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Nimble and his team, in order to save Sprat from prison and the restaurant from ruin, organize an off-site wedding party in London. There they become participants in many curious situations caused by the difference in mentalities of different countries.
Russian writer Andrey Bitov and Georgian artist Rezo Gabriadze talk about Pushkin. The picture is made in the synthetic genre of animadoc — at the junction of documentary films and artistic animation.
Three short stories about a boy from a Dagestan village. The surprisingly grown-up character of the eight-year-old brings a lot of trouble to the family. But thanks to him, Bach wins where adults give up.
During the next duty, patrolman Vera Sedova single-handedly prevents a tragedy at the college, but a student dies in the process. She claims that the guy had a sawed-off gun, however, no weapons were found. The policewoman is cursed by her parents and the public. The only one who becomes humanly sorry for Vera is the appointed lawyer Ilya Nesterov. Ilya is more and more immersed in the case and is convinced that his client may be right.
“While shooting my feature documentary film, Memory, in April of 2021 in Grozny, Chechnya (the birthplace of my mother and where I grew up), I felt the influence of the gigantic portraits of Putin, Kadyrov Senior and Kadyrov Junior all over the city. They observed me from everywhere. In parallel to the production of the film, we set out to capture the feeling of totalitarianism that these portraits conveyed. We got up at 4 in the morning and shot through the window of a car because such actions put us under threat of persecution. We understood that we were documenting the time of the birth of fascism in Russia.” Vladlena Sandu
The Caspian Sea washes the shores of five countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenia, Iran and Azerbaijan. So the history of this largest lake in the world has always been intertwined with the history of the people living on its shores. These days, there is a ferry crossing the sea, which is the main setting for Denis Shabanov's documentary Caspian Hub. It is on this ferry that we meet our protagonists, learn their stories and dreams. The camera follows what is going on in their personal lives, their search for happiness against a backdrop of the primordial elements, combining narrative film and documentary elements to show the internal polyphony of individual human stories, with the powerful forces of nature as the backdrop. After all, it is this primordial power that contrasts so aptly with the transience of human life.
The film about the great scientist, thinker, human rights activist is based on the memories of his associates, declassified documents of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the KGB of the USSR, a chronicle shot by the KGB in the city of Gorky, and most importantly, animated drawings that Andrei Dmitrievich left on the margins of notebooks with formulas, in letters to children and grandchildren, as well as simply inventing some fantastic characters.
The third solo concert by Sergey Orlov, recorded in November 2021.
The main character is a 12-year-old boy who goes in search of his mother and on this journey he meets a 27-year-old guy who helps him grow up. Remake of the Kyrgyz film
Ballet dancers Oleg and Vera divorced 30 years ago. Each of them has a new family today. The business trip they are going on is their chance to figure out why they didn't save their family, but still can't finally break up. A dramatic story of love and hate, betrayal and betrayal, forgiveness and the impossibility of being together again.
Ilya stutters a lot, and this interferes with everything - his personal life, communication with the child, work. In desperation, he enrolls in the course of the famous doctor Cherkasova, a guru in his field, whom patients consider a magician and wizard. There he meets new friends and a new love - a young girl Vera. But it turns out that Cherkasova herself likes Ilya, and she intends to win him over.
Roma lives in a provincial town with his girlfriend Masha. After studying at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, he cannot find a job in his specialty. Constant problems in his personal life and professional disorder put more and more pressure on the guy every day, and in the end he faces a choice that will radically change his life.
Deprived of their familiar context, the heroes of ancient Greek myths find themselves in a Moscow park.
Struggling for a daughter, hooked on heroin, the father had to get acquainted with the underground life of Saint-Petersburg. He doesn’t trust the police. Together with his friend he unravels the drug dealers network in order to stop the drug addiction that conquered the city in the 90s. Will they have enough powers to make it to the end?
