Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Teenager Yura goes to stay with his grandmother to spend his summer vacation by Lake Baikal. One day, he finds a mysterious stranger on the shore who has lost his memory.

The magical hero Erte Bergen sets off on a journey to perform feats. On his way he meets the villain Bekerden and the beautiful beloved June.

The genius who invented the time machine is trying to hide from the present in the past. But the future is already knocking on the door.

A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...

Deaf Russian village - a real bearish corner. People live here like a hundred years ago, in their quiet and seemingly inconspicuous life there is everything - birth and death, the struggle of love and hate, good and evil, honor and betrayal.

Two boys head into the forest to photograph a mysterious creature rumored to have haunted the area for years. Along the way one of them falls into a hole and breaks his leg. Finding themselves in a precarious situation, each realizes that the pain, fear, and gathering darkness are not the worst of it, because the mysterious monster is no myth. And it's closer than it seems.

In the film, Depardieu played the head coach of the Russian skiers, who takes the controversial step of firing all the Russian coaches and support team members and hiring rather eccentric Austrians instead.

A military drama about the fate of yesterday's schoolboy, a modest young man from a remote Yakut village, who became a fearless Soviet warrior in the year of trials. Not having time to experience the joys of family life with a young wife, the hero says goodbye to her and goes to the front. The film highlights the heroic fate of the Yakut soldiers during the Great Patriotic War, based on the true events that took place on Lake Ilmen in the Novgorod region, and the equally tragic fate of those who remained in the rear - Churapchinsky immigrants who were forced to leave their native places.

The water flows on the surface of the Earth and in the underworld, this substance connects both sides of the river as margins of life. The narration is holding out the silhouette from the sketch of an artist to the symbolism of the ancient world reading small gestures. This film accommodates artist’s works by giving them a role of an oracle.

Everyone in the Far-Far-Away Kingdom is absolutely mad about the Three Heroes. Their battles are like rock concerts: they draw crowds of fans, merchandise is sold on every street corner, and every child dreams of looking like their idols. Among them is forty-year-old Emelya, a simple-minded and clumsy chap, who also happens to be president of the ‘Three Heroes’ fan club. At the tsar’s banquet, whilst trying to get closer to his idols, Emelya accidentally foils the bogatyrs’ secret operation to capture Koschey Bedrosovich. Koschey disappears along with the tsar’s daughter. Now everyone despises Yelemelya: the people, the Tsar, his own fan club.

Russian pop singer Lolita celebrates her 41st birthday by taking to the stage and delivering a big show, including duets with special guests.

"I love you" – every time reaches the ear of a lonely shuttle girl Nadia, when she is sledding down the hill with her beloved Hasid. But who is saying these soul-warming words to her? Two suspects are suspected: a Jew and a wind.

War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...

She was predicted the future of russian Coco Chanel of 21st century – untill her car accident. Consequences of a strong trauma fenced Nastya off from the whole world. But she doesn't intend to change the former way of life, to go on compromises in search of the life’s partner or to reduce the level of her claims.

The film tells about the friendship of two boys – Seryozha and Aghvan. Their fathers were best friends in childhood, but the betrayal of Sergei's father forever crossed out the friendship, and their paths parted. Agvan's father Andrey (Vadim Badmatsyrenov) became a police officer, and Seryozha's father managed to serve time for murder. And now, 10 years later, they met again. An extreme situation puts everything in its place: while children are trying to escape from trouble, adults are figuring things out, as a result of which a 10-year-old mystery is revealed…

At the heart of this documentary lies the study of the Currentzis phenomenon. What is his creative method? What is the spirit of the music? How to express it most accurately to the audience and what is the freedom and responsibility of the modern artist? To answer these questions, the crew filmed the conductor for 10 years including the tour of his symphony orchestra MusicAeterna in Germany.

The restless great-granddaughter of Santa Claus Snezhin is not at all like her mother Snegurochka. She is mischievous, impatient, very curious and considers her family's business in the Internet age outdated. Out of curiosity, having violated the rules of the frosty tower, she accidentally breaks the mechanism of the magic book of the Chronicles of Santa Claus. Everyone who receives gifts that endows their owner with special qualities is entered into the book. Now their future is at stake. Snezhina will have to discover the secret of her great-grandfather's gifts, find her destiny and correct what happened. And the young Mechanic and the keepers of the secrets of gifts will help her in this.

