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January 7. A long journey along the railroad tracks to the electric train. The walking hero must decide whether to return to his distant homeland or stay in the capital.

Andrei Borisov, a former special forces officer, lives a quiet life in the Moscow region after his dismissal. One evening, a girl comes to his house and tries to make an acquaintance. A few minutes later, unknown people attack Andrey's house and try to kill him. Andrew manages to fight off the attackers. He decides to take the girl with him to find out if she is connected with the killers, and who is behind all this. After interrogating the girl, he realizes that she has nothing to do with it, and now she herself is in danger. Andrei guesses that his past as a commando is to blame, and now he needs to find his former colleagues in order to solve the problem and stay alive. But all of them are killed in the last two days, and now you have to rely only on yourself.

Fantasy on the theme of books and poems by Vladislav Krapivin for his 80th birthday. Based on real events during the Russian Civil War.

Unfortunately, we begin to understand our parents too late.

Coursework students of the course "Puppet animation" under the leadership of George Boguslavsky and Igor Khilov.

Doga, 29, works in the family restaurant in Argoun, Chechnya. When his secret lover, Ruslan, is suddenly arrested, Doga knows it's only a matter of days for him too.

The poetic film essay on poems by Arseny Tarkovsky reveals the mystery of the fate and work of three prominent filmmakers - Sergey Parazhdanov, Andrey Tarkovsky, Alexandr Antipenko.

The film tells the stories of 30 heroes - residents of the peninsula, who daily go to their favorite work, engage in creative work, help their neighbors and are not afraid to make plans for the future.

A simple journey from point A to point B turns into an equation with a lot of unknowns, if you are 20 years old and you are Kolya.

A grandma. A small slum. On her anniversary day she turns the 40 years old record on her reel-to-reel tape-recorder. To the strains of the young friends’ and relatives’ voices she thoroughly lays a holiday table. Dishes, tea service, cutlery. A long raw of glasses on the white cloth. Anniversary greetings, wishes of happiness and long life, dreams and plans of the people of bygone epoch are heard at the record. It’s hard for grandma, but she keeps carefully laying the table. Finally, the record stops. The grandma sits at the served table: there are no food or drinks, only dishes and cutlery. For a moment she sits with no motion. She cries silently. Then the grandma sighs and starts to draw the cloth.

A short documentary film about Samvel Galstyan - a taxi driver from Erevan. The film puts his profession in the background focusing on Samvel's hobby - he's been an artist since his childhood.

Hybrid documentary about the Russian-Ossetian rap duo "MiyaGi & Эндшпиль".

A documentary film about being transgender in St Petersburg in Russia, presented by Owl and Fox Fisher. This is the first specifically trans related documentary film on day to day trans life and the specific issues that trans women, trans men and non-binary people are facing in Russia. With special thanks to Jonny and all our contributors.

A funny tale about how, thanks to a sheep in a state of panic, animals cold with cold: the wolf, the fox, the bear, the sheep, the squirrels and the frog, gathered under the same roof of a small Izba, warmed up and became friends.

Travel two brothers-fans in Samara for the match the Russian team.

In Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan a city of the future is being built. Named Innopolis, it was officially opened in 2015 and is the first new town to be built in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. The best IT specialists travel there from all over the country to create a new community. But those who work in the town’s service industry are ordinary inhabitants of the neighbouring villages: Pustiye Morkvashi and Vostochnaya Zvezda. What is this juxtaposition like: the new world and the old world? Perhaps, despite the apparent differences, these worlds are identical in their essence?

The life of the heroes flows on its own until they receive the message: "Attention! Volunteers are required!". Wherever the Lisa Alert volunteers are, they go on a search, especially when the life of a lost child depends on it. The film, created by students of the Moscow School of Cinema in 360 format, takes the viewer to the center of the events of the search operation, showing the path that each of the characters takes to achieve one important task — so that everyone else receives the message "Found. Alive!".

