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Admittedly, it is not so often possible to see the birth, flowering and extinction of some creative direction in art during the life of one generation. Perhaps one of the rare examples of this kind gives us a creative direction that has gone down in history under the name "social art", which is regarded in the West as the most significant contribution of Soviet fine art to the world artistic process of the second half of the twentieth century. In our film, the fate of this creative direction is reflected by its brightest representatives – Vitaly Komar, Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Sokov, Boris Orlov, Rostislav Lebedev and Mikhail Roshal. Their collective story about the fate of "social art" unfolds against the background of the chronicle of the political and artistic life of the 70-90s.

A story about the life of St. Basil the Blessed.

This is a fractured tale of Kiwi (Iaroslav Zhalnin), a teen thief with a penchant for driving his motorcycle into traffic, playing video games and turning invisible; Alisa (Vasilisa Petina), a young model whose face is splashed all over city billboards and ads, with whom Kiwi grows fixated; and Alik (Khazizov), a metrosexual writer who roller-skates in his cavernous hard-wood-floored apartment and plucks a drunken Alisa after her fateful encounter with Kiwi. Alik, responding to Alisa’s pleas, eventually confronts the pestering Kiwi; a misunderstanding (did he rape her? did he not?) erupts into violence.

A little boy is learning to play the cello and really wants to love music, but so far only frustrated sounds are coming from his instrument. A magical adventure in which Paganini's "Campanella" will bring to life the heroes of his fantasies, helps the child to feel the music with all his soul.

War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...

A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia.

Illness is loneliness and fear. But is it possible in such conditions to lose faith to meet a friend and happiness? Is all life now doomed to pass behind the bleak walls of the hospital? A sick boy suffering from leukemia meets a mentally ill person in the hospital, with whom they run in search of healing.

A blind man has a dream in which a mystical voice directs him to the mountains. Various meetings and trials await the Blind Man along the way. Events are tied into a tragic knot, which can be cut by the mysterious owner of the voice.

After the birth of the sixth child, the father left for another woman. The core of the family was the elder sister Natasha, herself a person of dramatic fate.

About the history of the creative duo of artists Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky. The film is part of the film project "Anthology of Contemporary Art", which will include ten documentaries dedicated to the work of the most famous artists.

From the cycle "Lullabies of the World". The boy dreams of becoming a bird to sit on a tree and cradle it. But my mother is afraid that her son will freeze.

If a person has a kind and pure heart, he will always remain human. It doesn't matter that he looks like a beast on the outside.

Based on the fairy tale by the English writer Donald Bisset "About a tiger cub whose stripes disappeared". The story is about a tiger cub who was born without stripes, but because of this did not become a stranger either to his own mother or to the world around him.

The cycle of events that take place five minutes before the New Year. A participant of the Future Shorts Russia program.

The Cartoon Almanac

Between age three and four, Vera Loumpet-Galitzine traverses many landscapes, exploring where she comes from, to come into her own. We follow her to her school and neighbourhood activities in France, Cameroon and Russia. As Vera dances, sings and runs around these visually engaging landscapes, seemingly easily integrated into her rich fantasy world, we attempt to imagine what they look like to her. What does she see, think, or imagine?

The thirst for a miracle lives in every person. The hero of the film, Fedor, witnesses an accident, as a result of which people close to him die. He decides that he was not saved by chance and now must change his life. Fedor is trying to live the way Orthodox hermits lived, tormenting himself with prayers and fasts. In this new world, he finds a guide - Father Hilarion. The hermit finally has hope that he will soon become an eyewitness of Revelation. But Father Hilarion is being killed absurdly and senselessly. Having experienced deep despair, Fedor will return to the people, experience love and jealousy, hatred and fear. And only when he reaches the edge - having decided to kill - will he become a witness of a miracle...

A film about the musical group "Pan Quartet"

Competition for the post of personal secretary.

The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel and unjust world, where you can survive only with a bunch of stolen dollars instead of brains. For a young Russian, money is a symbol of power and strength. Even the new state ideology feeds on blood oil dollars. In Russia there is no more room for dreams. This is the era of anti-utopia.

Two people live in a small Siberian town: one is cheerful and cheerful, pleases his fellow countrymen with virtuoso accordion playing, the other is gloomy and withdrawn – builds a church in the middle of the town and talks about the imperfection of man.

Zhukov's name was surrounded by rumors, legends, and myths during his lifetime, both positive and negative. Historians still wonder why he survived the army's "purge" before the war and why Stalin did not eliminate him in 1946, accusing him of being a Bonaparte and stealing German trophies.

The picture consists of two parts, the characters of which are busy commenting on what is happening to them and in the whole world. In the first part ("A Babysitter for a Boy"), the author plays with a literary character and a plot. In the second part ("Commentator for the Poet") The author plays with a fictional Poet (in turn, also with the author), who is portrayed by the Author-commentator. However, this Author is not the last in the hierarchy of similar characters.

The collision of two parallel worlds, the world of high space technologies and the village of Pogorelets, lost in the Arkhangelsk forests. An allegorical story about the life of people in a remote village, which is located near the place where space rockets start. Resourceful villagers, exhausted by unemployment and poverty, have established handicraft production of things necessary in the village economy from the remains of spaceships. The boats are the best.

Having escaped from the clutches of "agitprom", Soviet cinema in 33-34 years again comes into motion. But this movement is almost immediately prescribed a clear boundary. Artists become hostages of their own discoveries. The border is locked.

Beach, sun, sea. The resort town of Gurzuf. There are 4 characters who live and work there, who no one cares about, but if they don’t exist, this unpretentious beach paradise will fall apart.