Life of a small town in Siberian taiga (Chulimsk) revolves around a small cafe, where a young girl Valentina works as a bartender. Valentine is in love with the local detective Shamanov, ineffable, strict yet charming man, who recently arrived to Chulimsk. Despite a loving relationship with the chemist's Shamanova Zina and his mature age, Valentine finds the courage to confess her love to Shamanov. Up to this point never noticed the beauty and uniqueness of Valentina, Shamans suddenly realizes that this sweet, modest girl is his happiness.

On the eve of conscription young man Sasha, nicknamed "Jagger" decides to spend their meager savings on fashionable shoes.

Six years ago he desperately escaped from here, suffocating within the narrow walls of a provincial theater. All he took from his acting past into the new commercial world was the nickname "Daredevil". But the coveted personal freedom turns out to be even more elusive. He must become a played pawn in someone else's game, where at stake is a huge amount of money, and the bet - life. A lost man is destined to make a circle. Lycedei has to survive here - in the walls of the once abandoned theater, with the help of people, easily forgotten by him once ...

The familiar tale of an immigrant family's journey to America is turned into a magical mystery tour as seen through the eyes of 11-year old Motl. The boy's imagination spins wildly as he and his family--loaded down with all their worldly goods and their other-worldly "baggage"--make their way from the shtetl to America. Inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall, director Efim Gribov interprets the workings of Motl's imagination via comic and grotesque figures, ghosts from the past, and a dreamy, surreal atmosphere. The film's tragi-comic tone and theme involving the American Dream make for an inspired viewing experience.

According to the plot, scientists Yura and Kolya live at a station located on a drifting ice floe, explore the harsh region, help oil workers, participate in the launch of a data center, save bears, communicate with animals using their inventions, make scientific discoveries, are not afraid of adventures and meet new friends. Viewers will get to know the main characters: the young romantic scientist Yura and the experienced polar explorer Kolya, the affectionate polar bear with a sweet tooth Nanook, who grew up among people and therefore understands human speech, the Chinese pilot Mingli and the mysterious Amana, who deftly controls a reindeer, speaks the language of whales and is endowed with the ability to hear nature and predict the future.

A princess falls in love with a musician and separates from her husband, for which she is separated from her daughter Eliza and expelled from home. In her new marriage, she has a second daughter, Liza, and the sisters do not yet know about each other's existence. One fine day the royal family comes to the city where they live...

The film is about Alexey Popogrebsky's film "How I spent this summer". In the film, there are no tedious reflections of the actors and the director about their film against the background of posters of the same film. But there is life itself, real, unmasked, and, despite the sea of comicality, it makes you horrified at how the Russian film process can take place…

A great stage performer falls ill and loses her voice and beauty, and she and her admirer's lives crumble because of it.

Mira returns home to Dushanbe from Russia to visit her father, a wastrel who is completely addicted to a game called "odds and evens," or Kosh ba Kosh. When another player comes to collect on gambling debts and finds nothing of value, he sets his sights on Mira.

In search of a magic carpet, Vovka travels to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where preparations for the New Year are underway. Vovka quarrels with Morozko and cancels winter, but the Tsar threatens him with severe punishment. Now Vovka must bring winter back at any cost and save the holiday.

In a small town not far from Moscow, Natasha, a minor, stands accused of drug dealing and the attempt to bribe the cops has backfired. Awaiting trial, she is not looking to lay blame, she just wants out whatever the cost. The four men in her life – the teenaged boyfriend who would die for her, her mother’s taciturn lover, the careerist detective and Natasha’s absentee father – will need to unite to fight for her freedom. Will they be able to overcome their doubts or will the burden of untold secrets crush them? or will the burden of untold secrets be their end?

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.

The film tells us about the history of the Moscow Donskoy monastery and the personality of Patriarch Tikhon. During the difficult years of persecution of the Russian Church, from November 1917 to April 1925, he led it, trying to keep the Orthodox faith pure.

