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Filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky invites fans and everyday people across Russia to film short videos of their lives, thoughts, and routines during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Capital traffic jams and endless replacement of tiles on the sidewalks, filming of national films and absurd situations with artists, stories from the lives of neighbors and their dogs.

His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"

The project of Olga Zhirova and Julia Vorobieva

History teaches painful but true lessons. Another love triangle from Inga Doeva.

Andrey Beburishvili's solo concert "The Age of Condemnation". About parents, sex, shame, separation, friends, sports and the poem "Mtsyri".

Igor and Natasha are a young couple. They love each other, despite the opposite characters. Igor is a perfectionist, he lives by a schedule, everything is in order for him. Natasha is free, impulsive, living outside the rules. Their differences often cause conflicts and one day bring Igor to a nervous breakdown. After which Natasha does the impossible, proving that a woman is capable of anything for the sake of love, even straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Because love will save the world.

The wounded Russian Orloff, treated in a Japanese hospital, is watched over with devotion by the volunteer nurse Hanako, who seems charming to him. On Hanako's father's refusal, Lieutenant Orloff kidnaps the little geisha and brings her back to Moscow. Far from her native country, little Hanako no longer seems so pretty to the fickle Orloff who now prefers the beautiful Rayskaya. Unable to overcome her pain, the little geisha prefers to die.

In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.

High school students Sasha and Nina secretly sneak into an empty hotel room. They are going to have sex for the first time to keep up with their more advanced classmates. However, everything is not going according to plan, and young people understand that this is not just a one-night relationship - this is first love.

The old man lives alone only with his work, he is a switchman in a remote Kazakh steppe. The only time when he feels happy is the night when he sleeps and he dreams of a beautiful girl. One day, not far from the railway, an old man sees a car, inside which a girl from his dreams finds himself.

Two friends escape from the village to the city in search of a better life. However, finding your place in the city is not as easy as it seemed at first. After making several unsuccessful attempts to earn money and spending the last money on entertainment, the heroes begin to engage in petty crime, not realizing what this can lead to.

When a beautiful new student, Angelina Aistova joins Liosha Agafonov's group at college, he feels an instant attraction to her. However, after several unsuccessful attempts at catching her attention, he decides the best way forward is to arrange a small collision with their cars. As a result Liosha finds himself at Angelina's house reporting the 'accident' to her father. Very soon Liosha realises that he has fallen in love with the daughter of an oligarch - Angelina's father is a business magnate but whose company has been suffering because of a long-standing feud with an old rival. In order to somehow hush up the car accident, Liosha is hired as a gardener at the Aistovs' house. In his line of duties he is required to make a number of visits to a florist's shop where he befriends Katia the sales girl.

Polina is a vocal student and in love with a married man. This film explores the relationship to love, as a first and unknown love, lost entirely, silent.

An elderly man comes for an interview at a large corporation, but in order to work there, you need to sacrifice your memories.

The film tells about the most difficult period in the modern history of Russia - from the late 1980s and the "era of change" to the crisis end of the noughties - through the prism of people who made the most important economic decisions. But this is not a dry enumeration of facts, but an accurate and even unexpected portrait of economists who managed to keep an entire country from financial collapse, and in the center of this group portrait is Alexey Kudrin.

The film takes place in 1951 in a large provincial city. The young wife returns from the resort, and after her comes the “spa card” from the man with whom she somehow walked along the shore, listening to the surf under the starry night sky. A husband receives a postcard ... He does not arrange a scene of jealousy and, experiencing pain inside himself, decides to write him an answer on behalf of Vera.

The grand constant flow of life

The franchise team gathers to remember how it all began, share their favorite moments from filming, and figure out how the characters of Silver Spoon have changed over time.

La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni, with sets by William Grieve and costumes by Mme. Copère.

He wants to break free from himself or tear himself away from the world. He screams hysterically, eats roses, plunders treasures, and sacred signs appear on his chest. Christ or just another man tired of life. A new prophet of a new faith. QR.

Silent feature film by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Vladimir Gardin based on Pushkin’s story of the same name. Considered lost. Directorial debut of Olga Preobrazhenskaya.

Russian short film adaptation of the Stephen King short story "The Man Who Loved Flowers".

Two gypsy lovers sneak away from camp at night. The man proposes, the woman refuses. He then murders her with a knife. The body is immediately discovered. The distraught man then leaps off a cliff to the rocks below.

A musical film based on the vocal cycle "The Road to Pushkin".

An actor who performs for a children's theater lands a leading role in a new production.

Five stories all related to alcohol and it's affectation on people lives.

Maxim Kuznetsov, a journalism student and an adherent of investigative journalism, is interested in questions whose answers are not so easy to obtain. Having assembled a team of student friends, programmer Stesha and operator Dani, Maxim intends to uncover the mystery and provide answers in his course work. During the investigation, students conduct opinion polls and experiments, tear away the veils from the past, encounter shocking conclusions and are persecuted - after all, it is completely unprofitable for someone to let the truth come out.

They are very different, but they have one dream - to reach heaven. The famous Moscow stand-up comedian Ilya Pogorelov was publicly accused of lying by his ex, and now he needs to "just" survive. And the shy provincial Sanyok wants to break out of his cocoon and live for real at least a little. By chance (or providence), Sanyok and Ilya set off together on a journey to the sea to find themselves, make their dreams come true and find love. The duet "Pogorelov and Sanyok" formed along the way will travel across the floor of Russia, blow up TikTok, make millions laugh and move - make hearts beat faster and remind you how to enjoy life.

