Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

A professional water jumper, exhausted by active training, refuses to jump and goes to a massage session.

The first feature-length Yakut film. A film that tells in a documentary and game form about the rituals, customs, beliefs, life and lifestyle of the Sakha people. The director recreated on the screen the ancient rituals of the life cycle, almost forgotten by the current Sakha.

Nowadays. Time of tolerance, universal equality and brotherhood. A trainee, a test swallow of the experimental national program "Tolerant Russia", enters the police station of city N. Young law-abiding brown bear Arkady Chizhikov, erect and Russian-speaking. A modest and quiet trainee tries with all his might to "join" the new team and win the trust and respect of colleagues. However, the existing composition of the site does not accept the newcomer.

At the center of this social absurdist comedy, filmed like a performance, are beautiful and bold women. They meet men and introduce them to their way of life. The men like where they've ended up and become part of the unique world of their chosen women. "Freedom" is a leftist pamphlet on the immodest charm of the bourgeoisie, made with a love of irony and the excessively free spirit of humanity. This is an auteur film, if only because the author himself periodically appears on screen throughout the story, narrating it to the viewer.

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.

The film is set in a Russian province.The film is based on the story of Victor. He used to be an exemplary family man.. But the craving for alcohol addiction broke his fate. Now a happy life for him is in the past. But once Victor collects his will in a fist and decides that it's time to start living again unless it comes too late. To start a hard way of personal revival the man begins with recovering of a generic source which has been abandoned by his fault.

The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel and unjust world, where you can survive only with a bunch of stolen dollars instead of brains. For a young Russian, money is a symbol of power and strength. Even the new state ideology feeds on blood oil dollars. In Russia there is no more room for dreams. This is the era of anti-utopia.

Burnt-out Cupid Gennady accidentally chooses the wrong partner and, trying to complete a task for the sake of a vacation, ends up murdering someone, which unexpectedly opens up new career prospects for him.

The only witness to the murder of the bride of police captain Artem Nenashev was a smart speaker with a voice assistant. In the last minutes of her life, Yulia, with its help, was able to encrypt the name of the criminal. Nenashev opens the sealed apartment to solve the puzzle in the form of colored lighting of the home, track down the killer and prove his innocence.

In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Dmitri Cherniakov’s aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was “to highlight the hidden sorrows of a late twentieth-century man dwelling in a megalopolis.”

Artur's first solo stand up concert.

A full-length documentary about old age on the eve of death. Everyone is afraid of senility. We talk about old age not as a path through the clinic and oblivion in the cemetery, but as a bright period of life which has many advantages associated only with older age. This film is about people who know the reasons to live and what to do with their lives at any age. The characters of the film answer the main questions of younger people’s crises by their actions, fulfilling their evolutionary mission by giving young people faith in the future. The film doesn’t have a finished script, it’s a true story. We are filming in real-time. Each character has their own line, and time will tell how it will develop.

Based on a the horror novella of the same name. First Russian horror film.

A fascinating story about three teenagers who found an ancient medallion of the Teutonic Order in the basements of a former German hospital in Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg). A story that gradually develops into a dangerous and mystical adventure, with chases, struggle, constant risk. The children will have to solve the mystery of the amber medallion, find the treasure, save the girl and make their choice. And, of course, this is a film about the first youthful love.

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

Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway, this documentary details the current state of the Russian queer community - giving both broad societal overviews and deeply personal accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows Paul Rice and Liam Jackson Montgomery, a gay couple from Ireland, as they travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, meeting with a diverse range of LGBT+ people-from Nobel Peace prize nominees and drag queens to those who have suffered brutal homophobic and transphobic attacks.

Comedy of Nikolay Dostal

Katia and Gala, the students of Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture, are going to an international festival to present their choreographic performance. The girls are quite sure that their contemporary performance will win over the sophisticated audience, so fame, a tour and the world of top art are just around the corner... There's only one little thing left to do, win the Grand-Prix of the festival!

