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Yevgeny Grishkovets, who “changed ideas about the one-man show genre and even himself became a certain“ genre ”, calls“ Whisper of the Heart ”as his most unusual and most sacred work. “This is my sixth monologue in seventeen years of work, on the plan of which I have been thinking for more than five years, but I have never been given it. Three and a half years ago, I even thought about abandoning him and did Farewell to Paper. However, again and again I returned to “Whisper of the heart” ... It was a time of extremely careful and unhurried selection of words and meanings. ”

In 2016, an HIV epidemic was announced in Russia, more than 1,000,000 cases, and more than half of them are women. This film tells the stories of three women who have been living with HIV + status for more than 10 years. They will openly tell about what it is like to be HIV-infected, and at the same time remain a woman, mother, wife, without ceasing to fight for themselves, their lives and family.

A musical film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The story is about an arrogant but agile bread kid who managed to get around everyone except the treacherous Fox.

Documentary film from the set of Igor Olshansky’s debut short film “Easter”. Igor Olshansky is a participant of Alexander Sokurov’s programme “Example of Intonation”, a non-commercial film support foundation.

A young man dumps his girlfriend without telling her directly, trying to steer the conversation to other topics so that things will end naturally. However, the inner feelings don't simply disappear. The film explores the girl's inner, psychological state during unrequited love.

A detective film with some serious depth. Called back from Moscow on a search for a missing person, this is a story of a man forced to plunge into the past, reminded at every turn of the previous life he led in Saint Petersburg. He must come to terms with the present to move forward - and on top of it all, he's not even sure he's awake. The over-arching presence of St Petersburg, sometimes benign, sometimes threatening, bears witness to his journey.

A young student Irina comes to a small sea shore town to spend some time with her grandmother.

Neither her, nor the last five, not one of them was Alyona. But he knew she was waiting for him. And he would find her. Based on Stephen King's short story of the same name.

The successful and beautiful Anna Kortsova has achieved everything in life that can only be dreamed of. But one day, she felt sick, went to the hospital, had a check-up, and something terrible happened: she was HIV positive. The woman was confused and scared, and she didn't know how to go any further.

The monologue of a grown-up woman, whose husband is leaving her for his young mistress. The viewer does not know until the final frames whether the heroine is actually speaking with her husband or simply rehearsing a future conversation, in which she thanks her husband for the time together, assures him that his decision is the right one, confirms his honest choice of heart, and remembers the touching moments of their past, releasing her husband and promising to cope with loneliness. And only the unexpected finale uncovers for the viewer the woman's true desire in this moment.

The average Moscow taxi driver starts suspecting that there is something wrong with his clients, who keep going about the city. Mysterious destinations, strange motions, hysterical laughter, puzzling placement of the black bundle. The protagonist is intrigued which leads to an unpleasant discovery. It turns out that the world has long been taken over by “psyons” – psychological operators controlling human mind.

Captain Rykov cracks the most complex dead-end cases. His reputation precedes him; his adamant logic, cynicism and experience contribute to his success. He's so good at what he does some say he's supernaturally gifted. Well, let's just say that his success keeps him howling at the moon...

As film specialists write: "From the roles played by Ulyanov, one can study the history of the country". Through his roles in film and theater, he has reflected all the periods, all the historical collusions of the Soviet Union. He has interpreted more than three hundred roles, from the simple peasant to the leaders and emperors. Being laureate of all state awards, rewarded with orders and medals, cherished by power, being himself in power, he could not "be bronze". Our film is about an actor and a remarkable man: Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov.

This is the story that could be behind the famous photo of Alexander Rodchenko "Stairs". Moscow, 1929. The end of the era of constructivism in the USSR. A young woman comes to visit a middle-aged woman to resolve their complicated relationship.

Russian Federation, May 6, 2012. On the eve of the ceremony of inauguration of Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term, the police brutally repressed a march of protest over the lack of freedom existing in the nation. Some people believed that this demonstration would be the beginning of a peaceful revolution, but it was the day when silence and fear won the game. Realize what happens when a person has too much power in his hands.

Drunk major Anton Losev knocks down a schoolgirl at a pedestrian crossing, a girl in a coma. The case is led by investigator Olga Vishnevetskaya. The powerful Losev family hopes to easily hush up the case by "buying" the investigator. However, Vishnevetskaya does not make any compromises. Three years ago, the same drunk major knocked her husband to death. Now Olga is doing everything to make Anton Losev go to jail.

