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A story of secrets, alienation and finding your true self with a little help from your grandmother.

New film by Rikhard Romush

Victor is alone here. He looks back at his life in order to figure out why he is here. Silence interrupted by the lonely voice of a man pronouncing his own name.

This story is about ambitious people who dream of becoming stars, being recognized at the streets and interviewed for the front-pages stories. Day after day, they do their ordinary jobs but every spare minute they follow their silver screen dream – they work as extras.

We are far away from the Internet dating world when we gain entrance to the little office where Svetlana runs her Love Agency. Men and women from Arkhangelsk, in northwest Russia, come to her with the same dream: to find a partner in life. It's never too late to fall in love, says Svetlana. But when people with different hopes and experiences are brought together, it is not easy to find the perfect match. —Martina Carlstedt

Inverso Mundus reveals an absurd world based on exchange of power and roles that instead of distancing itself from reality reflects our own society, the contemporary crisis rooted in social, political and economic factors, today’s conflicts and inequalities, stereotypes and human behavior.

The hero of the film is a tenth-grader who is fond of tattoos, a typical representative of a certain stratum of modern youth, a representative of the younger generation of the millennium. Not a street boy, but quite homely, he is not going to give up his comfort, but he is not keen on anything more than he has.

11 days, 10 cities, 5300 km - the author of the film traveled so much from Moscow to Baikal, without spending any money on lodging or on food. The purpose of the experiment is to test the community for responsiveness. The film is a journey, changing the mind about compatriots and a look at their daily lives.

Vera and Ilya Chizhiki lived together for 59 years. They live together in an apartment in the center of Moscow. The film tells the story of the last days of Vera and Ilia's life together.

Millennials are the children of default. Now they are 18 years old. They are lovers of Brodsky and strong alcoholic drinks. They talk about what needs to be done, they understand a lot of things that are almost impossible to understand, but they all end up with the same thing, vodka and cheap champagne. What will happen to them next?

The story of the adventures of seemingly incompatible characters: a zookeeper and a python.

An attempt to comprehend the experience of shooting and the life of Russian front-line cameramen in the conditions of numerous, unpredictable and merciless wars of the last two decades. Riga and Vilnius in the late 80s, Karabakh, Abkhazia in 1992, the Chechen Wars, South Ossetia in 2008, Donetsk and Lugansk in 2014 and 2015.

In one of the most beautiful places in the Urals on the banks of the river Rezh stands the village of Mironovo. Every year graduates of the local school go to the city to study and earn money, with the hope that they will be able to settle there. But in recent years, the mood of the village youth has begun to change.

The Great Orthodox Journey of the Monk Zacchaeus.

A small fawn, overcoming obstacles and difficulties on its way, turns into an adult mighty deer.

A simple guy from the village named Haamaayy Baaska, having quarreled with his brother, runs away to the city. There, new friends and adventures await him.

A documentary immersion into the creative world of the artist and musician Svyatoslav Ponomarev, who develops Tibetan throat singing in Russia. The film uses materials from the artist's personal archive, newsreels taken from open sources, as well as fragments of texts by Sergei Kuskov and Heydar Dzhemal.

A short film by Gosha Berlinsky.

The main character regularly visits auditions and film screenings, dreams of breaking into a big movie. Time passes, but success does not come. Will the girl herself on this difficult path?

'Novaya Gazeta'. One of the first independent editions of post-Soviet Russia. One of the last remaining today.

Private Kornilov gets an order from his commanding officer to guard a military installation far away from base. They promise that he will be picked up in a week. When Kornilov arrives at the site he discovers that the only place he can sleep is the excavator that he is supposed to guard. A week passes, but nobody comes to pick him up…

A special cat takes a miraculous ride through space.

Children are the most reliable investment, in the best sense of the word. Each of the little heroes of the film has its own character, different destinies, but they are united by the fact that all these children found themselves in a difficult life situation.

The war of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1979 is still full of many secrets. And perhaps the most intriguing of them is connected with the operation "Baikal-79", the beginning of the invasion. The battle lasted only 43 minutes in the Taj Beck Palace, the residence of the head of Afghanistan, Amin. But this was preceded by a long chain of intriguing events in Moscow and Kabul.

In 1987, United Nations Commission on Human Rights approved the Resolution on Conscientious objection to military service based on “thought, conscience and religion”. In Russia, the right to have an alternative civil service was guaranteed for the first time by the 1993 Constitution.

Four stories are united by overlapping characters and tell about dramatic situations in the life of ordinary people, three of which lead to suicide attempts.

Who of the guys did not dream of becoming one of the heroes of famous movies or computer games as a child? I remember, as if it were yesterday, how my friends and I played out epic battles between the forces of good and evil. With shouts of "I am Sub-zero", "And I am Jean-Claude Van Damme", we imagined ourselves as these heroes. Unfortunately, in the evening we again became ordinary Vanya or Kolya, and years later Ivan and Nikolayev. But with the characters of this film, something happened that we all dreamed of as children. All of them are ordinary village guys, but once a year, when summer comes, it's time to become real superboy Heroes.

A gruesome collection of Alex Wesley's most bloody and violent scenes from his films.

