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A short film based on the music album of Myron Fyodorov (Oxxxymiron). The plot is based on the story of a young and popular writer named Mark.

The second concert of Alexey Kvashonkin. Moscow, December 2019.

Ironic and philosophical film. Here everything is not as it really is. And this opens up a new essence of all things.

In the summer of 2014, a group of actors of the Gogol Center (Moscow) and the State Academic Drama Theater named after Fedor Volkov (Yaroslavl), headed by Kirill Serebrennikov, went on an expedition to the Yaroslavl region. The purpose of the expedition is to prepare a play based on the poem by N.A. Nekrasov "Who is to live well in Russia". The theater studied life, read a Nekrasov poem together with residents of villages and cities, wrote down documentary monologues of people, asked each person one of the main questions of the poem and today's life: “Who should live well in Russia?” The artist of "The Seventh Studio" Alexander Gorchilin and cameraman Ksenia Sereda recorded every second of this amazing research trip.

Sergey is a taxi driver. Day - at home with his wife and children, two - at work. Day - at home with his wife and children, two - at work. Suddenly, a broken arm breaks this habitual rhythm: a month - at home, with his wife and children. Digging from idleness in the shed, Sergey finds a box from under the movie camera. I wanted to become a cameraman ... my parents dissuaded me ... went to the drivers ... married ... children. Sergey wants to find films and photographs that he shot 25 years ago. But where to find them? And what about them?

Every evening a group of grandmothers-druzhinnits appears on the outskirts of Kaluga. Almost all of them over eighty. Armed with red armbands and a formidable word, they come out to clean up their neighborhood. To local drunkards to drink in a court yard became much more difficult.

Once late at night in the underpass a woman encounters a mysterious and scary creature which live in this place.

SPARTA is the Agricultural Poetized Association for the Development of Labor Activity. This is how the commune calls itself, which has been engaged in the development of the "Theory of Happiness" in the Ukrainian village "Karavan" for more than 20 years. Unable to reconcile with the collapse of communist utopia, the "Spartans" created their own.

This is a film about two women. Both have lost their loved ones. One in the Great Patriotic War, the other in the Afghan War. Each fate released only a few days of happiness. But both carried their love and loyalty through life. Together with them, we reread letters from the front and relive the happiness of love and the bitterness of loss.

Each historical period is accompanied by the emergence of some kind of cultural heritage in architecture, music and visual arts. The most numerous series of panel houses P-44 is a legacy of late Soviet postmodernism.

At five in the morning, Katya was woken up by a phone call: "Come. There was a fire. Nadia and Denis died." So casually, suddenly, terribly, irrevocably, her habitual life was crossed out, burned. Katya's husband Denis, a bright scientist, urbanist, together with his 11-year-old daughter Nadia were at the dacha in Beloretsk, Denis's birthplace. At his mom's. It seemed so quiet, beautiful... the happiest and safest place in the world. Pogrebizhskaya's film is based on the home "chronicle of a happy family", on the monologues of Katya, who would not have survived without her inner guardian - the "blue seagull".

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is an outstanding monument of Russian church architecture of the late 19th century. The film crew had the opportunity not only to film the restoration process, but also to capture the real stories of parishioners, penetrate into the holy of holies and become a part of the church life of this temple.

The parents leave the little boy at home alone and at that time the spirit of the child comes to him to play. The film is based on Yakut mythology

Short animation from Natalia Mirzoyan

Mikhail Abramenko came to work in the police in 1998. After serving 21 years, he resigned with the rank of lieutenant colonel from the post of commander of a mounted police battalion. Now he is a tour manager of the punk group "Pornofilms".

A Russian girl, a Kurdish father. The father lives in Syria, in a town near the Turkish border. The girl joins him to meet her new family and... to find her lost roots. Everything moves forward in fragments, of time and of space. It is not only an aesthetic choice. It is a form consistent with the state of war, with the fragility of existences, with the capturing of reality by the body and by the spirit. But everything moves forward, in its way, carried along by a painful energy that obstinately perforates the borders.

The story of how a nameless bug went in search of itself.

An acid-crazy catalogue of transportation options of a place far, far away but oh so close.

Trees are everything. In a settlement near the Russian-Finnish border, a traditional family keeps shamanistic rituals alive. The children play in the same forest where photos nailed to trees remind us of Stalin's bloody repression. Spirituality and politics meet in this intuitive montage of poetic impressions, historical material, nature shots, family scenes and probing testimony.

It's not easy for a rabbit to live – then a hunter tries to shoot with a gun, then a bear attacks, then a wolf threatens to eat, then a fox. How to survive in the tundra, how not to disappear in this not very hospitable region? The poor hare is like between two fires – he barely has time to hide from the hunter, as predatory animals immediately overtake him…

The story of the creation of Philip Kirkorov's most ambitious show.

The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar emissions on human sociology, psychology, politics, and economics in the form of wars, revolutions, epidemics, and other upheavals. It aligns the life of post-Soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against the limitations of earthly life.

Russian Federation, May 6, 2012. On the eve of the ceremony of inauguration of Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term, the police brutally repressed a march of protest over the lack of freedom existing in the nation. Some people believed that this demonstration would be the beginning of a peaceful revolution, but it was the day when silence and fear won the game. Realize what happens when a person has too much power in his hands.

A professor, watching the development of a love story between an amoeba and a microbe, sees in it his own life situation.

Offbeat Russian comedian Alexander Dolgopolov releases his first stand-up special.

