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AKIRA16 is a live concert film performance of Akira Yamaoka & Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in Saint Petersburg 2016.

The film is about the Lugansk militia, whose fates are traced during the most critical period of the war, which has been going on in Donbas for the fourth year.

The Mariinsky Theater presents Le Corsaire, a ballet in three acts, with a libretto based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.

In 1916, 26-year-old Boris Pasternak came to visit the family of chemist Boris Zbarsky, at that time the manager of the Morozov factories. Impressions from the trip were included in Pasternak's lyrical poems and determined the writer's further creative path. Perm became the prototype of the city of Yuryatin in the novel "Doctor Zhivago".

This film is about the life and fate of one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" was arrested on February 14, 1961, three years after the massacre of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and a year and a half before the publication of Solzhenitsyn's "One Day of Ivan Denisovich" in Novy Mir. Grossman died shortly after Roman's arrest. His fate was taken away from him, but "the manuscript did not burn." Although I could. The film shows for the first time the documents from the "Special Folder" of Vasily Grossman, kept all these years under the stamp "Top Secret", as well as exclusive filming of the transfer of the arrested manuscript "Life and Destiny" from the archives of the FSB in TsGALI.

Yana and Sylvia. Two women. Two mothers. Every day is a new stage that must be overcome on the way to a happy life.

November 8, 2016 marked the 55th anniversary of the airing of the very first KVN program. The "Fun and Resourceful Club" has known good and bad times: for censorship reasons, it was closed in 1972, and revived only in 1986. But even without the broadcast, KVN existed on the student and amateur stages, lived, developed, and changed along with the time and the country. There is no such TV centenarian in the world. So who are they, the inventors of this "perpetual motion machine": Muratov, Yakovlev and Axelrod?

Documentary Web-Series about the amateur football team of the Babushkinsky district of Moscow "Egrisi".

Documentary about GKB4 Pavlovsk Hospital, created by the Mosfilm Creative Team for the 255th anniversary.

The story of one love, exploring the inner world with animation and trying to make a history of the disease. The film was shot as part of a week-long school of pre-intensive care at the Rudnik festival.

In the Absheron region of the Krasnodar Territory, among the majestic Caucasus Mountains and impenetrable forests, small villages were lost. They are connected to the rest of the world only by a thin thread of a narrow gauge railway winding through the gorges - and this is the only way from there and the only way there. A small old trolley - a motor-car, nicknamed by the locals "Matrix", delivers food, fuel and other benefits of civilization every day. People who, for one reason or another, prefer loneliness and unity with nature to noisy city life, make their journey on it.

A provincial Russian family killed off by suicide, murder and manslaughter and a boy who asks about guilt and forgiveness in the midst of all this squalor. Shockingly great.

In Vladikavkaz, a town nestled in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, an Ossetian women's football team tackles traditional gender stereotypes by challenging a group of guys to a game. They'll prove once and for all that strength and hot tempers run through both the men and women of their culture.

A documentary about the life of a children’s resuscitator. For ten years he has been with children between life and death. Once his world collapsed, and he was left alone with the empty ceiling of a rented apartment. Then he covered his whole body with tattoos. Then he was in the center of two tragedies, to which the attention of the whole world was drawn.

A group of young girls live at a strict monastic school in Russia. The children's playful world stands in contrasts with the strict rules and lifestyles of the nuns.

An old woman, Paradise, walks through the endless corridors in a boarding house for the elderly. While the rest of the residents are preparing for the dances, she stubbornly searches for her house and cannot find it in any way.

Former children's homes Inna and Dima are struggling to establish a normal life for themselves and their four-year-old daughter Vary, but something all the time goes wrong? not one, so another.

Three shorts: serial killer, cannibal and zombie outbreak caused by mad scientist's experiments. Will the youths survive the zombies?

