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Lisa is 12 years old. Vacation she spends in the village. Runs away from grandmother's errands to the river, idle, paints her nails, dresses up and plays the fool with her younger brother. She wants to quickly become a girl. But while femininity is inferior to childishness.
The film is about an expedition that is looking for the lost biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. “Turning to the biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we wanted to establish whether these cities really were, and if so, where they were. After all, these cities are mentioned simultaneously in the Bible and the Koran. Nobody seems to doubt that they existed, but where they were, nobody can say for sure today, ”the author writes about the film.
Igor thought he could overcome any obstacle. After a series of events that changed his life, he reconsidered many events that happened to him.
A day in the life of a simple rickshaw driver in Delhi, India.
Contemporaries of “Perestroika” recall their hopes, expectations, and disappointments associated with it. Turning to emotional memory, they realize themselves not only as witnesses and eyewitnesses, but as real participants in the story.
The life of a musician and an artist in Transnistria is not easy, normal work cannot be found, and you think about the meaning of life - the hand itself reaches for the bottle.
Vika and Karina are building a charity clinic in Guatemala. Tropical diseases, drug smuggling, search for sponsorship and true love. Two crazy adventurers change the world for the better and just enjoy the life.
This film was shot during the last year of Daniil Dondurey’s life in Moscow and Tel Aviv, where he was receiving treatment. Dondurey’s monologue is broken up by city landscapes, the animated buzz of a café, the silence of an emptied dacha… Dondurey talks about his pursuits, encounters, and tastes; he recalls his student years in Leningrad. He jokes, smiles, and hopes.
Roman Yurinov is a motaur, a motorcycle man, and the organiser of the Russian movement Motodonors for Kids. Helping people who have fallen on hard times is his credo.
Sold-out stadiums, the roar of the fans, oceans of alcohol and easy-going friends... isn't that the life of a rock 'n' roller? But what's left when your friends abandon you, the fans find new idols and you find a court summons on a murder charge in your mailbox? This film tells the story of the life of the drummer for the cult Soviet band Zoopark.
In one day, everything has changed. After a nightmarish sleep, John arrives late to work, again, and loses his job. Attempting to keep this a secret from his girlfriend, Laurie-who wants only the best for him-John tries to find comfort in friends and in solitude, but is unable due to an omnipresent and alluring masked man following him. Twisting reality and nightmares together, the masked man pushes John to the edge.
Two students go to the Arctic Circle. The extreme north opens for them in the most magical and eerie manifestations. In search of an answer to the question "Why do people live in such hellish conditions?" they descend into the mine, meet with red-hot metal, open the ski season and communicate with the inhabitants of the northern city.
Film-interview about the nature of creativity
A portrait of a boy who works as an ad booker and dreams of changing his hometown.
“The film is about one of the most terrible and difficult periods in the history of Russia of the 20th century, about the 90s of the last century. For many people it was a shock. The Empire collapsed, human relations and moral values collapsed. Crime and bandits were everywhere. And ordinary people were concerned about how to survive. This period was called perestroika. The people call this time a troubled time. The film reviews social processes from within, not from the outside propaganda side. Much for the modern spectator seems strange, it seems phantasmagoric, but it was so.” -V. Eisner
Jordan Fry was born in the family of a Hollywood screenwriter. The name "Jordan" was chosen by the father in honor of the heroine of the novel "The Great Gatsby", so it seems that Joe came off the pages of Fitzgerald ... After leaving her native New York 6 years ago, she immigrated to Russia. Now Jordan lives in Moscow with a guy from Kaliningrad, plays in the Center. Meyerhold speaks fluent Russian. She is in love with the Russian theater, communicates with relatives only in Skype and constantly drinks tea, which she never did in America. With tours Joe traveled all over Russia, in her free time translates plays from Russian to English and performs with her own band Sauce Kefal in restaurants and bars in Moscow. In the subway she reads Platonov and Rasputin, monitors the presidential elections in the US and considers the monarchy to be the best way of government.
Based around longform interviews, including with some of Russia's most well-known LGBT activists, the film presents one of the most extensive looks to date into the lives and testimonies of ordinary members from any part of the country's queer community. It also presents a horrifying glimpse into the work of organised rings of Russian homophobes dedicated to repeatedly outing, shaming and physically assaulting those they've deceived and targeted.
Artistic reconstruction of real events telling about the struggle of the Belarusian police against banditry in the first post-war years. 1946. A front-line scout, senior lieutenant Smolich arrives in the town of Porechye to strengthen the local militia: in the western regions of Belarus gangs terrorize the population. The bandits of the mysterious Freyshyutsa, a former Nazi collaborator, are especially rampant. Smolich and criminal investigation chief Krikunov have to neutralize the elusive enemy. However, the plan of the police operation is suddenly jeopardized by information leakage. It turns out that in the police station there is a traitor...
A sequel to the 1999's movie "The Green Elephant"
The lonely rooster had a rough day. Perhaps tomorrow will turn out better.
You are trapped and alienated. You can’t escape or ask for help. The whole world turns into a prison. Like an endless limbo. There’s nowhere to run. Sometimes you feel like the death is the only option. Are you going to die here? Maybe you are you already dead. There’s nobody around here to tell you. You are the damned one.
Armenia. A small village. Before dying, the old woman Anush instructs her husband Ernest not to take into his head the idea of burying her but to burn her on the mountain and scatter the ashes to the wind...
