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Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

The phrase "Children's hospice" causes many to be taken aback. People try to isolate themselves from extraneous problems, to close themselves off from someone else's grief. One day, fate brought Olga, a successful actress in the past, a mother with many children and a happy wife, to one of these hospices. What could have prompted her to give up her career and start giving all her warmth to other people's children? What inner spiritual motives make people become volunteers and is it so easy to take on someone else's pain?

The governor and his retinue, by ridiculous chance, fly into space on an uncontrolled spacecraft. From this moment begins their amazing journey to another "charming planet." There they meet people who live in harmony with nature. It would seem, live and rejoice. But the governor thinks only about how to take this “planet” into his hands, and he has a plan to seize power ...

People relate to village life; but some cannot tolerate it. Others do not even represent a different way of life.

Alexandra meets her birthday with her family. Today, only the closest people are around. Why is it usually the most difficult with them?

Almost immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the era of "market relations"begins. Capitalism is re-emerging in the country. It is time for redistribution of property and spheres of influence between criminal groups. War breaks out between gangs, in the ranks of which are often former athletes. Especially appreciated are those who have the skills of martial arts. At this time, a group of children who profess a rare kind of hand-to-hand fighting, called "Russian style", comes to one provincial city. Their appearance greatly alarmed the leaders of the two rival gangs controlling the city. They are trying to get these valuable fighters into their ranks. In the course of going any means, and the guys are forced to defend themselves.

The film "Christmas Stories" consists of two short stories, the action of which takes place in Russia at the end of the XIX century on the eve of Christmas. In the first story, a boy, Kolya, wants to see a star of Bethlehem, for which he goes out onto a balcony on a frosty night and gets very sick. The second story tells about a girl, Zhenya, who wants to sell her favorite doll to buy medicine for her sick mother.

New cartoon by Natalia Fedchenko (Baltic Television).

Experimental film. Reflections on the Russian film industry.

One of the most popular TV shows ""Heads and Tails"" is on the verge of closure. Many presenters, directors, cameramen have left the project, and those who remain are not in the best shape. The atmosphere in the team has long lost its creative fuse, everyone is dissatisfied with something, and even the family, once ideal, couple of presenters remaining on the project demonstrates a discord in the family. In order to avoid collapse, the producer of the program will have to take a desperate step: Arrange the filming of the program in one of the most closed countries in the world.

Three old Russian immigrants with criminal past try to convince young talented programmer to hack into bank of Miami.

The story is about two aliens who came to Earth in search of their friend William, locked in the lantern of a security guard of a local recreation center.

A funny and sad story about a pack of stray dogs. Based on Sergiyenko's novella "Goodbye, Ravine".

A young father preparing for a rally is distracted by a swaying tooth by his six-year-old son. While the father persuades his son to pull out the tooth, a capture group rises to the apartment.

Crimea, 1787. Despite the Manifesto of the Russian Empress Catherine and the Kuchuk-Kainardzhi peace treaty, which forever united Crimea with Russia, Europe continues to weave intrigues, trying to break this sacred union. In the undercover struggle, all methods were used - from shameless gossip, dark rumors and false articles in newspapers to dirty manipulations with the illegitimate son of the empress sent to Europe for training - Alexei Bobrinsky, a passionate gambler and brawler. This weakness was cleverly exploited by international intriguers. Catherine instructs her faithful friends, the midshipmen, to cut the knot of the conspiracy ... Together with the fathers, their grown-up children, Shurka and Alexandra, go into battle.

After perestroika in the Soviet Union there is a total collapse of the Soviet system, which leads to chaos in the country. The protagonist of the film, a foreign student, after graduation does not want to return to his country because of the military coup that took place there. But the Soviet government gave clear deadlines for him to leave the country.

Karlygash (translated from Kazakh as "swallow") lives with her husband Ilyas and father-in-law on a horse farm, lost in the Kazakh steppe. Karlygash is a stranger to everyone here, and Ilyas has not yet forgotten about his first love for a girl named Aina. Everything changes with the arrival of a foreigner in their village - Frenchman Louis, a photographer who went on a trip after breaking up with his wife.

Maxim is cornered: absolutely uninvited guests come to him and ring the doorbell. A man tries to get out of delicate situations in his own manner.

