Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

In January 1943, the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi occupation began with a powerful offensive of Soviet troops in the direction of Donbass and Kharkov. The Red Army reached the Dnieper borders, crossed the Dnieper and liberated Kiev. Crossed the Dnieper and Mikola. On the Dnieper, he was wounded – an enemy fragment injured his knee. Since then, Mikola can walk very slowly and only with a wand. Now he lives on the outskirts of the city of Mena, in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. He is not the only men's veteran – the veteran movement has always been developed here, monuments stood in almost every village, Eternal lights burned ... Now the events of those distant years have been forgotten in a series of today's problems. But for Men's veterans, May 9 is still the main day of the calendar.

In Poor Folk, Ilya Kabakov talks about his sources and influences, including the tragic life of his mother, which had a profound effect on his views and artistic career. Together with his wife and collaborator Emilia he discusses Soviet underground art, the birth of Moscow Conceptualism, the couple’s emigration to the USA, and international acclaim after thirty years of almost no exhibitions (Kabakov did not show his work at state-sanctioned exhibitions in the Soviet Union): today the duo’s works are in the world’s leading museums, including MoMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

1945. Young German soldier is hiding from Soviet soldiers in abandoned house. Every day he sees a girl who moved to the house next door until finally he falls in love with her.

The animated film "Safari" is a comic story. It tells how African animals taught curious and careless tourists a lesson.

What do they all share in common? What are they searching for?

Alexey brutally beats Andrey into a coma for losing the drugs. However, soon Alexey falls in love with Andrey’s sister, Katya. To be with her, he has to lie, protect her from thugs, and search for the missing money, balancing between his duty to the gang and his love for the girl.

The plot of the play 'The Last Ones' at the Gogol Theatre centers around the Kolomiytsev family. Their home resembles the ruins left after a bombing, and the characters themselves appear as the last survivors of a worldwide catastrophe. The appearance of their house symbolizes the destruction of age-old foundations and family traditions. Despite the fact that some of the characters make timid attempts at reconciliation and family reunification, singing songs around the campfire in unison, it is clear to the audience that the rift is inevitable and unavoidable.

Escaping from her husband's abuse, Sasha goes to the very edge of the country - to Teriberka. The long road teaches her absurd but necessary lessons: how to persuade stubborn cars, run away from "antelope hunters", and most importantly - find and accept help in the most unexpected places. But the cherished sea will remind: to build a new life, you need to return the most important thing.

One day, the hero comes to the firm conviction that everything in a person's life is decided by chance. According to this logic, he is trying to fix his life.

A short film with the participation of the leader of the "National Bolshevik Party" Eduard Limonov.

Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the present to the past runs through a polylogue of experts, folk music, works by contemporary artists, musical and creative interpretation of poems by Rahim Sattar and unique archival newsreels shot at the dawn of cinema.

A story about the pioneers of Kamchatka snowboarding, about the first wakeboarder who conquered the coastal waters of the Kuril Islands, and about the founder of the first Russian surfing school. These people accepted the challenge of nature, went beyond the usual and discovered new facets of their sport.

AKIRA16 is a live concert film performance of Akira Yamaoka & Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in Saint Petersburg 2016.

A young ballerina from Smolensk, along with other migrant workers, ends up in a Nazi camp for forced labor. The prisoners are trying their best to survive in these inhumane conditions, but they still do not know that a cruel ordeal awaits them — the death march.

The year is 2010. The base of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation. On the destroyer "Bystry" there is a breakthrough in the fuel pipeline with fuel oil. Short circuit, fire. There are 348 people on board. Aldar Tsydenzhapov, a 19-year-old sailor from Transbaikalia, who has dreamed of serving in the navy since childhood, like his grandfather, decides to resist the fire without hesitation.

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

Russian propaganda film. In 1945, the Second World War has not yet ended, but large-scale work is underway on the territory of liberated Belarus to clear the land of the legacy of war - unexploded mines and shells left in the ground at the site of military operations. OSOAVIAKHIM detachments are created from among teenage volunteers. After completing only a week's training, young girls and boys are sent to personally demining places where fierce battles had recently taken place.

Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is engulfed in fires. The authors of the films of the almanac together with the volunteers go to the epicenter of events. Volunteers, foresters, firefighters – they are not heroes in the usual sense of the word, it was just their life, their trouble, and they tried to cope with it as best they could.

A thirty-year-old amusement park worker named Vitaly is looking for his missing bride together with his psychic mother.

The music of Bach and the dance of the ballerina Diana Vishneva flashes for a moment in the space of the pavilion.

"Illegal" is an action-packed drama about a young migrant from Central Asia who comes to Yakutia to solve his problem.

An occasional acquaintance at a business party leads to mutual sympathy. But is this acquaintance really occasional? If any sincere sympathy is possible in a world where money rules?

The film is based on the real love story of a girl named Vera. Vera is 20 years old and has Down syndrome. She lives with her grandmother and works as a waitress at the Carlson cafe, where people with disabilities work. There she meets her future boyfriend, Sergei Dementyev. There is great serious love between Vera and Dementyev and even physical intimacy, but no one around them takes their relationship seriously.

A young mathematician is trying to solve the Millennium problem and not loose connection with reality.

