Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Three children and their parents set off on an unforgettable family adventure - a hiking trip to the mountains on the territory of the Divnogorye Museum-Reserve in the Voronezh Region.

Two friends Lech and Kesh, who work in the administration of Arylakh, succumb to the persuasion of an unfamiliar woman, Zinaida Mikhailovna, to fraudulently embezzle budget money. She reassures them that they are not doing anything criminal. He comes up with a scheme for them to win a grant for a fictitious village cattle farm and... falls into a coma. To the surprise of the guys, the scheme begins to work and now millions of rubles loom before their eyes. There is nothing to do - you have to impersonate this woman. But then, unexpectedly, an inspector from the ministry, Stepan Ilyich, comes to them and... falls in love with Zinaida Mikhailovna.

Five star players, five world-class pros with fabulous fees. They are 20 years old, they already know what it means to win. This is the NaVi esports team. The filmmakers talk about a difficult time in their life associated with a major defeat and loss of champion status. Ahead of the guys is the final of the 2020 championship in Poland, which can once again raise them to the top.

A cartoon based on the novel of the same name by A.S. Pushkin.

Lost her job and becoming an unwitting witness to the betrayal of her own fiancé, the heroine of the film falls into the deftly placed networks of an experienced seducer.

It was a death room. Holodov knew it for what it was as soon as the door opened. The floor was gray industrial tile. The walls were green stone, marked here and there with darker patches that might have been blood—certainly blood had been spilled in this room. The overhead lights were cupped in wire cages. Halfway across the room stood a long wooden table with two people seated behind it. Beside the chair stood a small wheeled trolley. The object on it had been draped with a piece of cloth, as a sculptormight cover his work!

This unconventional film is an observation Teodor Currentzis – one of the most extra-ordinary modern conductors. Backed by pieces from Mozart, Stravinsky, Jean-Philippe Rameau and with choreography by Jiri Kylian, this film is 64 minutes of love, light, life, beauty and being inside music.

One day in the life of a young couple. Anna Melikyan's short film for auction Action!

The story of a singer who, at the peak of her fame, was in a car accident and ended up chained to a hospital bed. For 12 days, the rising star Anna Herman did not regain consciousness. In those days, she had to relive the tragic events of her childhood - the arrest of her father, accused of espionage, the wanderings of their orphaned family in Central Asia, the death of her little brother, the war and escape to Poland in the hope of hiding from her pursuers from the NKVD ... First love and first success ... None of the doctors believed that she would survive. And even if this happens, she was predicted to be completely immobile for the rest of her life. However, after 12 days in a coma, heaven gave her a chance to start life anew. And she did the impossible, becoming the "white angel" of the Soviet stage ...

"Self-Assessment" is Denis Chuzhoy's fifth single. In it, the comedian talks about accepting himself, a hellish carousel of constant moving, and recalls how FSB fans came to his concerts. It also explains why one good immigration lawyer can replace five years of therapy.

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

A story about a little elephant with a very long trunk.

Today Sergei may be killed. Only a sincere confession can save him, but will he be believed?

The plot is based on two parallel events, with detective Steve Carella at the center. He is assigned a difficult case: the day before, millionaire Scott, the owner of a luxurious villa, hanged himself in a small windowless room, having locked himself in from the inside in a very clever way. At the same time, a woman named Virginia comes to the police station with the intention of killing Carella himself. After all, he once arrested her husband, who died in prison...

"Bread" - a Bolshevik propaganda tale about the fundaments of living.

In Moscow, two skinheads kill homosexual men while being in a sexual relationship with one another. Based on a true story, the film inquires about masculinity, identity, and a sense of belonging in contemporary Russia.

Another quarrel between the lovers leads to Leonid having a heart attack. The ambulance doctor who came to the call realizes that she is facing a pair of gays. She puts her hatred in a cold medical terms. But it is precisely this situation that allows the hero to take a different look at his life and his fear.

The film is set in a Russian province.The film is based on the story of Victor. He used to be an exemplary family man.. But the craving for alcohol addiction broke his fate. Now a happy life for him is in the past. But once Victor collects his will in a fist and decides that it's time to start living again unless it comes too late. To start a hard way of personal revival the man begins with recovering of a generic source which has been abandoned by his fault.

Russian short film adaptation of the Stephen King short story "The Man Who Loved Flowers".

Igor is a once successful millionaire, now bankrupt and a man on the brink. Having reached the roof of a high-rise building, he is preparing to put an end to his life. But his plans are disrupted by the appearance of a strange guy who decided that dying beautifully is also a kind of art. Their acquaintance turns into an absurd duel of despair... And what will happen next - a jump into the abyss or a decision to start a new life, remains a mystery until the very end.

Anton, a young Ukrainian man, walks through Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He arrives outside Brooklyn Banya, a bathhouse, matching it to the image on a postcard he has been carrying. He asks her if she has seen his father, Andrei. She invites him to pay the entrance fee to look for himself.

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon tires of him, and thanks to her, his money is almost gone. When he suggests settling down outside the big city, where his money could be enough for a modest living, she leaves him and picks up a new lover. A year later, he is living in a shabby, cold hovel, still pining away for her.

He became a legend in his own lifetime. A Symbolist poet, artist, photographer, art historian, translator, lecturer, and local historian — Maximilian Voloshin, known simply as Max. Everyone loved him, and he loved everyone. He embodied contradictions. He visited the Vatican, the Prado, and the Louvre, witnessed the first car rallies and flying machines, attended Silver Age poetry circles and Montmartre artist gatherings, and took part in literary hoaxes. But no matter where he went, he always returned to Feodosia.

