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Night. School of Music. The guard does not suspect that he is not alone in the building...

In the provincial theater there is a rehearsal of the staging of “Decameron” by Boccaccio. The actress can not cope with the role. The director is going to a risky experiment, which inflicts a deep psychological trauma on the actress, but, in the end, achieves the desired result.

The main character of the film, Zoya, lives in a provincial town far from Moscow. She is 25 years old, she doesn't take care of herself and dresses old-fashioned. Her dream is to sing on a big stage, but so far she has to be content with only benefit performances behind the counter of a store where a few customers act as listeners and fans.

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

A story about a donkey and an astronaut. The donkey hurries across the boundless steppe. He has long been waiting for a friend who will come to his rescue.

The film tells about the past, present and future of the oldest university in the Urals – Perm University, which celebrated the centenary of its foundation in October 2016, about its importance as the most important center of science and culture for the region and for the whole country and as a place of intersection of human destinies. The film is based on the memories and reflections of graduates of different years about their ageless alma mater…

The hero of the film, a young Russian biologist, Alexander Sergeevich Ermakov, has been working on the study of stem cells in the UK for 10 years. But he is a man who dreams of giving his brains to his homeland. He flies to Russia with the hope of finding a job and staying. Here he is met by relatives, friends and misunderstanding of colleagues. Will Alexander Sergeevich stay in Russia?

This is a road movie about one Russian girl, who left everything and moved to India. She has nothing except small bag and tragic story behind. She travels alone all around India in searching for the purpose of leaving. But her past always follows her. Who knows weather she will be able to become free of it? The main idea of the film can be defined in such words as eternal flow of life, where Kate's life is just a blink, but in this blink the whole eternity is reflected.

The film is about how one little girl helped an adult ogre to start a new life – to stop eating people and become a composer.

Lenochka is young and beautiful. She lives in the Moscow region and dreams of finding her love, but her attempts are unsuccessful. Every acquaintance with a man for some reason turns into a fleeting meeting…

The poet and publicist Yury Mikhailovich Kublanovsky has many places on Earth that are dear to him. To the poet for seventy, and his flash-memories, being experienced anew, “close” times: what was experienced once and lived now. The film is about the fate of a man for whom the Motherland, wherever he is, is always there.

A short film about a schoolgirl looking for trouble.

The cartoon world is like a big music box. Everyone must take his place in this great mechanism. Only by working together and following Chef Cancrelat's baton is it possible to create music and harmony. But alas, no system, no matter how perfect, can work forever.

The researcher gets the task to test a sentient AI and to find out whether it is truly alive.

Sasha, a soldier, has lost his family to an airplane crush. He comes home to avenge them and plans to murder a survived pilot who is responsible for disaster. However, his plans are interrupted when he meets a girl and falls in love. 'Flight' is a story of struggle between love and hatred.

Not everyone dares to sit in front of the camera like that and talk about love, resentment, disappointment, the tragedy of a breakup. But the heroines of the film decided to “undress” in front of the camera. And not only in the figurative sense of the word.

The owner of the Taiga ravaged Mergen's house and took his parents captive. Having become a big and strong hunter, Mergen accidentally found out about what happened many years ago and went in search of his parents. A brave heart, strength and willingness to come to the rescue help him defeat the Master of the Taiga, free his parents and find his love.

An orphan, a disabled man and a former robber find shelter in a distant dilapidated monastery in the Russian provinces. Difficult living conditions and the strict charter of the monastery differ from life in the world. Each of them will have to make a choice: stay here or go back to the world.

The second solo concert of Alexander Dolgopolov, recorded at the HopHead Tap Room bar in St. Petersburg in February 2019.

A dystopian comedy with a utopian ending.

A grandmother who is confined to the bed, a devout mother, and a young daughter live as one family in a Moscow suburb. Three parallel lives flow next to each other in the cold space of an eternal winter.

The film is about a doctor, about Dr. Lisa Glinka. About a woman who feeds and treats the outcasts and the homeless, regardless of their nationality and citizenship. She is the only one who does not receive a salary at the Fair Aid Foundation she has organized. There is nothing of the dull employee of the state-owned "mercy service" in her behavior. Dr. Lisa is an energetic, funny and charming person who just loves her job very much. The film won the National Cinematography Award "Nika" as the Best documentary. In addition, the film was awarded the Prize for the best documentary at the Window to Europe Festival (Vyborg).

A reality film about the journey of the frontman of the Auktyon group Leonid Fedorov to Florence, a city that gives the musician an impulse to live and create. Film director Igor Voloshin ("Nirvana", "I", "Bedouin") films life as it is: trips to museums, feasts, New Year's Eve, a trip to Tuscany and Bologna. The intricate editing makes the film fly with frantic energy and rhythm, similar to Fedorov's songs.

About the life of fishermen on the banks of the great river.

About how real objects lose their figurativeness.

