Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

The film-parable about how hurting our neighbors we often don’t think about that pain which we made them

Lonely young seamstress Masha rents an apartment from widower Valery, who recently lost his beloved wife. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Valery visits Masha almost every day, which prevents her from improving her personal life.

Canadian sailor John McLennan, who was wrecked off the coast of Chukotka, is being rescued by local residents. From that moment, he begins a new life, which he is no longer able to change.

The concept of the project is to show what a Kino performance can be like in the 21st century, with good modern sound and stage production. Most of the material will be performed as close to the original as possible, but there will also be improvisations and new interpretations. The basis of the program is the real voice of Viktor Tsoi, digitized from the original multi-channel recordings of Kino. The group includes two original bass players of the group from different years, Alexander Titov and Igor Tikhomirov, and the permanent guitarist Yuri Kasparyan.

Salmon has long been considered the delicacy, but commercial fishing have left this unique fish on the brink of extinction. Problem of saving the population became state care.

ACA 178: Goncharov vs. Bogatyrev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, August 16, 2024 the Irina Viner Usmanova Gymnastics Palace in Moscow, Russia.

His former student comes to the famous playwright, demanding that he, as a member of the jury of the young authors competition, award her a prize. This meeting dramatically changed the lives of the characters, their relationship, strange and dramatic.

Two Russian Mormons were assigned to tell passers-by about their religion in a residential area of Vladivostok. The mission turns into a nightmare.

Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 and was held by Vsevolod Gakkel, ex-cellist of "Аквариум". The concept was modelled on cult NY club CBGB-OMFUG. Despite its controversial history this is the place where a new generation of Russian punk music was discovered.

Eight stories about different facets of love for the Motherland.

TV version of the performance by the Mossovet Theatre, based on the play by Neil Simon.

All the negatives of everyday life and lack of money fall on Nyurgun, the hero simply drowns in a bunch of everyday problems. The main character does not have a truly close person who could lend him a helping hand. On the one hand, Nyurgun gets what he deserves, but in fact he is a good, kind fellow. And he has the most precious thing — his children, who become the salvation for the hero.

The peculiar girl Anya Kadet makes her vlog about trains on YouTube and in Periscope. She loves classical music and her work on the railway. Once she meets a strange peasant Kulebyakin, who turns out to be a real sorcerer! And he has his own plans for Anya's life ...

The concert program and the program "In Search of My Audience" for 2019-2020. It was a program in which Ilya Sobolev traveled to more than 50 cities and shot a concert in Perm. Various topics, from the president to the genitals, but the improvisation that is present at all Ilya’s speeches remains unchanged.

New film by Danil Tikhomirov

A desperate therapist is visited by a very successful person trying to convince him that life is meaningless.

War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...

One spring morning, during a breakup argument, Katya's boyfriend turns into a puddle of water on the floor. Katya decides to bury the memory of her ex in the most environmentally friendly way possible: by planting a pear tree. Unbeknownst to her, a whole crowd of townspeople comes to her aid.

Old man Akhmat arrives in the city from a village to fulfill the last wish of a dying woman — to see her grandson Ruslan. However, Ruslan turns out to be a successful banker for whom career matters more than family values.

Based on the short story by N.V.Gogol.

The Aryan race is not dying out, but still hopes to proclaim the Third Reich on the entire planet. In addition, today is a significant day, the Congress of Adorers of Adolf Hitler reveals to the masses its achievements on the occasion. However, one of them did more for the leader than anyone else, having found his hand in the garden and intending to clone Adolf.

A television one-man show based on the works of N.V.Gogol.

The end of the XIX century. A girl was killed. The mother and brother of the deceased find the villain and are going to punish him, but the villain does not care — he is not afraid of death. Then the mother of the murdered girl decides to "re-educate" this person, postponing revenge until he begins to appreciate at least something in life. And a few years later, a dance teacher arrives at the estate, who should become a tutor for a prisoner sentenced to a deferred execution.

Graphic fantasy on the theme of the minuet from the cycle "Everything Dances".

For the besieged Leningrad, the primary need was bread. But it was equally important to ensure the smooth operation of transport communications. In order for the city to live, people had to go to the factories, soldiers - to the front; it was necessary to transport a huge amount of cargo… The most indispensable transport was the tram.

Kirill Selegey about scientific articles, drugdealers, meetings, female masturbation and conversations with grandmother.

