Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

About ten years ago Sean Quirk, being a student at the College of Music in Chicago, heard for the first time in his hometown of Milwaukee the audio recording of the group "Hung-Hurtuu" - the world famous performers of Tuvan throat singing. And the life of Sean Patrick has changed dramatically. He moved to the capital of Tuva, the city of Kyzyl, married the Tuvinka Svetlana Sunduy, they had three children. Sean became Honored Artist of the Republic of Tuva, soloist of the National Orchestra of the Republic of Tuva, participant and manager of the folklore group "Alash", nominees at the Grammy in the field of World music. He received land as a gift from the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan in the suburb of Kyzyl and began to build his house.

This is a leap back in time, into a sharply polarized world of two states that, due to political disputes, have become far from friendly towards each other.

In 1943, a village in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia was one of the centers of formation of the Ural volunteer tank corps. The school № 30 was named after this corps. In 2014, schoolchildren prepare for the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Following today’s youngsters in the village, the camera speaks volumes about the mentality that has been passing down from generation to generation for the last 70 years and about the dark side of patriotism.

Film-portrait of a village self-taught artist Polikarp Sudomoikin. He lives in a surpassingly beautiful place, a village Bichura in Zabaikalie and paints his quaint pictures on a hunch. Former carpenter Sudomoikin started painting only after the retirement. Naked beauties filled with love and bliss surrounded by wild animals, birds and clean pure waters are looking down from his canvases. The connoisseurs compare Polikarp Sudomoikin with Pirosmani, one of the best artists of naive panting.

For her birthday, Kira, a grey blur, tries to break free from the drabness of her provincial town and fit in with a group of trendy outsiders However, a series of sudden events and painful revelations force her to reconsider her values.

The hero of the third film from the "Military Corps" series was RT's Arabic correspondent Sargon Khadaya.

pagan songs from North Ossetia

This is the story of a woman whose name has become synonymous with love and fidelity. In a moving tale, Ruth follows her mother-in-law Naomi back to Naomi's native Bethlehem after the sad deaths of both women's husbands. Working hard in the fields to feed herself and Naomi, Ruth finds her feelings for her kinsman Boaz run deeper than gratitude for his help with the work. Prepared to marry him for Naomi's sake, Ruth's loyalty touches Boaz and he decides to challenge the claim of a closer relative for Ruth's hand. The grace and simplicity of Ruth's story are conveyed perfectly by wonderful model animation.

A government servant learns that his business partner was killed. His daughter witnessed the murder but lost her long-term memory. The man tries to help the girl remember what happened before her life and his business were destroyed.

In the absence of sex education in school and at home in a Russian province in the early 90's, the boy Serezja discovers his sexuality in a strange and comical way in which an accordion plays a crucial role.

Zaza, tired of life, a single mother, comes from the provinces to pay an unannounced visit to her son who is studying in Moscow. As a result of several coincidences, she is forced to spend the night in the apartment of her neighbor - a handsome and many years younger Anton. This is where a passionate romance begins. Anton awakens in Zazie all the deeply hidden feelings, desires and femininity. The effect of these changes is dazzling.

Tatyana came from Moldova to the Ryazan region in search of a better life. She has four sons whom she raises without a husband. And somewhere in the world live a few dozen more of her children. “God forbid that everything is fine with them!” reflects the heroine, who is again in position.

ACA 195: Kornilov vs. Vakhaev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, November 7, 2025 at the Sibur Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Astronauts celebrate New Year on the Moon, while Harry unwraps a gift.

Winter has come to the city. And it has come in the form of a cold noir lady.

Every year on the eve of May 9, a lonely nursing home resident tries to find one of his friends. He lives in the past until one day it overtakes him in the most unexpected way.

An ordinary story about three piglets.

On January 1st morning two unaccomplished actors dressed up in costumes of Snowgirl and Father Frost finished the New Year's shift. Everyone's got their own plans to continue the celebrations. However, it turns out that a typical drama flows to a dangerous road movie.

We are all dependent on something. Addiction to communication and loneliness, sex and abstinence, food and sports, drugs and religion. But sometimes we are afraid to admit to ourselves and others in our phobias, fears and complexes. It is necessary to confess, because this is the only way to get rid of addiction. This strange year bared our fears, made us more vulnerable, we had a lot of time for ourselves, we became more honest. Let's try to talk about why and what we depend on. And how can we help each other become stronger and cope with everything. Addiction is not licentiousness, not permissiveness, but a disease of loneliness, which is almost impossible to overcome alone with yourself.

A fictional almanac consisting of three tough and extremely realistic novels, united by the general theme of survival and growing up of difficult teenage girls.

Drama: the heartbreak of a man doomed by heredity to madness. The movie has not been preserved.

"Music album" of three works: "Fleas" by Goethe and Mussorgsky performed by Chaliapin, and two fairy tales — "the King and the Lilliputians" by Yuri Koval and "Yesterday at the Queen's" by Yuna Moritz to the music of Andrey Semyonov.

A story about a little sparrow that could keep his word.

A priest from Vyatskaya stupid wilderness father Leonid sings and writes poetry. Walks barefoot in winter and summer. In winter, only slippers wear - probably not to embarrass people. In the past, a well-known metropolitan poet, he returned to his native places - where Vyatlag once was and where to this day the zone is the only city-forming enterprise.

