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This war drama is dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). It revolves around Pavel Zubov, a school teacher whose village was occupied by the fascists. Being a teacher is his calling in life. He believes in such basic human values as love and family. However, a certain chain of events changes the way he perceives life and leads him to a darker view of reality. In this time of war, as the enemy shows its true face, he must make an uneasy choice to either survive and adapt to the new regime or fight for his family, love, homeland, ideals, and beliefs.

Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own death, in order to simplify the procedure for her son. She has not seen her only son for over five years because he worrks in the capital. Oleg is constantly busy, and he does not have time for his lonely mother. At the same time with all the new problems, the heroine receives as a gift a huge carp, which changes her life.

A swindler on the lam uses his impersonating skills to pose as a grandmother in a nursing home, where his disguise complicates his love life.

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.

An epidemic of an unknown virus spreading people into zombies is spreading at a furious pace in Moscow. The city begins to panic, declared martial law. At this time, a seasoned taxi driver, carrying a pregnant woman from the Moscow region, turns out to be the only savior for herself and several random travelers, including a cowardly policeman and a drunken businessman.

The wife of a young man finds out that he betrays her. Trying to win her back, the man develops a plot during which he must convince his wife that she saw an completely different man. A man who looks like him, as two peas in a pod.

This is a story of one summer that ends along with the Youth. A village guy Seryoga looks at the world through a hole made in a poster of Tatyana Bulanova. A girl from a big city Nastya is just about to explore the world. Seryoga, Pashok and Redhead Mashka drag Nastya to the journey of their youth called 'Yof'. It is pretty hard to get out of it, it is impossible to forget it, you will always keep it in your memory like a song from the 90s.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Short stories shot by four different directors on 8 mm film. The first story by Dmitry Ryabikov is a real field test for a feature which was done as experimental film about the Creation of the World. The second story is an action short by Dorji Galsanov about problems and understanding between two friends. The third one from Anton Bilzho, a teaser for upcoming thriller, is about love to invisible creature. And the fourth story by Anton Sokolov is about love to aliens - a logical final of all parts.

A young man arrives in a village on the White Sea. He comes in search of a girl who ran away from the city without saying goodbye. An old man from among the locals offers to show him the way. Neither the young man nor the old imagine what trials await them along the way.

What is a human brain? Is it just a part of central nervous system, super computer or master who controls human's life? Modern neuroscience researches will help us answer this questions.

The main character is a young girl Nastya who studies in one of the Moscow universities and lives in a usual dormitory. She is not happy with herself and her life. One night , Nastya finds a mysterious website «No man- no problem» and orders her death.

Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.

A strict elderly teacher suddenly begins to seem (or not to appear?) That the students in her class are no longer children, but terrible monsters, pursuing their mysterious goals.

A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.

Masha is an energetic three-year-old who lives in an old train station in the forest. Precocious, silly, and friendly with everyone she meets, this energetic girl can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble. Bear is a warm, fatherly figure that does his best to guide his friend and keep her from harm, often ending up the unintended victim of her misadventures. Though he enjoys his quiet time alone, he misses those moments when Masha is not around. Together with a rag-tag group of friendly animals that have made the forest their home, Masha and the Bear entertains adults and children alike, teaching viewers about creativity, loyalty and true friendship.

After his long-lost son is suddenly thrust back into his life, a charismatic con artist takes to the road with his two wives, swindling everyone they encounter along their path.

A regular couple after years of relationship struggles to find the way to their happiness.

A satirical interpretation of the modern debut launch process from the perspective of two young director's personal experience. Chivalrous walk to the meeting with a producer becomes a nostalgic journey down memory lanes where fears, turmoils and disappointments of recent months are mixed together. The path to dream's implementation is hampered by mainstream's lack of understanding - the confrontation which resembles a fight with windmills.

A traffic light. A red signal. A masked guy jumps into the car of a young man. He points a pistol at the driver and shouts: “Go!”. The guy has a bag full of money. When the driver looks around at him, the robber points the pistol at him, and the car gets involved in an accident. After a stop on the roadside a small child starts to cry on the back seat.

A story of life and service of the combat general and commander Viktor Kudlai, from himself and in the comments of his subordinates. In the film there are verses by Galich, Galkin and Karpenko performed by the three great Soviet and Russian actors.

