Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

About three graceful tightrope walkers and one amusing simpleton.

The film is about how one little girl helped an adult ogre to start a new life – to stop eating people and become a composer.

An attempt to express the relationship between space and the ability to reflect it. The result of these relations can be considered the non-representational nature of space, as a tangible form, and the tendency of space to have consciousness. We are talking about "inward-directed" vision and "outward-directed" vision. Hence the abandonment of normal voice acting in favor of the aesthetics of silent cinema; on the audio track you will only hear the recorded crackle of a film projector and the quiet off-screen conversations of some people. The film is based on Andrei Platonov's story "The Potudan River", the film adaptation of which for Edward Shelganov, as well as for Alexander Sokurov, became a debut in cinema.

The film is dedicated to the director-artist Alexander Rogozhkin, one of the creators of Russian mythology.

Fourteen year old teenager, who is in love with young pretty karate trainer, he has a crush on her. His older brother trying to help him but in a way Timur is not willing to go.

The main character is a Russian tourist who has survived a family tragedy and goes in search of God in the Holy Land. Instead, he discovers only the most banal worldly temptations, coupled with human ignorance and rudeness. However, he will still spend his 40 days without food and water in the desert.

Serzhan about the rallies and his background, about dating an active girl and life with his father, about buying bananas and going to the movies.

In the yard of the XXI century. But even today, people continue to face the bureaucratic system at various levels. From birth to death, he devotes his precious time to walking through the authorities and communicating with representatives of different levels of government. In St. Petersburg, in the Reception of citizens, an official conducts a reception on housing issues. For many who are desperate to achieve a solution to their problem, he is the last hope. All questions are difficult, there are a lot of dissatisfied people, but we need to find a common language with everyone and help solve the problem.

An old mirror that the hero finds in the attic. Deciding to restore it, the artist and his family find themselves at the mercy of SOMETHING. All the action takes place within the four walls of a two-story house, in which a whole life passes for several days - the heroes are stuck between life and death...

About how real objects lose their figurativeness.

Vlada Senkova’s third feature combines comedy and drama to portray three reckless young people willing to risk it all to make money.

The young actress gets auditioned by a documentary filmmaker and is forced to immediately play a married couple with an actor who turns out to be her former.

Using the example of Georgia, the film's authors explore various historical and contemporary events related to Russia's aggressive foreign policy with respect to neighboring (and not only!) Countries, trying to understand their causes and answer difficult questions. What is the fundamental difference between the Russian world and Western civilization? What were and are the methods and tools of Russian politics? What influence does foreign policy have on domestic, in particular, on a person’s position, his fundamental rights and freedoms?

This is the story of the famous first film workshop set up by the filmmaker Alexei German in 1988. The studio debutants are now well-known masters. They share their memories about their teacher who helped them throughout the work process. The core of the film is the story told by Sergei Karandashov, a graduate of Alexei German’s workshop and the author of the project Workshop. The author's version of the film.

ACA 188: Gadzhiev vs. Pshukov was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at the Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi, Russia.

By means of documentary films, the authors try to explore the deep essence of Stalinism as a phenomenon that was and is based on the historical, psychological and social traditions of Russian society.

Not finished.

When her older sister dies, a woman returns from Saint Petersberg to a remote village in Yakutia. Bit by bit, a drama of epic proportion unfolds—accompanied and intensified by the Yakut throat singing of the two women. Although the camera lets us viscerally feel the state of limbo she finds herself in, the woman manages—together with her niece—to go her own way. Atmospheric and moving.

On the eve of demobilization, 13 years ago, during the Second Chechen War, 19-year-old Roman was seriously wounded in the head. He miraculously survived, and spent all these years in a continuous struggle with physical illness, with his own weakness and despair, striving to learn how to live again…

At the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, residents of Zemleyarsk are looking for a virus carrier in their hometown. They suspects the mayor, who has just returned from Thailand. Mayor Guskov urgently needs to avert the suspicions just before the mayor elections.

In a car accident, the boy loses his parents and is confined to a wheelchair. Becoming the creator of his world and his destiny, the young hero overcomes personal tragedy.

This story tells us about a 30 years old guy who still lives with his mother. Their relations are quite tough but she feels so lonely that she just can’t let him go. He suffers a lot but one day he gets the job offer on the North...

Zakhar is 7 years old, and his brother Procopius is 9. Each of the brothers already has its own deer and its own tundra for wandering. Previously, children born into a nomad family at this age were almost forcibly taken away to study in a boarding school on the mainland. And they rarely returned to the parental home. Trying to preserve the traditions of the nomadic peoples in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the authorities decided to revive the practice of "nomadic schools" that disappeared in Russia in the 30s. That’s how the 23-year-old Nelli Andreevna falls into the Zharkov family in order to explain to Zakhar and Prokopy what a mathematician is needed in life and who Vladimir Putin is.

