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Three homeless people hide from the winter cold in a plywood hut near Paveletsky railway station in Moscow. One day it occurs to them to build a real house. Maybe it will change something in their lives?

A reserved and kind girl, Lilia loved to look in mirrors, and in a dream, freed from self-observation, she communicated with an old oak tree. Everything was fine until a man appeared in the usual sequence of Lily's reflections. Feeling unhappy after having an affair with him, she found solace in an oak tree from her own dreams.

The film is dedicated to the memory of a bright and highly gifted man - documentary filmmaker, cameraman and photographer Sergei Skvortsov, who tragically died in August 2000. The material for the film was photographs of Sergei Skvortsov and his lifetime interviews...

The story of an honest miner who confesses to cheating on his wife, after which he remains perfectly clean working in the mine. Because of this, his whole life goes downhill.

A young man joins a heist group that has previously robbed him.

In an exclusive interview, Russia's president Vladimir Putin discusses the biggest decisions he's faced as leader and where the country is headed.

Journalist Andrey Loshak went to the Velikoretsky procession, one of the main solemn church processions in Russia. Together with the pilgrims, he traveled almost 150 kilometers along the Velikaya River (Kirov region).

In the land where, after the closure of the state farms, arable land has already become overgrown with birch forests, the farmer Valery Kravtsov is developing his small farm. Struggles for the harvest with bad weather, weeds and out-of-order technology. He gets up at 4 am to be at his "hacienda" at 5 already. He brings up his son, hoping that he will leave the farm for him. And gives the inhabitants of the deserted villages work and hope.

The film is a declaration of love to the famous conductor Vladimir Minin, who revived in our country the tradition of choral performance of sacred music, largely lost after the revolution.

Anton, a young Ukrainian man, walks through Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He arrives outside Brooklyn Banya, a bathhouse, matching it to the image on a postcard he has been carrying. He asks her if she has seen his father, Andrei. She invites him to pay the entrance fee to look for himself.

Felix Mikhailovich Bylitsky tuned a great many pianos, lived with his beloved wife for half a century, raised his son, saw his grandchildren, suffered two heart attacks and at the age of seventy-seven decided to leave ... for another one.

On June 12, Russia Day, opposition leader Alexei Navalny moved the protest from Sakharov Avenue to the very center of the city, on Tverskaya Street, where the reenactors ' festival was held that day. People in armor mingled with the streams of protesters, with the police in full combat gear... The result - tough detentions, a stampede and flags from the window of the paddy wagon.

One day, Valera wanted to do a good deed, to save the endangered animals. But what should we do if the one we want to help is five times bigger than you and ideally you would hold in your stomach?

To a person who does not experience vision problems, it may seem that fine art does not exist in the world of the blind. They don't have it, so they don't need it. “Imagine” is a film-journey to the border area. Blinded due to an illness, an art critic, a fan of painting who lost her sight after the birth of children, an artist who has been blind since childhood. The heroes of the film are people who are in love with art, looking for an opportunity to reconnect with visual culture, cut off by circumstances. What do those who seem to see nothing actually see? What do those who have recently become blind remember? And how do those who live in darkness imagine the world?

Simple story about two Belarusian young people in love.

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

Lydia Nikitina has achieved everything in life by herself. She brought up her daughter alone, and raised her business from scratch. Now she owns a small chain of confectionery shops. Lydia is certainly being courted by men, but she does not see anyone among them, with whom she could tie her life. She devotes herself to her daughter Tanya. But lately Tanya quarrels with her mother more and more often because of her husband Artem, whom Lida considers a slacker and a slacker. He also hopes to open his own business, though not without the financial help of his mother-in-law. Suddenly, Lida's examination reveals a serious illness....

The documentary biopic gives an insight into the life and music of Anatoliy Krupnov, one of the brightest rock stars of the late- and post-Soviet era. This is the story of the talented musician who created the cult rock group Cherny Obelisk (The Black Obelisk), the portrait of an artist and at the same time an accurate depiction of the era and its generation, the music and the ideas that guided minds and rock music at the turn of the century.

The story of the wanderer fascinated by the beauty of the native nature. The Old Believer and descendant of the famous tiger hunters Seletkovs, a hunter himself, he travels from the Yenisei to the Far East to visit his mother’s grave in the remote village at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. He will also get a chance to see his brothers, one of who has recently returned home with his family from Bolivia where he lived throughout life.

This story, told on behalf of Katya Nikitina, is about how in Yekaterinburg in 2012 the authorities once again tried to close the City Without Drugs Foundation, and several criminal cases were initiated against its creator Yevgeny Roizman and like-minded people. At that time, there were about forty drug-addicted girls in the Foundation, among whom was Katya. Eight of them are still alive...

Psychedelic Sci-Fi about mind travel.

Microseries about the creation of The Soldier, a play by leading Belarusian dramatist Pavel Pryazhko. Pavel Pryazhko is best known for his experiments with theatrical scripts. His most recent endeavour is The Soldier (2011), which consists of just two sentences. Theatre director and Golden Mask national theatre award laureate Dmitry Volkostrelov decides to stage The Soldier at Teatr.doc. Before the performance he travels to Minsk to visit the author, and then rehearses with the actor Pavel Chinaryov, hoping to discover an adequate means of engaging with the text.

