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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.

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.

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

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.

The soulless atmosphere of a women's penitentiary destroys the prisoners' personality, kills all femininity in them. The film looks at the rationality of the long prison terms for women with children.

An ancient demon head and a pair of demonic battle axes transforms a collector into a hideous and barbaric demon who slaughters any soul caught in his blood thirsty eyes.

1961. A remote village and a lonely house, where the young Marina lives. One morning she finds a strange metal sphere in the field: a pilot in an unusual orange overall and a white helmet has made an unsuccessful landing. For a few days Marina nurses the cosmonaut back to health. When the pilot regains consciousness, he understands that on the path of his confidential mission there is an obstacle: he is tested by a new feeling, unknown before the flight ...

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 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.

Lena gets mixed up in an adventure of her girlfriend and agrees to participate in an exhibition. Unexpectedly she becomes a living statue: before hundreds of long- ing eyes, deprived of the possibility to move or speak – everything that remains is to meet herself and her inner enemies.

Four dozen of our contemporaries - and ten simple questions. And each of the forty is so different from the other that it is impossible to make a general portrait of our time from the mosaic of their answers! So what brings us together, what makes us a society and a people? Are we ready to accept others as they are?

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.

A young man and his wife arrive at the dacha from which his father disappeared a few days ago. But his real goal is not to search, but to try to understand whether his wife is cheating on him. The situation becomes even more complicated when he meets a mysterious 17-year-old girl there.

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

During the siege of Leningrad a Nazi bombshell destroys the storage of an experimental medicine institute where deadly dangerous viruses were kept. Severe winter weather prevents an epidemic from breaking out in the besieged city. But the spring is coming, and Leningrad is on the brink of bacterial catastrophe. Doctor Maritskaya and NKWD officer Andreew have only three days to save the city.

Nadya is a talented pianist. She lives on an island and is in love with Misha, her neighbor, the owner of a motor boat. Music teacher Vera Sergeevna, having learned about Nadya’s talent, offers to give her music lessons. Nadya persuades Misha to take her to town for lessons on his boat.

A film about love and loneliness; about family ties and responsibility, hope and its illusoriness.

Based on a real case in Siberia, a woman lost in the taiga is forced to wander with several families engaged in hunting.

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 story that tells about a loving couple of police officers of the patrol service. Once on duty, she learns that he cheated on her. This discovery becomes fatal, because she has a weapon in her hands.

Meet Kokosha, a little crocodile who braves snowstorms, dives into the depths of the underwater world, and even transforms into Godzilla—all within the confines of a single apartment!

The last film in Vidokle's trilogy on Cosmism is a meditation on the museum as the site of resurrection-a central idea for many Cosmist thinkers, scientists and avant-garde artists. Filmed at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Zoological Museum, The Lenin Library, and the Museum of Revolution, the film looks at museological and archival techniques of collection, restoration and conservation as a means of the material restoration of life, following an essay penned by Nikolai Federov on this subject in the 1880s. The film follows a cast comprised of present-day followers of Federov, several actors, artists and a Pharaoh Hound that playfully enact a resurrection of a mummy, a close examination of Malevich's Black Square, Rodchenko's spatial constructions, taxidermied animals, artifacts of the Russian Revolution, skeletons, and mannequins in tableau vivant-like scenes, in order to create a contemporary visualization of the poetry implicit in Federov's writings.

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

A documentary study of the circumstances and course of the drama that played out in the second half of the 30s around the project of creating "Soviet Hollywood" in the USSR - the center of the film industry in the image and likeness of the American "dream factory". Dramas in which human characters, ideological conflicts, and the spirit of the era were vividly manifested…

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.

A group of teenagers are sent to the farm as a punishment for ruining the prom party.

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.

Strange and scary things start to happen after three young people spend a night on abandoned ship.

War Pigeon invokes the use of trained pigeons as aerial photographers during World War II. In this phone call to the customer service department of a bank, the speaker describes an unnerving encounter with a suspicious bird, which has led him to question his trust in the bank’s very existence.

