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One day the princess fell in love with a bandit... and what did it lead to. A film based on the poem by Galina Dyadina.

5 members of a 3rd rate marching band goes off for a gig. They are driving along a rough road in the Moscow region, in a hopelessly tattered old minibus. They exchange glances with one another, each musician clearly battered by life. Not one of them suspects that this mundane trip for some extra cash will unexpectedly force each and everyone one of them to reconnect with their essence.

Tima wants to gain some money for the Girl and starts working for drugdealer. When he gets involved with it, he unwittingly kills his brother.

The Okrestin Sisters is a Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) and Creatives Politics Hub production, shot and directed by a film-maker and BFT ensemble member, Kolya Kuprich. This short captures the first moments upon the release and the immediate witness accounts of three BFT members who were arrested in Minks on August 9th 2020, following the Presidential Election. BFT's General Managers, Nadia Brodskaya and Svetlana Sugako, along with the BFT actor Dasha Andreyanova were rounded up and detained while peacefully waiting for the results of the election at a local polling station. What followed their detention, was a surreal cascade of a Kafkaesque, bureaucratic judiciary system met by brutal, Gestapo-type assault on innocent citizens of Belarus. All happening away from the cameras, behind closed doors, inside authoritarian prisons. The creators of the film want the shed light on what took place in Belarusian prisons during the detentions of August 9-14.

Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After the mysterious death of one of Volkov’s patients, Misha decides to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the truth. But what if the dream and reality merged into one, and in the end he becomes the main suspect?

Karaokko in the online restaurant Oasis: Okko presents a mind-blowing karaoke with Javid Gagulov and his famous friends.

The birth of a new era in the first years of perestroika with its enthusiasm for clairvoyance and the dying practice of shooting on film are both contained within a single minute of screen time, during which a mnemonist ‘recalls’ an infinitely large number displayed on a board behind him.

Guided tour in the company of museum director Zelfira Tregulova and Sergey Shnurov.

In the queue at the dentist's office, Katya meets two boys: Lyokha, a neighborhood hooligan, and Kirill, a pedantic "mama's boy." Each of them tries their own way to attract the girl's attention and distract her from her anxiety about the doctor.

The film celebrates friendships and the very idea of ​​"Barbecue" The endings are based on a screenplay technique by David Lynch

The once exemplary livestock and dairy farm in the Altai region is now declining. Milk cows live here. Their whole life passes between the barn and the "maternity ward". Everything here is subordinated to the task of obtaining a useful product. All days at the farm have the same schedule: morning milking, evening milking, “maternity ward”, dairy. The milkmaids arrive early, when it is still dark. People come into the space inhabited by cows, combining animals and mechanisms, creating hybrids of cows with mechanical udders. In the evening, the milkmaids come and milk the cows again. The milk is transported to the dairy section and from there, it leaves the farm. Calves are born in the “maternity ward”, where cows can temporarily return to their natural life. Several women perform these extremely hard and low-paid jobs to keep the barn alive. This is life on a farm.

A shy lad sets up a date for his dream girl. He has to turn the whole picture of an ideal date up side down to make an imression.

At the end of June 2019, a flood occurred in the city of Tulun in the Irkutsk region. Hundreds of homes were flooded, and some were swept away by the current. Residents were not prepared for such a scale of the disaster and managed to pick up only the documents and take out the children. Many remained on the roofs of their homes to protect property from looters. But the water level rose higher than expected, and people were evacuated on their boats, picked up neighbors, and later rescuers joined the evacuation. There are fatalities among the population. The authors of the film chose four families and watched their lives for six months from the moment of the disaster. The filmmakers are trying to figure out what caused the flood. How helpless is a person before the elements? How to find the strength to start life with a clean slate?

Xane, an immortal vampire, returns to the past to save his former self, Titus. Xane must rescue Titus and stop him from inheriting the curse. Xane is able to save his loved ones, but the broad strokes of time cannot be altered.

In 1971, the frustrated Akira Kurosawa made an unsuccessful attempt to cut his veins. His life was restored by the opportunity offered by Mosfilm: to make the first Soviet-Japanese collaborative film "Dersu Uzala". The documentary reflects the challenging shooting period and captures the memories of crew members more than 40 years later.

A Zoom work meeting unexpectedly went wrong. During the call, the boss discusses anti-crisis measures and motivates employees for labor feats, despite the pandemic. Subordinates, being in self-isolation, try to find a balance between work and personal life.