A "Happy Paradise" set with a driving licence as a bonus - this is all 'Mr. Average' needs to make his cherished dream come true and to feel a real human being. An absurdist tragicomedy based on a play 'Apprenez á conduire par correspondance' by Claude Fortuno.

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 magical path leads children to an old man who lives in a neighboring village.

The film investigates Muscovites’ attitude to home, it is a story about the tough choices that we make in a big city. The characters of the film are young people who have new values: the importance of living near work, the gym, the city center or being able to quickly put all they have in boxes and move to a new place. Nevertheless, for each of them, it is still important to see their home as a reference point, endowed with special sentimental characteristics, which they are constantly searching.

Funny New Year comedy for whole family.

The love story of a Red Army girl and a captured White Guard lieutenant who survive on a desert island in the middle of the Aral Sea.

One day of life of residents of an apartment building which recognized their neighbour as a murderer and cannibal from the criminal TV-show "Watch Out with Eduard Tumanov".

A film about young people living without moral guidelines, guided by emotions and instincts. Anya and Olya, recent school graduates, seek fun and excitement. Anya works as a sales assistant, while Olya attends university. Their lives change when Igor enters, creating a love triangle.

Four stories of young men's encounters with army recruitment commissions. Ardent pacifist Roman is sent through a series of humiliating court trials. Losha and Viktor endure long and condescending deliberations that undermine their personalities. Finally, LGBT movement veteran, Johnny is bluntly rebuked and handcuffed. All are put to test by a bureaucratic machine that doesn't sympathize with those who dispute the purposiveness of military service. The conscript enters a room packed with officials. The officials have to listen to his convictions that go in conflict with the idea of military service. It's for the officials to decide whether the conscript leaves the room as a soldier or as a civilian.

No one can know what awaits you ahead when you leave for the country with a four-legged friend...

The film details the independent electronic scene of the 80s and 90s in the industrial city of Izhevsk (USSR). Today so called "Izhevsk electronic wave" is an important underground phenomenon in the history of modern Russian music. Appearing: "СД", "Стук бамбука в XI часов", "Красивая пришла", Rodesia, "Самцы дронта", "Организация сна", "Новые испанские кролики", Velvet & Velvet Dolls, "Вторая африканская охота", Lancer, Virgo Intacta, Birdwood, Digital Meet, "Юка".

The story is about an unexpected meeting in the distant taiga of a traveling artist and a charming shrew, Belozubka, the contact of two worlds - the vast world of man and the tiny fairy–tale world of shrews.

On a deep winter night, a mother with two young children ends up in an isolated box at an infectious disease hospital, where the heroine is waiting for a strange encounter that will change her life forever.

Your favorite characters go to the next level! Meet the final part of the trilogy: the large-scale, dangerous and even funnier adventures of Kaskil and Vitka. This time they go to a distant land, where they are waiting for the treasure bequeathed to Caskil by his grandfather. Arriving at the place, our heroes find out that they are not the only contenders for the inheritance. Loyal friends Caskil and Vitek join together in the fight against rivals. But in the end, it is Caskil who will have to unleash unexpected powers, risk his life and come together in a battle with a second contender for a fabulous inheritance that will go to only one!

Recent historical events in Ukraine - through the eyes of ordinary Ukrainians and Russians. Simple heroes - against the background of dramatic collisions. The second part of the documentary dilogy.

A video essay based on polls conducted by Belarusian media.

Koenigsberg, East Prussia, June 1944. Boys from the Hitler Youth are rushing to the front, and two Soviet boys who escaped from a concentration camp are trying to break through to their own.

The young Soviet country is becoming a country of unique opportunities, labor and cultural victories. Bashkortostan, as the first republic to become part of the new Russia, is experiencing its heyday. Science and culture are developing rapidly. Art is getting closer to the people. The sudden murder of Kirov causes a wave of party purges. The flywheel of repression is inexorably unwinding…

Elder auntie is visiting her relatives in order to find a perfect family and leave all her money to those ideal people.

A tale of old age and corruption in Putin's Russia.

A girl with two brothers rides a car in the winter Crimea - it's good to understand with whom she should be and what she should be.

