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A funny story about three dogs playing ball. Fetch!

In recent years, a special "folk craft" has developed in Russia: in-line production of paintings, which are then sold at markets, highways, street vernissages. The film tells about the artel of artists working in this most popular and democratic genre of fine art.

The film with hooligan humor and serious sarcasm offers viewers to reflect on eternal, timeless values.

A film about a girl who was born and raised in the city and dreamed of becoming a veterinarian to treat pets. But in the process of studying, she realized that she wanted to work in the village, take care of large animals. A fragile girl learns to cope with hard work and make a difficult choice between life and death.

“Nothing makes sense if there is no swing” - the words from the song of the same name by Duke Ellington to verses by Irving Mills. If jazz sounds in the heart, sooner or later it will burst out.

About how difficult it is to experience fame.

The embittered fan takes hostage a star of the Russian national football team to teach him to “hammer”.

Seven years ago Svetlana bought a large farm with land and cattle, sold all her business in the city and left alone for 200 km from Moscow. To do a new thing.

The main character is Viktor Shtrum, a talented Soviet physicist who refuses to blindly follow his "comrades" by signing false documents and becoming a tool in the hands of an all-powerful state. During the war, Shtrum’s mother, Anna Petrovna, was sent to a concentration camp, but her letters continued to arrive for many years and help him remain more moral than those around him.

An old Danish lullaby about a little elephant and a circus.

The film is based on an interview in New York in 1993 between critic Solomon Volkov and poet Joseph Brodsky. Behind the scenes, the poet answers the questions of the journalist. The conversation, in the end, covers almost the entire life of Brodsky. We are faced with the dramatic story of a man who categorically refuses to dramatize it. The story of a poet who gained in full, but lost immeasurably more.

A heavy conversation between two best friends about the same girl is interrupted by the appearance of a football fan looking for a fight. Now one inaccurate word can lead to tragedy.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov puts on the play "Thugs" with his students. But who would have thought that the action of the play would spill over to the Moscow streets and the purely stage events would be enriched with reality? Will reality come out on stage?

A film about the first launch of the Soyuz launch vehicle from the Kourou cosmodrome (French Guiana). About the long-term joint work of Russian and European specialists who built a Russian launch complex in the impenetrable jungles of Guiana. For the first time since the Caribbean crisis, Russian missiles are based on the American continent. The Soyuz launches from the tropical cosmodrome in French Guiana are something new in the history of domestic and world cosmonautics. Will Russia be able to expand its presence in the global space market? And is it possible to do this today within the framework of one country and industry?

Grandmother loves and is waiting for her relatives. And relatives come. A little strange, but only at first glance.

It is winter in Saint Petersburg and the streets of the former capital are teeming. Half naked sunbathers stand in the snow; fledgeling dancers watched by throngs of teens are an explosion of underground fashion; a therapist who cannot afford an office sees clients in his car; immigrant street cleaners wander estates in orange vests, hoping they won’t be mistaken for terrorists. Saint Petersburg makes do with what it has.

The film is dedicated to the founder of the world-famous circus "The Alibek Djiguit", Alibek Touzarovich Kantemirov who, 110 years ago, entered the circus track.

The almanac consists of eight cartoons: "Zinina's Walk", "About Animals and People", "Careful, the Doors Open", "Dangerous Walk", "Sea Battle", "Two Princesses", "Violoncello", "About me".

"School Number One" is a docudrama based on the terrorist attack that took place 15 years ago on September first, in a school in the small Northern Osetian town of Beslan. The three-day siege and it's horrible aftermath. Who is responsible for the incredibly high death toll among the hostages? What provoked the bloody operation to free the hostages 52 hours into the siege? Who answers for the interrupted negotiations, and how are former hostages and their families coping today? What political ramifications did this act of terror leave in its wake. Who benefited from it the most, and how did it affect the every day lives of Russia as we know it today?

The psychological and physical burdens that cardiac surgeons must bear are borderline. There are two opinions. The first: if you are not fully dedicated to heart surgery without any other interest you can not be a true professional. The second opinion: if you do not have an outlet, something else in your life, you will quickly fall apart and you will not be able to work quite well. At the center of the film is Mikhail Alchibaia, MD, director of the Coronary Surgery Department of the Bakulev Cardiovascular Surgery Research Institute and one of the world's leading collectors of contemporary art.

Story of Gulnara, mother of 142 children, who is being sued by union officials' for child trafficking, sexual and labour exploitation. The object of the claim is the Issyk-Ata resort property, famous for its healing mineral geothermal hot springs, which was donated to Gulnara's orphanage by businessman Afanasy in the 90s, who then renounced the world to enter a convent for personal reasons.

A film about children that live in an orphanage in Russia.

Lyuba Kruzhkina lives in the village and has a son. The failure in his personal life made ​​her decide to live alone. There is also a suitor, a village teacher Gennadiy Ivanovich. He offers Lyuba marry him, but her mind was not in this too intelligent for these places man. But fate, as usual, in the most unexpected moment presents a surprise: in strange circumstances in the life of Lyuba suddenly appears a cute stranger.

