Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The girl and the tiger are best friends, they grow up together, play together, enjoy life together . But the city becomes too small for one of the pair.

The documentary tells about the feat of Leningrad residents, the work of architects and mountaineers, the masking of the city and the preservation of monuments. Thanks to the unique chronicle, drawings and photographs, eyewitness accounts and analysis of historians, fragments and motives of the play " Hecatomb. Siege diary " the film rediscovers the events of the terrible and Holy days of the siege of Leningrad.

An art film by Timur Novikov and Sergey Shutov.

The series is based on the memories of children, participants and witnesses of various events in Russia in the 20th century. How children who grew up in Russia in different years of the 20th century perceived the world around them, and with it the everyday life of Russian history. Life, the behavior of parents, the behavior of friends and enemies of the family, the external environment, social upheavals, political events, all this is noticed by children, all this adds up to that picture of history that we will not find either in official reports or in historical research.

Participation in the qualifying stage of the European Championship is the only chance for the visually impaired football players from the Belarusian national team to step out of the darkness and present themselves. However, the sportsmen meet considerable obstacles on their way, and only mutual support and inner light help them move towards their goal.

Confident in her style and way of being, a young trans girl Zhenya moves through the world figuring out life and love. A story about youth, friendship, community and embracing life as it comes.

Just a bet in a gamble called life. The cynical rebel is trying his fate over and over again, not considering that this is a dangerous rival. Once the game ends in defeat: the arrogant beauty loses everything at once. A successful journalist turns into a desperate old woman and ends up in a nursing home ...

The outskirts of a big city. A young family: Masha, Dead and Zhora the pug. Masha flies away for three days, leaving Zhora in the care of a Dead Man. For the first time in their short life together, the Dead Man remains at home alone, not yet realizing that the next day, with a frantic doorbell, his life will change significantly, and he will fall out of the usual unhurried reality for three whole days. Meanwhile, Zhora will make an eschatological journey and meet many strange people on his way, on whom his dog's life will depend...

Two half-hour almanacs of small cartoons made by famous Directors of Russia and Belarus based on the works of great composers for children. The first part is devoted to the music of Baroque and romanticism, the second-to the music of the twentieth century.

Moscow, 9 May. The city celebrates Victory Day. Sasha can’t find himself a place.

On the powerless position of peasant women in pre-revolutionary Russia. Marisha, a village girl, is in love with the coachman Yakov. Marisha’s father, a wealthy peasant, refuses to consent to his daughter’s marriage. The lovers are forced to meet in secret. Soon Marisha gives birth to a child, and the coachman abandons his beloved. Harassed by the villagers, Marisha throws herself and her son into the river. Lost film. The title is taken from the first stanza of Russian poet's Nikolay Nekrasov's poem, titled "The village harvest is in full swing..."

The inhabitants of the forest unite in the face of an enemy from the outside. And the easiest way to deal with him is through the principles of rhythmic musical composition.

Eternal Variations: "Demon", "Theseus" and "Faust" The third short story "Faust" is the author's interpretation of Goethe's tragedy.

The film is divided into two distinct stories with the same setting: the back-stage of the Moscow Operetta theater with the Can-Can metaphor which is a high-energy and physically demanding dance. Human relationships, betrayals, and the relationship between parents and children are the same common denominator found in the two parts of the film.

This newsreel documentary was shot by Lev Kuleshov in 1919, which once credited to Dziga Vertov. A fragment of this newsreel was shown in the documentary The Kuleshov Effect (1969), where Kuleshov talked about his early film work, claiming this short newsreel as his own work.

An apocryphal tale from the Book of Genesis. Jacob, the son of Isaac, sees in a dream a staircase, the base of which rests on the earth, and the top reaches heaven; angels ascend and descend on it. Every step of the ladder and every movement along it in this vision has its own meaning. Marc Chagall, using a metaphorical image from Scripture, presented in his paintings the interweaving and intertwining of the lives of the inhabitants of the hinterland, each of whom has his own Jacob's ladder, along which angels move — the arbiters of their destinies.