They were planting cabbage in the vegetable garden when the war in Donetsk began... Mother Superior Michaela and Julia suddenly find themselves in the heart of the fighting... in an orthodox monastery. These women live through their eye-witness experience of the fate of this holy place, although they could in effect leave at any given time. The main heroines tell of their lives under fire in the war zone, and their personal struggle withfear and internal conflict .. It turns out that war can be the most profound, intense and thought - provoking time in a person's life.

Jura is 23 years old - and Lena is 23. They live in Budennovsk, play computer games, walk and learn. They live in a city where Shamil Basayev entered 23 years ago with militants, and know almost nothing about the events of that time.

The communist poet Nazim Hikmet, after serving 17 years in Turkish prisons, fled to the Soviet Union as the country of victorious communism. Communism turned out to be a hoax, it lost its homeland forever. The Turkish word "hasret" (longing) is one of the few Turkish words that his adopted daughter learned. His heart could not stand the melancholy and hypocrisy of Soviet life, he died early and was buried in Moscow, where he was safely forgotten. But this old story becomes suddenly very relevant during the referendum in Istanbul.

Alexander Zhuravlev, a blind photographer, traveler and hero of the film “Over the Horizon”, was one of the few Russians who had the honor of delivering the Olympic torch to the venue of the games. Despite the massive suspension of Russian athletes, at the Olympics in 2018 already have a representative of our country.

The last concert of "Grazhdanskaya Oborona", held on February 9, 2008 in Yekaterinburg.

Katya lives in Rostov-on-Don, studies economics and works part-time at McDonald's. During the World Cup, she became a volunteer - she walks with a huge foam hand and offers fans to "give five".

To the mental features of Mashenka, Anton Tut Ryadom's student, very low vision is added. And yet, overcoming all these restrictions, she lives. And this is already asceticism. “We have to live,” says the heroine of the film.

Jane was born in Petersburg, lives in Moscow, works as a model. Her father moved to Russia from Ghana when he was 20 years old. Listening to the stories of her father, Jane always wanted to go back home. She had never been to Africa, had not seen her relatives, including her grandmother and aunt ... Suddenly, Jane finds out that her aunt will become the leader of the region in Ghana and decides to go on a trip to Accra to attend the inauguration of the leader and meet her relatives ...

Is it easy to be a doctor in rural Russia? The main character of the film – doctor of Vologodsk air medical service Sergei Diakov – tells about struggle, hope, empathy and responsibility.

Dina Loskutova, a person with severe disability, moves from a psycho-neurological boarding school to the House in the wild, where she can live with other people with disabilities and developmental disorders, in the village of Razdolye among ordinary people. How does their life, about the joys and trials of the first years of free life, this film tells.

Isn't the history of our Fatherland a dream? Does it have anything to do with the life of the inhabitants of the village of Novikovo? Here is the ancestral tomb of the once famous Novikov-Kireevs. But on closer examination, it suddenly turns out that everything the Novikov-Kireevs lived by is still relevant today. Not only for the village, but for the whole of Russia.

A strange phenomenon happens in Kalachi village situated in northern Kazakhstan. During a season of thaw or rain the inhabitants routinely fall into an inexplicably long sleep, which can last up to two weeks.

Alexander Sysoev was a successful businessman in the dashing 90s. In 1999, he decided to overthrow the current government, first in Vyshny Volochok, and then in the country. In order to take possession of the weapon, Alexander wanted to seize the local police department. On the night of April 9-10, 1999 — the eve of Orthodox Easter — Sysoev staged a shooting at the police department of the city of Vyshny Volochek. As a result of this attack, three police officers were killed. Sysoev was detained, and after an investigation in 2000, the court found him insane and sent him to compulsory psychiatric treatment. 15 years later, in 2015, Sysoev was released. Sergey Yerzhenkov found Alexander and went with him to Vyshny Volochek.

In the center of the story is the main character’s monologue about the anxiety caused by viewing Instagram feeds. There, all the time, someone lives better than her! Her conclusion is both sad and funny: "Every time I am in the opposite place from happiness and in anxiety." Will she find a way out of this state? How will her man, to whom she tells everything, react to this monologue?

