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Having come to visit a friend, Zhanna encounters a force which she can’t stand up against.

An elderly hunter meets a woman with cancer who has emerged from the forest. In anticipation of imminent death, feminine nature is exposed in front of masculine, giving rise to the eternal conflict between predator and victim.

Now it is very important to motivate young people graduating from Russian universities to do science in Russia. Our outstanding scientists who, despite the difficulties of the 1990s, were able to stay in Russia, create great science here and achieve serious career results, can serve as an example of a successful scientific career.

The concert of Alexander Dolgopolov/Sasha Capadya in Berlin, shot in October, 2023.

A small but very energetic elephant comes to the boy Matvey's apartment. So that his mother does not find him, the boy hides the elephant in the closet, but the elephant has a good appetite, and he grows right before our eyes, breaking the closet.

The film was shot in the period from spring to winter 2021 in the vicinity of the village of Luzhitsy, which is located in the west of the Leningrad region. It was during this period that the natural and social landscape of these places began to change catastrophically due to the grandiose industrial development. The situation especially affects the Volga region, a small people with a thousand-year history who survived wars, revolutions and the Stalinist era.

From our birth certificate to our death certificate, our lives are imprinted on paper. Documents are the same human organs as the lungs or the heart. Deprive us of the document, and what remains? The main character of the film will have to find out the answer from his own experience.

The film is about the fate of three brothers, each of whom has his own skeleton in the closet. The only thread that connects them is their father.

Vika lives with her three children in a house surrounded by the forest. Vika pretends that everything is okey. She tries not to notice that her husband left the family. But when he comes to pick up his last things, Vika breaks down. She takes her children into the woods, where she has to face all her fears.

In Russia, even milkmaids are now being labeled as foreign agents! What led the country to disapprove of the ordinary villager Elena Agafonova? Whom does she work for? And what is the reason behind the widespread fear of her in the entire Tula region? We visited the village of Partizan in the Uzlovsky district and spent several days with Lena to gain insight into her life.

A young man comes to his hometown and goes for an unplanned walk.

A film about the Moscow Open Student Theater.

The bear in the forest was prevented from sleeping by skiers and a nearby highway. Then he went into hibernation in a house on the territory of the city amusement park. People have been guarding his sleep all winter so as not to wake the bear up ahead of time.

A young girl, having buried her mother, comes to another city to find her biological father, knowing only his address, where he lived 20 years ago.

Each of these paintings hides a unique story in which the fates of the heroes and the artists themselves are intertwined. What was the fate of the boy Vasyatka from the "Troika" of Vasily Perov? Has Ivan Shishkin really never painted bears? Why did Viktor Borisov-Musatov see ghosts? And is it true that it was the "Defeated Demon" that played a fatal role in the fate of Mikhail Vrubel? The answers to all these questions are in the film almanac "Art and Fact".

A documentary comedy about the homeless director Igor Konovalov, who sold his Moscow apartment 7 years ago. He spent most of the money he earned on making movies, but went bankrupt and became homeless. Now Igor spends the night on the bus, feeds on free food handouts and tries in every possible way to survive in the big city. But he does not stop making movies: despite the circumstances, he is always looking for ways to do what he loves.

The world is overpopulated with myriads of demons. Permanently influencing hydrochemical and petropolitical singularities, they give rise to xeno-disturbances, provoke pestilence, plague, and wars. The lord of the wind and epidemics - Pazuzu is the most powerful of them. Pazuzu feeds on dust, which, according to Kabbalah, is equal to the absence of God. The rise of Pazuzu is the apotheosis of apotropy, a sign of a new stage of the Anthropocene.

According to the poem by Joseph Brodsky, "I'm not that crazy ...". Autumn, winter is coming. But not all birds fly to the south. Someone will fly away, someone will wait for spring. Collective work of Chelyabinsk students on a three-day intensive.

The girl is abandoned by the guy who provided for her, and she goes to study at the Uzbek school of manicurists. There she meets Aigul, who had a rich husband and a prosperous future, which she exchanged for training in manicure. Ira’s life values ​​and principles begin to crumble.

