing and holding a concert in the destroyed city.The second line is the Maestro's concert activity, rehearsal and staging in London of Wagner's famous tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung", the final part of which is the opera Twilight of the Gods

Alexey, still a young man, found himself in an extremely difficult situation. He must devote most of his time to his mother, who is almost completely paralyzed after a stroke. His situation is aggravated by the fact that his mother, once an actress in a small provincial theater, no longer sees the point of living.

November 1941. A group of Soviet soldiers led by a young lieutenant Ivan Gorchakov is on a mission to destroy German artillery base and stop Nazi advance to Moscow.

There are roads that can change your life. Such was the road through the Don Steppe, which clashed two fates: a KAMAZ driver named Tikhon, who, in pursuit of easy earnings, agreed to deliver drugs hidden in boxes of oranges, and Deacon George, who was carrying a new bell for the stanitsa church on the eve of Epiphany. Where will this dangerous road lead them? Who will emerge victorious from this insidious and very dangerous game?

A statement on the topic of bullying and its scale: real stories of people who have faced bullying, victims, witnesses, aggressors, are intertwined with the dramatic dance of a girl dancer, which symbolizes the difficult process of rebirth and the performance of a teenage musician expressing his pain through music.

The film is a performance based on the play by Viktor Shenderovich.

Yuri Afanasyevich, or simply Afanasyich, as everyone calls him, is 77 years old. He lives in the Irkutsk region. For twenty years, every winter Afanasyich goes to the taiga and spends three or four months there. He is a wolfman. His task is to catch wolves with the help of traps. So he protects not only deer and roe deer, but also domestic animals. In recent years, wolf packs have managed to eat whole herds of livestock over the winter. Afanasyich is a loner. He knows everything about wolves. And, it seems, the wolves already smell Afanasievich's approach. As soon as he appears in one of his taiga time zones, the wolves leave. "In order to fight wolves, you have to be a little wolf yourself," Afanasich believes.

An ordinary Rakhmatullin family with many children, finally bogged down in loans and debts, drives an old minibus to the “Family of the Year” competition. They are sure that the main prize of the competition is the last chance to save the family from ruin.

In Siberia Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are attempting to slow down the melting of the permafrost, which holds huge carbon reserves, by reintroducing large mammals present in the area during the ice age. It is a mammoth project driven by the faith and convictions of a small group of adventurer-researchers.

A short film by actor and blogger Semen Molokanov.

Once George was a famous boxer. He had no equal either in Russia or Europe, but because of the intrigues of his competitors, he had to interrupt his sports career at the “peak” and emigrate to the USA. He vowed never to return to his homeland ... But the vow was broken. The reason was the serious illness of the coach, who was once the closest person for him. 10 years ago, they were divorced by a major quarrel. Returning to St. Petersburg, George also meets his long-standing enemy, who is now connected with the near-sport criminal business. George will have to unravel the complex "criminal tangle", take part in the fate of a young boxer and, having met with his mother, fall in love again ...