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An accountant from the Ural city comes to St. Petersburg in search of acting happiness.

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...

A short film ad for Pedigree.

Nikolay Dupak. Legendary director of the drama and comedy theater of Taganka. The story of his life is also the history of the country. Son of kulak victim of repression, he found himself at the age of 15 on the professional scene. He learned from Yury Zavadsky and Vera Maretskaya, he shot in the movies of the legendary Alexandr Dovjenko. Then it was the war. He served in the cavalry. Was heavily injured several times. After the war, he continued to study, worked for 20 years at the famous Stanislavsky Theater and, finally, almost 30 years at the Taganka. The blame, the dismissal from work, the ups and downs, all this has spanned the life of Nikolay Dupak.

Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

Masha and Valya, vegetarians and abstainers, invite their former friends Natasha and Sergey over. Natasha and Sergey took a mortgage, they are planning a child. Natasha tries to persuade Masha to throw a wedding party, nevertheless she hints at Valya being no good for Masha. Masha in reply tells Natasha that her husband Sergey drinks vodka on the quite. Natasha makes a scene to Sergey. Masha tries to reconcile friends and convince them of their relationship being cracked. The guests are leaving. Valya blames Masha for climbing out of her business. Masha and Valya have a quarrel. Masha remains alone.

My neighbor is an ordinary person. But after all, if you observe a person long enough, he ceases to be simple, ordinary. I filmed this film from the window of my apartment for several years. Filmed a neighbor and his beloved old car, to which he is endlessly attached. And in the end, unexpectedly, a movie turned out not about a specific person, but about life in general.

"Oleg Ptitsyn Died", "Oleg Ptitsyn In Jail" - headlines in all the newspapers and magazines about the famous rock musician. Actually he is undergoing treatment in one of city hospitals. Kate, a teenage girl from the same hospital, which neglects all the doctors and even her own mother becomes his companion in misfortune. Oleg decides to help the girl to get well and love life.

Nika, walks in a dream. Moving to an apartment complex, she could not even imagine that in the same entrance, a guy with the same problem would live with her. Every night they wander together in their dreams, but they can not get to know each other in real life. On the way to their happiness there are many obstacles, but, as we know, love has no barriers.

The main characters of the film are Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi, participants in the most scandalous episode in the history of football. During extra time of the final match of the 2006 World Cup, pitting France against Italy, the French leader, superstar Zidane, for some unknown reason took a running start and head-butted Materazzi in the chest. Zidane was sent off the field and, as a result, the French lost the match on penalties. This head-butt and the unexpected loss were now bound together in the minds of sports fans forever. But the burning question - why did it happen? – has never been properly answered. After thoroughly studying the lives of the participants in this match, the filmmakers reveal an amazing story: The 2006 World Cup appears to us in the form of a play “directed by the Creator”.

A comedy about two grown up brothers who enjoy being single until dad threatens by sacking their inheritance if Arsen and Arman won't get married.

Vano is the son of a Georgian wine maker, but he lives in Moscow from early childhood, and therefore he has completely forgotten family traditions. When luck turns its back on him, and the bandits from the bank demand payment, Vano has to start making the wine in the bath of a rented apartment. Starting to press the grapes, he hears the voices of the ancestors and begins to relate to his work with all his heart. And the young wine begins to respond to him. Soon Vano realizes the wine is magical and it starts to affect his life.

The life of a single mother Alena subordinated to one goal - to find the money for heart surgery for his four daughters. Unfortunately, neither his father retired, nor beloved Dima can not help it. Alain decided to take a desperate step - to become a surrogate mother for his boss, Claudia Sergeyevna, who has long and unsuccessfully treated for infertility. Alain enters into a contract with Claudia. Learning of this, Dima broke with her. Soon Allen discovers that already pregnant from Dima. Desperate Claudia asks Allen to give her her baby ...

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.

