Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Two friends try to withdraw money from the stock exchange to pay off their debts, but they are ripped off 10 minutes before their meeting with an angry debt collector.

The film tells the story of modern slavery from the perspective of the only Russian organization carrying out mass rescue missions both within the country and abroad.

The story is about earthlings who landed on a planet called the Ark, on which they wanted to settle the inhabitants of the dying planet Panta. However, the Ark planet turned out to be inhabited, moreover, the wreckage of a spaceship of the Free Search Group and an Earthling child raised by non–humanoid aborigines were found on it.

At a high school reunion, Liza decides to film her best friend Alena so that this recording "would go down in history." However, Alena's ex-boyfriend unexpectedly shows up with a child, and instead of a fun get-together in front of the camera, a drama between the former lovers unfolds.

The creators explore what the cross is like as a cornerstone symbol for humanity, what its installation on Earth means for people and how this changed the picture of the world of peoples and generations.

The film was filmed during the 2013 Amur flood. Postman Nadia delivers mail to villagers in distress. The peculiarities of the relationship between people living in the outback, far from the city and the center of the country, are manifested in the struggle against the elements.

The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.

In spring, as soon as the ice descends from the Siberian rivers, Plavpoliklinika goes on a semi-annual route. Doctors are taking medical care to remote Russian villages. Ahead of six months of testing the climate and living conditions, separation from the family and meeting people from the outback.

A poor misunderstood wolf tells the real story of what happened

A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience. A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall. He wrote extraordinary novels and dared to protest, fully aware of the consequences. In 2024, Pavel Kushnir died in a prison in Birobidzhan.

Ludmila Vasilieva survived the siege of Leningrad in 1944. The 83-year-old publicly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine while also running for the office of governor of Saint Petersburg, Russia's second largest city. I CHOOSE TO GO provides a glimpse inside her protest against a repressive system

A kind and beautiful story is a collective image of many well-known Russian folk fairy tales. The production part is based on the patchwork technique — "petchwork".

A documentary about the Soviet rock group Kino which mixes music video sequences, footage from the band members' day to day lives, interviews and concert footage.

This story is shown as if it was accidentally filmed by the cell phone, which had been stolen. This robbery turned into a real drama. And the phone’s cam had been impartially recording the way this drama was playing out.

The film tells the gripping story of a millionaire merchant who hides his wealth in the taiga during the civil war. The legend of the lost gold is passed down from generation to generation until 1975, when geologist Boris Albertovich discovers a coin with the initials "TB." In the present day, his grandson Sasha and friend Vitaly, deeply in debt, decide to find the treasure to change their fate. Their journey is fraught with danger and conflict, culminating in the discovery of a letter from Toyon Baaya's servant, revealing the tragic history of the treasure. The film emphasizes that true treasure is family and love, and immerses viewers in the cultural richness and picturesque landscapes of Yakutia.

Eight-year-old Veronica and six-year-old Anya met recently, but have already become best friends. Anya lives in a luxurious mansion, while Veronica lives in an old dilapidated house. Anya invites her friend to her birthday party, but betrays her there. A simple story about a children's party turns into an existential parable about the search for forgiveness.

A group of young people takes a pleasure boat trip to Abkhazia. Suddenly, they find themselves trapped on a marine farm infested with man-eating sharks. In order to escape, they will need not only to join forces, but also to risk their lives for the sake of others.

Second solo concert by stand-up comedian Vanya Usovich.

A lonely girl hears a mysterious knock on her apartment door in the middle of the night.

Fifteen-year-old Marina is given a terrible diagnosis - leukemia. Parents are shocked and they decide that only abroad can heal their child. But the oncologist Olga Nikolaevna convinces them that the girl cannot be taken away, but must be treated here, at home. In addition to everything, Marina has a rare blood group, which doctors do not have reserves of. The girl’s mother also cannot become a donor - she is expecting a second child, and an operation must be urgently needed ...

