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Old people who can not live on a pension, gather at the door of the store from five in the morning. There are enough coupons for everyone: if there are too many people, Anoush, Shavershyan's assistant, prints them, but the pensioners, forgotten by the state, prefer to be safe, they do not believe in charity workers and politicians, they believe only in one thing – in the queue.

This is a mockumentary about people who, for various reasons, have become holograms... So, scientists have launched an experiment - a person has the opportunity to abandon the existence in the body, to become digital by translating into a hologram. It is impossible to return back to the body. A holographic person still has memory, consciousness, sight, hearing, and the ability to speak. Ordinary people see holograms without special devices and can come into contact with them... A new technology that changes the existence of man. Evolution or another form of escape? This is what some of those who have already become a hologram are trying to understand.

Musical film by actor Sergei Paranyushkin. One person in the frame. A loner in black jeans and a hat. Our contemporary. A man of the beginning of the 21st century. Pausing in his run to talk to himself. And with each of us. About the main thing. About the transience of the passage of time. About the disease of the century-the consumption of everything and everything, near and far. About the loneliness that burns us. About the people who make us who we are. About music as a divine gift. A salutary, timely word to a contemporary who drinks and drinks the cup of poison of the philosophy of infinite pleasure.

In the Belarusian village of Zarechcha, music is played almost daily. It is performed by Zoya and Valera: he is a multi-instrumentalist, she is a poet. Each of them went through more than one hard turn of fate before they were joined by a song.

12-year-old Alyona is taken from a correctional orphanage to a foster family. She suddenly has a mother, father, grandmother, brothers, sisters, new friends. This is a film about how Alena and her relationships with others change in the first months of her new life.

Park. Summer. The trees are so happy with the sun that they look like flowers. The chirp of a bird and an empty bench, on which sits a gray-haired old man-he is in a blue uniform, holding a notebook in his hands. What's he doing here? He says he's going to kill... This film is part of the documentary animation project "What am I Doing Here", conceived as a collaboration between playwright Sabrina Karabayeva and animator Maria Sedyaeva. The authors walk the streets of Yekaterinburg and ask all passers-by the same question: "What are you doing here?". Caught off guard, they tell the story as it is.

Four people, four mental diagnoses, one city, one therapist. A reality TV series about the people of Berlin, they live like everyone else-go to work, go to clubs, raise children. But everyone has a "second life" - a mental diagnosis that you have to deal with every day. Every day they keep video diaries and openly, on camera, tell how they are trying to defeat the disease.

The independent theater project Liquid Theater explores the topic of addiction by working with addicted patients at a drug treatment clinic. As a result of the work, a performance arises, and the main character, patient Ivan Ivanovich, becomes a clown.

The film is about a young man spoiled by his mother's love, who turns 30 years old. He lives a very regular life, does not drink or smoke, as they say, work-home-work. A friend offers to celebrate his birthday in a cool way. On this day, our hero gets drunk, lights up at a disco, fights, and a meeting with one girl completely changes his life.

The unwritten law of nature - the cycle that gives rise to the grave sins of man. A crime boss has been killed. The city was swept by the war of criminal groups. But neither the police officers nor the leaders of criminal groups know that the beginning of these events is rooted in the distant past. Finding the beginning of this cycle falls on the shoulders of a simple village district lieutenant Fedorov...

The dental office is "closed". They are pressed in the intense search for new sources of income. "What should I do next to find the means to feed myself?" – this is the actual question facing him now. Son Arcachon is staying with his wife's parents in the village. Longing for his son makes Davlyat go with his wife to the village to visit his father-in-law. Arkady, taking advantage of the arrival of his son-in-law, forces him to help himself in the annual dredging of lake ice for drinking water supplies. They slaughter a cow, preparing a supply of meat for the winter. As you might expect, all sorts of funny situations that Davlyat gets into continue. In addition, Nastya's classmate suddenly lights up with a sharp desire for revenge from her friend for the fact that she stole her beloved boyfriend from her during her school years. In her head, she has a plan to seduce Davlyat.

Nikolai Khardzhiev. The largest expert and collector of the Russian avant-garde. The owner of the rarest works, the collector who had taste, understanding, smell, remarkable abilities of persuasion. An extraordinary person, a storehouse of knowledge and a keeper of treasures collected in a Moscow apartment. Towards the end of his life, he decided to leave and move his collection and archive to Holland. As a result-a personal drama, the death of his wife and a collection scattered around the world…

None of us knows for sure why and what a person strives for, why he commits crazy actions and discoveries. But, perhaps, all this is not in vain, and for some reason it is necessary.