In a small town not far from Moscow, Natasha, a minor, stands accused of drug dealing and the attempt to bribe the cops has backfired. Awaiting trial, she is not looking to lay blame, she just wants out whatever the cost. The four men in her life – the teenaged boyfriend who would die for her, her mother’s taciturn lover, the careerist detective and Natasha’s absentee father – will need to unite to fight for her freedom. Will they be able to overcome their doubts or will the burden of untold secrets crush them? or will the burden of untold secrets be their end?

Two skaters from Russia and two skaters from American come together to find friendship and redemption.

A fatal accident - a hostage taking in a distant country - brings together an important diplomat, his unfaithful wife and her lover. To be saved, they need to act together, but is it possible, when hatred is stronger than the desire to live, a sense of duty is more important than reputation, and betrayal is higher than love?

The first stand-up special of Sasha Maloy. This concert was recognized as the best solo concert at the Punchline Comedy Festival.

The main character is a participant in the first Chechen war. He reads a story dedicated to his comrade in arms. A vision comes to the hero during the reading of each letter. Now war, death, love take on peculiar images. After he finishes reading, he leaves the room and finds himself in a cemetery with unmarked graves. Next to him is a Chechen with a severed ear. Men have a short dialogue before they disappear.

The comedy melodrama in mockumentary format. Maria is seriously ill preparing for death: chooses a coffin, buys a dress, orders a place in the cemetery. Despite his wife has already reconciled to the destiny, Peter is secretly looking for money to pay for expensive treatment abroad.

A young couple whose life was based on mutual trust is going through hard times. A strange female voice is victimizing Dasha, the protagonist of the movie. More often than not the woman asks questions about her husband. Her husband is receiving SMSs signed Eva …

The documentary is a portrait of the German Manfred Missfelder, who in the early 90's on foot went on a journey from Germany to Jerusalem with the reproduced Tablets of Moses to ask for forgiveness for his people, for what was done during the Second world war.

Everyone pindyuryat somewhere at different speeds, someone on their own, someone - for authority.

The film tells about the Siberian penal servitude of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story of the difficult transformation of a young romantic into a great Russian writer. The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Striptease dancers - student, nurse, former loan officer, former athlete. The girls chose this profession to earn money. However, this is a complex world with complex rules, in a sense, dangerous production. The owner of a strip club is also a difficult profession. Lucky Lee, the head of the Moscow Golden Girls establishment, is a bright character, video blogger, fighter for world peace. To become the owner of a strip club, he gave up banking.

Zhenya is a young artist. He has just completed a year of study at the School of Liberal Arts in Moscow and is returning to his native village, to a family in which something has changed during his absence.

The meeting of a giant inhabitant of the free nature of the Arctic with people is always a bright, unusual event. Once, walrus walrus Neseyka fell ill and was forced to come to people for help. An old Indian proverb and Russian fairy tales say the same thing: if you save an animal from death, it will never forget it.

A chance meeting of two peers with different plans: a blogger whose task is to entertain his subscribers and a juvenile terrorist whose task is to destroy the Orthodox Church in front of a large crowd of people. But everything changes when hostile thoughts turn into friendship.

A video that encourages people to be careful during a pandemic. Game over.

A short story about a father who went to put up with his mother, about a mother who tried to keep her daughter out of trouble, and about a daughter who just wanted to watch cartoons.

We all know this story: Persephone was picking flowers, Hades saw her and kidnapped her, imprisoning her in the Underworld. But was it really so? Was it kidnapping or liberation? Maybe it was Demeter who kept her daughter in captivity? This is a story about love, choice and freedom.

Second stand-up concert by Denis Chuzhoy was called “Jokes about Death” for a long time, but closer to the shooting it became clear that it was more about family. So it ended up with a less offensive title. But more truthful. After all, stand-up is when truth and harshness, as they say in the project "Women's stand-up". Our childhood traumas remain with us forever. And you can live with them. Even write almost 50 minutes of jokes about them."

The third of a series of videos using famous characters to urge people to be careful during a pandemic. The Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.

Follow Murder Girl, a serial killer blogger while she wanders through the Russian flea market in search of a new knife.

A little something for all the worried souls.

Vanya, Sasha and Denis are in their thirties, they grew up together in Kyiv’s northern suburbs. This winter, their murky past dissolves, leaving them without any bearings. They should probably start building their future… or keep on breathing the blazing freedom of the present.

