Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.

Romeo and Juliet

Once upon a time in Russia, communism fell and Rock 'n' Roll rose to power. One band reigned supreme and toured far and wide across the eastern earth, but never even left Russia - until now. They only have once chance, to not only rule Russia -but to become the best band in the West. The strategy is simple - get on the boat, create an album - and make new friends. All with hopes of finally becoming a household name in the United States. But sometimes fame is harder than just toppling a government.

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually harassed him, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Tenderly revealing two lives lived in limbo, this film bears witness to the first and final visit of his mother, Lubyov.

New cartoon by Anastasia Zhakulina (Soyuzmultfilm).

Gulcha, better known as Gucci, works as a cleaner at a community center in the Moscow region. She is in love with security guard Lekha, but he already has a girlfriend, accountant Lenka. One day, Gulcha argues with her colleague Masha that she can win back her lover.

On December 15, 2024, the collision and sinking of two fuel oil tankers in the Kerch Strait caused one of the most devastating environmental disasters in the history of the Black Sea. Six months later, the tankers lying on the seabed are still leaking fuel oil, and of the thousands of volunteers who initially took part in the cleanup, only a few dozen remain along a 30-kilometer stretch of beach. The film was shot on the Taman Peninsula in early summer 2025, against the backdrop of a formally lifted, yet in reality already underway, beach season. In the face of scarce resources, the departure of their own leaders, and the daily release of fuel oil, the volunteers talk about themselves, rescue animals, combat the ignorance of those around them, and try to find the motivation to continue their fight against a disaster that at times seems endless.

Residents of village Atagi, their life and problems.

A provincial socio-psychological drama.

A satire on the ways of the aristocracy. After the revolution, the bourgeois Nedopluev loses his appetite and sleep. Neither medicine nor the regimens prescribed by the doctor help him. He is drafted to the labor front. Donning on a robe over a house robe, he goes to work. Together with other bourgeois, he has to haul manure and load stones. The next time, Nedoplyuev puts on a workman’s overalls. Very soon he is cured of his ailment, becomes healthy and energetic, eats enough for three and smokes only makhorka. Seeing that his wife has lost her appetite, Nedoplyuev makes her chop wood. The film ends with the slogan: "The ills of the bourgeoisie will vanish with Soviet medicine". An incomplete version of the film is housed in the Russian State Film Archive.

Short movie by Masha Koshina and Yasha Klassen.

During an unplanned journey, a young woman calls at an unusual café where she meets a strange man. Following him, she sees herself in the past.

Dasha, nicknamed "Little One," is in love with her older sister Nastya's boyfriend. Wanting to be closer to him, she constantly intrudes, disrupting their relationship and pestering her sister with questions about him. Oblivious to the seriousness of Malaya's feelings, Nastya decides to teach her a lesson, but the "lesson" goes too far. "Little One" is a film about competition, intimacy, and the boundless love of sisters.

The story is about a large Armenian family accompanying their son to war. In the eyes of everyone he is a hero, confidently fulfilling his duty to the Motherland, but for a 20-year-old guy this is not entirely true.

Gold and money have been the foundation of prosperity for centuries. But nothing lasts forever...

Renata, a literature teacher, is going to visit her son. Together with her, the eccentric guy Dima, a former criminal, turns out to be in the same compartment. Talking about the fate of Russian literature becomes a trigger for the relationship of the characters from complete rejection to mutual understanding and sympathy.

At what age does one become capable of making the independent decisions? This film is about finding your own way and trying not to lose yourself when getting acquainted with the free world of punks. A personal coming-of-age story.

The last wedding of an Udmurt. A year after his death, his soul says goodbye to the world of the living and becomes engaged to another, unknown world.

Alina, a theater student, has difficulty studying, loses feelings for her boyfriend and takes antipsychotics. In order to finally understand herself, she goes through the entire hierarchy of help: a psychotherapist, a fortune teller, and even disappearance from the face of the earth. But when Alina sinks to the very bottom, she suddenly finds a way out of the situation.

Each of these paintings hides a unique story in which the fates of the heroes and the artists themselves are intertwined. What was the fate of the boy Vasyatka from the "Troika" of Vasily Perov? Has Ivan Shishkin really never painted bears? Why did Viktor Borisov-Musatov see ghosts? And is it true that it was the "Defeated Demon" that played a fatal role in the fate of Mikhail Vrubel? The answers to all these questions are in the film almanac "Art and Fact".

By the end of the 30s, the ideal world erected on the screen is declared the only true reality. The invasion of fascist Germany destroys this illusion. A person is left alone with history — both in life and on the screen. And in this fight he manages to survive.

Shot at their sold-out show at 1930 Moscow on December 15th 2021.

Abstract animated short film created under the impression of the poem by the futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov "Refusal".

A single girl and a guy appoint a dating to make love without commitment. But tonight everything will not go according to plan.

Physical education teacher Andrey Tikhonov from the countryside travels to the capital to take part in a professional boxing tournament and earn money for an operation for his older sister Polina.

