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In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the “Serebrennikov case”, “the Seventh Studio case” or “The Platform case”. Six people, among whom is a world-famous director, are accused of having stolen more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances from the state. And for this they can go to jail for 10 years. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out the essence of this matter. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. Studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever succeeded. They understood why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, went to all court sessions.

"Trip to Paris" is a story of complex relations between young prisoners of Kolpino Penal colony and the administration and the guard, based on a true story, shot with the strong documental influence. This is a story about a teenage boy, who’s about to go for parole and leave the colony. He wants to get back to his normal life and family. But no one is waiting for him and no one is coming for him. Administration, inmates and workers know about it. But Max believes that his mother will wait for him at the gates of the prison. This story is about growing old, accepting unpleasant truth, about help, understanding and faith.

The son-in-law with the mother-in-law, teachers from the border town, go to Finland to buy a sofa. On the way back, the son-in-law is waiting for difficulties that he had no idea about.

On April 23, after 11 days of mass protests, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. About how the opposition led by Nikol Pashinyan won - the film “Last Day”.

Pavel Vladimirovich Savin (nickname Sova — the Owl) has long wanted to leave his business. To this end he advances Denis for the post of city head. Things are going smoothly, but suddenly Denis is kidnapped by his own employees. As he is taken away in an unknown direction, Denis tries to remember what it is that he has done to draw all these troubles upon himself.

Deep at night, a dedicated cyclist traverses the wintry forest. The challenge: make sure this new day gets off to a fresh and timely start.

Marina Kalashnikova meets a fool on the forest road who predicts her grief. After this meeting, the life of Marina turns upside down.

Writer and expatriate Marina receives an invitation to meet graduates. Resigned to the nostalgic impulse, she flies from Europe to Novustoinovsk - a district city in the middle of the country, which has long ceased to exist. There, in the provincial hinterland of the past, her memories and old friends live, all of them ephemeral as television programs from another life. This is a life story about fate of ordinary people, about quarrels, spiritual growth and decline, about hope and changeable memory.

Schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky, Vladivostok. Students Egor Chernyuk and Oleg Alexeev, Kaliningrad. Entrepreneur Viktor Barmin, Yekaterinburg. Activist Violetta Grudina, Murmansk. Minibus driver Vladimir Semenov, Astrakhan. What unites these people? All of them are activists of regional headquarters created for the campaign of Alexey Navalny, who announced his self-nomination for the post of President of the Russian Federation. And all of them are the heroes of the film "Electing Russia."

2003. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get to Germany.

Karina comes from Moscow to a small Tatar town to visit her parents. The father treats his daughter for her way of life. Karina's mom shares a secret with her, which becomes a serious opportunity to take revenge on her father for all the insults.

Billy, Rene, and Walt were born and raised as men, but they felt uncomfortable with their birth sex. After years of confusion, they each underwent surgery to change into what they thought were their true selves. However, sex change brought no relief to what they had believed was gender dysphoria. While Billy and Walt decided to go back to being men, Rene remained a transsexual woman. I Want My Sex Back tells their stories of change and disappointment.

Everybody sometimes lose their head — from love, or excessive alcohol consumption, or from a sense of their own grandeur. The film is about the day after a New Year’s office party at a small company that sells Chinese goods. For various reasons, all the characters have lost their head, or have never had a clear mind.

Uncle Sasha lives on an island in a “dead” village, surrounded by water. He dreams of the restoration of the monarchy and reviving the true wisdom of the Russian way of life, forgotten and trampled by modernisation and European influence. Every spring he builds a bridge, and every winter it is destroyed by ice. Uncle Sasha is now building his thirteenth bridge.

Moscow. The night on the Eve of 1947. The war veteran Victor is going to a girl that he loves. The day earlier he was unloading railroad cars to buy a nice present for Helya. Helya is from Poland, a student of the Moscow Conservatoire. Victor and Helya will see the New Year in at their friend’s. Only one night when all secrets are revealed, when the feelings are poured out, but circumstances dictate their own rules. Victor and Helya are made for each other, but they are facing a choice — of the country where to live, of love or career. All of us have to make a choice in our life. When the day breaks, the fate of the two heroes will be decided.

A fabulous story about good and evil, friendship and love, deceit and justice, based on the Crimean Tatar folk legend about Hıdır Dede - a wise old man who could come to any house under the guise of a stranger. The uniting of the hearts of two romantic heroes is hindered by an greedy tax collector who works lawlessness on ordinary people. Their little brother and sister go to the aid of the lovers, who manage to meet the wizard. He, with the help of a just ruler, punishes evil and rewards those who are kind, respectful to elders and pure in heart.

