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At the dawn of Soviet power, a young security officer was ordered to escort a strange creature to Moscow to investigate the causes of its appearance. This is how the long adventure of two completely different creatures begins, which eventually makes them best friends.
Doga, 29, works in the family restaurant in Argoun, Chechnya. When his secret lover, Ruslan, is suddenly arrested, Doga knows it's only a matter of days for him too.
The relationship between Sasha and Vadim has reached a crisis and it seems that the spouses are connected only by discontent, embitterment and irritation. The never- ending quarrels are not even soothed by great trouble: from the summer house their son Grisha, who has overheard how grandmother and grandfather discussed the future divorce of the parents, has run away. The search for the boy leads the protagonists into the forest.
An exercise in capturing anxiety as it disperses through space, people, and the filmmaker’s own mind.
A girl dances with a ball.
Mikhail returns home after a long absence. A meeting with old friends, full of unexpected surprises, will lead to a reassessment of life values.
The painting is based on the memories of Anastasia Shirinskaya—Manstein, who witnessed the exodus of the ships of the Russian squadron from the Crimea. In the autumn of 1920, she was 8 years old, and the girl remembered the Crimean evacuation for the rest of her life. Almost 150,000 people have been forced to leave Russia.
After the death of his beloved Musayev, it is as if he dies with him: he is in deep depression, quits business, gets a job in security. Shortly before her death, her beloved sang a melody that stuck in her head. One day, the taxi driver who gives her a ride throws a phrase that it would not hurt for her to "come off." Desperate Musayeva decides to take his advice.
To a person who does not experience vision problems, it may seem that fine art does not exist in the world of the blind. They don't have it, so they don't need it. “Imagine” is a film-journey to the border area. Blinded due to an illness, an art critic, a fan of painting who lost her sight after the birth of children, an artist who has been blind since childhood. The heroes of the film are people who are in love with art, looking for an opportunity to reconnect with visual culture, cut off by circumstances. What do those who seem to see nothing actually see? What do those who have recently become blind remember? And how do those who live in darkness imagine the world?
A film by the famous documentarian Tofik Shakhverdiyev about Valentin Dikul and his patients, strong people, strong in spirit, able to stand on their feet when there was no hope for it after an accident...
An author travels to Russia to meet a man who he suspects may be an evil wizard.
Lost Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel
An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.
Cartoon about the skillful fisherman Vova and the cunning perch Leva.
While on vacation, the heroine found a book in a seaside hotel, forgotten by a previous guest. It contained a list of things the guest had planned to take with her to the seaside.
At the university, a history teacher asks students to write a letter to their great—grandfather, who fought at the front. This assignment changes the lives of the guys.
Simon Elevich Shnol is a professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, one of the organizers of the world's first Department of Biophysics at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. An amazing memory and the talent of a storyteller easily unite different episodes of life in time and space. Through the prism of the biography of Simon Elevich, we see a whole era, from the repressions of the 1930s and the devastation of the war years to the revival of the country and the formation of new scientific knowledge.
The film consists of six parts - events in different cities of Russia (Moscow, Tutaev, Yaroslavl, Lipetsk, Togliatti). Rallies organized by independent workers' unions and demonstrations in which young people take part are shown. These are the first, not yet confident attempts to defend their rights.
A portrait of Richard Semashkov, a rapper famous for anti-liberal songs and friendship with Prilepin and other "patriotic" artists.
Minsk. December 19th 2010. After the Belarus government blatantly hijacked the results of the presidential election, tens of thousands of Belarusians came to the streets in a peaceful protest. Tired of a ubiquitous system of lies, these demonstrators set their sights on truth and freedom.
Short movie shows us a life in the Moscow Headquarter of the National Bolshevik Party and contains several interviews with a party members.
Two twin brothers. Bright and charismatic. One paints temples, the other writes musicals. And for three years they have not communicated and live in different cities. What has separated them? Different views on life and creativity or love for the same girl?
It is not much fun having to spend the whole day in a banana costume. But things take a turn for the worse for this poor chap when one day he wakes up to discover he has grown a long tail. At first he tries to get rid of it. But no matter what he tries – doctors, saws, healers – nothing seems to help. He cannot hide it either. It is just too long and it is always poking out. And so he just tries to live with his tail. But before long the poor guy hast lost his job, his friends, everything. Nobody wants him. But would it not be a pity if there were no place in this world for such a kind person who is just a little bit different? An inventively quirky animation laced with black humour that pokes fun at narrow-mindedness and intolerance.
Loosely based on tales by E. T. A. Hoffman. In a wonderland inhabited by fiery salamanders and winged spirits, good fights evil in search of a life-giving talisman whose finder will rule the world.
Junior Sergeant Komarov is driving a detainee, Grisha, to the station for formal documentation. Along the way, the officer learns the details of the suspect's experience. Having learned all this, Komarov faces a moral dilemma: follow the law or remain a human being.
