Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The story of a Moscow academic family, rapidly "falling apart" after the death of its head. Yet, the family members strive to preserve their inner nobility and find a foundation in their new life.

An unknown actress, almost resigned to the role of a housewife, clings to her last chance to realize herself in her profession. The main obstacle is her husband.

Denis works as a bartender. Today, after closing the shift, he immediately goes home, because he has to meet his mother in the morning. But a friend's visit changes the plans for this night.

One day the tree got tired of standing in the forest. It put on the boots of a sleeping traveler and went for a walk…

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.

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the diaspora is told through conversations with Lidiya Kan’s mother, personal stories, fragmented memories, and her family photo archive. An important character of the film is Morkovcha, the Korean carrot salad, an invention of the Russian Korean diaspora; its essence is symbolic of their mixed identity.

At the end of the summer of 2011, by order of the administration of St. Petersburg and the city of Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), Yuri Mamin made a short documentary film "Tsarskoye Selo Vernissage", dedicated to the problem of people with disabilities.

An acid-crazy catalogue of transportation options of a place far, far away but oh so close.

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.

The heroine of the film, fashion designer Tanya Kotegova, has become an unquestioned authority in the world of fashion, a queen of style with an inimitable energy in every collection. How did a girl from Magadan reach the heights of design art? The fashion show is the most honest account of the inner world, passions, and experiences of a woman who has dedicated herself to her craft and her fashion house.

The girl is immersed in the guide's story about the dying Lenochka, who lost her mother in besieged Leningrad, and about her doll, made by a one-legged veteran with the instruction: "Become a doll's mother and live!"

When you're 16, you can do a lot for a big break: toast for the low score you got defending your classmates, bully your secret crash, make it to the funeral of a granny you never got to meet. Or, finally, for the first time to confess to my mother. But will your mom hear you when you're 16?

The film is set hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The viewer will be transported to distant Sakha, where brave warriors will go to the Lower World to save the beautiful Aikuo. What obstacles will our heroes face? Who is the truth behind — a human or a demon? Everything can turn out differently than they say in the legends. Everything is possible, because the boundless North is as unpredictable and mysterious as it is cold and harsh.

A young family with a baby is visiting elderly parents living in a remote northern village. Suddenly, their child becomes sick with dysentery. There is no necessary medicine in the village, the telephone line was cut off, and the roads were washed out due to the spring flood. The young father Vanya decides to get to the regional center on his own in order to call a Sunrise to the village. But the road ahead is long and dangerous.

Film about one of Russia's most unusual indie bands, Dagestani jazz band "No, you're kidding".

An adaptation of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing.

The story of Pasha Tekhnik—from a prominent figure in the domestic rap underground to a meme-like figure who was never able to overcome his weaknesses.

When Arkasha's mother suddenly disappears, his dad acts strangely, and his worries grow. After seeing the secret code “WTYM,” he becomes convinced it means "We Took Your Mum." With his friend Lina, the sensitive eight-year-old begins a bold investigation, following clues and sneaking into unfamiliar places to “rescue” his mom. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he must face a difficult kind of goodbye.

Ivan Abramov "FUN and GAMES" 2025

The film delves into the remarkable artistic legacy of Leo Tolstoy.

Musical fantasy featuring popular Soviet cartoon characters from Soyuzmultfilm Studio.

Varvara Shcherbakova is bright, charismatic, incredibly funny! I wrote it all about myself.… They often write to me: "You show people so funny!" So I decided it was time to take all these "people" and unite!

A story about the life of the writer, poet and translator Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, who left Russia forever in 1920, and in 1933 became the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A historical and philosophical film about issues that have always worried the minds and hearts of people: the meaning of life and the search for happiness.

A group of guys put on virtual reality glasses to play a shooter, but find themselves in a place indistinguishable from reality.

Andrei Tarkovsky said, “I find it hard to imagine the inner world of women, but I think it must be connected with the world of men…”

The Karaite tale that everyone is good in their place.

The hero of the film Ilya Voronov is the defender of the legendary Pavlov House in Stalingrad, the only one of those who is still alive.

The main characters are approximately 35–40 years old, some are already firmly on their feet, have a business, a fortune, others are struggling to survive, getting into debt. And someone, wanting to easily and quickly earn big money and show off his classmates, becomes an accomplice in a criminal scheme. All of Baidam's efforts to change his life for the better fail when his fraudulent past catches up with him in the present. The unfortunate father of the family, Demid, who suffered at the hands of scammers, begins his hunt. Will Baidam be able to save his loved ones and understand that any actions have consequences?

Inhabitants of the territories annexed to the ancient city of Moscow get used to their new condition. It is not too distant of a future, but another large-scale expansion of the city will create and/or ruin some more fates. Will the "Myth-Module," an experimental device made by G.T. Podmyshkin, the professor of urban anthropology and the captain of a pirate spaceship, save him and his crew?

A film about the life of the city and citizens. In the center of the plot is a small child who accidentally comes upon two builders and radically changes their everyday life.

Lech, by his 30s, has already burned himself in a relationship and is now enjoying bachelor life in an apartment with a friend. But a friend suddenly grows up and decides to move in with his girlfriend, whom he found in the STPP — "Potential Partner Selection Bureau". Lech does not immediately, but decides to also try to find "compatibility love" based on computer modulations. And finds it! But there is a problem: she has already found love for herself, and this is not Lech.

An animated documentary about the difficult but very fascinating life of a person and his pets

Every day, an old woman goes by train alone to the woods to collect wood. A minimal gesture, seemingly insignificant, becomes an extraordinary admission of Russian society in which archival images erupt telling a universal story.

Seven stories about good and evil neighbours. A young son takes his father's gun without asking and lends it to a friend. A young man brings his bride to his home, but the meeting with his relatives turns into a dangerous conflict and only the village head can prevent a tragedy. The head of a young family sells the house of a relative and accidentally loses money because of this. His relationship with his wife begins to deteriorate. Will they be able to keep the family together? All the characters will have to make a difficult choice… A crazy anthology consisting of seven funny, dramatic and complex stories about the relationships of families, neighbours, relatives, and friends.

City Yalta at Azov territory many years ago was a popular and happy place. Now it's hurt to see its abandoned buildings. The nature isn't alright and the people are leaving this area.

Interpersonal relationships between a man and a woman, the outcome of which is decided by a coin and " Russian roulette"

The main character Erhan returns to his native village, where he spent his childhood, with the dream of reviving it. But suddenly meets resistance from the influential man Makar, in whose hands the lives and souls of all the people of the village… Will one person be able to resist the current system?

Tembot's dream is to be needed, and, finally, to take his place at least in someone's heart. But in the coveted maternal, there is not even a corner for him, because because of the resemblance to her father, she rejects him over and over again. He is also excluded from the heart of a close friend - he sets him up in a big way. There is no place for an insensitive father, whom he misses. This pain gives him a new beginning...

Vanya, Sasha and Denis are in their thirties, they grew up together in Kyiv’s northern suburbs. This winter, their murky past dissolves, leaving them without any bearings. They should probably start building their future… or keep on breathing the blazing freedom of the present.