Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

How often children do not find understanding on the part of adults, and older parents become a burden for their grown, busy children. The story of the trials that fell to the lot of the four young "truth seekers", who decided to solve their own problems, and at the same time help their grandmother, whom her own children want to take to a nursing home.

A mother brings her daughter to a casting session. Standing before strangers, the girl freezes up and can’t say a word. The mother puts pressure on the girl, who remains silent. In a rage, the mother takes Anya out of the room. Afraid of the mother’s anger, Anya will try once again, but now Anya’s horror is even bigger and, bursting into tears, she runs away. While the mother apologizes for the daughter’s behaviour, Anya gets lost in the corridors of the film studio. The mother searches for her, but the girl is nowhere to be found. In despair, the woman runs along a range of corridors, opens door after door...

The subject of this documentary short is Andrei Dolinin, a 56-year-old man with autism.

A movie buff desperately wants to enter a theater to see a Fassbinder film but the doorman will not let him go because he has no ticket. The film is the confrontation between the two that ends with happy end.

Based on the story "The Man from the Restaurant" by I. Shmelev. The creators of the movie are unknown. The movie is preserved without inscriptions.

A group of young girls live at a strict monastic school in Russia. The children's playful world stands in contrasts with the strict rules and lifestyles of the nuns.

Television version of the solo performance by the Saint Petersburg Academic Theatre named after Lensovet. The play features two main characters: a boy, Oscar, who is terminally ill, and the Pink Lady, one of the caregivers dressed in pink, who looks after sick children. The Pink Lady, or as Oscar calls her, Pink Mama, offers the boy a game — every day he "lives" 10 years of his life. In the 10 days remaining before the boy's death, his entire life unfolds: from childhood, youth, and marriage, to old age and death. Additionally, on the Pink Lady's advice, Oscar turns to God and writes Him letters.

The film is a satire on the clichés used in sports dramas. Tennisov, a top badminton player, loses in the World Championship final because he decided to use a previously unbeatable shot, the "Unbreakable Candle." Tennisov retires from the sport, but unexpectedly gets a second chance a year later. His former coach invites him to play doubles with the young player Dmitry Malikov at the World Championship.

The film is based on criminal case materials. Swindlers of the Club of Red Jacks became known for crimes, which were extremely difficult to solve even for the most experienced detectives.

The story of the shy and quiet orphan, 16-year-old Red from Vladivostok.

Hikers on an idyllic trek through the peaceful southern countryside come across an old cemetery where every plot has a story and the day takes a most unexpected and most dreadful turn.

A young woman from Russia travels to London to investigate the disappearance of her older sister, who vanished years ago.

Based on Gustav Kadelburg's farce The Road to Hell.

An antology of 8 creative works showing Black Mirror in Russian reality.

Late 2000s. Fifteen-year-old Kira doesn’t come home after a friend’s birthday and starts saving to leave her town—away from a household where adults lay down rules they can’t follow themselves. She and her friend earn money by giving children pony rides and setting it aside for the trip. But the dream of a new life comes with consequences: Kira is reported missing, the police get involved, and her mother will do anything to regain control. A coming-of-age drama with wry humour, where fantasies of freedom help Kira withstand the pressure of reality.

Pilot video for the unreleased animated feature Afanasiy and Trimurti, to be based on the journals of Afanasiy Nikitin, a 15th-century Russian explorer who visited Persia and India.

The film tells about a young man named Sergei, who lives an ordinary measured life. Suddenly, strange visions begin to visit him, the meaning of which he cannot understand. To his surprise, some of these visions soon begin to come true. Neither the young man, nor his relatives and friends are ready to accept what is beginning to happen around him. Soon Sergei will have to find out the essence of these phenomena, reconsider his views on the world around him and realize what is the true meaning of our unpredictable, mysterious, and sometimes frightening life ...

One of the five short stories of the movie almanac "There is no Hurry", directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk

December 2019 marked Scriptonite’s return to rap. His new album 2004, released exclusively on Apple Music, is filled with inventive beats and typically mysterious lyrics. His break was useful: “I’m feeling very fresh now,” the artist says. “New songs are being written easier and faster than before.” In this beautifully shot movie Scriptonite shows how he created the songs for 2004—and what role a doorbell played in making them. Then he ruminates on hip-hop’s golden age and music as therapy, and finally makes a choice between complexity and simplicity.

A story of life and service of the combat general and commander Viktor Kudlai, from himself and in the comments of his subordinates. In the film there are verses by Galich, Galkin and Karpenko performed by the three great Soviet and Russian actors.

