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At one of the parties, Lesha meets Liza, a convinced ecofric. Learning that Liza allegedly does not throw out garbage at all, Lyosha announces to her that he will follow her until she throws out something. This "game" will make Lesha and Lisa ask themselves completely new questions.

It's hard to love from a distance. Especially if you are river snails, and the main obstacle to your date is an insurmountable slowness.

A bold take on weddings.

The tragedy of the theater center in Moscow on Dubrovka, seized by terrorists in 2002, told by former hostages, special forces and negotiators. What do we still not know about these terrible events, even 17 years later?

Six university professors of math and physics wanted to share the beauty of their research. They organize a competition with the hope of inspiring artists to create ground breaking pieces, based on modern science. A jury of six experts in art, fashion and architecture were invited to judge the results. One may think, that in contrast to mathematical beauty, artistic beauty can be appreciated without a complete understanding. Unexpectedly, mathematical rigor is replaced by artistic rigor; the overconfidence of scientists in the beauty of their research clashes with the modern artists world view.

About the life of four feminists living in Bashkiria and holding completely different views. What are they fighting for? Why are they opposed to each other and to the society in which they live? The film as an occasion to reflect and rethink your experience, regardless of what beliefs you are used to following.

An unusual group sets sail from St. Petersburg to Finland. The crew, which consists of vision-impaired people and people with normal eyesight, learns to work together in order to successfully complete their undertaking. The observational documentary shows the crew’s first contact with the boat, which is done by touch, and then follows their daily routine while at sea. The disinterested camera records a reality that overcomes our prejudices regarding the helplessness of blind people. The problem-free journey gives the sailors space for new sensations. Excerpts from the ship’s log show us aspects of the mission – i.e., the transformation of oneself that can change the world.

During the joint makulatura campaign of 1974-91 Soviet citizens could exchange collected waste paper for coupons to obtain popular and otherwise unavailable book titles.

1917: Homosexuality is decriminalized in Russia. 1933. Homosexuality becomes a crime again. 1993: Homosexuality is legalized again. 2013: Vladimir Putin supports new legal measures which discriminate against and harass the LGBT population.

“Swans” is a call sign of the emergency first aid service in a Belarusian town Svetlogorsk. People, who work there, help in sudden diseases, accidents and traumas…

Nobody has canceled the golden goosebumps. Where are they from? The film is a reflection on the nature of voice, the essence of creative pursuits and the origins of musical destiny.

When I was fifteen, I witnessed the creation of the legendary science fiction film of the Soviet Union. The director was my father. I loved taking pictures and took hundreds of shots during filming. Forty years later, based on them, I managed to create a film, as Richard Viktorov makes the film “Through thorns to the stars”.

Julia is seven years.old. She was born in prison and had a different mother at three different periods of time. All of these women attempt to mother her now. They want what’s best for the child, but their actions threaten the future of the girl. The director Natalia Kadyrova met the film’s protagonist when she was shooting her previous film. It dealt with an experiment – the children lived together with their sentenced parents in jail.

Artist Kirill Gluschenko’s multidisciplinary project that seeks to understand the Soviet Union’s conception of “ideal.”

Vladimir and Valentina met on an ad in the Lonely Hearts Club newspaper. To start a new life and create a family, he comes to her – from Altai Krai to St. Petersburg. However, it turns out that things are not so simple.

Cartoon about the secret device of man. You will be surprised when you find out what drives your grandmother!

A young frustrated poet moves into an old communal apartment in Saint Petersburg. Incompetence leads him to the constant contemplation of a suicide and anticipation of a post-mortem fame. However, the apartment he’s settled in is not suitable for meeting one’s end because of the lack of hot water. It doesn’t bother the tenants since they’re too afraid of a mysthical ‘Babay’ (Boogeyman) allegedly killing everyone who dares to fix it. The protagonist refuses to accept these terms and challenges Babay confonting him in his own room.