A day in the lives of six Russian twenty-somethings living in St. Petersburg.
Blend of urban drama and spiritual parable, two estranged musician brothers find their bond tested when the woman they both love falls terminally ill. Seeking a miracle, one turns to an ancient rite of sacrifice during Eid al-Adha. Salavat Yuzeev’s Kurban-roman is a poetic exploration of faith, sibling rivalry, and the search for the sacred in the modern world.
A remake of Mikhail Mikhalkov's 1978 film Five Evenings, which tells the story of a man and a woman separated by war. The artist completely replicates the final scene of the film, in which the main character's monologue ends with the words "If only there were no war, if only there were no war, if only there were no war."
VHSEPROSCHENIE is a psychodocumentary series that shows our view of St. Petersburg. This subtle unconscious state can be experienced after a long illness, lack of sleep, shock, or simply because that is how you view life.
Astronauts celebrate New Year on the Moon, while Harry unwraps a gift.
The process of making a mud pie is more complex than it was when we were kids.
A convict is released from prison and is in desperate need of money. He decides to sell his aunt's house but soon discovers that she is a witch and her house contains all kinds of evil horrors.
Islamic State oil trade documents, testimonies of local civilians and captured ISIS militants: RT Documentary crew visits Syrian oil town of Shaddadi just 10 days after it was liberated from ISIS. Exclusive results of RT Doc investigation.
In order to fly only a few tens of seconds, these people are ready to climb the mountain for hours. And they think their efforts are worth it. Wingsuit, a wing of a special design, allows you to plunge into the world of complete freedom for at least a short time, to feel like birds. Base jumping also gives a slightly less thrill – this is what skydiving from fixed objects is called. However, this freedom is deceptive, and sometimes its price is prohibitively high.
Miron is a young, promising guy with plans for life. On one of his worst days of life, due to the mistake of a local authoritative bandit, he loses everything - his love, hopes and faith in the future. Myron's loved ones are already planning their vendetta and are trying in every possible way to persuade him not to leave everything as it is. Can Myron overcome grief and forgive the culprit or will he take revenge despite the sad consequences?
A cartoon about adventures that can happen to everyone both in reality and in dreams. Meetings and twists of fate are unpredictable - it is important that you know where to return..
A cartoon about a restless blue-haired skier who was treated for a cold by the whole forest.
After another quarrel with a Hare, a lazy Hare in search of an easy life meets a trusting Bear. As a result, the Bear becomes a victim of its decency.
The film "Generation of Bison" is a documentary drama, somewhat similar in plot to the film "Nine Days of One Year" by M. Romm, probably the most famous feature film about Soviet atomic scientists. There are also 9 stories in it, each corresponding to the stage of preparation and construction of the First nuclear power plant, the announcer is just as restrained and laconic, the plot is just as dramatic. At the same time, each story from the film "Generation of Bison" is a short story about the peculiarities of the life of young scientists, their attitude to each other, their interests and feelings. This is told by the participants of the events themselves – living witnesses of the era.
The film is about the combat path and the fate of front-line cameramen of the Great Patriotic War. There were 258 of them: almost every one was wounded, every second was seriously injured, and every fifth died on the front line during filming. They did not just have to face the horrors of war, they were able to find the strength to learn how to work in this new cruel reality. They were able, at the cost of their own lives, to capture on film and pass on to the future generation the heroic feat of the entire Soviet people.
A television documentary dedicated to the anniversary date – the 90th anniversary of the birth of actor, director, screenwriter, writer Vasily Shukshin. "I came to give you Free Rein" is a novel by Shukshin about Stepan Razin, which he dreamed of making into a film. But they didn't give it to him. The film tells in detail about the tragedy of the artist, who for many years fought for his idea, but turned out to be doomed…
Irakli Kvirikadze is an outstanding, internationally recognized screenwriter and director. He has changed his ninth decade, but lives the life of a very young man: he travels, brings up a preschooler son and helps his wife, artist and director Tom Stenko, in his work. The family spends most of their time in Goa, and it was there that Irakli, a brilliant storyteller, found time to share the amazing stories of his life.
A film about a village with the poetic name Svetlana, which is located two hours from St. Petersburg. It was built by volunteers more than twenty-five years ago for people with disabilities of physical and mental development, doomed to special psycho-neurological boarding schools of a closed type. Many of them, before they got to the village, could not connect even two words, they sat at home, within four walls. Svetlana avoids the words "disabled" or "sick", preferring to call such people "guys". They do not do miraculous healings and special trainings here, the diagnosis is not important here. Here the children simply create the conditions for a normal human life. Healthy and sick communicate on an equal footing, work together, put on performances and run a joint household. Disabled people do not feel sick and flawed. Everyone is equal here. The shooting of the film lasted about 13 years.
The main character of the film is Alexey Avdeev, a well–known artist in the Far East, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the author of hundreds of canvases and a participant in dozens of exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The artist now defines his main mission in life in short – to teach people to see the beautiful. According to the master, there was a time when he fussed, ran, tried to grab more.
The film, based on archival travel notes by the foreman of the Soviet reindeer husbandry and the video diary of a modern reindeer herder, tells about cultural traditions and innovations among the Kamchatka Evens, a small ethnic group of the Russian Far East.
The documentary "The Fate of Man" is about veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
