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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.
The movie has been preserved incompletely, with no inscriptions.
Children are preparing for a war, preparing to kill. For some, it’s just toys, but for others, it is broken fates. And everywhere they are the toys in the adults hands.
Anna Azov is one of the most colorful and mysterious persons in the Russian MMA. At home she is a gentle mother, in the ring she is a hard, uncompromising coach of her sons. For battle as she prepares to secular Raut - selects the dress, the hair.Before going out son, here comes mom, she dances awesome Cossack sabre dance. The whole course of the match written on her face, Anna is going through doubly as a mom and as a coach.
About the young, nice guy on a good typewriter. He is not a fool and with a sense of humor. He is generally all good - know the problems. But for some reason he does not love anyone, but I want to ... love.
A teenager from peripheral Russia falls under the influence of a young mob. Now he is faced with a tough decision to make.
The film tells that a person, even in very difficult circumstances, is able to turn the tide.
After the passing of her grandmother, a businessman's daughter goes back to her birthplace. After a little while, she receives the visit of her former classmates but their reunion take an unexpected turn. The guests tells her that they need some money to cover the murder they've committed.
“Communalka” tells the story of people living in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg, whose characters and destinies have been shaped by shared living.
Legends are created over centuries. They tell about the structure of the world, the origin of rivers and mountains. The film is based on one of the legends - about the beautiful Katun and her beloved Biy. The heroes of the film are our young contemporaries who travel around Altai. Their fantasies are either a dream or the truth. Their story is full of mysteries...
A young man lives in a small town outside of space and time. One day, his measured life is disrupted by a musical group that comes on tour. Once at the concert, the main character realizes that this is exactly the kind of music that haunts him...
About the life of a tiny village on the riverbank and about a black cat. Divide the world into parts to understand, bring it closer to your eyes, look at the light, move your brain, then put it back together... but it doesn't add up. There seems to be no magic, but it turns out to be a fabulous story, a fairy tale…
Three brothers come to the parental home to visit their old mother, who is dying. In the oven, they find a charred document on the adoption of a boy, on which the name and year of birth of the child cannot be read. Now, based on scraps of childhood memories, you need to reconstruct the events and figure out who is the adopted son.
The Genre follows the rehearsals for a theatre play by an independent company in the Soviet Union, in 1991.
Lost film.
A funny story about a sea emigration trip.
A one-woman show by Elizaveta Varvara Aranova, filmed in an empty auditorium and structured as an honest, one-on-one conversation.
The story of a parasitic moth who feeds on tears. Hunting down a wild beast to procure food he risks becoming a predator’s prey himself.
17-year-old Danil and Olya have been in a detention center for murder for a year now, and when they reach adulthood they will be sent to prison. At this time, the colony is included in the regional creative program and will host a talent competition - the winner will be able to go to the next stage of the competition for the territory of the colony. Danil and Olya decide to win the competition and escape, ending up at the next stage. But Dasha, the daughter of the man they killed, who is sitting with them, learns about their escape plan.
Anatoly Grebnev is one of the iconic screenwriters of our cinema. In 2023 he would have turned one hundred years old. He died before reaching eighty. His screenwriting works include “July Rain” by Marlen Khutsiev and “St. Petersburg Secrets,” one of the first Russian television series; “Success” with Leonid Filatov, “Prokhindiada, or Running in Place” with Alexander Kalyagin, “Diary of a School Principal” with Oleg Borisov. He worked with Yuliy Raizman and Anatoly Efros, and left our time with a living and relevant “Diary of the Last Screenwriter.” The peculiarity of Grebnev’s fate is that he came to cinema only in the middle of his life - as an adult, mature person. His childhood, youth and youth were full of hopes and failures, love and loss. The film will tell not only about Grebnev’s film biography, but also about that first life that he left for the sake of cinema.