Tatarka Fleur 72. She spent her life helping others: healed people on the island of Sviyazhsk. Now Fleur is alone: the husband is dead, and the children and grandchildren parted. Once a year, the pension routine, consisting of walks in long-studied places, is violated. For a couple of weeks in the summer, the family brings chaos to Fleur’s measured life, temporarily drowning out loneliness.

Three short stories of fairy tales from different peoples of Russia, in each of which one of the main characters is a horned animal: an Elk, a bull and a goat.

Once, a soldier was seconded to do household chores on the manor estate. And that same night a huge iron bird flew into the master's garden and caused a thorough pogrom there. The gentleman ordered the soldier to find that bird and deliver it to him...

The film tells the story of the actress from Kirov, Olga Bulycheva, who left for Amsterdam at the beginning of the 90’s.

Two friends, spinning in the criminal world and constantly finding themselves in dangerous situations, kidnap the daughter of a dangerous person in order to obtain a ransom.

A screen version of several conceptual texts by the artist Yuri Albert.

A monologue film in the first person. Alexander Kalyagin talks about his childhood, about entering a medical school and working as a paramedic at an ambulance station, about working with Lyubimov in the Taganka Theater and about the decision to leave. Having survived the early death of his first wife, the artist raised a young daughter on his own. It is precisely in these tragic days that fame comes to him, he acts in his first star role, in the picture of V. Titov “Hello, I am your aunt!”. The film biography of Alexander Kalyagin is about sixty films. His most vivid role is Platonov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s film “Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano.” No less significant was the theatrical history of the actor. He played in the best productions of Oleg Efremov and Anatoly Efros (Moscow Art Theater named after M. Gorky). Alexander Kalyagin devoted the last 25 years of his life to the theater ET CETERA, which, together with his course, created the Moscow Art Theater School.

Yuri Vyacheslavovich Arkhangelsky, a pensioner born in 1938, whose whole life is somehow connected with volleyball. He trains the Sphere team, the same veterans. He treats his wards with tenderness, like children, affectionately calling them boys. Yuri Vyacheslavovich leads them, which is not so easy, because each of them has hundreds of sports competitions behind their backs. This time they are participating in a veteran sports tournament, in which they have not risen above third place before. Will Yuri Vyacheslavovich be able to turn the tide?

Why do adults not dream like children? This is a film about Michael Farih, who dreamed to become a pilot in his childhood. However, the life was different: first, he had a brilliant military career in the Soviet army, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and start to run a business, therefore a realization of the dream to be a pilot becomes illusory. Finally in 2013 Farih decided to make a round the world flight. The film set was literally the whole world. As a result, we get something like "Tower of Babel", as all of these are completely different people live on the same planet. Mikhail Farikh realized his dream. April 19, 2016, the year Mikhail Farikh died, crashing in a helicopter.

Sixteen-year-old fat red-haired Masha, an outsider who grew up in a gop environment, is only mocking. Even her family does not take her seriously. But behind the image of the evil-faced schoolgirl lies a vulnerable soul, who simply was not lucky with her childhood.

Wonders of nature is not necessarily something far and unknown, they may be very close. In Khakassia, there are the lowest located glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere, in the scientific world they are called 'Small forms glaciers', and this is an important part of the ecosystem of the entire region. A group of researchers and enthusiasts go on a journey to find out: are these snow-ice formations really glaciers? What plants and animals live in this area? And what threatens this unique corner of the nature of Khakassia?

The film is dedicated to the memory of the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

The plot is based on the text of an ancient Navajo Indian song, which expresses the feeling of an inseparable connection between all living beings on earth. It is a parable about a person who has the ability to easily let go of things. He shares his unique perception of the world with others, who gain the opportunity to understand and change as a result.

The video features various images of Kolomna along with fragments of texts in English and Russian. The Russian-English and English-Russian texts are a record of translations done in Google Translate during actual conversations. They represent the speakers' awareness of the possible failure of language as well as their mutual efforts to communicate with each other. The audio is the artist copying the text of Moscow-Petushki by Benedict Erofeev, making reference to the history and culture of the city, Kolomna. ephemeras addresses both the physicality and ephemerality of the act of speaking and writing.

