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A confessional documentary about the thoughts of a woman just before her abortion.

The existence of otherworldly forces has not been proven, but neither has the opposite. Every year in Russia, thousands of people turn to religious institutions on suspicion of being possessed. This story is based on real events that took place several years ago in Yakutia. It shocked the small circle of people who knew about it. They tried almost everything. The family began to think that the girl was truly possessed by a demon. A lama was specially invited to the city.

One day in the life of the girl Lena, looking for reasons (not) to get acquainted with men, (not) to have a family and children, (not) to love.

Hurry, work, career, time, forgotten dreams. Someday the Faith will be different. How to find time in the cycle of life for loved ones? For yourself this? Stay!

In order to put an end to dissent at once, the Soviet secret services organized this show trial. Viktor Krasin and Petr Yakir were convicted of participating in subversive propaganda against the USSR. The liberal opposition was temporarily demoralized. It was forty years ago, but it seems that it will be tomorrow.

A person runs away from pursuers, and he manages to escape. But that does not mean that he is now safe.

The poetic film essay on poems by Arseny Tarkovsky reveals the mystery of the fate and work of three prominent filmmakers - Sergey Parazhdanov, Andrey Tarkovsky, Alexandr Antipenko.

Learning that Albrecht, her beloved, is in fact a nobleman engaged to be married to a princess, the naive peasant girl Giselle dies. The Queen of the Wilis—the spirits of deceased young virgins—decides that Albrecht should follow Giselle to the grave, and condemns him to dance until he dies of exhaustion. But Giselle’s spirit dances with him and saves him. With music by Adolphe Adam and a libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the ballet touches on the great romantic themes: local colour, a pastoral love affair doomed to end in tragedy, a plunge into fantasy and redemption through the power of love.

A film about the first launch of the Soyuz launch vehicle from the Kourou cosmodrome (French Guiana). About the long-term joint work of Russian and European specialists who built a Russian launch complex in the impenetrable jungles of Guiana. For the first time since the Caribbean crisis, Russian missiles are based on the American continent. The Soyuz launches from the tropical cosmodrome in French Guiana are something new in the history of domestic and world cosmonautics. Will Russia be able to expand its presence in the global space market? And is it possible to do this today within the framework of one country and industry?

A kind and charming story about a young Tibetan boy who was sent to a Buddhist monastery in South India and the transformations that happened to his way of thinking. His compassionate teacher draws him a map-quest that consists of eight puzzles. Once he has found the answers to all of them, the boy will be able to return home.

The short film The Muse tells us a story about the artist and his inspiration. The characters, created by I. Bunin in his novel a century ago, are shown in the today Moscow for the only purpose - to demonstrate us the philosophy attributed to one of the greatest writers of the first half of 20th century.

This is the story of the famous first film workshop set up by the filmmaker Alexei German in 1988. The studio debutants are now well-known masters. They share their memories about their teacher who helped them throughout the work process. The core of the film is the story told by Sergei Karandashov, a graduate of Alexei German’s workshop and the author of the project Workshop. The author's version of the film.

The journey of Russian mothers from St. Petersburg to the city of victorious gay propaganda.

Moscow, summer of 1953. Tanya, an eleven-year old girl, meets a boy, Mitya. Mitya and his family have just returned from exile in the Russian Far East. Tanya learns that Mitya had to leave behind his best friend, a dog called Hector. Mitya is eager for Hector to join him in Moscow, but the adults declare it impossible - a large city is no place for a dog. In an attempt to prove the adults wrong and convince them to bring over Hector, Mitya and Tanya decide to create the perfect home for him - a dog's paradise in an empty sealed room they find in the building...

My neighbor is an ordinary person. But after all, if you observe a person long enough, he ceases to be simple, ordinary. I filmed this film from the window of my apartment for several years. Filmed a neighbor and his beloved old car, to which he is endlessly attached. And in the end, unexpectedly, a movie turned out not about a specific person, but about life in general.

The biggest worlds are built one brick at a time.

For three years, filmmaker Staffan Julén has traveled with Svetlana Alexievich in Belarus and Russia to document her working method when her reportage books are created. At first, filmmaker Staffan Julén wanted to make a traditional writer portrait on Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich which she was not interested in. Her suggestion was instead that he would tag along with her in her ongoing projects and follow her when she talks to people about love.

An animated short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. The daughter is waiting for her dinner and is irritated by her father’s nagging questions and suggestions. Soon we’re transported into the surreal and snowy world swirling in her head.

Story about a man who uses black magic to bewitch the girl. And one day dark forces appeared.

The main characters are a woman and her son who live happily till the moment when strange things begin to occur with the boy.

What to do in the summer as a law student? You can, for example, go to work in the Arctic Circle. In addition to hard work, the never-setting sun and mosquitoes, a cruel rite of passage awaits Alexei.

A young girl comes from Almaty to Moscow to visit her best friend, with whom she is secretly in love. She wants to confess her feelings to him, but the events of one night completely change her attitude.

The film is based on real events. Radio listeners are invited to vote for the murder of a famous work of art on the air.

Non scientific observations of the jumping fellows life.

A man becomes determined to retrieve a winning lottery ticket which his son exchanged for an hedgehog.