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

An adaptation of Sergei Yesenin's late and darkest poem. A continuous, single-frame dialogue between the protagonist and his double, the "black man," a hypnotic and disturbing descent into the depths of the human psyche.

A provincial who has not found himself, who is over thirty, goes to work in Moscow, where every time he stays for several nights with a distant relative – a lonely middle-aged woman. Their relationship is practically devoid of it, as if the constant unconscious in the form of strange obsessions somehow connects these people, at first glance far from each other.

The village tradition of ‘Salt and bread’ still works to these days. For long years villagers hadn’t forgotten the story of a man, who stole his father’s fortune and went abroad. No one knows his whereabouts, and what he is doing. His elder brother’s heart is full of revenge.

Once the main character Andrei worked at a hot spot as a peacemaker and rescued his co-worker Victor. Victor promised Andrei that he would always remember who he owed his life to and would come to Andrei’s help at any time. The chance to pay was presented to Victor after 20 years. Andrei quarreled on the road with an escort of an expensive car with a flashing light and was badly beaten. From his wounds, he died, leaving his pregnant wife alone. Victor is looking for Katya to help her achieve justice and avenge the death of her husband. The crime drama "The Last Hero" tells a difficult story about honor and friendly duty.

While a distinguished principal, Nina, dazzles the local TV crew with achievements that make her school the best in the entire district, outside the camera’s frame, young Maxim is coerced into participating in his peers' take on "proper socialization." These shattering school hall lessons continue to echo throughout society and beyond.

After a global catastrophe, a man lives in a damp bunker. His only companion, a doll, helps him while away the days. The man searches for news of the world, drifts fruitlessly along the radio waves, and cherishes the hope of meeting his family - his wife and son. The doll tries to convince him to abandon hope and act.

The diploma work of the director Andrey Kanivchenko.

A salesgirl at a grocery store recommends a sausage to a customer in such a sincere and humble way that he falls in love for her.

Mark, a 12-year-old sloppy teenager from a rich family, is sent by his mother from Moscow to Kamchatka to live with his harsh father, Kai, after another scandalous offense. Far from his usual life, the Internet and school friends, the boy finds himself in the world of dog sled racing. Working with animals — the snow eight charming husky dogs — becomes a real challenge for him. Gradually, Mark finds friends — Anya and Petka — and discovers the power of the team, where trust and support are important. And mom and dad have to change their views on raising a child and, most importantly, look at each other with completely new eyes.

One day in the life of the strange inhabitants of a small village hidden in the rocks by the sea. A mysterious crime happens in front of witnesses.

Love is spontaneous, illogical, and immaterial. Modern science, studying the nature of this phenomenon, has discovered fantastic changes in the brains of people in love - love suppresses the feeling of fear, negative emotions, and criticism. Why does a person in love have an increased pulse and breathing rate? Biologists' research indicates that love is like drug intoxication. Chemists claim that we feel love due to the release of certain hormones into the blood. However, both admit that Love cannot be explained only by science.

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy. In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/nonhuman ape hybrid. Three female chimpanzees were inseminated with human sperm. No pregnancy occurred.. In 1929 he organized a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.

How do insects and bugs live? Both good and bad. They even tried to fly away from people into space, so people got them.

A film about memory and love. Fisherman Sergey escapes from his humdrum existence on the empty shores of Lake Onega – where he meets with the ghost of his beloved wife.

A tale of how a hermit stole Lenin's mummy in order to bury him and thus open a portal to Kitezh-grad.

Volodya and Seryoy roast meat in nature, and their conversation turns into an argument about the meaning of life. A romantic story about the destiny of man.

A film in the genre of an ethnographic journey to Pechora along the routes of the expeditions of Nikolai Evgenievich Onchukov, one of the pillars among the collectors of Russian folklore and the discoverer of Pechora epics.

Musical fantasy based on a poem by Mayakovsky. Everything changes in our life, like the shape of clouds.

The village of Ilyino, located in the south-western "corner" of the Tver province, at first glance does not differ from other villages of the Russian Non-Chernozem region. Meanwhile, this village is unusual, with its own special, very dramatic fate. More than 150 years ago it was founded by Jews, followers of the Hasidic creed. In the early forties, about three thousand Jews lived here. In the autumn of the 41st, German troops entered the village. Jewish families who did not have time to evacuate turned out to be prisoners of a ghetto organized by the fascists right here in the village. Those who survived this terrible time left after the war, many died. And by the beginning of the 21st century, only one of the survivors of the ghetto remained in Ilyin – Alexander Yakovlevich Karpenko. Last…

People born in Russia in 1917 tell about their fate. Deep personal memories of long-livers add up to the history of the country of the last century.

Lilya (Marina Zubanova) is an approaching-middle-age singleton who lives with and cares for her grandfather and works at a chicken factory. She is determined to get married soon, but hasn’t quite found the man for the job. Most of the story revolves around various failed dates, her conversations with coworkers and family members, and her innocent stalking of a talented local pianist.

The fabulous story of the girl Hannah and the young man from the depths of the sea in the film is intertwined with the pictures of the life of a provincial German town during World War II that arise in the heroine's memory, about her first love.

When a good person turns into a tyrant due to circumstances.