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A world that seems great. Happiness that can be overlooked. A love that can be lost.

The Skyscrapers of Moscow

The film is based on the love story of a Russian woman, Claudia Novikova, and a Japanese, Yasaburo Khachia, who was serving time in Stalin's camps on false charges of espionage against the USSR.

A story about a girl who came upon a somebody else’s dream, and helped that dream come true. For this she was granted ability to fly.

Once upon a time there was a Fox. He was cunning and greedy. And everything was not enough for him, he also hoped for someone else's good. He deceived everyone – both neighbors and people he met who did good to him: He stole supplies from a neighbor, and a golden tail from a Fish Mother. He also wanted to deceive the bear who warmed him-fed him. Yes, only all the offended ones gathered and outwitted the Fox themselves so much that he became a laughing stock, and received hot ones from his wife.

A wizard, a mermaid, a witch, and their talking cat decide to intervene in the lives of people in a small Russian town, but their benevolent efforts go awry.

The protagonist of the film decided to create his own "City of the Sun", based on the ideological platform of the philosopher Tomaso Campanella, in which former alcoholics and parasites would live in equality, justice and Christian brotherhood.

The film tells about the "devil's layer cake" of the German occupation regime during World War II, about different attitudes towards the occupiers, which forever divided people into two irreconcilable camps.

About prostitution in its various manifestations in Russia in the middle of the "zero". Volunteers helping girls, distributing condoms to them. Love, pregnancy, illness.

Cinematographers of the silent film period were the first to figure out how to shoot a moving image. In the early years of cinema, the reputation of such people, both inside the industry and outside it, was curious, paradoxical. On the one hand, as masters of the mysterious mechanisms of cinema, they enjoyed a reputation as wizards. But more often they were perceived as adventurers. However, the first generation of Russian cameramen made many artistic discoveries.

An old village house. He looks like an old mighty tree. He is also wise and majestic. And at the same time he is very kind and talkative. He speaks the language of objects accumulated over a long life, cracks, holes, cobwebs, sooty corners, blackened icons in the corners, basins, jars…

One of the earliest films of Alex Wesley

The individual seems to go under desperately in a lost battle with almighty nature. Only assimilation still seems to offe salvation. A dark choreography.

A short necrophilic zombie comedy about the love of a living girl and a dead man.

Gosha is a thirty–year-old child. He is an artist and his paintings are amazing.

The 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine was a massive civil demonstration for democracy and against electoral fraud. Millions of empassioned citizens braved freezing weather conditions to fight against stolen elections and to protest the poisoning of their candidate, Victor Yushchenko. From Kyiv to Donetsk, from Odessa, to Lviv, the filmmaker personally engaged with Ukrainians on all sides of the debate to compile "The Orange Chronicles", a personal account of three months spent.

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?

Five young people meet at the dacha on a day off. During a friendly chat, they reminisce about their Christmas Eve fortune-telling. Each recounts what he was foretold - joy, sorrow, death... Who these days believes in fortune-telling? They part, not even knowing that the "future" has already arrived...

A little bird is building a nest and collects food for its newborn. This leads to unexpected consequences on a large scale.

Once upon a time there was a husband and wife in the same village. The wife was a wayward woman, one might even say stubborn. Whatever her husband says, she does the opposite.

The film is based on the Altai folk tale of the same name. This is an ironic, touching story about understanding the basics of human relationships, about the need to anticipate the consequences of your promises and actions.

She is only 9 years old, and she already knows a lot about life.

The hero of the film Dimon Saprykin, having heard that Las Vegas will soon be built in Altai, buys a slot machine and decides to be the first to drive through the Altai villages and villages in order to accustom the locals to the game and be the first to earn money on them.

This is a real story with real people. This is a story about a small nation that was repressed and sent out from Kabardino-Balkaria territory on March 8 of 1944.

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.

Dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the brilliant architect.

Short horror film.

In the summer of 2007, a group of four volcanologists landed in Medvezhya Bay on Iturup Island in the Great Kuril Ridge. The purpose of the expedition is to study the Kudryavy volcano, the hottest on the planet. Volcanologists will have to live on the island for 2 months. And this part of their life will pass away from stuffy cities, from demanding civilization, from endless fuss. It is believed that 7515 years have passed since the creation of the world, but it seems that nothing has changed on Iturup since then.

The film is based on the story of the Oval Sarcophagus with Dionysian scenes from the antique collection of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin. At various times, the owners of the sarcophagus were the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, the Italian Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, and finally, the Minister of Public Education of Russia, Count Sergei Uvarov, who purchased the sarcophagus for his "museum" in the Porechye estate near Moscow. The history of the sarcophagus is an occasion to reflect on the connection between epochs and cultures, the vicissitudes of fate, the mystery of life and death. Filming was carried out in various museums in Moscow, Rome, in the Porechye estate and the Hermitage.

The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space. Moreover, after the forced separation from the cosmonaut corps, Nelyubov's life was tragically cut short.

The history of human life in photographs. A very personal film made by a director about his beloved late wife.

A film about the omnipotence of the bureaucracy and the corruption generated by this power. These are not general arguments, but answers to specific questions, who, when and how extorts bribes. The film is based on real stories and events. Its protagonists are people who dared to talk about their encounters with the corrupt bureaucratic machine. St. Petersburg politicians, social activists, and historians act as commentators and opponents.

A successful businessman's business collapses overnight due to the intrigues of a competitor. Everything can still be saved, you just have to nod your head and agree to eliminate the person who caused these troubles… At the same time, his wife, unaware of her husband's problems, tries to make him jealous and suffers herself…

The whole world knows his pictures — the Victory Banner over Berlin, the traffic controller, the Victory Parade. Printed in millions of copies, minted on gold coins, included in all encyclopedias and textbooks, neither became signs, symbols of the Second World War. Only few people remember the name of their author.

An assistant fitter goes through the "Harms circles" inhabited by his communal characters, where "everyone is allowed a certain amount of love, and everyone tries to apply it without throwing off their fuselages and small properties of their soul." Go down, go through the "nine circles", turn upside down and fall into the sky.

A documentary drama based on the personal archive of Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva (in 1960-74 — Minister of Culture of the USSR), recently opened materials of party archives, rare film footage and chronicle, which gives a sense of the rise of our art and culture in a period that is commonly called stagnation.

A white-headed old man named Robert Belov, blind, feeble in body, but with a thunderous voice and an iron character openly hates any power. At the same time, he dearly loves poetry and people who are somehow connected with poetry. He loves the Perm prison region – where the authorities, without particularly delving into details, pushed poets and murderers. He writes a book of salty jokes about these people called "Perm region". In the company of random fellow travelers, he goes to Pasternak places in the Urals, forcing landscapes and voices to sound differently, and thereby creates an informal, lively guide to the Kama region.

Northwestern Siberia, Russia. Small Khanty girl Katerina observes and understands the outer world. She learns the voices of people, animals and other beings. Gradually she approaches the unknown and the unknown comes closer - not far from Katerina’s nomad camp an oil rig appears.