Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Based on the story of Leonid Andreev. St. Petersburg, 1905. A poor student moves to the estate of a wealthy aristocrat to become his son's teacher, and tries to unravel the crazy secrets that the owner of the house keeps.

We are now such, how carefully we keep ourselves from childhood. A film dedicated to the memory of Luis Bunuel.

Plagued by insomnia and tired of life, a foreigner named Stefan (40-45) arrives in a small border town in western Russia. He rents a room from an elderly local woman who lives in a dilapidated building scheduled for demolition. She disappears without ever taking the rent money. Soon he meets the elusive, enigmatic Maya (35-45) and tries to get to know her better. As the two find themselves in the territory of Love, the dark shadows of Their past gradually come creeping into the light.

The story of an artist who lives in a parallel reality and does not lose contact with real world. Conscious internal emigration. Surreal everyday life. Black and white photography. Fatherland. Brest. Women. Unicorns.

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…

Vasya Sitnikov was officially insane, a man without a passport, in and out of mental institutions, yet he was the key figure of the nonconformist art movement in the Soviet Union. He left behind astonishing works of art, yet he remains a compelling, controversial mystery. Why does his legend still confound those who knew him?

This delightful ballet tells the story of Dr Coppelius, an eccentric toymaker, who attempts to bring life to his beautiful doll Coppélia. He is foiled by the mischevious Swanilda, who masquerades as Coppélia and saves her love, Franz, from the Doctor's magic. Performed by the Kirov Ballet.

A continuation of the Proverbs series. The theme of the new trilogy is the great, gracious power of repentance and forgiveness. The power that can transform the soul, revive a person, inspire him to live in God. The action of the painting is set in the XIX century. The place and time are allegorical, because the temptations are the same in all centuries, only the scenery changes.

Documentary about two girls who didn't knew what Holocaust is.

Valentin, a student at the Institute of Cinematography of St. Petersburg, will have to make a documentary film about Baikal as a diploma work. His friends remind him of Stepan, a former classmate from Ulan-Ude. He decides to turn to him for help. In Ulan-Ude, together with their friends, the guys get into various funny situations. For three days, they rest on Lake Baikal in the Chivyrkuisky Bay, help Valentin in the filming of a documentary and talk about all the beauties of the "sacred sea".

The lesson in class begins with a discussion of the essay "Who I Want to Be When I Grow Up"...

The film tells about the first relationships and mixed emotions associated with them. The young girl dreamed of romance, but her expectations did not coincide with reality. Suddenly, a new character appears her life – a big humanoid hornet that falls in love with her.

Lost silent film, known to be the very first film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's tragedy of the same name, dealing with the last years of the Tsar's reign and the pretender Grigory (the false Dmitriy).

At the height of the Cold War, prominent Soviet climatologist Vladimir Aleksandrov vanished while on a trip to Spain, in what was initially thought of as a defection. No trace of him was ever found. This is an investigation featuring interviews with his friends, family, colleagues, and political players at the time. They paint a tragic portrait of a man who was committed to science and his family, and was caught in a dangerous clash of ideologies. He became an important chess piece in a complex game of one-upmanship in a world on the brink of war. Like Icarus, he ascended very fast, and did not heed the warnings. He disappeared in Madrid on March 31, 1985. Now there is a new battlefield: to save the world from climate change. We will now learn how scientific theories are weaponized for political gain.

It’s been hundreds of years that water has been attracting people like a magnet. Even in the XXI century, it easily pulls people from busy office life and makes them fall for it forever. The main character is well-known Russian surfer Seva Shulgin, who is preparing for what’s an ultimate dream of every surfer - to catch one of the most dangerous waves in the world - Hawaiian wave Jaws.

It’s been hundreds of years that water has been attracting people like a magnet. Even in the XXI century, it easily pulls people from busy office life and makes them fall for it forever. The main character is well-known Russian surfer Seva Shulgin, who is preparing for what’s an ultimate dream of every surfer - to catch one of the most dangerous waves in the world - Hawaiian wave Jaws.

A disaster film.

The old ossified operative Max and his calculating cold partner Nemov investigate a brutal murder. The more they get involved, the more they learn about each other and about themselves.

It's about to fall to the Ground! People gather in the wastelands to witness the most grandiose event in their lives.

1961. A remote village and a lonely house, where the young Marina lives. One morning she finds a strange metal sphere in the field: a pilot in an unusual orange overall and a white helmet has made an unsuccessful landing. For a few days Marina nurses the cosmonaut back to health. When the pilot regains consciousness, he understands that on the path of his confidential mission there is an obstacle: he is tested by a new feeling, unknown before the flight ...

When his cat proves too lazy to lift a paw, a man resorts to setting mousetraps in order to catch an elusive, annoying critter.

Two lonely souls meet in a megapolis.

