Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Two dreamers — Leo the ostrich, who longs to fly, and a guinea pig obsessed with sea adventures — try to inspire a little mouse named Seraphim with their imagination…

Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.

Atakan is a bloody boulder, a giant granite block, on which pagans sacrificed human sacrifices for centuries. A group of student historians, led by a young teacher, descend into the dungeons of St. Petersburg to find the legendary stone. With each step, the situation gets out of control, only death awaits them. The attack craves new blood. Who will survive?

The 90s only keep getting worse for Volk and Zayats.

Sergei, always hanging out on business trips, dreams of being on a "desert island" with his beloved Masha. A pandemic that suddenly hit the world gives him this chance by locking his lovers at home in quarantine. “In a cage,” lovers, having gone through five stages of accepting the inevitable, are forced to get to know each other anew and accept themselves and the world around as it is. And everything would be fine if not for the invasion of aliens.

A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct participants and eyewitnesses.

The first part of the cartoon is a philosophical parable about life to the music of "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" by Saint–Saens. The second plot of Massenet's "Elegy" is a story about young lovers who do not notice anything around them and are obsessed only with their feelings. The third plot is based on Louis Armstrong's legendary composition "Let my people go".

On the fairy-tale of Gennady Tsyferov about self-respect.

The hero is freed from drug addiction with the help of faith and the Orthodox Church.

The history of mankind, told in the language of clowning and computer graphics.

Andrey Konchalovsky's project "the Burden of power" is about unpopular decisions of heads of state and political figures in power. The heroes of the cycle "Burden of power" can not be called fighters for liberal ideas, but they paradoxically had a huge impact on the fate and development of their countries. "I am very interested in documentaries. It has a different function than the artistic one. I can Express my thoughts directly here. In documentaries, I speak in the first person, and I am responsible for my words. I am seriously concerned with the relationship between power and culture. The "Burden of power"series is about people who are most often perceived from the point of view of cliches ("Secretary of the Central Committee"," dictator"), and little thought is given to what role they played in the life of the nation."

Near future. Human-like robots are in open market. Sveta acquires a nice Robot to solve her personal problems. Robot is tuned up automatically to fit the owner's character. But she is on her way to know who she truly needs.

This is a story about a guy who killed a man. This is a story about a woman for whom this guy killed for. This is a story about a man who was killed. Three lives in a destructive twisted triangle. This is a story about bad choices which led to horrible fate. This is a story about love, lies, infidelity and manipulation. This is a story about blood, nightmares, forgiveness and faith. This is a story about crime and punishment. This is a story about The Killing.

Second stand-up concert by Denis Chuzhoy was called “Jokes about Death” for a long time, but closer to the shooting it became clear that it was more about family. So it ended up with a less offensive title. But more truthful. After all, stand-up is when truth and harshness, as they say in the project "Women's stand-up". Our childhood traumas remain with us forever. And you can live with them. Even write almost 50 minutes of jokes about them."

A story of separation and reunion unfolding in an astronomers' village – a place where space isn't screened off by streetlights or the noise and bustle of the city.

Based on the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

Old Oleg Batorov is quietly living out his life in the Far Eastern wilderness, when suddenly his granddaughter Vera comes to him in the company of her boyfriend Kolya. The last time Batorov saw Vera was when she was very young, but he barely manages to get to know her again — the next morning, she and Kolya are abducted by bandits.

An adaptation of the fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin.

A couple of hours before the New Year a neighbor comes to an old lady for some salt. And quite suddenly kills her. And now his whole family, that gets together to celebrate the New Year, is to find out what to do now, and who is to blame.

Andrey, a middle-aged man, can't manage to establish contact with his young son after divorce from a wife. When Andrey's father comes in between father-son relationship, the story takes an unexpected turn.

Strange noises are coming from the air vent of an old apartment. Whatever it is, at night it comes out...

Three friends decide to spend day in the beach but suddenly tragic memories are starting to affect each one of them.

An American family stays overnight at a mansion run by a mysterious woman, but not all is as it seems and the eldest child uncovers the mystery behind the mansions hauntings.

Filmed theatre play based on 'Rocco and his brothers"

Action drama based on the story about a conflict between retired killer and his young replacement.

Parents ask their daughter to pretend to be her dead sister for her grandmother, who refuses to believe her younger sister is dead. This request becomes a test for the entire family.

Lena is in love with the actor of the local drama theater Nikolai Cherkasov, she has long dreamed of meeting her idol. However, Nikolai likes her sister Masha more, the actor very quickly offers her to marry him.

The story is as old as the world: Yaroslav's mother-in-law dislikes Lida's daughter-in-law and tries to convince her son that her predecessor was much better.

Kirill Makarov has just graduated from university with a degree in architecture. With his whole life ahead of him and his beautiful fiancée Victoria, daughter of a rich and influential man, by his side, his future seems full of promise. However, Kirill does not want to use his future father-in-law's influence to get a job, and as he sticks to his principles, he begins to understand that his approach to life is very different to his fiancee's. He breaks off their engagement and on that same day meets Lena, a trainee teacher. Cut to ten years later, and Kirill is married to Lena with two children.

