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A surgeon recounts his gruesome crime: violently butchering his ex-wife and her new lover.

In the mountains of the Abakan ridge, in the remote Siberian taiga, there lives a unique hermit — Agafya Karpovna Lykova. She is the last of the Lykov family of Old Believers. Many people have heard about their history. Back in 1936, the Lykov family settled in the deep taiga, away from people.

A married couple on the edge of breaking up decide to fix their relationship, by taking part in a swingers meeting. But it comes out that the wife wasn't ready for the aftermath.

Alice is a lizard. She works in a fast food cafe and wishes of having a true love. But a horrible work injury makes her involved into a dark story.

An ordinary Rakhmatullin family with many children, finally bogged down in loans and debts, drives an old minibus to the “Family of the Year” competition. They are sure that the main prize of the competition is the last chance to save the family from ruin.

The animated film is based on a poem by the Ossetian poet Kosta Khetagurova. In a joking form, it tells how the hero of the film outwitted his very bad habit and life in the village improved.

The picture is dedicated to the fate of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Kusakova - production designer of the Mosfilm film studio, who created costumes and sets for the cult Soviet films Anna Karenina, Pomegranate Bracelet, Aybolit-66, Ordinary Miracle, Pokrovskie Gates and many , many others.

Well, hello! It's "40 minutes of sex with yourself." I decided to close the year with a re-release of my first concert, adding a soundtrack to it. Your attention is drawn to the beginning, it is also the end of the "trilogy of pity".

The film shows the whole background of the new reality that the world faced in the spring of 2020. Paradoxically, the most severe ordeal in the last 20 years has brought people together, while dividing them. Loneliness became a catalyst for internal changes for the six Russian-speaking characters of the film from different countries. Distanced from the usual life, for a month they filmed video diaries and learned to interact with the world in the new conditions of strict restrictions. Everything that is shown on the screen is pure improvisation, non-stop life, sincere feelings without censorship. The truthfulness of what is happening is emphasized by one of the most innovative technological formats — screenlife.

A rising blogger has discovered an abandoned building from the latest Death File, titled "The Red Room." He's certain that the staged filming of the video was done in this very deserted building.

There is a belief that world had started from duck's egg and human was created from silt collected at the bottom of the great ocean. In eastern european part of Russia Mari nation is living. Their mindset and culture had formed centuries ago. They are called last and only pagans of europe whos prays are heard by one lite god "Kygy Yomo" — ОНАЕН.

A group of scientists led by Pavel Skuchas of St. Petersburg State University goes on a risky expedition to Yakutia to find traces of the Arctic dinosaurs. Little did they know about how it would change their perception of their own ancestry.

After the daughter’s death, Galina stays completely alone and loses the meaning of life. Suddenly she notices the incarnation of her daughter in a prostitute met in the elevator.

The most recent work presented in the retrospective, assembled primarily from the directors’ own archives and depicting Novosibirsk’s music scene of the 1990s. A fragmented form and shifting rhythm characterise the visual element of the film as well as its auditory dimension. Guitar noise dissolves into hauntological film loops and indistinct speech merges with fragments of radio and television broadcasts.

The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narration, which acquaints the viewer with the inhabitants, traditions, customs and modern realities of the Leningrad Region. The heroes of the plots are those people for whom the cities and villages where they live are the best on earth.

When a good person turns into a tyrant due to circumstances.

The gloomy huntsman Ivan and the timid Alexandra live together on the farm. A blow of fate cut off their love. Alexandra thinks about freedom. At any cost.

A guy and a girl go to look at various apartments, communicate with the owners, building the image of a young couple who are ready to rent a long-term apartment.

The student Alexei comes home from the Amsterdam University. He interrupted his studies following the news of his father’s death. The young man does not make it in time for the funeral. At the cemetery he meets his elder sister whom he has not seen for quite a long time.

Uneasy relationships inside the yard reflect our adult world. Through conflicts, children come to friendship and mutual understanding, creating their own little world in the sandbox.