Last road in the ambulance. The driver - a cheerful Armenian - comes to those who can no longer be helped and becomes for them a guide between life and death. The road, meanwhile, shines with bright lights, erodes in an abstract pattern, yells with sirens. There is an inexorable countdown.
The elderly writer Rishat, who has achieved recognition, feels an imminent death and increasingly begins to remember his roots and goes to his small homeland and dedicates a new novel to her. The hero's son, Amir, a young successful Kazan film director, does not understand the strict and wayward father, who, in his opinion, "lives in the past", but wants to get at least some approval from him.
Tragicomedy about an unhappy marriage proposal.
A heart-warming portrait documentary "Shusha" explores in intimate atmosphere the daily life of Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich, the first head of state of Belarus. What is his daily routine like and what is on mind of a man, who a quarter of a century ago initiated Belavezha accords, signed by Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, which were the basis to effectively dissolve the Soviet Union. Shushkevich, who every now and then likes to play Vyssotski's earlier songs on a piano just to himself or his closest friends, is one of the Great Men of contemporary history, whose 'domino effect' initiative caused a geopolitical shift in Europe. However, what Shushkevich himself considers as his greatest achievement is not sending 'a sixth of the planet' to meet its maker but making a post-independent Belarus a nuclear weapon free state.
Two young transgender girls join each other to cook a delicious breakfast dish.
Soviet film reels were found in an abandoned cinema and decided to be projected onto a white screen like a slide film.
The first solo stand-up concert by Elizaveta Varvara Aranova.
A desperate lover is rescued from a scrape by his friend. And it doesn’t matter that it’s plush.
America in the early 70s. Russian immigrant tailor Avdon Moskovitz, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and lost his wife and two young children, decides to cheat the insurance company to help his eldest son, whom he sent to his uncle in New York before the war. One day, a stranger in black shows up on the doorstep of Moskowitz's workshop. Identifying himself as an insurance company agent, he asks the tailor to answer a few questions. Soon a simple interview turns into a real interrogation.
One day, Polina's phone acquires a new function: all the people she takes pictures of disappear. And, if at first it causes her curiosity and interest, then later she understands that in this way she can easily get rid of people who are unpleasant to her, and no one will know about it.
When she was five, Liza Volkova found her father, pistol in hands, standing next to her mother's dead body. That very day the father took the girl to the orphanage and left there. For 13 years the girl was planning her revenge, being bullied by peers. Having left the orphanage, Liza finds the shooting club, with the aim to hunt down and kill her father. However, she doesn't even suspect that she herself is someone else's target.
The video refers to the current protests in Belarus, political struggle and state violence through the discourse of fascism. The topic of fascism and victory over it has for a long time been central to the state ideology of Belarus.
Film about the neutrino observatory in the mountains of the Caucasus into Andyrtau mountain. This laboratory is unique in Russia, this observatory is one of the most profound, is located at a depth of 4000 m. The scientists collect information for about 40 years, catch a ghost particle neutrinos which is being emitted by the Sun and stars of galaxy.
He and She are at home. Evening. Music. Wine. Coziness. At first glance, this is an ideal relationship. So perfect that you involuntarily ask: "Is this real?"
The rise and fall of the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region
The relatives of a deceased want to make some changes after the body has already undergone the funeral rites and been buried according to the rules; the undertaker does not know how to do this, and how to keep within the budget limitations.
Молодые люди, Оля и Женя, едут автостопом в Москву. У них одна цель: сделать загранпаспорта и уехать, куда подальше… Вероятно они были замешаны в криминальной истории, так как паспорта они делают нелегально.
The main and only heroine of the film is an actress. The screen shows her confession, filmed with a subjective camera. Anna leaves her husband, then meets another person, who, according to the plot, is her interlocutor. He — and with him the audience — will have to hear the love story of Anna and her relationship with her husband; get in touch with the subtle and complex inner world of a woman trying to find spiritual harmony. We will not see Anna's interlocutor on the screen, the camera acts in his role...
It is primarily about family and children. And also about planes, childbirth, Amsterdam, men, women, Olegs and Efims, gender parties, mushrooms, flowers, conversations with the audience, knives, avocados in the back, crab chips and much, much more.
Aital is the last in a long line of Sakha shamen, supporting his disabled brother by making house calls in the Sakha city of Yakutsk alongside his unscrupulous business partner. Disillusioned with his vocation, Aital dispenses more common sense advice than mystical succour to his clients, whose complaints range from impotence to demonic possession – but he is still haunted by the suspicion that there is something otherworldly at play. Vladimir Munkuev’s witty, humane take on the role of the supernatural in a disenchanted world demonstrates Sakha cinema’s deep concern for native traditions.