A unique lengthy filmic record of the life of the employees, suspects and convicts in one of the ol­dest Russian prisons Butyrka Prison Castle, which stores legends and secrets of many inmates inclu­ding Emelyan Pugachyov, Felix Dzershinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Natalia Sats, Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Sergey Korolyov, Andrey Tupolev and many others.

Near future. A military nurse is taking her wounded husband to safety. But a call from orbital command forces her to make some very tough choices...

This is a tough story of a love triangle, but not just treason. Here, love coexists next to death, and real life is intertwined with mysticism.

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.

Strange noises are coming from the air vent of an old apartment. Whatever it is, at night it comes out...

1080 meters - the depth of the mine "Komsomolskaya", where the heroes of the film descend daily. Around - tundra and abandoned villages. Around Vorkuta there are five mines. After the explosion on the "North" - four. The city lives. Pasha and Roma drive cars around the city, telling us about their lives and finding themselves in various places.

The events take place in Leningrad in the mid-80s - a time of hope, promising changes and the flourishing of informal culture.

The film Cauda is about high school students dreaming of becoming rock stars. They achieve their first success at a competition, and it seems they are just on the verge of popularity. But then exam season and graduation arrive, and they temporarily put their dream on hold until autumn, planning to return to it later. However, things don’t go according to plan.

The Katyn case over the course of 70 years. A film by the Memorial Association.

A young couple whose life was based on mutual trust is going through hard times. A strange female voice is victimizing Dasha, the protagonist of the movie. More often than not the woman asks questions about her husband. Her husband is receiving SMSs signed Eva …

Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma is left alone in their luxurious villa. Driven by a compulsion to do good, she invites homeless mother Marina to take shelter in her house. This simple act gives a new meaning to Alma’s life: she decides to turn the entire property into a refuge for people in need. Alma is prepared to pour everything she has into this fragile utopia, but reality can fracture even the deepest convictions.

The story of an extraordinary adventure that a courier had to endure, who was entrusted with the delivery of a parcel with a designer dress.

Women of different nationalities live in central Dagestan: Avars, Kubachinks, Lachki, Godoberinki, Didoiks. In 1994, obstetrician-gynecologist Aishat Magomedova opened a charity hospital for them in the center of Makhachkala. She was worried about the situation of mountain women in the villages of Dagestan, where there are no roads, gas, and water. According to local traditions, all the physical labor in the family household falls on the woman: caring for the livestock, in central Dagestan women of different nationalities live: Avars, Kubachinks, Lachki, Godoberinki, Didoiks. In 1994, obstetrician-gynecologist Aishat Magomedova opened a charity hospital for them in the center of Makhachkala. She was worried about the situation of mountain women in the villages of Dagestan, where there are no roads, gas, and water....

Musical short film, the second part of the "Becoming a Soldier" duology.

A veteran of the Great Patriotic War finds his front-line diary and relives the story that happened to him in the midst of the war. In the midst of fire, blood and dirt, he, then still a young Sashka, takes prisoner the same German boy. The enemy is preparing for death, but a young soldier gives him his word that Russian prisoners are not shot. Later, at the headquarters, saddened by the death of a combat friend, the battalion commander gives the order to shoot the prisoner. Sasha faces the most important choice in his life.

New Year is a time of miracles. In life and Affairs Lena accompanies success, she knows exactly what she wants, and always achieves the intended goal. In the new year's schedule of a business woman there is not a single extra minute and it seems that nothing can make her stop. Little Stepan does not need expensive toys, but only a little love and home warmth. Desperate to find understanding in adults, he goes in search of Santa Claus to ask for a new mother. Winter city confronts him with Lena and the woman suddenly catches hopeful look of a child who saw in her the good fairy. This chance meeting will change their whole life…

Nick is a caterpillar boy who, having overcome the taboo of the swamp, becomes a butterfly and, regardless of difficulties, strives for his dream - the Magic jade tree, where all the most beautiful butterflies of the world live. Dangerous trials, fun adventures, new friends and, of course, first love await Nick on his way.

A young man who is filming porn gets acquainted with another heroine of his new video. She urgently needs money for a ticket to go home. He is ready to give them to her on the condition that the girl will make him “nice”, and he will take it on camera. She agrees. However, this time everything goes according to plan. It looks like the girl has another script for his new video.

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyone, a stranger.

Night comes. For a boy in a dark room, this is a time of fear.