The main character is surgeon Andrey. He went from a young doctor to a professional. It fell to his lot to overcome the monstrous realities of Russian reality: working in the absence of medicines and equipment, when you can only rely on intuition. His life is a daily feat of saving human lives in inhumane conditions. However, he does not consider his life to be a feat: he just does his job.…

A short based on Krapivin’s story “A Plane Named Seryozhka,” or simply in the same genre. Part of the 'Hospital Tales' series.

A young man called Sharnokhoi rents a small cabin on the outskirts of UlanUde, a small city in eastern Siberia, with his fiancée Garalma. She ran away from home after her parents forbade her to marry Sharnokhoi. Garalma is pregnant. Suddenly on a way home she sees a strange man in a busy city street through the window of the bus – a horseman wearing the ancient armor of the Huns, riding a black horse and carrying weapons. Garalma feels sick, doctors from the local hospital can’t make an accurate diagnosis of her condition and keep making tests and giving her strong sedative injections every few hours. Sharnokhoi meets another patient of the hospital, an old Buryat man who tries to explain to Sharnokhoi that the doctors cannot help his wife and that if he wants to save her a special shaman ceremony should be performed.

On the eve of demobilization, 13 years ago, during the Second Chechen War, 19-year-old Roman was seriously wounded in the head. He miraculously survived, and spent all these years in a continuous struggle with physical illness, with his own weakness and despair, striving to learn how to live again…

When I was fifteen, I witnessed the creation of the legendary science fiction film of the Soviet Union. The director was my father. I loved taking pictures and took hundreds of shots during filming. Forty years later, based on them, I managed to create a film, as Richard Viktorov makes the film “Through thorns to the stars”.

The film tells the story of a man who has just arrived to work in one of the villages as a security guard in an old club. There he meets the employees of the club, and they take turns telling him scary stories. People tend not to believe strange stories. He contradicts everything, expressing his arguments, proofs. But he's wrong. Because everything told has its roots of truth, reality and goes deep into the past times, which can not be returned.

Russian life in 1917 was not limited to civil confrontations, shootouts, demonstrations and rallies. Many people lived, or at least tried to live peacefully and constructively. The great Fyodor Shalyapin sang and staged opera performances in Moscow and Petrograd; director Vsevolod Meyerhold played the Lermontov Masquerade on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, and Anna Akhmatova and Sergey Eisenstein applauded him. The future writer Konstantin Paustovsky eagerly absorbed impressions about the life of summer and autumn Moscow. And in the Moscow region estate Lopasnya-Zachatievskoe a happy accident led to the discovery of the longest manuscript by A.S. Pushkin, who was considered lost. The film is built on cinema and photo chronicles of a century ago.

Conversations with Tatyana Ozerova - the last projectionist of Lenfilm.

Amateur film by Dmitry Davydov

The small town of Kalyazin on the banks of the Volga is famous for its bell tower rising right out of the water. More than half a century ago, during the construction of the Uglich hydroelectric power station, half of the city was flooded. Quiet sleepy streets that go straight into the river make this place really special. Like a mermaid who has climbed ashore, Kalyazin anxiously breathes the half-heartedness of his earthly fate. But every day bread is baked, children are born, women bend over sewing machines, men work behind the machines, asserting the desperate struggle of life where it seems that everything is meaningless and fleeting. Like a river along which large elegant steamboats sail past the bell tower, saying that somewhere there is a completely different life.

About the new generation of Russian protest. Milena, Kolya and their associates are twenty years old. They grew up during the presidency of Vladimir Putin and do not know other rulers. At a time when their parents might be afraid to go to a protest rally, these young activists are ready to take risks and fight for their ideals. The year before the presidential election in 2018, the characters in the film were inspired by the calls of Alexei Navalny and took on the task of convincing Muscovites not to vote for Putin.

Two friends, walking along Losiny Island in Moscow, found a camera...

The story of an unusual friendship between the leader of Moscow gangsters and a famous jazz musician.

The International Foundation for the Support of the Arts "Sergey Oskolkov and his Friends" presents "DIALOGUES AT THE FACTORY" The 2nd meeting. A conversation with mathematician, businessman and philanthropist Konstantin Cerneucanu. Armed with the scientific approach of a mathematician and the practical experience of a businessman, Konstantin Cerneucanu reflects on how the essence of patronage has been developing in Russia since Diaghilev's time, how to increase the cost of an industrial building and where this world in general and Russia in particular are heading.