The story takes place in the not too distant future, when heart extraction is an everyday surgical operation.

The documentary focuses on the parents of the famous actor Alexandr Zbruev: Tatyana Alexandrovna and Viktor Alexeevich. The story of their meeting, their love and the tragic events of the year 1937 that destroyed their family, is told by their son, Alexandr Zbruev. A few months after the birth of Alexandr, Viktor Alexeevich Zbruev, was shot, and his mother, of noble ancestry, was sent into exile with her infant.

We met Nastya, the main character, in 2003, when she was serving her time in the correctional colony for under-age girls. Obviously, she felt guilty and had a dream about freedom. She believed in a chance of new happy life. Every girl in colony had the same feelings and was sure in those beliefs. Ten years have passed since then. Unfortunately, Nastya’s hopes were shattered. Life outside prison was even more difficult. The young girl has to deal with a huge count of troubles and tragedies by herself. Anyone could break down, but Nastya. She goes on finding inspiration and efforts to pursuit of happiness. Especially trying for the happiness of her small daughter. Nastya is an amazingly strong person. She ought to be happy.

The history of Levon and Armen, whose roads had diverged 16 years ago, but one casual encounter reveals the secrets of the past. Will they return the lost?

Once upon a time in Russia, communism fell and Rock 'n' Roll rose to power. One band reigned supreme and toured far and wide across the eastern earth, but never even left Russia - until now. They only have once chance, to not only rule Russia -but to become the best band in the West. The strategy is simple - get on the boat, create an album - and make new friends. All with hopes of finally becoming a household name in the United States. But sometimes fame is harder than just toppling a government.

What binds a person to a certain place on Earth? What lets him say, “I'm from here, and this is my land?” What’s setting the boundaries of our existence? The film immerses us in the daily life of a village near Moscow, where local old-timers live side by side with immigrants from Tajikistan. How do the fences arise, then are destroyed and arise once again between cultures and people?

The world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin dreams of flying to the moon. Just like the 12th American astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1968, the space race between the USSR and the United States reaches its climax, and it has to pay for it at the cost of human life.

Stolid Fisherman is going to fish in calm, but his fastened on him friend forces his company and accidently kills a mushroomer in a forest.

In the world, there is a city-port Odesa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of different nationalities and religions. Humor is a special language that helps people from Odesa to communicate and get along with each other. Legends are spreading about Odesa's humor and accent. But - a paradox - people are constantly leaving it. It is loved, but it is left as a child leaves his mother. On the example of this city and its inhabitants, we wanted to understand - why people flee from their cities. We tried to find the answer taking pictures of Odesa citizens in Germany, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, France and other places. Michael Zhvanetskij, Roman Kartsev, Leonid Barats and Rostislav Khait Victor Loshak,  Oksana Fandera, Valerij Todotovskij, Mikhail and Anatoly Kontush and many others are telling their stories and giving their opinions on what is the phenomenon of the city by the Black Sea.

By the age of 32, the most in-demand actor of our time has dozens of roles in cinema and theater, the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, national theater and film awards. He is, of course, the hero of his generation, whose childhood was marked by drastic changes in the history of the country, and growing up and starting a career – during the formation and development of a new Russia.

They met in Crimea as enemies: the slaughterman Fedor, disappointed in life, and Katya, a former prisoner, deprived of maternity rights, who became a foreigner in her homeland. Sometimes grief unites.

The annoying routine of reality may disappear if we stop and listen to the world. Sometimes we are not able to understand it ourselves, someone has to tell us.

People came to the rally. Why are they here, what do they want to change and why do they leave so early? In a role of themselves - young and elderly citizens of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

After visiting a doctor young woman finds out there is not much time left.

Experimental film about Mayakovsky without Mayakovsky.

The heroine's son is admitted to the hospital in critical condition. A mother in distraught, pleads to the doctors to save her child, but is met with harsh reality of medical incompetence.

Sanyok, an orphanage pupil, decides to find parents for himself and his ward Alesya. The boy is forced to play by adult laws, which puts him before a serious moral choice.

In Nikolskoye village of Ruzsky district, farmers decided to restore the production of the first natural cheese of the Russian Empire. The tradition of making baked cheese dates back to 1795. The first cheese, named "Meschersky", was made in the home of Prince Meschersky in his estate of Lotochino. The sign of the village of Lotochina represents until now a merchant with a cheese wheel on a board. The prince had then brought from Switzerland a cheese maker named Johan Müller who developed a cheese recipe, founded a cheese-making school and settled in Russia with his family. Today, we managed to find his descendants; they live and work in the Alps. And make cheese. Very similar to the famous "Meschersky".

