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This movie marks the understanding of cinema as an extra-human effort and finds cinema beyond the human, somewhere on the territory of its non-existence.

His friend Sima sends the wayward driver Volodya Telescopov to take the barrels accumulated at the village buffet to the Koryazhsk regional center. By chance, a variety of fellow travelers gather in Volodya's truck. The story of the journey is interspersed with their dreams. In them, the bizarrely reflected reality converges among the heroes of the story in one thing — the desire to finally meet a Good Person.

The film tells the story of a little dog who prefers life on the streets to living in a luxurious palace.

An experimental collage of archives and animation, dedicated to the director's journey with his friends.

Young people fall into a different space-time dimension due to a technical error.

The cold summer of 1953. Escaped prisoners wander into a sayylyk (summer homestead), where only one family lives. The village is far away, other summerers are even further away, there is no one to wait for help. The appearance of escaped prisoners turns into a tragedy for the family.

A murderer escapes from prison and begins attacking locals in a small Yakut village, leaving death and chaos in his wake.

A film about the outstanding inventor Lev Aleksandrovich Yutkin.

Evlampy's house finally had a mistress. The youngest son Fedotka married Ulyanka, a neighbor's girl. And Agafya remained a girl. She decided to shoot an arrow into whose yard she would fall, and there would be a betrothed. Only that arrow flew into the forest, and straight into the swamp where the toad lived. So she returned home with him. And at night I threw him out of the window, and he hit the ground, but turned into a Kvakin Pasha.…

On the Yamal side of the Gulf of Ob, where it merges with the Kara sea was a military settlement some years ago. Empty barracks, abandoned trucks, scraps of equipment, letters forgotten in a hurry are now all that is left. However, a lonely house is standing on an arctic island. Two russian guys, who prefer north silence to the city noise are living there.

Russian short film.

The film is dedicated to the ethical freedom of choice between evil and good, the theme of the absurdity of life, mental anomalies that have become more acute in the modern world.

Marmot, a poignant and witty 3-minutes video by Chernysheva, shows an old Stalinist woman, tired of protesting, fallen behind a street demonstration, where her colleagues are protesting against capitalism in Russia. Strangely self-absorbed, she is struggling with indecipherable little stuff in her palm (while Stalin's portrait rests casually under her arm). As the soundtrack, we hear Beethoven’s Marmot played slightly out of tune, diligently and naively, by a child.

All that was filmed by famous and famous cameramen during the century of the existence of cinematography is in the vaults of the Krasnogorsk Film and Photo Archive. The restricted access archives belonged to the powerful NKVD. Access to the archives was the discovery of part of the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The transfer of time from today to the unknown past.

At the end of autumn, the first Vyatka's farmers Alexander Leonidovich and Raisa Nikiforovna Orlovsky will arrive at their former estate to say goodbye forever to the farm, where they spent the best and most difficult years of their lives. Years of litigation with a neighboring collective farm led to the decline of their family farm. The attempt of the children of Alexei, Nadezhda and Tatyana to revive life on the farm failed, and the younger Orlovskys are forced to finally move to the city. It is not easy for former farmers to find themselves in a city life that is alien to them. The farm still remains a place where they were truly happy.

Pipa's dream frog imagined himself to be a bull. The chairman of the collective farm decided that it was much easier to keep such a small bull. But the cows, realizing that they had been deceived, drove Pipa out of the herd and returned their bull.

A film by Dmitry Lurye.

Two dreamers — Leo the ostrich, who longs to fly, and a guinea pig obsessed with sea adventures — try to inspire a little mouse named Seraphim with their imagination…

Documentary about the events of self-coup by president Boris Yeltsin in September and October of 1993 which led to military attack on parliament building and deaths of civilians in street fights. Fim is based on raw and uncut material shot by crew from St. Petersburg, who originally came to Moscow to cover concert by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

A woman repairs the fishing nets on the seashore. In turn, he observes the movements on the deck of a ship anchored in the bay.

Film is dedicated to the ontological problems of adaptation of the human spirit in the mental world.

The film is dedicated to the memory of Valery Borisovich Agafonov (1941-1984), an outstanding performer of Russian romances.

Video documentation of the journey of 4 psychonauts led by the magic root of Mandragora from a creative squat on 6th Sovetskaya street (St. Petersburg) to Staraya Ladoga (Old Norse: Aldeigjuborg), August 30, 1995.