All that was filmed by famous and famous cameramen during the century of the existence of cinematography is in the vaults of the Krasnogorsk Film and Photo Archive. The restricted access archives belonged to the powerful NKVD. Access to the archives was the discovery of part of the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The transfer of time from today to the unknown past.

Between 1918 and 1939 the Solovki archipelago was home to Russia's first "corrective labour camp". Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners were exiled to the camp. Tens of thousands never emerged. This is the Solovki's incomprehensibly brutal story, told through the letters of inmates, and the reactions of surviving relatives.

Hunting tour in the mountains of the Caucasus. Hellish vacation of a German couple in a Turkish hotel for Russians. Acquaintance with the native bride in the African savannah. Yes, this is our way! The summer season in the style of "Russo touristo" is declared open!

In the everyday life of modern St. Petersburg, the heroine unexpectedly encounters a formidable, unknown, mystical force that kills her friends one by one and encroaches on her soul. To survive in this crazy situation, the heroine must learn to act in a dream as in reality, because her enemy is beyond the limits of familiar reality. And to defeat him, you also need a special weapon...

The story of a young actor who works as Santa Claus during the holidays. One day, he meets an attractive girl who asks him to put on a holiday performance for her older boyfriend. However, the meeting becomes the beginning of unexpected and dramatic events that reveal the dark secrets of the protagonist's past and his connections with the people he meets.

A student foolishly wrote to a girl that he loved her, and now he anxiously awaits a response. And she keeps typing, typing, typing...

The film is a confession about the inhabitants of the island of Fire, near Vologda. The pardoned murderers — one hundred and fifty "suicide bombers" for whom the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by Presidential Decree — are asking for execution...

In an effort to conceal the embezzlement of large sums of money received from the presidential fund, the corrupt and mired in the most low-grade debauchery, the Governor of the City starts a grandiose scam called the "Martian Expedition". The vacancies of voluntary suicides are readily accepted by an artist, director, architect, choreographer and porn star. Meanwhile, the "shadow administration" of the City, consisting of the bosses of the largest gangster groups, is joining the division of the "financial cake"...

Insatiable lust reigned over senseless flesh. Like august flies, trying to escape certain death, people before the apocalypse started to copulate, until every single one was completely exhausted. Only two people remained untouched. Having merged, like Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, in music that gave them eternal life, they wander timeless, empty spaces. Their destiny - to save humanity. But humanity means nothing to them. Main characters of the movie, Kirill Shirokov and Sasha Elina, are real musicians and founders of 'the same' ensemble, specialized in performing quite music related to certain space and time. During the film they perform music from ‘every day melodies’ series composed by Kirill Shirokov. The movie is the first part of mini-series discovering the territory of contemporary art music.

One day, Tamara went out to throw out the garbage and met Pasha at the entrance with a bottle of wine and a desire to talk. After a visit, the man gets into the apartment of a new acquaintance, and she tells him how much she loves her husband Lenechka, who took her "rejected" from the village, planted her at home for a sewing machine and called "gupeshka" - in honor of an aquarium fish, submissive , silent, unwittingly devoted to the owner.

A biographical film about the popular rap artist Detsl, whose real name is Kirill Tolmatskiy. The rap artist passed away at the age of 35 in 2019.

In 90-ies Russia, the parents are too busy with their own problems. How to make a choice between real friendship and being accepted to the gang? What it takes to keep silence when you want to scream?

In one of the chemical laboratories in Switzerland, controlled by the CIA, work on a deadly virus — intended for military use — has been completed. Russian intelligence agencies take a special interest in the development and assign mathematician David Bronstein to obtain a sample of the potential chemical threat.

For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…

As you know, before death a person’s whole life flashes before his eyes. There is an unknown force that makes you remember vivid emotions and important events in life. All these stories are edited in numerous heavenly production studios, in one of which Vasily works as the chief editing director. His heavenly everyday life is one continuous montage from morning to evening. One day Vasily comes across video files of the memories of a loved one, because of which he has to make an important choice.

