Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Photographer Grigory Yaroshenko gets a chance to visit Antarctica and learn about the life of polar explorers. But his wife is expecting their second child, and life changes. Gregory is faced with the question of male self-identification and acceptance of new family circumstances.

The hero of the picture decides to fall back to his native roots and leaves the capital for the village. But this does not bring him the desired freedom – he suffers one defeat after another...

The person of the once popular film artist Evgeny Steklov is shrouded in gossip and speculation; 10 years ago, he unexpectedly abandoned his dizzying career as a movie star and became a teacher at a theater university. Nevertheless, Steklov is quite happy with life, he has an interesting job, good friends and his beloved wife Marianna. Everything changes when Steklov accidentally finds a box on the mezzanine with the mysterious inscription “ALKOFARADO” with Marianne’s love letters to an unknown recipient.

Run away from the all night through party, a young girl is trying to help her good friend to get rid of the bloody consequences of the quarrel with his wife. By the way they reveal new circumstances of their relationship.

The agit-film that called on the workers to deal a crushing blow to General Yudenich’s troops during the White Guard offensive on Petrograd. Lost film.

Mr. Kora, the serial killer, was screwed from birth as his face was filled with tumors.

This is a story about the tragedy of an entire nation, which was almost destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. The "Children from the Abyss" are people who miraculously survived among the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. The film contains their memories, documents, and photographs.

A program made for Kultura on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko.

The youngest son returns home to help his father and brothers meet the targets for a profitable order on cut wood. During his absence nothing has changed: the same back-breaking toil for the sake of a piece of bread, the same resistance from the neighbouring settlement, the same inability of the family members to express their love and understanding for their kin. And the river, which may rise at any time and wash away the parental home that stands on its banks.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Demonstrators carrying banners.

Nikolai's firm is on the verge of ruin, and Vladimir offers him money at interest. But, as it turns out, they actually know each other.

Times are hard for single mothers. But there are things young boys don't want to know.

A young man at the bar remembers the circumstances of the breakup with his ex-girlfriend.

The relations in the happy family of 15-year-old Sasha begin to crack: his father spends days and nights at work, in a battery store, his mother is preparing to move.The boy feels something goes wrong and tries to sort out the situation, but do not know how... Another world means life after childhood, in which there is discord, despair and hope.

The USSR was the last empire of the planet Earth. Mikhail Gorbachev is practically the only emperor who physically survived his empire. For ten years, the Russian TV viewer practically did not see the first and last president of the USSR. Moreover, we do not know how and how Gorbachev lives today, what he thinks about the past, what he expects from the future.

Based on the novel "South of the Slot" by J. London. The movie didn't survive.

Nicolai Sctulman has got a big secret - in his garage basement there lives a hideous Freak. The two have a twisted arrangement together, Sctulman kills people and feeds them to the monster living in his basement in exchange for a strange but addictive green slime that the Freak gives him from his sweat which is "the best drug in the universe".

An old woman, Paradise, walks through the endless corridors in a boarding house for the elderly. While the rest of the residents are preparing for the dances, she stubbornly searches for her house and cannot find it in any way.

Geneticist Ivan Rozin, unable to come to terms with the loss of his beloved mother, is obsessively working on a scientific project to find a cure for death and improve the human genome. Violating more and more ethical norms, a scientist absorbed in this idea kidnaps two children. Their mother will have to stop Ivan and prove that his experiments do not lead to perfection, but to the loss of humanity by himself.

Liza Monetochka shows archives from a videotape dug out from under the bed with children's chronicles and footage of her b-day — 21 years old on the stage after all!

Alena, a career-minded woman, goes to her hometown to visit her father. However, things take an interesting turn after she meets a carefree man and falls in love with him.

Masha and Volodya are a couple in love who cannot live without each other for a day. In the midst of the war, and to maintain relations with young people is very difficult. There are a lot of difficulties and challenges that will be faced in love. They will learn the power of their feelings and test it with war.

Sima Voskresenskaya, who lost her parents at the very beginning of the war, lives in an orphanage and secretly keeps our family cross, reminding her of her beloved family.

A young man finds himself in a mental hospital. He does not know how he found himself there. The only thing that pops up in his mind is the image of a mysterious girl. Trying to figure out what happened to him, he begins to write down his story from the beginning. Will he be able to understand what is a figment of his imagination and what is reality...? Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

A young copywriter Sergey dreams of escaping from a boring life and writing a novel. He quits his job, locks himself alone in his apartment to devote all his time to this, but the process is difficult. One day he notices in the reflection of the mirror on the door of an old massive cabinet that the page on the laptop screen is covered with text, while in reality it is completely empty. Sergey copies the written text from the reflection and realizes that this is the beginning of the novel, which he tried to invent himself. Soon Sergey gets acquainted with a mirror image of himself, which seems to him more confident, free and talented. Reflection gradually subordinates Sergey, gains power over him, teaches him how to become productive and successful. But what is the price of this success and the chances of finding yourself again

Spoiled seven-year-old Vanka lives a carefree childhood. Going with his father to the Maslenitsa holiday, Vanka meets a runaway deserter in the forest, about whom he tells the adults. This act instantly deprives Vanka of his childhood, and the father of his child. The event opens his eyes to the adult world in which the child will have to live on.