He lost himself at war and then he awakened in Venice. He was a sniper and he became a photographer because the rifle’s telescopic sight is very similar to the camera’s viewfinder. Roman Cherpak left his home in Ukraine at the age of 14, he has grown up in Israel and now he raises his two sons in Italy and in Moscow and manages his gallery in Venice’s downtown.

She is absolutely sure she wants a divorce! He doesn’t agree, but doesn’t dare contradict. So they go for a divorce. They’d go to the end, if they weren’t stopped by a ridiculous incident... Why do people part? Where do feeling go in a stream of offences and claims? The film is a reflection about partings and relationships, where there is no good and bad, but people don’t hear each other, even though they are close.

A heavy conversation between two best friends about the same girl is interrupted by the appearance of a football fan looking for a fight. Now one inaccurate word can lead to tragedy.

Sima is 20 years old. She moves from her grandfather and grandmother's house and finds herself face to face with herself. She tries to understand who she is. And for that goes in search of his father who was a known Soviet hippie dissident.

Many people know who Sergey Muratov is. One of the three legendary inventors of KV Na, a professor of Moscow State University adored by students. He has learned many stars of Russian TV journalism. A major theorist and authority, he has written a mountain of books about television. But few people know that Professor Muratov is actually an ordinary alien who has been on Earth in transit.

The zombie apocalypse found a couple of lovers who ran away from the city for the weekend, practically in bed. And now they are locked in a country house, surrounded by hordes of zombies, with no communication, no food, no way out, no hope. And everyone is ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the other.

An ironic look at the consumerist society.

How do you tell a mother that her only son is no longer alive? For Amina, this becomes the greatest challenge of her life…

In one of the last days of summer on the beach of a small Russian city, a young man lights a cigarette. The cigarette makes him both close and lonely towards his friend.

Two women faced different housing problems. One lives in a barrack, where all ceilings have rotted and the ceiling is about to collapse - but the house is not considered emergency. Across the road is another quarter. In it - strong houses, walls in four bricks. But they should be demolished. One of the residents does not agree to move. She intends to fight for her house to the end. The film is about how, in modern urban policy, profit increasingly begins to prevail over logic and justice.

The embittered fan takes hostage a star of the Russian national football team to teach him to “hammer”.

Term paper by Alexander Belov, VGIK student.

Story of Gulnara, mother of 142 children, who is being sued by union officials' for child trafficking, sexual and labour exploitation. The object of the claim is the Issyk-Ata resort property, famous for its healing mineral geothermal hot springs, which was donated to Gulnara's orphanage by businessman Afanasy in the 90s, who then renounced the world to enter a convent for personal reasons.

The last few years, Matthew and Kate live in the village. An event occurs in their lives that leads to a radical redefinition of relationships. The past and the present are intertwined into one confused story in which the characters lose sleep, drive each other out of the house, rush into the arms, starting a new circle. And precisely at this time friends from Berlin come to visit them.

Self-Harm is a popular term meaning self-harm without suicidal intent, a symptom of many personality disorders. This film is an attempt to remove the stigma of taboo and public condemnation of such behavior.

The story of the grand victory of the Soviet Union national basketball team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In the final, the Soviet athletes had to compete with the leader of world basketball, the US national team. The Americans have never conceded Olympic gold to anyone before. The main time of the match ended with a score of 49:50 in favor of the Americans. The United States team was already celebrating the victory. There were only three seconds left. No one believed that these three seconds could change not only the outcome of the meeting, but also the entire history of basketball.

The young doctor-oncologist receives an offer which impossible to refuse - an invitation to a Medical conference in Geneva, where soon will happens competition between the most genius doctors from around the world. But for a victory in this competition the doctor needs the biggest tumor ever seen. For the sake of victory, she is ready for everything, including killing his own patients, for whose life she recently fought. However, death of patience is ultimately not enough to head the victory and the doctor faces a choice that is not so easy to decide. Tumors 3: Doctor Nightmare - not a direct continuation of the previous two parts shot by Alex Wesley, but a new interpretation of the monstrous story with new experiences, horrors, and of course with new victims.

A comic musical variation of the Russian folk tale “Turnip”.