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A documentary about a man who solves the problem of individual immortality. He's not going to die. Various options are being considered - from cryonics (freezing of the brain and body), to digital immortality (digitization of consciousness). Note that the hero lives in Russia, where the topic of immortality is practically not explored. However - everything is ahead! Who knows - perhaps this person will be able to become one of the first "immortals".

The world of a corporate cleaner collapses, when he get replaced by a robot.

An experimental movie with no beginning and no end, shot on a mobile phone while on vacation in Goa. The main character is a Maya girl with a unique outlook on life.

A group of teens go to the local synagouge to find out what's hiding it there.

The documentary about the Ukrainian Aidar battalion was filmed in a single 80-minute sequence.

She is 40, he is 30. She is trying to adopt a child. He recently got out of prison and wants to start a new life. They accidentally meet on the day when he gets a job, and spend the whole night together, drink and eat at her expense. It requires understanding and intimacy. He wants peace.

A tale of old age and corruption in Putin's Russia.

Ufa tattoo artist covers traces of violence with flowers.

Vasia thе Pedestrian is a football fan of Brest Dynamo. He has befallen 5 golden seasons that means he has visited every play of the team. He travels to away matches on foot. In 2016 he has passed 4 470 km – no hitch-hiking, no money, spending nights in the wood. Football has saved him from prison. Road has been saving him from death. Vasia has opened intuitively a universal formula: when there is no hope and you see no meaning of life – just keep on «footing».

The young man, Isa by name, came back to his native city after leaving the prison. At half-destroyed, dark, left, surrounded by harsh and merciless mountains house seriously ill mother and his wife who lost the hope to have happy family life were expecting him. He did evil and was put in the prison, but the main difficulties are still expecting him in the future.

The film is based on a fairy tale by Grigory Kruzhkov "Where the old woman's five came from". This is a cautionary tale about an old woman who went to school for grades, and a principled teacher, as well as about the original use of fours, fives and even stakes with twos in the household.

The last days of a mother and son, which they are spent together before mother being sent to a psychiatric clinic.

Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather Frost. Protected by her parents from the jealousy of the Sun god Yarilo who has vowed to warm her heart when she gets older and falls in love, Snegurochka the snow maiden is entrusted to the wood sprite…Aida Garifullina sings the role of Snegurochka whilst the production and musical direction have been left in the capable hands of two other Russian artists: the young conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov and director Dmitri Tcherniakov.

The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture.

The war in Abkhazia ended more than twenty years ago. But the shadows wandering in the corridors of the republican psychoneurological hospital still remind us of its impact. Sometimes we see ourselves in those shadows and glimpse fragments of reality in their monologues. The monochromatic way they see the world carries many more meanings than we are able to perceive.

Natasha works as a wedding photographer, her boyfriend Nikita is an aspiring artist. Natasha got pregnant, but she doesn't dare tell the guy about it. He is clearly not interested in children or family.

The collection includes several fairy-tale stories: "Peter and Petrusha", "I won't tell you!", "About Ivan the Fool", "Zhiharka".

A Russian mother and her queer son try to cope with their new situation, as the son, a political activist and radical artist, applies for political asylum in Europe.

The protagonist of the film, Russian composer and singer Alexander Vista, was born into a family of deaf parents. In the past, Alexander worked at the Lenkom Theater, in the legendary rock band Araks. And now he is passionate about interpreting the legacy of classical composers, collaborating with the Gnessin Virtuosos orchestra.

The film is dedicated to the life and exploits of Pyotr Markovich Koshka, the hero of the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. His funny, tragic and entertaining adventures reflected the entire history of the Crimean war, and more broadly, the history of Russia. A man who managed to steal a beef leg from the cauldron of enemy soldiers, catch an enemy commander with a basket and defuse a cannonball with porridge will not leave anyone indifferent.

After the death of a child in Makhachkala in February, uncontrolled shooting of stray dogs began in Dagestan. This was done by local residents who did not remove the corpses of animals from the streets of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk. It turned out that there is not a single shelter for homeless animals in the republic, but Ali Kurbanov, a resident of Pervomayskoye village, has been keeping dogs at home and on the hillside near the village for many years. Some of them are homeless mongrels, some are wolfhounds involved in dog fights. Sergey Khazov-Kassia and Andrey Kostyanov visited Kurbanov and his dogs.

Stand-up comedian Arthur Chaparyan spoke about the “Бывшая” (“My ex”) channel — from an idea to a sale, shared experience and interesting observations on the Telegram audience. In 20 minutes you will understand how cool Arthur is and why the “Бывшая” took off, but mothers, clients, lovers and other Telegram entities are not.

A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced writers such as Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Sharov, Viktor Pelevin. True, so far little has been known about Sokolov itself.

Mikhail Ugarov is the head of the Documentary Theater department at the School of Documentary Film and Theater, playwright, director, artistic director of the Theater.doc, ideologist of the New Drama movement, member of the organizing committee and one of the organizers of the Lyubimovka Young Drama Festival, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Human Rights Group Award, twice winner of the Golden Mask Award. In 2013, he made his debut as a film director. He died on April 1, 2018.

The lonely Alyona nurses her mother, who has lost her speech and mind to Alzheimer's. The daughter works from home and watches travel TV shows. One day, Alyona invites a man over, but her mother scuttles the date. On the same occasion, the daughter gets a opportunity to entirely change her life.

