Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The film is about a man whose works and the name itself have been under a strict ban for a long time. Ivan Solonevich is a Russian thinker, politician, writer, publicist and at the same time an outstanding athlete, vice-champion of the Russian Empire, one of the creators of the Sambo wrestling. All the activities of Solonevich, all his energy were directed to the fight against the inhuman system of power that arose in Russia after 1917.

Birthday of the head of the family. Everyone is going to their home. I wonder what will come of this?

The film tells the story of the Russian Paralympic Blind Football team which is preparing for the most important event in their lives - the European Championship. The team has only one goal - to win the gold medal at any cost!

A simple journey from point A to point B turns into an equation with a lot of unknowns, if you are 20 years old and you are Kolya.

The psychologist goes on the run and gets into a car, where professional killer Shurik and his nephew Mark are waiting for him. Soon, a conflict begins between the relatives, and the psychologist decides to add fuel to the fire so that Shurik and Mark kill each other.

Early morning in a Yakut village, a shot... Those who committed the crime hide in the forest, where they are accidentally found by local women. They tell everyone in the village about it. Enraged residents decide to carry out lynching.

Three friends encounter demonic entities in a country house. Experimental horror film.

The Yakimanka Center for Contemporary Art is one of the most important institutions of contemporary art in the 90s in Moscow. It was here that the first open platform for all forms of self-expression was created. New artists, gallery owners and curators appeared here, the main events of the artistic life of the last decade of the twentieth century took place.

Yakut fairy tale about a bear cub who wanted to become a different animal.

On a gloomy morning, He gives Her a ride. After a few seconds, it "breaks through". Is this a scene of jealousy? An attack? A declaration of love? Or…

The story is about the value of human life. About circumstances that could change everything. The woman psychologist who rescues male ballet dancer while having hard times after broke up.

The loser Yaroslav returns to his homeland from a long journey, where he tried to know himself and the universe. The return falls on the birthday of his son, for whom he has long ceased to be an authority. Based on new values, Yaroslav is trying to confront obstacles and improve relations with the child. But the acquired concepts do not work well in the megalopolis, and my son needs something more than words...

Petya is a representative of the carefree Moscow youth, and in one day he goes through a test of friendship, love experiences and, finally, an awareness of the need for change.

One day in the life of a young man named Sasha. Home, study, work - the main character is happy to tell the viewer about all this. But besides this, there is a dream in his life that sets him apart from the usual everyday mass.

A concert film taken from concert album of the same name by russian rock band DDT.

Arthur breaks up with his girlfriend after years together and understands that the real challenge is not the act of separation, but accepting its consequences and a life that suddenly becomes solitary.

These places have a tough climate, impenetrable forests and the no civilization. No one would wish to live here. No one except these people. Others would be frightened by the lack of roads but these people appreciate the freedom of movement. The vacuum of information preserves the tranquility of their souls. They do not have ID cards, salaries or pensions. Formally they do not exist at all. But in reality, they live here. They live happily and independently from the state, and they are able to enjoy the authentic beauty of nature in the Tuvan Republic every day.

There is a commotion in the small village on Lake Peipsi – the wedding is tomorrow. Masha and Ivan are young, beautiful, and everyone wants the wedding to be a success. Only everyone knows that Masha does not love Ivan, but Peter, who is serving time for poaching. He went to jail and told her, "Don't wait." But when Peter finds out that Masha is expecting a child from him, he escapes from prison and suddenly appears in his native village just before the wedding. And suddenly Masha realizes a few hours before the wedding that she will not be able to live with Ivan.

Found footage short about oil.

The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel and unjust world, where you can survive only with a bunch of stolen dollars instead of brains. For a young Russian, money is a symbol of power and strength. Even the new state ideology feeds on blood oil dollars. In Russia there is no more room for dreams. This is the era of anti-utopia.

The story is set in Russia in the 1870s. One of the storylines recounted the fate of the mother of an revolutionary, who accidentally discovered some leaflets at home and decided to take them to the priest. The film itself is considered lost.

During an attempted arrest, a Russian intelligence officer working abroad is killed. The loss of such a valuable agent is the result of a leak of classified information from within Russia. The counterintelligence investigation yields troubling results: a mole has infiltrated the Main Intelligence Directorate, passing top-secret information abroad while operating under the cover of Western intelligence services.

Aleksey Kozlov is interested in drifting and decides to build a drift car from an old rare Toyota Cresta car from 1987 with body number JZX-71 (hence the name of the film). This is a story about a simple guy who lives in Kamchatka, where there is still no infrastructure for training, where there is snow on the road 9 months a year, but he dreams of competing in the most prestigious race in Russia RDS-GP, where top pilots compete with each other from all over the world.

This story is about how one day a simple student suddenly met a simple village boy Rudolf who absolutely accidentally and effortlessly ruined his whole life. Ayaal doesn't know what to do now, and his hands drop. What will save his life and his love? Or who...?

Ordinary girl Sonia works as a nurse in the psychiatric ward of the hospital and dreams of becoming a doctor. She treats patients well and her boss - the head of the department. But everything changes when the manager trusts Sonia "responsible job".

