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A prisoner gets a new cellmate, one who is very eager to escape.

A French lullaby, "La petite poule grise" (The Little Grey Hen).

When you are 19 years old, you want to fall in love, walk, spend nights in frivolous conversations. All this is done by our heroine Lisa. But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that she has to earn her own living and take care of two paralyzed old men. And there is not a single person nearby to lean on. And Lisa lives in the world-famous town of Karabash, in an ecological disaster zone.

A documentary portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of renowned Japanese writer Toshio Shimao.

This film tells the story of a remarkable Russian filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and actor. His films "The Outskirts" and "The Spy's Feat" have become part of the world's cinematic heritage.

A man has committed suicide...or has he?

Evgeniya lives in Moscow. She is already under 40 years old. Behind life and divorce from an unloved husband. The daughter is an adult, she has been studying in America for a long time. One day, Zhenya meets Gosha - a responsible person, difficult to make decisions, sincere, but inert. Zhenya's life was not at all joyful and bright. After all, this is an affair with a married man. She turns for help and advice to her friends who are happy to teach her how to live, then to the church, then to a fortuneteller, then to professional psychotherapists. The meeting with the psychologist Sveta helped the woman endure this difficult romance and win Goshino's heart.

The film is about Sergey Kuryokhin, one of the most prominent authors in the Russian musical avant-garde of the late twentieth century. He was not just a performer or a composer of music. His projects embodied the spirit of the times, the usual hierarchy of arts disappeared, the boundaries of genres collapsed.

Friendship is a very important and a very fragile thing that can by destroyed by a single word, or a single careless deed, and when you realize it, it might be already too late.

The lieutenant Suvorov and his small group of soldiers come to an abandoned village where only few people are left, and among them there is a schoolteacher with children. Suvorov is quite sure that the front line soon will be here. The lieutenant and his soldiers stay in the village and start their first fight with Nazis, giving time the others to leave…

Sergei Rachmaninov, composer, conductor and one of the most brilliant pianists of the 20th century, was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism. His works include Symphony No. 2 (1906), the symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead (1909), the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1910), and the choral symphony The Bells (1913).

Mikhail Bogdanov-Berezovsky, the young head of the family looks to the future with confidence. He lives in a small provincial town in the Sverdlovsk region, where he is going to open his own business and takes loans for this. His wife does not have a soul in him, friends call him the Hero of our time. The film crew comes to the hero half a year later and sees a completely opposite picture. The story takes a new turn.

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Roman Carmen. The authors tracked down his former students, whom he brought to the documentary. Almost half a century ago, they, then still children, first crossed the threshold of the VGIK when they passed the exams.

Fantasy on the theme of the early works of A. P. Chekhov.

Short horror film.

Inventive animation made with all kinds of buttons, zippers, and scissors.

Every boy dreams about becoming a cosmonaut. But if you live far in the North, beyond the arctic circle, and have only icy wilderness for hundreds of kilometers about, and you father breeds rain-deer, you better pick up something more available for a dream. And yet miracles do happen.

An ordinary story about three piglets.

In the heart of the Eurasian continent, the ancient center of the world where the Silk Road connected China to Europe, the circus is a deeply rooted cultural phenomenon. This film focuses on two circus artists, whose lifelong friendship under the dictatorship in Uzbekistan is affected by the differing political choices they make under the dictatorshop in Uzbekistan.

Every Wednesday, Dr. Liza and her friend Petrovich arrive at the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where the homeless are waiting for them. Bandaging, treatment of wounds, feeding, distribution of medicines and things, but just human participation. It seems to us that all homeless people look the same. If we look at them through the eyes of Dr. Lisa, we can see how different they are.

Almost everyone knows Daniil Kharms now. It is known that he composed this pseudonym for himself, as he composed his paradoxical poems, stories, plays and especially cases - that's what he called miniatures, the humor of which was obvious, but the meaning did not reach everyone. The life of the fictional Kharms was amazing, mocking and bravely independent. Daniil Yuvachev's life has become a true tragedy.

Two country boys come to the capital of the Republic of Yakutsk and get into different funny situations

The film is based on the story of the same name by Dmitry Kononovich Sivtsev – Suorun Omolloon about love and the destiny of a girl who humbly accepts her sad fate.

An irresistible desire for a card game turned out to be the lot of a poor man, a father of two children. Every time, he grits his teeth and tells himself: I won't play, I won't play… But the excitement turns out to be stronger than remorse and guilt in front of his wife and hungry children. "It's obvious that my fate is like this and I can't get away from it," he justifies himself to himself and ... loses his last bull.

Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin is a Russian man who, by the will of fate, was forced to work abroad. His work is the property of not only America, but of the entire world of science. He is also the personification of the Russian scientific engineering school and the expression of the Russian genius.