It's 1951. Klava Grachyova comes to take her husband home from a penal colony where he spent the last 9 years. He is not eager to come back home. Klava has only 3 days to sort everything out and take her husband back.

Partos Alekseevich Paramonov (Paramosha) worked in the circus as a clown. His wife died and he began to drink too much. Paramoshi left a porcelain figurine on a golden pedestal from a past life. Once there was a phone call and a woman's voice, invited the old man to speak at the bottom of the city. Paramosha went to a stop and waited a long time for the coveted black Mercedes from the city hall, but the call was just an insidious ploy of friends who wanted to lure Paramosha out of the apartment and take possession of the figurine.

The documentary looks into the fate of the girls trapped in sexual slavery. The film unfolds in India, a country that occupies an unhappy first place among countries with the highest volumes of human trafficking. Several prostitutes who became heroines of this film are living in the Red Light district of Mumbai – some time ago they were sold to this district by their own parents. The other plot line of the documentary is the story of a little girl living in one of Northern India’s poorest villages. In a couple of years she too can follow the Mumbai ladies’ path.

A committed synchronized swimmer tries to win the championship and the heart of the coach.

A film about memory and love. Fisherman Sergey escapes from his humdrum existence on the empty shores of Lake Onega – where he meets with the ghost of his beloved wife.

Two days before the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, a protest action "Down with the tsar" took place in Moscow. The organizer of the rally, Alexei Navalny, was detained, the demonstrators were attacked by Cossacks, they were beaten by the police.

Independent, successful, lonely woman, who's used to ruling men, suddenly stucks in the situation when she feels weak and powerless. She has to ask for a help and her saviour is a stranger skier. He agrees to help but only on one condition...

War leaves an indelible scary mark on people's lives, but at the same time there is an illusion, and maybe war is beautiful? The honored artist of Ukraine, Alexander Vasyakin, who had passed the blockade of Leningrad and the fronts of the Second World War, who lived a long creative life, talks on this topic. (Two monuments of work by A. Vasyakin were installed in Moscow: a monument to the Defenders of Moscow, and a sculpture of John Paul II).

The film tells about a unique creative and family duet, about two outstanding theater directors - Henriette Janowska and Kama Ginkas. For thirty years, they continue to build an amazing theater house - not only for themselves and their actors, but also for hundreds of viewers loyal to them. This house is called the Moscow Youth Theater. The film is a family portrait in the interior of the theater and in the "exterior" of time.

Ten women frankly tell that they had to go through lives. Trusting, they talk about love, passion, despair, sadness, hope. They open the most secret corners of the soul, trying to get rid of memories, phantoms, peering with a secret feeling at the interlocutor on the other side of the screen.

“When you raise a winner, you grow a warrior. In the warrior you need to kill love so that he can win. Mom raised a daughter, a good warrior, did not take into account only that the warrior does not care who to kill. ”

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.

“The Interview” tells the story of Sonya, who grew up with her mum. Sonya enrols in the faculty of journalism in Moscow. Once she decides to meet her father, whom never saw, and take an interview with him under the guise of a journalist so she would get answers to the questions that have long troubled her

Seven months of filming brown bear cubs life resulted in a movie that allows to plunge into the beauty of wild nature, and experience a boundary, beyond which a man should not interfere.

A musical fantasy about the awakening of nature from hibernation, about the release of a hero from his “little world” into a world full of beauty and adventure.

Young girl finds herself locked in empty apartment without food, water and any ways to contact the world outside. After useless attempts to get away she realises the one and only answer to her sufferings: long time ago in this very apartment the other person used to suffer as well. Because of her.

The Tsar's Bride - an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on the drama by Lev Mey. This is a play about love - passionate, hot, searing and even burning everything around him. About the Russian soul, in the depths of which will always be a place for cleanliness, poetry, sacrifice and charity. At the same time, it is a play about the terrible years in the history of Russia, when the government was in a complete chaos, and the man became a helpless toy in its hands.

The action in the film takes place in the Far East, on an uninhabited island called Rikord in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan. The lead character, called Fatei after his father, and his family have their own marine farm where they harvest delicacies from the sea. In amazing images of the underwater world and land-scapes of the Primorsky (Maritime) Territory of the Russian Far East, the film Fatei and the Sea tells the story of a little man whose life is inseparable from the big world around him.

Several independent observers capture silly and cute nonsense that is going on in homes of disabled voters and in polling stations during presidential election day on March 18, 2018 in Russia.