Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

A portrait and self-portrait of the former TV journalist Vyacheslav Nemyshev, who reported on the Chechnyan war in 2001 and now leads a reclusive life on an island.

Fourteen-year-old Egor, having moved with his mother from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad, begins a new life: another educational institution - the Kaliningrad Nakhimov School, new acquaintances, new friends, new circumstances and concerns... He immediately decides to gain authority and introduces himself as the brother of the legendary Nakhimov students Loginov. And the plan works at first - popularity allows him to become the star of the class.

Vera deceives a family from Perm to the Arkhangelsk region in the illusory hope of finding her youngest daughter, who disappeared without a trace a year and a half ago. She does not suspect that this deception can lead to an even greater tragedy.

One day, Sasha gets hold of a mysterious device. A button that delivers incredible pleasure one press at a time. It seems that now he doesn’t need anything else in his life. But his girlfriend Tanya does not agree with this.

Stand-up comedian Arthur Chaparyan spoke about the “Бывшая” (“My ex”) channel — from an idea to a sale, shared experience and interesting observations on the Telegram audience. In 20 minutes you will understand how cool Arthur is and why the “Бывшая” took off, but mothers, clients, lovers and other Telegram entities are not.

Nina considers her life as a series of failures. It's like a magnet that attracts trouble. And the fact that neighbors on the communal shamelessly "survive" her, and then her first lay off at the reduction in school, and even an unfulfilled personal life - in everything, Nina blames only her unhappiness. Her friend Masha tries to prove to her that the problem is in Nina herself. She does not know how to stand up for herself and allows others to use her trustfulness. Temporarily, Nina arranges an interpreter for one of the successful companies. There she gets acquainted with the director of the company Roman, who begins to look after her. But Nina does not even realize that once again becomes a "bargaining chip" in someone else's game.

In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.

When does your childhood go away? It goes away when instead of playing football with other kids you sit down and silently contemplate the river. When your thoughts don’t let you sleep, and a lightning bug beats in a pot like a heart. When poems come into your mind and you feel you really need to sing. It goes away when you suddenly realize: this summer is going away and it is the last summer of your childhood.

THE BRETHREN is a documentary about the monks of the world's northernmost monastery -- the Trifonov Pechengsky monastery located in Kolsky Peninsula, Russia. It was Russia's Northern outpost a few centuries ago. Later it was destroyed and abolished, and now it is being restored. The brethren of this monastery is small: 4 hieromonks and 2 monks. They are young, and every one of them has had his personal way to monastic ordination. All their life stories are nontrivial and even paradoxical. They are attempting not only to restore the buildings of the monastery but to build a temple in their hearts. The film features unique footage of the inner life of the monastery.

A mysterious puppeteer comes to an ordinary school and in one and the same performance turns the assembly hall into a live fairy tale. The boy, caught between his classmates ridicules and indifference of adults, accidentally finds himself on the stage and goes on a magical journey with dragons, dwarfs and a princess. To return he will have to become a knight and defeat not a monster, but his own fear.

Crime drama at a Russian hotel

What does an actor leave behind? That is the question that Alla Demidova asks herself, the audience, the eternity. She went and lived through the tragedies by Shakespeare, Electra, Phaedra, Medea. Where can one go henceforth? If only become a phantom, an image, something eternal, an enduring reflection of this world in the mirror. This film is a journey away from our reality to an imaginary universe, to reflections, images, phantoms. It starts with an exposition devoted to Alla Demidova at the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music Art. But it does not only document the space; thanks to Demidova's speech it turns into a retrospective of her work, the parts she played, an explication of her approach to acting.

A remake of the Grigoriy Aleksandrov's "Volga-Volga", a postmodernist deconstruction of the legendary Soviet movie. Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe's head was "glued" to Lyubov Orlova's body, and now Monroe is re-acting the movie, making what was a musical about amateur artists into a tragedy – postwoman wants too much and, eventually, loses her mind. Sometime in the movie, the movie shifts to Antarctica from the Volga, where Monroe-Orlova is looking at the fascinating life of penguins.

This film tells about people whose hands create the main components of life on the planet every day. And it’s not just the material basis of our world made of metal, concrete or wood, but it’s also something that gives meaning to our lives, inspires and gives hope. The film’s characters — a locksmith and a fisherman, a steelworker and a farmer, a furniture maker and an anesthesiologist — are followed by the film’s Director, who suddenly turns from an observer into a creator.

Based on the poem by Pushkin. A thief and his gang are at their camp next to the Volga River. He tells them of how his father died in a river, and how his brother and he were thrown out of the house as children by their step-mother…

Zoya Yarovitsyna's second solo concert.

A clown is fired from a circus because he only flies 9 centimeters. The director doesn't know it's not a trick. The clown really hovers above the ground

The 1972 Super Series is one of the greatest events in hockey history. The first meeting of Canadian professionals and Soviet amateurs was much more than just a series of high-profile international matches. It was an ice battle of two powerful superpowers, the brightest confrontation of characters, mentalities and stereotypes, the rivalry of capitalism and communism, transferred to the sports plane. The film will reveal unique facts, sensational statements, revelations of players and a chronicle of events that have not yet been mentioned in any of the materials.

