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Thirteen-year-old Varka lives in a shoemaker’s home where she performs the duties of nanny and housemaid. Varka’s only wish is to get some sleep.

ACA 156: Koshkin vs Boyko was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, April 28, 2023 at the CSKA Arena in Moscow, Russia.

An aging writer has been in depression for many years, after breaking apart from his wife. The only thing that connects him to the real world is a teenage daughter, whom he should take care of. But one day in his life appears Anna, a mysterious and beautiful woman whom he finds in a forest.

Lena and Rita are friends but they act like it’s something more. What do they want from each other and what do they really feel? The lack of clarity between them will have its consequences.

Valentin, a student at the Institute of Cinematography of St. Petersburg, will have to make a documentary film about Baikal as a diploma work. His friends remind him of Stepan, a former classmate from Ulan-Ude. He decides to turn to him for help. In Ulan-Ude, together with their friends, the guys get into various funny situations. For three days, they rest on Lake Baikal in the Chivyrkuisky Bay, help Valentin in the filming of a documentary and talk about all the beauties of the "sacred sea".

Danila Poperechny's live show from Aurora Concert Hall in St. Petersburg.

The genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which people live. Dust is a common misconception, the natural clogging up of the brain. Specks of dust how scientists perceive people, scientists who think they know more than anyone else about the universe.

Russia accepts a huge number of migrants who come by whatever means to earn money and find their place. The main character, the Thai Narak, has come to Russia with her husband Sagda to earn money and help their relatives in Thailand. Thai women find a job in Russia much easier than Thai men. Narak works as a nanny, Sagda doesn’t work, starts gambling and loses all her earnings. Fate grants to Sagda a second chance to change their story.

Taras wakes up in the bowels of a garbage truck under tons of compressed waste. The only chance of salvation is a push-button telephone, on the line is Nastya, a rescue call center worker, who is simultaneously making a decision about what to do with an unwanted pregnancy.

Four collections of short films based on poems by poets of the Silver Age.

The dog's silly antics have been getting on the nerves of its elderly owner for a long time. But is there a hidden meaning to its behavior?

A documentary portrait of the leader of the Leningrad group, musician, poet and foul-mouthed Sergei Shnurov.

About the family, where both husband and wife are alcoholics. He trades stolen plumbing, she is experiencing his moral decline.

Russia. August-September 2016. A month remains before the State Duma elections. The main characters of the film are a mother of four children, a paralympic, an opposition journalist, a philologist girl, a young economist and a trucker - independent candidates. What made each of them enter the fight and how do these men and women live on the eve of the elections is about this movie.

Liza’s life seems completely hopeless. From morning till night, she sells fish at a wholesale market, endures her boss’s rudeness, and returns home to a nagging stepmother and a constantly drunk father. Every day, walking past the city’s central streets, she gazes longingly at the shop windows behind which lies another, fairy-tale world — a world of happy people. Just when Liza is ready to give up hope of changing her life, fate suddenly smiles on her: she gets a job at an elite flower salon. But on her very first day, she is fired — she has neither the upbringing nor the manners expected there. Even dressed in an expensive uniform, she still seems like a market vendor. Determined to change her fate, Liza decides to become a true lady and win her place back. Fortunately for her, Professor Levitin — a philologist, aristocrat, and refined gentleman — is looking for a student…

New film by Lyubov Knyazeva

Eight months after the Chernobyl disaster, a Chernobylite woman that stayed behind to care for her sick mother gives birth to a mutated daughter. She wakes up after giving birth to find her mother gone. Masha, isolated and suffering from cataracts from the radiation exposure, becomes fearful that soldiers will take her contaminated baby. While attempting to reunite with her family in Kiev, the blinding mother and infant become lost in a forest. Masha sees a figure chasing her and believes it's a soldier that wants her child.

Young astrophysicists translate any cosmic phenomena into sound and record any sounds in the reality surrounding them, trying to capture something beautiful in every physical phenomenon and in every moment of their lives.

Deprived of their familiar context, the heroes of ancient Greek myths find themselves in a Moscow park.

The picture is about the inexplicable property of a person to fill with energy and life even the most frightening and abandoned places. This is a portrait of the abandoned city of New Idrija and the last years of the lives of those who spent their youth in believing in an alternative version of the “American Dream”.

The year is 2022. Russian ferryman Konstantinich lives in a village in Zaporizhzhia. After the collapse of the USSR, the old bridge across the Azov estuary was destroyed and dismantled for scrap metal, and Konstantinich began ferrying people. He connects the two banks and takes responsibility for everything that happens in his native land.

Tugan Batyr is a smart, kind, and brave boy. Thanks to his big and kind heart, he was given the magical Ring Zikhgir, which contains the power to defeat the evil wizard Sarykan-as decreed by the wise wizard and teacher Alim Babai. Inquisitive and courageous, Tugan Batyr defends his homeland from the forces of evil, using not only strength and ingenuity but also magical artifacts, which, not by chance, he came into possession of.

Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

Cactus works as a janitor at the Christmas tree school. He watches their training and dreams of becoming the main symbol of the holiday himself.

How and for what reason do our beloved children turn into difficult teens? At what point does maturity come to them and respect for their parents returns? To answer these questions, you have to live your life. Only cinema can make a simple conversation between father and son overcome time and turn into a dialogue between generations.

Galina lives in the village and works as a foreman at a local factory packing case. For her sharp temper and habit of wearing men's things, she is called Petrovich. And not in vain - she is a pain to work with.

A mother wants to cure her teenage daughter, who has not spoken for several years. To do this, she takes her to the old healer in the forest. However, as a result, the mother has to rescue her daughter from the strange world of the Others, where everyone lives with their mouths sewn shut.

All means are good in order to earn a new happy life. Sergey is engaged in excavations on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War in the wilderness near Moscow: He finds the remains of dead German soldiers, and then shakes money out of their relatives. He dreams of finally getting rich, moving from his mother to a separate apartment, or even "going to the Boches." But the war, once started, never ends.

The film is based on a unique, fundamentally new source of information about the Great Patriotic War. This is an interview with 17 thousand fighters, recorded right during the fighting. These sometimes incredible stories allow you to reveal the course of the entire war in a new way: to tell about the feelings and experiences of the fighters; about facts that contradict official history; about how war has suddenly become part of the daily lives of millions of people. The most unexpected, vivid and revealing stories from this unique archive will be voiced by popular artists. Also, the few veterans who have survived to this day will take part in the film, the protocols of conversations with which have been preserved in the archive.

A story about what incredible events can happen in a child's pocket.

Mikhail, who abandoned his wife and daughter in his youth, restores their trust step by step by the age of 50. But after learning about a fatal diagnosis, he decides to leave his family for the second time - on the eve of his daughter's wedding.

Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. Since 2012, a series of repressive laws were passed, labelling everyone who publicly disagreed with the official narrative as „foreign agent“. In these circumstances, a group of independent Russian media and activists are trying to resist and continue their work. Right after the invasion their work becomes virtually impossible. Shot during one decisive year, before and after the invasion, the new film by fearless filmmaker Askold Kurov (The Trial - The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov) portrays the last defenders of democracy in Russia and gives a glimpse of hope for another future.

One winter day in 1934, Pr. Vangengheim was arrested for sabotage and sent to the Gulag on the Solovki Islands. He decided to hide the truth from his wife and daughter Eleonora, until his execution.

A young couple breaks up after a guy reveals he's gay. And a pregnant girl, raised by her conservative father, is left with a choice: get revenge by having an abortion, or give birth without prejudice.

Film about the neutrino observatory in the mountains of the Caucasus into Andyrtau mountain. This laboratory is unique in Russia, this observatory is one of the most profound, is located at a depth of 4000 m. The scientists collect information for about 40 years, catch a ghost particle neutrinos which is being emitted by the Sun and stars of galaxy.

The story of the search for British gold from the Black Prince warship, which sank off the coast of Balaclava.

This is the story of one day in the life of a Georgian family. A fisherman's family celebrates Christmas day.

A successful lawyer drives recklessly and runs down a young man. He wants to escape punishment, so decides to drive the boy to a hospital and try to negotiate a deal. Their trip becomes a real test for the lawyer's consciousness.

Temporal agent Delta Star, a legendary hero from the future, arrives in our time to fight Cavemanoid, who came from the past and is capable of destroying the entire galaxy. However, defeating such a powerful enemy will not be easy...

This story is based on real events, about two guys who got lost in 2002 in the Verkhoyansk forests. The story of how Toka and Uygun will have to wander through the endless taiga of harsh Yakutia for two months. About how they will desperately cling to life, day after day, overcoming kilometers. How they will get food, quenching the constant feeling of hunger and thirst. While they were long since buried…

The convicts of the female penal-colony Marina, Olya and Albina are waiting to be released. To pass the time they decide to make puppets, sew them and stage a small performance.

Orlov's second stand-up special, recorded in October 2020.

From a casual conversation with a stranger, truck driver Nikolai learns about his wife's infidelity. On the way home, he picks up the beaten Ksenia, who cannot be left alone on the winter track. Nikolai and Ksyukha embark on a strange journey, and none of them suspects how it will end.

Comedy of Armen Adilkhanyan

Lola returns from a business trip on the twentieth anniversary of her wedding to Stas. But she's tired and wants a divorce. Stas wants the same thing. However, did everything go wrong, or did it go according to plan?

A young man from a religious family is in love with his best friend, and her birthday falls on Easter. Instead of an Easter service with his family, he chooses a girlfriend's party and sets off on a journey through the night capital.

A young guy from the Moscow suburbs can't handle his own life: a huge gap between him and his mother, agressive relations with his stepfather, street fights and serious health issues. But the biggest surprise will appear to be himself.

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

New animated film by Anastasiya Kiseleva.