17th century. Spain. Before his execution, the pirate La Buse throws a map of an island where countless treasures are hidden into the angry crowd. Captain Fernand Misson, sentenced to death by the Holy Inquisition, escapes from custody. He sets off in search of the mysterious treasure island, but enrichment is not the fugitive's goal.

The elders and a young nenets Tatva are living at the nomad camp lost among the tundras, lakes and copses. Tatva is blind and explores the world by ear and by touch. To get by himself to the remote hunting lands he pulled up a multi-kilometer system of the rope paths which are woven from the scraps of a hoop net, wire and tarpaulin.

In the history of the Russian ballet theater, the name of Olga Spesivtseva occupies a place no less significant than the names of Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina. The audience first saw her in 1913 as a beautiful young girl, gentle, captivating and timid, with huge eyes full of mystery. In the early twenties, this girl was a real idol of youth and a conqueror of Paris, and in the early nineties, after a long mental illness, she ended her days away from her homeland, in one of the nursing homes. A star and a victim of her time, a forced hermit and a prisoner of madness, her life is a tangle of glory and oblivion, her name is surrounded by an aura of mystery, delight and contempt...

Russia. Character and path. A bitter experience of self-discovery. The theory of the Russian physiologist I.P. Pavlov as the key to understanding Russian history. And Russian history as the key to understanding Pavlov's personality and quest. A man who realized his freedom in the conditions of despotism. A scientist who realized the nature of the Russian crowd using the examples of experimental animals. The visual basis of the film was chronicle materials.

Documentary film by the musical group The Dartz. The plot was mainly based on the band's songs from their debut album.

Rain is something between Heaven and Earth...

Cinematography in allegory. Film is dedicated to the memory of Svyatoslav Valov, the director of documentary films and Kobrin’s colleague.

Two men, their heads wrapped in painter’s tape, are eating at a table.

A short film based on the story of Fedor Sologub “Shadows and Light”.

About an unsuccessful hunter who hunted a dinosaur.

The film tells about the work of the Dutch artist Vincent Willem van Gogh.

A documentary film exploring the life of an ordinary fox in its natural habitat.

Cinema offers a unique opportunity to synthesize a special multilayered space, whose dramaturgy cannot be limited to the traditional Hollywood-style concept of plot, but instead relies primarily on the interaction of several layers that give rise to the Image: music, visuals, text, and form.

The film tells about selkup, indigenious nation of north. The worldview of it's residents is based around lake Lozyl'-to, which is believed to be the center of the world. Lozyl'-to translates as Devil's lake, lake, where spirits are living. At the very heart of the lake sits island, which is a shelter for recently departed souls, watershed and mainland. By the legend of shamans, temple is the home for mysterious "Black woman" and spirits, which are half people and half bears. Selkup believe that on the seventh day after death the soul of a person transmigrates into a bear. The temple is a place where souls live until the "Black woman" comes.

The series of television films is based on the reflections of collective farm pensioners — old men and old women, in whose worldview the myths of the Soviet past and deep peasant wisdom are combined in the most bizarre way.

Short film by Vladimir Kobrin.

What is that obstacle between two humans, preventing them of going free and boundless? Who placed this "cactus" of the common moral and public opinion on a love ground? Drop it, smash it and move away in any direction before it has been carefully planted back.

People navigate the museum on unusual devices.

Grandfather Evlampy has four brave sons. The guys are very hardworking, they work in the field and fish from morning to night. One day, on an ordinary morning, a snake from another planet came to them...

How is the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, whose birthday is celebrated by almost every Muscovite, being celebrated in the capital? With love and grandeur: in squares and streets, in parks and squares, young people are dancing waltzes and mazurkas, actors and musicians are giving concerts, and exhibitions and literary readings are taking place in museums. But the special atmosphere is on Baumanskaya, in the corner of Moscow where the poet was born, was baptized, and lived “without knowing sorrow or trouble.” Of course, Moscow is not all of Russia. But it is here and on this day that you realize how right Ivan Shmelev was when he said that “Pushkin is Russia itself.”

A film portrait of Vadim Sidur (1924-1986), an artist, sculptor, poet, and one of the most talented people of the twentieth century.

Here, the camera goes into a dance, accelerates, becomes ornamental. This is not to catch something in a quiant dynamic composition but to realize itself as part of action.

A mystical melodrama about love between an ordinary man and a lake mermaid