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The history of the creation of a single piece of music.

Foggy morning. A lone fisherman finds a woman on the shore of the White Sea and brings her to his house. Captured by her amazing beauty, he behaves like a child trying to find contact with her. Despite his concern, anxiety does not leave a woman, and she leaves, wanting to find a new path.

Film-observation of the actress of the Theater. Mayakovsky by Galina Alexandrovna Anisimova. Galina Aleksandrovna has a difficult character - she is decisive and uncompromising, but sometimes she is too vulnerable and even suspicious. Together with the heroine, the viewer lives the last year of the life of the people's artist.

The odyssey of two brothers aged nine and eleven: house entrances in Strogino, the motherís apartment, a boarding school, a gipsy camp and gloomy homecomings. Dramatic adventures, as in every road movie, teach the protagonists a lot about the world, and for the first time they are pushed off into loneliness and treachery.

Animation project of Armen Adilkhanyan

We are far away from the Internet dating world when we gain entrance to the little office where Svetlana runs her Love Agency. Men and women from Arkhangelsk, in northwest Russia, come to her with the same dream: to find a partner in life. It's never too late to fall in love, says Svetlana. But when people with different hopes and experiences are brought together, it is not easy to find the perfect match. —Martina Carlstedt

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.

The documentary is about notorious criminal case resounded in 2009. Two young men devoted to gothic subculture were accused of cannibalism and cold blooded murder. Both convicts claim for false accusation and also that criminal case is lacking the evidence of crime. The director of the documentary got criminal case papers and presented the alternative version of this story.

A movie buff desperately wants to enter a theater to see a Fassbinder film but the doorman will not let him go because he has no ticket. The film is the confrontation between the two that ends with happy end.

With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II. This full-length documentary revives the history of the spiritual rebirth of the Russian people, which made the Kulikovo Battle victory possible. The film features numerous works of Old Russian literature, documented studies of the life and feats of St. Sergius of Radonezh, of the events of the Kulikovo Battle. The icons and frescoes on the walls of the cathedrals of the Moscow Kremlin, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the Christ the Savior Cathedral, the works of Andrei Rublev and Theophanes the Greek, the paintings of V. M. Vasnetsov, M. I. Avilov and other artists, the architectural monuments of Radonezh and Khotkovo will be your guides to the history of the great saint of the Russian land.

Irina Myagkova's second solo stand-up concert "Strong and Independent".

Sasha fights for his classmate's girlfriend. His sister Marina works as a teacher in the daytime and dances on the raves at nights. Their existence in modern Russia seems to be a trap.

Golden autumn. Yakut hinterland. More than ten years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. A 23-year-old boy named Mahees is given the task by the collective farm chairman to accompany the young teacher to a neighboring village. Aanchyk, that's the name of the girl, after completing her studies, she is assigned to work in a rural school. It would seem that a simple task turns into a real challenge for young people. A bear suddenly appears on their way. He pursues them. The heroes of the film understand that all this is happening to them for a reason. A chain of unusual meetings, strange finds, bitter memories, disturbing dreams and visions lead to the answer to the most important question in the life of the protagonist: who is his father and where did he disappear to?! After all, his father went to war, and never returned... Mehees understands that this is all connected with his father - a former hunter and now a missing soldier.

A story about what incredible events can happen in a child's pocket.

This is a movie about the life and work of the Merited Worker of Arts of Russia, stage and film director Valery Akhadov. His professional life was a success, but his personal life was hardly easy. In the early 90-s at a highpoint in his career the director and his family had to leave Dushanbe together with his friends and colleagues from the Russian Drama Theatre. They all relocated to Magnitogorsk and began to work at the Pushkin Drama Theatre. 13 years later the VGIK graduate returned to the town of his youth and has been teaching young directors ever since. As usual he is full of creative ideas and plans.

An elderly man comes for an interview at a large corporation, but in order to work there, you need to sacrifice your memories.