An ordinary boy Khan Dossaev from the provincial town of Taldykorgan considers himself a real Khan, that is, the chosen one. He wants to make an intellectual revolution. Thanks to high ambition and determination, he is ready to move mountains on his way. He is driven by an idea, and he tries to change the structure of society and people's outlook on life with the help of ... dancing. So who is he really - a hero or a madman ?!

Every morning the author walks in the forest with his dog. Regardless of the weather and season. What can you learn from a dog? The author is sure a lot.

Film-reasoning about the connection between generations. There are many questions, but there are practically no ready-made answers. Tatyana Andreevna Frolova is a guideline for finding these answers. Grandmother speaks about her difficult fate with a smile, without bitterness. Her attitude to life, grateful acceptance of everything that she had to endure, becomes the basis of the dialogue, after which, perhaps, she will want to understand herself and critically look at her life attitudes.

Ivan Paketnyy. This is a fake surname, no one remembers the real one for a long time, even Ivan himself. The fact is that for him the main goal of his entire existence is his collection. But he collects neither stamps nor coins. Ivan collects packages. Ordinary for us - but for him each package is special, because as Ivan himself says: "The meaning of life is not to collect all the packages, but to get to one that will overshadow everything in the world."

The train is a small country. Pensioners and babies, hard shift workers and intelligent students live in it. Who is poorer - in a reserved seat dormitory, richer - in a closed compartment, away from the main mass of people. But they are all locked in the tight iron interior of the train, where all life is an endless wait. When will they finally arrive? Where? In March 2019, two NSU journalism students, Oleg Tsiplakov and Nikita Lopatin, went from Moscow to Vladivostok along the famous Trans-Siberian Railway. 6 days on the road, 9 thousand kilometers behind and more than 15 interviews with passengers of the E100 train - all in order to figure out who they live with in one country and what kind of country it is.

One of the recent video works by Polina Kanis, the recipient of the Kandinsky Art Prize and the Sergey Kuryokhin Award for Contemporary Art. The piece explores how a closed system functions, as well as the idea of presence within and modifications to it. The action in the video revolves around the former building of some kind of closed institution, where the staff are immersed in the ritual of carrying out their duties. Their only objective is to ensure the stability of a system through their physical presence. Everything proceeds in the usual fashion, and only in the final scene is the possibility of any change to the established order hinted at.

The film is about a time when you don't think about household chores, work, traffic jams and fuss. This is a wonderful time on vacation. When half the carefree days have passed, and there is still as much to come!

The boy runs out into the yard. He is joined by his classmate. Children rush to school, but there are many unexpected obstacles on the way.

A comedy about the relationship between a young priest and an old lady who has lived her whole life by the church. They are both very different; each of them loves the church in their own way. It seems they will never be able to find common ground.

The war is over. They stayed. Small members of the Caliphate. Five little girls from Russia were left completely alone in the middle of the Syrian desert after their parents were killed. However, the orphans reached the Al Khol prisoner of war camp in the so-called "Syrian Kurdistan". In the process of filming, they were found and returned to their relatives in Chechnya.

Dramatic story of a man and a woman that had a short but passionate love story.

Big city is full of cars and hurrying people. Nobody cares about a stray dog. But what a luck! There is a kindly soul among this general indifference. And now the dog has a mistress and the girl has a good friend.

This is a story about northern matriarchy, domestic magic, which was transmitted along the female line.

The heroes of the picture are members of the esoteric club in Rostov-on-Don who think that practicing Magic can understand God. This is the subjective view of a person who finds himself in a new environment, has passed all the tests, training courses and was allowed to participate in rituals.

After a ten-year absence, Victoria arrives in her native Budenovsk. Her relatives and the fresh grave of her recently deceased sister are waiting there.

The Solovetsky Monastery, built in the 15th century, is a sacred place, in the history of which holiness and tragedy, unity with God and the terrible test of the special camp merged. This is the place where today everyone is looking for the answer to the main question "who am I?" The protagonist of the film goes there to shoot a documentary, and everything starts to go wrong.