She loved to receive flowers from him as a gift. He liked to give her flowers. She died years ago. He continues to give flowers to the one who looks like her. Taking your life in return...

Timofey hates September 1st—the pressure to study, the chaos of school, and everyone’s fake cheerfulness. But when he finds a mysterious book, "Magical Rituals and Spells," he tries a spell to never go to school again. The next morning, he wakes up to the same day: September 1st. Trapped in a time loop, Timofey must uncover the secrets of the book, face his fears, and learn that some days—and people—are worth repeating.

On his birthday, Vitya jokingly makes his hair in the shape of a triangle, which greatly annoys his father-in-law. The conflict grows, Vitya's boss fires him from his job, his mother-in-law calls him a Satanist, and his father-in-law is completely ready to pierce Victor with his own gift - a dagger. As a result, the hero removes the ill-fated hairstyle, but leaves the house.

A subtle melodrama in the old style about youth, memories and the first infatuation that never stops to shine. It is a story about the encounter between two separate universes, of a Russian student and an American researcher, in a tent in nature amidst stunning landscapes of the Caucasus. It begins well and ends well, too. The visual form which illustrates the film contents is an experiment with the format and the use of black, white and colour. With a scent of nostalgia, this cinema evokes the spirit of narration that is rare nowadays. It pays tribute to an old-style romance and is an expression of longing for the little big experiences in life.

October 23-26, 2002 – one of the many bloody periods in the modern history of Russia. And the most terrible days for people whose relatives and friends have become a bargaining chip in this tragedy. What were all these lives worth, cut short overnight by a horrific crime? What do the fates of the survivors mean to a state that ignores their pain? What do they mean to a people for whom "NORD-OST" is just a terrible combination of words?

Shura finds out that her husband has escaped the mental institution he was in and no one knows where he is. Her days become plagued with paranoia and the presence of the man that follows her. Or is it just her imagination?

Frank and bold stand up of Comedy Club resident Pavel Volya, in which he shares his observations about dating, sex, children, storks and family life.

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Three matchmakers first visit the family of the prospective bride, and then do the same with the prospective bridegroom's family. Later, as the time of the wedding draws near, the bride is dressed with great formality and prepared for the ceremony, as the guests get ready to celebrate the upcoming wedding.

Danya and Natalya simultaneously lose their closest person - their childhood friend and son. Their reaction to this shock becomes the starting point for the misunderstanding that the boy feels.

A two-part documentary about the Russian Army's disastrous assault on Grozny on New Year's Eve, 1994.

Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia. It made him a local hero, while the annual Diaghilev Festival under his guidance became one of the country's biggest contemporary arts events. This story focuses on the last two weeks of Currentzis' tenure in Perm in an attempt to understand how modern Russia and its art come along.

Police Major Golidze alone confronts a gang of gangsters, led by the notorious criminal Bagirov.

The action of the picture takes place on the eve of the Second World War. A senior Soviet diplomat working in Germany was suddenly recalled to Moscow. On the train, he meets his only neighbor in the carriage - a beautiful young woman who is in the last months of her pregnancy. To pass the time on the road, she tells him her life. An experienced scout does not immediately understand that his charming companion did not accidentally find herself in this car...

A narcissistic man realizes that his devoted wife was the main person in his life only after her death. He goes to the past to repent to her, and also to find an answer to the question why, secretly from him, she wished to be buried by the old grave of a stranger...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

Sergey Astahov is a gay man converted by Church and state propaganda into an orthodox pro-Putin activist. Composed of terrifying images from Astahov's blog, this documentary by contemporary artist Oleg Mavromatti is the most radical insight into today's Russia and its ideological clashes.

This unconventional film is an observation Teodor Currentzis – one of the most extra-ordinary modern conductors. Backed by pieces from Mozart, Stravinsky, Jean-Philippe Rameau and with choreography by Jiri Kylian, this film is 64 minutes of love, light, life, beauty and being inside music.

They go out with slogans on streets, climb with flash-lights on the roofs, they want to be noticed. Why? They are 18-20 years old, they are in motion. What for?

A gifted 12-year-old pianist from a backwater village gets a chance to audition for a talent show and go to Moscow, but the prospect brings nothing but pain to his father, the boy's only relative.