The film is about the paradoxical nature of everyday life.

The pathos of universal unity against the backdrop of the overthrown imperial monuments triumphs on the Russian screen with the arrival of the cinema youth. But the closer we get to the "year of the great turning point", the more palpable this pathos is replaced by the pathos of the class struggle. New monuments appear in place of the dropped ones. And the "little man", not having had time to grow up, finds himself again at the foot of new pedestals. Monumental forms in cinema crowd the living human content of films.

It is not immediately that the cinematic space is filled with fresh shots. The orders of the new government are initially carried out by the filmmakers remaining in Soviet Russia with pre-revolutionary experience. The agitfilm of the Civil War is replaced by a "revolutionary melodrama" by the mid-20s. The expansion of film production requires new personnel: young people come from the "left" theater, who in the very near future will have to create a new revolutionary cinema.

In a strange house in the forest, three cheerful and hard-working goats accidentally got a harmful boy Cornflower.

He sharpens the knife, then ties the dog's paws and mouth. We don't know yet what will happen, but the feeling of a threat coming from this person no longer leaves. A former criminal nicknamed Bes (Demon) lives with his family a quiet pastoral life on the seashore, lovingly raises three children, raises dogs (which he then slaughters and eats while being treated for tuberculosis) and takes an order to kill a neighbor, having received a mobile phone as a fee.

This is a fragment from the "book of life"... angels in a heavenly cinema watch torn pieces from eternity... they mount them themselves... actors in the studio duplicate a feature film... actors of the theater of the deaf and dumb voice reality with a gesture... but it is impossible to voice reality…

The plot of the famous post-war film tale here becomes a metaphor for the dramatic path of Russian cinema from the magnificently decorated pavilions of the "little picture" era to the living reality of the "thaw" period.

A mystical detective about the everyday life of Moscow police chasing a bloodthirsty killer elephant. Gobo, offended by fate, walks around Moscow apartments and crushes innocent citizens. Petrovka 38 has a difficult task to catch the criminal, because this is already the thirty-ninety-thousandth case in a week!

An absurd story of a gentleman and a fish. Based on the poem by Edward Lear.

A small female doctor spends a significant part of her life at the train station helping homeless people. Why would she do that? The work was awarded the Award of the Academy of Russian Television TEFI, nomination "Best TV movie".

Short horror film.

This documentary, open and courageous, examines the challenges of lesbian motherhood in Russia. The film focuses on the first stage of parenthood, along with the decision of giving birth to a child in a same sex family, and a consideration of the options available to a lesbian couple in Russia. The two women welcome the audience (with the future baby's point of view) into their world, emotions, dreams and hopes.

Village Khoroshee in the Siberian outback. Here the hero of the film lives and works as an ambulance driver. At the gate of his house is a small plane in which our hero once tries to take off ...

Nizhny Tagil resident Andrey Gagarin comes on vacation to his homeland in the Komi-Permyatsky district in the village of Bolshaya Kocha, where in the past he led the folklore group "Micha Asyv" ("Clear Morning"). He visits relatives and friends, together they perform folk songs and dances, talk about the national traditions of their small northern people. In addition, together with all his fellow villagers, Andrei takes part in "bull-killing", an ancient rite of sacrifice of a bull, unusual for modern times.

The film is based on the story by I. Sysolyatin about the Soviet hero Fyodor K. Popov. A documentary story about the fate of Popov, his life and the feat of our fathers and grandfathers -- the generations who won the Great Patriotic War.

A short disaster-movie shot on minidv. Yabbadabbadoo

The Mansi children on a boarding school in the small Russian village Ivdel are impatiently waiting for winter holidays. They are looking forward to return to their home village, where there is no television or video games. It takes a whole day to get to their hometown, through forests and snowed fields, but there is no place like home. At home they can ride sleigh, jump from the roof into the snow and play cards with grandmother. The winter break is a small change from the city life for the children. Will some decide to return forever?

The story is about a rooster who remembered through a dream what was expected of him in the morning. Trying to crow, he plays all the sounds in a row, except his own. The rooster is in a panic looking for the missing voice, but does not find it...

A film about choices in life. Any significant decision can fundamentally change our destiny. What if you're only 16 and the life of another person depends on you? Only standing on the edge of the abyss, you can realize what is really dear to you.

The girl bought a bird in a pet store, not paying attention to the fact that she separated a couple of parrots in love.

"In my opinion, Rein is the most significant poet of our generation, that is, the generation to which I belong...," Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky wrote about his friend. Our film is a kind of monologue of the poet "about time and about myself". There was a place in it for the famous tales of the Rhine, and his memories of Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky, and details of his past and present life, and, of course, his poems that have already become textbook and completely new…