The Golden Moose restaurant was a Turku legend. An old-fashioned funky establishment, opened in 1968 and seemingly never having changed since then. A meeting place for friends and family. A shrine for hundreds of locals. A place many called home. A family – for those who served there, as well as those being served. Now, in December 2016, the building has been bought by a major Finnish retail corporation in order to open a new supermarket, and the restaurant has to close its doors forever…

A documentary film about Russian agriculture. This is an honest story about people who live by their own labor and love the land.

Muhammad, a courier of the Yandex.Food service, delivers food on a bicycle in Moscow, which is empty because of the coronavirus. 10 hours a day, six days a week, if there are orders - and it's not easy with them during quarantine. When there are few orders and there are a lot of couriers, you need to move so that the application distributing the work "notices" the courier. Therefore, even without orders, Muhammad travels around the city. At home, in the city of Bukhara, Muhammad has a family, parents and three sisters, he graduated from college with a degree in plumbing, but it's easier to earn in Moscow, and he sends money to his family every month: in Uzbekistan, a person can live for a month for a thousand Russian rubles, including "meat, potatoes, carrots, onions."

After another quarrel Anton cruelly punished his wife Inga by forcing her to spend the whole night on the balcony. In a light dress and heavy wind, locked out on a balcony on the tenth floor, Inga recalls the painful abuse she suffered from her husband and thinks about her revenge.

Last year, Alexander Nezlobin had many turning points in his life: the transition from TNT to STS, mortgage, family and career in America. This and much more in a special hour-long concert “Riga-Moscow”.

The camera hovers above the Mir diamond mine in Sakha, northeastern Siberia, one of Earth's largest kimberlite pipes. This colossal crater spans a continuum of Soviet and Russian resource politics from Stalin to Putin, where technology and ideology inscribe military and economic imperatives into a landscape transformed by radioactive residues and industrial toxicity. Dark earth is excavated and transported, the images governed by extraction processes that sustained the Soviet Union through Sakha's mineral wealth. Out of dense nocturnal fog, debris and dimly lit industrial plants slowly crystallize, apocalyptic scenery alternating with undulating earthworks evoking folds of velvet. The observational camera remains still, registering rather than narrating, while a finely arranged soundscape transmits the ceaseless whirring of machines. Finally, the camera descends into the open pit, its contours dissolving into darkness, like an infinitely slow fall into bottomless depths.

Ilia, a 20-year-old promising rapper, arrives in a big city to win in a battle. And immediately he becomes one of the top battlers, having captured the public with his sincerity and desire to win. Everybody assures him of a great future. But Ilia meets his first love, a common girl who becomes involved in the criminal business of the city moguls.

Sasha surprises her boyfriend Maks with an unusual present: a romantic evening with a call girl, Lika. Maks isn't aware of what's coming and stays late at work. Sasha and Lika have a lot in common and much to discuss.

The heroine of the film is ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Masha can no longer move and speak, only her fingers move a little and make it possible to control a computer mouse. Masha lives in a poor apartment with a small daughter. Alice is a successful musician living in two countries - Russia and America. She comes to Masha as a music therapist. But sometimes she does not really understand how to behave, she is afraid of this meeting ... Women from different worlds – and the contact might not have happened, but something is happening between the heroines very important, which makes them both not so afraid to look into the future…

In the 90s, Stasya and his dad were spending their summer holidays in Odesa with their grandmother. Their relatives from different cities of Russia were also coming there to enjoy the warm sea. 30 years later they meet again. This time in Moscow.

For nearly 10 years, Belarus has had a Shelter — place for women victims of domestic violence. This is a big private house in Minsk. Many victims are brought here directly in their home clothes — the only thing they were able to escape from the aggressor. Belarus has not yet adopted a law on combating domestic violence. In this issue, you will find out the real stories of residents of the Shelter, what problems not only clients but also employees of the shelter have to face, and why it is so important to pass a law.

About the tragedy that occurred on August 12, 1944 in the mountainous Tuscan village of Sant'Anna i Stazzema, where German soldiers of the 16th SS division shot civilians. Total in the vicinity of Sant'Anna killed almost 600 people. This crime, like many others committed by the German Nazis in Italy, has not been talked about for 50 years. All these cases were hidden in the closet of the military prosecutor's office in Rome, which was later called the Closet of Shame.

The Bolshoi presents the famous star-crossed lovers from Shakespeare’s most tragic love story set to Prokofiev’s cinematic score.

The first solo stand-up special of Russian comedian Sergey Orlov. He had been preparing this concert for a whole year, running it all over the country, twice a night he performed with this at the Cinema House in Moscow, and for the next 7 months it edited, re-edited, laid back and finally got out!