A journalist from Moscow must go to mysterious island in order to find his wife who gone missing under versy suspicious and not clear circumstances.

An action-packed comedy about two irreconcilable enemies - the former Afghan paratrooper Baryshev and his brother-in-law, the successful young yuppie Stasik. By the will of fate, having found themselves in modern Afghanistan, having gone through many trials, former enemies will become friends and abruptly change their lives.

The main character of the picture is the Labrador, and the viewer is immersed in his thoughts, desires, which are connected with the main person in his life - the owner.

Romance, in Russian

The film is dedicated to the memory of the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

The girl returns to the forest, where she once experienced a strong feeling... A simple walk with her younger sister turns into a series of surging memories, closely intertwined with the present.

An ordinary quarrel between teenagers spills over into a parent chat and leads to a serious conflict. At this time, in the hospital, the girl asks for an urgent operation, but the doctor, in fear of breaking the law, does not dare to perform it until midnight, when the girl becomes an adult. Somewhere in one of the apartments a frank story unfolds about a man who, secretly from his wife, begins to flirt with a seductive neighbor. In a neighboring house, a young guy borrows a lot of money from a businessman to play on the difference in exchange rates, but on this particular day the dollar exchange rate goes crazy. And the crazy old man, meanwhile, goes to another city to meet with the killer of his son, so that he will answer for everything. All of them are faced with the question of choosing and making difficult decisions on which their lives depend.

He's been called a 'wonderful troublemaker', 'comet man' and 'the last hippy of the pink city'. Robert Sahakyants was a renowned Soviet and Armenian animator. He was a director, writer and artist who created animated films. Robert Sahakyants used his work to express his particular view of the world around him. His animated films feature constant movement, whirls of colour and myriad wonderful characters inspired by Armenia. Robert Sahakyants was a true patriot to his motherland. The love for his people drove Robert Sahakyants to openly criticise everything and everyone he disagreed with. He boldly spoke his mind about anything he found troubling, from political events to ugly sculptures in nearby houses. The film features recollections from Robert Sahakyants's friends and family.

Nadia wanted to say a lot to her spree husband, but did not know whether to decide. The main thing is that the drinker and all of a positive. What changes, it can be forgiven. So she was ready only to scare the faithful with a rolling pin, but instead of him a strange man burst into the apartment — drunk and all negative. After receiving a rolling pin on the head, he rested until the morning, after which he was expelled. Nadia did not think that she would ever see the night guest again, but very soon he appeared... together with the police, as a suspect in the murder. The only hope Alexandra had an alibi that could give him Hope... And hope can be a choice that must be made between "exemplary" husband and suspicious of a stranger with bad habits…

Locked in a bunker and faced with an impossible commission a young artist has to look beyond reality and logic, and face himself.

New York-set comedy about a group of immigrants who have become hostage to their life choices.

If it were necessary to describe the history of independent rock music in Russia in one word, then this word would be Gorbushka. It is a password that has not needed explanation for more than 30 years. This is the Feelee music company, a celebration of the open-air free industry and a true portal to world music, ranging from Nick Cave and Coil to Sonic Youth and Rage Against the Machine. The film, based on archival footage and eyewitness accounts, tells how Feelee has come a long way, changing with the country and changing the country, and as a result has taken its special place in Russian culture.

The headmistress tries to reason with a schoolboy who attended an unauthorized rally.

For Vasilisa Kulebyaka, from a small old Russian town, everything collapses one day: work, dreams, personal life... A neighbor tells her a proven way to survive the shock - to go to St. Petersburg during the White Nights. Vasilisa finds a travel companion via the Internet so that she can share the cost of living in a mini-hotel. As a result of confusion, her neighbor from Moscow turns out to be... a neighbor. Moreover, with a character that Vasilisa cannot stand. But this is only the beginning of the surprises that await Vasilisa during the White Nights...

Propaganda movie. Contrasting the cruel orders of the tsarist army with the conditions of service in the Red Army. Taras, a Red Army soldier, accidentally finds a bottle of moonshine. Being tempted, he gets drunk and falls asleep. In his dream Taras sees himself as a soldier of the tsar's army. Having left his post arbitrarily, he finds himself in the apartment of a frivolous girl and here he meets a general.

Spouses Mark and Nadya come to a quiet deserted place on the seashore. There they find themselves in aworld outside of time and space, where they find the reason for their repeated unsuccessful attempts to have a child.

In the early sunny morning, the postman delivered to the Royal Society – the English Academy of Sciences, a letter from an extremely angry American scientist: "Some Kelvin began to claim a galvanometer, which, as the whole world knows, was invented by the respected Sir William Thomson!" The American was outraged by the impostor's audacity, the indifference of the Royal Society and wondered why Professor Thomson himself was silent. William Thomson and Lord Kelvin are two names inextricably linked in the history of science.