Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Film by Renata Litvinova for the brand Gosha Rubchinsky.

The author of the film comes to his Russian uncle Sasha in the German province and helps him in the relentless search for the woman with whom he could live.

Accidentally, Alyona finds herself alone in her lover's country-house on Christmas Eve. All she can see from the window is a snow-covered desert, and a cat is the only living creature who is near. The heating is turned off, her mobile phone battery is low. Alyona tries to get out of the country-house, but the more external circumstances she overcomes the deeper she sinks into her inner hell. At the end of the day her desire to escape suddenly evolves into desire to die. There are three layers in the film: physical, symbolical and metaphysical. All Alyona's activity is a surface that hides her struggle with her inner demons, her existential solitude and her inability to cope with it. Trying to escape the swamp of unsolved issues Alyona sinks only deeper and deeper to reach the bottom, then push off and start her way to inner resurrection. The only thing we are never given enough is love. The only thing we never give enough is love.

Tenth-grade Tanya, being in a difficult life situation, is torn between love for mother and hatred of her stepfather. A decision matures in her mind that can fatally affect not only her life, but also the lives of her closest people.

More than 50 years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Russia is still divided. Was Stalin a great leader who made Russia into a superpower? Or was he a ruthless dictator, responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people? Virtually no family has been left untouched by the consequences of Stalin’s regime, and in every corner of the country, victims’ families are struggling with history. Throughout society, Stalin’s popularity is growing, and there is a yearning for a sense of national unity. The Red Soul shows how the past lives on in present-day Russia, and thus makes its mark on the future.

A group of warriors encounters mythical siren in the forest.

A reality film about the journey of the frontman of the Auktyon group Leonid Fedorov to Florence, a city that gives the musician an impulse to live and create. Film director Igor Voloshin ("Nirvana", "I", "Bedouin") films life as it is: trips to museums, feasts, New Year's Eve, a trip to Tuscany and Bologna. The intricate editing makes the film fly with frantic energy and rhythm, similar to Fedorov's songs.

Psychedelic Sci-Fi about mind travel.

The film tells about the former journalist of the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, adviser to the Roscosmos state corporation Ivan Safronov. On July 7, 2020, Safronov was arrested, charged with high treason and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. So far, several months after Ivan's arrest, neither he, nor the defense, nor the public have been presented with a single piece of evidence of the journalist's guilt.

A New Year story about four friends who go to Italy to find husbands there, but nothing comes of it.

Dzhulur is a young guy who, after serving in the army, returned to his native village in Yakutia. Here he lives with his old grandmother and little sister Kyunnei. By chance, Julur finds himself at the Ysyakh celebration, where he accidentally takes part in competitions and discovers the talent of a mas-wrestler in himself. But the sudden death of her grandmother crosses out all plans for the future. The sister is taken away by the guardianship authorities, because Julur has neither parental rights nor a permanent job. Kyunnei is sent to an orphanage, and their housing is taken away by debt collectors. In search of Kunney and a permanent job, Julur goes to Yakutsk, where the largest mas-wrestling championship in the Republic is to take place in the near future. Julur has a purpose, and now, in order for the family to be together again, he will have to go through tremendous trials on the way to victory!

ACA 166: Magomedov vs. Dolgov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, November 24, 2023 the Sibur Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Soviet military suppresses enemy aggression. But German soldiers do not intend to give up so easily. After all, they believe their leader and fully share his beliefs and aspirations. To find out more about the location of enemy forces, the Germans decide to send a detachment of saboteurs for reconnaissance. Young people have not only to find the exact location of the troops of the USSR, but also to sabotage the sabotage. That's just the operation is on the verge of collapse.

New cartoon by Olga Baulina (CGF Animation, CTV Film Company).

The experienced emergency doctor Alexander Arkadievich and his assistant Kolya hurry to finish their shift so they can go and watch a football match. But when they arrive at their last call, they understand that it’s not so simply to solve. In a fit of jealousy, the wife has cut off her husband’s finger and doesn’t want to give him the finger until he confesses his mistake and apologizes. To save the patient’s finger, the doctors have to interfere and solve the couple’s conflict first.

A glance across the border in northern Russia, where the small town of Montegorsk suffers under the heavy metal from industry. Nature is transformed into a poisonous desert: in long shots the camera probes the pale, skeleton-like branches of the dead trees. The small family, whose everyday life Helke and Suutari follow, lives in a state of waiting: waiting for the next German car, the next medical examination, the next holidays. White Sky exemplifies the artists‘ approach with currents of time flowing together: no one can say how long it will take for nature to regenerate itself here; yet people live here in their own time, with their own individual wishes and expectations.