Pavlik is six years old. He spends a happy and carefree summer at the dacha with his parents, but he gradually begins to notice strangeness in the behavior of adults.

The story begins romantically, continues as a farce, turning into a thriller, but ends up as a high tragedy.

Vera had remained silent for many years, but now circumstances forced her to burst into the life of the successful composer Andrei. This meeting would forever divide their destinies into "before" and "after."

Lyosha Kirillov is a cheerful guy who loves to dance, go to nightclubs and play sports. There is one “but”: Lyosha harbors an annoying idea about suicide, which he often discusses in his VHS video diaries. One night, Lyosha meets a strange but attractive stranger at a club, who moves into his home and becomes his friend. However, Lyosha has no idea what kind of game this mysterious and unexpected guest is playing.

SEDATED is an experimental rave film by Ampersand duo, Russia. The film consists of documentary and feature shots, insta videos, and CG. A club night is retrospected through a three-channel video installation. A young couple agrees to film each other during the party. There is the only rule—persistent following without distracting the present. Characters are surrounded by horrors in the night and the following morning turns into post-apocalypse.

In various states and forms (liquid, vapour, ice; raw and refined stone), the elements of this union aim to evoke, with a near-tactile chill on the skin, a multifaceted St. Petersburg: austere and enigmatic, monolithic yet secretive. Water and stone—two opposing forces—merge through human will, not to destroy one another but to create something marvellous. At a certain point, the boundary between ice and granite dissolves: ancient ammonites, once dwellers of the seas, turn to stone; the river’s icy veneer cracks like an old embankment. Out of mist or blizzard, Petrograd emerges before us.

The idea to make a film about geek-culture took root when Alexandra Pustynnova attended Comic Con Russia. Filmed on the outskirts of Moscow, the role-playing game “Deadland” takes place in a Wild West-like world with elements of alternative history, steampunk, and horror.

The protagonist in this experimental documentary is the homeless young artist and drifter Katya Krenalinova, who burned down the house of her mother and stepfather. And now she sleeps at her studio, scraping together just enough to survive. Alexandra Lihacheva places Krenalinova center stage in her directorial debut. She is on-screen for almost the entire documentary: in extreme close-up while being cross-examined by the public prosecutor, and muddled but stoical as she reveals her motives. She has no regrets, and she would be just as happy to set the entire city alight. In the rare moments that Katya is filmed outside, she wanders around in the snow near the burned down house. She poses for the camera like a model in an artistic music video, elusive and mysterious.

The film is dedicated to the adventures and reflections of a small dog named Kashtanka.

An important conversation delays the inevitable.

Short film by Yulia Borisova.

Dasha, Zhenya and Vassa are friends. It’s Zhenya’s birthday, and they are preparing to celebrate it, but on this day Vassa’s boyfriend leaves him. The girls will have to forget about the holiday and help their close friend survive her grief.

"Don't Look Back" is the third Russian-language concert by Evgeny Chebatkov. The broken rhythm of the narrative, liveliness, and vivid organic energy, all of these are present in "Don't Look Back". Bold and unexpected visual solutions from talented director Ivan Makhrov perfectly correlate with the comedian's unconventional humor.

“Berezka. Underground Capitalism ”is a documentary about currency shops in the Soviet times.

Based on the short story by G.K. Chesterton "The Five Swords".

The usual story is a love triangle. Here they love, hate, are jealous, strangle, poison each other... However, the investigator conducts the case in such a way that the crime is not solved...

The plot tells about a teddy bear that has come to life, connecting two eras — 1941 and the present, with the action unfolding in Novorossiysk, where the bear keeps a letter from a father to his daughter.

A man is accidentally endowed with superpowers. His only desire? For life to go back to normal. He doesn't want to be a superhero, but he can't help it.

"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse." Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as a political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally what is death. A journey through the history of medical imaging and a reflection on the recent death of the director's mother in the decorations of post-Soviet Russia. Getting under the skin of the viewer, the film attempts to comprehend the complex subject of corporeality. The title Bile refers to the physical and mental conditions of the human being. In fact, black bile comes from the old Greek for melancholy: melas cholè.

He is forty years old. He left his wife and children in order to care for his mother, who is under seventy. She has Alzheimer's disease. She begins to forget who she is, and ceases to recognize her son. The hero has one goal in life - by all means keep her mother’s memory of herself. He takes her from village to town to start a new life with her.

Two guys steal a phone with important information from an evil guy, behind which there is an even more evil guy. A very twisted Guy Ritchie-style short.Cast-Pavel Kizhuk,Nikita Khrushchev.

Having got through a rape, a convent novice tries to find God again.

They emigrated to Australia to start a new – wonderful – life. Their optimistic video letters to Russia, parents, grandparents, indicate that the goal is almost achieved. Almost.

A place of power for informals: chronicles of youth parties in Kitay-gorod.

Little girl Stesha lives in a country house. She is isolated from the outside world and immersed in the world of games and fantasies. Her drawings reflect the inner world - the image of Paradise, which slips away as she grows up.