A short story about the transformative power of lipstick for L’Oréal Paris.

The unlucky Muscovite Snezhana comes to the village to bury her stepfather and to inherit his house. There’s not enough money for the funeral and she decides to sell the cow.

Nika runs to a country house to survive quarantine. She is getting to know Sergei, who lives nearby. Young people are gradually starting to get closer. While the “quarantine crisis» on the streets is getting worse.

A film about the legend of Russian rock, the founder and the undisputed leader of the group "DDT" Yuri Shevchuk. Work on the picture was more than 11 years, the crew traveled with "DDT" dozens of cities in several rounds. Backstage concerts and work on albums, rehearsals and performances in front of many thousands of halls .... The result of working with dozens of hours of the archive from the life of a musician and a band, as well as long conversations between Yuri Shevchuk and the author of the film and his thoughts about the past, present and future of Russia and the world .

Thirty-three heroes, led by the legendary warrior Ratibor, enter a mortal battle with the three-headed Serpent-Gorynych and the army of the Geeks led by Kashchei the Immortal, whose sole purpose is to destroy the human race and create his own world.

A short film about a breakup you still don't want to believe in. About a dance that happened to let go. About women who get tired of being strong. And men who are stuck in themselves. And also about Venus in Aries and meters. Because love, like a utility bill, always has debts. But despite this, you still want to love. Of course, like in a movie. And remember: after the end credits, there is always a sequel... A story about intimacy, a mature breakup, and those strange moments when the end suddenly becomes the beginning.

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

In a province small town a road junction is being built. It hangs over the buildings and the people. Two young girls, schoolmates, make a video blog about it while hoping to move out of this place forever. This is a story of their friendship, of being so close, that you lose yourself.

For the first time, this documentary includes two exclusive interviews with Vladimir Putin and full details about actions in Crimea during spring 2014. These events determined the history of modern Russia. The President talks frankly and openly about the challenges and risks that Russia faced during that time. This film provides the Russian view of the situation. It is impossible to form a complete picture of the world without it.

The main character of the film is a film director. A film about the second coming of Jesus Christ is being shot. The complexity of the material and the lack of a leading actor give rise to the dramatization of the internal problems of the author of the future film...

Based on the plot of L. Mey's play "The Pskovite Woman". A poetic legend about the arrival of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and his oprichniki in Pskov. Having destroyed Novgorod, the tsar moved to free Pskov, the city was waiting for the same fate. But the city was not ruined - the Terrible met in Pskov his illegitimate daughter Olga, whose existence he did not even suspect.

The tape is dedicated to writer, publicist, long-term employee and editor-in-chief of the Russian service of Radio Liberty Peter Vail. Filming took place in New York, Prague and Venice. The film uses rare archive photo, video and audio materials. Vail's texts are read by Alexander Filippenko. Peter Weil died in December 2009. In 2014 he would have turned 65.

The film is a comedy about wonderful neighbors, a full-length version of the popular comedy series.

While in Moscow thousands of young people are protesting against the current government, corruption in the Russian elite and demanding change, older people in southern Russia, in Krasnodar, are fighting for traditional values and stability. They face misunderstanding and hatred, but all the same, united, they create their own Russia. These women and men created their blog on youtube, in which they post a chronicle of their struggle. They called themselves “Putin Squad”.

A story about the separation of a mother and her 3-year-old daughter who now live in different countries and cannot reunite due to visa problems. Every day they communicate via video chat and dream about meeting soon.

A short film based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fictional universe, combining the “Picnic to the curb” of the Strugatsky brothers, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and the “Exclusion Zone” location around the Chernobyl NPP. According to the scenario, an agent of the peacekeeping forces, nicknamed "The Photographer", arrives in the Zone to prevent a global scale catastrophe, which could be caused by an experiment that went out of control at a scientific lab.

A teenager from peripheral Russia falls under the influence of a young mob. Now he is faced with a tough decision to make.