A young man askes the neighbour to water the onion during his absence. The neighbour at first refuses to take the keys. Eventually, she agrees, however. When she's left, the young man takes out a rope and climbs up on the table ... The film based on the play by Ludmila Petrushevskaya, famous russian writer.

Extraordinary and mysterious events begin very ordinarily: journalist Larsen arrives at the home of the famous writer, Nobel laureate Znorco, to conduct an interview. The writer lives alone on an island in the Norwegian Sea. During the interview, details of Znorco’s life and work are revealed. The writer's new novel is a genuine correspondence between Znorco and his lover, who later became Larsen's wife. Several years ago, she passed away, yet letters from her continued to arrive.

A lonely actress is searching for love. Each of her dates turns into a movie plot, filled with dramatic twists, conflicts, and obstacles. She dives headfirst into the game, forgetting that it’s all just part of a film shoot.

If you don't have the opportunity to take your child to the zoo every day, then this film will help to familiarize your child not only with the animal world, but also with the process of its evolution on earth. In a kind and accessible way, a Grandfather leads his Grandson to the land of love and understanding of the whole living world around us. And you don't have to fall behind! It's very interesting there!

This story is about how one day a simple student suddenly met a simple village boy Rudolf who absolutely accidentally and effortlessly ruined his whole life. Ayaal doesn't know what to do now, and his hands drop. What will save his life and his love? Or who...?

Romance, in Russian language

Short movie by Mikhail Bocharov.

Timur meets Liza, takes a liking to her and invites her on a date. He unexpectedly receives a refusal, because an experienced ladies man and a successful entrepreneur are not used to such situations. In addition, Timur understands that he was imbued with a sincere feeling for the girl. He turns to his own brother Arseniy with a very unusual request.

New circumstances in the life of Alexander Nikolaevich Beletsky and Ani, who have already got married and return with little Sasha to Moscow.

March, 1943. The characters of the movie get a new moral experience, undergo another test of their humanity at the time of war.

Early lost Russian horror film.

Georgian - South Ossetian conflict, August 8, 2008. Georgian troops are in the main administrative town of South Ossetia – Tskhinvali. While searching for a house, a Georgian soldier hears extraneous noise coming from the underground.

The hero of the film is the Petersburger Zinoviy Tennenboym. He works as a locksmith of the city service of Vodokanal. For 30 years, he climbed into the hatches and repairs the cranes. At another time, in another place, probably, he could be a scientist or a writer ... But he is satisfied with his fate. He loves his job. He knows how to be happy.

Father Alexander, a priest from Demidov in the Smolensk region, has a surprising secular passion: he never misses a ballet premiere at the Bolshoi or the Mariinsky. Although the Church doesn’t forbid such interests, his dual life raises the question of how an Orthodox spiritual life intersects with contemporary art.

The main character Sasha is obsessed with a desire: to find love. He and his father go to Yakutsk for the anniversary of Darya Semyonovna, who in her youth was his father's lover. Darya Semyonovna is a domineering, charismatic tyrant. Her daughter – Masha is cunning, educated, who dreams of marrying a prince on a white horse. It is to them that a young guy Sasha gets with his father. Sasha knows his own worth, but he is very naive, simple and kind. The lack of life experience and excessive desire to please everyone plunge Sasha into a series of collisions, which he will have to overcome on the path of true love.

A series of films for children about childhood, youth and mature years of some of the great composers of the world. This film tells the story of Gioacchino Rossini and his creative cuisine

Forty years ago, a documentary film about Soviet cardiac surgeons was released. Perhaps, for the first time on our screen, doctors reflected on the value of human life, talked about their experiences caused by the death of a patient, about the imperfection of Soviet medicine, the lack of knowledge and responsibility of doctors. For forty years, medicine has made an incredible breakthrough, but the moral problems that plague doctors have remained the same. “You can’t get used to death” is the leitmotif of the paintings, old and new. The film was awarded as the Best Non-Fiction Film at the Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" - 2016.

The Kostomarov family falls apart when a female relative joins the household.