A fabulous story about good and evil, friendship and love, deceit and justice, based on the Crimean Tatar folk legend about Hıdır Dede - a wise old man who could come to any house under the guise of a stranger. The uniting of the hearts of two romantic heroes is hindered by an greedy tax collector who works lawlessness on ordinary people. Their little brother and sister go to the aid of the lovers, who manage to meet the wizard. He, with the help of a just ruler, punishes evil and rewards those who are kind, respectful to elders and pure in heart.

Put everything aside, sit back, pour yourself a cup of hot tea or cocoa—a wonderful New Year's fairy tale about 13 months and lost help awaits you.

One of the most popular questions for comedians: how do you write the material? None of them can give a simple and understandable answer to this question, because no one knows it. This film is an attempt to follow how a stand-up concert is created.

A visiting granddaughter tries to get her withdrawn grandmother to open up and encourages her to sort through her old wardrobe. While sorting through the clothes, the grandmother suddenly recalls stories associated with them, and the granddaughter unexpectedly discovers that the dresses, jackets, and scarves hold much more than just family photo archives. Trying on the past, the grandmother begins to subtly change before her granddaughter's eyes, gradually returning to her own youth.

Religious, philosophical, mystical interpretation of the traditional theme of Russian literature - "journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow." The cross and the circle, the eagle and the snake, the tree and the stone, Athens and Jerusalem, Babylon and Sodom, male and female - in these archetypal categories the author examines the fate of the Russian capital, its birth and death. The music used is by Anton von Webern, Sofia Gubaidulina, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Orthodox church and Russian folk music.

Moscow is excited about the upcoming event — the betrothal of the Emperor and Catherine. Ekaterina and Millesimo try to escape from Russia, but their conspiracy is exposed. Millesimo is brutally beaten, the fugitive is put under lock and key. Seeing Millesimo at the engagement, the shocked Catherine drops the ring, and everyone sees this as a bad sign. And that's right: exhausted by endless hunting, drunkenness and nervous shocks, Peter II falls ill. Dolgoruky keep his illness a secret.

In a large family, after a trip to the store, another child suddenly appears. He speaks an incomprehensible language and does not know where he came from. But in a family where there is love, this is not important. Gradually, from an undesirable burden, he turns into a beloved family member and returns peace and happiness to the main characters, Sena and Lida.

In 2012 the production at the Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal Peninsula, a remote section of Siberia , had begun. The industrial zone had been located right on the historical migration route of the indigenous reindeer herders- Nenets. This story is about people, whose fates are closely connected with the land, and now they are sandwiched between two epochs, between the future and the past.

The only bonus in the simple, uncomplicated life of a non-charismatic fifty-year-old man is his Friday vodka in the bar along the way with a hated job home. On one of these evenings he meets Belka.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Motor race Moscow – Sevastopol' / Barges loaded with grain are sent to the starving in the provinces / The Caucasus and its resorts.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sasha Chusov has been growing giant pumpkins on his six-acre plot of land in the Moscow region for many years. For him, it's an agrosport and a path to the title of "Pumpkin King." Last year, Sasha set a Russian record with his 817-kilogram pumpkin. This year, he truly believes his pumpkin will not only weigh over a ton but also become the heaviest in the world. After all, he's already purchased a selective seed at auction and built a greenhouse with heat pumps, a heating system, irrigation, and ventilation. He controls everything from the nutrition to the soil.

Nina Petrovna and Yegor Ilyich have been living in urban apartments with children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, who, however, have no desire to reckon with the interests of their elderly relatives. But one day there comes a time when old people have to leave home. An accidental acquaintance in a bistro - and instead of despondently complaining about each other's fate, they leave to live at Yegor Ilyich’s dacha. The children of both, joining forces, are trying to put their "romantic" pensioners in their place ...