The film tells about the life of a small community of Russian Molokans. Representatives of this small religious group are scattered all over the world, but for several centuries they have maintained their authenticity and strong connection with the homeland that once rejected them. Being under strong pressure for a long time, they were unable to maintain their beliefs and reverent attitude to the world, to the people around them. How and why they did it-these are the questions that we will have to find answers to.

The movie is about a children's perception of ordinary things. The boy from the house which placed at the periphery of a city, ensures stability and safety of the whole world every day.

“I wanted to record a special somewhere I'd never performed before - where the audience didn't know me, and I didn't know them.“ That was the official version of why we were filming in Vladivostok. The truth is, the special was actually filmed in Moscow at Vegas City Hall, but the footage turned out so bad we had to reshoot the whole thing.

They say whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But how to start everything over and don’t lose taste to life? New home, new friends, new job, new family, new values… This is life story of one refugee from Donetsk city who was forced to leave her new dream house on one day and escaped from the war with little child in her hands. How does this story differ from 1,5 million similar dramas of other refugees from eastern Ukraine? Maybe, these are amazing vitality, positive philosophy of being and irresistible optimism in spite of the circumstances...

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".

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film “I walk through Moscow”. At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiyev! Both of these films will be called the manifesto of the generation of the sixties, the symbols of the era called "thaw". All his life he had dreamed of “The Quay” ... This script was his favorite work. But “Berth” was never staged "..." "There is no choice in the USSR. Or you drink, or you freak out, or you are not printed. The fourth is not given.

Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 and was held by Vsevolod Gakkel, ex-cellist of "Аквариум". The concept was modelled on cult NY club CBGB-OMFUG. Despite its controversial history this is the place where a new generation of Russian punk music was discovered.

For Millions of years, our planet has been floating in space. Millions of creatures have lived on its surface. Many a quaint being was among them, but they affected only our, human imagination, for in the evolutionary struggle we are the only ones who have obtained the advantage of reason.

For several years, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich traveled around in Russia and Belarus to investigate the relationship to love of the Russian people. One, as Svetlana means, is an acute shortage in today's society.

The story of a hare who accidentally receives Santa Claus’s staff. Now he will teach his bullies a lesson: with this staff he can turn anyone into anything.

Near Moscow at the end of April they took the Reichstag by storm. More precisely, a copy of it - during the reconstruction of the battle in the Patriot Park... Hundreds of people - in uniform, with weapons and equipment from the Second World War - ran through mud and puddles to the Reichstag model built near the forest...

The film tells about a young man named Sergei, who lives an ordinary measured life. Suddenly, strange visions begin to visit him, the meaning of which he cannot understand. To his surprise, some of these visions soon begin to come true. Neither the young man, nor his relatives and friends are ready to accept what is beginning to happen around him. Soon Sergei will have to find out the essence of these phenomena, reconsider his views on the world around him and realize what is the true meaning of our unpredictable, mysterious, and sometimes frightening life ...

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

Old miner is trying to start a new life after the deathly accident in the mine.

A young man was born in a small Russian city, but now lives in the Caucasus, in a foreign culture. He works as a mountain guide and enjoys life, but remains a stranger among the people he lives with. He will have to leave his carelessness behind and grow up.

With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews.

Year 2017 would be the 100th Anniversary of the revolution in Russia. Film researches the reasons of the “Russian revolution”, First World War, external and internal conspiracies, which led to the collapse of the monarchy and traditional world order. Narration is build of quotes, memoirs and inferences of eyewitnesses. The facts are told based on the views of the authors of the film.

Life as run. I’ll give you a few minutes to stop and see. I’ll help you catch the moment. Carpe diem.

Young film director in the shooting period of his first feature film doesn’t even guess how much will cost realization of his artistic conception. Shooting of bedroom scene will be the real disaster for all the crew, takes all director’s nerves and almost destroy his private life.

