Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The future has come and it seems cold-callers are not just a thing of the past and they are just as unwelcome.

A short fan film based on The Last of Us, "Our Future Days," takes place in Jackson, a few days after Joel's death in The Last of Us 2. Ellie, preparing for her trip to Seattle, plays the song "Future Days," which transports her back in time.

Delicately securing their lavalier microphones, and frequently glancing back at the camera as if it were a living being demanding warmth and engagement, Sasha, Misha, and Lyosha, who have Down syndrome, reflect on television – on how they see it and in a way we will never be able to. They are playing at television: giving interviews, conducting interviews, and reporting from the protected, pristine country of their own souls.

A young mathematician is trying to solve the Millennium problem and not loose connection with reality.

Based on Chekhov's short stories "Revenge", "The Ram and the Young Lady", "The Chorus Girl", "The Princess".

A film about a woman's perception of the world. It's a very complex and unconventional piece. There is no plot in the usual sense, not even dialogues or clearly defined characters. There are only emotions, sensations, and a unique worldview.

What if?.. This question is asked by anyone who wants to make a good movie. What if the tale about Cinderella and the Prince, tale as old as time, will suddenly happen nowadays? Why not? Kids, who are studying at FIGA Film Studio, which exists at "Karavella" camp for 44 years, as well as their teachers, thought about it. They thought and created a film in a short period of time, just for 4 months only. There is no falling of Cinderella's boot here, no folden carriages and no mice turning to horses, but there are Internet and orbital satellites. There are also kids and adults who can do brave voluntary actions and childish pranks. As well as friendship which can do real magic. Based on Vladislav Krapivin's play "What will happen, if?.." (Что будет, если?..)

In a world on the verge of destruction, ordinary family life begins to seem like a utopia. A utopia that can only be experienced in fantasy.

The Russian Rock Legends DDT performing live at VI Leningrad Rock Festival of 1988

About love that blooms, without knowing shame, on any piles of rubbish, and when it is, then everything else does not matter much. Yes, I don't want to live like these people, but if I am unbiased, it is clear that they live self—sufficient and ecstatically, that this life, with all its grimaces, suits them quite well, and that it really is life. Regardless of the speculative assessments that we are in a hurry to give her.

In 2008, the Russian national football team led by Dutchman Guus Hiddink sensationally won bronze medals at the European Championship. In the quarterfinals, Russia defeated the main favorites of the tournament - the Netherlands, giving a sleepless night of happiness to the whole country. In the documentary Andrei Arshavin, Sergei Semak, Sergei Ignashevich, Konstantin Zyryanov, Dmitry Sychev and many others recall Euro 2008 and talk about how Guus Hiddink changed Russian football.

Egor Kuksa about pilots and rallies, about the name Jesus, patronymic and Orthodox rites, about shawarma skills and varieties of porn.

A man and a woman are walking along the road. Ahead-the unknown, inside-growing anxiety. They don't know much about each other, but they seem to have known each other for a long time. The dilapidated house becomes their temporary refuge, a meeting place with the ghosts of the past and themselves, a confessional and a prison. Is there something frightening lurking in the dark corridors or in the recesses of your own soul? When everything that you are used to, what you loved, what you dreamed of collapses, when life and death converge at one point, you can only believe and move on. The road, lost in time and space, as a way to salvation, as a symbol of the search for oneself in the world and peace in oneself.

New animated film by Valentina Nabiulina.

Series of interviews with inmates of juvenile prison colony for girls, guilty of murder

The majority of women are unhappy in life because they haven’t sought revenge right away for the pain associated with the loss of virginity. This is the opinion of Lisa, who will sacrifice her first love.

Film about a traumatic experience from childhood that willNight-time. Some teenagers break into closed territory. The security guard notices them, but manages to catch only one girl. As they wait for the management, they spend time together and gradually get used to each other.not let go of your whole life.

The film tells about children, young people who are faced with a deadly disease - oncology.

True Kazakh girls don’t marry Russians. This is what grandma Zeinegul believes in. But her beloved granddaughter disobeyed her will. Many years later the girl comes back to Kazakhstan. Her mother drinks, her grandma prays, her father got married again, but she wants to take a picture of her whole family, just like the one they took years ago when she was a child. The picture of the family she loves and hates so much.

Polina takes her first steps towards independent life, embarking on a journey into the wild taiga with her new friends. As they venture deeper into the forest, they stumble upon a settlement of mutant humans, grappling with the consequences of an ecological disaster. Monke, who has lived in the taiga since childhood, becomes Polina’s most important summer acquaintance, as well as her love and challenge.

Old Yushka is an object of contempt for all the villagers, who can't cope with his kindheartedness. Yushka never complains. He keeps his own secret garden alive. Every summer he leaves town, but nobody knows where he goes.

Year 2017 would be the 100th Anniversary of the revolution in Russia. Film researches the reasons of the “Russian revolution”, First World War, external and internal conspiracies, which led to the collapse of the monarchy and traditional world order. Narration is build of quotes, memoirs and inferences of eyewitnesses. The facts are told based on the views of the authors of the film.

