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Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The impetus to making the film was the book of the same name by the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov, who died 100 years ago. His treatise was devoted to the study of sexuality and its denial in Christianity. The film was made in the style of experimental films of the 1920s with a non-linear narration full of strange surrealistic images. He is black and white and devoid of dialogue. Filmed on film 16 mm of firm "Svema", released in the USSR. This added to his exoticism. The image was put to the music of Alexander Scriabin “The Poem of Ecstasy” (1907).

Our film portrays the precarious destiny of a former employee of the Soviet customs service. Sent into 'forced' immigration on an assignment in the 1980s, he is forgotten after the regime changes that take place in Russia in the early 1990s. Supported by neither Russian nor American governments, he is forced into a struggle against the international drug mafia. Alone, he will have to find a way out of a labyrinth of highly complex and unforeseen difficulties.

Ksenia Rappoport’s shrill monologue about the horror of a beautiful woman growing old, which turns into a lyrical and light story about love.

Coming back home Max is drawn into the kaleidoscope of events that leads him to the controversial solution.

From a casual conversation with a stranger, truck driver Nikolai learns about his wife's infidelity. On the way home, he picks up the beaten Ksenia, who cannot be left alone on the winter track. Nikolai and Ksyukha embark on a strange journey, and none of them suspects how it will end.

At the dawn of Soviet power, a young security officer was ordered to escort a strange creature to Moscow to investigate the causes of its appearance. This is how the long adventure of two completely different creatures begins, which eventually makes them best friends.

Maxim has a not very pleasant ability – he feels the pain of other people as his own. With this feature, Max grew up to be a withdrawn, lonely, shy guy. His only joy is the girl next door, Lena. Max has been in love with her for a long time, but still does not dare to come up and get acquainted.

A kind and charming story about a young Tibetan boy who was sent to a Buddhist monastery in South India and the transformations that happened to his way of thinking. His compassionate teacher draws him a map-quest that consists of eight puzzles. Once he has found the answers to all of them, the boy will be able to return home.

Two football soccer Mexican fans win a trip to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, during their journey they raffle different adventures that they draw, until a night of partying where they meet two very peculiar Finland girls who offside their lives for ever.

A movie about two girls. About their games and dreams.

Rita loves her husband Alexei, but he decides to leave her for another woman named Alena. When nothing works, Rita seeks help from a sorcerer and ends up waking in Alena's body.

A story from the life of things.

A fantasy film about the great actress of the national cinema Margarita Terekhova. The transience of human life is like a dream in which reality and art are intertwined, personal joys and dramas with the feelings and emotions of the characters played.

Lionella is a name no one would give to their child where Magomed comes from. The problem is, being a second-hand refrigerator vendor in a remote mountain village, he is of too little authority to his son who has moved away to the city, started a life too different from that of his parents, to the extend that even a name that he chooses for his newborn is unacceptable for the people of his native village.

How do you find love as an elderly Kyrgyz man? Through the internet! A humorous short film about expectations, dissappointmens and true love.

The story of growing up a girl named Eve, who lost her mother during a terrible tragedy in the Odessa house of trade unions on May 2, 2014...

A young girl comes from Almaty to Moscow to visit her best friend, with whom she is secretly in love. She wants to confess her feelings to him, but the events of one night completely change her attitude.

Karen Marshall’s body, mind, and heart do not belong to her alone. She shares them with Rosalee, a smart and perky teenager; Timee, a flamboyant, puerile youth, who wears women’s clothing; an old lady, a habitué of museums; and a dozen of others. Karen’s official diagnosis is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Through personal stories, “Busy Inside” delves deeply into DID — a condition that fascinates and puzzles modern psychiatry.

The film tells an amazing, full of adventure, story, which is stylized as a fantastic story written in the 19th century. So, for example, here a giant wave is quite capable of throwing a person from Earth to the Moon. And lunatics can live on the moon. And these lunatics, it turns out, are also preoccupied with the completely earthly problem of "fathers and children." Relying on adventure fiction as a plot-forming form, the filmmakers talk with the viewer about the problem of intergenerational relationships, try to discern the future generation of humanity and find an eternal link between generations that makes progress in terms of continuity possible. This binder is, of course, love ...