Mongun-Taiga is the highest peak of Tyva and all of Eastern Siberia. In the harsh climate of the Mongun-Taiga ridge, only yaks... and people survive. Rare travelers get here, and those who do find themselves on another planet, where shamans, yaks, people, spirits of ancestors, mountains and taiga live in amazing harmony and unity... How to protect this fragile world from destruction?
Olga Barkovskaya helps investigator Kartashova in the case of the kidnapping of lawyer Gennady Sinitsyn, combined with the murder of Gennady's wife Natalia. The criminal sends strange messages consisting of sequences of perfect numbers to the kidnapped man's brother, Judge Semyon Sinitsyn. Each message gives Olga a new clue and brings her closer to catching the criminal, and at the same time reveals terrible secrets from Gennady's past. Kartashova finds it suspicious that the kidnapper is helping to find himself. He is clearly playing a game with the police, the purpose of which only Olga can understand.
Senya is a brown bear cub with an amazing and terrible fate. Classical literature has long revealed to us that such destinies do not happen only to people. But, of course, Tatiana Skabard's new film is still about us: about our cruelty and indifference, about bloody entertainment involving animals, which are arranged not by medieval barons, but by our neighbors, and about how our other contemporaries, at the risk of life and health, regardless of costs, save and treat birds and animals mutilated in these amusements.
The author of the film, Evgenia Zobnina, tells in detail about the life and career of Tamara Morshakova, a legendary Russian lawyer, retired judge of the Constitutional Court and a former member of the Human Rights Council.
On May 9, at the Immortal Regiment procession in the mountain village of Mizur in North Ossetia, local residents came out with portraits of their warring relatives. One of the posters featured a photograph of an officer who died in March in Ukraine. 33-year-old captain Aslan Dzantiev was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. On May 9, his family arranged a memorial ceremony, neighbors and relatives, according to the traditional Ossetian custom, prepared food and lit a candle on the grave of the deceased. In Caucasian families, men and women do not sit down together at the table and grieve differently, men make toasts and behave with restraint, and women cook food and do not hide their grief. Aslan Dzantiev grew up without a father and remained childless, his mother, grandmother and young widow mourn him at home.
In search of a magic carpet, Vovka travels to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where preparations for the New Year are underway. Vovka quarrels with Morozko and cancels winter, but the Tsar threatens him with severe punishment. Now Vovka must bring winter back at any cost and save the holiday.
Happiness and suffering alternate when a Man and a Woman meet. And the voice of Reason does not work here. Because Love is unbearable, but without it there is no Life at all.
Rodion Raskolnikov commits a crime, which is inevitably followed by a reckoning. But the old woman turns out to be a robot and everything does not go according to plan. Now the fate of this world is in his hands. Collaboration with Egor Loskutov and the Syenduk channel. The video is dedicated to the reissue of the book in a new audio format for the bicentennial of the birth of F.M.Dostoevsky with the participation of the Law Firm project.
And the house, and the garden, and the old rusty basin, and the wind — everything has its own secret and its own soul. That's how children can feel. This is the film "White-white Day".
Four people have lived for many years in a small apartment. Their hearts remain young, but their minds, clouded by time and a sad, perpetually drunken fate, no longer function clearly and cannot think straight.
The hydrographic expedition of the Arctic Ocean (or GESLO, 1910-1915) made the last great geographical discovery – the Northern Land (then the Land of Emperor Nicholas II) and was the first to pass the Northern Sea Route from east to west, from Vladivostok to Arkhangelsk, overwintering at Cape Chelyuskin. According to Amudsen, "if this expedition had happened at a different time, it would have caused the admiration of the whole world." But in Soviet times, the most productive and successful Arctic expedition of the early twentieth century was "erased" from history. The reason is the participation of Admiral Kolchak in its organization. Unique archival materials immerse the viewer in a gripping dramatic story.
Experimental film from the almanac of classical music for children "Children's Album". It is dedicated to the constructivist period of Alexander Mosolov, as well as architecture and cinema of this direction and consists of three parts, with conditional names: 1. "Shadows", 2. "Movement", 3. "Volume". The structure of the film is visually and rhythmically close to constructivism.
