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Kolya wakes up after a terrible drinking binge. He is awakened by a call from his sister, who tells him that their father's body has been lost in the morgue. Kolya is indifferent to this news, but suddenly, while walking around the apartment, he stumbles upon his father's body in his bathroom. Now Kolya is forced to secretly return his father's body to the morgue.

The Buryat returns to his homeland to his father to sign his renunciation of the inheritance of his late mother. But the father has other plans for his son. Aldar is Buryat, but grew up with his mother in Moscow. After his mother's death, he learns that he cannot receive the inheritance because his parents were not officially divorced. He flies to Buryatia. The father agrees to sign the documents, but on the condition that the son spends one day with his father, during which they will have to go to the datsan, perform a shamanic ritual and visit the family tree.

Doctor Ragin despairs in his attempts to treat the mentally ill until he meets an unusual patient, Ivan. Ivan tells him about his hallucinations, which in fact turn out to be real. Ragin plunges into the crazy world of his patient, but through self-sacrifice he finds hope in this world and becomes the closest person to Ivan.

Young pupils of the Kovalevsky Orthodox Orphanage must fulfill the mission, on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, serve the Divine Liturgy on Mount Elbrus. The chronicle of the ascent unfolds against the backdrop of the lives of boys in an Orthodox orphanage.

To celebrate his return to freedom on parole, Oleg invites his older brother Viktor to go fishing. The peasants take their young sons for company — and an innocent expedition turns into unpredictable consequences.

And the invisible battle began! It was necessary to act swiftly. Menshikov tries to snatch Peter II from the clutches of the conspirators, but they arrange an escape for the emperor under the nose of the prince's agents. Menshikov is chasing the kidnappers! Remembering that Menshikov is terrible in anger — he chopped the heads of the archers with his own hands — the conspirators hurry Peter II to sign the papers prepared in advance and, seizing them, hide together with the tsar.

A movie almanac of five short stories about happy accidents.

It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.

Intelligent humor in the sauce of everyday life, seasoned with a pinch of cynicism, with the addition of paradox and sharpness. Natural laughter without GMOs and artificial colors.

"Bulgakov. The Secret of the Master" examines a mystical connection that proves to be stronger than the author's original vision. The film shows how the immortal novel stopped being an author's text and began to dictate its will to the creator, interfering with his love, relationship with the authorities, and even bringing his fateful end closer. The viewer will see how fiction inexplicably turned into reality, and how the book's prophecies materialized in Bulgakov's own life, prompting the question: who really held the pen – the man or his immortal creation?

a playful portrait of a local actress who researches an unusual role and a filmmaker that is caught in the metaphorical limb between Siberia and Southern Indiana.

1995, Russian Federation. Lyubov Ivanovna is a teacher in a public school for troubled youth. One day a new boy appears in her class - Kolya, the silent orphan with a permanent scowl, who reminds Lyubov Ivanovna of her dead son, who brings back memories of her dead son.

Tim, a child living in a medieval world, has been chosen to be the most powerful wizard of his time. Under the protection of teacher Udo and muscular swordsman Bullrock, with a beautiful, mysterious blonde woman Anu along for the ride, Tim travels to the Southern Castle to train under the powerful wizard Martirus so that he can defeat the evil wizard Tor, allowing the forces of good to reign for the next 500 years. His journey is filled with magic and endangered by the dark spells of Tor, who is determined to end the journey before it has a chance to begin.

Michael is a general manager of a large company, living in a small apartment in a rundown area of the city of the future. He can't get rid of the hatred for his boss Rudolf. The need to let off steam leads Michael to the office of the company 'New Life', implanting in their clients' memories fantasies that they can realize without the risk of experiencing the events in reality.

On TV a new reality show, "Pionerlager", has started. Following the results of a casting, five young men and five girls, led by young TV presenter Alice Ten, go to the thrown pioneer camp. The rules state that every week someone would be eliminated from the show. The last one remaining will win the main prize: one million roubles. But suddenly game rules change: the invisible observer declares that it is life, not money, that will be the award for the winner. The maniac hiding behind the mask of a horse, begins a hunt for the participants. Children's horror stories which he once listened to in pioneer camp, revive and become a plot of its own murders.

The documentary film Another Life continues the main theme of The Happy People series: man’s faith in himself and his great capacity for survival. This is a film about strong people who are free spirits and who are not concerned with the majority of things that excite city dwellers. Perhaps these fates can serve as an example, can help us see ourselves through another person’s eyes, and allow us to take a new look at our own lives.

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed.

Twenty five years old Kolya starts to work as a cemetery night guard after moving to Moscow from province.

Victor was having a wash in his cabin when the boatswain called him to the phone. Although Victor had already heard: “Nika died”, he shouts all the same: “I can’t hear!”. Victor goes onto the mainland. After two days without sleep he reaches the hospital. When the doctor has finished speaking, Victor indifferently turns away to the window. All the details of this view from the window suddenly feel closer to him. Victor goes outside. The street is fast asleep. The entire town is asleep, as if extinct. But everything is breathing, snoring, muttering in a dream. This sleeping town is like a nightmare. In this nightmare those helplessly asleep are intertwined with the memories of his love. Victor wanders around the town in search of a person who is also, like him, on this side of reality. And he finds him.

Atakan is a bloody boulder, a giant granite block, on which pagans sacrificed human sacrifices for centuries. A group of student historians, led by a young teacher, descend into the dungeons of St. Petersburg to find the legendary stone. With each step, the situation gets out of control, only death awaits them. The attack craves new blood. Who will survive?

Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a writer who has long stopped writing, a frivolous wife, her lover and a jealous husband. Their lives are measured and unhurried. They talk about nothing, get bored and quarrel, flirt and have fun… But even passionate romances, which are now and then tied up here, usually end at the same time as the holiday season...

A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.

A teacher at a Yakut music school must make a choice between a sacred song from the dark past and love that heralds a bright future.

The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.

Sasha, a young janitor, notices a certain softness and kindness in an older janitor. In a small, secluded room, away from their colleagues, the two men waver between resisting and giving in to their feelings and desires, walking a tightrope between violent tendencies and a need for tenderness.

Three generations of the family lived all together. But then everything changed. The grandma remained alone, her granddaughter visits her less and less and her daughter doesn’t see her at all. A moth appears in the flat of the old woman and it is impossible to get rid of her. Because the moth is the loneliness.

A young woman is worried: she feels that she has become... a foreign agent! She entered into correspondence with a representative of a foreign country! Well, how could she not respond when she received a message from... Ross from "Friends" – actor David Schwimmer from the popular TV show!

Julia works as a photographer. Being in a stream of endless hackwork, she dreams of a solo exhibition that will give her the opportunity to say a new word in art. On one of the hectic days, she receives a somewhat strange offer from seemingly the most ordinary customers.

An uncompromising Russian businessman returns home from Peru. He lost his memory, but acquired a mystical mentor who will help him unravel the chain of events that drove him so far from home.

To cure a man of his tendency to disbelieve people bringing him any kind of good news, God fulfils the man's wish to have a baby, but, instead of his wife, God makes him pregnant.

A story about two very different sisters who are forced to trade places.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Famous actors and TV presenters Nikolai Fomenko and Ivan Urgant want to celebrate the holiday quietly and calmly, but, having lost their way, they end up in an enchanted house that does not let them out until the heroes believe in the New Year, a real fairy tale and a miracle, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of popular films.

The Sami people, mainly found in Russia and Lapland, continue their struggle against oppression and colonialism. For centuries, they have faced institutionalized racism, marginalization, and repression of their culture and language. Through activism, they have gained recognition and respect in recent years, but the struggle is not over. Through art and cultural resilience, the Sami assert their rights to exist and thrive in their ancestral lands.

The film is an observation of the contact of a modern person with modern art.

This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.

A crew of film-makers made the effort to record what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family

Anna Karenina in modern realities.

In the village, where live seven little goats with a mother Goat, three piglets, Granny and Red Riding Hood, returns the Wolf, who is now called Flow. He's vegan, plays the ukulele, and doesn't eat anyone. The villagers at first do not believe in the transformation of Flow, but in his favor is the friendship with the little goat with special features.

An independent film about an alcoholic who is drowning in loneliness while trying to grab hold of art and God.

The protagonist Mikhail Nosov is a simple worker. His life consists of work at the machine tool and loneliness in a small rented apartment, TV, the Internet and visiting cheap night clubs. Once Nosov gets acquainted with a prostitute by the name of Diana. Nosov likes Diana and hires her as escort. Diana should live in his apartment. However, Diana turns out completely different to what Nosov imagined her to be, and his life takes an abrupt turn: unexpectedly he goes against his firm principles, changes priorities and understands that life is not as one- dimensional as it seemed to him from the conversations with colleagues and news programmes.

Robert and Kira are Russian immigrants living somewhere in the United States. Robert is a former racer who once followed his dream, but an accident off the racetrack ended up his career. He retired racing and opened his own car repair service. His daughter Kira, who grew up without a mother, absorbed race aesthetics since she was a kid. When she grew up, she wanted to become a racer too. Robert is against the daughter's hobby, because he knows what reckless driving leads to. They lived the last years in this eternal conflict, until a random incident occurred in their lives.

Andrey is the coach of a children's hockey team in a small provincial town. The hero's measured life is disrupted by the news that the only ice palace in the city, where he trains children, is going to be demolished. The only way to save him is to win an amateur hockey tournament. Andrey has only a few months to assemble a team and prepare it for the games. Fathers of little hockey players decide to take to the ice themselves and fight for the future of their children.

Here, among the scorched by hot steppe and salty sea winds, on the fragments of a lost life of a forgotten coastal village, mother Era and son Andrey settle in a small house. And also a love that resists the indifference of the rest of the world, and in this love there is everything - hope and despair, strength and weakness, truth and lies, freedom and slavery.

The Soviet military suppresses enemy aggression. But German soldiers do not intend to give up so easily. After all, they believe their leader and fully share his beliefs and aspirations. To find out more about the location of enemy forces, the Germans decide to send a detachment of saboteurs for reconnaissance. Young people have not only to find the exact location of the troops of the USSR, but also to sabotage the sabotage. That's just the operation is on the verge of collapse.

With a cheeky wolf as a travel companion, a prince from a faraway kingdom embarks on a quest to win a princess's heart.

Eight months after the Chernobyl disaster, a Chernobylite woman that stayed behind to care for her sick mother gives birth to a mutated daughter. She wakes up after giving birth to find her mother gone. Masha, isolated and suffering from cataracts from the radiation exposure, becomes fearful that soldiers will take her contaminated baby. While attempting to reunite with her family in Kiev, the blinding mother and infant become lost in a forest. Masha sees a figure chasing her and believes it's a soldier that wants her child.