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A philosophical contemplation of the author about finding and losing yourself and the other in yourself. The film traces the opposition of photography and cinema.

In some chronicles, the beginning of Russian history dates back to the year 6360 (852 AD). From this ancient past, the director gazes into the modern capital of Russia, painting broad strokes of captured moments on the canvas of contemporary history. A morning in Izmailovo, the opening of a fair, the celebration of City Day at the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, the high-rise construction of the City, a concert on the square, a religious procession at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a boat trip on the Moskva River, pedestrians walking along the streets, and the evening lights of a tired city...

Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.

Every foolish thought of the dictator is considered wise by those around him. To carry out his commands, even the dead are dug up from their graves. The relationship between the dictator and his subordinates reaches the point of absurdity.

After the owner of an old castle places a newspaper ad for the purchase of a ghost, a gang of crooks decides to rob him.

Serge Prokofiev's enigmatic work, this is a tale of the supernatural, religious hysteria and demonic possession which is set in Germany at the time of The Inquisition.

The film consists of five separate short stories about different people. A young man who has just returned from the war in Transnistria. The boys who wipe the windows of cars on the streets for tips. A newly minted millionaire who got rich from criminal operations. A French woman who recently came to Russia for permanent residence. A small theater troupe, cheerful and hoping only for themselves.

Based on the story of A.P. Chekhov.

A peasant couple argues over who does the harder work. They decide to switch roles: the wife goes to the fields, and the husband stays home to take care of the house. Very quickly, the man is overwhelmed by the domestic chores, and chaos ensues. This comic fable, inspired by a Russian folktale, pokes fun at gender stereotypes and reminds us that every job has its challenges.

About the adventures of a guinea pig, a little mouse named Serafim, and an ostrich named Lyova.

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

A hypnotic travelogue about an ancient river in the days following the summer solstice.

About the snail and something bigger.

An animated film about how a group of frogs defeated an evil dog.

A film about a young composer who breaks through, through his music, into another world, where he meets a girl from the sixteenth century, dressed in ancient clothes, wearing silver jewelry

A wreath of movie sets dedicated to the love of music and composer Mikael Tariverdiev.

A story of love, jealousy and betrayal. But always, even under fatal circumstances, nobility will find its way to the light. Gertrude, a former governess, marries the count and cheats on him. She has long been in love with the count's business manager and hopes to marry him eventually. But her stepdaughter is growing up...

The film was edited from the materials of the diary filming in Grozny from May 5 to May 13, 1995. This is an attempt to record the condition of civilians who unexpectedly became witnesses and victims of a large-scale political conflict.

Film showing the lives of openly gay men in Russia, from those living in the prison system to those working to change that country's legal stance on homosexuality.

A musical etude.

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema Edward Shelganov.

In ancient Russian mythology Sirin is a bird with the head of a woman, a Slavic image of the Greek sirens. The ensemble of ancient Russian sacred music "Sirin" was created to revive ancient Orthodox singing traditions. It is an outstanding musical project performing folk sacred songs. The film tells about the unique work of musicians collecting half-forgotten melodies in the most remote corners of Russia.

Eve's Gate is the road to illusory happiness, on which two young Albanian girls run across the sea, so that there, even at the cost of body and soul, but to buy a little happiness. They will have to fight for love, resolve doubts that will force them to think about many things. Whether everything can be sacrificed, whether everything can be sold, how to fill the spiritual void, how to keep happiness...

Together with our heroes, you will embark on a journey through the Castle of Fear, where reality turns into fantasy, and fantasy acquires visible features of reality. You will get acquainted with the secrets of the skill of a practicing Moscow mistress, open the canopy of an erotic photo studio and watch a photo session, hear several stories from the world of erotic dreams...

Experimental short.

Two girls grew up in one family. One, named O-Tiyo, was a hard worker, she did everything around the house, fetched water, watered plants, carried firewood. And the other girl, O-Hana, was just sleeping, relaxing and enjoying life. And one winter the lazy woman wanted strawberries. They kicked the hard worker out into the street so she could get the desired berries. The girl was helped by a kind old mountain spirit - he created summer in the middle of winter so that O-Chiyo could pick strawberries for her sister. But she suddenly developed a new quirk - to try blue strawberries. Once again O-Chiyo was sent into the forest, and again the old spirit helped her find strawberries. But when O-Hana and her mother ate blue berries, they... turned into foxes. Based on a Japanese folk tale.

A family of winemakers lives in a world of two colors - white and red. It's snow and wine. The heroes consider everyone else to be enemies, starting with nature and ending with people who do not know how to make wine and do not understand their relationships.

The Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which opened the way through the Resurrection Gate to Red Square, has long been revered by Orthodox and even non-Orthodox Muscovites. In 1929-1931, the wooden chapel where the miraculous icon was venerated was destroyed by the godless authorities, the icon was confiscated, and the Resurrection Gate was demolished. In 1994-1995, the chapel and gate were restored, and a new list of the Iveron icon was made on Mount Athos.

The fate of the heroine of the film Olga Glazatova. The viewer gets to know her in the last weeks before her release from the general regime colony, where she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 18. The way of life, customs, customs of the women's zone, in which the painfully familiar features of our "free" life manifest themselves, where Olya is so eager, make up the background of the heroine's portrait. The warm, kind intonation of the film awakens what we all lack so much – sympathy.

About a janitor who, together with a bull from a cigarette, swept away his shadow and disappeared with it.

The story is about a musician, the conflict is based on the confrontation of classical jazz and alternative music.

A strong wind blew the anthill into the air and dropped it to the ground, so that it completely crumbled from the impact with the ground. The ants began to build themselves a new house. But among the industrious ants there were two lazy ones who cunningly forced the trustworthy and kind curly-haired Hedgehog to do their work. But Crow, seeing all this from the tree, told the rest of the ants about this deception.

Leonid Parfenov's program “Nabokov's Century” is dedicated to the centenary of the great Russian and American classic. These are, first of all, the stories of people who knew the writer closely: Elena Vladimirovna Nabokova-Sikorskaya - “the favorite sister of the favorite brother”, as Vladimir Vladimirovich called her, and Nabokov's son Dmitry Vladimirovich. Nabokov, who became a genius of two languages and two literatures, is an exceptional case. The film crew visited America, where Nabokov, an American professor of Russian literature, taught at Cornell University for a long time. The viewer will also see the St. Petersburg mansion and the house in Rozhdestvensko estate, where the happy childhood of the future writer took place, his apartment in the hotel in the Swiss town of Montreux, where Nabokov lived the last sixteen years of his life.

A negligent student of the Academy of Fine Arts is late for a drawing lesson and instead of an analytical drawing of a plaster Venus, he hastily "paints" a red square, after which he is subjected to a demonstrative flogging by the professor.

The mankind, laughing, to all gets used. Slowly, but correct. It is necessary to recognize, that on a background of prompt growth counterskyscraper and other terrorism, general degradation and degeneration of tastes, the problem of former terrible AIDS is not considered now as something out of the common leaving in a turn universal bad. In comparison with all by rest of the same sort, is in it even and something positive: for pleasure suffer, instead of so that sleep, and wake up under concrete ruins, not having and opportunity to send last "forgive" over the mobile telephone. From asheses send - in ashes we will address, as teach us clever books. In film, about which there will be a speech, the alternative way which was less giving back with didactics, formalin and fatalism is offered.

Animated film based on F. Kafka's work "The Castle". It was created at the studio of the Naumov brothers in 1993. Technology - plasticine lining.

This film is based on the real events of 1958. He talks about the tests of a secret bomber created by Soviet aircraft designers.

The plot is based on the story of a boy who finds a wet toy puppy among the autumn leaves and begins to take care of it as if it were alive, which arouses the jealousy of his real dog.

The first feature-length Yakut film. A film that tells in a documentary and game form about the rituals, customs, beliefs, life and lifestyle of the Sakha people. The director recreated on the screen the ancient rituals of the life cycle, almost forgotten by the current Sakha.

The Maid of Orleans is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans.

Mafia is trying to force an Afghanistan war veteran Arseniy to become a contract killer.

The villagers are preparing to see off winter and welcome spring. Puppet cartoon about Slavic traditions

The heroes travel by time machine to the past, where they rescue a kind Giant.

Part 1: The forest at Katyn. Mass graves of more than 20,000 Polish officers and government officials. They were discovered by the Germans in the spring of 1943. Goebels' propaganda immediately gave the matter publicity, blaming the Russians for the crime. Part 2: When the Russians occupied the Smolensk region in September 1943, they came across the graves erected by the Germans at the site of the Katyn massacre. Now they, like the Germans before them, made a propaganda film blaming the Third Reich for the murder of Polish officers.

The newsreel consists of four stories. The first one is about the collection of ancient wind-up dolls collected by the head of the Moscow Puppet Theater S.V. Obraztsov. The second is about inextinguishable matches made at the Balabanovskaya match factory in the Kaluga region. The third is about gold embroidery – the ancient Russian art of embroidery. The fourth is about a polar bear and her four cubs. All stories are represented by puppets.

In this, the second part of the Geona series, the complex ecosystem of planet Geona is discovered.

An attempt to understand the mystical essence of the tales of a small people in Eastern Europe — the Udmurts.