Five kinonovell, closely related to each other and as a designer gathering in one movie "about the movie." All the action takes place in cars, where the main characters unwittingly become hostages of sometimes absurd circumstances, as if they themselves are the heroes of the film. And, despite the large number of words spoken, the main characters will have to bear responsibility for each of them.

Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel.

The story of a Russian family living and dying through four wars: the Russian Civil War in 1920, the Great Patriotic War in 1942, the First Chechen War in 1996, and the Russian military invasion in Ukraine in 2017.

An old widower, former WW2 radio operator, perceives flashing bulb as his late wife's messages from Heaven. His love will never die even when the lights are gone.

In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission is to take sex and violence beyond the forbidden level. A game that would let them do that must be banned. One of the Censors is a good guy who hates his bloody job. The other one is a creep. But even the Censors lose their ability to tell the game from the real world.

The unlucky popular favorite and pop singer Alex in the company of the hired killer Stepan and nymphomaniac Nastya flee from all-powerful killers with heavy machine guns and a black hammer hired by the production center. The classic American genre in domestic spaces ...

After boyfriend's disappearance Zhenia develops an uncanny power for prophetic dreams. Using this gift she decides to escape fate and save her true love from Moscow's criminal underworld

Julia is beautiful, mysterious and... hopelessly lonely. She lives with her mother in a house where the cult of her late military father, a very harsh man and – apparently – a rare idiot, reigns supreme. None of the men Julia has met meets such a high standard. But mom is determined to get her daughter married. And then one day a handsome man in a military dress uniform appears in their family. The only trouble is, he's not exactly who they think he is... or not at all.

The documentary film Another Life continues the main theme of The Happy People series: man’s faith in himself and his great capacity for survival. This is a film about strong people who are free spirits and who are not concerned with the majority of things that excite city dwellers. Perhaps these fates can serve as an example, can help us see ourselves through another person’s eyes, and allow us to take a new look at our own lives.

Nina considers her life as a series of failures. It's like a magnet that attracts trouble. And the fact that neighbors on the communal shamelessly "survive" her, and then her first lay off at the reduction in school, and even an unfulfilled personal life - in everything, Nina blames only her unhappiness. Her friend Masha tries to prove to her that the problem is in Nina herself. She does not know how to stand up for herself and allows others to use her trustfulness. Temporarily, Nina arranges an interpreter for one of the successful companies. There she gets acquainted with the director of the company Roman, who begins to look after her. But Nina does not even realize that once again becomes a "bargaining chip" in someone else's game.

A strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor's life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.

Mitya accidentally proposed to his girlfriend. The problem is that Mitya is already married to Vasya, who refuses to grant him a divorce. Can Mitya and his friends convince Vasya to change her mind?

Colonel Koloda, recruited by foreign intelligence, stole secret documents of national importance. In fact, the documents are fake, disinformation for foreign intelligence agencies. The surveillance of the traitor leads the operatives to the bank, where he leaves the documents in the cell number 69. To establish who will come for them, Captain Alexey Vereshchagin comes to the bank under the guise of a client. Ironically, it is this bank that Mikhail Druskin, a desperate candidate of sciences and single father, wants to rob. When he sees the police, he takes the bank's visitors hostage in fright.

Yana Titova is a very successful businesswoman, editor-in-chief of a fashion glossy magazine. She considers herself a self-sufficient, accomplished woman and supports "child-free". It doesn't bother Yana at all that at thirty-eight she doesn't have a husband or children. Having achieved popularity, Yana confidently goes forward, not wanting to compromise her own principles. But suddenly, clouds are gathering over Yana's well-being, and in order to strengthen her almost lost position, she agrees to an unthinkable step, deciding to adopt a child. Yana takes her from the orphanage a little gypsy by the name of Yanko. That's just Yana does not even suspect what will turn out for her such a PR move.

Vasily Pronchishchev and Vasily Chelyuskin were young lieutenants of the Russia fleet, who set out from Yakutsk along the Lena River to the Arctic Ocean on a sailing ship under the leadership of the commander Vitus Bering in the summer of 1735. Contrary to the imperial prohibition, incredible trials and deadly danger lying ahead of all the members of this expedition, a young girl enamored with one of the characters got onto this ship. However, neither storms or severe northern frosts and hunger were able to stop them, since fulfilling of their duty, reaching of the most northeastern point of Eurasia and putting of the vast Arctic territories on the world maps were their main purpose in life.

Kolya Semenov grew up in a village, in a fishing village near the river. He likes a girl who wants to become an actress. Once Kolya steals a gazelle to impress the girl. Ahead of him are several years of roads and hills.

