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Long suppressed by missionaries and then by Soviet anti-religious campaigns, Siberian shamanism has experienced an unprecedented revival following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the number of shamans continues to rise. But who are these new shamans? Are they tricksters, magicians, businessmen, or cultural activists? This film takes a behind-the-scenes look at a Buryat shaman living on an island in the Lake Baikal as he moves between intimate shamanic rituals performed for local clientele and shows performed at various resorts for Western tourists in search of "primitive" cultures.

About the strange, little-studied, mysterious inhabitants of the metropolis, whose life is almost unknown to the layman. That is, about the usual Moscow gates. Gray crows are very fond of Moscow and especially the Kremlin. Ornithologists cannot determine the reasons for this feature. The soldiers of the Presidential Regiment shoot them every morning, scare them with hawks, but the crows still come back…

It is a film based on Scandinavian ballads, allegorically portraying the complex relationship between the two beginnings - Male and Female, Light and Darkness, Love and Death. The eternal dance of life embraces two main characters - the Girl and the Knight in various guises (a king, a jester) - the relationship between whom develops on two levels - realistic and symbolic. The visual approach based on medieval engravings, the Scandinavian tradition of wooden sculptures and ornaments as well as the colour scheme carry profound philosophical and symbolic meaning. The film is made in the technique of total animation.

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

Series of interviews with inmates of juvenile prison colony for girls, guilty of murder

The story of a romantic sailor who is deeply devoted to his beloved, the beautiful Alvina, and refuses to part with her even after her death.

The film is about why people should take care of our younger brothers and try to live in harmony with the animal world so that one day it does not disappear from the face of the Earth.

The protagonist, betrayed by relatives many years ago, now himself, after adultery, turns out to be a traitor in the eyes of his wife and children. Betrayal has its evolution.

In order to continue his studies and escape from hunger, the boy catches fish with a net. He asks the spirit of the lake to help him and give him fish, but soon loses consciousness from hunger and ... meets with his ancestors. Based on the work "Ogho kuyurduu turara" by Platon Alekseevich Oyunsky.

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 ...

The zombie apocalypse, in Russia.

The film tells about Sergei Yun-Fu, or Sergei Mao, the son of Mao Zedong, and Nikolai Elizarov, or Chiang Ching-guo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Both of them grew up, got an education and worked in the USSR. One fought as a tanker in the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, the other was one of the leaders of Uralmash. But the Comintern and the NKVD equally disposed of their Russian destinies. Both were valuable figures in Stalin's game of influence in China and in the bitter struggle for power between the two Chinese dictators. Both returned to China to become companions of their fathers in this struggle. They themselves never met. Sergei died in the Korean War in 1950. Jiang Jingguo became the President of Taiwan.

Eight-year-old boy Nikita suffers from cerebral palsy. Simple things — walking, talking - are difficult for him. To overcome the disease, he is engaged in diving. The coach treats Nikita the same as the others, without making allowances for disability. And the boy begins to succeed: he jumps from 3, 5 and 7 meters. The last frontier remains — a 10-meter tower... But the gift prepared for him — the railway — goes to another boy, also Nikita, who makes his first jump in his life.

In the tiny town of Nagievsk in the Sverdlovsk region, a catastrophe occurred. As a result of a failed experiment by scientists, the experimental virus they invented ended up in the drinking water, turning the townspeople into a horde of decaying undead, ready to devour anything in their path. Nagievsk was placed under quarantine and erased from all existing maps. Officially, such a town no longer exists. And it is precisely there that a young man named Max is heading from the nearby town of Porechensk. He must find the vaccine, which, they say, is hidden somewhere in the infected and erased settlement from life.

How great is the temptation to try the cake in the fridge, sometimes! The important thing is to leave it looking as if it wasn't touched at all.

Uniformed and cheerleading teens meet at a parade in Moscow.

No-budget madness featuring a black metal band, the undead, groupies, orthodox priests, and so much more.

Three friends got lost in the forest. Finding crosses there and pulling them out, the guys disturbed the sleep of the dead, who immediately climbed out of the ground to teach the impudent youth a lesson.

"Nya" - this is how little nation of central Taimyr, nganasans call themselves. This film is about the destiny of last nganasan shaman. Just forty years ago nganasans still were nomadic on a large territory between mountain massif Byrranga and plato Pytorana. Soviet government didn't understand at all a lifestyle like this, because it is difficult to control nomads. Nganasans were forced to live sedentary. Shamans were repressed and killed. Nowadays nganasan's traditional culture was left only in memory of elders but in archive of russian science academy there are uniqe videomaterials of etnographic expedition from 1968 dedicated to two nganasan shamans, who were conducting a ceremony of first snow encounter. This film introduces to us descendant of those shamans and shows every day life of last Taimyr shaman, who have managed to save all "equipment" inherited from father and grandfather - famous shamans.