On June 12, Russia Day, opposition leader Alexei Navalny moved the protest from Sakharov Avenue to the very center of the city, on Tverskaya Street, where the reenactors ' festival was held that day. People in armor mingled with the streams of protesters, with the police in full combat gear... The result - tough detentions, a stampede and flags from the window of the paddy wagon.

Betrayal is the worst thing that can happen between people. It marks the death of intimacy and trust. Betrayal can only be committed by somebody close, and a person who once trusted or even loved you can suddenly become an enemy.

Little dogs in a big space... They were launched into weightlessness one after another. It was the only way to discover what problems and complexities the one who flies next will face — the human. Dozens of dogs’ lives were sacrificed to the science and safety of people. The pioneers of Soviet space, the first to fly around our planet, Belka and Strelka, became sym bols of the breakthrough beyond the limits of gravity. Colossal work preceded their flight. Why were these dogs chosen for the experiments, how were they trained for flights, what was waiting for those which could return alive?

The film is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the ruling bishop of the Lipetsk diocese - Metropolitan Nikon "Vasin", as well as the 20th anniversary of his episcopal consecration. The hero of the film, overcoming difficulties in the path of pastoral service, gathers around him a faithful flock, serving as an example of love for all.

From early childhood, Julia studied Russian, and in her youth she was fascinated by Russian culture and history. After graduating from university in Paris, she went to Moscow to write a diploma on early Social Democrats. At this stage of life, our paths crossed. Because I was also fascinated by the French language and culture. She arrived from Paris to Moscow by train with a huge, very heavy suitcase. It turns out that there were books in it... Housing in Moscow in the mid-2000s. In felt boots, a Russian shawl and a mini skirt. French rap is in the headphones. Julia said that there is nothing worse than adolescence.

When we close our eyes we see the black colour. By this, we mean that we see “nothing”. How long can one survive in the darkness? A couple of moments? A couple of hours? A couple of days? Some of us spend their whole life in it. Their eyes can be closed, but is their darkness as dark as we think?

A little cat in a big African forest is looking for a friend. The most terrible thing. Someone who is not afraid of anyone.

Sometimes in life, you have to take a stand—even if you think you might regret it later—rather than living your whole life regretting that you could have acted but never did.

14-year-old Natasha gets into a difficult situation and is looking for someone to share her problem with, but it seems that no one wants to help. By the evening, Natasha's ideas about the good and the bad are turned upside down...

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.

He is an influential bishop, a future patriarch, a possible confessor of Putin, a member of the Athos and Izborsk clubs. He is friends with Sechin and Mikhalkov, and lobbies for Vasilyeva's candidacy. The Minister of Culture, Medinsky, waits for him in the corridor for several hours. He is an ideologist of extreme church fundamentalism and a master of hardware games. He is Tikhon Shevkunov, the main character of the documentary film "The Confessor"by Sergey Yerzhenkov and Vladislav Pushkarev.

In the children's camp, two boys playing, do not understand what you can do and can not.

Brodyaga Fisheye gathers his old classmates in order to reconstruct the traumatic events that happened back in year 4 of elementary school.

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

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.

The organization E. N. O. T. Corp names as its activities "preventive measures against illegal migration, drug trafficking and organized crime, escorting humanitarian supplies to places of combat operations." On its website, you can find letters of thanks from regional administrations, the military, representatives of the church – and from various organizations in the so-called "LPR" and "DPR". But, in addition, E. N. O. T. Corp conducts training camps and war games for teenagers: "We do not forget about such an important matter as the military-patriotic education of young people." This is what the film is about.

For many centuries, the beautiful half of humanity has accumulated information about the ways to seduce men. Our charming contemporaries in a new way answer the eternal question "How to attract the attention of a man?" They answer, by the way, very frankly…

Nafset, 28, now lives in Moscow and calls herself a Man of Peace. Nafset is blind from birth. She also performed solo at the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in Sochi. Nafset is flying to Maykop to give a concert and receive the title of Honored Artist. She will meet with relatives, journalists, officials of all stripes, the local symphony orchestra and the audience. For them, she is not a Person of the World at all, she is her own, local, Adyghe. The heritage of the republic. But is this role acceptable to Nafset herself?

A group of children is trying to prevent a new construction in a middle of a national park.

Little Eva asks her mother before going to bed about how she was born. A very tender, slightly ironic story, a lullaby for children of any age.

The mother sent the teenager to learn how to swim with a good trainer. After the first classes, the boy staged a local revolution in the pool. It seemed more important to resist than to learn how to swim.

"4 precise monologues" about the city where Duchamp, Churchill, Flaubert, Jung, Freud, Mustafa Mond and Sabine Spielrein intersect. Experimental mockumentary by Rostov director Alexey Zakhar is a vital example of how you can, being in the Russian industrial expanses, furnish yourself with antique columns, surround yourself with French geniuses and make a rap for the guys from the district from Lautreamont.

The film is dedicated to the founder of the world-famous circus "The Alibek Djiguit", Alibek Touzarovich Kantemirov who, 110 years ago, entered the circus track.

The convicts of the female penal-colony Marina, Olya and Albina are waiting to be released. To pass the time they decide to make puppets, sew them and stage a small performance.

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.

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".

The psychological and physical burdens that cardiac surgeons must bear are borderline. There are two opinions. The first: if you are not fully dedicated to heart surgery without any other interest you can not be a true professional. The second opinion: if you do not have an outlet, something else in your life, you will quickly fall apart and you will not be able to work quite well. At the center of the film is Mikhail Alchibaia, MD, director of the Coronary Surgery Department of the Bakulev Cardiovascular Surgery Research Institute and one of the world's leading collectors of contemporary art.