Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

A wave of hidden insanity and mysterious murders started to surge as a group of scientists has discovered that light is a kind of sound and decided to broadcast a sound of the Sun via towers around the world.

Director Yuri Eremin masterfully presents classics in a contemporary way, finding vital connections with the present while avoiding semantic and artistic overstatements. Dostoevsky's translation of the biblical story to Russian soil resonates more poignantly than ever before. The play, with its intense plot development, seamlessly intertwines profound philosophical and moral content with a maelstrom of destructive passions, centered on the protagonist, who unwittingly sparks a love rivalry between two extraordinary women. Staged at the Mossovet Theatre in Moscow.

On February 6, 2023, an earthquake on the border of Turkey and Syria claims more than 55,000 lives. On this day, I am in an oncology center, 6 days since having my tumor removed, and in the afternoon my partner ends our relationships. Blending memory and theory, this autofiction documentary unfolds the relationships between love(s) and catastrophes.

The military blockade of Leningrad by German, Finnish and Spanish troops with the participation of volunteers from North Africa, France, Italy, Poland and other countries lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 — 872 days. The war is moving further away from us. It is incomprehensible to us, living now, how it was possible to survive in those conditions? And not just survive, but act, work, invent, create? The answer is always the same – Faith, Hope, Love... with them, a person reaches the limits of his abilities. We are alive thanks to them. Those who died – by their martyrdom. Those who survived – by their feat.

The documentary film narrates about blacklist swamps destined to drainage and life stories of its habitants. The film acquaints us with unusual beauty of swamps that save water, make the climate mild, are shelter for many species of birds and animals, as well as for the ancient legends. The film addresses the topic of swamps ecosystem devastation as a result of peat extraction. The audience will hear stories of locals about how their life and home changed by peat reclamation.

A youth comedy about the tragedy of the first love. An experiment in the area of the film language. REC, accidentally pressed in the middle of a fight. Jealosies, breakups, reunions. A few bedroom scenes, shot with a home camera. Cries and whispers of the urban outskirts. The audience of the film are both Bergman fans and YouTube viewers.

The story of the adventures of seemingly incompatible characters: a zookeeper and a python.

A video tour of the Pushkin places of St. Petersburg with Tonino Guerra, a world-famous Italian film dramatist, poet and artist, author of film scripts by great directors Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Angelopoulos… In the monologues of the modern classic, his attitude to the fate and creativity of the Russian genius is revealed.

New film by Svyatoslav Podgayevsky

A story about the Zenit football club and its century-long history: interviews with veterans and current players, former and current managers, cult fans, historians, musicians, theater and film actors, and many others.

A story of life and service of the combat general and commander Viktor Kudlai, from himself and in the comments of his subordinates. In the film there are verses by Galich, Galkin and Karpenko performed by the three great Soviet and Russian actors.

The film was shot in Venice, where two poet friends, Joseph Brodsky and Evgeny Rein, meet to walk along the embankments, sit in cafes, talking about poetry, language, Venice, Russia, the future, cats, and read their poems.

An impoverished knight is at odds with his rich but miserly father

The story of a woman who was once again abused by her husband. Like many victims, she is at a loss, because it is difficult for her to make a decision about the final breakup of the relationship.

In autumn, much is heard in the deserted village… Which you can't express with an ordinary documentary. But with a mixture of feature films, old newsreels and "visual anthropology" with the restoration of the old rite – you can try.

A senior official is about to visit a provincial boarding school for delinquent children who are forced to learn Alexander Pushkin’s poetry.

The story of a young lad and his struggle for survival while living in an orphanage being bullied constantly by some of the older boys.

An animation film from the cycle "Children's Album XXI century".

The inhabitants of a village yard — a kitten, a dog, and a rabbit — are searching for the “villain” who stole their bone, milk, and carrot.

“Drawing on archival footage, fragments of interviews, and scenes from his films, this newly constructed portrait of Sergey Paradjanov was composed by the highly accomplished Armenian director Don Askarian (Komitas, Avetik). According to the director's synopsis: "The year is 1989. The place is the film festival in Rotterdam. Farewell at the Hilton Hotel. And Paradjanov says, ‘Help me make Confession’. I answer, ‘As a child of two fathers, the film will be born a bastard’."

The Marines Rokot, Struna and Boika were blown up by mines during the fighting and were seriously injured. Each of them lost a leg, but they did not lose their strength of spirit and sense of humor. "What is it, how to manage it?" Struna asks, having received the prosthesis. The heroes learn to walk again, maintain their combat form at the training ground, and are assisted in this by a prosthetic technician, Ibrahim, who himself lost his leg 12 years ago during a terrorist attack in Stavropol.

ACA 198: Omarov vs. Suleymanov 2 was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, January 9, 2026 at the Sport Hall Colosseum in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.

Plastic surgeon Berladin gives a new face to war-disfigured sergeant major Perkhun.

The queen of circumpolar glacial Ural is mountain Sablya. It is the highest peak in Sablino range. Although the whole mount range has bright alpine appearance, however peak Sablya is a real jewel in it, kind of Ural Matterhorn.

ACA 169: Bibulatov vs. Deak was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, January 26, 2024 the Sport Hall Colosseum in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.

По мотивам нескольких новелл Ги де Мопассана и роману "Милый друг". Две маленькие дружеские компании: три женщины и трое мужчин собрались посплетничать. Мужчины, как водится, разговаривали о женщинах, женщины, само собой, о мужчинах. Тонкость состояла в том, что и дамы, и господа рассказывали друг другу одни и те же истории. `Персики` со своей точки зрения, а `перчики` - со своей.