A man returns from his wife's funeral and from the balcony notices a young woman in the house opposite. Fascinated by this image, he begins to stare intently into her life — with routine, passions and the light that does not fade in the night. What does this observation become — an unhealthy obsession, an opportunity to open the soul to new perspectives, or just an escape from loneliness and a ghostly substitute for the meaning of life?

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.

A young woman from Russia travels to London to investigate the disappearance of her older sister, who vanished years ago.

Sardaana arrives at a village for work as a teacher. She meets a photographer Nyurgun, and he invites her to look at the museum full of spooky items. When Nyurgun is absent, Sardaana falls under the influence of the call of an ancient harp in a locked box. Not realizing what she's doing, Sardaana begins to play the harp. A vision comes to her, which she doesn't have time to realize.

Svetlana is a young teacher from the Russian countryside. By the will of fate, she finds herself in St. Petersburg, where she meets a successful oilman, Fedor, and marries him. But soon Svetlana realizes that she lives in a golden cage, and her husband is not at all what he seems. Everything changes when she meets Alexander, a young and honest emergency room doctor.…

A disturbing documentary about true murders and real death.

The Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev believes that Vladimir Putin is "a product of dark forces," so he went on foot to Moscow to "expel" him. The shaman began his journey alone, but soon his followers began to join him. In Chita, he gathered a large rally. Buryatia was the next region on the path of Gabyshev: mass protests began in Ulan-Ude because of the detention of his supporters. Gabyshev was going to go to Moscow for two years - so as not to rush to communicate along the way with the people. The shaman and his followers moved along the roads, overcame an average of 20 kilometers per day, stayed for the night in tents, sometimes in roadside hotels. Local residents and people passing by went to talk to him, take pictures, help with groceries and money.

Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia. It made him a local hero, while the annual Diaghilev Festival under his guidance became one of the country's biggest contemporary arts events. This story focuses on the last two weeks of Currentzis' tenure in Perm in an attempt to understand how modern Russia and its art come along.

A Monster suffers from boredom and loneliness, by chance he gets out of his cave and after walking through the maze arrives somewhere. There are only silly white bunnies. He is frustrated and comes back down. Finds another way, and sees some mad chickens with trunks.

The young businessman Ilya is trying to start the production of inexpensive, but high-quality coffins and establish a legal client-oriented approach in his small ritual company in the Kaluga region, despite the corruption and criminalization of this market sector.

On their day off, two friends set off into wild nature and collect a third man, but the latter has turned into a fish. The friends must decide what to do next.

Bathroom. A place where everyone is left alone with himself and can not be shy and not hide anything. What if one day in a family’s life is watched exclusively through a bathroom mirror? What do the seemingly closest people hide from each other?

Meek farmhand Sasha and policeman Dima have a fraught relationship. They’re brothers-in-law, travel companions, and⁠—secretly⁠—lovers. Over the course of their journey to visit Sasha’s grandmother, unspoken truths are uttered, intimacy is built, and authenticity is challenged. Although they may be far from the peering eyes of their oppressive society, their relationship teeters on a dangerous precipice.

In the film, we look into the future. How does scientific knowledge change our worldview, culture and environment? On the one hand, the development of technology expands our boundaries of freedom - we live longer, learned to establish communication with paralyzed people, etc. But the more scientists learn about the brain, the more questions arise. Back in the 1980s, Benjamin Libet conducted experiments that, according to many scientists, proved that man does not have free will. Neuroscientists say that our behavior and decisions depend only on the activity of neurons.

Three directors make a movie about the events of their past week. Relationships, work, and day-to-day personal struggle—the minute details still fresh on their minds—are shown with unseen crystal clarity that challenges the very notion of dramatic fiction.

