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The loneliness of man before nature. Loneliness in the urban environment. Loneliness as a way of life. Alone in front of myself - The film is dedicated to the artists of "Silver age" or "Fin de Siecle". This dedication applies primarily to Kazimir Malevich, and Edvard Munch.

Gubaidulina is one of the most prominent and profound composers of the second half of the 20th century. According to many, she is the most outstanding female composer of our time. Her work reflects a desire to organically unite the qualities of Western and Eastern art, influenced by spiritual and religious concepts. Through faith, she also finds meaning in her creative work. Along with Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, Gubaidulina is part of the so-called "trio" of Moscow composers associated with the avant-garde movement.

At the heart of this documentary lies the study of the Currentzis phenomenon. What is his creative method? What is the spirit of the music? How to express it most accurately to the audience and what is the freedom and responsibility of the modern artist? To answer these questions, the crew filmed the conductor for 10 years including the tour of his symphony orchestra MusicAeterna in Germany.

On the powerless position of peasant women in pre-revolutionary Russia. Marisha, a village girl, is in love with the coachman Yakov. Marisha’s father, a wealthy peasant, refuses to consent to his daughter’s marriage. The lovers are forced to meet in secret. Soon Marisha gives birth to a child, and the coachman abandons his beloved. Harassed by the villagers, Marisha throws herself and her son into the river. Lost film. The title is taken from the first stanza of Russian poet's Nikolay Nekrasov's poem, titled "The village harvest is in full swing..."

The young and talented photographer Maxim Kaverin has a good life: an interesting work, the beautiful wife Olga. Suddenly he receives an order for a series of shots of one of the old houses of the city. The hero goes to take pictures and does not suspect what tragedy is going towards.

The film is based on the idea of growing up, turning a boy into a man and thus represents a rite of shamanistic initiation. The story takes place in a swimming pool during a lesson.

In 1994, on the initiative of Perm rock musician Oleg Novoselov, a charitable collection of rock music artists "Songs for Tani M" was created. Funds from its implementation were aimed at the construction of a children's cancer center in Perm. Tanya M., Tanya Modina, was among the children who were treated for a terrible illness. Then she was 7 years old, children were shot on an amateur camera, and Tanya became a "face from the cover" of the disc. In the anniversary of that charity event, the widow of Oleg Novoselov, Lena decides to find Tanya, who should be 22 today. And he finds ... in a female colony, where she fell for a robbery...

If the day has not gone well, get ready for major problems. And if you quarrel with your beloved wife, in no case do not get behind the wheel. There's bound to be trouble. But a cool businessman Sergey Kamaev got behind the wheel and provided problems for himself, his wife Margot, her former lover Ivan. And even Anya, Ivan's young wife.

The story is about a girl named Jan and her new alien friend Ina, who came to Earth for the most valuable and necessary resource for his life – information. In each episode, Ying and Yang explore our planet and learn a lot about the traditions and lifestyles of different peoples and cultures.

A young, beautiful, well-off but lonely woman starts receiving mysterious SMS messages on her phone. No, she is not threatened in any way, on the contrary - an unknown man confesses his love. A short and independent investigation shows her that none of the habitual and familiar cavaliers is simply not capable of such a thing. To talk to a stranger is not possible - "the called subscriber is switched off or is not in the network coverage area". After another "letter" she is not quite legally trying to find out who owns the phone with a number that never answers. The result is disappointing - the handset is registered in her name. Then she decides to send a reply SMS message and gets a reply....

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.

Several days from the life of a landowner's estate on the eve of Christmas are shown through the perception of a boy. The action takes place in Russia in the second half of the 19th century.

Dasha, nicknamed "Little One," is in love with her older sister Nastya's boyfriend. Wanting to be closer to him, she constantly intrudes, disrupting their relationship and pestering her sister with questions about him. Oblivious to the seriousness of Malaya's feelings, Nastya decides to teach her a lesson, but the "lesson" goes too far. "Little One" is a film about competition, intimacy, and the boundless love of sisters.

In the spring of 2003, Moscow surgeons separated two Siamese twins, Zita and Gita Rezakhanov. Two girls from a tiny Kyrgyz village lived together from birth: they had a common bladder, fused intestines and three legs for two. Doctors helped the Siamese twins to find a new life, but the girl's happiness was never achieved. The separated sisters had to go through severe depressive episodes and accept that they would never be able to start a family and have children. Neither of them was ready to lose each other, but in 2015, Zita died at the age of 24.