A village elderly couple decides to replace their old wooden bench with a proper bed, leading to unexpected and amusing changes in their daily life.

New cartoon by Tatyana Musalamova (Studio M.I.R.).

A young woman, who has lost faith in life and love, comes to see a psychiatrist with the intention of changing her gender. However, this meeting radically changes both her plans and her perception of life.

This is a story about the tragedy of an entire nation, which was almost destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. The "Children from the Abyss" are people who miraculously survived among the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. The film contains their memories, documents, and photographs.

A documentary on the Russian war effort in Northern Norway during World War II.

The film’s protagonist, Svetlana, during the Coronavirus Epidemic, like many, finds herself out of work. In order to keep busy and earn some money, she comes up with a new business – “Online drinking buddy”. For a fee, she’s ready to keep customers company if they’re looking for a partner they can have a drink and a heart-to-heart chat. The film features unique material – recordings of Svetlana’s conversations with her “drinking pal” clients. People share their experiences of how they have survived quarantine and how the coronavirus has had an impact on their lives.

The father wakes up from a terrible dream - he and his wife are getting a divorce, and in court the 7-year-old son chooses to "stay with the phone."

Polina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern border town. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. The girls almost never leave the empty immobilized hotel and live, performing their strange daily rituals in the hope that someday they will lead them to a miracle. Once a stranger arrives at the hotel.

Love and death... The choice is difficult. Especially if you are 18.

Zaza, tired of life, a single mother, comes from the provinces to pay an unannounced visit to her son who is studying in Moscow. As a result of several coincidences, she is forced to spend the night in the apartment of her neighbor - a handsome and many years younger Anton. This is where a passionate romance begins. Anton awakens in Zazie all the deeply hidden feelings, desires and femininity. The effect of these changes is dazzling.

Ivan pays attention to such topics as: psychoanalysis, the meaninglessness of reading classics at school, free marriage, the genius of Maxim Dunaevsky and the beauty of Morgenshtern, as well as childhood traumas and their impact on adult behavior.

Once upon a time, two fine young men, Vladimir and Anatoly, met on the Moscow highway. They decided to veer off their path to behold the beauties of Russian countryside. There, they encountered two lovely maidens with a white dove in their hands. The girls invited them into their chamber, a wooden manor standing at the forest's edge in a deserted village called Pustoshka, where that very house was the only one left. They set the table and began to wine and dine their gallant guests. But before the young men could even brush off the road dust or take a sip of the magical nectar from their cups, there showed up a grandpa, the master of that house. And he asked the brave fellows to go and help him find a stone…

Cuba is working on a large-scale construction site, where a large port is being built. After starting work on the riverbank, a mysterious note from a missing girl falls into her hands, which Cuba is going to return to her lover. However, it is not so easy to find him, and this very meeting makes her look at her life from a different angle.

To save work, an unfortunate insurance manager needs to sell 100 health insurance products in a week that no one will use. In a moment of extreme despair, he gains the ability to see how much each person has to live. A series of profitable deals is interrupted by the last client who changes everything.

The world is split into two camps, Russia and China vs. the US. The US have lost the competition of political systems and are destroying the planet's climate. For 80 years Russia and China have been sunk into internal winter, while the US enjoy eternal summer. Young Russian scientist Andrey Khvorobaev disccovers that the climate can be controlled by means of the Perelman Axis, located in Buryatia. The US Imperialist sharks, led by the president and driven by greed, let loose a grim Nazi executioner, Professor Gubke, who conducts horrible, inhumane experiments that turn American boys into zombies to defend the Perelman Axis. An expedition of Russian scientists, sent to Buryatia to fix global injustice, is looking for the Russian end of the Perelman Axis. They battle the merciless creations of the Nazi criminal Gubke. The expedition fails, but Andrey lives and fights on, supported by his Orthodox faith and the love of his homeland, embodied by the Buryat girl Vera.

A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée

Adventure drama on the plot of the novel of the same name by A. Amfiteatrov. The movie has not been preserved.

Suffering from the summer heat, the young man sleeps during the day and stays awake at night.

Dasha, Zhenya and Vassa are friends. It’s Zhenya’s birthday, and they are preparing to celebrate it, but on this day Vassa’s boyfriend leaves him. The girls will have to forget about the holiday and help their close friend survive her grief.

A grumpy elderly woman who is used to nagging her husband for minor domestic problems discovers that her husband has left home after another quarrel. She goes after him, believing that it will not take much time, but as the search extends the heroine's state changes from anger to complete despair. Finally, the woman exhausted by the difficult day finds her husband ready to forgive her difficult character.