While many people perceive flowers as a purely decorative phenomenon, the author of this film is confident that studying the world of flowers provides an opportunity to explore the nature of beauty and its commodification in the modern world. Blue Rose is a documentary essay that takes you through an intercontinental flower auction in the Netherlands, Japan's crazy scientific experiments, a pagan celebration in a Spanish town, and the nostalgic Soviet photo archives of the family garden. The Blue Rose reminds us that the ephemeral nature of flowers is deceiving, and a closer look at them can teach an important lesson about the world in which we live.

A lonely peasant welcomes home a distressed kitten who one day becomes a big blue lion. But the villagers are suspicious of this creepylooking stranger and chase him away. Only his birch tree remains, which could not be uprooted...

Adventure of two girlfriends one winter day.

Lonely and eccentric resident of panel building, who keeps eye on order in stairwell, stumbles upon wrongly placed missing cat poster for cat named Bubbles. He decides to tear it down, but poster reappears again and again. This struggle against disorder becomes his routine, until one day poster disappears.

The main characters are famous Russian clowns who became great jesters (or are they heroes?) of their time who not only entertained the audience, but also often had the audacity to speak the truth while laughing.

Mockumentary experimental film, which shows one day in the life of a young man. The action takes place on the Day of Soviet Cosmonautics, April 12, one of the last years of the USSR. Outside the window, it is gradually getting warmer, the onset of spring is felt, promising hope for the possibility of changes in the country. The hero of the film is fond of space. The young man, who idolizes Gagarin, is engaged in reconstruction, making the uniform in which the cosmonaut walked in the prime of his glory. Our hero is also a film enthusiast. He makes films with stories of space flights and shows them to his friends. The film is stylized as amateur films of the 1980s and was shot on a 16-mm color film made by the company" Svema", made in the Soviet Union. The quality of this film allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the time of the film, which is dedicated to Soviet cosmonautics and Edward D. Wood Jr.

Renata Litvinova's short film for Gucci. Once in a year a clan of magicians gathers to "make their most important wishes and do some magic". To make it all happen everyone should put their letters in a special Gucci bag.

Conspiracy theories often stray from reality.

One concert in several cities.

The regional center is not the center of paradise, but a small settlement, lost in the Orenburg steppes. the bus station, where regular buses arrive from all over the area, is a place of meeting and parting. This is where Radik, the protagonist of the story, comes to meet his older sister Rita, who is to take custody of him and his brothers and sisters. A large amount of money falls into the hands of the boy, which he wants to appropriate. But money is always a temptation. And temptation is where the main plot of humanity began.

After the funeral of his young wife Asi, David tries to cope with the loss. The condolences of his friends and the reproachful words of her relatives do not seem to make any impression on him. Suddenly Asya appears on the threshold of the apartment. Her appearances are repeated over and over again until the boundaries of reality and dream for David are finally blurred.

The young vlogger Maximka shares revelations about his life, death, women and capitalism before making the decision of sex change. Already as a woman, she shares her thoughts about the transformation and that life as a woman is not what she expected.

The film tells about a refined beauty with sad eyes Irina Metlitskaya, who was one of the most sought-after young actresses of Russian theater and cinema in 1980-1990.

Romantic screenlife is a comedy about the versatility of love.

Cooper – since the distant 1960s, in the bohemian circles of Moscow, the already famous artist Yuri Kuperman was called in those years. So forever this name has been preserved for him – Cooper… In 1972, Cooper left the USSR and his beloved childhood city of Moscow. The works of this master are kept in the largest museums in the world - from the Tretyakov Gallery to the New York Subway. Fifty-five solo exhibitions. Thirty years of life in the West: Paris, New York, London…

«Cooking Stories» is a parody of gastronomy shows – about a chef and his unlucky assistants trying to cook several dishes during the programme.

Once Ivan went to a Georgian restaurant ...

A woman likes to enjoy life, swim in the pond, sunflower seeds and so on. But there are not such funny people living around her. For example, not dogs...

The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics, animation shows that the business tradition in the region was not interrupted. She manifests herself in different ways in different eras. A key trick used by different types of screen technologies is animation. Monuments to great people, buildings, industrial structures, landscapes of the Volga and Oka, film and photo chronicles are transformed, change in time and space, acquire a different dimension in order to somehow interact with the present, enter into a dialogue with descendants.