In 1944, a Russian agent was infiltrated into the command of the Nazi army in the north of Ukraine. Its mission: to discover enemy plans so that the Russian army can destroy the Germans and put an end to the war.

Sergey works in a private security agency. One day he saves a stranger from a bullet and he gets wounded.

Anti-utopia. The last survivor in search of food.

Galina lives in the village and works as a foreman at a local factory packing case. For her sharp temper and habit of wearing men's things, she is called Petrovich. And not in vain - she is a pain to work with.

Nadya is a character in a short story that the Screenwriter is writing. He writes it "for himself", "for the drawer". Nadya is a little over forty, she works as a ticket inspector at a movie theater. She is not married, but she has a man who comes to her from time to time. When he is around, Nadya is happy. When he is not there, she languishes in anticipation. But the Screenwriter thinks that the story is boring. For the sake of competent plot schemes, he begins to ruin Nadya's life and drives her to despair...

The film is dedicated to the outstanding Russian engineer, inventor, scientist Vladimir Shukhov. Under his leadership, about 500 bridges were designed and built, the first oil pipeline in Russia, the Kievsky railway station in Moscow. The callsigns of the first Soviet radio station, and later the first television programs, were transmitted from antennas installed on the Shabolovskaya radio tower in Moscow, built according to Shukhov's design. In Samarkand, after the earthquake, a beautiful monument of medieval architecture, the minaret of the Ulugbek Madrasah, was restored according to his project. 63 years of engineering work, and more than ten projects completed each year.

The film contains traces of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. “An articulation of what is unexplainable but felt. Touching what touches us and leaves us in a state of confusion, feeling empty, alone and questioning. Touch is an act of orientation.” - Keith Sanborn.

USSR, 1970s. Lena has a real talent for writing - her school essays reflect with incredible precision and warmth not only the world around her and her loved ones, but also her personal experiences, dreams, and hopes. Her mother works in documentary film, and she has her own problems and dreams. It so happened that the daughter's adolescence coincides with her mother's midlife crisis. The story of their touching relationship is told with a kind smile and notes of sadness.

Thanks to the peculiarities of their place of residence, the characters of this film observe life in its various manifestations. Everyone has their own landscape outside the window. Some live in front of the maternity hospital and daily pay attention to the color of the balls in the sky-blue or pink (a boy was born or a girl). Others wake up every weekend to shouts of "bitter!" and popping champagne - their windows overlook the registry office. And someone constantly has to watch a sad cemetery picture...

Who look after whom - the guard after the video system or the video system after the guard, wondering about the emptiness of mammalian life?

The protagonist Alex is a young successful man, loving and beloved husband and father. Car accident puts an end to his stable measured life. He suddenly loses everything. Miraculously returned from the dead, Alexei does not know how to live.

Short film by Natasha Belova.

The author's monologue addressed to his little son Alyosha.

Based on the drama by Dmitry Averkiev. The reign of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible. Boyar Vorotynsky loudly expresses his indignation at the untruth. Many agree with the boyar in their hearts, only Malyuta hates him and dreams of revenge. Having whispered to Grozny about Vorotynsky, he receives an order to arrest him.

A story about the childhood of ten years old boy Nikita set in 1922 Russia.

Once met, Alice and Kostya at first sight understand that they were born for each other. However, along with the love of their lives come problems: at work, at home, with health. Exhausted Alice goes to the astrologer and hears the sentence: they can not be together with the Kostya, otherwise they are waiting for the fate of losers and premature death. Alice does not believe in prediction, but trouble continues. Heroes are young, ambitious and want to be successful and happy. Alice and Kostya break up. Years later, they have everything but love…

Young Christina is an unlucky gang member and a poor contributor to common fund. She fails the task of stealing a parked car case. It all happens due to an unexpected encounter with the backseat passenger. It is a blind guy who is about to change her life.

A young 15-years-old boy, Kid, has been looking up to his older brother, Valyok, as long as he remembers himself. He desires to become as brave, cocky and masculine as his brother is. Once Valyok and his best friend Ruble finally invite Kid to hang out with them. Everything seems to go on well until older guys decides to do barbecue from a dog. What would Kid do and how his attitude to his brother would change?

In the Russian provinces life seems to have frozen since the 1990s. Here you can hide from the worries of the big world, and heal the wounds of the soul. Thus argues Mila, having decided to return home to the mother’s house after an unsuccessful attempt “to conquer Moscow”. Mila’s sister Galya also wants happiness without thinking about the price. The passion that is aroused in the women by Rustam, a young handsome man from Central Asia, disrupts the family peace. A terrible enlightenment awaits the participants of this family drama.

The boss and a colleague go hunting, decide to hunt and have breakfast at the same time, having come up with an original way to do this.

This story is based on real events, about two guys who got lost in 2002 in the Verkhoyansk forests. The story of how Toka and Uygun will have to wander through the endless taiga of harsh Yakutia for two months. About how they will desperately cling to life, day after day, overcoming kilometers. How they will get food, quenching the constant feeling of hunger and thirst. While they were long since buried…

The Golden Moose restaurant was a Turku legend. An old-fashioned funky establishment, opened in 1968 and seemingly never having changed since then. A meeting place for friends and family. A shrine for hundreds of locals. A place many called home. A family – for those who served there, as well as those being served. Now, in December 2016, the building has been bought by a major Finnish retail corporation in order to open a new supermarket, and the restaurant has to close its doors forever…

A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.

'The perfect killers just met their match'. The young fella is drawn into a criminal gang of his older brother that engaged in assassinations. But when they on the affair, they face a maniac who opens them hunt.