Vera knows exactly what paradise looks like – it's the shabby assembly hall of the district recreation center, where the children's and youth theater of the city of Oldinsk is based. But Vera is no longer 14. By the age of 30, all that remains to her from her acting youth are memories, meetings of "graduates" once a year, and love for the director of this very theater, who for some reason successfully survived the end of puberty, and Vera's marriage, and the birth of a child. But maybe you can return to heaven if you turn childhood love into a real adult romance?

A video that encourages people to be careful during a pandemic. Game over.

"Triptych" is a short experimental three-act film that reflects an attempt to visualize the laws and theories of the astrophysics in an art way.

Everyone's off to the seaside- by car, truck and train. Not wanting to miss out, the mole starts digging. When he gets there it's nice and quiet with just a few crabs and a sailing boat to keep him company. But then the hordes arrive. And no matter where he pops his head out of the sand, there's no room for a mole anymore. It's not until night time, when the moon shines on all the leftover rubbish, that things quiet down again.

Little Sasha grows up in a boarding school and waits for his mother to come for him. Once on the radio he hears the work of S. Rachmaninov, falls in love with music and independently learns to play the piano. In a boarding school, and after - beyond, the hero will face cruelty, unrequited love, crime, and find a way to his vocation - music. But how to stop waiting for mom?

2015 is declared a year of literature in Russia. But what is it for a writer to live the year of literature? Neighbor informs the writer that his house will be demolished for the construction of the highway. The highway project is posted on the Internet. And you can see a schematically designated house, where the famous contemporary writers have gathered recently: Alisa Ganieva, Anna Kozlova, Pavel Sanaev, Sergei Shargunov, Anton Sekisov and others. Months of waiting are on. And the writer decides to live as if nothing happened. He's writing.

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and giving this freedom to the people.

Igor Zhdanov is a popular actor. For many years he has played the same role — a clever detective in the popular series. He was the hero of all fails, he defends the downtrodden and save the doomed. One day, returning from filming in his native St. Petersburg, Igor is in a compartment with a strange companion — Savichev. He is clearly scared about something. Igor, putting on the table a bottle of vodka, Savichev offers to get rid of fear in the traditional way.

A city prosecutor’s investigator arrives in a working-class settlement to investigate a murder and unexpectedly meets the woman of his dreams.

The film is about the screenwriter Yuri Arabov and his first experience as a director: the filming of the film "Gjirokastra" in Albania, which tells about state terror and Soviet-Albanian friendship. For the first time, Arabov performs in an unfamiliar role, as if he himself is playing the role (of the director), building relationships with the actors and the film crew, while giving himself grades. According to Arabov himself, the shooting of the picture turned out to be an unexpected way for him, launching implicit cause-and-effect relationships in his fate.

An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture.

Sweet and modest Zhenya receives an unexpected inheritance: a distant relative, unknown to her, has bequeathed her an apartment in a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. Arriving to inspect this treasure, Zhenya discovers the house is full. It turns out the old woman had been renting out three rooms to tenants: a lawyer with a difficult life, a taxi driver named Grisha, who moved out of his apartment to avoid disturbing his daughter, and a newly minted Muscovite, travel agent Nadya. All three beg Zhenya not to kick them out: finding new housing in the capital is not easy…

The world-renowned Marina Abramović has argued that artists should not fall in love with each other. The film VovaNina decisively overturns this categorical statement by showing us the life story of two outstanding Moscow artists, Vladimir Salnikov and Nina Kotel.

Ivan is the only man in his family. He's constantly surrounded by the attention of his mother, grandmother, and two sisters. The women don’t give him a moment of peace, bombarding him with advice about his personal life. One day, he strikes a deal with a wild and reckless young woman, introducing her to his family as his wife. Ivan does this on purpose — so that when he eventually brings home the woman he truly loves, his family will welcome her with open arms.

An inspector from the capital arrives in a village in the Arctic Circle to investigate a case of theft. However, not everyone is interested in seeing the investigation through to the end.

Inspired by the classic books by L. Frank Baum and Alexander Volkov

The unsuccessful young writer lives a hermit far from the city on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. His wife, a former actress, is trying to return to the theater scene, left after the birth of a child. One evening, as she has already done more than once, she leaves her son in the care of her father, who does not pay enough attention to the child. The film takes place during one night, during which the main characters are immersed in their memories ... He dreams of writing a successful book, not noticing how his own life is falling apart.

Timur Novikov: Zero Object positions the late artist Timur Novikov as protagonist in this exploration of underground art from St Petersburg. As well as providing a historical overview of the 1980s-1990s, the film features iconic figures in St Petersburg’s underground scene: cult rocker Victor Tsoi, and artists Georgy Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Sergey ‘Africa’ Bugaev, among others. From beginning to end, it’s a manifesto for personal and artistic freedom in a forbidding political climate.