Sanya, a ten years old boy is living in a small town in Northern Russia. His father is a professional boxer who left to US so Sanya is desperately learning English hoping that his father will come back one day.

At the end of 2018, I was asked to make a short film for a small almanac. The task was to comment on some of the important events of the past year. I, as an active citizen, of course, did not waste time on trifles.

According to a modern fairy tale by David Dara, "That's the story" about an ill-mannered boy living in a well-mannered city, where well-mannered trees grow in gardens and on boulevards, well-mannered mice scratch under the floor, and well-mannered cats catch well-mannered mice.

Last road in the ambulance. The driver - a cheerful Armenian - comes to those who can no longer be helped and becomes for them a guide between life and death. The road, meanwhile, shines with bright lights, erodes in an abstract pattern, yells with sirens. There is an inexorable countdown.

One true life story depicted faithfully and frankly.

What happened to Lina Mkrtchyan, a unique singer who in the 1990s was the first in post-Soviet Russia to sing in the Vatican and to sell out in the best concert halls in the world? Sokurov said about her that he could not live with such a huge gift. So she failed, taking a kind of vow of public singing silence.

For more than four centuries, the history of Romeo and Juliet has been considered an example of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. However, William Shakespeare modestly kept silent about what kind of drama (and, possibly, tragicomedy) might have turned the relations of the heroes, if not for the finale, which is well known to us. The film of Konstantin Seliverstov on the basis of documentary stories offers several possible options for the continuation of the classic plot.

Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere. All the power in the village belongs to the mysterious Castle that strangers are barred from accessing. K. presents himself to the locals as the Land Surveyor "summoned by the Governor himself." But he is denied work and a place to stay. The only person that doesn't turn her back on him is barmaid Frieda, lover of the powerful official Klamm. K. seeks a meeting with Klamm thinking that is the only way to get something out of the soulless bureaucratic machine. But without realizing it, he soon begins to play by its rules, setting himself up for inevitable defeat.

It's time now just to live. Just love each other with the highest power of pure feelings. This movie started many years ago. When we began to shoot it we could hardly imagine how this drama would end. Back then, Lena, mother of three, living Russian soul, divorced the father of her kids Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. What was it? Now, after painful challenges, becoming husband and wife again, Lena and Yura, simple rural aristocrats of the spirit, once again amaze us with the depth of their introspection, delicacy of feelings, with humor and sadness about things that will never happen.

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.

Film is about the difficult fate of 'Idel-Ural' legion members.

The relatives of a deceased want to make some changes after the body has already undergone the funeral rites and been buried according to the rules; the undertaker does not know how to do this, and how to keep within the budget limitations.

Forty years ago, a documentary film about Soviet cardiac surgeons was released. Perhaps, for the first time on our screen, doctors reflected on the value of human life, talked about their experiences caused by the death of a patient, about the imperfection of Soviet medicine, the lack of knowledge and responsibility of doctors. For forty years, medicine has made an incredible breakthrough, but the moral problems that plague doctors have remained the same. “You can’t get used to death” is the leitmotif of the paintings, old and new. The film was awarded as the Best Non-Fiction Film at the Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" - 2016.

One giant robbed everyone he met, and carried the loot to his cave, where his wife was waiting for him. But one day he met an old man and an old woman who had nothing to take from them...

A ladybug is captured. Now she lives in a small matchbox and plans her escape.

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.

This story is about the birth, rise and fall of a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian cinema - about the "era of cooperative cinema". It did not last long, some 10 years, began in the first years of perestroika and ended by the end of the nineties, but left behind a trail of rumors and legends.

The conflict between teachers and students in a proper pirate school is resolved simply. Both of them are sent to the galleys.......

The film is a scientifically popular depiction of the biography of Nikolai Nikolaevich Rayevsky, grandson of the famous General Rayevsky, the hero of the war against Napoleon and the Battle of Borodino in 1812, described by Lav Tolstoy as Count Vronsky in the novel Anna Karenina.

He lost himself at war and then he awakened in Venice. He was a sniper and he became a photographer because the rifle’s telescopic sight is very similar to the camera’s viewfinder. Roman Cherpak left his home in Ukraine at the age of 14, he has grown up in Israel and now he raises his two sons in Italy and in Moscow and manages his gallery in Venice’s downtown.

Sergey "Pakhom" Pakhomov, an actor, psychic and cultural figure, let's say, of a broad profile, celebrated his 50th anniversary by making a pilgrimage from the beginning to the end of Tverskaya Street and back 50 times.

Two films based on fairy tales from the collection of Ero Salmelainen, which presents the best examples of oral folk art of Karelians and Finns.

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.

An investigator, burdened with serious alcohol problems, undertakes to investigate the mysterious story of the disappearance of a popular artist immediately after the film premiere. It soon turns out that the case is not an isolated one...