The main character Rita is kind and sweet young woman, who can’t say “no” and is ready to help anyone who asks, and therefore is constantly being used by her family and friends. Her sister Olga is pursuing a career, leaving her children to Rita; her love interest Vlad uses her by borrowing money and never giving it back, and also by getting Rita to do his work; Rita’s mother Nina is thinking only about her questionable business. Rita herself, while being a talented inventor of modern gadgets, is a freelance employee at an advertising company, where Olga is a creative director. Olga gets fame for all Rita’s inventions. One day, everything changes.

New cartoon by Anastasia Zhakulina (Soyuzmultfilm).

When the republic of Georgia declared war on the rebellious province of Abkhazia, many of the country's young artists and intellectuals responded to their government's call to fight. Every culture, it seems, needs to discover for itself that war is hell. Khaindrava's version of this aperçu is in every sense a front-line bulletin: it's a black-and-white docudrama about Georgia's attempts to subdue the rebellion in Abkhazia, made with real young soldiers and partly shot in the thick of battle. It starts with the eagerness of students and intellectuals to volunteer for the Georgian army and ends with the deaths of many. Khaindrava, several times imprisoned for dissidence in USSR days, knows all about the conflict: he helped launch it when he was made Minister for Abkhazian Affairs - a post he soon quit. He should have watched Hell Is for Heroes before he took the job.

A committed synchronized swimmer tries to win the championship and the heart of the coach.

Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance at the best stages of the world, and grateful, understanding and appreciating art public. But, probably, not everyone knows that all this began in the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, when the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) theater and the Vaganovo Ballet School were already evacuated from Molotov, which was already practically blocked by the fascists of Leningrad, to the city of Molotov (then Perm was called). Then this evacuation novel, which continues to this day, began

Gorgeously shot in the wide-open Siberian wilderness this outdoor adventure chronicles the dramatic escape of a big-city bred violinist from a Siberian labor camp. Underlying the action is the tale of a man who learns to become one with his environment rather than trying to dominate it. The story begins as enigmatic, Asian tribesman Toli comforts the starved violinist Dimitri that they will be escaping soon. They get their chance when a beautiful herd of Yakut horses begin grazing placidly near where the two are toiling. Sneaking away from the others, they grab tow hand steeds and race off. Unfortunately, Toli is mortally wounded. Just before he dies, he tells Dimitri that he is a powerful shaman and then hands the fiddler a protective amulet. In this way, Toli becomes Dimitri's guardian spirit. The city youth will need all the help he can get as he and his horse must traverse the unforgiving wilds and keep away from guards, alone.

Vasya is the most common guard. One day, in some mystical way, he emerges in the distant past.

March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet knows the scale of the disaster that will unfold in the coming weeks and what trials soldiers and civilians will have to go through.

A married couple on the edge of breaking up decide to fix their relationship, by taking part in a swingers meeting. But it comes out that the wife wasn't ready for the aftermath.

The film Maria's House talks about people with intellectual and mental disabilities. Children and youth who would otherwise be totally deprived of any future, live a normal life here with their everyday joys and sorrows. The village inhabitants have nowhere to hurry, they enjoy doing work they are capable of doing, they selflessly help each other, and they are always glad to welcome new guests. Happiness dwells here

LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015.

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka's magical masterpiece in its entirety, inspired by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's poem of a Russian tale. An evil sorcerer Chernomor casts a spell over wedding celebrations for Ruslan and Lyudmila at the court of Svetozar, the Prince of Kiev. Lyudmila vanishes and her father promises her hand and half his kingdom to the knight who rescues her. Ruslan on this quest of rescue encounters the knights Ratmir and Farlaf, the wise wizard Finn, the slave of Ratmir, Gorislava and sorceress Naina before confronting Chernomor in his magic garden. After all the challenges for Ruslan, true love prevails.

Best friends: A seven-year-old girl and her elderly grandfather escape from their parents' dacha to rescue their grandfather's dog, who is locked alone in the apartment. The trip stops being fun when it becomes clear that the grandfather is mentally ill.

The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.

The film tells about Marina Albi, a famous American woman who has been living for twenty years in Russia. She undertakes a spiritual trip to the Russian province to find 'the Heart of Russia'. It is with her eyes that we see the beauties and the joys of small Russian towns and villages, as well as their sufferings and problems. The goal of her trip is to find explanations: "What is one's own life?" "How to live one's own life?" In the end of the film, she meets someone and this great meeting reveals to her simple and great truths.

When you are a success, it is easy and pleasant to wake up. You do what you want and how you want. Expensive clothes and the best car are all yours. There is no need to pretend a king in this case-retinue can do this instead of you. Or they can’t?