A whole ethnographic study on the topic of who are the fans of "Leningrad", performed against all the laws of the genre. The musicians themselves act as accomplices in the filming process here — one of the cameras, for example, is fixed on Shnurov's stomach. Other cameras follow the fans of the band, quite funny and accurately recording their emotions and actions from hugs to fights and transmitting the atmosphere of unbridled fun and off-scale adrenaline, which is famous for "Leningrad". Terribly funny, tearfully cute, sometimes scary - the effect of a full-length presence.

Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008.

In St. Petersburg, in a house near the Neva, a father and son live. The father does not let go of the video camera. With her help, he keeps his "diaries", taking pictures at home and away, on the streets of the city and while traveling. Among the protagonists of his film are random passers-by, lonely old people, St. Petersburg bohemia, young people, friends and acquaintances of his son, former prisoners of the Mordovian camps. One day, not finding answers to important questions, the father decides to go to Jerusalem. For some time he and his son travel together, then part. In the life of the father, meanwhile, a serious change is coming.

The most recent work presented in the retrospective, assembled primarily from the directors’ own archives and depicting Novosibirsk’s music scene of the 1990s. A fragmented form and shifting rhythm characterise the visual element of the film as well as its auditory dimension. Guitar noise dissolves into hauntological film loops and indistinct speech merges with fragments of radio and television broadcasts.

The family broke up many years ago. Unable to withstand the hardships of life in the Far North, Elena returned to her hometown with a small child. After 16 years, Sergei comes to congratulate his daughter Yulia, whom he has not seen for all these years, on her coming of age. As a gift he brings a bear skin, and with it the unspent paternal love. But Yulia is in no hurry to rejoice at the sudden appearance of a man who is a stranger to her....

A king and queen have everything they could possibly want — love, castles, horses, gardens, pets ... but something is missing.

“What’s Belarus?” is the authors’ point of view on modern Belarus. A schoolboy’s curiosity and the quest for justice don`t allow him to accept the opinion of adults for it is made of a set of labels and national symbols imposed by the school. What’s Belarus? How does it smell? What color is it? What is its form? How does it sound? The pupil goes to the streets to find the answers to all these questions.

A child, just a little before adulthood, without experience, without values, without looking around, has only one desire: to become a little older.

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

Almost cloudless family happiness of spouses Vadim and Lyuba, it seemed, nothing can threaten. A bolt from struck suddenly. The only and beloved eighteen-year-old son Ilya decided to marry. So in love, and bride, Anastasia, already in position. Being people of modern views, the couple were ready to give their blessing, but Vadim, from questioning in a conversation with Nastya, understands that she is his illegitimate daughter. The forgotten short-term novel returned in the form of a pretty, innocent, girl. Under the blow was all: family, work, relationships with his wife and son.

The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel and unjust world, where you can survive only with a bunch of stolen dollars instead of brains. For a young Russian, money is a symbol of power and strength. Even the new state ideology feeds on blood oil dollars. In Russia there is no more room for dreams. This is the era of anti-utopia.

A young filmmaker is given a order to shoot the real murder, two sisters are going to the big city with the aim to rob the money-bags, and the mysterious hero is going through the streets and searching for a new victim.

ACA 172: Esengulov vs. Vagaev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday, March 9, 2024 the Irina Viner Usmanova Gymnastics Palace in Moscow, Russia.

They’ve grown up and are ready to enter into a new world, in the anticipation of the exam to get in the Architectural Institute. The rest of life goes on in parallel, everyone has their own problems, their reasons to cry, to choke on grief. The line, which they have to cross, looms ahead.

In the city of Samara, a community of anarchists are on the run from the Russian Government in a vehicle specially designed to to avoid detection. Ghost, one of the members of the gang, yearns to escape the life she's trapped in and discover what happened to her presumably dead parents.

Konstantin Stupin or just Stupa - rock-n-roller from Orel. He is 44 years old, we take him out of the madhouse and start making a film. Stupa in the last years of the existence of the USSR, as a schoolboy, decided to make music. He became the leader of the Oryol group Night cane: performances at school with songs about hell, sex, drugs, with texts like “take the Communist Party forgotten by everyone, drop two letters and get the SS”. Then the big scenes of the city and, as a result, the “Festival of Hopes”, organized by Artemy Troitsky, where the Night Cane, being the only non-Moscow group, receives a prize of audience sympathy. The texts for the festival have already become different, much deeper and more serious, but with constant protest in content and form.

