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Swarm works with the image of a buzzing crater formed by young male bodies twisting into a common mass — erasing the personal. It is similar to battlefield rituals: inspired by one youtube video in which volunteers from Ural (War in Donbass) performed the dance of death I recreated the rhythm of military ritual saturated with sensе of suspense and horror. While creating this video, I raised an issue of the legitimacy of compulsory military service through which the government persuades young men to get involved in its military operations.

The main character is 96. She is imprisoned in the flat, not sure what day it is and hardly remembers who of her relatives is still alive. Is it life? But everything is filled with meaning: life outside her window, worrying for her close ones and love toward those around her. That becomes more important than details of everyday reality.

This is a film about two women. Both have lost their loved ones. One in the Great Patriotic War, the other in the Afghan War. Each fate released only a few days of happiness. But both carried their love and loyalty through life. Together with them, we reread letters from the front and relive the happiness of love and the bitterness of loss.

My grandmother is 96 years old. She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and became an engineer. I made this film because I wanted to understand who she really is, but instead I understood a little about myself.

The fourth installment in our yearly Horror Anthology form Ottawa, Canada. This time, we tell stories focused on the dark side of technology.

Ilshat, a recent graduate, is determined to turn his long-held dream into reality by starting a rock band. His friends are chasing ambitions of their own, but life in the big city quickly proves unforgiving.

A touching story about a boy who does not want his ill grandfather to die.

The main character Lesya is an orphan who lives in a remote village on the banks of a stream with her old grandmother Shura, whom the locals consider a witch. But in fact, Shura is a hereditary healer who has the gift of treating people. Since childhood, Lesya has been helping her grandmother to collect herbs for medicinal decoctions, and she treats a variety of animals that her fellow villagers bring her.

Kind musicians help a homeless couple.

pagan songs from North Ossetia

A story about how sometimes oddities can be useful to others and bring universal acclaim.

Full-length superhero film

Horror Anthology from Russian filmmaker Alexander Sharoglazov (Alex Wesley) including his early films.

A student decides to propose to his girlfriend, and visits his divorced parents to uncover the painful history of their marriage.

If a building falls, it cannot be stopped, you need to save yourself. But when a family collapses, a person always has a point of return - it's love.

A Russian lady Natalya after the events when Turkish military shot Russian airplane in 2015 at the Syrian boarder comes to Istanbul, Turkey to rescue her nephew Masha, who is married a Turkish guy. Natalya has lot's of stereotypes about the country, but on the way to Masha she changes her opinion.

Once upon a time, animals and people lived on earth, very similar to animals. And then one day, someone drew a picture on the wall of the cave. That's when Man was born. The Man Is An Artist.

One day the tree got tired of standing in the forest. It put on the boots of a sleeping traveler and went for a walk…

The film "Merciful Sisters" by Yulia Morskaya will tell about the history of the emergence of military field medicine and the Red Cross.

The human right to live on their ancestral land... How difficult it is sometimes to implement it in the Fatherland. And not even in the icy North or the scorching south, but in central Russia itself, where it would be necessary to fight with all the forces of the state for the continuation of the life established there once with hard work, so that our beautiful rural expanses do not turn into a wild, overgrown with weeds, a huge lifeless field. It's hard to survive in a place where everyone is running for a better life. Fortunately, there are still those who remain. And Faith, Hope and Love will help them.

A funny story about two cute garbage bags that decided to escape from the garbage heap. After a series of amazing adventures they prove that, if you throw out all the rubbish that fills your head, you can soar up very, very high , and acquire the real freedom.

The film is about a cunning sparrow who met a friend.

The story is about a princess who, out of two knights, gathered one, whom she fell in love with.

The film is a memory of Alexei Turkus's father, the famous architect Mikhail Turkus. In the film there is not a word about the profession of the father, but only the tenderness and enthusiastic fantasies of the child, who, according to the joking stories of the pope, imagined him either as a commander or a robber.

The film tells about the Field Headquarters of the Russian army in the First World War — the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander.

Denis and Ekaterina are going to get married. They still have so much to understand, namely, on which finger the ring is put on, what items will be in the wedding contract, and also that it is impossible to become spouses without the traditional rite of blessing by parents. They want to hold a celebration in European style, but relatives insist on a loaf and traditional competitions with collecting money in sliders. You will see what a real Moscow wedding really is and what the spouses really do immediately after the end of the event.

