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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.

Short horror film.

The film is in the language of the Meadow Mari. It's about how the magical spring comes to the Mari village, about pagan priests - these are such Russian druids. We have received consent to remove them not only at home, but also at services where they are not allowed at all.

A group of children goes to a dark, dense forest for a picnic. While swimming, the boy finds an ancient Yakut jewelry in the lake and gives it to the girl. The necklace turns out to be cursed and the ghost of the girl appears and starts chasing the frightened children.

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.

On New Year’s Eve, a greedy and cold-hearted businessman is given an unusual ultimatum by Baba Yaga: before midnight, he must receive twelve sincere “thank yous”, or she will take him away with her.

It's time for the old chief to die, but there's still time to think about the past. About the age-old customs of the North American Indians, which are no less severe than the laws of nature.

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.

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.

"Back to square one" - this saying fully correlates with the fate of the talented village photographer, poet and philosopher Nikolai Viktorovich Zykov.

this is not just a story this is our future

A silent film-like, stop motion film made by the Russian theater collective AKHE.

"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of Arabov himself. He received a call from a man who claimed that he was his father, who had left him with his mother 40 years ago, and whom Arabov himself had long considered dead…

Love and death... The choice is difficult. Especially if you are 18.

Winter. A city on the eve of New Year’s. Storefronts decorated for the holidays. New Year’s Eve approaches. We all start to rush, trying to catch up on everything we’ve postponed throughout the year. And just then, at the publishing house where the main character works, a well-known plastic surgeon brings in his ‘masterpiece.’ One story among many — where the characters can’t change everything overnight. And yet, a ruined New Year’s Eve often turns out surprisingly well.

My visit to the real steps at Odessa was affected by the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin. Media images have power. They shape our real-life experiences.

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the most heinous crime just like the Shakespearian Lady Macbeth. But Nikolai Leskov’s short novel, which portrays Katherina as a monster, was only the starting point for Shostakovich to elicit understanding for an oppressed woman whose pursuit for self-determination is suppressed by society. Through combining satiric, grotesque and tragic elements in his music, Shostakovich succeeds in striking the balance between repulsion at Katherina’s immoral acts and sympathy for her. Violence, eroticism and the paralysing boredom of Russian society in the 19th century are the founding elements of this composition. The choir and orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by James Conlon accompany tremendous soloists such as Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Vladimir Vaneev and Vsevolod Grivnov in the original language in this live recording.

Observers are ordinary inhabitants of the Earth, but their goal is to capture as much 'Cruel Video' as possible and sell the material on the internet. A group of observers is offered to find the body of a hanged student in the forest for a good reward. They agree and fall into a deadly trap because the Ural Psychopath is hunting them.

What can happen to a man in 10 minutes?

Taking advantage of his patients' illnesses, a mad doctor wants to remove their tumors, whether they are alive or not.

The Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians who left the power of the Moscow prince for the harsh forests of the Tersky coast in order to preserve their former freemen. Today they fish, farm and even plant forests. They will not exchange their harsh, difficult, but free life for any other.

A report on the famous French legion, formed from contract soldiers. There are among the legionnaires and immigrants from Russia.

The drama that unfolded at the racetrack and the tragic fate of the horse not only break people's lives, but also blur the boundary of good and evil, challenging the existing system of values. Razhev's $2 million dollar bet to win is in fact a death sentence for the horse itself, as he is skinned if he wins. This stipulation is at the whim of the other opposing party. Saving the horse, his trainer Ruslan dies, his fiancée Lena commits suicide, the horse Holstomer dies, and the fate of Razhev himself will be decided by lot and a thrown coin....

The film is a road-movie-like investigation opposing an original folk story, concerning local events during the Second World War, to an official communist propaganda myth-like presentation of the same episodes of history, that remained in state ordered books, films and memorial museums. Through the confrontation of facts, the film reveals the fact a legendary local guerrilla-girl was most likely a witch, whose power was probably used by soviet authorities to put a spell on the “Reichsfürer”, Adolph Hitler, during his secret visit to the Seliger region, where his grand-mother had her roots.

Good intentions are Laziness's sincere belief that with a wave of a magic wand you can change the world. Not the whole world, of course, but at least a God-forsaken village lost in the mountains. It's as simple as that - I came, I saw, I won. Without asking, without the consent of their wards - a handful of residents in a tight ring of mountains.

About the cultural alternative as a path to a shaky new world.

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

In the late 1980s, a street musician appeared in Moscow who called himself German Baron von Draugel and claimed to be a disciple of the famous jazz musician Eddie Rosner. He asserted that in 1945, as a young boy, he was taken prisoner by Soviet forces, spent half of his life in Magadan camps, and it was there that Rosner taught him to play the trumpet. He told numerous stories about himself, the authenticity of which the well-known Moscow journalist Gennady Zhavoronkov tried to verify. As a result of this journalistic investigation, a completely different picture emerges...

A film about a selfless and enthusiastic person Evgeny Leonidovich Gloriozov, a five-time USSR champion in sambo and a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, who has been holding sambo sports competitions among children from orphanages for many years.

A lyrical story about a little girl who, once in the house of a sorceress, begins to understand what is good, evil, friendship.

The portrait of the last Russian tsar, captured in unique archival photographs taken by the court photographer von Hahn during the sovereign's hunts in the reserved Belovezhye, rhymes with the footage of the chronicle of the First World War and the mass death of Russian soldiers.

Ancient and relatively recent prophecies that warned of a global flood. Scientists are trying to figure out the causes of today's anomalies.

A film about the modern generation of girls for whom aggression has become the norm. Fights sell well on the Internet, provoking teenagers. They themselves are poorly aware of how this could end and in what kind of world their children will live.

From 2001 to 2007, Russia lost more than 3,000 soldiers killed. There were no wars, at least no official ones, at that time. But the soldiers died. Mostly conscripts. The reason is army crime.

In 2007, a message appeared on the Internet that before her death, the clairvoyant Vanga allegedly predicted that in far Siberia, in Bratsk, on March 17, a chlorine plant located right in the center of the city would explode. That "brothers fall asleep and do not wake up." The author of the film specially goes to the city two days before a possible disaster. And he creates a report not about Bratsk and its inhabitants, but about the era, Russia and our contemporaries.

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.

Three days by train on the way to the dream.

Yuri Vella is a Nenets hunter and poet, fighting with an oil concern for his ancestral lands.

Commuter passengers are going to their ‘dachas’, homes, or elsewhere, speculating about private matters, dreams, misfortunes, and joy that make up our life.

In Saint Petersburg in Russia, there still exist communal apartments, vestiges of the Soviet system. People from all backgrounds and social classes are gathered together here, due to circumstance. They form a cross-section of Russian society grouped together in the same place. Kommunalka is a-slice-of-life portrait of a communal apartment in Sovetskaya Street

Romance, Comedy in Russian