A photo film about the seamy side of propaganda, the glorification of war and the normalization of violence. The characters recite phrases from the last children's book by the poet Alexander Vvedensky, after which he was repressed and killed. The chamber format of viewing through an amateur photo projector, where the audible is refracted into the visible, refers to Soviet radio plays.

A 30-year-old boy returns to his childhood home to sell it, and meets a forgotten imaginary friend — a brave Knight. The knight is not ready to put up with the adult that his friend has turned into.

A young boy, sick of his parents' constant fights, starts his day as usual - he goes on the streets to spend some time alone before he has to go back into his so-called prison: home. Everything around him feels like it's mocking him but suddenly he discovers a powerful tool that illuminates the path by which his suffering might end, even if for just a little while.

First stand-up special by Yaroslava Trinadtsatko.

kuturar will guide the host of the episode Serafima through the overgrown after the fire forest and tell her about art inspiration and shamanism energy that invisibly appear in their music. Serafima will hang out at the kuturar concert on the rock festival "Kholbon" and travel on a boat to a scenic island on the river Lena, where a live performance of kuturar will be held and only crows will see it.

“I want to show things how they are.” Meet Maria (Masha) Alyokhina of the Russian activist movement Pussy Riot, who has been protesting against the regime of Vladimir Putin through public, colourful and non-violent actions for over a decade. “The system pretends to have a serious face. That’s how they want the fear to go inside you and paralyse you. And we believe that the smile and humour break this fear.” Maria Alyokhina describes today’s Russia as a totalitarian regime and the development since 2012 as “the road to hell”, reaching a low point with the attack against Ukraine in 2022.

A parable about the eternal movement of life. A person appears from love and leaves when love ends.

Lena, a popular Instagram blogger, knocks down a man on the way to a country cottage. To hide the incident, she turns to her young man Lesha and his friends, Pasha and Andrei, for help. Arriving at the scene of the accident, Lesha's friends discover that the downed man is singer Ilya Korkin, their idol. Long-term friendship does not stand up to such a test, only a miracle can help a couple. Andrey, before the final breakup with Lesha, shares the contact of the Cleaner, who will help cover his tracks. The arriving professional examines the body and recognizes Ilya Korkin, whose songs are for him a ray of light in his dark world. He faces a dilemma – to do his job or avenge the death of his beloved singer.

Charming lyrical comedy about growing up

A girl in the costume of the Snow Maiden is going to spend the New Year with her friends, but she does not suspect that on this night she really has to perform a miracle and help one person regain understanding of the significance of time.

Meeting with the buryat rapper Bair Tarbaev and his project LUTAAR. Bair takes the host of the episode to his native ulus Sanaga, tells her all about nearby mountains' names and shows a religious service in datsan.We will see not only the beautiful buryat nature but Bair's parents house and his apartment-music studio as well.

From the project "Multipelki", based on a song by Boris Savelyev to the words of Mikhail Plyatkovsky. A story about real friends. They are not afraid of any life trials, because they are always in the same paper boat called "Friendship", sometimes even with a penguin.

In the early 70s of the twentieth century, a gramophone record called "Lute music of the XV-XVII centuries" arrived in music stores. She was a truly stunning success and was in almost every Soviet family. The first number on it was the work "Canzone" by the composer Francesco da Milano (1497-1543). To the tune of the "Canzone", the poet Henri Volokhonsky composed the poem "Over the Blue Sky", using biblical images from the Old Testament Book of the prophet Ezekiel. The song "Under the Blue Sky" became the most famous ballad, and the aria "Ave Maria" became a worldwide opera hit. And suddenly, twenty years after the release of the record, it turned out that the withered Italian composers on the cover do not have such works, and their author is the Hero of our film – self-taught Vladimir Vavilov. In the film, Andrey "Ryusha" Reshetin, a violinist, researcher of Russian music and language of the Baroque era, discusses the secrets of music.

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov, a Soviet football player, hockey player and outstanding coach. Bobrov was an Olympic champion, honored master of sports and coach, as well as the only captain of the national team in history who competed at both the summer and Winter Olympic Games.

