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Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in recent years, this acclaimed modern classic was hailed at numerous film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and Russia's Kinotavr Festival, where it won the Jury and Critics Prizes. Amazon

Four friends organize a secret club. They follow random people, film them on their mobile phones and post dirt on strangers online. One day Nastya appears at the club. The girl manages to film a serial maniac that will change everyone's life.

Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute's employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha's world is a small one, split between the demands of the canteen during the day and alcohol fuelled nights with her younger colleague Olga, during which the two confide their hopes of romance and for a different future. At a party one evening Natasha becomes close to a visiting French scientist Luc Bige and the two sleep together. The following day her life takes a dramatic turn when she is summoned to an interrogation by the KGB's General Vladimir Azhippo who questions the nature of her relationship with the foreign guest.

A young student and his girlfriend are trying to escape the mobilization.

A play based on the play by Svetlana Petriychuk about women who decided to virtually marry representatives of radical Islam and go to them in Syria.

1953. A Russian soldier stationed in Poland falls in love with a local girl. Their forbidden romance turns them into traitors to their countries.

Contemporary Moscow. After his girlfriend leaves him, a writer dives into a cinematographic world of fantasy.

Three young women, who each have a sought-after commodity - their virginity. Kristina, Karina and Katya each try to make their way in a world ruled by fame, popularity and money.

Behind the high walls of the old Indian monastery, some businessmen organized a closed school of the occult sciences. The most capable student, the young man Ariel, who has the ability to levitate, once decides to escape from captivity. But the hunt begins on him

Film critic Rita, in an attempt to meet “the one,” embarks on a journey through the labyrinth of her own memories, emotions, and feelings.

A group of travelers finds themselves stranded at a railroad station, waiting for a train that never seems to come. Yan realizes that his fiancee, Mila, is not at the station, and follows her to the nearby village. He finds her at a local night club and she is almost happy to see him. Almost, because Mila insists that something awful has happened to them.

A young man Ivan finds himself in his hometown, leaving this place 17 years ago. He looks around incredulously, trying to see in the surrounding fragments of his childhood. In this city lived his first love - little Anya. Now she is no longer 12, and he, too. But thoughts about the feelings of the past days still do not give him rest ... Vanya specifically changed his ticket to see Anna, but is she here? Does she remember him? But what if her life was too much shabby? 3 hours to plunge into the abyss of first love ...

Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with Anya, a secretary at the local government office. But then Sascha is suddenly faced with a dilemma: the district’s self-seeking administrators, none of whom could be termed squeamish, offer him a lucrative deal for the farm. In legal terms, Sascha doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on since his lease on the farm was only agreed with a handshake. The pressure mounts, and even more so when his employees convince him to stand firm. Against the backdrop of a landscape exposed to the elements, this unflinching man’s destiny takes its course.

The film "Photographer" shows the last day of the old photographer working in his studio. He succeeded in his life-long efforts to stop time.

The story tells of a series of such meetings, which radically changed the life of a sportswoman.

One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. Krymov denies this, but out of compassion he helps arrange a necessary operation for Pavel. Then certain things begin happening which suggest to Krymov that he may have a psychologically unstable fellow on his hands.

Добрый и бесшабашный водитель такси Павел не привык задумываться о смысле жизни, замечая, в основном, только ее приятные стороны. Он влюблен в красавицу Тамару, которая мечтает стать известной певицей. Случайно попав на психологические курсы, Павел знакомится с Таней, скромной, незаметной молодой женщиной. Он обращает на нее внимание после того, как она, отрабатывая задание психолога, с глубоким чувством произносит монолог на тему «Если бы я тебя любила».

Four weird guys from Russia seriously believe they are very important Freemasons. But one day they find out their Lodge should no longer exist. They don't agree and want to fight for their rights, they set out for a long journey to Siberia to find a mysterious Grand Master.

One day two people turn up at the office of the advertisement company "FIGA.RO". They are a beautiful girl and a young man, quoting Montaigne. In a short time the couple take hostage the businessman Ivan. He is the owner of the company and its windows face the building housing special services.

Five-year-old Sasha often listens to the opera Madame Butterfly. It is shown on TV and broadcast on the radio. The story of Madame Butterfly becomes for Sasha the key to the dramas that take place in the family, but which she still cannot understand.

A once famous writer’s wife went missing. Their passionate and gentle - love, with time grew into an incurable disease that destroyed everything great that ever united them. She couldn’t take it and left him, and he is trying to fight his guilt, break free, let go of his wife and forgive her for disappearing, for betraying, for cheating, of which she confessed right before she left.

The film takes place during the Afghan war in an area where, by agreement of the warring parties, no military action was conducted. Taking advantage of this convenient circumstance, local mafioso Karakhan secretly built a drug factory here. US intelligence agencies find out about this and begin an operation to seize the factory. However, Karakhan's fighters are well trained and armed, they repel all attacks. But the American soldiers get an assistant: an unknown person destroys drug caravans and blows up the houses of Karakhan's partners...

One of New Year's Eve evenings, Alexei makes a marriage proposal to the charming and sweet Katya. The girl in the seventh heaven from happiness. She had been waiting for this for a long time. But their bright future has one serious obstacle - a loving mother. Mom Katya Zoya Andreevna - a woman of a difficult character - takes this proposal as an encroachment on her private property and easily finds a way to upset the relationship of lovers. But her plan crashes.