The film is dedicated to the journey of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Louis Andreas Salome to Russia in 1900,

This is a story about miners, whose life is like that head lamp of theirs, it may shine strong and bright but may also go out any moment.

The brilliant film director and writer Alexander Dovzhenko believed that it was possible to create an outstanding work of art only in an environment of beauty. Until now, the gardens planted by Dovzhenko are blooming at the Kyiv Film Studio and Mosfilm. In the film by Ekaterina Tyutina, the story is based on the diaries of the director and the unpublished memoirs of his wife and muse Yulia Solntseva.

The more time passes since the end of the war, the more often attempts are made to rewrite its course and results. Especially historians and politicians of the new independent states that have appeared in the post-Soviet space. The problem is so acute that some time ago, the first persons of our country instructed a special commission to counteract attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests. Next, a group of Russian scientists, historians and political scientists analyzed 187 school textbooks in 12 countries of the former USSR. The conclusions are sad. With the exception of Belarus and Armenia, in all other countries the interpretation of historical events is either biased or the historical facts themselves are falsified.

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.

Pskov province, 1921. Stepka is painting Daddy's portrait. The whole hut has already been painted with charcoal. And why does Proshka's mother love him, the foster child? After the war, there are no men in the village, the whole household is on her shoulders. And Styopka only draws, he can't even bring firewood — he'll stumble, fall. His own son does everything himself and the more he grins at the adopted child. Stepka... he is not of this world — he resurrects his father.

The film is based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince”.

The film is shot from an original script but is based on the works of the artist Vladimir Lyubarov.

Four teenagers go to celebrate a friend's birthday in a country house, filming everything on camera. With its vulgar behavior, the company scares away all the people around. They have no idea that they ran into serious trouble.

Filmed in April 2010, the film is based on real documents of Russian social and political life and on an analysis of the conflict that has developed around the planned Okhta Center development in Petersburg, where the Gazprom corporation intends to house the headquarters of its locally-based subsidiaries in a 403-meter-high skyscraper. The proposed skyscraper has provoked one of the fiercest confrontations between the authorities and society in recent Russian political history. Despite resistance on the part of various groups who believe that construction of the building would have a catastrophic impact on the appearance of the city, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gazprom has so far managed to secure all the necessary permissions and has practically begun the first phase of construction.

The horizons of trembling film landscapes, captured on expired Soviet film, long out of production, developed by hand, break through the closed spaces of the city, reminding of the lost phenomenon of natural borders. For a short time, a person becomes, literally, the bearer of image and sound - he is given power over space, which usually oppresses him. For a while, he can turn it into something new or remind you of something long forgotten, elusive.

The film is about the life of a "cheerful milkman", a Native American living and working in Siberia.

It's easy to find out the weather forecast. It is enough to make one click on your phone, tablet or computer. Hardly anyone at this moment is thinking about how this information gets into gadgets. Where and how does the forecast come from? The old ship "Mikhail Somov" goes along the Northern Sea Route from Arkhangelsk to Wrangel Island. For Russian polar explorers, this is the only connection with the mainland. Once a year, Mikhail Somov delivers food, fuel, and equipment to weather stations…

In the apartment of the Brodsky family in the Muruzi House - just for one day - it is planned to open a museum in honor of the poet, Nobel laureate, expelled from his native country.

The story of Sophie's wedding in a remote village of Tajikistan on behalf of various members of her family.

In the illegal business that Max is engaged in, his "specialty" is called "pawnbroker" or "kladmen". He took up this dangerous job to pay for his studies at the institute and save up for a good guitar.

The cycle is dedicated to the Spanish Civil War, its very special role in the intellectual and cultural history of the XX century. The heroes of the cycle: Hemingway, Saint-Exupery, Malraux, Ehrenburg - participants in this war and its chroniclers.