Armenian Arsen and Azerbaijani Fati have an accident on a mountainous section of the road. The long wait for the inspectors forces the heroes to attempt a peaceful dialogue. Arsen and Fati get to know each other better, share the circumstances of their destinies, which turn out to be tragically intertwined with each other.

Lena managed to find her dream job: she's a crane operator. However, the daily routine has dulled even the liveliest enthusiasm. Climbing a hundred-meter ladder has turned into a regular workout, and even the incredible sunsets no longer bring joy. But Lena is not willing to live and work on autopilot.

The main characters are approximately 35–40 years old, some are already firmly on their feet, have a business, a fortune, others are struggling to survive, getting into debt. And someone, wanting to easily and quickly earn big money and show off his classmates, becomes an accomplice in a criminal scheme. All of Baidam's efforts to change his life for the better fail when his fraudulent past catches up with him in the present. The unfortunate father of the family, Demid, who suffered at the hands of scammers, begins his hunt. Will Baidam be able to save his loved ones and understand that any actions have consequences?

The teenager Victor lives in a city on the border of worlds among giant talking animals, aliens and magical creatures. Together with his classmates - the giant rabbit and the cat-girl Maruko - he sets off on exciting adventures.

A lively and ironic puppet-documentary road movie by Tatiana Soboleva about two young directors who are on the road in search of a solution for a future performance.

A silent film about a young worker of a soap factory whose love affair ended.

A young man from the province in search of a better life comes to Moscow and falls in love with the girlfriend of a rich businessman who does not approve of this union. A friend of a visiting guy opens a nightclub, after which he starts having problems. Further events are rapidly developing, turning the fate of all.

A new single of one of the most daring Russian-language comics, recorded in the city of Almaty. "Where am I" is a kind of report for the last two years. Idrak Mirzalizade reflects on his sensational deportation from Russia, mercilessly and accurately jokes about politics, and also discusses how to live a "reluctant traveler".

Ragon bal remake traditional ossetian music, they structure national identity in a new way. The band has no need in national clothes for their performances, because traditions already live inside the musicians. Ragon bal present the subculture of caucasian post-folk. This music exists in conditions of global world and is not mainstream, but it's difficult to imagine cultural context of the region without it.

Shot at their sold-out show at 1930 Moscow on December 15th 2021.

I am Dusya.

I didn't communicate with him during all my life, but it seemed like I had a communication with mom. And now I am dealing with the courts for simply being their daughter. How can I call you: father or dad? Just want to answer this question...

A fine thread weave scraps at the crossroads of the art cinema, documentary and improvisation with the participation of residents of the five authentic regions of Russia. The characters of the film, artists and fashion designers, will go through the way of reflection and rethinking the outgoing culture, becoming participants of amazing rites and witnesses of the disappearing way of life. Drama, comedy, phantasmagoria - everything is connected with a thin thread with folk philosophy, sadness and beauty of folk culture, ancient signs and new readings.

The legendary Kushchevskaya attack, which dispelled the myth of the invincible power of the Wehrmacht, is an important page in the history of defensive battles in the south of Russia in the hot summer of 1942, which must be remembered, but it is unacceptable to falsify.

You can't shoot onto receipt paper, but any video accumulated by mankind throughout time can be printed on it. The film demonstrates the possibility of combining heterogenous visual material through the process of image degradation. This work uses METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang and videos from YouTube and Instagram as source material.

Is there a life without a bottle? The director of the film decides to put an experiment on himself: completely give up alcohol for a year and show the audience what the first 365 days of sober life look like.

A documentary comedy about a father, a son and a large family living in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.

The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.

Following a mass emigration from Russia, a poignant love letter emerges in the abandoned home spaces of friends and family.

The story of five Bashkirs who have to go through two wars - the Russian-Swedish and the Patriotic War of 1812. The French called them Northern Cupids in honor of the deity of love, Cupid, because the horsemen were armed with bows and arrows. They unexpectedly attacked the enemy and just as sharply went to the rear, remaining elusive.