The tragic accident takes away from the surgeon Alexander Remezov memory. Before him closed the door to the past, family, friends and colleagues seem to be strangers, and life loses its meaning. Feeling like an outsider, Alexander struggles to find a way into the world where he was himself. But is he ready to remember everything and find out who he really was?

On the fairy-tale of Gennady Tsyferov about self-respect.

The father of the Director Valeria Gai Germanica, the 91-year-old Alexander Brown, is deeply saddened by the death of his beloved wife. He goes on a summer trip together with the family of his daughter. Together they fly to the sea, and little by little the trip to Italy and Greece takes on the dimensions of an ancient tragedy: mortal danger and miraculous salvation, difficulties in translation and conflicts between generations. Human life turns out to be a journey full of emotions that can hardly be borne.

The word "rok" in Russian means both rock music and fate. The film's heroes, who want to conquer the musical Olympus of Moscow, are accompanied by both. This troika is not even a group yet, not a team, and probably not even friends. But that's at the beginning. The further the heroes leave home, the more dangerous their adventures and the people they met on the way become, and the more strongly the children change inside. The film is a journey, a search of the self, where the road to the dream is the greatest, most dangerous and unforgettable adventure in the life of the young provincial musicians.

Director's cut of "Hospital Tales", all three parts together. The video has been improved and changed, two new songs have been included.

Mechanic Stepanych goes on a tourist trip to Thailand while his wife and daughter are expecting his return and don't even know what kind of events are waiting for them.

A huge housing complex called "Сronos" is being built next to the orphanage. Irina, the orphanage's teacher, is worried that Cronos is getting closer and closer to the house and taking over more and more land. She will do everything possible to protect her charges.

Agnia lives an ordinary student life with her boyfriend Marat. Everything changes with the arrival of a new teacher in psychology. She has an interest in him that reveals the sexual pathology of a girl.

The only women's football team of Dagestan today has only one rival - centuries-old traditions. Future wives and mothers are not supposed to kick the ball around the field. Muslim women who play a male sport have to prove their right to be themselves day after day, destroying stereotypes. For the sake of football, they are ready to challenge family, traditions and public opinion.

A young man finds himself in a difficult situation when he tries to buy a carton of milk at a seemingly ordinary store. Things quickly escalate when an incompetent salesperson and a negligent robber cross his path.

A cute young man admires photos of his beloved. Full face, profile, close-up, medium. And suddenly, to his horror, he sees treason. She's with someone else — dancing, hugging, kissing. Fas, profile. The photos make him angry. Treason must be punished. The hero in love grabs a gun and. he wakes up.

The sad ride of driver Zarezin and Circus Girl, Bonnie, to deliver a sick circus elephant, Bodhi, to be euthanized, becomes a wondrous journey full of unexpected twists and joyous encounters that changes all three characters, human and elephant, forever.

Christmas night. Married couple. All the guests have left and it’s time to dig into the marriage relationships – do husband and wife still love each other or not? If they have ever loved at all… Are they telling the truth or are they lying? Can they forgive and forget? Should they stay together or get divorced?

The story of Charles Sydney Gibbes, the tutor to Grand Duchesses and Tsarevich Alexei – an extraordinary forgotten tale from the Russian Revolution.

In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.

Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all a long, eventful life. It will take more than half a century and in one of the days in different parts of the Earth there will be events associated with that fateful meeting of the summer of 1945, and the viewer will learn how she has drastically changed the life of each hero and not only.

The life of 30-year-old Nastya is divided into two parts: a world of constant tension and the struggle to survive in the metropolis threatens her inner peace and emotional balance — Nastya is passionate about horseback riding. An internal conflict is brewing, the contradictions are obvious, but Nastya prefers to ignore them, escaping from her problems to the stable. Until “that very day” arrives. “To find your place in life” — it sounds so simple, yet proving it in reality is so difficult.

Xiao Lang is the daughter of a Chinese millionaire, she is flying from London to Guangzhou for her own wedding. The plane makes an emergency landing in Moscow. To make it to the ceremony in time and to catch the next flight to Guangzhou, Xiao Lang has to exit into the city, which she believes to be barbarous. During the next day, she is destined to live through the most wonderful adventures. Xiao Lang not only gets to know the real Moscow, but also meets a person who might be worth staying here for…

Young doctor Irina Mikhaylovna works in Soviet province and has to hire ex-con Lyuba as baby tender for her daughter. When anti-Semitic company starts in Soviet Union and danger is threatening Irina, Lyuba stays her only devoted friend.

A girl escapes from a village that has been burned by the Nazi. She meets a traveling circus troupe. Soon the troupe is confronted by the Nazi and only a juggling girl can save one of them.

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.

The film is dedicated to the work of one of the most famous Russian composers, the author of the first Soviet rock opera Alexander Zhurbin. The 4 episodes tell about the different facets of the composer's work, about symphonic music, about musical theater, about cinema, about pop songs. The film is built as a monologue of the protagonist, the shooting was carried out in Moscow, Tashkent, New York, St. Petersburg. The composer's wife, poet and translator Irina Ginzburg, and the son, composer Lev Zhurbin, take part in the film.

Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.