A priest from Vyatskaya stupid wilderness father Leonid sings and writes poetry. Walks barefoot in winter and summer. In winter, only slippers wear - probably not to embarrass people. In the past, a well-known metropolitan poet, he returned to his native places - where Vyatlag once was and where to this day the zone is the only city-forming enterprise.

“Stroma's funeral” or “grandmother” is the name of the three-day rite, which is held every year in the village of Shutilovo, Nizhny Novgorod region. In its spirit, it is the folk carnival, about which Mikhail Bakhtin and Francois Rabelais wrote: a change of appearance, general merriment, plenty of food, drink, indecent words and deeds. During this game of death and burial, there is no place for genuine grief. But when things are going awry in the non-holiday life of a Russian village, it is very difficult not to cry.

Working as a chiropractor in a provincial town, Boris daily receives a wide variety of visitors, from small to large. Individuals are replaced in a never-ending flow, merging into an endless fabulous whirlpool against the background of a birch grove on the wall of the massage room, and there are already miracles and the devil wandering.

Evgeny Granilshchikov's debut full-length film pursues the exploration of the social and political landscape of contemporary Russia started in his short video works and drawings about a decade ago. Like in many of his previous works, Granilshchikov's characters are young creatives, whose lives and careers develop to a backdrop of current political affairs.

An existential dilemma of a religious man Oleg is a religious person trying to become Godfather for a girl he adopted. However, the priest, Father Philipp, knowing that Oleg is gay refuses to baptize her.

Family excavations.

A young man goes to India in search of spiritual freedom. Walking along the narrow streets of the city Varanasi, he communicates with local enlightened, looks at funeral bonfires, floats on boat on the Ganges and waiting for him to from his future wife.

Colleagues from the Union of Artists know Elena K * as a modest watercolor painter. Among the visitors of nightclubs, she is known as the singer of porno-chanson Albina Sexova.

Lent is one of the most important events in the life of an Orthodox person. The film tells about the quest, doubts, extremes and experiences of a young man who chose a difficult path of abstinence not only from many worldly goods, but also from all thoughts that contradict his own picture of the world, based on religious dogmas. On his way, he encounters, it would seem, everyday and ordinary questions for a modern person, nevertheless, which do not fit his world outlook. Leaving efforts to resist to all that in his opinion "it is impossible, not arbitrary," he tries to get used to, to accept, to reach a balance with the world in which he lives.

Once upon a time In Vladivostok, Russia there lived an old woman. She lived all her life with her old man. They lived like two dogs. Biting each other all time. He told her: “Do not smoke, Olya!” She said to him: “Fuck U”. So they lived happily they had children and grandchildren too. They celebrated the New Year together, until one day the old woman died. And the fairy tale here is not the end. That’s where all the fun begins. How to live further?

Following the death of her father, Belekmaa moves into his shepherd’s encampment. She is living through the first serious bereavement in her life and she hopes to see her father at least in her dreams, up to the day when, according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased will be sated and given an ultimate send-off.

Nikolay Litvin is a 92-year-old paratrooper, a veteran of the Second World War and, as he calls himself, "the head of the Litvinov clan". Despite his age, he appreciates life in all its manifestations, dreams of yet another parachute jump and spends years telling his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren about the war. This is the story of a typical Russian family and the common attempt of its several generations to understand how much the shock of war matters to them and... does it matter at all?

He dedicated sculpture all his life. But today he sculpts the figures of his neighbors in a nursing home, as lonely as he is. Every day, observing around himself the extinction of the life and suffering of the elderly, he creates realistic images in his works that compel empathy and cause sympathy.

Sea. Road. One day from life of men and women. One year ago after losing child, they have been unable to understand the depth of this pain. Trying to find solace in each other, they realize that they do not know each other ...

One of kind go pro footage takes you inside the world of 19 year old Kyrill Oreshkin, who has garnered a resputation for freeclimbing moscow's tallest structures.