The film is based on the real love story of a girl named Vera. Vera is 20 years old and has Down syndrome. She lives with her grandmother and works as a waitress at the Carlson cafe, where people with disabilities work. There she meets her future boyfriend, Sergei Dementyev. There is great serious love between Vera and Dementyev and even physical intimacy, but no one around them takes their relationship seriously.

A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience. A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall. He wrote extraordinary novels and dared to protest, fully aware of the consequences. In 2024, Pavel Kushnir died in a prison in Birobidzhan.

Together with our heroes, you will embark on a journey through the Castle of Fear, where reality turns into fantasy, and fantasy acquires visible features of reality. You will get acquainted with the secrets of the skill of a practicing Moscow mistress, open the canopy of an erotic photo studio and watch a photo session, hear several stories from the world of erotic dreams...

In pursuit of his dreams, Igor faces a truth he struggles to accept and wrestles with the temptation to take drastic action in his grief, realizing the profound consequences it could have on his path and identity.

We see a tree in the place where nothing can ever grow, combined with the sound that I recorded near a power plant under electricity lines, where you can never meet anyone, but you can hear voices of predators that are supposed to scare away birds.

Evgeny Chebatkov's touching story about his father, who was in prison for 25 years, studying English in the small Kazakh town of Ust-Kamenogorsk, alcohol and Muslim friends.

Valentina lives in a small village, works at the post office. A young woman does not formally take her work, she is always ready to help those who need it. Villagers love and respect Valya, and at the same time sympathize with her ...

At the turn of 80-90, film director Alexei Yurievich German created a film workshop for the first film, which became famous for the paintings of young debutant directors, who later became famous masters. The film tells about how the Master selected talented directors, helped them take the first step and find themselves in the cinema. The TV version of the film.

Taking advantage of his wife's temporary leave, Anton and his female friends are having fun. In the midst of all the revelry, he receives a telegram that she is to return this morning. General turmoil ensues. Anton sees off his visitors and tries to reestablish order, but suddenly notices with horror one of the ladies had forgotten her corset...

Vladimir Pozner and Ivan Urgant's grand tour of France, which they traveled by car and bicycle, from Paris to provincial towns.

An allegorical three-part film about three types of utopia

Two young couples come to a family therapist to speak out about the anxieties and feelings that have accumulated during their marriage through a metaphorical story about the life of two elderly married couples.

The bag with the money is being searched not only by Semaphore the cat, but also by riot police with dogs, local boys and, of course, the "locksmith" thief. But Nikita discovers the bag. The police catch him red-handed at the entrance of his house and imprison him. Four-legged friends are doing everything possible and impossible to free their beloved master.

An experimental film by Dima Teplov and Pavel Korolko about what an hour of time is when the sun leaves us.

Forty years ago, a documentary film about Soviet cardiac surgeons was released. Perhaps, for the first time on our screen, doctors reflected on the value of human life, talked about their experiences caused by the death of a patient, about the imperfection of Soviet medicine, the lack of knowledge and responsibility of doctors. For forty years, medicine has made an incredible breakthrough, but the moral problems that plague doctors have remained the same. “You can’t get used to death” is the leitmotif of the paintings, old and new. The film was awarded as the Best Non-Fiction Film at the Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" - 2016.

The film tells about Marina Albi, a famous American woman who has been living for twenty years in Russia. She undertakes a spiritual trip to the Russian province to find 'the Heart of Russia'. It is with her eyes that we see the beauties and the joys of small Russian towns and villages, as well as their sufferings and problems. The goal of her trip is to find explanations: "What is one's own life?" "How to live one's own life?" In the end of the film, she meets someone and this great meeting reveals to her simple and great truths.

A tragic story of love and betrayal during WWII.

Writer and expatriate Marina receives an invitation to meet graduates. Resigned to the nostalgic impulse, she flies from Europe to Novustoinovsk - a district city in the middle of the country, which has long ceased to exist. There, in the provincial hinterland of the past, her memories and old friends live, all of them ephemeral as television programs from another life. This is a life story about fate of ordinary people, about quarrels, spiritual growth and decline, about hope and changeable memory.

The film reveals the whole truth about the most extreme sport, base jumping, where every 60th athlete dies, according to statistics, but the risk of losing life does not stop anyone and every year there are more and more people who want to do it.

Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.

Lesha Stolyarov's contemporary art includes bitumen paintings, pictures made of gas burners, abstract art, in short, everything that is incomprehensible to the layman. Recently, Lesha has been going through a creative crisis; he wants to speak about God, but using the artistic means that are unfamiliar to hm. So he decides to make an experiment and travels to the Spaso-Sumorin Monastery in distant Totma to set up an installation amidst the Vologda snows. Only one monk lives in this monastery – Father Feodosiy. Forty years ago, he was a painter but abandoned his craft to serve God. One would think he should be sympathetic to art. However, the ultra-modern artist clashes with an equally "ultra" counterpart – only an orthodox one. Is it possible to reconcile contemporary art and the church, new trends and two-thousand-year-old traditions?