Travel the longest railway in the world. Stories and destinies of ordinary Russians who met by chance on the Moscow-Vladivostok train. A kaleidoscope of passengers' stories develops into a social portrait of modern Russian society, and the endless road turns into a metaphor of a country that is constantly moving somewhere.

The drama based on hidden implicit faith in miracle unfolds between the members of the family with an unhappy love story of a desolate teenage girl who tries to withstand this family madness after their devotee grandmother came to their flat from upcountry.

In Los Angeles, one of the most romantic cities in the world, two unnromantic people meet. On the first date, she throws away the flowers he gives and he takes her to the cafe with the worst coffee in to wn. Despite the disaster of the first date she shows up to the second date wearing nothing but lingerie. Even then to find her a dress even failing to steal a dress from the local store. Despite these romantic disasters and confusions these are the best two days in both their lives. Will their romance go on, and the disasters and confusions continue despite the fact giving that they don’t even know each other names? In the city of Angels, on a beautiful beach, anything is possible. Even if it lasts for only couple of days.

Greece in summer during tourist season. In a five-star category "all inclusive" lives a seagull with a broken wing. Summer visitors behave differently to the wounded bird. Some do not notice it, others sympathize, others feed it and even try to heal the wounded seagull. How a bird of the seagull family reacts to a relationship so close to humans, the viewer will know by watching this dramatic story recorded on film.

All day long the TV shows an ice-hole. Ice-holes are the theme of the day, a winter tradition that unites believers and sportsmen, stars and walruses, the president and the unemployed. In the centre of the news reports are the topics of Baptism, fishing and the criminal chronicle. The president and a pike, the artist and the crit- ics, the oligarch and the law enforcement team – they all meet at an ice- hole in search of solutions for their problems. The jobless Muscovite, with bad habits, dives down an ice-hole for a wife, just like Sadko. The fairy- tale plots intertwine with documentary context, and it is no longer clear where reality ends. Remember Nietzsche: if you long gaze into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.

After the death of the mother of twelve Kohl sent to an orphanage. Valentine is taking him from there. This lonely old woman is his dear aunt, with whom he had never been acquainted. Kohl is waiting for his older brother to come after him after his release from prison, and they will return home together.

XIII century. The villain seized power in the Murom principality. Only the brave warrior Peter goes out to fight the villain and defeats him. But the poisonous blood of the sorcerer poisons the savior of the principality. Healer Fevronia is ready to use her gift to save Peter. A real pure feeling breaks out between the young people, which they have to preserve despite many obstacles.

The action will take place in the same camp, though, children have become older, and therefore in the film we will talk not only about the harmful effects of gadgets and the need for communication, but also about the first sympathy.

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.

The relationship between Sasha and Vadim has reached a crisis and it seems that the spouses are connected only by discontent, embitterment and irritation. The never- ending quarrels are not even soothed by great trouble: from the summer house their son Grisha, who has overheard how grandmother and grandfather discussed the future divorce of the parents, has run away. The search for the boy leads the protagonists into the forest.

The grand constant flow of life

Moscow. 1970. The hero of the USSR, cosmonaut Nikolai Valerievich Basov, tries to recover from a tragedy that darkened his life. He leads a solitary life, having withdrawn into his apartment. Nikolai hardly notices the world around him and can no longer relate to life as he did before his accident – the fatal 36 hours after an emergency landing in the taiga, which left an indelible trace on his life. After a strike of fate, people start to mysteriously disappear around Basov. He suddenly realizes that it is not simple to get rid of this strange influence of outer space ...

A zombie apocalypse can happen tomorrow. But now there is a place where it is possible to escape.

A monotonous and predictable life of a supermarket backdoor guard is forever changed after an eccentric drag queen, named Hurricane Rita, with her daring escapades turns the guard's night shift routine into a night of exciting adventures.

Kerel is the name of a young singer making her first steps on the professional stage. Aital is a simple village guy who composes songs. Fate brought them together for a short Yakut summer, and they fell in love with each other. It would seem that nothing can interfere with their happiness. But suddenly these relationships disrupt the plans of others and loved ones, because Kerel is incredibly beautiful, and Aital has been absolutely blind since childhood

The heroes of the film are husband and wife. The hero has a daughter from his first marriage. She is incurably ill. Somewhere on the Internet, she read that today there are technologies that allow her body to freeze, to later unfreeze and cure.