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Russia was left without officials and a leader. But there are enough candidates for the main post. One of these candidates is a small but proud delivery man whose home video seems to be seen by everyone. But does this candidate have other serious flaws?
A group of strangers in a mysterious arena fight for their lives against cunning and unpredictable foes in order for each to achieve their desires in a test of Truth and Will in a callous and bloody challenge set by the Gods.
Twelve St. Petersburg teenagers who were convicted of crimes of varying severity receive a pardon, and they replace the real terms with conditional ones with the obligation to live in a social rehabilitation center.
Independent documentary created by group of enthusiast from Russia. It covers the topic of Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico and struggle of Mexican indigenous peoples for justice, liberty and democracy.
My parents were vacationing in Bulgaria, my grandfather and I lived soul to soul and cooked not according to schedule, but only when we wanted to. I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't work, I didn't study, I ate a lot of butter out of inertia. I read the "Fundamentals of Archaeology" by Professor Avdusin, copied out poems from a homemade notebook. It was the best June of my life...
The communist poet Nazim Hikmet, after serving 17 years in Turkish prisons, fled to the Soviet Union as the country of victorious communism. Communism turned out to be a hoax, it lost its homeland forever. The Turkish word "hasret" (longing) is one of the few Turkish words that his adopted daughter learned. His heart could not stand the melancholy and hypocrisy of Soviet life, he died early and was buried in Moscow, where he was safely forgotten. But this old story becomes suddenly very relevant during the referendum in Istanbul.
The film is based on the idea of growing up, turning a boy into a man and thus represents a rite of shamanistic initiation. The story takes place in a swimming pool during a lesson.
Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which everything goes not according to plan...
A tale about two hunters who seek the love of a beautiful girl. During a dangerous journey, everyone must show their best qualities. As it should be in a fairy tale, in this rivalry, courage, generosity, responsiveness prevail over cowardice, stupidity and greed. The girl chooses the worthy one, and the unworthy one bears the deserved punishment.
The Filippov family live in the north of Russia, far from civilisation. Despite the lack of modern conveniences, they live in harmony with nature, create art, support and understand each other like no other people in this world.
Term paper by Alexander Belov, VGIK student.
Mother and little Eva return home on a winter evening from kindergarten. A random find helps the girl transform a dark twilight evening into a colorful world. My mother also tried…
The last few years, Matthew and Kate live in the village. An event occurs in their lives that leads to a radical redefinition of relationships. The past and the present are intertwined into one confused story in which the characters lose sleep, drive each other out of the house, rush into the arms, starting a new circle. And precisely at this time friends from Berlin come to visit them.
1946, Kyrgyzstan, evacuated from Leningrad woman with two children — boys of six and ten years. Their father is in hospital, badly wounded. Time is poor, hungry. The family fights for life, selling homemade rugs on the market and picking up everything that can be useful in the economy on the ruins of abandoned houses. Once the brothers find in the dump a book with wonderful pictures. This is Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale "goldfish". The mother reads it to them before bedtime — and in the lives of boys be the dream and the sense of becoming owners of the coveted gold fish and the three wishes, one of which, of course, the return of the father, alive and well.
In a small, snow-covered town in Belarus, a former English teacher manages to scrape a living distributing leaflets to people’s letterboxes. In the evening, he joins his wife in their dingy apartment, and together they reminisce about their son, a student in Minsk they rarely see. Possibly their only excitement of the week is buying a lottery ticket, which, for a few seconds, gives them a chance to dream. Yuliya Shatun’s camera, at first oddly focused on the white expanses along every roadside, then begins to scrutinise the teacher in his comings and goings – a precise recording with, however, a hint of the moroseness of a terrain so rare in today’s cinema. The teacher has stoically adapted to a degenerate world and a life fuelled by stifled shame. An odour of neglect wafts between the apartment blocks, the uttered words and the background noise of the television. A certain irony floats in the air too, and it needs Yuliya Shatun’s patience to grasp and take responsibility for it.
«Over the dream» is a documentary by Ivan Demkin. It tells us about adventures of CIS representatives at The International tournament. In this movie we will talk about one team and some of the tournament broadcasters – a commentator and an analyst.
