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New film by Polina Torshilova

Her name is Ida Frank and she is over 90 years old. Born during the Civil War, she fought during the Second World War where she survived three concentration camps. After the war, she worked as a pediatrician for 50 years. On the screen, Ida Frank's monologue is an autobiographical tale that speaks of her life, of choice even when there seems to be none. It is a rare blend of sincerity and agreed language, deeply personal, objective and uncompromising. The story of this woman combines the optimism of youth, the spirit, self-deprecation and a fighting character, all forming a powerful agreement.

Dennis is gay. This is a problem in his home country Kazakhstan. Abuse and beatings occur almost on a daily basis to LGBT people. This documentary portraits Dennis, one of the few open activists in Kazakhstan, his brave fight for real equality and his attempts to organize a public Pride event in his home town.

For most of today's schoolchildren, the siege of Leningrad is just one page in a history textbook. This film is not yet another attempt to tell them about the abstract “feat of Leningrad”, but an opportunity to see with their own eyes what is behind the seeming state school course. For example, with the help of computer graphics, so close to the heart of modern youth, the authors of the film demonstrated what St. Petersburg would look like today if the veterans had not survived, if the city had been surrendered to the enemy.

The documentary film narrates about blacklist swamps destined to drainage and life stories of its habitants. The film acquaints us with unusual beauty of swamps that save water, make the climate mild, are shelter for many species of birds and animals, as well as for the ancient legends. The film addresses the topic of swamps ecosystem devastation as a result of peat extraction. The audience will hear stories of locals about how their life and home changed by peat reclamation.

The film chronicles life in a settlement of Kotlyar Roma in Savvatyevo, on the outskirts of Tver—depicting the daily labor of the women, the semi-forgotten crafts of the men, and the celebrations and everyday routines of a large "camp."

The main characters of the film are a husband and wife, doctors of a rural hospital on the shores of Lake Onega. Observation of their life and the life of their fellow villagers causes a variety of thoughts about what is happening to the Russian intelligentsia in post-perestroika times, about the indifference of the authorities to “ordinary” people and the problem of preserving the spiritual and historical heritage, about how not to lose a sense of the meaning of life.

Mom and her children leaf through the family photo album and reminisce.

An associative poem about life, love, and the transience of being. A lonely creature wanders around a snowed-in city and stumbles upon a mystery that will change his entire existence. The two minutes of the cartoon fit a lifetime of changes, metamorphoses, and emotional turmoil.

Just as you don't need to be an athlete to enjoy a sports match, so you don't need to be a scientist to enjoy the course of a scientific conference if you have the right commentator: scientists themselves talk about their colleagues - boldly, honestly, even intimately, ... in a whisper!

Dmitri Shostakovich called her the "Queen of Russian Poetry". She remained a queen in the memory of those who knew her, a queen who survived great glory and the bitterness of humiliation, trampled down by the authorities and retaining her dignity. She lived a long life. The star of the Silver Age, she died on March 5, 1966 by a whim of fate on the day of Stalin's death.

They met at the institute. And they lived a bright, interesting, full of anxiety life, in which there were ups and downs, victories and disappointments. She still speaks of him only in the present tense, saying "Borenka" and "Boris Nikolaevich"with love and tenderness. It's been almost 10 years since his death. And the void after his departure was never filled with anything. Time has not cured me. They had the same life. One for two. Naina Yeltsina is a great woman and a great wife.

Denis, a teenager from a residential area of Moscow, trying to earn money, washes the headlights of cars stopping at traffic lights. And Denis really wants to become strong and independent. But reality throws up challenges that can not always be sustained.

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Clement goes to Saint Petersburg for a film festival. When he gets there, nobody can hear him and see him. He vanished. He meets Andrei, a gay Russian who lives the same thing.

This is the story of four friends who went to the taiga in the hope of making money. But their campaign turned into a tragedy: because of the meanness of his comrade, the main character Anat falls off a cliff, and if not for the help of a mysterious hermit, he would have gone where they are not returning. And at home the bride is waiting for him, and in order to find out the fate of her beloved, she turns to the shaman ...

Coming out and love story between two lesbian girls from different cities: Piter known as St.Petersburg & Moskva known as Moscow.

Artemy Ulyanov works as a nurse in the morgue. And writes books. Which are published by the largest publishers.

A girl who is serving time in a prison camp is visited by a young man, who is the reason for her being in the camp.

Budapest. Three dreamers from the post-soviet states. Three young souls, united by the same language, European dream and deep solitude.

In their childhood, our heroes became orphans, and it resulted in their mental and social deficiency. For years, they stay inmates of closed psychoneurologic nursing homes: Natasha – for women, Guera and Kolya – for men. Now they’ve got a chance to become self-dependent. On this path they’ve met together and even felt love in their life.

A year ago a place known among Muscovites called Pravda (formerly the largest publishing house of the USSR of the same name was located in this complex) promised to become a center of urban culture. The residents of this space will tell what the truth is for them now.

