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Rita is seventeen. She has been hating her body since her childhood. Despite the bullying Rita decided to invite her classmates to her birthday party. She wanted to see Tyoma, a popular guy she is in love with. But everything went wrong, and Rita's diary was stolen at the party. Now she must take a step towards her biggest fear.

In the documentary, the official version of the outbreak of war is questioned and hypotheses are put forward about the preparation of an attack on Great Britain...

The legendary cultural critic, author of books about M. Babanova, B. Brecht, A. Tarkovsky, Maya Turovskaya tells us a novel. Childhood, in people, my universities… She tells it like a writer. Only her novel is not written, but shot on camera and supplemented with photos and newsreel footage. In other words, it's a movie monologue about time. About a communal apartment in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane in Moscow. About my parents and my father's arrest. About kindergarten and school. About friends and girlfriends. About teachers. About the beginning of the war and the evacuation to Sverdlovsk. About her husband, critic Boris Medvedev, who met the war on the border, and ended it in Stalingrad. About parallel studies at Moscow State University and at GITIS. About the fight against rootless cosmopolitans.

Police is investigating a series of explosions in Moscow subway.

Timur Novikov: Zero Object positions the late artist Timur Novikov as protagonist in this exploration of underground art from St Petersburg. As well as providing a historical overview of the 1980s-1990s, the film features iconic figures in St Petersburg’s underground scene: cult rocker Victor Tsoi, and artists Georgy Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Sergey ‘Africa’ Bugaev, among others. From beginning to end, it’s a manifesto for personal and artistic freedom in a forbidding political climate.

"Still" is written in the first half of the year against the background of ongoing events. And it is still about current topics. It is still about personal, it is still about people, it is still about society. But now it is also about a choice that everyone must make.

A friendsbook was like Facebook during the Soviet times. Many had one. Russian kids called it a Form. Classmates were asked to write in it and say what they thought love is, what they wanted to be when they grow up, what their favourite food was. It was mostly girls who had friendsbooks, of course. Twenty-five years later, Alyona Surzhikova browses her 6th grade friendsbook and decides to go and find her then classmates to ask whether their dreams have come true. She travels to Russia and Germany and even Cambodia and puts together a thought-provoking aggregate portrait of the Russian generation that grew up during the restoration of Estonia’s independence. Many of them have left Estonia by now, with half of Surzhikova’s classmates living abroad. Why did they do that? What do they think about Estonia? And what would they write into the Form now?

A trip to get milk at night becomes a night Moscow journey for the main hero - Arseny. During this trip he finds what he was looking for.

Fate brought two people together: little Bulat, a disabled man and an orphan, who must go to America, where he is waiting for an operation, a possible recovery and an American family, and Karim, who lost his wife and son in the disaster and served 6 years in prison.

A famous Russian documentarist Leonid Parfyonov with deep investigation into the life of Leonid Brezhnev.

Housewives at Yandex are called the department responsible for cafeterias, recreation areas and much more, which makes up the famous homely atmosphere of the company's offices. What is missing from these office coffee points and buffets - and it all appears on schedule, on time, in hundreds of buildings in dozens of cities. In the film, the housewives talk about how their days pass and how their caring work is arranged.

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After the divorce Mariyana returns to his native village. With her no one communicates, except for a new neighbor - a mysterious woman in a Muslim scarf.

Revered by the likes of Banksy and Brian Eno, the members of Russian collective Voina (War) have gained notoriety for public ‘actions’ that have landed their leaders in jail. In Tomorrow filmmaker and former ice-dancing champion Andrey Gryazev embeds himself with the group to create this fly-on-the-wall documentary focusing on Voina’s founders, Oleg Vorotnikov (known as Vor) and Natalia Sokol (known as Koza), along with their two-year-old son Kasper, who accompanies them on all of their actions.

The author's understanding of the causal mechanism of self-destruction of ideological Bolshevism and the country as a whole.

The main character of the film has always considered herself happy in marriage. But one day she finds out that her husband in another city has a family.

How to turn a modest Instagram store into a small fashion empire? The creators of the brand of basic, laconic, but not boring clothing 12storeez from Yekaterinburg launched their business in the crisis of 2014. And everything worked out: now the brand has many stores across the country and several abroad, huge turnover, a showroom at the Trekhgornaya Manufactory and bright campaigns that invariably attract attention.