The concert program and the program "In Search of My Audience" for 2019-2020. It was a program in which Ilya Sobolev traveled to more than 50 cities and shot a concert in Perm. Various topics, from the president to the genitals, but the improvisation that is present at all Ilya’s speeches remains unchanged.

The only friend of the stern, war-scarred in Afghanistan security guard Sergei, who has lost the meaning of life after losing his family, is his dog Naida. But soon he will face a difficult choice.

A story of a schoolgirl Alina who is lost in time while looking for her brother.

The plot of this documentary is dedicated to the tragic fate of Joseph Stalin's grandchildren.

In the music world the outstanding pianist Alexander Toradze (1952–2022) is also known as Lexo, as he was often called by his relatives, friends, and colleagues. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1977. In the 1980’s, he emigrated to the USA, taught at Indiana University, and later launched his own piano studio. Toradze was a brilliant interpreter of the works of Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Scryabin, and Stravinsky. The recordings of Prokofiev’s concertos performed by Alexander Toradze with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev are considered a gold standard. The pianist also appeared frequently with leading orchestras of Europe and the USA.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

The girl Masha lives in modern Moscow. One day she went on vacation to the village to her grandmother. When she went to the forest to pick mushrooms with her friends, she got lost and got into a fairy tale. Masha finds a house where three bears live, and their neighbors live next to the house - an unknown animal, a cat, a fox, a chicken and a parrot. She enters the house, tastes the honey. When she wants to sleep, she hears the music of the fox and looks out the window. At this time, the owners come to the house - the bear Mikhail Ivanovich, the bear Nastasya Petrovna and the bear cub Mishutka, and Masha is hiding...

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

Mom and dad leave their 4-year-old son Shurik at his strange grandmother’s place.

Seven-year-old Lisa learns that the toy people that inhabit the mock-up museum depicting Russia are alive. But today this model will be destroyed. A little girl and little people have one New Year's Eve to become big and save their little Russia.

This new year, the beloved characters of Yolki continue to do silly things and hope for a miracle. Borya must somehow restore his family happiness, and to do so, he is prepared to steal a penguin from his best friend Zhenya.

A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.

A young woman, long and hopelessly in love, comes to the object of her love in prison for a long visit in order to fall out of love with him.

Documentary montage film by Alexander Vartanov, a subjective look at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia

Every evening a deep-rooted cynic Andrey wears a smoking and shouts "Bravo!" at the theater performances. He gets paid for getting audience emotional. Andrey is absolutely sure that all people lie until he meets the sincerest girl among the audience.

Silent film from 1915 which draws on the story of Carmen

The Zharkov family-father, mother and two young sons-belong to the Dolgan community, one of the last indigenous peoples pursuing their traditional nomadic life in the extreme north of Siberia. The children used to be sent to boarding school, where they became estranged from their family and culture, but nowadays they can get homeschooling from teachers assigned to them by the Russian authorities. Seven-year-old Zakhar and his older brother Prokopy are the protagonists in this calm, observational film. Zakhar's first year of schooling is with Nelly, a young but serious teacher. She tells him about President Putin and the importance of mathematics, and he learns classical poems by heart.

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

Lives of several families dramatically cross in a small suburban town.

A quiet provincial town, where cops and bandits coexist peacefully, is shocked by the unexpected incident. On the highway, an unknown Mercedes was shot by an unknown gangster named Old Man. The old man carried with him a whole suitcase of money. Money has disappeared. Everyone suspects everyone, but the main suspicion falls on a woman doctor named Marina, who nobly picked up the wounded Old Man on the road.

After the start of the Special Military Operation, Steven Seagal personally communicated with the victims of Ukrainian nationalists and saw with his own eyes what was happening in Donbass. He became one of the few who met with captured nationalists from the «AZOV» battalion and visited the sites of their crimes against civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk. His visit to Donbass attracted the attention of the world community and the media. Unique footage and eyewitness accounts are in the documentary film «In the Name of Justice».

The unlucky Muscovite Snezhana comes to the village to bury her stepfather and to inherit his house. There’s not enough money for the funeral and she decides to sell the cow.