France, the Second World War. A gifted musician decides to escape from a concentration camp with a partner, who is waiting outside for a woman who has entered into correspondence with him. However, during the escape, his partner is killed by falling off a freight car. The musician, having taken the name of the deceased, goes to a woman who, in fact, does not know either one or the other.

What happened to the Montague and Capulet families the day after the death of the lovers...

The Thief of Bagdad is as bright as an Eastern robe and as sweet as tahini halva. It soars in dance, immerses itself in music, and dies from laughter. At the time, when work on the play began, no one could have guessed that this charming, captivating trifle, based on a famous Eastern story, would play a significant role in the life of the theatre and its actors.

Harry encounters a chef, rappers, Ivan Gamaz, Darth Vader, and even a dementor with a gun.

City dweller Dilnoz comes to a distant mountain village for the funeral of her father, whom she has not seen since her youth. The encounter with her native land and the people living on it turns into a dramatic adventure to her roots and herself.

An ordinary day in the life of Shola and Pat-pat. They fish, walk and discuss the topic of existence. Shola finds the meaning of life in a tea bag, and Pat-pat completely disagrees. Where is the truth and are questions of universal philosophy so important in the face of friendship?

The power-hungry Sarumom is defeated and Helm's Crap is saved - but the main battle is still ahead. Evil Sauron sends an army to eradicate Minas Tirith, the capital of Men. Its ruler, feeble nobleman Denethor, is more interested in intricate wines and fine horses than in his son. Meanwhile Sam and Frodo are led by their treacherous guide Gollum into the depths of Mordor.

Grandfather Valera and his grandson Kolya are relaxing in a sanatorium. There they meet the young writer Nikolai. The boy invites him to his birthday, but his grandfather persistently asks Nikolai not to appear at the celebration.

The magical hero Erte Bergen sets off on a journey to perform feats. On his way he meets the villain Bekerden and the beautiful beloved June.

No one can know what awaits you ahead when you leave for the country with a four-legged friend...

This is a monologue of a woman on her fight against cancer.

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

The film depicts the pilgrimage to Jerusalem of schema monk Makary with whom faith is not just the latest craze but the essence of his understanding of life. His main goal is to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, so the greatest value of his luggage is a huge number of memorial notes. In the Holy Land he meets monks, visits Orthodox churches and shrines, reflects on the eternal principles of human life - love, hope, faith.

The phrase "Children's hospice" causes many to be taken aback. People try to isolate themselves from extraneous problems, to close themselves off from someone else's grief. One day, fate brought Olga, a successful actress in the past, a mother with many children and a happy wife, to one of these hospices. What could have prompted her to give up her career and start giving all her warmth to other people's children? What inner spiritual motives make people become volunteers and is it so easy to take on someone else's pain?

This film is a unique historical document, a cast of the tragedy. This film is about the disaster that happened to Russia and filmed in real time. Chronicle of a diving country.

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.

"If we are silent, we participate in the evil that is happening in the world. I have to say what I think." George Edelstein has always adhered to this principle: both in his former secular life and during his years of church service. A man of an amazing fate, complex as the century in which he had to live. Not a Soviet person in Soviet society. A connoisseur of freedom, who does not like being called a dissident. A village priest, to whom Ronald Reagan returned the parish, and whose son became an Israeli politician. A man who always spoke the truth – about the state that persecuted for the faith, and about the church hierarchs who participated in it. "My duty is not to be silent. In silence, I am convinced, God is surrendered."

The child admires the fearless heroes, and he is terribly afraid of the dark. Suddenly, the lights were turned off in the house and shadow monsters crawled out of all the cracks. The boy hid, but heard a frightened kitten crying from another room. The boy will have to overcome his main fear, for the sake of saving a friend.

Ilya is 13 years old. This is his first time on the tour as part of the Orthodox center team. The weather turned bad, the tourists hid in tents, and Ilya went in search of adventures and cigarettes.

Forty-year-old Olya is a doctor with an ambulance crew. For a long time her life has been lacking in drama. But then comes the pandemic. It brings new anxiety, new risks, new worries about her sick colleagues, and it also brings… love.

The polar bear got into the habit of dragging fish from the boy, but he can't stop him, since the bear is not visible on the white snow.

A young rapper and musician walks the streets of the city searching for the homeless. He hunts for their stories, which he records on his phone. After one of these sessions, he gets an unusual idea.

A film about an artist who was not destined to become an artist. A film about a father told by his son.

Graffiti appears where the city or society cracks — so argue the St. Petersburg graffiti artist Max Ima and his friends, who are tired of hiding their faces. Together they form one of the best graffiti scenes in Russia, and they have something to say.

Two friends, spinning in the criminal world and constantly finding themselves in dangerous situations, kidnap the daughter of a dangerous person in order to obtain a ransom.

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...

A short, hilarious story about flooding phobia and sudden first love.