On the night of August 13, 2012, the Rus Hotel, which stands on the outskirts of Biysk, was especially noisy. The company of four guests, two guys and two girls, was very noisy, they were constantly walking up and down the stairs, laughing loudly and talking loudly. The receptionist made a remark to them, the guests calmed down and went to their rooms. Ten minutes passed. And then the door of one of the rooms opened with a bang and a barefoot guy in underpants ran out of there, holding his stomach, and rushed down the stairs to the street. The hotel security guard met the runner in the courtyard and saw that there was a deep wound on his stomach. "She cut me with a knife," the wounded man said with difficulty. A day later he died in the hospital. The investigation began. The victim's name was Sergey Cherkaykin.

Vitaly and Victor have been friends all their lives. They were born in 1936 in the Kyrgyz USSR, survived the famine during World War II, graduated from school in the year of Stalin's death, and left for central Russia to build communism. Now they are over eighty. The system to which they devoted their lives collapsed, the homeland became a separate country. Together they decide on a desperate journey to Kyrgyzstan to find the graves of their parents and take stock.

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

The first solo concert of the group "BI-2" in the club of the Moscow Aviation Institute, November 12, 2000. The history of the band, unknown pages, exclusive interviews with the members. How the famous soundtrack to the movie "Brother 2" was recorded.

About how animals, escaping from boredom, played football, and what came of it.

When you give the last to someone in need, you can always find the reverse side in this!

Russian comedy from producers Dmitry Shcherbanov and Andrey Shishkanov.

Sergey was 6 years old when he was trampled by a horse and became blind. Today he is a professional football player.

Flipside is a documentary about the world of wax records in Russia. The film unveils the story of the legendary medium for records, very popular in the USSR, undeservedly forgotten in the years of the perestroika and raised from the ashes nowadays. What is the place of the wax record in the world of digital technologies? Who are the people that collect, sell and buy wax records today, and why do they do this? Who are those that try their best to impede them? Why do disk jockeys and musicians continue to idolize wax records? How did the wax record players make it back from garbage cans to the luxury HI-END shops? You will find answers to all these questions in a unique film for music fans, a trip through the world of music in the 20th century, at high speed, to the most sincere and humane format of the music.

Aksenushka was pretty: good-looking, hardworking, friendly and affectionate with everyone. Sometimes people just noticed: if Aksenushka saw a new comb from a friend, he would praise how frequent and durable it was, what beautiful patterns on it, the comb would immediately break, or something else would happen to it...

A psychological drama about love and self-sacrifice. Luli Beck, a café singer, has moments of epiphany when, looking around, she clearly realizes the banality and aimlessness of her existence. In one of these moments she meets Witold, a pure and innocent young man. And when a spark of light mutual feeling flares up between them, it turns out that Witold has a fiancée who loves him fervently.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sasha Chusov has been growing giant pumpkins on his six-acre plot of land in the Moscow region for many years. For him, it's an agrosport and a path to the title of "Pumpkin King." Last year, Sasha set a Russian record with his 817-kilogram pumpkin. This year, he truly believes his pumpkin will not only weigh over a ton but also become the heaviest in the world. After all, he's already purchased a selective seed at auction and built a greenhouse with heat pumps, a heating system, irrigation, and ventilation. He controls everything from the nutrition to the soil.

One day the Hedgehog decided to drink tea, but discovered that he had run out of tea leaves. There is only one single tea left. Then the Hedgehog decided to plant it in the ground and see what would come of it.

An old water tower can become a castle, a darkroom, an aquarium, a pirate fortress, an apartment, a space rocket and a museum — it depends on who is looking at it.

A young family buys an apartment after the recent death of the owner. In the queue to the notary, a girl is watching her parents' divorce, and a businessman tired of life is trying to fall asleep on a bench. A kaleidoscope of overheard conversations, quarrels and claims unites a pizza deliveryman who was invited to a housewarming party for the company. But maybe he has a purpose.

The story of a student who wanted to get a job and made a deal with the devil for this…

The most postironic comedian of Belarus Alexey Suhanok performs with a double solo program "Пакет панчлайнов" / "Белоруссия" in a forest swamp during the Independence Day.

The third of a series of videos using famous characters to urge people to be careful during a pandemic. The Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood.

In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.

The usual sleeping area of Moscow. Everyday life goes on.

The plot of the film is based on the second stage of the expedition "North is nearby." In the spring of 2019, daredevils on three all-terrain vehicles over 29 days covered more than 6,000 km along the northeastern coast of Russia from Novy Urengoy to Anadyr. They chose directions, and powerful Arctic vehicles carried them directly.

The comedy is based on Russian absurd laws according to violence and self defense. Early in the morning, Katya returns home from the night shift using her usual route. Walking home from the train station she has to go through the forest. Katya is attacked by a rapist in mask, but, fortunately, he is frightened by a dog, and he escapes. Police refuse to search for a rapist, since "there was no actual rape". Katya's life turns into a nightmare when violent attacks become regular.