The 20th Century begins. Carefree people roam from one attraction to another, laughing, renting boats and carriages, betting, smoking, playing with sand, changing clothes, flirting. As they circle around seashores, parks and streets, they look for more diversions. They are seeking for the ways to distract themselves from the fact that the war is about to start, that the summer is coming to an end, that they are long dead.

Every escape starts somewhere. Sasha's starts with a rubbish bin. Fleeing her husband's abuse, Sasha sets off for the very edge of the country — to Teriberka. The long road teaches her absurd but necessary lessons: how to 'rescue' the non-suicidal, how to coax stubborn cars, how to flee 'antelope hunters', and above all — how to find and accept help in the most unexpected places. But the longed-for sea reminds her: to build a new life, she must reclaim what matters most.

During his life, Franz Kafka was a modest closed clerk, literature was his secret passion. By his own admission, he felt Flaubert, Dostoevsky and Gogol as his "blood brothers", but he bequeathed to burn his manuscripts. However, friends violated the last will of the author. Kafka's works, filled with bizarre images and paradoxical plots, were published posthumously and brought him worldwide fame. Today, Kafka is perceived as a brilliant prophet of the madness of the 20th century, and his name has become synonymous with a special type of absurdity.

The film tells about children, young people who are faced with a deadly disease - oncology.

Maks arrives at his hometown following his father's request. He meets Lena at the club and have sex with her. The next morning Maks finds out that his father asked him to come because of his wedding with Lena...

Tatiana and her daughter Valentina live in the boring, provincial town of Zhigulyovsk 1000 kilometres south-east of Moscow. Valentina, 22, works in a vodka factory, while Tatiana, 50, is a bus conductor. Valentina, whose dream is to be a TV star in Moscow, has to overcome her own limitations as well as the irony and malice of her comrades at the vodka factory. Tatiana has to adapt her expectations to reality when her potential life partner turns out to be a part-time drunkard and a deadbeat. And on top of all this, both women have to think about Valentina’s son Danilo’s future. One of them has to give up the dream.

EWA is a teenage girl who is suffering from a condition of a constant nose bleed while exploring different aspects of her life and the people around her.

In Moscow, in a modest apartment, live Boris, Sonya, and their son Denis. Denis is eighteen, but he still hasn’t gotten serious about life—he spends his days strumming his guitar and writing songs. Sonya teaches Russian language and literature at school, runs a theater club, and even tutors on the side. Meanwhile, in the town of Vyazov lives the family of Gleb Dorokhov. Gleb is married to Sonya’s sister, Raisa. Our story begins when Marina arrives in Moscow, while Denis goes to Vyazov. There are many reasons for this: Marina needs to enter university and study, while Denis badly needs to get on the right track—Sonya hopes that Gleb will give him some real work. Everything would seem fine, but the audience already knows there is a secret that has bound these two families together for many years…

In childhood, everyone wants - “when they grow up” - to become stars or world champions, generals or models, rich bums or simple astronauts. No one dreams of a career as a vacuum cleaner or scavenger. But fate has its own plans. Two childhood friends meet at the bottom of their lives. One is a loser actor who sniffs Chinese frying pans for grandmothers. The second is a gopnik from the district, has not dried up since the days of vocational school. And suddenly they have a chance to break out of the quagmire and make their dreams come true! To do this, you just need to steal a Faberge egg from the local museum of local lore. The customer of the daring robbery is a descendant of that same Faberge, and he has his own dream: to return the relic to the family. And everything could have gone well, only one of the friends falls in love with the wife of the other.

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

Young ant is coming back home after a hard-working day and performing his evening routine rituals. Suddenly, someone wants to disturb him.

Anya and Oleg are preparing for the wedding. But Anya has a little secret - she didn't tell her parents anything. Anya is afraid that her mother will not approve of her choice. And, indeed, she has completely different plans - her mother wants to marry her daughter to her neighbor in the dacha. As a result, Anya ends up on her honeymoon not in Thailand, but with her grandmother in the village with two suitors.

In the heart of Russia, the city of Magnitogorsk is home to the Kombinat, one of the largest iron and steel factory in the country. Here, Gabriel Tejedor films the day-to-day lives of Lena, Sasha, Guenia and their families, while this new generation of young parents wonder about their living and working conditions, which seem pre-determined by the Kombinat and its State capitalism.

Businessman Staskin need to provide to himself an alibi which should be a bride - and at any cost.