The hero of the film, the investigator of the UK, appears to the viewer as a cynical, calm person, ready to do anything to achieve his goals. But a series of events forces him to take a fresh look at himself. The hero is faced with a difficult choice, where on the one hand – a career and prosperity, and on the other – an act by which he can lose everything, even his life.… And here comes that very day - One real day that gives the hero the opportunity for moral rebirth and spiritual takeoff!
The famous mathematician Lungin was murdered in his hotel room, and an expensive diamond was stolen from his safe. The day before, a tipsy Lungin let slip to the students of mathematics professor Olga Barkovskaya that the safe code opens with ten digits associated with Pythagoras. Senior investigator Svetlana Kartashova has four students under suspicion, and each of them is pointed out by one or another evidence. But Olga, after analyzing the numbers of the code, finds a thread that will lead her to the real killer.
Two friendly but mischievous brothers Chuk and Gek live with their loving mother in Moscow and miss their father, who works far in the North. Deciding to meet the upcoming New Year together at all costs, they set off on an exciting journey to the mysterious Blue Mountains. Now they are waiting for the biggest adventure in their lives, because on New Year's holidays any, even the most incredible miracles are possible.
Maxim is cornered: absolutely uninvited guests come to him and ring the doorbell. A man tries to get out of delicate situations in his own manner.
The life of an ordinary guy was measured and monotonous, but everything changes in an instant, when he mysteriously enters the past...
Russian independent short film, which studies homosexual nature of friendship. Chance meeting of schoolmates appears being metaphysical journey into depths of human subconscious in this experimental piece of art, filled with references to classic cinema from Wong Kar-Wai to Woody Allen.
What happens if you look at the world around you in a different way, not like everyone else? The story of the sunflower. He sleeps during the day, and the rest of the sunflowers, without looking up, watch the Sun. He is a romantic and admires the moon at night.
In a forest river, hunters find the body of a young singer named Yanka Diaghilev. From that moment on, a confusing chronicle of the last day in the girl's life begins, during which she will travel a long way - from the city to the dacha, and then into the thicket to the river. On this day, Yanka will have time to see and talk with many people, real and imaginary, even with those who are no longer alive. It seems that Yankee's next step is about to shed light on the circumstances of her mysterious death: hopeless love, arguments with loved ones, disagreements with herself, strange meetings with strangers in the forest.
New Year's Eve 2000. Young representatives of the Cossack and Tatar families got married without the blessing of their parents, violating the traditions of their families. Two families enter into a tribal battle for the right to name their newborn son, which develops into a battle - to baptize or circumcise. The desire of each family to be the first in the dispute turns into an adventure during which mysterious events and love stories take place.
Sasha lives his simple but cool life: he works as a bartender, meets a beautiful girl Laura, together they are preparing to move to Barcelona, where they are already waiting for their own apartment and their own bar, which Laura's parents bought for the couple. On the surface, everything looks perfect, but no one knows what difficulties are hidden in the depths. A few days before the move, Sasha learns that there was a woman who left him in the hospital thirty years ago. A young man who has grown up as an orphan gets a chance to see his mother for the first time. Acquaintance with this woman completely changes Sasha's life. On the threshold of her apartment, where he comes filled with desperate resentment, a lonely and sick woman appears, falling in front of a guy in an epileptic fit. Sasha sees a man who, probably, all these years was not easier than he was.
The operator greets you... this is how the employees of the C.C.F company begin their conversation, they are invariably kind and sympathetic guys from the call center... but not in our case, as this company is run by the erratic boss Procopius, an eternal enthusiast who convinces everyone in his own right. Ayaal is a comical middle man, Benjamin is raised on grandmotherly beliefs and of course Mo is a bright representative of the fashion trend, these guys will show you non-standard types of advertising that may or may not work.
A story about the fantastic adventures of modern teenagers, whose life, through the fault of one of them, begins to move in the opposite direction. They will not only have to relive the past days, but also experience events that will later change the lives of their loved ones and themselves. Only the act of the protagonist can turn off the mysterious mechanism that determines the course of time.