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole of one eternal Love.

Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime portrait – both ironic and sympathetic – of a character embittered by society life, rejecting love out of vanity, killing his friend the poet Lenski out of pride and spending the rest of his days in abject despair. A repertoire classic, Willy Decker’s streamlined production makes the Paris Opera echo once more to the strains of Russian romantic music. Edward Gardner conducts an exceptional cast including Peter Mattei in the title role and Anna Netrebko as Tatiana.

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.

Three days before his wedding a strange woman mysteriously follows Evgeni everywhere and sticks to him. All attempts to separate the young people are unsuccessful. But is it therefore really worth cancelling the long-awaited wed- ding? The groom and the bride try hard to pretend that nothing special has hap- pened to them. However, ignoring outright that girl sticking to Evgeni becomes more and more difficult with every day.

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.

One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play. She began a journey into the past, back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin’s Russia; experiences that left them scarred to their very soul. Aliona’s quest into the lives and fate of her family becomes a loving, poignant, and poetic film with Chekhovian characters. Accompanied by the magical animation of acclaimed Italian artist Simone Massi, unimaginable events in the Soviet past are given an immediate charge. Along with the stories of ordinary people living in the small farmhouse, the film maker tells the tale of Soviet terror, immense bravery and a fear that has never left those four walls.

This story is based on numerous real-life stories of those who chose to stay unnamed. A young provincial girl full of vitality, who is dancing to “My Boy,” doesn’t even suspect that soon, when she goes to conquer the capital, she will meet a man, and that this meeting will put an abrupt end to her dreams. The heroine will turn into “that woman,” the mistress. The one who is being kept. She will have to walk the way. She will forget her bright hopes and lose herself completely for the sake of wealth. Will she nd the strength to escape the never-ending awaiting, emptiness and humiliation? Is she still capable of this step after so many years of being “kept”?

An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.

The Genre follows the rehearsals for a theatre play by an independent company in the Soviet Union, in 1991.

Giorgio urgently needs to find a job but his only chance is in a Fashion House in Rome so he to pretend being gay in order to succeed in the fashion industry. But suddenly after meeting a Russian girl and falling in love all his fake universe collapses.

Georgian - South Ossetian conflict, August 8, 2008. Georgian troops are in the main administrative town of South Ossetia – Tskhinvali. While searching for a house, a Georgian soldier hears extraneous noise coming from the underground.

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.

The freelance editor has long been in love with the host of the TV program he edits. He has never seen her live, but he has all the footage of her, even the ones that aren't in the public domain. Finally, he decides to ask her out on a date, in front of the whole office, but fate teaches him a lesson.

The grand constant flow of life

A young 15-years-old boy, Kid, has been looking up to his older brother, Valyok, as long as he remembers himself. He desires to become as brave, cocky and masculine as his brother is. Once Valyok and his best friend Ruble finally invite Kid to hang out with them. Everything seems to go on well until older guys decides to do barbecue from a dog. What would Kid do and how his attitude to his brother would change?

1917, Yakutia. 9-year-old Mikita is growing up beyond his years, as he, along with adults, learns the difficult life of a Yakut cattle breeder, where every day is a struggle for survival. New challenges await the boy, as the events of the revolutionary, rebellious time violently invade the traditional way of his family, violating the values and way of life that have been established for centuries.

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.

Lilya hopes that Kirill will finally propose to her on New Year's Eve. But he is going to celebrate the New Year with his parents in Minsk. Lilya gives an ultimatum: either they go to their parents together, or they break up...

Independent movie

When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.

Film by Ivan Maksimov, music by J.S.Bach, starring Divertissement Chamber Orchestra.

If the whole world is lying, why not do the same? So thinks Yegor - the protagonist of the film. But the reality all the time offers a choice: continue to lie or face the truth.

This is a story about natural coincidence, the battle against time and overcoming the self for the sake of common good. In this black comedy everyone will recognise themselves.