Relationships of young lovers are so fragile that the slightest thing, the slightest negligence is felt very strongly.
It is not much fun having to spend the whole day in a banana costume. But things take a turn for the worse for this poor chap when one day he wakes up to discover he has grown a long tail. At first he tries to get rid of it. But no matter what he tries – doctors, saws, healers – nothing seems to help. He cannot hide it either. It is just too long and it is always poking out. And so he just tries to live with his tail. But before long the poor guy hast lost his job, his friends, everything. Nobody wants him. But would it not be a pity if there were no place in this world for such a kind person who is just a little bit different? An inventively quirky animation laced with black humour that pokes fun at narrow-mindedness and intolerance.
Russian gore film where the government turn people in to zombies.
Arthur, a retired astronaut, tells his neighbor Richard that strange, inexplicable things are happening to him after his return from space. Based on the short story by Stephen King.
The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.
The young man, Isa by name, came back to his native city after leaving the prison. At half-destroyed, dark, left, surrounded by harsh and merciless mountains house seriously ill mother and his wife who lost the hope to have happy family life were expecting him. He did evil and was put in the prison, but the main difficulties are still expecting him in the future.
This thrilling story will involve you in a whirlwind of incredible mystical events. Mysterious disappearances, chases, and ancient evil. Who is hiding in the woods? Will anyone find salvation? Based on Stephen King's "Pet Sematary".
Why does love die? Why did it seem to you, before you met Him, that He was the only Prince Charming in the world, and now you cannot even remember your first date with Him? Why is it that, when thinking of the past, you believe you have made a mistake and can only sigh sadly, "If only it would have..."? It seems to the 35-year-old Yekaterina Kolesnikova that her life got on to the wrong track: instead of being a model on the catwalk in Milan she works in a factory making working clothes. And her husband, a once brilliant and talented musician, has turned out to be a local finance officer. But now Fate suddenly gives Katya a chance to go back seventeen years and try to change her life. Will it make her happy?
The lyrical story begins with the appearance of Alexandra, a female judo instructor in the army unit. She has a difficult task – to prepare ordinary guys for responsible competitions, to make them a cohesive combat-ready team in just 2 weeks. And what kind of man likes it when a woman teaches him how to fight? Lieutenant Avdeev, a well-known ladies' man and ladies' man, is starting a real war against the independent Alexandra. But the girl is not used to losing. Who will win this match? Of course, Love…
Diana is pregnant, but she has nowhere to live and nothing to live on. She complains about the injustice of a harsh life, but is the root of her personal and domestic misfortunes only in external causes? At first, the heroine evokes sympathy for herself, but very soon her true face is revealed. Showing several important episodes from the life of Diana, the director gives an objective description of his heroine.
How is it possible to feel someone elses pain? The hero of this film is an autistic boy. His life is divided between an apartment with peeling walls on the outskirts of a large city, and a mental hospital. Anton comes into the frame when he is on the point of becoming a patient at a residential neuropsychiatric institution, a place where people with the sort of diagnosis that he has do not live long. The author, the camera, the hero. The distance between them shrinks with every passing minute, and the author has to enter the shot and become a character in the story. However, it is not a story about how one person helped another, but about how one person recognized herself in another. About how there is Another who lives in each of us and must be destroyed every day inside of us in order to survive.
Two birds are separating at the station...
Academic work of 4th courses of training of Kabardino-Balkarian State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).
Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.
The author of the film captured director Rimas Tuminas in the process of working on the production of the play "The Queen of Spades" at the Bolshoi Theater in 2017.
The film is based on a story by journalist Tuyaara Sikkier. This is the story of a simple girl who moved to live in the city. She is waiting for a difficult test, a meeting with a loved one and his loss. In the film, love, crime, the search for the meaning of life.
This film's hero could have been an ordinary man. He shares the same dream as the rest of us—to live a happy life with the one he loves. But there's a problem: he doesn't know how to love. Actually, that's not the only problem: he can travel in time, and this doesn't make his life any easier. In fact, it complicates it immensely, making him sink in a series of terrible mistakes and preventing him from escaping the vicious cycle. But even that's not the end of his troubles, as his best friend is an unstable psychopath with gangster tendencies who's living off him. Because of him, the hero finds himself in one terrible situation after another... This "friend" will never let him go. But this time, the hero intends to break their bond once and for all.