Endowed with outstanding cinematography, and in-depth interviews with competitors, this documentary underlines the gender parity being achieved at an Olympic level. Women compete in ski jumping for the first time at the Winter Games, and Canada is seen beating the United States at the last gasp in the women's ice hockey final. Disciplines given prominence here include speed skating, figure skating, aerial skiing, curling, and the biathlon. Training is analysed as much as the competitions themselves. A suite of accidents and mishaps, and the consequent tears of frustration, remind us that the Olympics is not just about winning.

A brother and sister from a prosperous family lose their parents in a car accident and end up in an orphanage. Now they have to fight for a decent existence and defend their place in a new world for them.

A road movie about a woman who comes back home while going through a crucial crisis in her life. An encounter with a still fairy childish hitch-hiker brings to life something that she believed to be buried deep in her past.

Surreal New Year special TV musical.

The film is based on the memoirs of Klavdiya Shulzhenko and her songs: "The Blue Scarf", "Three Waltzes", "Silence", "Hands", "The Note". The film features archival footage, as well as scenes shot in Kharkiv and Paris.

Five dreams against the walls of a never-sleeping city. The film is a mosaic about the sleepers and the awakened. What kind of Muscovites are they? Thinking, contemplating, doubting, loving and dreaming? What they see when they close their eyes is more important than what they see when they open them.

The story of this timeless classic has been brought into our simple times. History repeats itself. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Weisman organize a grand hunt for the rabid Bobaka. But this mad, brutal, and heroic battle does not end happily for everyone…

In the new story, a brave mammoth, the son of a grown-up hero, embarks on a journey full of dangers from Africa to the North in order to find a real mother for his father.

The modern parable of two brothers, overcoming a complex spiritual path towards each other, unfolds in the center of modern Moscow. Valera Romeev is a young artist who is forced to work as a street portrait painter. Having spent a serene childhood in a mining town in Eastern Ukraine, Valera struggles to find herself in a cruel megalopolis. Hoping for support, Romeev is looking for his elder brother Vadim, a successful businessman who left his father’s house for a long time and lost contact with his family. Strong, independent Vadim, refuses his younger brother to help. Cornered by circumstances, spurred on by jealousy and annoyance, Valery takes a desperate step ...

A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere...

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

Life is like walking on a tightrope. In times we are scared or lost we lose balance. When we are happy and excited, we forget we walk on a rope. We can even fly!

The story of a businessman Egor, from whom all his relatives had long since turned away. To open a new business and move forward, an entrepreneur will have to go into an alternate reality and face the many ghosts of the past.

In a Yakut village, one opposite the other, two single-parent families live, without mothers. The timid and unrequited Ivan is constantly humiliated by his neighbor, the impudent and self-confident Tikhon. After Tikhon beats Ivan in front of his son, the teenager becomes disillusioned with his father and begins to spend more and more time with his offender.

Three short stories about Faith, Hope and Love. Three time periods of our country through the eyes of one firm. Three stories about people who tried to run their business against the background of changes in Russia.

Dr Anna’s cosy evening is disrupted by a sudden visit from a female stranger. The stranger is her husband’s lover, who has come for a bracelet left in the family sheets. Anna’s life is changed not only by the instant destruction of her long-standing marriage, but also by the terrible choice between life and death that she has to make.

In the late 1980s, a high-ranking party official, Iona Petrovich, suddenly left his prestigious post, abandoned his family, and emigrated. His wife died, unable to bear the betrayal. Their son, Andrei, grew up without parents. Time passed, circumstances changed, and Iona Petrovich returns to his homeland.

Every year on the eve of May 9, a lonely nursing home resident tries to find one of his friends. He lives in the past until one day it overtakes him in the most unexpected way.

This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.

The story of a lonely city surveillance worker who watches a street dog through cameras — a dog he has grown attached to but has never met in person.

The story takes place in 18th century russia. empress elizabeth’s confessor, monk named Lavr, is exiled to a monastery in a haunted mountainous region, taking his secret ancient knowledge with him. Years later, the empress sends her godson Andrey to bring the monk back. Andrey travels to the ill-famed place and meets with Lavr, but before they can return to St. Petersburg they must face evil forces and creatures of the dark side.

Thanks to a chain of comic and a little strange circumstances, a simple girl Lisa from the working outskirts of Moscow, where she lives with her plumber father, gets a job as a housekeeper to the successful owner of a fashionable glossy magazine

When gold is discovered in a remote location, a variety of different groups descend on the spot to stake their claims, resulting in a spate of brutal violence.

Lyrical comedy about a strange woman. The film begins with the heroine's heavy, hungover morning, after a small lonely holiday the day before. The heroine wakes up, with a habitual gesture turns on the old tape recorder with Boyarsky's cassette, dances and tidies up to the music. Suddenly she realizes that she threw something very important and valuable along with the trash. In a panic, she rushes in pursuit of garbage (garbage truck), meeting other heroes along the way. This is a dynamic and fun road movie with intrigue and unusual, lyrical and deep denouement.

The story of the kolobok based on a Russian folk tale.

Life of a small town in Siberian taiga (Chulimsk) revolves around a small cafe, where a young girl Valentina works as a bartender. Valentine is in love with the local detective Shamanov, ineffable, strict yet charming man, who recently arrived to Chulimsk. Despite a loving relationship with the chemist's Shamanova Zina and his mature age, Valentine finds the courage to confess her love to Shamanov. Up to this point never noticed the beauty and uniqueness of Valentina, Shamans suddenly realizes that this sweet, modest girl is his happiness.

Luba is 35 years old, and 15 of those she lived alone, raising her son Stepan. Luba works as a secretary of the village council. Her way of life is violated by the return of her longtime boyfriend Victor.