They say whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But how to start everything over and don’t lose taste to life? New home, new friends, new job, new family, new values… This is life story of one refugee from Donetsk city who was forced to leave her new dream house on one day and escaped from the war with little child in her hands. How does this story differ from 1,5 million similar dramas of other refugees from eastern Ukraine? Maybe, these are amazing vitality, positive philosophy of being and irresistible optimism in spite of the circumstances...

Two Yakutian fathers who lost their sons become locked in a tormenting cycle of revenge against a pristine snowy landscape.

A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow in February of 2015.

A film about the legend of Russian rock, the founder and the undisputed leader of the group "DDT" Yuri Shevchuk. Work on the picture was more than 11 years, the crew traveled with "DDT" dozens of cities in several rounds. Backstage concerts and work on albums, rehearsals and performances in front of many thousands of halls .... The result of working with dozens of hours of the archive from the life of a musician and a band, as well as long conversations between Yuri Shevchuk and the author of the film and his thoughts about the past, present and future of Russia and the world .

Tatyana lives in France. She is young, beautiful, rich. Life in the mansion is like an advertising video. But behind this facade lies unhappiness and pain. Her husband has long since grown cold towards her, has become a stranger and cruel. And they can't get a divorce: lawyers will make sure that the children stay with him. Soon Tatyana learns that her mother is about to have an operation. She flies to Russia, where she meets a stunningly handsome man.

When Masha was ten years old she lived in a far away northern village, where she was the only pupil in her school. She loved her village - a quiet place without any stores, cell phones, and other spoils of civilization. Masha dreamed to build a clinic there. Masha is seventeen now. She goes to a boarding school in a nearby village, and realizes that she needs to leave.

Childhood memories play on the mind of the central character, Garry. Many years on, he returns to his native town. Everything feels alien and strange. Our hero comes back to recover his memories, the good ones and the bad ones, the pleasant ones and the painful ones. Will the old fortune-teller Nina, a well-known dream gatherer in the city, be able to set an already grownup man free of the chains of the past which had become unbearable by that time? Or will our hero, Garry alleviate her life by discovering his freedom?

The 'Yuha' a story of obsession and despair, two fillings interlinked with true love.

Karen Marshall’s body, mind, and heart do not belong to her alone. She shares them with Rosalee, a smart and perky teenager; Timee, a flamboyant, puerile youth, who wears women’s clothing; an old lady, a habitué of museums; and a dozen of others. Karen’s official diagnosis is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Through personal stories, “Busy Inside” delves deeply into DID — a condition that fascinates and puzzles modern psychiatry.

Clay animation based on the eponymous folktale Nenets. Caring mother and her three unruly children live in the tundra. After the rescue, one of his sons who had fallen into the river, a mother is sick. Enervated woman appeals to kids asking to bring her water, but children continue to frolic and play, unaware of the approaching disaster ...

Igor and Sveta visit Igor's hometown. Igor wants nothing more than to spend the weekend recording a fun vlog with his girlfriend when a talk with his mom uncovers more of a pressing problem in his relationship with Sveta.

Documentary movie by Andrey Fenochka

A prosperous Moscow banker came to take his son out of the school and met with himself and the ghosts of his childhood.

The body of one of the club members was found at an elite paintball base near St. Petersburg. He was executed the way traitors and apostates were executed in Ancient Russia. Similar incidents are occurring on the territory of several neighboring States. And their victims are people who violated the oath they once took.

Kostya, a young boy, falls ill with tuberculosis and is sent to a sanatorium. Here he'll have to learn about friendship and injustice, while also learning a lot about the world and himself.

Max and Red live illegally in an abandoned communal apartment. On New Year's Eve, a third neighbor, Lera, comes to visit them.

This cinematic study tells us a story of one of the most famous lamas in Russia and Buryatia, XII Pandido Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov.

Strange things happen in city N. People massively fall into a state similar to a coma. Doctors are at a loss. Investigate the incident entrusted to the best investigator of the city. He, a follower of the materialist position, is faced with inexplicable and mystical events that change not only his worldview, but also his life...

The issue of protecting the Russian emperor was very delicate. The tradition provided for a special attitude of the people to the person of the anointed of God, who personified the greatness of the country. And yet the life of the monarch was often in mortal danger…

The story is about a mysterious event that changes fates of a dreamy young Russian woman, a middle-aged American DJ and a pregnant Romanian.

A sudden burst of love can ruin your whole life. The film is based on the Montenegrin legend "the House of three sisters".

Year 2017 would be the 100th Anniversary of the revolution in Russia. Film researches the reasons of the “Russian revolution”, First World War, external and internal conspiracies, which led to the collapse of the monarchy and traditional world order. Narration is build of quotes, memoirs and inferences of eyewitnesses. The facts are told based on the views of the authors of the film.

The bird met the hippopotamus, and they became friends.

On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in the very center of the capital.. this film, shot spontaneously, sums up the results of 2017, informing and enclosing all the absurdity and absurdity of everything that is happening in our country.

A documentary about children's hockey. The film was shot at the Gazpromneft Cup in Omsk and Minsk.

Confident in her style and way of being, a young trans girl Zhenya moves through the world figuring out life and love. A story about youth, friendship, community and embracing life as it comes.