This is the story of one homeless man’s transformation after undergoing a nine-month rehabilitation program in a Christian rehab center, after which he tried to start his life over. Misha is 42 years old. He has no passport, a leg injury and sits on a step, begging for handouts with a paper cup. Now he is at rehab center. The rehab center is very much part of the monastery. Following of a strict routine, which revolves around discipline, community, communication and discussion, labour, animals and farming, construction, prayers and hymns, Bible study, as well questions and thoughts about death and happiness. This is what rehabilitation looks like. But will Misha become a new person after rehab?

The film tells about a man who spent his whole life on achieving his goal, but now not sure of the correctness of his path.

It is a documentary dance film revealing the harsh reality of LGBTQ+ persecution in the Chechen region of Russia. The contents of the film were inspired by testimonials of the arrests, torture, and blackmail that gay Chechens were subjected to throughout 2017.

A girl dreams about her paintings of another girl coming to life.

A young actress, a graduate of the Perm Institute of Culture, goes to Moscow to build an acting career and play in a big movie.

This film is about a person who is unique to the present. The representative of the ancient people found an amazing balance between the life of his ancestors and modern life. He remains active and "alive” in difficult conditions. He doesn’t complain about fate, he just works very hard. He has no equals in fishing skills. He is experiencing some kind of absolutely unity with nature, he doesn’t fight with it. His family consists of three dogs and two cats and there’s no one closer.

The mysterious Mr. Inverto put all his life experience into the unprecedented art object “Horizon of Knowledge”. Meanwhile, dumb David is considering getting out of life. Will the Horizon of Knowledge help David?

The hermit and philosopher and reindeer herder Alexander has lived alone for many years in the heart of the arctic taiga in Yakutia. Alexander's life is an endless struggle for survival. Instead of a shop, there are mountains, instead of a refrigerator, a stream, instead of the Internet, a walkie-talkie. For 20 years he has not been to the city. Someday he wants to go on a world tour, to see Tibet, Rome, Australia. But for now, deer, nature and a dream are all that he has.

Lena is 47, and she is still in the hope to meet an ideal man with the Simoron’s help. Lena is sure that her life is full of magic and wonders, although she is bound to spend all days with her jobless alcoholic friend in search of a living and food.

The heroine of the film is a young girl, we do not know her name, during the film she is called differently. The girl spends one day in an amazing place - this is a house on the lake shore. The architectural space of the house and the garden contrasts with the area of the beach and the lake, these worlds are shared by the fence. All day long the heroine winds through these spaces and a summer day, listening and looking at the world around her.

This ten-minute film is based on a complicated dialogue between a director and an actress, who are trying to work out some crucial issues in their working relationship. Their conversation turns out to be a study of the boundaries between cinema and reality. Having trust in each other does not negate the need to problematize several key points in filmmaking.

A middle-aged woman wants to find a husband. It is full of emotions and experiences. The heroine lives with triple strength. But she does not find understanding from her close ones, and her personal life does not add up.

Through the alchemical materialization of hand-processed 16mm film, ’Fossil Falls’ uncovers a charge and vibration in the natural world. The camera traverses the desert in an embodied relationship with non-human life forms, exposing a sense of desire, narrative, and point of view in the non-human. Thus, there is a kind of crisis in trying to hold onto, know, or truly become that which is unknown, or outside of the human.

During the day, Oxana paints frames as a man; at night, she puts on her female skin. Oxana is a transsexual living in Moldova, where even expressions of tolerance towards sexual minorities can be dangerous.

The plot is the movement of Artemis towards her brother Apollo, who is returning from Space with an inspection to Central Russia. Based on the ancient Slavic division of the universe into Nav, Yav, and Prav, Apollo arrives at the center of YAV. Artemis, in the guise of the Bear, leaves her den - the sanctuary and goes to the place of the Meeting. Landing somewhere in the South Ural steppes, Apollo, in the form of the Five-Legged Wolf, walks reviving spring fields and birch farms towards his sanctuary - to the Apollo colonnade in the Moscow region.

The action takes place on the stage of a poor theater. The main hero (the buffoon) is jealous of the king of the stage and, sinking into the depths of his mental oppression, kills him. But what exactly does the main hero do? Is he eliminating a competitor or getting closer to the ceremony of his own funeral?

Ural stand-up comedian Denis in one minute tells his whole sad life.

The boy, who was bullied at school, looks for ways to solve the problem, and everything turns out in an unexpected way.

Of my parents exactly one video tape remained. I found it after almost 20 years and I realized: My sister and me never have talked about our loss. We grew up with our grandparents in a Russian-German ghetto somewhere in rural Germany. I want to know what she feels. And I want her to know what I feel.