A person runs away from pursuers, and he manages to escape. But that does not mean that he is now safe.

About the ruinous indefatigable thirst and the merciless seductive specter of freedom. About how people fall because they fly. About the epicenter of the explosion and the fatal inevitability of the end... When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you...

The almanac includes films: "Foundling", "The Most Scary Animal", "Two Lambs", "About the Girl Who Found Her Bear", "Yin and Yana. Family", "The Playmate", "Dangerous Walk", "The Tin Can".

Misha came home from a business trip. Bored enya is craving attention and love. but misha is always busy with the question: how to fix the car? an inquisitive mind doesn’t allow him to relax in the arms of his beloved wife until he finds the cause of the carburetor knock. a dark summer night is beautiful.

Sakhalin is a distant island. It is swept away by April snowstorms, and if you leave there, then forever. And if you stay, then for good and for great love. Masha turns thirty, and she still hasn't left. And she still hasn't stayed. She can't decide. Or decide.

This discovery film, based on the real events of the life of Alexander Pushkin, will completely change the idea of who we used to call "our everything", without suspecting to what extent it is true.

Nicolai Sctulman has got a big secret - in his garage basement there lives a hideous Freak. The two have a twisted arrangement together, Sctulman kills people and feeds them to the monster living in his basement in exchange for a strange but addictive green slime that the Freak gives him from his sweat which is "the best drug in the universe".

March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet knows the scale of the disaster that will unfold in the coming weeks and what trials soldiers and civilians will have to go through.

ACA 179: Omarov vs. Taygibov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Sunday, September 8, 2024 the Basket Hall in Krasnodar, Russia.

If you are interested in a treasure trove of gold, pure love, the pursuit of a criminal, crime, fights, sharp turns of events, then this detective story based on real events will undoubtedly attract your attention.

With songs like This World Is Sick and Sad Bitch, IC3PEAK had acquired a reputation for laying bare the malaise of many Russian millennials. By the time they reached Voronezh, the group already had been briefly detained in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk for unclear reasons and had seen a string of performances canceled. Now, a December 6, 2018 police investigation into alleged food poisoning at the Voronezh billiards club where IC3PEAK was scheduled to perform looked like it might lead to the same. In Let It All Burn, Russian filmmaker and TV journalist Andrey Loshak went behind the scenes to document the club and band’s struggle with local police and officials over the right to perform.

A sharp and witty play on opposites. *Schastlivtsev – Neschastlivtsev* (2003) stages joy and despair as two sides of the same coin, balancing irony with a touch of melancholy. Short, but it lingers.

An animator named Luka lives with his grandmother in the center of St. Petersburg. He huddles in a tiny but cozy attic and tries not to lose heart, making ends meet with earnings from roles in crowd scenes and performances at children's parties. Luka dreams of acting in TV series or big movies, so he periodically goes to auditions, which are rarely successful. Alexey Molchanov is a rich entrepreneur who lives at a crazy pace. He finds no time for himself or his loved ones, moving from one business meeting to another. However, time stops when, on the eve of his birthday, Alexey learns of his fatal diagnosis. The lives of both men take a different turn after their meeting.

More than a quarter century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We still feel the contradictory echoes, the echo of this collapse, and, probably, we will feel for a long time. But there is little left that still unites us - former citizens of the former empire, wherever fate brings us - Soviet food, an absolutely unique sociocultural phenomenon of Soviet history and Soviet life.

Sergey was 6 years old when he was trampled by a horse and became blind. Today he is a professional football player.

The story of a woman who literally changes her life before our eyes. With a prison behind her and a life in a dysfunctional environment, she is trying to become an actress. She plays in the theater, she is filmed by Loznitsa and Serebrennikov, but she has nowhere to live, and there is no money even for cigarettes. The new life is difficult, and the old one pulls back. And the prison is still nearby, because she finds herself at the very center of the Moscow protests.

The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narration, which acquaints the viewer with the inhabitants, traditions, customs and modern realities of the Leningrad Region. The heroes of the plots are those people for whom the cities and villages where they live are the best on earth.

The story of Chang and his Magic Paintbrush as extracted from the Chinese folklore explains how a poor talented man named Chang was gifted a magical paintbrush by a wish fairy, making all his drawings come to life.

Documentary film by Narra Berlin studio dedicated to the events of 2020 in Belarus. This is a poignant story about how a person has the opportunity to choose — even in the darkest of times.

The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.