Artem is a timid and lonely young man. Every evening he goes to a shop near his house, buys groceries that are on special offer, collects stickers and dreams of winning a trip to France. One day he notices a new cashier — Evgenia, a beautiful young girl with a peculiar sense of humour. Despite the complexity of their characters, Artem and Evgenia find a common language and get closer.

Guarded and aloof cancer survivor is trying to return to the normal life and forget the horrors of the defeated disease that are still haunting her. She finds a new job but it seems that she has nothing in common with other people. Socially withdrawing herself, she is stuck inside her own world filled with despair and flashbacks.

Shakespeare street is a small back street in Nizhny Novgorod. It was built a century ago for the workers of the leather factory "Kozhevnik". Once a leading factory, "Kozhevnik" is no longer working now, and the inhabitants of the street struggle to find their way in the "brave new world'

The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture.

Happiness is sometimes as shaky as sand, and human cruelty knows no bounds. She is a happy bride, he is a loving groom. Friends are looking forward to the wedding. But some people do not agree with this arrangement and intend to thwart their plans at any cost. But what will that price be?

The film unfolds during 30-40-s of last century and follows a story of a pair of women's shoes, from a store's window to the common grave at the Auschwitz concentration camp. There are no dialogues in the film and no faces are shown.

The Yakimanka Center for Contemporary Art is one of the most important institutions of contemporary art in the 90s in Moscow. It was here that the first open platform for all forms of self-expression was created. New artists, gallery owners and curators appeared here, the main events of the artistic life of the last decade of the twentieth century took place.

A story of a young fencer on his way to manhood, wrestling with fears and a feeling of guilt, after the loss of an important adult.

The sincere wish of a teenager, with the help of a best friend, to wish mom happy birthday live, turns into an irreparable human tragedy and changes the fate of children.

The final match of a commercial tournament in classical chess should hold no surprises: the long-term champion annually breaks the bank, easily beating all opponents. However, this year one opponent has prepared an unusual strategy. When posing for the photographers and shaking hands with the intelligent and constrained Champion, the Opponent quietly tells him that he spent the night with the Champion’s wife.

Bizarre monologues of Petr Mamonov on ego-centrism and adventures of his past.

This is a story about the Russian Munchausen, who builds a windmill in his yard and raises beehives with bees on the roof, because in nature bees live in hollows of trees. The wife then argues, then agrees, is engaged in children and economy and assures that he lives in paradise. And sometimes she plays the piano - with her eyes closed. The village around is empty - almost all residents have moved to cities or died - our heroes live like on an island. And the children clean the sewers, learn English and German and are growing up before our eyes ...

A young doctor saves the life of a passer-by, but instead of gratitude, he writes a statement to the police against him.

The film begins in the "monkey" district police Department of Moscow, where the detainee is delivered type of 60 years in a Bathrobe and Slippers. This homeless-looking character claims that he is Maxim Averin, who starred in the series "Glukhar" in the role of Sergei Glukharev. Who is this old man, and will the police find the real Maxim Averin? How and why are Denis Rozhkov, aka Antoshin, and Alexander Bobrov, aka Agapov, on the stage?

Academic work of 4th courses of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).

Newsreels were one of the most powerful tools of Soviet propaganda. They also make up a significant part of the state film archives. In the newsreels, the recent past presents itself as a monolith of silent images, firmly stitched together by the narrator's voice and soundtrack subtly playing the viewer's feelings. It is exactly this original sound that the artist suggests to detach from. Just two or three minutes long episodes retain the original montage, which was meant to follow the upbeat narration. Flickering images of the past, which perhaps can only become enchanting to us today by revealing their muteness.

A gray modeling clay is found in a bright white room. It leaves traces, but strives to keep the room in its original state, as long as the boundary of its space will not change one day.

A film adaptation of Viktor Pelevin’s story of the same name. A story about love, time, wandering and the search for oneself…

A famous tragicomedy "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett was premiered on the 3rd of February 2018 at the New Stage of the Vakhtangov Theatre. The play is staged by Vladimir Beldian, a graduate of Workshop of Rimas Tuminas.

In a forest hut twenty versts away from the village lives a fascinating old man. He has rejected civilisation, but has the knowledge to benefit humanity. He is Diogenes, Munchausen and Tesla in one. Philosopher and inventor or just a madman?

Vania, his mother and sister move into an old flat, which they receive as a part of their heritage. Old books, a dead tree, and a cracked ceiling. Surrounded by the atmosphere, of the dilapidated apartment, home alone, Vania will meet his Grandfather, he never knew.

A very busy Moscow day can drive anyone crazy...

Poetic essay on contemporary economic and spiritual problems in Russia.

The film is a cinematic interpretation of the travel book “Armenia” by Russian poet Andrei Bely.

The film depicts a daily life of contemporary Mongolia in the period of social and political changes. Through the observation of several characters and circumstances of their lives, the film is trying to reveal the moment, where the old and the new world meet each other. The moment in which the centuries-old tradition of great Mongolia is shifted by the shaky culture of today, with its dreams, fears and desires, alien to the nomadic civilization.

The film is about the life, hobbies and adventures of three little cats in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Based on drawings by Daria Bulycheva.

The film is dedicated to memory, historical, national, individual. Two protagonists, an experienced man and a young teenager with a mustache. One of them heads a private museum dedicated to the expedition to find the site of the Battle of the Ice, the second is carried away by boyish joys. But behind the routine of daily affairs, both are constantly looking for an answer to the questions, who am I, who are my ancestors, what is the history of my people?