“The Shine and Poverty of Kirill Filippov,” this is how the mother of a young aviator who builds an airplane at home in the kitchen would call this film.

“I keep coming back to those memories. Death this time came very close and took my friend. And she left me. This is how the year began. The strangest year of my life. When I realized that I was gradually losing everything and did not understand how this happened. last year of the millennium. The first year of the life that was left to me for some reason. With this author's introduction, a film diary of one year begins with the miracle of a continuing life.

Young geographers Kirill Puzanov and Maria Pisareva embark on a journey through unexplored places in the Moscow region. Travelers learn about the characteristics of various animals, walk through the swamps, observe the habits of birds, discover amazing cities, walk through the stunning reserves of the Moscow region. Moreover, the heroes study nature not only on earth, for the most part Cyril and Maria observe nature from a bird's eye view, from a small two-seater plane. It is thanks to small aircraft that a new look at the Moscow region appears.

Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.

In Greek mythology, the Heliades ("children of the sun") were the daughters of Helios and Clymene the Oceanid. Their brother, Phaëthon, died after attempting to drive his father's chariot (the sun) across the sky. He was unable to control the horses and fell to his death (according to most accounts, Zeus struck his chariot with a thunderbolt to save the Earth from being set afire). The Heliades grieved for four months and the gods turned them into poplar trees and their tears into amber. According to some sources, their tears (amber) fell into the river Eridanos, in which Phaethon had fallen. According to Hyginus, the Heliades were turned to poplar trees because they yoked the chariot for their brother without their father Helios' permission.

This movie tells the incredible story of the life of a brilliant engineer, co-founder of Apple, friend of Steve Jobs and creator of the legendary Apple II computer, which was once the most popular personal computer on the planet. His contribution to the creation of the company cannot be underestimated, as Wozniak was the developer of all the hardware produced in the early days, as well as the first software.

Russian literature is inconceivable without Pushkin. It draws its sustenance from Pushkin; it breathes Pushkin. During his brief 38-year life, he produced a torrent of some of the most wonderful poems, plays and stories. Pushkin wrote the short story The Queen of Spades in 1833, in the space of a few days and ‘in a cold fury’: a brief text, with strong accents and a focus on psychology. More than 50 years later, Tchaïkovski drew inspiration from this story to compose an opera. For the 2018 Salzburg Festival, Mariss Jansons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hans Neuenfels directs Tchaïkovski’s ‘The Queen of Spades’ at the Großes Festspielhaus. Hanna Schwarz plays the Countess. Evgenia Muraveva sings the role of Lisa, Brandon Jovanovich is Herman, Vladislav Sulimsky plays Count Tomsky / Plutus, and Igor Golovatenko is Prince Yelezky.

An image video shot for the anniversary Big Cartoon Festival.

The documentary “Armenian Sketches” is a series of short stories about people who represent their national culture and traditions with sincere warmth. Like a puzzle, viewers may put together a big picture out of those stories, revealing Armenia’s centuries-old past and future in the unity of generations and in the unwavering spirit of its people. Video stories are dedicated to Armenian masters of traditional crafts, the creation of a khachkar or the manufacture of musical instruments, as well as present-day innovations.

My grandmother doesn't even know where Russia is on the map so I write her a letter from the other side of the world.

The film is about two twins who spent their childhood in the forest on the cordon and saw other children only at the age of seven. They know everything about nature and birds, but have a poor understanding of people and society.

Only a person who is ready to learn everything that our ancestors could do can live on a desert island: understand the sea, live by the ebb and flow, build a boat, catch a fish, find a “common language” with a bear, bake bread. The inhabitants of the hard-to-reach Cape Alevina in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk can do all this. There are only three of them on the island, and suddenly something went wrong.

In 2016, an HIV epidemic was announced in Russia, with more than 1,000,000 cases, and more than half of them women. This film tells the story of three women living with HIV for over 10 years. Opening their faces, they will honestly and directly tell about the history of their illness and life today.

Jan Karski is a hero of World War II, a member of the Polish Resistance and the author of the first official account of the Holocaust. The film was created jointly by filmmakers from Russia and Poland in the year of the centenary of Jan Karski, on the seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism.