A Lyudmila Koshkina cartoon

Romantic fantasy based on "two songs" Marina Tsvetaeva riddled melancholy fleeting meetings and partings long -. A favorite theme times late Silver Age, which came at the beginning of the Great War.

Irina Boyarova is an Olympic running champion. She has no family or friends – the heroine's whole life is devoted to sports. One day at the resort, Irina begins an affair with doctor Dima. Both understand that their relationship is serious, but, by coincidence, the lovers separate without explaining themselves to each other ... Soon Irina realizes that she is pregnant. She comes to Dima's house to tell him the good news, but her rosy hopes are dashed overnight.…

When the collection of short stories by I.E.Babel "Konarmiya" was published, S.M. Budyonny became one of its first readers. The "horse army" infuriated him. Budyonny called the essays slanderous speculation and threatened to personally hack Babel with a saber. Defending the writer, Gorky wrote: "He showed the fighters of the First Cavalry better, more truthfully than Gogol — Zaporozhtsev." The writer was saved that time. But on May 16, 1939, no one could help Babel anymore. The writer was arrested. He ended up in the most terrible NKVD prison, Sukhanovskaya. Few people managed to get out alive.…

The hero of the film goes by train outside the city to collect mushrooms. Along the way, he meets a girl, a fleeting meeting with whom has a strong impression on him. At some point, her image involves the hero in a magical journey.

In the mountains of the Abakan ridge, in the remote Siberian taiga, there lives a unique hermit — Agafya Karpovna Lykova. She is the last of the Lykov family of Old Believers. Many people have heard about their history. Back in 1936, the Lykov family settled in the deep taiga, away from people.

Lydia Nikitina has achieved everything in life by herself. She brought up her daughter alone, and raised her business from scratch. Now she owns a small chain of confectionery shops. Lydia is certainly being courted by men, but she does not see anyone among them, with whom she could tie her life. She devotes herself to her daughter Tanya. But lately Tanya quarrels with her mother more and more often because of her husband Artem, whom Lida considers a slacker and a slacker. He also hopes to open his own business, though not without the financial help of his mother-in-law. Suddenly, Lida's examination reveals a serious illness....

Graduation work

Dreams of three generations of rural residents on the Volga. The old people talk about their first love, which is best remembered in memory. A young country boy - about how he was in the war in Afghanistan, and how she changed his life. Sixteen-year-old boy remembers childhood, when he swam carelessly, ran, was in love with the girl. This film - funny and sad stories of people of different ages, who believe that their best and strongest times are already in the past, perhaps, just like the whole country.

North Caucasus, XIX century. Abrek-Ossetian Jigo learns that only two men remain in his family — he and his nephew Akhsar. The highlander decides to take revenge on the Dudarov’s family, whose representative killed his brother. However, the difficult financial situation forces Jigo to go to Mozdok, where he is going to exchange cheese for grain with his kunak, the Terek Cossack Stepan. He loads the cart and, together with his nephew, goes to the Russian fortress.

A story of some love. Is love and life always dependent on chance? Or perhaps from destiny? The problem of the loneliness of the individual among people and the low sensitivity of society towards the underprivileged by fate.

Second stand-up concert by Denis Chuzhoy was called “Jokes about Death” for a long time, but closer to the shooting it became clear that it was more about family. So it ended up with a less offensive title. But more truthful. After all, stand-up is when truth and harshness, as they say in the project "Women's stand-up". Our childhood traumas remain with us forever. And you can live with them. Even write almost 50 minutes of jokes about them."

Shot in and around Yakutsk, in a remote region of Siberia, this film wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction.

An instructive story about a man who was born to be happy, and about the contrabass that prevented him from doing it.

New forces are coming to St. Petersburg, where the events of the film are unfolding. They are nouveau riche, businessmen, and creators capable of restoring St. Petersburg to its former splendor. The easily vulnerable, intelligent inhabitants of the old town, who have become accustomed to their former troubles, enter into difficult relations with them...

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.

One giant robbed everyone he met, and carried the loot to his cave, where his wife was waiting for him. But one day he met an old man and an old woman who had nothing to take from them...