In the future one can hardly understand what he is and who is beside, a human being or a machine, a friend or an enemy. In a rush for answers he finds both allies and foes.

The second installment of the low-budget parody of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings", filmed in and around Moscow. The Fellowship is broken. To get to Mordor, Frodo and Sam have to employ the services of Gollum, an obviously schizophrenic creature (according to Sam's medical handbook). Meanwhile Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli have to free two captive hobbits from Sarumom's evil clutches. Together with the depressive king Theoden they have to confront her host at Helm's Crap.

Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the last part was being filmed.

A documentary about the most tragic decade of the 20th century. About how the lives of civilians changed depending on the circumstances. About the brevity of human memory.

This film is about the everyday feats of a little creature and its unbendable will to live.

Three people from a big city arrive in a godforsaken village to an old deserted house which belonged to the grandmother of one of them. According to a testament this house should belong to a person who would be able to stay there for more than three days and nights. It all seemed simple... But as usual in such stories there is one shag... The grandmother was a witch... And then pain and horror, madness and evil in all gloomy and horrific splendor is called "Psychosis".

A man returns from the war, hoping that he has finally won the right to live his private life. But the state saved by him remembers its rights. And the "City of Dreams" returns to the screen — even more ambitious, illogical and dehumanized than before the war.

The film tells about the reasons for the prohibition of showing certain Soviet documentaries and how the authors got out of the situation in such cases.

Oleg Menshikov is one of the most unsolved actors in both cinema and theater. A trail of rumors and opinions accompanies each of his new work. There are many more people who have heard about his theatrical works than those who were lucky enough to see them. Some people adore him and others do not forgive the slightest mistakes. Pyotr Shepotinnik was lucky enough to be admitted to the creative laboratory of actor and director Menshikov and freely observe how film roles and stage productions are created — the performances of Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" and Gogol's "Players", which had a noisy fame.

As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye on both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences.

The central episode of the third film is a meeting between G.S. Zhzhenov and the classic of Russian literature V. P. Astafyev (filming took place shortly before the writer's death), as well as a dialogue with General A. I. Lebedev about the fate of Russia.

A film about Soviet childhood. The focus is on an ordinary Soviet boy, whose story is full of humor and colorful phrases. It is conducted from his birth to the festive graduation night. The whole life of the guy flashes on the screen, the Octobrists, red ties, faith in the victory of communism, admiration for Lenin, the Olympics-80, the iron curtain and the rejection of Western values, the first dances and falling in love, everything points to an irrevocably gone time. Through the prism of everyday life and holidays of an ordinary guy, a whole era of the cult of socialism and faith in the Soviet Union emerges. The film "Collection No. 1" turns back time, making you remember the past with nostalgia.

After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life, Nataliya and Yuri Usovy settled on Olkhon island, on a remote weather station. They thought to find happiness here.

The realities of Russian reality frighten and do not suit many, therefore, various kinds of teachings that offer a "way out" are becoming more and more popular. A film about voluntary outcasts trying to live by other laws. The events of the film unfold in the village of Petropavlovka, Krasnoyarsk Territory. People of different professions and social status gathered here, united by the desire to gain vitality, to create their own morality and their own values.

A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, with a score by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. This New Year’s Eve programme revolves around Act III, in which Princess Aurora is brought out of her long sleep by the prince of her dreams and marries him. In addition, prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina dances Camille Saint-Saëns’ famous Dying Swan, first performed by Anna Pavlova. In conclusion the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Young Singers’ Academy perform the finale of Rossini’s Journey to Rheims in a joyous celebration of the coming of the New Year.

The film is dedicated to the adventures and reflections of a small dog named Kashtanka.

The film tells about the work of Oleg Kulik, an artist and curator, one of the most famous representatives of contemporary Russian art in the world. In the center of the tape is the story of the formation of the artist–actionist. The film is constructed as a monologue, which gives the hero a unique opportunity to analyze his own creativity, his own path in art.

On a long-distance train going to Moscow, there are provincials - a special forces soldier, a monk and a thief. Each of them pursues a goal in the capital - the search for an unfaithful lover. At the train station, the heroes disperse and begin to act...

A lonely woman asks a stork for a little boy. And he brings her a rabbit instead of a child. What came of it is told in a funny and sad story.

One day in the life of the courier girl

The Russian documentary film features a monochromatic wedding in the Deaf community of Saint Petersburg.

Since ancient times, there has been an unusual fishery on the Ural River. Every year in August, the inhabitants of coastal villages turn into a kind of entomologists, only they catch butterflies not with nets, but with the help of powerful searchlights, using the phenomenon of phototropism. Observation of this phenomenon evokes associations with the life and purpose of a person.

A sad mysterious story based on the legends of our ancestors.

The material for the film was a unique photograph of the Kexholm regiment, taken in 1903. A photographic plate 65 by 110 cm (more than 1000 people in the frame) made it possible to clearly reproduce both entire groups and individual faces of soldiers. All filmed in one shot. The counterpoint to the image is fragments of letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers of the pre-revolutionary army. At all times, for the Russian soldier, the main principles were love for the Motherland, loyalty to the oath, and sacrifice.

A film about the historic tour of the Moscow "Dynamo" in the UK in 1945. Then, in November 1945, the Soviet football club Dynamo (Moscow) played with the strongest professional clubs in England, Wales and Scotland. In two matches, the Dynamo players achieved victory, two were reduced to a draw. In total, 275 thousand spectators attended 4 matches. The film was shot in Moscow and London. The archives of Russia and England are used.