A monologue revealing the inner world of a young girl, a talented violinist, playing in a provincial chamber orchestra. It is far from that glamorous constellation of divas who daily pour their cold light from the sky of modern Russian television. It is an amazing combination of beauty, intelligence and talent. That is why she is not a star.

An ageing witch needs a baby for a spell to make her young again. But when she brings home an infant princess things don't go to plan.

This is a little over an hour of sloppy, often endless, but very well told jokes on deliberately understandable topics. Summer camps, tobogganing, seeing off to the army, TV series on the recommendation of friends, 5D cinemas, pedophiles, smoking spice, and the crown of all is the joke about "fucking quarks" that "revolve on subatomic levels."

Residents of the “375 kilometer” village are very funny, energetic and inventive people. They plow the land on a tank, but nevertheless try to keep up with civilization: they have their own mobile phone with which the postman Granny Nyura drives around. The main character Vanka needs a phone exclusively for accessing the Internet - in faraway Australia, his virtual lover lives. However, the neighbor girl Varka, secretly in love with the hero, is not ready to put up with the existence of a rival. Varka is trying in every possible way to attract the attention of her love interest. Only not everything goes according to plan ...

Провинциальная девушка Таня Клочкова работает официанткой в кафе, расположенном на трассе, и живет с матерью в поселке. Здесь у нее есть лучшая подруга Люда и влюбленный в нее друг детства Боря. Но судьба не преподносит ей сюрпризов, а другая, красивая и яркая жизнь, проносится мимо. Однажды в кафе заходит Кирилл, молодой и успешный москвич. Он влюбляется в простую и обаятельную Таню, и она отвечает ему взаимностью. Вскоре он увозит ее с собой в Москву.

Cristina got acquainted with Russian puppeteer Boris, when he was hitchhiking nearby Montauban. Several years later she met him once again in Moscow.

About the young, nice guy on a good typewriter. He is not a fool and with a sense of humor. He is generally all good - know the problems. But for some reason he does not love anyone, but I want to ... love.

The film is a means of understanding the personal, political and economic reasons that resulted in the creation of a system of forced restraint to work GULAG. Authors use the experience of the writer Varlam Shalamov and a number of new works on the history of Russia.

In ancient times, wizards fought each other for ancient artifacts that gave them power over the world. Many of them died in battle. And one of them, the Wizard, spent many centuries searching for the relics. In our days, schoolgirl Sonya accidentally discovers the artifacts, not knowing about their magical power. Without wanting it, the girl becomes a sorceress, not yet guessing what danger awaits her.

Schoolboy Pashka Kostin is injured and falls into a coma. His friends decide that Pashka's soul has moved into a yard dog named Pirate. The friends are looking for all sorts of ways to get the soul out of the dog and return it to Pashka. In the end, the old proven method works - the princess kisses the "sleeping beauty" Pasha.

A musical fantasy about the awakening of nature from hibernation, about the release of a hero from his “little world” into a world full of beauty and adventure.

Provinces. Winter. Evening. Bus stop. A car with young guys stops near a beautiful young girl. What happens next, in the literal and figurative sense, happens to everyone. Dedicated to all who are waiting for the bus.

Documentary about people who work on illegal allotments near the airport for more than 30 years, but soon the allotments should be destroyed, because of technical progress and development of the area.

A Japanese fox spirit being stopped by another spirit when she moves into a Japanese town for an autumn night full of mischievement

Yakutsk, where otherworldly horror lurks behind the facade of everyday life. Find out how to protect yourself from ghosts… Tuyaara, a simple village girl, runs away to Yakutsk, dreaming of a new life. She rents a tiny apartment at a ridiculously low price. But behind this generosity lies something sinister — an ancient darkness that has taken root in the walls of the old house…

The English teacher becomes a victim of bullying by her new students despite the indifferent administration, she tries to overcome this problem.

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually harassed him, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Tenderly revealing two lives lived in limbo, this film bears witness to the first and final visit of his mother, Lubyov.

The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are under pressure from relatives, friends, and doctors. Both are going through a difficult decision-making process. Each episode of the artistic part shows the life circumstances and the path that a woman in a crisis situation goes through. In documentary inserts, representatives of various professions (psychologists, lawyers, gynecologists, clergymen) tell how they face the problem of abortion in their lives.

A huge housing complex called "Сronos" is being built next to the orphanage. Irina, the orphanage's teacher, is worried that Cronos is getting closer and closer to the house and taking over more and more land. She will do everything possible to protect her charges.

The work of the Soviet writer, a villager, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Fyodor Abramov, is riddled with pain for a dying village, thoughts about the Russian North and the fate of Russia.

The young Vera arranges a romantic date for her mother, Natalia Petrovna, with the capital’s lady’s man so she will find her femininity again. But things go not quite according to plan...

The legendary Sedin plant was founded in 1911 in Russian Empire, in the city of Krasnodar (Ekaterinodar). The film shows the struggle of workers (rallies, pickets, strikes) for the future of the Sedin Plant and for their rights.

Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The impetus to making the film was the book of the same name by the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov, who died 100 years ago. His treatise was devoted to the study of sexuality and its denial in Christianity. The film was made in the style of experimental films of the 1920s with a non-linear narration full of strange surrealistic images. He is black and white and devoid of dialogue. Filmed on film 16 mm of firm "Svema", released in the USSR. This added to his exoticism. The image was put to the music of Alexander Scriabin “The Poem of Ecstasy” (1907).

'1210' is a shrilly story of a 'small person' seeking justice from the state. All his attempts are bound to fail. He's a superfluous nasty old spot, rejected even by his own family. Going mad is probably the only way out for a totally forgotten war veteran, burgled and miserable. It still remains a question, however, whether the 'crazy' man is really so in our 'normal' world, or it's the world itself which turned crazy from its own indifference. Knocked down by despair, the man resorts to committing a horrible deed. A deed unlikely to be pardoned...

Катя - успешная писательница, выпускающая одну за другой книги по психологии семейных отношений. В предвкушении романтического ужина с мужем Алексеем, Катя находит дома бархатную коробочку с кольцом, которое, скорее всего, вечером преподнесет ей любимый. Но это не единственный сюрприз, который ожидает ее в этот праздничный день. Утром, зайдя в магазин, Катя сталкивается с Мишей, своей институтской любовью. Двадцать лет назад они расстались по глупости и упрямству, как это бывает в юности...

King Creonte has Antigone imprisoned in a crypt. Buried alive, she looks out at the world from her underground dungeon. According to Elena Gutkina, graduate of the laboratory of Artur Aristakisyan, “The protagonists of the film are the dead, buried in the ground. What do they tell us? The protagonists are the living, mourning their dead. The protagonists are the undead, those who were not buried. We cannot see them, but we can mourn them. How can Antigone be saved? Who is she? Could it be the camera itself?”

In the society of the future, cleansed of emotions, where the manifestation of feelings is punishable by law, the meeting of the exemplary excellent student Maya with the leader of the rebels Dan throws them into the E-side - a forbidden dimension, where their feelings turn into fantastic superpowers.

Max is unemployed and dreams of becoming a musician. His neighbour, the elderly Viktor, is blind. Representatives of different generations and cultures, they nonetheless provide each other with a way of escaping their loneliness: Max needs a father figure, while Viktor needs a son.

Every year on the eve of May 9, a lonely nursing home resident tries to find one of his friends. He lives in the past until one day it overtakes him in the most unexpected way.

Each time he wakes up, a young man appears in a new reality in which he would have another life. Amnesiac, or something more, from his past, how will he get out of this nightmare? or how to get back to the day where he fall in love...

Twelve-year-old Artyom discovers a portal to the magical Enchanted Forest at an abandoned dacha and meets its amazing inhabitants, Winnie the Pooh and his friends. But an attempt to show off his find to his peers turns into a disaster - Artyom is laughed at, because most people see ordinary toys rather than fairy-tale characters. The magic portal disappears, leaving Pooh and his friends in the human world. 20 years later, Artyom, who has forbidden himself to dream and has sunk into routine, finds Winnie the Pooh again, and with him a chance to return the lost meaning to his life. But to do this, they all have to find Piglet, Rabbit and Owl, scattered across different corners of the country, and send them all back to their native Enchanted Forest.

The young serf Eremey Mizgir is surrendered as a soldier by his mistress for his mischievous tricks. Mizgir ends up in St. Petersburg in the guards regiment. Resourceful, quick-witted, cheerful, he easily copes with his official duties and, although he often gets punished by the sergeant-major for his pranks, he never loses heart. But then sad news came from the village: the old people’s cow had died, and Eremey’s bride Dunya was being relentlessly pursued by the clerk. The soldier felt sad. Standing on guard at the rich, diamond-studded icon of the Kazan Mother of God and thinking about how to help the elderly and the bride, Mizgir decides to take a desperate step. He breaks the glass of the icon and picks out a large gemstone from the aureole of the Mother of God. When the loss is discovered, Mizgir, without blinking an eye, announces that the Mother of God herself gave him the stone.

The film tells the story of Robert Schuman, his life and creative work. He could have been a talented pianist. But he invented the device to prop up his fingers while practicing. The idea was to strengthen them and develop independence, but instead, two fingers on his right hand were permanently injured. As a result Schuman became a great composer and publisher of a music magazine. He fell in love with a talented pianist Clara Wiek - the daughter of his professor - and married her against his will. The film is a romantic story based on the composer's personal notes and his drawings on the margins of sheet music.

This is ‘a road movie’ encapsulated in the Moscow metro system and filmed over the course of one year: a documentary film that observes cultural and social issues in modern Russia.

“When you raise a winner, you grow a warrior. In the warrior you need to kill love so that he can win. Mom raised a daughter, a good warrior, did not take into account only that the warrior does not care who to kill. ”

New adventures of the sexy giants — artist Zelkin, ballet master Tyminsky, architect Palachev, director Konstantin, and showman Vasily Chernoy.

Short film.