Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

New cartoon by Dusya Geller.

Valentin Afanasyev, an artist, musician and scientist, and his wife, Princess Vera Obolenskaya, talk about how you can meet by chance at the ball of the revived Noble Assembly and stay together for life, despite all the obstacles and difficulties. And also about how sound and color actually relate from a scientific point of view, in the light of Valentin Afanasyev's discovery, and what the artist, who started out as a representative of the Soviet underground, is doing now.

The almanac consists of six short stories dedicated to the key punk rock bands of the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia, which formed an original musical style and made a cultural contribution to the development of the musical community of Eastern Siberia. Each part is a kind of alternative film chronicle, capturing the history of the Siberian musical underground from the 1990s to the 2000s, as well as a projection of the punk subculture participants to the present day.

The story of overcoming internal barriers of fifth-grader Dima, who wants to give a valentine to a classmate to confess his feelings.

jason from the lake is an imaginary, nomadic electro-industrial band that has existed forever, yet debuted live in 2024 at the legendary Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival. Emerging from the Siberian experimental noise scene of the 90s, their performances weave dense electro soundscapes with visuals, creating immersive night rituals, haunting collages and visceral audiovisual experiences that bridge memory and technology.

Today, everyone calls themselves “coaches” - unsuccessful traders, housewives and even criminal adventurers. They collect ten thousand dollars, their accounts contain nine zeros, and increasingly coaches become heroes of criminal chronicles. How to distinguish a real coach from an information gypsy, which of them will really help solve your problem, and which will just take your money? Ksenia Sobchak will try the coaching industry for herself.

Timur, an 11-year-old wayward urban teenager, is not interested in anything except social networks and a video blog. Timur's father does not like his hobby, and Timur is sure that he is unnecessarily strict with him. And in order for his father to get behind with his upbringing once and for all, Timur makes a bet with him that he will live for a month in his grandfather's village, where his father was born and grew up. But he has no idea what he's signing up for.

The diploma work of the director Andrey Kanivchenko.

A documentary about the origin of hip-hop culture in Ossetia.

Everyone's favorite story about first love based on the drama of the same name by Timofey Smetanin. They want to marry Nyurguhun to the son of the prince, the girl is in love with the poor Lookuut, and for the sake of love for the young man she is even ready to die.

A big concert dedicated to the 5th anniversary of The Hatters at the Litsedei theater on February 10th, 2021.

What modern technologies can help humanity in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic? A documentary about medical robots that helped eliminate the outbreak in China.

Two stories. Two flats. A wall and... a nail

Due to a violent misunderstanding a young member of a criminal syndicate is torn away from familiar grounds of urban underworld and thrown into unwelcoming wilderness of Siberian taiga. Vast and virtually uninhabited, it provides little distinction between past and present, reality and myth. He must face the ghosts of the past and shadows of the present, and rediscover himself and his destiny, however shattering and unwanted it may be.

After the passing of her grandmother, a businessman's daughter goes back to her birthplace. After a little while, she receives the visit of her former classmates but their reunion take an unexpected turn. The guests tells her that they need some money to cover the murder they've committed.

The documentary musical is about life in the russian remote place near Vologda. This is the sound: music, human voice, and silence.

You are in hell. Nobody helps you. It's only a dark. It's only a cry. It's only the real hell.

According to the plot, the free witch-thief Jadwiga decided to win the grandiose Magic Race without rules at any cost, not realizing that they were part of the sinister conspiracy of the Order of the Black Star.

What do people with Down syndrome feel, living behind the wall of incomprehension? Although they are different from us, they experience the same feelings. These people are also diverse in their behavior and character. And they have a strong desire for others to understand them. But the lack of knowledge about their lives, the prejudices of those around them do not allow a person with Down syndrome to go to work or study, to be a full member of society. In times of global confinement we all understood what it meant to be cut off from society. And now imagine that people with Down syndrome live in permanent isolation, rejected by society. This film is an attempt to reflect on our differences and our similarities regardless of our particularities.

March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet knows the scale of the disaster that will unfold in the coming weeks and what trials soldiers and civilians will have to go through.

A mother wants to cure her teenage daughter, who has not spoken for several years. To do this, she takes her to the old healer in the forest. However, as a result, the mother has to rescue her daughter from the strange world of the Others, where everyone lives with their mouths sewn shut.