The story of a boy and a teddy bear. The boy grows up, but the bear remains the same, creating problems for his old friend.

The story of how one day Senya Malina caught a hefty burbot. He began to pour it for him instead of a scientist's dog, and the police officer wanted to take it away from the Canopy...

For several years, the author has been making film observations of his heroes, peasants from two neighboring villages in the Lipetsk region. One of them, Uncle Vanya, is a poet, a local Kulibin, who builds a starship. The second, Uncle Kolya, wandered through life in an alcoholic stupor, but one day, having experienced a severe shock, he got out onto the “sober” highway. The most remarkable thing about the film is the author's point of view.

70 years have passed since the Great Patriotic War, the smoke of cruelty and hatred between the warring parties has cleared. A film about German and Soviet cameramen who worked on the Eastern Front. The war was, as it were, turned upside down in the cameras' lenses and reflected the interests and feelings not of the people filming, but the interests of officials and ideologists of the warring parties. The film is about how important it was to remain human on both sides of the front, even in the unbearable conditions of the war. And German, and Soviet, and, especially, a man with a camera in his hands.

Simon Elevich Shnol is a professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, one of the organizers of the world's first Department of Biophysics at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. An amazing memory and the talent of a storyteller easily unite different episodes of life in time and space. Through the prism of the biography of Simon Elevich, we see a whole era, from the repressions of the 1930s and the devastation of the war years to the revival of the country and the formation of new scientific knowledge.

"A hunter of secretive shares, I entered the forest of being ... " - with the poems of Velemir Khlebnikov, we enter the world of birds, where the flycatcher, orioles, remezes reveal their "secretive shares" to us. And we understand that birds are not our lesser brothers, they are other peoples who have fallen into the net of life together with us, into the net of time, they are the same as us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering.

On the night of August 13, 2012, the Rus Hotel, which stands on the outskirts of Biysk, was especially noisy. The company of four guests, two guys and two girls, was very noisy, they were constantly walking up and down the stairs, laughing loudly and talking loudly. The receptionist made a remark to them, the guests calmed down and went to their rooms. Ten minutes passed. And then the door of one of the rooms opened with a bang and a barefoot guy in underpants ran out of there, holding his stomach, and rushed down the stairs to the street. The hotel security guard met the runner in the courtyard and saw that there was a deep wound on his stomach. "She cut me with a knife," the wounded man said with difficulty. A day later he died in the hospital. The investigation began. The victim's name was Sergey Cherkaykin.

In March 2018, oncologist Andrey Pavlenko learned that he had stomach cancer. Over the years of consultations, Andrey identified three main feelings of patients: confusion, fear, and apathy. And he believes that the doctors themselves are to blame for the fact that patients are afraid and do not understand what is happening. Together with the project" Such things", Andrey begins an experiment. From that moment on, the illness, the changes in his life, the memories, the everyday thoughts become public. Viewers and listeners will learn about the obstacles faced by a person who knows everything about cancer himself. It is not customary to speak publicly about such problems of oncology as training specialists or paternalistic relations between doctors and patients, but Andrey is ready for this, because he believes that the main weapon in the fight against cancer is information.

A documentary about people who are engaged in sport dancing in wheelchairs. In the centre of the film are two important personalities; Lena Lozko who founded the Russian Federation of Wheelchair Dance Sport and opened the first Russian club and Alex Berdnikova a member who has over seven years of experience dancing in a wheelchair.

The ex-Soviet mining town Pyramiden, built on the archipelago of Svalbard, stopped functioning in the late 1980s and was finally deserted in 1998, leaving behind a number of empty residential buildings, an abandoned library, and a desolate cultural center that all together form a ghostly memory of life from the socialist past. Svalbard, historically known as no-man’s land, was used for mining natural resources during the Soviet era. As a result, the natural environment of the area has been altered. After the Soviet Union collapsed however, Svalbard—one of the northernmost places in the world’—has metamorphosed again and become a destination for researchers, escapists and adventurous passersby. In this film, Ieva Epnere performatively presents four human stories about the present state of this spectral place that both implicitly and explicitly reveal previously forgotten non-human worlds.

A young girl escapes from her father during a journey she doesn't enjoy.

30-years old Galy is working as Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) at the morning performances for children. One day Galy meets Vanya, a promising Ded Moroz (Father Christmas), and falls helplessly in love with him.

The author of the documentary comes to the village of Tverregion, where he was not been for about 20 years. Happy memories of his childhood holidays in this village, about his friends and relatives become sad, as now there are desolation and devastation in these lovely places. The different fates of its inhabitants, who 20 years ago were carefree boys and girls, make us think that a human life depends not only on external circumstances, but also on himself, on his mood, efforts and his own outlook!

The film is about the first cooperative house in Moscow, many of whose residents were victims of Stalinist repression. The author of the film’s idea is a long-term resident Dmitry Belanovsky, whose family moved there in 1939. The former owner of the apartment was repressed by the NKVD. For many years, Dmitry was haunted by the thought of who lived before him in this apartment and how the fate of these people was. It took almost twenty years to find the answer.

New film by Maxim Kulkov