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The tale of how the chekists and the Masons started rebranding the report card.

A reserved and kind girl, Lilia loved to look in mirrors, and in a dream, freed from self-observation, she communicated with an old oak tree. Everything was fine until a man appeared in the usual sequence of Lily's reflections. Feeling unhappy after having an affair with him, she found solace in an oak tree from her own dreams.

Once upon a time there were two friends - Nisan and Nemurum. One day Nissan became seriously ill and died. After that, Nemurum, who for the first time seriously thinks about death, goes in search of a country where no one dies...

Their houses will soon go under water, and the officials do not care! How does Siberia turn into a new Atlantis? Quiet whirlpools of loud construction projects and extra people of a big country.

What happened to the children of famous Nazi criminals? What does it mean to be "captured by one's own names"? And what is it like to live, knowing that on the hands of your fathers and grandfathers the blood of thousands, and in some cases millions of innocent lives? It took many months to find the heroes of this film. People who had been in hiding for years did not dare to speak for a long time. Many suffer to this day, trying to get out of the shadows of the past. From the shadow of their fathers.

A group of searchers and diggers went in search of trophies and various military swag buried in places of heavy fighting of the Second World War. The guys climb into ruined places where, according to rumors, diggers have already disappeared, in the hope of finding a lot of valuable things. But sometimes it’s better not to bring up the past...

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.

Nazar and Zina live in a hut at the very bottom of an old abandoned quarry, oblivious to the surrounding world, its depth and rhythm. Their vain actions and words lead to a great tragedy. And the main thing is exposed — time may seem like a moment or an eternity, but it does not go away as long as there is love.

It has become commonplace: fools and roads are Russia's main disaster. Clever, but petty. We must finally look at the root of all evil. The first age-old trouble is power. The second, equal in size, is the people.

Using the example of the Dissernet social movement, we will tell you how our actions are related to our genes, and why some become crooks, while others struggle with these crooks...

Newsreels were one of the most powerful tools of Soviet propaganda. They also make up a significant part of the state film archives. In the newsreels, the recent past presents itself as a monolith of silent images, firmly stitched together by the narrator's voice and soundtrack subtly playing the viewer's feelings. It is exactly this original sound that the artist suggests to detach from. Just two or three minutes long episodes retain the original montage, which was meant to follow the upbeat narration. Flickering images of the past, which perhaps can only become enchanting to us today by revealing their muteness.

People find themselves in a garage, barricaded and hidden from the world. It is impossible to restore what happened the day before. Dealing with the situation, one of them will face an eerie truth.

In Soviet Russia the Altaic shepherding family Urmatov were heroes. Father Kara was showered with honours for regularly exceeding expectations. For his son Boris and his daughter Marina, though, those days are just a memory. Unemployment is now rife in the entire region and worries are drowned with vodka. Marina sets up a small private bakery, baking day and night to ensure the family survives. When debris from a Proton M rocket crash-lands on the mountain pasture, narrowly missing the cabin, Boris and Marina demand a large sum of compensation money from the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Their claims remain unanswered and instead of the much-hoped-for improvement in their lives, the family is beset by more disaster.

An intimate voyage, an ode to daily routine and an evocative litany to clarify our perception of unknown everyday lives of 30 Siberian people and their issues.

Three dancers moving from one space to another in an old Russian factory, affirming moments of stagnation in endless time.

This movie is about love and hatred, about the fact that the racial-tribal division of mankind, the division between 'us' and 'them' as an animal-instinctive phenomenon, should disappear. It is about the conflict between conscience and duty, honor and a tragic situation, from which everyone is seeking a way out, except for ... the "village idiot' Halois, the childhood friend of Aitech ... And maybe only people like him know the truth, people who are above religious and racial prejudices? Maybe people like Halois are our conscience, honor and dignity?

Gialli is a blood drenched slasher movie throwback to 70's gore films.

A documentary about several families in people in Moscow over a timespan of 16 years. How their lives and relationships have changed.

In 2011, 26-year-old Galina Kolyadzinskaya disappeared in Vladivostok. A few years later, her boyfriend, Victor Cohen, was convicted of her murder. At the same time, the investigation did not prove that the girl died, and her whole family is sure that Galina is alive, and Viktor is innocent.

A film about Andrey Shestakov, head of the microbial biotechnology laboratory at Moscow State University. Together with his team, he travels all over the planet, from the Caucasus to the White Sea, with the goal of finding and testing microbes useful for mankind.

Film about documentary film director Mikhail Litvyakov

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.

In Indonesia, East Java's traditional dance known as Reog Ponorogo is a colourful spectacle which draws crowds of revellers. But this ancient custom hides a dark secret of abusive relationships between grown men and young boys. The chief organiser behind the Reog Ponorogo show is a revered man known as the Warok. He is believed to have supernatural abilities, which the Warok can lose should he become involved with a woman. However, the Warok can employ servant boys who learn to keep house, dance and anything else that's demanded of them, including providing sexual favours.

Tatyana Dmitrieva, Director of the State Film Fund, and his colleagues, film directors, and critics, tell us about Vladimir Dmitriev, the long-time head of the scientific departments of the State Film Fund. Dmitriev appears to be both recognizable and unexpected, talented and unique in every way.

A documentary about the Erzya, a native ethnic group living between the Oka and Volga rivers.

Tired of the handicrafts of the servants of Rublev's and Mytishchi's folks, thirsty for the bathing of the Yellow Elephant, caring wanderers through the backstage of the looking glass, It will be! A celebration of animal jokes and intelligent humor, a cinephile breakthrough by a group of off-system rock drummers, a carefully conceived and carried out terraction in the tradition of Trier’s “dogmas” with the participation of ordinary zombies and other alcoholic ghosts of developed capitalism, all sorts of squirrels, non-normative constructs of the dense-dog realism of the returned era of the 90s.