The story of the development of the legendary artist Zurab Tsereteli - from a boy born into a poor family and growing up during difficult war times, to a sculptor whose name is known throughout the world.

Valentina is over seventy, and she plans to live forever. And when he does die, make a comfortable transition to a new body according to Hindu laws, for which cremation is mandatory. But her daughter does not agree with her, Marina thinks that her mother should be buried according to normal traditions.

In the circus tent „Joy” the same thing happens every day – they dismantle and assemble the tent with a dome full of stars, give performances, and move on to the next place. Lynx and parrot trainers quarrel over every little thing, and Valera the clown always performs alone. Until one day a new partner joins him, the clown Yana, and he starts to dream about conquering the world of the circus together with her.

Legendary boxer Valery Popenchenko died on February 15, 1975. A decade of his victories went down in the history of Soviet sports as a time of international triumph for our boxing school.

Filmed as part of Ilya's Exile project.

An American director is coming to Russia to implement his project dedicated to Pushkin here. In St. Petersburg, Ray meets a charming girl Natalia, who is surprisingly similar to Natalia Goncharova. Young people are brought together by the poetry of the great Pushkin and love for this city. The film is based on historical parallels. And, as before, honor fights dishonor, talent fights mediocrity, and good fights evil...

A teenage son arrives on vacation to a chaotic surfer father. Over the summer, he needs to decide on an instrument for music school. Will the father be able to help his son make the right choice?

A criminal psychological drama. This film is presumed to be lost.

According to Egyptian mythology, Ka is a life force that exists separately from its “master”. These are not the people themselves, but their materialized souls. On the one hand, this is a story about how the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten transmits his Ka to the main character, the Poet. On the other - the love story of Leyli and Medlum, the heroes of the poem of the same name of Khlebnikov. Like the eastern and western stars, they are found in the sky.

Vera knows exactly what paradise looks like – it's the shabby assembly hall of the district recreation center, where the children's and youth theater of the city of Oldinsk is based. But Vera is no longer 14. By the age of 30, all that remains to her from her acting youth are memories, meetings of "graduates" once a year, and love for the director of this very theater, who for some reason successfully survived the end of puberty, and Vera's marriage, and the birth of a child. But maybe you can return to heaven if you turn childhood love into a real adult romance?

The famous mathematician Lungin was murdered in his hotel room, and an expensive diamond was stolen from his safe. The day before, a tipsy Lungin let slip to the students of mathematics professor Olga Barkovskaya that the safe code opens with ten digits associated with Pythagoras. Senior investigator Svetlana Kartashova has four students under suspicion, and each of them is pointed out by one or another evidence. But Olga, after analyzing the numbers of the code, finds a thread that will lead her to the real killer.

Julia works as a photographer. Being in a stream of endless hackwork, she dreams of a solo exhibition that will give her the opportunity to say a new word in art. On one of the hectic days, she receives a somewhat strange offer from seemingly the most ordinary customers.

Melodrama tells about complex human relationships.

Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.

The first year of the war. Two sisters work at the plant. One of them arrested her husband for escaping from captivity. The other is in the hands of a list with the names of those who should be fired from the factory. In it and surname of the sister. The woman has to make a choice.

The world is split into two camps, Russia and China vs. the US. The US have lost the competition of political systems and are destroying the planet's climate. For 80 years Russia and China have been sunk into internal winter, while the US enjoy eternal summer. Young Russian scientist Andrey Khvorobaev disccovers that the climate can be controlled by means of the Perelman Axis, located in Buryatia. The US Imperialist sharks, led by the president and driven by greed, let loose a grim Nazi executioner, Professor Gubke, who conducts horrible, inhumane experiments that turn American boys into zombies to defend the Perelman Axis. An expedition of Russian scientists, sent to Buryatia to fix global injustice, is looking for the Russian end of the Perelman Axis. They battle the merciless creations of the Nazi criminal Gubke. The expedition fails, but Andrey lives and fights on, supported by his Orthodox faith and the love of his homeland, embodied by the Buryat girl Vera.

In the middle of the 20th century, people with abnormal development began to be born in the world, who were called indigo. But few know that there are those whose anomalies are hidden, and the indigos themselves call them sleepers. The appearance of indigos began to threaten the established world order, so a hunt for them began in secret. To save themselves, indigos began to recruit sleepers using lists with their names.

Four dozen of our contemporaries - and ten simple questions. And each of the forty is so different from the other that it is impossible to make a general portrait of our time from the mosaic of their answers! So what brings us together, what makes us a society and a people? Are we ready to accept others as they are?

A 1986 soviet film following Joseph Mauri, which portrays modern New York City as a failure of capitalism.

Once a large bootlegger factory went bankrupt and turned into a small artel. But people did not become smaller. Valenki for them - not just shoes, it's the meaning and way of life. They understand their need. And they work in difficult physical conditions of work in a collapsing building on old equipment. And they do not regret their life, they rejoice to it ...

The lesson in class begins with a discussion of the essay "Who I Want to Be When I Grow Up"...

The story of a young guy, child of migrants from Central Asia. He is fond of rap and wants to go to the USA. On the other hand, his father wants to return him to traditions and love for his nationality.

The story of a day in freedom. After two years in a penal colony for minors, Kira is released ahead of schedule. She goes home to Borisoglebsk to see her mother. On the way Kira meets different people, who do not allow her plans to come true.