Phil Esposito, the legendary Canadian hockey player, was one of the brightest participants in the 1972 series of hockey matches between the USSR and Canada. The film covers the period between 2012 and the present day and highlights the most significant visits of Phil Esposito to Russia. Phil talks about how these trips changed his attitude towards Russia - from a sharply negative one, which persisted for forty years after the end of the 1972 Super Series, to a respectful and friendly outlook.

In the event of natural disaster, turn off electricity and gas, hide your valuable objects, lock the house, climb onto the roof, and maybe you will survive. Natasha, 12 years old, knows these instructions by heart. So, while waiting for the storm, she laughs and fights, suffers heartbreak, attempts to negotiate the purchase of a new swimsuit with her father. With zest and delicacy, with clear complicity with the body of her young heroine, Elizaveta Kozlova captures the details of a day-to- day life which, although ordinary, never seems insipid, so deeply is it infused with the contagious energy of the protagonist. And as the lines of contemporary Russian society and its problems are sketched out, In the Eye of the Storm reveals itself as the portrait of a character undergoing tremendous change.

Everything goes wrong when an agoraphobic misanthropist orders himself an imaginary enemy.

Sequel of the movie "Parables", released in 2010. And again three stories, three reasons to watch old acquaintances with a kind smile and to think about what they are right and what they are wrong. People are often sensitive to criticism. Strange as it may seem, so is the man of faith. Even when he is wrong, he zealously defends his position. The movie "Proverbs" helps us to look at ourselves from the outside and touch the holy wisdom of the saints.

New Year's premiere from the studio "Kvartal 95". Fairytale Rus gathers all its heroes in the full-length cartoon "Presidents of Fortune", based on the "sensational blockbuster" "Gentlemen of Fortune".

The Underwater Pixelguide is an unparalleled documentary manual on underwater photography and video.

The tale of the Udege people about a brave man.

Parents are not allowed into the Kremlin for the New Year Tree, children must go there alone. And now, after visiting the most important New Year tree in Russia, the children go to the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin, where their parents are waiting for them. Faces of children, adults. Sometimes this exit turns out to be quite successful, and sometimes it simply crosses out the previous festival. And in any case, he always says a lot.

A quarter of a century ago, the documentary film by Juris Podnieks “Is It Easy to Be Young?” was a triumph on the cinema screens of the Soviet Union. Has it become easier for today's youth of Russia than it was for their peers in the USSR?

Natasha is an intelligent, vivacious, and carefree woman. Six years ago, she was somebody else entirely – a charming man with a wife and son. Everything was great until he felt that he was not fulfilling himself and decided to try a new life as Natasha. Like the Phoenix he cremated his male essence and was reborn as a woman: she broke off all contact with friends, resigned from her job and shocked her mother.

This story is about the birth, rise and fall of a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian cinema - about the "era of cooperative cinema". It did not last long, some 10 years, began in the first years of perestroika and ended by the end of the nineties, but left behind a trail of rumors and legends.

Historical memory is not only archives, libraries, great art collected under the roofs of large museums and private collections. There is collected what belongs to all mankind. But each of us has a historical memory, these are trifles, faced with which, we suddenly recall with all clarity our childhood, the people around us, that long-gone life.

From January 1, 2018, every Muscovite receives a box with necessary items for the baby at the maternity hospital. But what about moms with another residence permit?

This is the story that explains how I was dropped

A short review of one day in the life of young artists, mostly women, from different countries, students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Documentary episodes are interspersed with scenes, that mimic everyday life, and with the excerpts from the work by Sabina Spielrein, the first female psychoanalyst. What happens to life when nothing is happening, and what is the motivation of young artists, but already not so young people, to make art? The work continues the theme of the video “Interview” (2013), in which the author asked this questions to himself.

Antarctica. The Russian polar station Bellingshausen. For a whole year, in complete isolation from the Big Land, fifteen people live here. They hibernate. Wintering is two or three shielded houses on stilts, only snow and ice around. Cold, wind, dark. Space and a long, slow winter ...