Anna Grigoryevna, an ordinary Soviet woman, dreamed of a trip to Paris for thirty years. And in 1986, during perestroika, she finally finds herself in the city of her dreams. Her husband and son give her a camera, but because of an excess of emotions, she forgets all the instructions and brings the film, which, when developed, turned out to be a marriage. Recently, the adult son of Anna Grigoryevna found a film. And I decided that this is modern art! He walks around the studios, exhibition curators, they laugh at him, this story is incomprehensible to his mother, his girlfriend is not interested in it. And between these walks, a life passes in which each of these women claims her rights to him.

"I am very scared that there was an explosion in the metro, people were killed. I will not forget this day," says a children's note at the St. Petersburg metro station, lying among the flowers on an impromptu memorial.

The protagonist has been in existential agony for a long time. So without doing anything, in his opinion, worthwhile, he decides on the irreversible. Having allowed himself a statement, he makes a film about this - a metaphor for loneliness. A film in the film about six days of a person's life, parting with the latter, which can 'keep on the brink of the abyss' - the ontological concept of love.

A new film from the series "Stars of the Russian avant-garde" will tell about the difficult fate of the creation of Dziga Vertov's movie masterpiece "A Man with a movie camera". Vertov, the founder of the Kino-Eye or Kino-Oko group of fighters for pure documentary cinema, had to overcome seven obstacles in order to shoot and show this amazing film. For example, Lilya Brik, having decided to make her film debut, borrowed the idea of the film "A Man with a movie Camera" and launched a parallel project "Glass Eye". In the film you will see a newsreel with Dziga Vertov, the best shots from his paintings of Dziga Vertov, as well as excerpts of the film Lily Brick.

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.

A person runs away from pursuers, and he manages to escape. But that does not mean that he is now safe.

A fantasy in cartoon on the music of the Cumparsita de Gerardo Rodriguez matos (in an arrangement of A. Serebrennikov). The musicians begin to play the famous tango on whose music begin to dance the most unlikely characters.

The biggest worlds are built one brick at a time.

Shots of forgotten songs, rural and urban landscapes of the hinterland. Young people..

Short film by Dmitry Davydov

The film shows how three rock bands from Yekaterinburg, Russia and their young leaders are looking for their path in music and in life.

Can people worship the one who destroyed them? Imagine, for example, a thousand Jews praying at Hitler’s grave. Impossible? In modern Russia, nothing is impossible and we continue to pray to those who have destroyed us in the millions.

On Saturday morning, her mother comes to Nadya to take her with her to the cemetery. Nadia has her own plans, but her mother authoritatively pulls her out of the usual schedule. They need to visit the grave of Nadya’s father, whom his mother divorced long before his death. On the way, the mother swears and in every possible way manifests her irreconcilable nature. Nadia suffers, but on the way back, women quarrel violently. Mother slams the door in the middle of the road and leaves, and Nadia pierces the wheel and has to stop.

Full-length documentary about the singers of the Cossack song ensemble Krugolet who are the only stars of the Siberian town of Dalnerechensk situated on the extreme border of China

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'

In a snowed-under village lives the shepherd Ivan Sergeyevich. Every morning he cleans up the manure and feeds the cows. Day after day goes by in this way. One winter morning a stranger arrives in the village in an expensive car and offers Ivan Sergeyevich good work in the city. Ivan Sergeyevich agrees with pleasure. The stranger takes Ivan Sergeyevich away from the village to the city...

Carlos has been just born. He is the sweetest of the babies, but his grandmother is very sorry that he’s was born dark skin. Grandfather Sergey Mikhailovich wants to drink to the health of his grandson and celebrate this event, but grandmother doesn’t allows him to drink. Grandfather wants Carlos to know that he was born in the Great Russian Empire. This is Carlos’s first new year, and I made a movie so that he would remember it, and to talk about hilarious and painful things happening in my new family.

On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in the very center of the capital.. this film, shot spontaneously, sums up the results of 2017, informing and enclosing all the absurdity and absurdity of everything that is happening in our country.

Anti-utopia. The last survivor in search of food.

On June 12, Vladivostok schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky came to a rally organized by Alexei Navalny. There, police officers approached him and took him to the police station. After that, Semyon was сhastised at his school and was told that he was putting an end to his future.