Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Romance, in Russian language

A visiting granddaughter tries to get her withdrawn grandmother to open up and encourages her to sort through her old wardrobe.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.

After the resounding success of the song "Lyubimka," the NILETTO group found love and a large fan audience. But is it so fun and easy to live at the "high speed" of popularity? When creativity becomes a routine, our heroes go on a trip to their native places for inspiration. Along the way, performing small concerts in places associated with his youth.

The story of a bride and groom who were engaged in childhood, met by chance at a resort and fell in love. The film has not survived.

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

Mother and daughter are returning to their hometown Belgorod during an Easter week. Mother is trying to find her father's grave. Daughter is looking for locations for her first feature film.

A common shoemaker lives in a small town, he mends boots and writes memoirs about his childhood, which he wants to leave for his son. On new year’s eve he learns about a magic sea. the shoemaker wants to see this amazing place, but it costs a lot and there are not enough boots in need of mending to pay for the trip. he finds a decision promising to solve his problem…

A growing up drama based on the stories of Fazil Iskander. The film is set in Abkhazia at the end of the Stalin era, in the late 40s - early 50s of the 20th century. 13-year-old Chik, a mischievous and contemplative person, lives the usual life of a Soviet schoolboy in the sunny town of Mukhus on the seashore. The sudden arrest of his father makes Chika more acutely experiencing his growing up, but cannot change his cheerful character and kind heart. A heightened sense of justice becomes the source of his both dangerous and comic adventures.

A young girl is dreaming to become a ballerina despite a difficult times she's going through...

An adaptation of the Stephen King story.

Uncle Sasha lives on an island in a “dead” village, surrounded by water. He dreams of the restoration of the monarchy and reviving the true wisdom of the Russian way of life, forgotten and trampled by modernisation and European influence. Every spring he builds a bridge, and every winter it is destroyed by ice. Uncle Sasha is now building his thirteenth bridge.

When his cat proves too lazy to lift a paw, a man resorts to setting mousetraps in order to catch an elusive, annoying critter.

Ordinary life in a run-of-the-mill Moscow suburb. Roads, pedestrians, dogs, cars. Everything is so ordinary that suddenly, at some point, it seems like magic appears.

An ordinary exam in literature suddenly turns into a clash of two life positions.

The exhibition decides the fate of the dogs and their offspring. This is also an important moment in the life of dog owners. A kind of parable about human dignity.

Alexander Podbolotov is called the "Russian Pavarotti." He sings wherever he can — in the park by the pond, in the museum among the statues, in small living rooms. Nature and seasons change. And the voice still sounds light, strong and beautiful.

Two families from Russia and the US are preparing to adopt a child from an orphanage in Russia. A Russian family brings home two children and experiences the first difficulties and joys of a new life. And on the path of an American family to adopt a 5-year-old girl with disabilities, there is a new law signed by President Putin that prohibits Americans from adopting Russian children. Will little Polina's dream of her own family come true?

16-year-old Anya becomes deaf after an illness. Discharged from hospital, she learns to live a new life. her first love heightens her sense of inferiority.

Diana is pregnant, but she has nowhere to live and nothing to live on. She complains about the injustice of a harsh life, but is the root of her personal and domestic misfortunes only in external causes? At first, the heroine evokes sympathy for herself, but very soon her true face is revealed. Showing several important episodes from the life of Diana, the director gives an objective description of his heroine.

A silent feature short film by Vasily Goncharov based on a folk song of the same name. It was filmed with actors from the Vvedensky Folk House troupe. The movie is preserved without inscriptions.

A visual fantasy, based on Gershon Kingsley's famous melody "Popcorn.

The story of the cunning Fox and how he was punished for his cunning.

Luda, despite the ban of her mother and the skeptical attitude of a school friend to her talent, goes to a vocal competition and is sure that she is ready for anything for the sake of a dream. There she suddenly has a question: is it so?

New animated film by Anastasiya Zhuravleva.

The film is based on the children's diaries of the Great Patriotic War of the famous storyteller Gennady Tsyferov for the 90th anniversary of the writer, author of everyone's beloved "Locomotive from Romashkovo", "Losharik", "The Frog Who Was Looking for Daddy". Through the prism of naive children's perception and a fabulous view of the world, the picture of the realities of war is reflected. But the thirst for life and the need for paternal love turn out to be stronger than a cruel meat grinder.

Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to Dostoevsky

A village girl wants a better life and searches the Internet for a foreign husband, rejecting the marriage proposals of local suitors. She finds a German fiancé and leaves for Germany. But will she get what she wants...?

The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.

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.

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.

A cinematographer is a person who is most often not particularly visible, but what he is doing is always visible. The Director of Photography is a rare opportunity to talk to filmmakers about filmmakers. This is not a conversation about their life, but about the profession that is the meaning of their life, an attempt, through their personal statements, to form an understanding of what is the modern concept of camera art, what is the literacy of the craft and what is the real content of camera work in practical concepts and categories. This is a mention of several main names in the profession of cinematographer, who today are associated with the most important events in national and world cinema.

A crew of film-makers made the effort to record what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family

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

The plot tells of several civilians captured by the Ukrainian side and locked in an Orthodox church. The Ukrainian Armed Forces plan to use this point as a trap to close the cauldron for the Russian army, and to use the civilians as a human shield. Having learned about this, the heroes develop their own plan, ready to die, but not to allow the implementation of the plans of the Ukrainian nationalists.

The film is about a little boy who dreams of becoming an astronaut. He studies everything related to space, and one day he meets a real astronaut who answers his questions and tells interesting stories about flights.

This is a kind of memory of memories. The trip is enclosed in three conditional spaces: abandoned in an empty field - a hostel for internally displaced persons who exist outside the present and future, with a scattered, burned past. Cold twilight Moscow with a Chechen guy wandering along its streets, vocalist of the Dead Dolphins band, Arthur, who recalls his once beloved city, but does not want to return and see the place where his house used to be. Exhausted, abandoned by the souls that once inhabited it, the city of Grozny, to which, for the first time after the war, a Russian girl comes to see her native home, return to her childhood and "die in it", saying goodbye to him forever for all those who lost their home and homeland.

Two detectives conduct an investigation into daughter kidnapping of an influential businessman. Criminals want no less than a million dollars. The search is complicated by the complete absence of any evidence. But the one who are they looking for is always close ..

Doga, 29, works in the family restaurant in Argoun, Chechnya. When his secret lover, Ruslan, is suddenly arrested, Doga knows it's only a matter of days for him too.

A surreal film with a Freudian theme.

Саша — фельдшер Скорой помощи. Вся ее жизнь подчинена работе и заботе о муже Романе. Саша и не думает о развлечениях, встречах с подругами и покупках. Все тяжело заработанные деньги она тратит на любимого супруга, а в выходные пишет за него курсовые. Ведь Роман учится в институте, правда, в основном он весело проводит время с друзьями. И вот наступит момент, когда Роману станет скучно с домашней Сашей, и главной героине придется начинать жизнь с «чистого листа» — без мужа и для себя.

The 1990s. Two friends Masha and Taya are trying to escape from the narrow confines of a provincial town. Masha rebels through dancing and conflicts with her mother and her young lover, while the timid and indecisive Taya seeks salvation in a marriage with a foreigner organized by her parents.

A psychological drama about love and self-sacrifice. Luli Beck, a café singer, has moments of epiphany when, looking around, she clearly realizes the banality and aimlessness of her existence. In one of these moments she meets Witold, a pure and innocent young man. And when a spark of light mutual feeling flares up between them, it turns out that Witold has a fiancée who loves him fervently.

Lyrical sketch about Odessa. Its heroes are the original city itself and its ordinary inhabitants.

There is snow and ice fragments outside the window. The winter bird sings, the northern deer sings, the wind sings, the high, high edges of the sky sing. The girl sings, but so carefully that the breath does not accidentally scare off the fire at the end of the stick

War never changes

Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.

A person runs away from pursuers, and he manages to escape. But that does not mean that he is now safe.

The history of mankind is also the history of wars. The film contains military footage of the twentieth century, never included in the official chronicles. The so-called "cuts" are, as a rule, of a "household" nature. The film is an image of a huge and hopeless war, where men wander through the twentieth century, where there is no front line, where the war turns into a mass sexual perversion that destroys the very logic of human existence.

Having decided to help a friend, the three friends set off to seek freedom and tranquility.