During one night in the coldest city on the planet, a man is forced to cross the boundaries of the imaginable in order to save his wife, kidnapped by a mysterious stranger. When a stranger kidnaps a wife, her husband has no choice but to comply with the demands of the kidnapper. The price for the life of a spouse is six people killed before dawn. But who are these six? Do they deserve a harsh sentence? And what boundaries of his conscience is a man willing to cross for the love of his life? In the coldest city in the world, the nights seem endless in winter and you can't wait for the sunrise.

A film about the life of the city and citizens. In the center of the plot is a small child who accidentally comes upon two builders and radically changes their everyday life.

There’s a new member in the mysterious knitting club for mature men. On his first day he sees that there’s someone who wants to seize power over the club. He decides to bring back justice. The bad guy has already mastered the skill of knitting but our hero has resolve and best intentions. But… are they that good after all?

Pavlik is six years old. He spends a happy and carefree summer at the dacha with his parents, but he gradually begins to notice strangeness in the behavior of adults.

The Filippov family live in the north of Russia, far from civilisation. Despite the lack of modern conveniences, they live in harmony with nature, create art, support and understand each other like no other people in this world.

Love and death. The 1992-1993 war, which in Abkhazia is called the Patriotic War, ended long ago, but the small sovereign unrecognized state is unable to overcome the military syndrome. I want love so much! In the mountain village of Achandara, Lavrik Akhba, an actor of the Abkhaz drama theater, captain of the second rank of the border fleet and a farmer, is trying to help his friend Tuta find a bride through a dating site. But suddenly he himself, a war hero, a lover of books and women, is covered with love of such strength that it turns out to be more destructive than that terrible last war.

Maria Vinenkova is a prima ballerina of the Musical Comedy Theater, winner of the Golden Mask Award. She is raising four sons. After twenty years of service in the theater, Masha feels that her career is on the decline, and is looking for a new self.

Fascinated by a computer game that simulates the real world with unlimited possibilities, a young family man, an employee of an online store, gradually loses his sense of reality. Unsuited to family life, he makes a choice towards the flat world, creating in it an imaginary image of a man with a capital letter. Having made a bet on the virtual space, he does not notice how “orobotel". One day, coolly pressing “delete” on a folder with family photos, the only one that reminds him of reality, he finally plunges into the digital space and forgets about his loved ones...

For more than four centuries, the history of Romeo and Juliet has been considered an example of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. However, William Shakespeare modestly kept silent about what kind of drama (and, possibly, tragicomedy) might have turned the relations of the heroes, if not for the finale, which is well known to us. The film of Konstantin Seliverstov on the basis of documentary stories offers several possible options for the continuation of the classic plot.

The story begins romantically, continues as a farce, turning into a thriller, but ends up as a high tragedy.

A boy rescues a Border Collie and the two go through many adventures over the years.

Once in a strange theater, the hero tries to understand the laws of his life...

Some time ago they would come here to walk their dogs, play with their kids or jog. Today they are two hostile parties fighting over a patch of ground in a park. Every Sunday half of them come to pray by a wooden cross, and another half is there to defend a small spot of land, which they want to stay public. Who could have imagined such a confrontation in a country which had been fully secular, even atheistic for decades? Still, a collision between orthodox believers and local dwellers, who don’t want to have a new church instead of a park or a public garden is quite common in the Russian capital these days. “200 Churches” development project started by Russian Orthodox Church in cooperation with Moscow government provoked several severe conflicts in the city.

Born in the USSR: 28 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 28.

Ave Maria is the story of choice as an act. Recognizing your path and being ready to walk this painful path to the light.

A married couple on the edge of breaking up decide to fix their relationship, by taking part in a swingers meeting. But it comes out that the wife wasn't ready for the aftermath.

Alice is a lizard. She works in a fast food cafe and wishes of having a true love. But a horrible work injury makes her involved into a dark story.

Evgeny is a specialist in lockpicking and safe-cracking. For the last ten years he has spent his spare time trying to pick one stubborn lock that hasn’t surrendered to him yet. Andrei works at a bank and seizes real estate from people to cover their debts. In his spare time he reflects on whether or not he lives according to God’s law. Every once in a while the men are brought together by joint work, where each diligently performs his duties.But with every new mission the work grows more personal, and the self-doubt grows ever greater…