The story of a small Russian town and the people who live there. The film’s protagonists range in age from nine to 90 years old, and each has their own experience of survival in challenging conditions. They are united by their desire to see good in the world, their hope for a miracle – and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “A Hundred Years of Solitude”.

The film is about what children and teenagers of besieged Leningrad survived. 14 surviving heroes and dozens of those for whom only lines of diaries and signatures for children's drawings can now speak, word by word, minute by minute, story after story, revive the siege of memory. What did people actually feel in the besieged city? Which of what we know about the blockade is true, and what is a myth, a stamp from a history textbook? The authors of the film with the help of video comparisons, reconstructions return modern St. Petersburg to the terrible time of the blockade, combining history with momentary.

A girl has fallen victim to a maniac, who wants to get even with her in the most refined manner: extend her cheeks with special medical devices and force her to sneeze so that her eyeballs drop out of their sockets. But we skip this moment and jump in time to the beginning of the story and see, why the girl let the maniac in her house. The reason is pity, which the girl experienced for the man when he sneezed.

Every evening a group of grandmothers-druzhinnits appears on the outskirts of Kaluga. Almost all of them over eighty. Armed with red armbands and a formidable word, they come out to clean up their neighborhood. To local drunkards to drink in a court yard became much more difficult.

In 2013, Dima Ilukhin, the cousin of the film’s director and a soldier in the Russian army, died on duty in the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. He was 21 years old. This incident marks the starting point for Abaturov’s reflection on the military. He films the training of new recruits in Siberia, as they bid farewell to their mothers and girlfriends, learn the mechanics of a Kalashnikov, or how to throw a hand grenade and administer first aid. While his parents try to cope with their loss, Dima’s former fellow recruits have to return to battle.

A film story about the vulnerability of human life to the elements of violence during the Civil War.

Based on the story "The Man from the Restaurant" by I. Shmelev. The creators of the movie are unknown. The movie is preserved without inscriptions.

Five young men set out in search of Kolchak's legendary gold, following a map accidentally discovered in the museum's storerooms. Each treasure hunter pursues their own goals, but a tragic accident changes all their plans and forces them to act according to the brutal rules of the "gold rush." ​​Unexpectedly, the expedition's search is overtaken by the centuries-old past of these places—those very same fractures in time prophetically spoken of by one of the gold bar hunters. The Reds and Whites, exhausted by the civil war, also have their own plans for the gold of the Supreme Ruler of Russia...

Forte is an ensemble cast documentary, featuring Tatiana Berman, Lucia Caruso, and Eldbjorg Hemsing. Directed by David Donnelly (Maestro, 2015), this fast-paced documentary explores the notion of success and excellence from the female perspective. It challenges the popular and perhaps somewhat outdated notions of success in classical music through a fast-paced narrative of three female artists. A young Norwegian violinist on the brink of stardom, a cultural entrepreneur and mother of three who reinvents the traditional concert experience to inspire the younger audience, and a first-generation American from Argentina, whose creative process of composing a film soundtrack is documented and exposed in an unprecedented way.

On the federal television channel they shoot an entertainment show, New Year's ether, pop stars. Over the ranks of the crowd, the loud voice of the brigadier rushes: "Besides the fact that you came to have fun, do not forget that you are on work. Enjoy, smile. You can see absolutely everyone in the picture. " But this is not true - most of them no one will ever see. But, if you go to one of the regular participants in the extras home - you can see something that will never be shown on TV.

Nikolay, a young farm worker, is seen as different by other village people. He doesn't drink vodka and seems a bit odd. After returning from an internship abroad, where he learned techniques to communicate with animals for fertility enhancement, he starts using these skills in his romantic life. Dairymaid Nastya is unaware of this and falls in love with Nikolay for his kindness, intelligence, and uniqueness. When journalists come to the farm to feature Nikolay in a report, Nastya will finally discover his secret.