Ogurtsova, 55, lives with her mother and loves Russia with all her heart. Her decision to serve in the country's election unexpectedly leads to her mother's death.

Five-year-old Sasha often listens to the opera Madame Butterfly. It is shown on TV and broadcast on the radio. The story of Madame Butterfly becomes for Sasha the key to the dramas that take place in the family, but which she still cannot understand.

A cold and calculating world, filled with a thirst for revenge and fueled by cunning, took up arms against a young and very fragile love. The intertwining of the destinies of two families and a chain of tragic accidents lead to an unexpected outcome.

Private Kornilov gets an order from his commanding officer to guard a military installation far away from base. They promise that he will be picked up in a week. When Kornilov arrives at the site he discovers that the only place he can sleep is the excavator that he is supposed to guard. A week passes, but nobody comes to pick him up…

Sultan Beketovich learned from his wife that in the distant Russian lands of Prince Vladimir and his wife Apraxia born hero Volga. This news excited the great Sultan - by prophecy, his wife, is from the hand of Volga Beketovich was destined to die. Will Volga overcome the power of evil spells of the Sultan's wife and his loyal soldiers?

This is a story about a young engineer. Every year he examines an old rundown bridge and under orders from his superiors announces it fit for exploitation. Every night a girl comes to his apartment. Their relationship is wrought with misunderstandings and hurt feelings. What will collapse first - the bridge or the relationship?

The film tells about people who are in creative and life crises. The main character wants to make a movie. She meets actors, enters into relationships with them, talks about creativity and life. But something does not give her peace, and strange things begin to happen in her apartment.

Rock paintings and photographs in our albums come from one source: death. But when does a memory become an image? How does memory work, and what is more real: a fact or our perception?

An animated short film where Foma and Erema compete in a canoe-kayak race. "Olympiad-80" is a series of animated films created by the Ekran creative association specifically for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. They humorously explore summer sports, and their characters—the funny and cheerful clowns Foma and Erema—take part in athletic and not-so-athletic competitions.

The quiet town is deafened by terrible news: the administration has introduced fines for spitting in public places. However, city residents did not care about the restrictions. What consequences will this (at first glance) harmless reform lead to?

Over the past two years, humanity has faced an absolutely new degree of loneliness and fear – a pandemic. Disunity or, conversely, too close contact for a long time, emotional burnout led society to collective trauma. "New World" is the story of 12 families from Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg, New York, Kiev, Simferopol, Herat, Miami and Dublin. The characters of the film are learning to live in new conditions. We follow their transformation with the help of their own video diaries and special shooting, recording the most intimate and important events that they have lived over the past two years. For all of them, the pandemic is becoming a test of strength. Against the background of a new reality and a new world, we remember the pandemic almost with nostalgia, still feeling its consequences.

The film tells the story of a man who has just arrived to work in one of the villages as a security guard in an old club. There he meets the employees of the club, and they take turns telling him scary stories. People tend not to believe strange stories. He contradicts everything, expressing his arguments, proofs. But he's wrong. Because everything told has its roots of truth, reality and goes deep into the past times, which can not be returned.

In the small Volga town of Kalinov, the young, married Katerina Kabanova leads a happy life - at first sight. She unexpectedly falls in love with Boris, the young relative of the town's mayor, who loves her back.

A daughter leaves the family home to lead a life of her own as an adult. Still, she remains connected to where she’s from, which has consequences for everyone.

This short film tells a love story in a provincial city. The film is full of humor, wonder and national color.

The documentary looks into the fate of the girls trapped in sexual slavery. The film unfolds in India, a country that occupies an unhappy first place among countries with the highest volumes of human trafficking. Several prostitutes who became heroines of this film are living in the Red Light district of Mumbai – some time ago they were sold to this district by their own parents. The other plot line of the documentary is the story of a little girl living in one of Northern India’s poorest villages. In a couple of years she too can follow the Mumbai ladies’ path.

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.

A new party - "Party of Rabbits" - is organized in Russia during the elections.

While humanity is preparing for the end of the world, Pozharsky is throwing a bachelor party. A new android police officer joins the department.

Husband comes home from work and finds his wife with dead plumber.

The PUPHEDZ perform a take on Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Tell-Tale Heart," an account of a young man driven to madness by an unnatural, torturous obsession with the deformed eye of the old man with whom he lives. WARNING - Contains bloody puppet violence.