A film that tells in a fabulous form about the origin of the expression "Potemkin villages".

"Buranovskiye Babushki", a group created in the mid-1980s, became famous for rehashing famous rock hits in their native Udmurt language, in a singing style inherited from their ancestors. None of the experts can give a clear definition in what style and genre they sing. One thing is known for sure, that this ethnic project is of interest not only in Russia, but throughout the world.

Contemporary India. A young Russian woman, Katya, goes to India in search of enlightenment. Unfortunately - or, perhaps, fortunately - her spiritual journey is complicated by Igor, a tourist who has fallen in love with her.

The whole life of this village was concentrated in one shop. To the saleswoman Tatiana go for chicken, vodka and medicines; go to learn news, bask, ask for money, complain, celebrate holidays. All roads lead to the "Products".

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...

An elderly man goes to buy his son a car from Yakutsk to Khabarovsk. And there he meets his love.

How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily challenges the girl.

Documentary film about the forest fires in Siberia during the summer of 2019.

This is a picture of people who find time and energy to search for the missing free of charge, put out fires, rebuild temples, save animals, help children and the elderly throughout Russia and in the most remote corners of the planet. Because for them there is no foreign misfortune.

The rising star of Voronezh-based rock music Zakharov dreams of traveling with his group around the world, writing novels and always being the center of attention. And even more - how to fall in love. There are two options for Zakharova.

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.

A brave physicist saves Soviet people and the man she loves from a vicious attack.

The evil Ajaga got into the habit of raiding flocks of sheep. People complained to the Padishah. The Padishah has announced a reward - his daughter - to the one who defeats Ajaga.

Weekdays in the office. In between work, employees spend time talking, smoking, doing gymnastics, and personal chores. But a new hobby of one of the employees makes the inner life of the office public.

An amazing portrait of an 84-year-old Leningrad blockade woman living in an apartment in Kronstadt, where she survived the blockade as a child. The film is not so much about the past as about the present. About the daily life of everyone's beloved grandmother Evgenia, who manages everything: to prepare a meal for the priests, to pray, to support a friend of her youth with a word… This is how strong, cheerful children of war live, they know how to love and be friends for 75 years, take care of their relatives and enjoy life, even remembering the terrible past.

The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narrative that introduces the viewer to today's Khabarovsk territory and its inhabitants. The characters of the film are people of different professions and Hobbies who live in different districts of the Khabarovsk territory, but are United by love for their land and a vision of the future connected only with it. Every day they contribute to the development of the region, sometimes without even knowing how significant.

A priest, a scientist and a witch talk about God, the meaning of life and death, each through the prism of their being. The leitmotif here is the image of an immortal jellyfish - it is beautiful, but as the completion of a dead-end branch of development, it seems completely meaningless.

September 26, 2018 would have turned 60 years old Ilya Kormiltsev - an outstanding poet, brilliant translator, prose writer, essayist, literary and musical critic, a multifaceted publisher, a person of the broadest culture - a personality not just bright and large, but legendary in his own way. Ilya Kormiltsev (1959-2007) is widely known as the main lyricist of the Sverdlovsk rock group Nautilus Pompilius. After his early death in the UK at the age of 47, several memoir documentaries were made about him. And now - fortunately, he predicted a lot - the first results of his life and cultural contribution are being summed up in the most unexpected directions. The authors of the picture will try to find a worldview vector that united these so different occupations, but which became the fate of our wonderful contemporary and compatriot.

Video for the song "Чемодания" by IUN. The story of a man's journey in search of himself and his purpose.

According to official statistics in Russia, about 2 million adolescents aged 9 to 16 years suffer from alcohol and drug addiction. But in the whole country there is only one state rehabilitation center for teenagers aged 14-18. It is located in the Moscow region, and it has 30 seats. The film tells about the rehabilitation center for adolescents "Ariadne."

True events taking place in a seaside city on the Russian- Chinese border portraying a relationship between a mother, a daughter and her girlfriend.

The film is a social-political documentary film that raises questions about the roles we play in history and about the conditions that make it possible to overlook the onset of authoritarian regimes and live in them for years. What is our place in history and what roles do we (un)consciously take on ourselves? The film follows the victims, executioners as well as the disinterested observers.

Young scientists are highly appreciated outside Russia. Western universities are hunting for them, seducing them with big money and good conditions. In this film, scientists will tell you why and for what they stay, what they dream about and what they think about the world around them.

Scientific research of ancient Chinese craft: fishing with the help of birds. Cormorants are found in Russia and other countries, but only in China have people turned them into winged fishermen capable of catching fifteen kilograms of fish in a day! Only in China do these birds respond to the name. That's probably why they are often called "Chinese dogs". The film reveals the secret of how the ancient Chinese managed not just to tame a free bird, but to make it literally a "dog" that faithfully serves its master…

One day of life.

Black and white story about the people who pile up every day in the bus taxi that goes through the city.

Horror film directed by Alex Wesley.