The main character is a blogger with a multimillion audience who suddenly woke up in the trunk of a car. He only has a mobile phone and time. And then the question arises: will he get out of there or will he stay there forever.

In the 21st century, under the influence of anti-hunting activism, the very idea that hunting is wrong from a moral point of view since the hunter “enjoys killing” is formed in the mass consciousness. And in general - that rich hunters are wiping out endangered species. Sergey Yastrzhembsky, who never hid his passion for hunting despite facing negative and sometimes aggressive comments, decided, as he himself said, «to restore justice». This is a film about how a properly organized wildlife management changes the everyday life of people for the better, rebuilds the state treasury, creates thousands of new jobs, preserves rare species of animals.

A man brings a woman onto an empty theater stage to tell her the idea for a future play. He suggests staging a documentary about two people who look like them ending up in hell.

A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.

Composer Alexander Knaifel’s work A Silly Horse consists of 15 stories for a singer and piano. Each story has its title, and these titles were used to find newsreel clips from the 20th century, which have nothing in common except that they are archive material. The music and the image magically combine to create the story of a boy who hears and sees only the words “Why dreams”, which gave this film its name.

Slava Komissarenko's first solo stand-up special. Filmed in Moscow in October 2021.

Moscow. Tomorrow Fedya is going to world trip with his girlfriend. But today he must meet with his ex, find molly, visit the farewell party and tell his friends that he stays here. Is it easy? Is it impossible? It doesn’t matter. Here comes the wave. Here comes tomorrow.

In order to get into her dream competition, the talented teenage ballerina accepts the proposal of her boyfriend to earn extra on the webcam. However, their innocent plan turns against them when the guy’s sister learns about it.

An ice performance based on the classic novel by Leo Tolstoy, full of love and jealousy, balls and seances, extravagant costumes and unexpected directorial decisions.

Lyosha Lyshenko, the enfant terrible of Russian-language stand-up, tells jokes about maniacs, the rapper Husky, and Idrak Mirzalizade's underpants, but mainly he performs tricks, dances, and stunts.

Golden autumn. Yakut hinterland. More than ten years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. A 23-year-old boy named Mahees is given the task by the collective farm chairman to accompany the young teacher to a neighboring village. Aanchyk, that's the name of the girl, after completing her studies, she is assigned to work in a rural school. It would seem that a simple task turns into a real challenge for young people. A bear suddenly appears on their way. He pursues them. The heroes of the film understand that all this is happening to them for a reason. A chain of unusual meetings, strange finds, bitter memories, disturbing dreams and visions lead to the answer to the most important question in the life of the protagonist: who is his father and where did he disappear to?! After all, his father went to war, and never returned... Mehees understands that this is all connected with his father - a former hunter and now a missing soldier.

Vinyl record sellers talk about their audience. A documentary about music lovers in the era of streaming platforms. Owners of famous St. Petersburg music stores share stories of triumph and failure. Who buys and who needs vinyl in the streaming era? 10 heroes of different generations, views and tastes talk about how they are trying to save a rare business in a crisis.

The film’s protagonist, Svetlana, during the Coronavirus Epidemic, like many, finds herself out of work. In order to keep busy and earn some money, she comes up with a new business – “Online drinking buddy”. For a fee, she’s ready to keep customers company if they’re looking for a partner they can have a drink and a heart-to-heart chat. The film features unique material – recordings of Svetlana’s conversations with her “drinking pal” clients. People share their experiences of how they have survived quarantine and how the coronavirus has had an impact on their lives.

Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed with bare feet, and learns why orange wine is slowly conquering the world.

A young Tajik woman decides to part with her boyfriend, preferring someone else to him. At a party where the girl comes in a new look, a scuffle takes place - her ex-boyfriend is nearby and stands up for her. The girl runs away from the disco in tears. Will she be able to find her happiness?

A daydream that started just like any other leads the protagonist to loosing her connection with reality.

May 9 is one of the most important days in Russia, Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. In 2020, during the quarantine period due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people in the small Russian town of Trubchevsk celebrated this day without leaving their homes.