New animated film by Maxim Kulikov, Pavel Pogudin and Yury Tomilov.
After viewing random cellphone videos, a young woman confronts her friend about recent emotional distance.
A lonely, aging photographer lives in a little town where the traces of the communist era are well-preserved. Love, loneliness, senility, sadness, tiredness, memory, reminiscences, offence… Life becomes black and white when the end is closer, when colors bleach; paper turns yellow and only in the memory faces and smiles are still bright and varied in colors.
Love and death... The choice is difficult. Especially if you are 18.
A grandma. A small slum. On her anniversary day she turns the 40 years old record on her reel-to-reel tape-recorder. To the strains of the young friends’ and relatives’ voices she thoroughly lays a holiday table. Dishes, tea service, cutlery. A long raw of glasses on the white cloth. Anniversary greetings, wishes of happiness and long life, dreams and plans of the people of bygone epoch are heard at the record. It’s hard for grandma, but she keeps carefully laying the table. Finally, the record stops. The grandma sits at the served table: there are no food or drinks, only dishes and cutlery. For a moment she sits with no motion. She cries silently. Then the grandma sighs and starts to draw the cloth.
New film by Svyatoslav Podgayevsky
Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather Frost. Protected by her parents from the jealousy of the Sun god Yarilo who has vowed to warm her heart when she gets older and falls in love, Snegurochka the snow maiden is entrusted to the wood sprite…Aida Garifullina sings the role of Snegurochka whilst the production and musical direction have been left in the capable hands of two other Russian artists: the young conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov and director Dmitri Tcherniakov.
People born in Russia in 1917 tell about their fate. Deep personal memories of long-livers add up to the history of the country of the last century.
The film introduces us to the story of a young man who doesn’t think about tomorrow. For the romantic, courageous, windy and reckless lad, every day is a new adventure... We meet the protagonist and his friends at a key moment in one adventure, which brings about a fateful acquaintance: he falls in love with a girl who offers herself to him, and at the same time the prospect of fast profit. In love affairs there is everything but love.
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.
At first glance, charity is easy: gather things, spend time, help with money. But it turns out, it's not easy when you are 17 and you are not ready to see lonely old age, poverty and disease. And when you realize that now you are there - in a nursing home - waiting, it becomes even more difficult.
Armed with nothing more than a Yamaha keyboard, Valentin commutes back and forth between his shared flat and a metro underpass in search of happiness.
A woman who loves dogs lives in her world full of passions.
The film is centered on young people who live in a moral vacuum, with no aspirations or goals in life. The main character, 18 year old Valera, was once a promising footballer, playing under the most sought-after number 10. But an injury eliminated his chances of a professional career. After several years at a major football academy, he returned to his home town. While waiting to enter compulsory military service, Valera is dating Sveta, a girl of seemingly no ambition, who works a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier. But their relations are nearly limited to sex. Valera's only friends in the neighborhood are a couple of hoodlums he once went to secondary school with. Hanging out with them, he eventually slips into crime...
A film-journey through fleeting and tender dreams, shot with a “loving” video camera.
An alien force lands on Earth to invade. The first person the aliens meet on their way is a little girl who asks them riddles. From the little girl, the aliens learn that the planet they are capturing is inhabited by strange creatures. Well, really, who is this: “Mustache, eyes, tail - and he washes himself cleaner than everyone else,” “In a red hat and coat, his nose looks like a chisel,” “A black cow came, she overcame the whole world”? The shocked aliens leave the mysterious planet in panic.
The author's documentary film by film director, screenwriter, actor, Honored Artist of Russia Vitaly Maksimov is dedicated to the memory of the feat of ordinary artillery driver Stepan Perederia, who alone opposed a huge motorized infantry column of fascists on the outskirts of Krasnodar in August 1942.
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.
Short film by Igor Levinsky and Pyotr Tochilin