Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The river Unya starts at the western hillside of northern Ural. Unya's wellhead is located near Pechora's wellhead in a place where the Republic of Komi, Sverdlovsk region and Perm Krai come together.

These lines from a Soviet song can serve as an epigraph to the film "The White Way". Despite the cold and hunger, literally dying at work, the doctors of besieged Leningrad continued to save the lives of soldiers and citizens to the last, to make scientific discoveries on a global scale. This is a conversation about the victory of the human over the animal, vocation over circumstances. Honest eyewitness accounts, unique chronicle shots of hospitals in the besieged city, a dialogue between the past of Leningrad and modern St. Petersburg.

After a short lull, a quartet of folk favorites under the rather life-affirming name "Highlanders from Wit", once again delight us with the third part of their sketch show of the same name.

And again Koktebel. New destinies. Secrets and insights of the culture of the Silver Age.

On December 27, 2019, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted a bill to seize all church property from the Serbian Orthodox Church. Hundreds of thousands of people in Montenegro stood up for the conciliar prayer led by Metropolitan Amfilohiy (Radovic). During his ministry, the Metropolitan, together with his people, built and restored 700 churches and monasteries. Through the life line of Metropolitan Amfilochiy, we want to tell about the long-suffering Serbian land. About life and monasticism in Montenegro. Unexpectedly for everyone, a national shepherd dies from the coronavirus. But his prayers have been answered. On the fortieth day after the death of Vladyka, the government changes and introduces amendments to the bill on the Church. This means that there will be no split.

Animated film based on the tale of the creation of the sun and moon. The world is immersed in twilight, there is no light or shadow in it. The twins, brother and sister, grow a tree, and one day the first leaf appears on it.

A film reenacting scenes from the life of Russian Orthodox Priest and anarchist Georgy Gapon.

Russia. August-September 2016. A month remains before the State Duma elections. The main characters of the film are a mother of four children, a paralympic, an opposition journalist, a philologist girl, a young economist and a trucker - independent candidates. What made each of them enter the fight and how do these men and women live on the eve of the elections is about this movie.

The path of the three fellow travelers leaves a trail of blood… Who will survive in the harsh taiga in the struggle for life?

The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung, who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel. Maximilian Voloshin in 1903 in Koktebel began to build his own house, which later became the center of the spiritual life of Russia.

Handcuffs are a game. They contain the temptation of fate. A feeling of boundless freedom. A secret desire to break the law is deeply hidden in them. There is also remorse in them. The sweetness of repentance. And therefore - permissiveness.

Based on the works of Victor Pelevin.

The film is based on criminal case materials. Swindlers of the Club of Red Jacks became known for crimes, which were extremely difficult to solve even for the most experienced detectives.

One day, the hero comes to the firm conviction that everything in a person's life is decided by chance. According to this logic, he is trying to fix his life.

"Slavic Values" is the first English-language concert by Evgeny Chebatkov, recorded in the fall of 2021. The unexpected combination of the brilliant imperial hall of the Pushkin Theater (which, by the way, was only half-filled due to the pandemic) and Evgeny in a classic Adidas tracksuit with three stripes immediately demonstrates the duality of everything happening. A Russian guy in Moscow performing in English... for whom? For you, of course.

How long do feelings last? To find the answer, the director of the film organizes a meeting of his divorced parents in the city of their youth, Ishim, where they broke up 16 years ago.

Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the last part was being filmed.

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.

A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

In some chronicles, the beginning of Russian history dates back to the year 6360 (852 AD). From this ancient past, the director gazes into the modern capital of Russia, painting broad strokes of captured moments on the canvas of contemporary history. A morning in Izmailovo, the opening of a fair, the celebration of City Day at the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, the high-rise construction of the City, a concert on the square, a religious procession at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a boat trip on the Moskva River, pedestrians walking along the streets, and the evening lights of a tired city...

A young man named Ruslan, disillusioned with people, love, and his profession, and deeply in debt, flees the country. However, at the airport, he meets the girl he once loved, Diana. The young couple embark on a search for a mysterious artifact-the fifth arrowhead, which must be returned to the magical Stone of the Batyrs before the lunar eclipse.

A documentary about the spiritual and personal life of Nikita Mikhalkov. The plot covers 66 years of friendship between him and the author - Nikolaev Burlyaev. The film uses unique archival materials.