In this Bashkort village, the highlight of the week is the film screening at the local cultural center. The main character is a devoted fan of Indian cinema — but getting into a screening of his favorite film proves far more difficult than he ever expected.
The film "Nomads" tells us about Azerbaijan herdsmen, who overtake a flock of sheep from one place to another, during six days. The road is wearisome and dangerous. The people and animals get very tired, and some of them can’t stand it and die.
Can one escape from family to get into a mental hospital? An overdose of drugs – and you are “free”. Now Dasha lies on a hospital bed, paints and smokes. She smokes. And smokes. And smokes... A closed space of the mental hospital is more and more hard to endure. How much is she going to stay in this box? A day of discharge comes. She is going to return back home.
Academic work of 4th year of training at Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)
Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see the familiar city in this film, it’s a reflection, partly mokeymentari about emigration, - abroad, inside the country or, in the end, deep into yourself. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small city, from which both left - he is in St. Petersburg, she is in Paris. They are surrounded by many people, each with their own reasons and ways to live in this touching and almost mystical place with an underground podcast, doppelgangers, a gang on scooters ... The geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the imagined are blurred while the characters look for the answer to the question “why leave? or why stay, ”if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.
A comedy documentary about the life of one small man in one small room.
Nestled in the hills of Transcaucasia, and entirely preserved in time, there are several villages founded by the Molokans – a Russian sect of Christians. They were exiled to the mountain Azerbaijani region of Kabristan by Czar Nicholas I in the 1830s. The Molokans now have all but become extinct. The remaining settlers now lack a succeeding generation to whom they could pass on their original traditions, and the film intends to make it possible for the local Molokans to reproduce their history for their descendants sprawled across the world. The film discovers the traces of hidden life left in Kabristan, while simultaneously unveiling the present-day lives of the locals.
Live performance for Garsington Opera, June-July, 2016.
Apatity, a far-north industrial town in Russia, first came into being as a USSR concentration camp. Although its environment is at the brink of ecological disaster, the people here still believe in the state’s promise of immortality that can be gained through sacrificial service to the fatherland. This is how the elite in a totalitarian state buy a person’s will, strength, talent and, indeed, life, turning the human being into another resource that is as faceless as a grey lump of ore. ‘I cannot fight big corporations or state structures with a film. But I hope that there is someone in the darkness of the cinema whose heart will get a bit warmer after seeing it,’ says the director. The larger part of the film was shot during the polar night.
Unfortunately, we begin to understand our parents too late.
Two young couples are camping at the river side and horrible and mystical things are about to happen after one of the women drowns.
Nadia lives in a city by the sea. She is a wonderful cook who has found herself in her profession, but not in her personal life. One day, a friend decides to introduce Nadia to her social media pen pal, Konstantin, a wealthy Greek yacht owner. However, she does not specify that Konstantinas needs a cook. Nadia gets a job as a cook instead of a sick neighbor on a ship bound for Greece. The special services send their agent to the same ship, because there is a suspicion that someone from the team is transporting diamonds...
About the life of a tiny village on the riverbank and about a black cat. Divide the world into parts to understand, bring it closer to your eyes, look at the light, move your brain, then put it back together... but it doesn't add up. There seems to be no magic, but it turns out to be a fabulous story, a fairy tale…
The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.
A comfortable life, a successful jade business—all this until the protagonist finds himself in a situation that plunges him and his entire family into tragic circumstances. A man who seemingly can buy anything, including power, finds himself powerless against a series of random events. Having lost a loved one, he decides to take a desperate step.
The cartoon tells a short segment of the famous musician's life when he was on the island of Mallorca in the company of the famous French writer George Sand.
We all heard scary stories as children, but could you ever imagine that they might actually be true? Is that old, abandoned house really so lonely and soulless? What might be lurking in your basement, waiting for its moment to come?
A young woman lavishes the last care on her mother's lifeless body. At his side, a woman watch, a babouhcka , as they say among the Russians. The young groped, the day before with a sure hand, wash this body, prepare it. They accompany him, rock him and console him by the last goodbye.