With the participation of Fyodor Konyukhov. An extreme and beautiful route in the Russian Arctic. A path of ten thousand kilometers through the harsh lands of the North. For the first time in modern history, the legendary route of Semyon Dezhnev, the great Russian Explorer of Northern and Eastern Siberia of the 17th century, was explored and filmed in a unique visual diary of hard-to-reach places that nobody had seen before. The most picturesque and inaccessible places in Russia, from Arkhangelsk to Chukotka, are now closer thanks to the film.

“What is success? Does nature have this concept? A successful tree or a non-successful tree? It's just a tree. Successful bird or not? She's just a bird. So either about life, or about the profession, one of the most unusual actresses of our time, Rosa Khairullina, talks.

Nikita and Anna have been married for a long time. Nikita is a well-known detective writer, Anna is a business analyst. They are returning by train from the anniversary celebration of a distant relative. Anna is upset that she was unable to buy tickets for the SV, so they have to travel in a regular compartment car. But their long journey is brightened by their neighbors in the compartment—Alevtina and her little daughter Marusya, who are heading to Moscow. The charming Marusya eagerly chats with her fellow travelers. When they wake up in the morning, the couple goes to the restaurant for breakfast, and when they return, they find the child sleeping alone. The girl's mother has disappeared...

Ivory harvesting under the extreme conditions of the Russian Far North is slowly but surely turning into a sort of a «mammoth rush». However, as the demand grows, so does social tension in the area.

A cycle of mundane violence, lust for art, and existential dread—all chronicled in an unconventional self-titled docu-horror by Nikita Lavretski, who violently edits lo-fi footage of himself from age 0 to age 16.

Eight-year-old Lyosha hides from the older children in a derelict building, where he finds a toy lorry locked behind a grid. Lyosha decides to get it.

A 12-year-old girl, Tasia, from the village of Tomsino in the Pskov Region wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking her to help her mother, a nurse in a local hospital. The villagers didn’t like this, where Tasya and her mother had moved shortly before that - they say, you need to "work, not ask." Tasha began to be poisoned, and an ex-girlfriend met her online under the guise of a young man and lured naked photographs.

A film about the legend of Russian rock, the founder and the undisputed leader of the group "DDT" Yuri Shevchuk. Work on the picture was more than 11 years, the crew traveled with "DDT" dozens of cities in several rounds. Backstage concerts and work on albums, rehearsals and performances in front of many thousands of halls .... The result of working with dozens of hours of the archive from the life of a musician and a band, as well as long conversations between Yuri Shevchuk and the author of the film and his thoughts about the past, present and future of Russia and the world .

A stage production of Anton Chekhov's play at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

Short film created specifically for Auction 2019

New film by Anton Mamykin

Having decided to help a friend, the three friends set off to seek freedom and tranquility.

Dina, who alternately lives in India, Moscow and Odessa, travels to Naberezhnye Chelny, where she grew up, to visit relatives. And especially a distant relative - the girl Ramin.

Alexey lives with his younger sister. They have a big age difference, he helps her in everything, replacing both her father and mother. This is not enough for her. And when these boundaries are erased, losses are inevitable.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called 'Sorochinsky Fair' after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. This festival presents life in all its vividness, variety, and unpredictability, with the beauty contest as its central motif. The protagonists of Gogol's works are transported to the modern day in all their enchanting absurdity, and they fit in pretty well. It is a kaleidoscope of incidents and viewpoints, observed with engagement and curiosity.

This is a love story. In a place that is not intended for this at all. The events of the film unfold in the day stay group of people with disabilities. And only the inner beauty and strength of the heroes of the film turn it into a "Place of Love." This is a story about all of us, about the pursuit of happiness, inner beauty, sincerity - that there are no differences between all of us.

The stand-up concert, written and performed by Russian comedian Denis Chuzhoy. It is dedicated to those who begin adulthood and do not really understand what to do with it.. The special was recorded on April 5, 2019 at the Paramount Comedy Fest in Moscow.