A philosophical conversation between a former artist and a laid-off worker

Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far between; this realisation of his penultimate and grandest stage work is a very rare and special experience. Kitezh is known as "the Russian Parsifal", which encapsulates its mystical flavour and steady unfolding of a legend of redemption

Alexander, a spiritual guru, treats life as a ongoing practice: he leads developmental trainings,specializes on Tensegrity, and being a life coach is eager to help his own daughter to deal with her illness - bouts of depression. He takes her to the sea. As the drama unfolds,we observe,how the world around Alexander begins to oppose his inner practice. Everything around him lives in compliance with a unfathomable law. He is infected with something subtle,something of tremendously erotic nature. Alexander has to make an inner choice: make an act of transgression to find his way out of sensual chaos and find himself. Even if the choice has to be painful. The goal of the film is to explore human nature, which often finds itself on the verge between spiritual-religious and sensual entity.

Bestiary is an animated collection of poems-pies by the poet Igor Melnikov. The main idea runs through all the poems: people are a bit of animals in both good and bad senses. The leitmotif of this can serve as a pie: I walk with a monster in my arms and my monsters are waiting for me at home and look out the window and breathe on the glass

Andrey Ayrapetov jokes about the relationship with his father, who, unlike the comedian himself, supports the war, about his great-grandfather, who was in prison, and about his own attempts to be different from his family.

Family history. About how the Grandmother taught the boy to save. Saving another creature, the boy begins to live. Personality formation is taking place (and the boy may not even know about it). Grandma did it all right, but she was tired.

Born in the USSR:14 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

Max and Zhenya are traveling when they stop in the town of Willow. A local resident tries to warn them of the dangers of the toad rain season. But curiosity won't let them go.... Low budget Russian short-film based on Stephen King's “Rainy Season”.

Alexander Zinoviev is recognized as an outstanding scientist in the field of sign theory and the theory and theory of induction, is one of the three strongest logicians in the world, Doctor of Philosophy, professor of logic, author of more than 40 books, among which are famous "Gaping Heights".

Serzhan about the rallies and his background, about dating an active girl and life with his father, about buying bananas and going to the movies.

The protagonist of the novel is a woman. The main theme is freedom. At the very beginning of the play, Vera Pavlovna utters a text that becomes the manifesto of her life: “I want to be free, I do not want to be indebted to anyone, I do not want anyone to tell me: you must do this for me! I want to do only what I want. And let others do the same; I don’t want to demand anything from anyone, I don’t want to restrict freedom and I want to be free myself. ”

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.

Maria is accused of her husband Victor’s death. She is prepared to confess to everything, but only after her husband’s funeral. The investigator, who is engaged to Maria and Victor’s daughter, discovers the truth and realises why she has decided to punish herself.

The heart of the tundra. The life of his partner depends on the young geologist Artyom. The situation is complicated by the fact that the partner is the fiancé of the girl with whom Artyom is in love.

A film about friendship, about the search for happiness in a peaceful life, based on images of Russian folk art.

In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, in the Dybenko basements, drug addict children survive by taking drugs. This is an attempt to look into this terrible world from the inside.

New animated film by Yuliya Rostovskaya

One of the first films about the flight of Russians from the former Soviet republics, and in many ways anticipated the situation on the southern borders of Russia in the mid-90s. The characters of the film engage in an unequal battle with a gang of criminals. Dedicated to the special Forces of the Don division...

The girl's house burned to the ground. A secret postman brings her things, which someone carefully put in an old suitcase. Attached to it is a letter with the address of the house. The girl gets dressed, takes a suitcase and goes to the specified address. Along the way she meets the Guide. An ominous raven sits on his shoulder. A guide accompanies her to a mysterious house. At first glance, the house turns out to be an amazing place, but at the most unexpected moment the spirits wake up and take the form of old things, forgotten by everyone... A frightened girl runs out into the street in a panic. Finally she finds a bar with the windows on fire. The bar only seems safe at first glance... She finds it difficult to get along with ghosts in an old house, in an old city, in someone's past. For what? Real Home is always inside!

Music video for song by Jay-Jay Johanson.

The concert of Alexander Dolgopolov/Sasha Capadya in Berlin, shot in October, 2023.

On a normal day, the children gathered to play hide-and-seek, but one of the kids hid so well that no one could find him.

The story is about how important it is to help and support each other. When we are together, our dreams and desires come true.

The hero of the film Viktor Golyshev is a translator. He made such masterpieces of English literature as George Orwell's 1984 and William Faulkner's The Light in August, Ken Kesey's Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Robert P. Warren's All the Royal Army available to the Russian reader... Everyone knows these novels in Russia. But few people guess about the existence of Golyshev. And he himself treats his profession calmly and matter-of-factly. As well as to yourself and to your life. His philosophy is simple, Tolstoyan: the philosophy of small deeds. And - as a result - the creation of a high culture. In a word, a simple translator from God.

The film tells about the tour of the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Others" of the Tinsky psycho-neurological boarding school (Krasnoyarsk Territory) in their native land. The closed world of the boarding school, it turns out, is full of joy, creativity and love.

Visiting musician Antonio (aka Anton), inseparable from his trumpet, drops in for a few hours in the city of his childhood, where his friends, partners in inspired boyish outrages, are slowly going crazy from the daily routine. And he can’t leave. Perhaps because the alarm clock with the inscription “Antosha from his mother”, collecting dust in the abandoned barracks of his childhood, just won’t start.

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.