First solo concert of stand up comedian Ruslan Belyy.

Martian Spies tells a love story between a boy who pretends to be a terrorist and a young girl, who is the wife of a KGB agent. The boy tells her that he has been hired to shoot the president – Yeltsin. The end is poetic yet addressing the politics of revenge and corruption in Russia. Miners stand in front of their mine, singing a song, which tells the story of contemporary Russian politics.

The action takes place in Tajikistan in the late 80s. Police Major Batur goes to prison on false charges. In the zone, a certain Khalil promises to help Batur get even with the mafia that framed him. However, it turns out that Khalil himself is part of this gang. Batur can only run and act on his own...

Another story about the all-conquering power of art. In the city there lived a boy who learned to play the violin. He was very talented. And at concerts after his performances, the audience stood up and applauded him. And three bandits were operating in the city, who had no idea what beautiful classical music was. The bandits robbed everything they could get their hands on. They ransacked the pockets of passers-by, took things out of apartments, unscrewed light bulbs from lanterns, and even ripped off telephone sets. And one day, when the violinist was returning from a concert, the bandits attacked him too. They demanded to give the boy's violin, but he flatly refused.

Lyrical sketch about Odessa. Its heroes are the original city itself and its ordinary inhabitants.

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.

The film offers an introduction to various modes of transportation. In the film, the Color Babies travel by plane, embark on exciting adventures by bus, ride a train, sail on a ship, and conquer space with a real rocket! Explore the important aspects with the Color Babies with love!

Since March 2022, a resident of Donetsk has been filming everything he saw himself.: the shelling, the great grief of his family, mutual help, love and friendship. A documentary about how ordinary people became participants in the historical process.

The English teacher becomes a victim of bullying by her new students despite the indifferent administration, she tries to overcome this problem.

A global flood is approaching, but Lesha will be able to escape, because he has a boat. However, on his grief, a hunter enters the game, who considers the boat to be his property, and who is trying with all his might to take it away. On the way to the finale, in addition to the hunter, Lesha meets other equally wonderful characters who react with curiosity to the young man's strange decision to sit in a boat and wait for a flood.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

Maxim gets a job on a cruise ship, which soon crashes, and turns out to be the only survivor. He, along with a bar full of alcohol, or rather, right on it, is carried to a deserted island.

Experienced astronaut Savva dreams of flying away forever to the most remote part of the galaxy, never to meet people again. However, as a result of a ship breakdown, he finds himself on a gloomy planet, where he meets a friendly alien, Gama.

Deportation... Russians, Kazakhs, Germans, Ukrainians, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Poles — entire peoples turned out to be outcasts and traitors in the eyes of their state. Tens of thousands of people in the 30-40s of the XX century were torn from their roots and brought to the North Kazakhstan steppes in the vicinity of the city of Akmolinsk.

The Princess of Muay Thai is a road movie and story of one of preparation for the main in the life of the battle. When the film crew traveled to Bangkok, nobody knew if Valeria Drozdova would win or not. History keeps in suspense until the end. Seven days of fierce training, walking, talking on the souls, the adventures in the lost corners of Thailand, discoveries, nerves, fears which allowed the inevitable culmination - the fight for the championship title.

Once this place was one country, the Soviet Union, but now it is the border between the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania, Russia and the European Union. The Russians, whose ancestors were brought here from the east, still live in German houses, among German cemeteries. Across the border - Lithuania, which survived the Soviet occupation, the mass exile of Lithuanians to Siberia and regained independence 30 years ago with the collapse of the USSR. The life of the border regions on both sides of the two-meter fence may be different, but people are similar.

The rhythm of the life of the heroine, a young girl named Margarita, is completely in tune with the rhythm of the city road: three colors - green, yellow and red - three senses - three persons of one person - three stages of one life. Margarita lives a turning point in the history: a stage of choice. Fifteen minutes that will become key in her life: she abruptly changes her life - she breaks the habitual relationship for the sake of obscurity. He risks everything for the sake of a dubious jackpot. The margarita loses love and finds it again, but will it escape from loneliness and emptiness? And what is the meaning in a world that denies any meaning?