The Almanac of the Laboratory of Scientific Cinema. 16 directors selected the most interesting scientific developments and research at Skoltech and created 16 short films.

A grandma. A small slum. On her anniversary day she turns the 40 years old record on her reel-to-reel tape-recorder. To the strains of the young friends’ and relatives’ voices she thoroughly lays a holiday table. Dishes, tea service, cutlery. A long raw of glasses on the white cloth. Anniversary greetings, wishes of happiness and long life, dreams and plans of the people of bygone epoch are heard at the record. It’s hard for grandma, but she keeps carefully laying the table. Finally, the record stops. The grandma sits at the served table: there are no food or drinks, only dishes and cutlery. For a moment she sits with no motion. She cries silently. Then the grandma sighs and starts to draw the cloth.

The story of the search for British gold from the Black Prince warship, which sank off the coast of Balaclava.

The ironic, hilarious story that interesting things can happen in the life of a person who has stopped in self-development, dreaming of only one thing - do not bear any responsibility. Forget about all obligations. Escape as a lifestyle.

The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.

Mira returns home to Dushanbe from Russia to visit her father, a wastrel who is completely addicted to a game called "odds and evens," or Kosh ba Kosh. When another player comes to collect on gambling debts and finds nothing of value, he sets his sights on Mira.

1917, Yakutia. 9-year-old Mikita is growing up beyond his years, as he, along with adults, learns the difficult life of a Yakut cattle breeder, where every day is a struggle for survival. New challenges await the boy, as the events of the revolutionary, rebellious time violently invade the traditional way of his family, violating the values and way of life that have been established for centuries.

A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.

They are the experts of their job. Over a hundred thousand professionals. They are brave, courageous yet simple Russian men. Their families await them but for their country they simply do not exist. In their homeland they are unemployed.

Milky Way Galaxy is based on John Updike’s novel The Centaur, which chronicles the complex relationships between a father and son.

A story about the inhabitants of the small Taimyr village of reindeer herders Novy Popigai, who belong to the small endangered northern Dolgan people.

An animated film based on the children's fairy tale "The Bubble, the Straw, and the Shoe" about how Coal, Straw, and Sack went to get firewood.

A whole ethnographic study on the topic of who are the fans of "Leningrad", performed against all the laws of the genre. The musicians themselves act as accomplices in the filming process here — one of the cameras, for example, is fixed on Shnurov's stomach. Other cameras follow the fans of the band, quite funny and accurately recording their emotions and actions from hugs to fights and transmitting the atmosphere of unbridled fun and off-scale adrenaline, which is famous for "Leningrad". Terribly funny, tearfully cute, sometimes scary - the effect of a full-length presence.

In the far North, a fisherwoman lives in silence with her man. Around them lies a night landscape of snow and wrecked ships. Suddenly, her son returns out of nowhere.

The girl returns to the forest, where she once experienced a strong feeling... A simple walk with her younger sister turns into a series of surging memories, closely intertwined with the present.

Olya is a musician who lives with her younger sister in a communal apartment. One day, she realizes that she has begun to forget the facial features of her mother, who passed away long ago. The film centers on an attempt to piece together and hold onto the fading image of a loved one.

The Gala of Champions at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia

During excavations on Wrangel Island, a living baby mammoth is discovered, sleeping in a man-made cryogenic sarcophagus. The obsessed scientist leading the expedition decides to keep the discovery secret from the public and pass it off as the result of his cloning work. The baby mammoth is to be dissected to obtain material for cloning and research. Young schoolchildren come to the aid of the baby mammoth, accidentally discovering that it is intelligent. They help the baby mammoth escape and return to Wrangel Island to uncover the mystery of its origin.

An animated short film where Foma and Erema compete in a canoe-kayak race. "Olympiad-80" is a series of animated films created by the Ekran creative association specifically for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. They humorously explore summer sports, and their characters—the funny and cheerful clowns Foma and Erema—take part in athletic and not-so-athletic competitions.