From the place where Joseph Brodsky died to the place where he was born, the distance is now insurmountable: there is no country or city where the poet left forty years ago in the world anymore. And that means there's no way to go back. But in the summer of 2014, by order of Brodsky's widow Maria, the last things in the poet's life are sent to the first house in his life. To St. Petersburg, to the corner of Pestel and Liteyny, to the Muruzi house. This film is an attempt at a group portrait of those whom Brodsky would have found if he had had the opportunity to return to Russia today. Formally, the characters of the film are talking about Brodsky. But in these stories, not literary critics, but people who have been strongly influenced by Brodsky, whom they have never seen, there are so many of themselves that a portrait of an entire generation has come out. Generations of Joseph Brodsky's children who had never seen their father with their own eyes in their lives.

The film centers on a high-school student experiencing the last day of summer.

A Chinese crime writer has a risky plan to help women take revenge on their unpunished rapists. They must not get away with it. They will definitely get what they deserve.

We are constantly under the yoke of unloved work, evil bosses, uncomfortable conditions. But maybe the fact is that we like to be oppressed?

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.

Every summer, herds of salmon return to Sakhalin Island from the ocean. Every year their number is dramatically reduced. Vanya's family is destroyed like an ecosystem of wild salmon: his parents do not live together. Yielding to the persuasion of his elder brother, his father takes Vanya with him on a journey around the island. He promises Vanya to show him spawning salmon.

Berik, a short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik's doorstep looking for the local bully's football, which he has lost.

"4 precise monologues" about the city where Duchamp, Churchill, Flaubert, Jung, Freud, Mustafa Mond and Sabine Spielrein intersect. Experimental mockumentary by Rostov director Alexey Zakhar is a vital example of how you can, being in the Russian industrial expanses, furnish yourself with antique columns, surround yourself with French geniuses and make a rap for the guys from the district from Lautreamont.

Ukrainian wasteland. A girl, whose only treasure is a painted Easter egg, is shocked, as her grandmother puts a freshly slaughtered chicken on the table. Confronted with death for the first time, she leaves the house, questioning her tranquil life, only to face a new tragedy that will force her to give up her treasures. An allegorical journey to freedom and growing up.

In a small village on the slopes of the former coal mines, Oleg Pavlov, the father of many children, screens the "Little Prince" of Exupery. The camera is the cheapest, bought for retirement. In the roles - Oleg and his four children. Two years of filming and editing - and journalists from all over Russia are on a visit to an amazing creative and friendly family. But the family never calls his father at the table. Children refuse to go to the premiere of the film. And Oleg himself does not go to spend the eldest daughter, when she leaves to live in another city. He just sleeps. And no one wakes him up.

Mikhail Ugarov is the head of the Documentary Theater department at the School of Documentary Film and Theater, playwright, director, artistic director of the Theater.doc, ideologist of the New Drama movement, member of the organizing committee and one of the organizers of the Lyubimovka Young Drama Festival, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Human Rights Group Award, twice winner of the Golden Mask Award. In 2013, he made his debut as a film director. He died on April 1, 2018.

This film is a portrait of the most celebrated citizen of Koenigsberg, the greatest philosopher and humanist of the Age of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant. The purpose of the film is to refute popular idea of the philosopher's life as of a tedious one with no significant events; to convincingly prove deep and true relationship between the life and philosophical ways of the brilliant scientist and an extraordinary man.

The breath of the wind is everywhere ...

This story is about a journey, a relationship and returning home. He has already been driving his truck for twenty years throughout Russia while she waits him at home. He is alone on the road. She is together with her beloved pet, faithful friend and protector Irbis. This could continue for longer if he was not terminally ill.

Experimental documentary film-journey about the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 Denis Davydov. The film returns the viewer to the origins of Dionysian fun. Songs and dances, feats of arms, folk festivals, ecstatic dances, sacrifice, a festive feast and the peace of the heroes will be opened to the eye of the attentive spectator.

Once leaving the house, Misha got lost. Not that he has forgotten where he is going, no. Misha completely lost control of what was happening. The string of visions in his head spins and does not want to stop. And here the pertinent question arises: if there is an end to life, can there be an end to death?

The documentary is dedicated to the history and modernity of the Tyumen region. The main idea of the film is to show Western Siberia as a fundamental part of Russia's power and prosperity through the past, present and future. The characters of the film are extraordinary, creative, freedom—loving and purposeful people with a real "Siberian character". The history, traditions and culture of the region, as a "starting point" for the story of today and tomorrow of the Tyumen region, linking epochs, times and generations. The film was created for the 75th anniversary of the Tyumen region.

A pilot makes a crash landing among the desert sands, and attempts to escape, having with him only a flask with several draughts of water.

World War II. In a remote Yakut village lives a young woman with small children. Food supplies are running out, but the Soviets do not help the woman with supplies, condemning the entire family to starvation.

An exhausted wolf refuses to let noisy neighbours disrupt his rather thrilling dreams.

The story of an artist who lives in a parallel reality and does not lose contact with real world. Conscious internal emigration. Surreal everyday life. Black and white photography. Fatherland. Brest. Women. Unicorns.