The poem of Jewish poet Mikhail Korol “Songs of the felled Asherah” is a phantasmagoric interpretation of the development of monotheism in Canaan. The goddess of love and fertility Asherah refuses the great and formidable gods, gives her love to the only God with an unpronounceable four-letter name. The tragedy of Asherah is that monotheism excludes the recognition of divine couples, and her choice means inevitable destruction and oblivion.

The film tells the story of the carnage that occurred during the Civil War. The White Guards captured young Komsomol members and killed them by brutally torturing them.

A film about the Russian writer Anatoly Gavrilov.

Insecure 18-year-old comic author Alex seeks recognition at a young authors' forum but loses the spotlight to Masha, known for sappy Shiny Girl comics. They're forced to collaborate to win.

An adventure novel written by an extremist. This is how Mikhail Shats describes the two and a half years of emigration. The arrest in Bali, three personalities in one body at once, and the search for the cheapest things in Israel — in his third Stand-Up Special, "Finally," the comedian sums up the interim results of life in a new reality. With extreme details, but without unnecessary drama!

The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.

ACA Young Eagles 32 was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Monday, January 30, 2023 in Russia.

In the society of the future, cleansed of emotions, where the manifestation of feelings is punishable by law, the meeting of the exemplary excellent student Maya with the leader of the rebels Dan throws them into the E-side - a forbidden dimension, where their feelings turn into fantastic superpowers.

According to the stories of Vasily Shukshin, "Night in the boiler room" and "Offense".

Wise men of different faiths called the same bird by different names, says Grigory Pomerants, a unique thinker of our era. This bird flew to him at the time of the death of his beloved woman.

In the remote north, the Chukotka people face harsh arctic hunting conditions in a beautifully soundcaped and shot film.

Mila has taken the puppy of her friend, who has developed an allergy. Her friend talked about it to her teacher, who shared the story with her husband, who discussed it with his trainer, etc. But each time as the story gets told, the meaning changes and soon in the social networks appears a post that Mila is prostituting herself. This story is about the speedy transformation of harmless news into a gossip which literally destroys the life of the heroine.

The Belorussian Soviet Republic got their independence 25 years ago. The sovereign state is now home to a generation aged 25 – the same age as Belarus. People call 25 the "quiet crisis age"…

The fifth animated movie in the "Monkeys" series.

The film is based on the real life story of a twenty-year-old boy. The main character comes from Russia to Germany with his parents, Russian Germans. In the cycle of Berlin life, he is trying to find himself and his place in a new environment for him. A student of a German school, a part–time worker, a seller of a Russian fish shop, a statistician of the "German Opera", a petty criminal - his path runs through such a bizarre line. The multifaceted Russian Berlin with all the tragic comedy of emigrant life becomes the background of its existence. Here he meets many different people, finds his love, indulges in dashing fun with friends, the same immigrants as him, works, paints, makes plans for the future and ... by chance becomes an accomplice to murder. So the breadth of central Russia narrowed around him to the size of a prison cell in Germany.

The story of the boy Vanya Proshkin, our contemporary, in whom, after being exposed to a thunderstorm, his analytical abilities, unusual for his age, opened up.

The stories of four young people who seek to learn more about their relatives, who were repressed during Stalin's times. Young Berliners and Muscovites are trying to break the family silence, looking for answers to their questions and revealing the most unexpected secrets.

1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent. After the fall of the Soviet empire Russia lost political interest in Africa, but thousands of kilometers of footage shot on African soil remain. With the help of filmmakers from back then, OUR AFRICA will recreate the time of the “Great Utopia” and expose the mechanisms behind the creation of propaganda films.

On New Year's Eve, the sisters decide to go back to the past.

16-year-old Gerasim lives in a family of wandering artists. He is forced to travel all over he country with his parents in a house on wheels. gerasim fulfills a unique task in the family to promote his parents' fire show: he stands as a living statue with a poster, inviting passers-by to the performance. thus he also enriches the family budget. gerasim is soundless but very observant, and his main dream is to find a real home to stay in. an unexpected appearance of the girl lyopa, whose voice has been echoing in his head for a long time, disturbs his usual course of life and makes him step out of character.

Documentary about Yana Sidorkina — trombone playing, radio enthusiast, blogger from Russia.

Working together is always the best idea.

The investigation of a seemingly ordinary murder in the wilderness confronts operative Nyurgun Vasiliev with a difficult moral choice: to follow the letter of the law or to show human compassion. This dilemma becomes the main test for the hero, revealing new facets of his character.