If a building falls, it cannot be stopped, you need to save yourself. But when a family collapses, a person always has a point of return - it's love.

A lyrical story in the world of creatures with strange heads. There is emptiness in my head, a mysterious girl, piano keys, a new awakening.

A modest programmer and an artist of tombstone portraits are looking for love at a speed dating night, where their inner voices are present and there are no adequate people to talk to.

Peter, who killed his beloved out of jealousy, twenty years later meets a girl, into whose soul the spirit of the mother - the hero's victim - has infiltrated. Having bewitched Peter, the young witch forces him to commit violence and murder.

In a strange house in the forest, three cheerful and hard-working goats accidentally got a harmful boy Cornflower.

From the Barents Sea, a chill wind seems to blow constantly across a semi-deserted town at the edge of the world. Nevertheless, a little community holds out here. In a flawlessly filmed portrait of this extraordinary place, the theme linking the residents is their determination to chart their own course. Bardak was a marine, but his garrison broke up and his comrades sought a better life elsewhere. He stayed behind among the many empty buildings that are slowly but surely being consumed by the elements. Meanwhile, Dima, a young poacher​, flouts as many rules as he can, but gives friendly directions to lost tourists and reads lovingly to his little daughter. Ferryman Alexander is locked in a silent generational battle with his teenage daughter Masha; her eyes are on the outside world. Further along, a little team of ships from the Second World War turns up, and a woman steadfastly runs a weather station.

A talented actor in need of money moonlights as a collector on the phone, intimidating customers severely. One day, working as a Santa Claus after work, he finds himself on the other side of the collectors' line.

Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper.

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."

Clinging by any means to the opportunity to live and work in a big city, a young tabloid press representative destroys the “object” of her first reportage with a stream of lies and dirt.

Krasnodar's debut in the Champions League in 2020. Emotional doc film about the brightest season in the history of the club.

The editing film poem of Irakli Kvirikadze, inspired by the legendary fates and creative discoveries of Andrei Tarkovsky and his congenial artists of the “Soviet Renaissance”. The film tells about the project of the Museum AZ, presented in the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation in Florence. The project was a visual poetic dedication to Andrei Tarkovsky and his contemporaries - non-conformist artists.

Yury Butusov’s final Moscow production is this multi-award-winning work based on Nikolai Gogol’s “Government Inspector.” The play deftly delves into the dual impossibilities of both accepting reality and escaping from it. As with many of Butusov’s stagings, chaos and pathos are seamlessly interwoven, with art presented as both freeing and healing.

Three taiga stories about a bear, in which he somehow influenced the fate of other animals. I scratched stripes on the chipmunk's back, flattened the carp, and punished the cedar tree with eternal thinness.

"Still" is written in the first half of the year against the background of ongoing events. And it is still about current topics. It is still about personal, it is still about people, it is still about society. But now it is also about a choice that everyone must make.

Dismissed clown presents the unique amusement, which let people feel themselves powerful for low price.

A girl named Mary runs away from all contact with her beloved, avoiding his constant efforts to reach her. It pains Mary to remember the good times they shared because she can’t understand what went wrong. Submerging herself deeper and deeper into her memories, she soon has a hard time distinguishing them from reality. It eventually becomes clear that Mary’s beloved is having such a hard time reaching her because he is no longer among the living. Despite this, he is the only one who can help Mary pulls through the difficulties she is facing, and he accompanies her on her journey every step of the way. Parting is only temporary, and all one needs to do is blink to realize that everything is in fact alright.

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.

About how Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena, and Old lady Shapoklyak move to the new building of the Soyuzmultfilm studio.

A happy family - parents and an angelic daughter. The mother loves her so much that she is ready to dissolve in the child without a trace... or is it the child who is ready to suck all the juices out of the mother?

The film is about a doctor, about Dr. Lisa Glinka. About a woman who feeds and treats the outcasts and the homeless, regardless of their nationality and citizenship. She is the only one who does not receive a salary at the Fair Aid Foundation she has organized. There is nothing of the dull employee of the state-owned "mercy service" in her behavior. Dr. Lisa is an energetic, funny and charming person who just loves her job very much. The film won the National Cinematography Award "Nika" as the Best documentary. In addition, the film was awarded the Prize for the best documentary at the Window to Europe Festival (Vyborg).