The character of the end 80-s, fascinated by music, socially and nationally mixed up in a Kazakh neighborhood. Among them is a Kazakh teenager who unexpectedly falls in love with a girl of Russian-Polish roots. The age and national differences become an almost insurmountable obstacle for the main character, manifested through his friend who is a rival as well as a friend, a Russian guy - the leader of the courtyard band.
For the journalist Lyuba, everything is going according to plan: the work of the presenter on the TV channel, the successful and wealthy fiance Robert. The plan goes to hell when Lyuba's phone goes down, and she asks to call a random passerby from the phone. It turned out to be Sergey, who also had a calm and measured life until that day. This meeting will launch a series of events that will completely change the life of Lyuba, and Sergey, and themselves.
"Illegal" is an action-packed drama about a young migrant from Central Asia who comes to Yakutia to solve his problem.
The film is a journey into childhood, the central image of which is a giant apartment building of the Insurance Company "Russia" in the center of Moscow. Its history and present, stairs, flights, attics, artists' workshops – all this becomes the territory of memories of the childhood of the author and his parents, realized with the help of animation.
In childhood, everyone wants - “when they grow up” - to become stars or world champions, generals or models, rich bums or simple astronauts. No one dreams of a career as a vacuum cleaner or scavenger. But fate has its own plans. Two childhood friends meet at the bottom of their lives. One is a loser actor who sniffs Chinese frying pans for grandmothers. The second is a gopnik from the district, has not dried up since the days of vocational school. And suddenly they have a chance to break out of the quagmire and make their dreams come true! To do this, you just need to steal a Faberge egg from the local museum of local lore. The customer of the daring robbery is a descendant of that same Faberge, and he has his own dream: to return the relic to the family. And everything could have gone well, only one of the friends falls in love with the wife of the other.
The film takes place in the late 90s. The main character undertakes to organize a competition for young musicians. Who should become the winner of the competition, decided in advance. The performances are attended by unknown musicians representing a variety of musical genres and trends. They have different views on both life and music. Of course, the competition does not go as planned.
Artur's first solo stand up concert.
The film tells the story of ancient Ingush lullabies - Ingush women and men tell the lullabies of their families and the stories associated with them: love, friendship, blood feud.
Two guys steal a phone with important information from an evil guy, behind which there is an even more evil guy. A very twisted Guy Ritchie-style short.Cast-Pavel Kizhuk,Nikita Khrushchev.
In the 1980s a middle class German boy falls in love with a travelling circus woman named Carmen, only to have his heart broken when she disappears. Trying to mend his broken heart, Hanspeter set up an amateur circus school in the backyard of his home, which became a refuge for the struggling kids. Nearly 40 years later journalist Yulia Vishnevetskaya crosses Germany in search of this fleeting woman who unknowingly created a powerful impact of a lasting legacy. A road movie with a flair of comedy and drama, this film is a tender reflection on the circus of life, love and the dying trade.
An attempt to conquer Elbrus in bad weather cost the lives of five tourists. A poignant doc on the causes of the tragedy.
When the mother and father of ten-year-old Lena and Marusya decide to get married, these two completely alien girls are forced to become sisters. Now they share one room, one class, friends, and most importantly, they are fighting for the attention of their parents. Each of them dreams of returning to their former life, and for this it is necessary to embroil adults.
An unexpected look at the ancient Greek myth of Perseus. The musical and dramatic performance is staged both traditionally and innovatively. There are personalities and a choir here, which is the voice of the people. The live orchestra accompanying the entire performance gives an extraordinary expressiveness to the stage action. At the same time, the "rehearsal game" gives you the opportunity to feel additional emotional and semantic layers.
On May 9, at the Immortal Regiment procession in the mountain village of Mizur in North Ossetia, local residents came out with portraits of their warring relatives. One of the posters featured a photograph of an officer who died in March in Ukraine. 33-year-old captain Aslan Dzantiev was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. On May 9, his family arranged a memorial ceremony, neighbors and relatives, according to the traditional Ossetian custom, prepared food and lit a candle on the grave of the deceased. In Caucasian families, men and women do not sit down together at the table and grieve differently, men make toasts and behave with restraint, and women cook food and do not hide their grief. Aslan Dzantiev grew up without a father and remained childless, his mother, grandmother and young widow mourn him at home.
Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
It's post-apocalyptic future. The group of boys does not realize that one of them is not quite a person... he's the "Mowgli Project". It is also unknown whether Mowgli himself knows about this.
The Golden Knight Film Forum was born in the "dashing 90s". The film presents to the audience the chronicle history of the wanderings of the "Golden Knight" through the cities and towns of the Slavic world torn to pieces. At the moment of the devastating turning point of our country, the Film Forum declared its motto: "For moral ideals. For the elevation of the human soul" and remained faithful to him for 30 years.
A film about a man who is disillusioned with his life.
If architecture is "frozen music", then the façades of houses are its score. We explore the architecture of the post-Soviet space, from wooden architecture to Baroque and classicism, from Art Nouveau to Stalinist and Khrushchev architecture, traces of which are found in the modern panel buildings known as “human anthills”. By doing so, we are trying to understand how this centuries-old symphony could sound and look, and most importantly, we find that irreconcilable conflict of personality and mass, the unique and the typical, that is reflected even “in stone”.
The director of the orphanage, Andrey Mast, is fighting the lawlessness reigning there and introducing strict rules. The new pupil Inna opposes these rules and will seek justice in her own way.
The film takes us to Nizhny Tagil in September of 2021. Gosha Gordienko, the front man of the rock band Lazy Comet, and Matthew Bedin came together to compose the song Ya Videl for the new album of the group, which wasn’t finished. The film is a memory, a gesture that against all odds reminds the true power and beauty of art creation.
Moscow is a city of women! Both fatal, greedy beauties and naive, hungry for relationships, materially prosperous virgins live here in huge numbers. It is the latter that Vova and Edik use for their commercial purposes. Once the guys meet Olya and Rita, the widow and daughter of a recently deceased large businessman. The girls are rich and naive, their hearts and wallets are open. Edik and Vova are in anticipation of enrichment. But unexpected events make the heroes think that things are not so simple with Olya and Rita.
The Marines Rokot, Struna and Boika were blown up by mines during the fighting and were seriously injured. Each of them lost a leg, but they did not lose their strength of spirit and sense of humor. "What is it, how to manage it?" Struna asks, having received the prosthesis. The heroes learn to walk again, maintain their combat form at the training ground, and are assisted in this by a prosthetic technician, Ibrahim, who himself lost his leg 12 years ago during a terrorist attack in Stavropol.
Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” he visited as a young man, Dmitry Krymov’s “Everyone is Here” is a memory piece, a starting point for a flight of imagination and immersion into his own past. Wilder’s “Our Town” is superimposed on the personal memories of Krymov, his biography and events from his family life. The structure of the play gives rise to an interweaving of events, memories, reminiscences, fantasies, associations, dreams - a carefully planned, as if random confusion, which in the finale leads the viewer to a keen awareness of their own life.
The story of the amazing fate of a Russian aristocrat, thanks to whom one of the most important Orthodox shrines — Alexander’s compound in Jerusalem — has been preserved. The daughter of the White Guard officer Tatiana Goncharova-Mendoza, living in exile, carried love and devotion to Russia throughout her entire life.
In the near future, where old people are subjected to a test for society, an investigator encounters a couple who are in no hurry to die.
Elena is an emergency doctor. Together with her brigade, she leaves for the crime scene, which was reported by her eldest son Konstantin by calling the desk officer. Elena rushes at full speed, thinking that Kostya has become a victim of a criminal. The worst thing awaits her ahead - the eldest son is the very criminal. Elena is tormented by the consciousness of responsibility and her own guilt. Did she love her child enough? How much of her fault is this? Not trusting the investigation, Elena begins her own search and realizes that she knew nothing about her son.
Masha and Ilya live in a remote area of the Moscow region and want to spend their long-awaited weekend in peace. But one impulsive act changes their plans.