Follows the history of the city Saratov, ts architectural monuments, and famous residents

Documentary about the 1999 bombing of an apartment building in Moscow which sheds light on both terrorism and post-Soviet government operations.

In 1991, almost an entire keel structure of a large Pomeranian vessel was washed up on the White Sea coast by a storm. Now the matrix is in the Solovetsky Maritime Museum. A former military pilot, a builder and a future artist came here to build a sailing wooden ship.

The urban parish behind the dorm started with Vyrypaev, having a pocket Samsung and being a contemporary to all people in 2006.

A story that tells how an old woman and a crow that couldn`t fly, both acquired wings.

A funny animation film about two naughty boys who decided to scare a girl by means of putting on some scary masks. But they couldn’t even imagine the developments of their prank...

Film is about controversies that art causes to arise among people.

This is a funny story telling about a "Tree" that, passing through the seasons, lives a life full of events and adventures. However, despite everything, he remains a kind, cheerful and sympathetic being.

A surrealistic story, the main character of which, after having dipped into a blue puddle, acquired, very much to his displeasure, a completely new, unusual, and strange appearance.

The genre of the film is unusual. These are "animated ditties" based on the poems of Yu.Entina, or even this film can be called a "Cartoon micro-musical", which is based on a crazy cocktail of folk tales, famous cartoons, "Entina ditties" and the author's subconscious.

A little cheerful ant saves a caterpillar friend from an evil Spider. Together they will learn to fly, because the caterpillar will turn into a butterfly!

The story is about a cowardly hare who managed to prove to everyone that he is the most terrible beast.

An instructive story that in order to avoid danger during a walk, you must definitely arm yourself with something.

The tale of how the cunning fox got what he deserved. And the wolf learned to fish with a fishing rod.

Birds living in a tree suffer from the attacks of a Snake stealing their eggs. One day they figured out how to punish the villain.

A funny fantasy film about the adventures of a two-man boy who got into the prehistoric era with the help of a time machine.

The film is an intrigue, where it is impossible to guess where its hero is until the last frame. He thinks, smokes a pipe, eats, prays, wanders around a lonely apartment and the city, then goes to a concert, where the secret of his profession is revealed. But you still try to guess earlier!

"Shift" is a new look at the construction site. "Shift" is the time spent with the characters. "Shift" is the question, whose shift will be next?

In Tsirk, student clown Alexei is our guide to the State School for Circus and Variety Arts, in Moscow. It's a shabby relic of a vast Soviet circus system instituted to entertain the masses and spread propaganda. While Alexei hones his pratfalls, the committed and underpaid staff remember better, but less free, days.

The film tells about the fate of one of the brightest political adventurers in the history of Russia, the priest Gapon. Paid agent of the Security Department and at the same time the real leader of the working people, Georgy Gapon turned out to be a provocateur of History. It was "Bloody Sunday" that became the turning point, which was inevitably followed by the collapse of the Romanov dynasty and the revolution. On the basis of previously unused documents, the inseparable connection between the fate of one person and the fate of Russia is recreated.

A film about the narrow-gauge railway Seven-city - Druzhba. The film crew went to one of the most remote villages in the Vologda Oblast, which survives only on this narrow gauge railway. The train went for 5 hours, in addition, periodically derailed.

The film is based on the real diaries of the former Nord-Ost hostage Irina Fadeyeva, whose 15-year-old son Yaroslav was killed during the assault. These are her reflections on the tragedy that happened and her silent appeal to the Russian authorities, which hide the true cause of the death of the child.

In the seemingly simple fate of the heroine of the film, Vera, there is a whole tangle of social, national, demographic and other problems of our difficult time.

Chronicle of one day in the life of a provincial town. A gallery of characters, veterans, human rights activists, "ours" and many others, united by one theme of the war in Chechnya.

A film about the life and work of the outstanding Russian literary critic, writer, screenwriter, leader of the Russian formal school Viktor Shklovsky. Tracing the brightest moments of this life, tightly intertwined with the life of the twentieth century, is the main task of the film. And, of course, the creators of the documentary could not ignore the writer's love interests, which he wrote about in the famous "letters not about love."

Filmed via webcam about people who suddenly become the victims of massive online harassment.

“Old age is a stage of our life, which, like all its other stages, has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and sorrows”, G. Hesse, “Old Age”.

From the series "History of Russia in Private Chronicles". Documentary ironic fantasy-parable. Photo animation. A biography of a woman she once loved, seen through the eyes of a man she once loved.

A24 movie about compote.

Experimental film shot between 1997-2003