Every call to the system can turn into a swan lake in every TV one morning.

Russian prodigies! They dream of making discoveries, solving problems that no one else in the world has ever solved. There are more and more of them every year. In 2019, at the 50th anniversary World Physics Olympiad in Israel, Russian high school students performed triumphantly, winning four gold and one silver medals.

Honored Master of Sports, two-time world record holder in long jump Igor Ter-Hovhannisyan, on the day of his 80th birthday, is preparing to receive guests at his house in the village of Zhuravikha and looks back at the years he has lived. It was like yesterday...

Tatyana Makarova is the chairman of the state farm. She has her own methods of working with subordinates.

The film is dedicated to the outstanding works of Russian painting and icon painting collected in the Tretyakov Gallery, the artists who created these masterpieces, as well as the great Russian philanthropist and collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who took on the burden of moral and material responsibility, namely the collection of the national art gallery by means of one person.

For half a year the camera followed a batch of conscripts deep inside the Russian Army. Each of character has undergone an amazing transformation. Cinema-verite method allowed to edit the film as an uncomfortable and outrageous real-life drama.

Reflection on ascetic monastic life. The main characters are ordinary people who live and work on the territory of the monastery. They help monks, parishioners and themselves. Every day passes within the framework of a clear schedule of services, meals and obediences, and everything is repeated exactly the next day. In this repetition and silence, a pure rhythm of life is created, which at first glance may not differ much from life outside the gates of the monastery. But in the abode of the non-material God, people live somehow especially honestly, some kind of special real life.

A young debutant director is preparing to shoot his grandiose film! At first glance, everything is going according to plan, but the closer to the engine, the worse things are. The director himself finds himself in the film, and becomes a witness of a personal apocalypse...

They emigrated to Australia to start a new – wonderful – life. Their optimistic video letters to Russia, parents, grandparents, indicate that the goal is almost achieved. Almost.

It's not quite the usual story... this one of what happened to a young man... he was interested in the occult... in one parable, is there a world beyond? But for a common man to understand. He needed to know where to start and what to do?

A film about the history of Galileo Galilei's relationship with Pope Urban VIII and about the fate of his treatise "Dialogues about the two most important systems of the World - Ptolemaic and Copernican"

How do new technologies affect the development of cinematography? Good or bad? Is it true that film has a magical effect on the viewer? The authors of the film, together with psychologists from the Higher School of Economics and Moscow State University. Lomonosov are organizing an unusual experiment, which should prove the difference between the audience's perception of a film screening and from a digital medium.

The film in a fictional and documentary form, relying on an associative video sequence, tells about the events of Russian history at the end of the 15th century – the time of the “gathering of Russian lands”, when the troops of the autocratic Grand Duke of Moscow John III defeated and conquered the Novgorod Veche Republic.

The story of the wanderer fascinated by the beauty of the native nature. The Old Believer and descendant of the famous tiger hunters Seletkovs, a hunter himself, he travels from the Yenisei to the Far East to visit his mother’s grave in the remote village at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. He will also get a chance to see his brothers, one of who has recently returned home with his family from Bolivia where he lived throughout life.

From the project "Multipelki", issue 2 A new interpretation of the famous song by Maxim Dunaevsky from the film "Mary Poppins, goodbye". The young poet is resting in the village in the summer, and before him there is a whole parade of amazing cows with different destinies and characters.

The film is about a hero who is too big for the world around him...

Life in art - is it a departure from reality or an acceptance of it to the full? Self-denial or self-return? "Dmitry from Demerdash" is a story about the paradox of self-knowledge through a foreign culture. A story about a musician who left Russia to play authentic Arabic music.

Russian biggest summer resort Sotchi has been chosen the venue of the Winter Olympic Games of 2014. President Putin has promised enough snow for the Games, no traffic jams and big investments in building the Olympic facilities. How it will effect the neighbouring small villages and if they succeed to survive and keep the living pace they are used to?

From the "Bone Voyage" project. On Christmas eve, the fateful icicle does not hit the person intended for Death, but Santa himself! Time stops, the holiday lights go out, Santa departs for the afterlife, and Christmas seems to never come.

“…The Moscow train pulls into Ulyanovsk early in the morning. These days the city welcomes you with bustling streets and squares, the courtyards and guardians the scarlet shade of leaves that have not yet fallen, the mirrored vitrines of shops, and a myriad of new buildings. If there’s anything particularly characteristic of Ulya­novsk’s new look, it is the construction cranes and scaffolding.”

Leo is a lonely old man. His wife and only son died long ago. He lives a recluse in a quiet, decaying house on a plot of tall grass. But once the peace in the house of Leva is disturbed by the arrival of his old friend ...

Children grow up and move on to adulthood. But what they cherished in their childhood will linger with them forever.

The film analyzes the reasons why people who have succeeded in their social, personal, professional life devote their energy and time to getting in touch with and helping homeless people. The film is based on the work of members of the theatrical documentary project "The Untouchables" (director: Mikhail Paltasov), dedicated to the theme of the homeless and which was successfully presented on the stages of Saint Petersburg in 2016.

People born in Russia in 1917 tell about their fate. Deep personal memories of long-livers add up to the history of the country of the last century.

Academic work of 4th courses of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).

A short life of a dance.

Cheerful old women with sad eyes tell about a difficult life - about children, illnesses, grooms and favorite songs. The film, built on extremely large plans, draws portraits of four songwriters from a remote Komi-Perm village.

A wave of hidden insanity and mysterious murders started to surge as a group of scientists has discovered that light is a kind of sound and decided to broadcast a sound of the Sun via towers around the world.