The action in the film takes place in the Far East, on an uninhabited island called Rikord in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan. The lead character, called Fatei after his father, and his family have their own marine farm where they harvest delicacies from the sea. In amazing images of the underwater world and land-scapes of the Primorsky (Maritime) Territory of the Russian Far East, the film Fatei and the Sea tells the story of a little man whose life is inseparable from the big world around him.

Suffering from the summer heat, the young man sleeps during the day and stays awake at night.

A guy (being me) tries to tell his friends a funny story about the horse while celebrating his birthday.

To make a girl an offer, a guy named Kolya, you need to first find a job. While looking for a job, Kolya gets into trouble and finds himself in a children's camp, where he will have to find a common language not only with children, but also with himself.

At the end of June 2019, a flood occurred in the city of Tulun in the Irkutsk region. Hundreds of homes were flooded, and some were swept away by the current. Residents were not prepared for such a scale of the disaster and managed to pick up only the documents and take out the children. Many remained on the roofs of their homes to protect property from looters. But the water level rose higher than expected, and people were evacuated on their boats, picked up neighbors, and later rescuers joined the evacuation. There are fatalities among the population. The authors of the film chose four families and watched their lives for six months from the moment of the disaster. The filmmakers are trying to figure out what caused the flood. How helpless is a person before the elements? How to find the strength to start life with a clean slate?

A teenage girl from a dysfunctional family, whose parents keep an inexpensive roadside cafe, runs away from home. "It's not I who left them, they left me," - so the girl explains her flight.

A young huntsman Kamil comes to a distant backwater from Tashkent. He is settled in the place of his predecessor, in the house of Asal, a young strange girl who is painfully experiencing the premature death of her mother. The loneliness of the heroes will be replaced by a mutual need for sympathy and closeness. But one day, having witnessed the humorous flirtation of his beloved with a laboratory assistant, Asal will leave the reserve and will not respond to the long call of an alarmed Kamil.

Mariya Markova's first solo stand-up concert

Yana lives in northern town, works at the post office, collects stamps and waits for her father from the sea, but she doesn't even hope for his coming home. One day sailor Petr comes to the post office, and it changes Yana's life.

Art film by Renata Litvinova, in which she played the main and only role. One night, the heroine of the short film has an amazing, but at the same time frightening dream. A dream that turns her worldview!

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The suites were created on the basis of music for the film "Time, Forward!" By Mikhail Schweitzer (based on the novel of the same name by Valentin Kataev, shot in 1965, released in 1966), dedicated to the construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. From the first suite, the most famous part is "Time, forward!". Subsequently, it was used in a number of films, in television and radio programs, documentary films about the first five-year plans, industrialization, and post-war reconstruction. Sergei Oskolkov composed his suite: "Time, back!" The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the revolution in Russia.

The world – full of sensitivity – lies far away. Changeable as the northern sky. Monotonous – like a prayer. Wonderful as stones. At the same time familiar and mysterious. We are advancing by a big river. It's autumn on the river. Somewhat empty – but it is a sensitive void: filled with vital meanings. Downstream and downstream…

Documentary film about the forest fires in Siberia during the summer of 2019.

Tanya works as a taxi driver 101 kilometers from Moscow. Tanya, although the fifth for the dispatchers of her taxi fleet, but by nature - is always the first. Kraet workers who badly washed her car, she brings up her children and sells vodka in large batches, at night, after working in a taxi.

The heroine of the film, fashion designer Tanya Kotegova, has become an unquestioned authority in the world of fashion, a queen of style with an inimitable energy in every collection. How did a girl from Magadan reach the heights of design art? The fashion show is the most honest account of the inner world, passions, and experiences of a woman who has dedicated herself to her craft and her fashion house.

The film depicts the pilgrimage to Jerusalem of schema monk Makary with whom faith is not just the latest craze but the essence of his understanding of life. His main goal is to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, so the greatest value of his luggage is a huge number of memorial notes. In the Holy Land he meets monks, visits Orthodox churches and shrines, reflects on the eternal principles of human life - love, hope, faith.