The story of one summer of several high school students from an average school of an average town in the heart of Russia. The heroes of the film are classmates of the very girls whose double suicide - a jump from the roof of a high-rise building - shocked the country a couple of years ago and provoked a wave of teenage suicides. Who are they? Which ones? Do you need someone other than yourself? What do we know about their loneliness? And what, in fact, lies behind the statistics of teenage suicides, according to which Russia ranks first in Europe. Six stories that happened in one summer: a house, a dacha, a camp and another amazing place that influenced the life of one of them. Who will be on the edge of that very roof, and who will decide never to climb it again? Why? Starting this movie, none of the crew knew how it would end. Part of the video footage was shot by the heroes of the film themselves.

What do we know about monsters? In the old days, this was the name given to people with congenital physical disabilities, or deformities. But today, the word is rarely used in this sense. Nowadays, a monster is usually a fictional character. The hero of a movie or book. Absolute evil and the embodiment of our most secret fears. The personification of horror. But the question is - are they born like this... or do they become like this?

Stories of residents of the city of Tulun who suffered from flooding in June-July 2019. Their life after the cataclysm.

The film is dedicated to the centenary of Alexander Galich. One of the great trinity of bards Galich - Okudzhava - Vysotsky, who for decades determined the social and intellectual climate of the country. The authors of the film tried to understand how it happened that he, a recognized playwright and screenwriter, challenged the authorities and chose the fate of a disgraced bard, an idol of informal culture, went his way from well-being to rejection, to unofficial glory? He was forced to leave the USSR, three years later he died tragically in Paris, and his songs keep coming back and coming back to us.

A cinematographic journey to that very unique time when many Russians got their first palmcorders along with their first opportunity to go on family vacation abroad. Roads, hotels, shops, water parks and cafes - everything was equally impressive and everything was saved on VHS tapes for home archives. At the same time, somewhere on the other side of the Earth the fishermen who go out to the northern seas for a long time, also take a video camera with them for the very first time.

On April 14, 2014 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a right-wing politician, publicly attacked two female journalists simply because one of them asked about the sanctions against Ukraine. He ordered to his guards “rape” and “kiss her hard” regardless of her pregnancy and threatened another one with unemployment when she defended her colleague. None of male journalists stood behind the women and tried to stop the high-ranked attacker and his followers.

Moscow has become a home and stage for artists from all over the world. Music in this city sounds without stopping: a cosmopolitan Venezuelan who settled in Moscow is preparing the presentation of the album of his band – an important event of the underground rock scene. A Chinese pianist from the Conservatory, who is in love with Rachmaninoff, is preparing for a serious exam. American and Kazakh are experimenting with formats and looking for a listener among the neighbors in the entrance, inviting them to an apartment party. The Cuban ensemble once again takes to the stage of the restaurant with national songs and dances. A Ghanaian drummer plays with a gospel choir at a Protestant service. Each of them exists in its own small worlds, accessible to the listener; and these worlds make up the musical landscape of Moscow.

"When I was born, all the fingers on my right hand were stuck together. I had two operations in St. Petersburg, in the city of Pushkin, if I'm not mistaken. First, one finger was peeled off, then, a year later, the second. I was just a baby. So I got three fingers. At the moment, I have on my right hand, it turns out, there is a little finger, index finger and thumb. From the ring and middle-only the metacarpal bones..."

The film tells about a short period of life of a talented person-a musician, a poet, who once studied to be a director, who can not overcome his weaknesses and always balances on the edge.

Leading political strategists Wolf and Hare are busy discussing news of current politics! They are destroying the political elite from Putin to Trump, from Erdogan to Merkel. They reveal all the scandals, high-profile events, intrigues. Politics is available and without embellishment-in the satirical show DW "Zapovednik".

Senior sergeant of fire department # 42 Vladimir Kolokoltsev risks his life every day to save people from the fire, despite the disapproval of his family.

Film-portrait of the artist Latif Kazbekov. Meetings in the workshop, where the boundaries between the external world, accessible to the viewer, and the internal are blurred, where the painting as the result is just a pretext for the process. Paper reliefs, thoughtful painting, authentic paper casting and endless questions. An attempt to look at the nature of creativity and understand – how are the paper worlds born?