The bright and careless life of four friends ends after having an insane night and meeting 'whore'. The party-like fairytale spontaneously becomes a morning tragedy. After waking up in the strange apartment, they notice a dead whore. 'This is the end'-said one of the characters without knowing that it's only beginning.

The girl returns to the forest, where she once experienced a strong feeling... A simple walk with her younger sister turns into a series of surging memories, closely intertwined with the present.

In 2023, the band Tequilajazzz embarked on the first tour after the outbreak of the war. In the autumn of 2023, on the volcanic rocks of the Adriatic coast, the band played a special concert "Four Winds", imbued with maritime romance and the mood of the Scandinavian fjords beloved by Evgeny Fedorov.

Two teenage girls who have come to a Christian community for the holidays form a painful alliance.

Shura finds out that her husband has escaped the mental institution he was in and no one knows where he is. Her days become plagued with paranoia and the presence of the man that follows her. Or is it just her imagination?

Shortly after the war, Kaliningrad is populated by Russian newcomers and becomes a bleak home to heroes whose inevitable slide towards a tragedy is somewhat similar to the fates of protagonists of classical Russian literature. The film portraying their story had been shot over a period of more than 10 years and doesn't falter eye to eye with physical pain.

A little bird is building a nest and collects food for its newborn. This leads to unexpected consequences on a large scale.

After long wanderings and the loss of his loved ones, Golovar secretly returns to his hometown. However, enemies and rivals are seeking to destroy this once respected and influential figure. All forces are deployed on both sides, and only one right move can prevent a bloodbath that will never end.

An art film by Timur Novikov and Sergey Shustov.

Nastya, a 13-year-old girl from Yakutia, lost both her arms in a tragic accident, but found solace in swimming. Her mother, Lyudmila, had long protected her daughter from the cruelty of the world, but she knew that sooner or later Nastya would have to come out into society. What path in life will she choose? Will Nastya be able to overcome her fears and become who she always dreamed of being?

A strange phenomenon happens in Kalachi village situated in northern Kazakhstan. During a season of thaw or rain the inhabitants routinely fall into an inexplicably long sleep, which can last up to two weeks.

A guy and a girl who are completely unfamiliar with each other learn to live together in a garage, while the end of the world comes beyond the walls.

Each of which has its own “Far East”, someone has a hundred-year-old Japanese lighthouse, someone has the old streets of Vladivostok, someone has memories of their ancestors that never leave them, who ended up in the Far East by the will of fate, and someone has temple in a small village on the Kamchatka peninsula. Each of them feels anxiety about the fate of their small homeland, which is going through a difficult moment in its history. At the same time, all these people live with a sense of the possibility of a new life for their region, their country.

The authors of the project tried to understand the transformations that the image of the ship underwent in the human mind: a pirate ship of threat was replaced by a romantic ship of love, and a heroic warship turned into a deadly ghost ship. The "lecture" by art historian Arkady Ippolitov is accompanied by fragments from one hundred and thirty films. The original footage of the film was shot by cameraman and documentary film director Pavel Kostomarov. The composer of the painting is Leonid Desyatnikov. The film opens a series of documentaries of the studio "Workshop Session".

Sebastian Ivanovich Bakhov is a violin teacher at the Gnessin School. He is also a great leader, a great comedian, a great racer and fighter. In any case, this is how he sees himself in his fantasies. However, the measured course of the teacher's life is interrupted by a talented and beautiful first-year student Katya, who came to the city from the province. Gradually, a touching friendship and full mutual understanding arises between the student and the teacher, a sincere, bright and subtle feeling is born. In his fantasies, Bakhov, under various guises, constantly saves Katya from the attacks of desperate robbers, but in reality he becomes a Teacher for Katya with a capital letter and makes her a master...