A grandma. A small slum. On her anniversary day she turns the 40 years old record on her reel-to-reel tape-recorder. To the strains of the young friends’ and relatives’ voices she thoroughly lays a holiday table. Dishes, tea service, cutlery. A long raw of glasses on the white cloth. Anniversary greetings, wishes of happiness and long life, dreams and plans of the people of bygone epoch are heard at the record. It’s hard for grandma, but she keeps carefully laying the table. Finally, the record stops. The grandma sits at the served table: there are no food or drinks, only dishes and cutlery. For a moment she sits with no motion. She cries silently. Then the grandma sighs and starts to draw the cloth.

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.

The main character is a man in his forties with unsolvable physical problems (weighs over 200 kg), which entail psychological ones. He barely fits in a public toilet stall and escapes from loneliness in an imaginary love for a mannequin in a nearby store. The only living person to whom he is sentenced is his mother. He shares a miserable home with her, she can tolerate his snoring, although she silently suffers, and tyrannizes him in her own way. Apparently, only death can separate them.

About how a dreamy Russian girl, an elderly American DJ and a pregnant Romanian woman changed their fates.

She is absolutely sure she wants a divorce! He doesn’t agree, but doesn’t dare contradict. So they go for a divorce. They’d go to the end, if they weren’t stopped by a ridiculous incident... Why do people part? Where do feeling go in a stream of offences and claims? The film is a reflection about partings and relationships, where there is no good and bad, but people don’t hear each other, even though they are close.

A true story, based on the tragedy of the family of the died military journalist in Post-Soviet Tajikistan in 1993. This film is a debut film of young Tajik art activist, a novice filmmaker Anisa Sabiri. Native to rural Tajikistan, she hopes to use her art to shine a light on the history and horrors of the civil war and conflicts that have affected so many in her homeland, but are often forgotten by the rest of the world.

A black comedy rhyming harsh allusions to the "Russian spring" with a private wedding story.

Raistlin Majere is a dark sorcerer, weak in body but proud in spirit, who's forced to make a choice between happiness and unlimited power. Only the arrogant high-priestess Crysania and the sorcerer’s brother Caramon can stop his plans. But is it possible that there's more than just darkness hiding under Raistlin's robes? “The Last Trial” is a fantasy musical that quickly became a cult classic despite it's fairly short run-time. The musical is based on the “Dragonlance Legends” trilogy, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Based on true story. Professor of Genetics Boris Mniszech is a beloved husband and father. On his way to work, he gives a lift to a pregnant woman and drives her fast to the nearest maternity hospital. From that moment on, his life will change completely.

The film is dedicated to the life and exploits of Pyotr Markovich Koshka, the hero of the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. His funny, tragic and entertaining adventures reflected the entire history of the Crimean war, and more broadly, the history of Russia. A man who managed to steal a beef leg from the cauldron of enemy soldiers, catch an enemy commander with a basket and defuse a cannonball with porridge will not leave anyone indifferent.

A documentary about the late age of motherhood. The director of the film tells his own story - the doctor warns her about the possible difficulties with pregnancy due to endometriosis and insists on urgent IVF. However, in vitro fertilization is a process that needs to be prepared. Both financially and morally. And also you need to have a permanent partner and family support. What if one of the items is missing? What if a few are missing?

The main character Lesya is an orphan who lives in a remote village on the banks of a stream with her old grandmother Shura, whom the locals consider a witch. But in fact, Shura is a hereditary healer who has the gift of treating people. Since childhood, Lesya has been helping her grandmother to collect herbs for medicinal decoctions, and she treats a variety of animals that her fellow villagers bring her.

One day the tree got tired of standing in the forest. It put on the boots of a sleeping traveler and went for a walk…

My grandmother doesn't even know where Russia is on the map so I write her a letter from the other side of the world.

A bold take on weddings.

Retired investigator Klimov comes with his granddaughter to his country house to rest before a complicated heart operation. In the country, he finds a fugitive convict Andrei Shilin, whom he had once planted for the murder of his wife Jeanne

A priest from Vyatskaya stupid wilderness father Leonid sings and writes poetry. Walks barefoot in winter and summer. In winter, only slippers wear - probably not to embarrass people. In the past, a well-known metropolitan poet, he returned to his native places - where Vyatlag once was and where to this day the zone is the only city-forming enterprise.

A serial killer has the city in a murderous grip of fear. Assigned to the case are Saxon and Steel, and although they have an unhealthy obsession with cop shows of the 70's they also have a reputation for 'coming down hard on the bad boys'.

This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.

Let's go somewhere together.

This tale narrates the life of toys that depends on their master. It's growing, and the fate of toys is changing, and it's scary. One day, it turns out that it is not at all scary, if there is only someone with whom to share his childhood and to whom one can transmit this cozy universe and which is yours.

Armed with nothing more than a Yamaha keyboard, Valentin commutes back and forth between his shared flat and a metro underpass in search of happiness.

Once I met a man, who lived in the airport, because he had no where to fly.

The film is about the life of Russian paramedics in rural areas.

The sparrow takes an odyssey through the underworld.

They love each other. And they have the right to do so.

Little dogs in a big space... They were launched into weightlessness one after another. It was the only way to discover what problems and complexities the one who flies next will face — the human. Dozens of dogs’ lives were sacrificed to the science and safety of people. The pioneers of Soviet space, the first to fly around our planet, Belka and Strelka, became sym bols of the breakthrough beyond the limits of gravity. Colossal work preceded their flight. Why were these dogs chosen for the experiments, how were they trained for flights, what was waiting for those which could return alive?