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A lyrical serene drama dedicated to love and loneliness

Vadim Uporov is desperate to escape from the Gulag. He tries and tries - again and again...

Harmless male memories of ex-girlfriends can lead to completely unexpected consequences. Maxim loved to joke. Karolina and Eva too.

Most of us say the word "Mama" without thinking. But there are children who have never uttered this word in their lives. The film is about these children, orphans. In these children, no less love than in each of us. And they are waiting. Sometimes too long. But they never cease to believe for a second that one day they will be able to say this simple word. The word "Mama" ...

Alina and Ruslan live in Moscow, but their mother Alsu, a successful businesswoman, came from Tatarstan. When her father dies in the faraway village Achasary, the three of them go to visit their relatives. In the Tatar village, everything is new to the children accustomed to the life in a megalopolis: the village everyday life, chickens and cows, Muslim customs, a language they don’t know. Gradually, they become aware of a great conflict in their mother’s family: Alsu’s father chased her away from home, and she has been in quarrel with her own brother Timur for ten years. The conflict becomes worse, the ambience in the village home starts getting tense. Luckily, the kids form a wonderful relation with the beautiful Leysan, the new wife of Uncle Timur.

The girl's birthday was planned perfectly, but it turned out to be unforgettable for completely different reasons.

A mother and her son Egor live in a certain city. They have a Secret: Egor's father is an alien. Egor inherited strange, literally inhuman abilities from his father. They manifest themselves only when the boy is next to the person he truly loves. No one, except his Mother, knew about these abilities until the grown-up Egor met Angela..

Ex KGB agent travels to New York to help his old friend out of trouble.

Svetlana is the main character, a 42-year-old woman, a neurologist. Goes to advanced training courses. At lectures, considering this occupation very pointless, together with colleagues, he enters into a controversy with a famous professor who has been studying the human brain all his life. The man emotionally makes it clear to the women present that their behavior is very justified, since the human brain, in fact, always resists its own work, fulfilling its main natural purpose – to transmit the genome to the next generation. And modern society, trying to make people out of us, is only rushing against nature itself. Svetlana's personal life is not particularly developing. She's married. There are no children. Emotional and domestic disorder forces her to have a relationship on the side. What will she do at the most critical moment of her life and what will be her future fate, will it be the choice of her own mind or will nature put everything in its place?

Trees are everything. In a settlement near the Russian-Finnish border, a traditional family keeps shamanistic rituals alive. The children play in the same forest where photos nailed to trees remind us of Stalin's bloody repression. Spirituality and politics meet in this intuitive montage of poetic impressions, historical material, nature shots, family scenes and probing testimony.

This stunningly beautiful and thin girl was very unlucky: abandoned and deceived by her husband — director, without money, housing, among rude, lustful men and treacherous women, among the alien and cruel world of money and brute force. She needs to remain herself — pure and refined. And now, when it seems that there is no more strength to live, love will come — big and comprehensive, which will fill to capacity, and it turns out that the whole previous life was a preparation for meeting her.

An ailing theater director tries to turn the lives of two random people into a production of 'Romeo and Juliet'. But what if life and play start to mix?

The film is about the adventures of a charming and cunning Fox. He helps a blacksmith in love who dreams of making the girl Amy laugh, who never laughs or smiles. For the sake of his beloved, the blacksmith is ready to kill the dragon and overcome the giant. Animals from the Magical Forest, talking flowers and trees, kind angels, elves come to his aid.

A tale of how a hermit stole Lenin's mummy in order to bury him and thus open a portal to Kitezh-grad.

A young girl is taking a bike trip on a hot summer day. Enjoying her time in nature, she soon finds herself on a desolate wooded path, not aware that somebody is watching her from behind the trees, getting closer every second. Seems like a classic setting for a slasher. Would this girl become a classic final girl as well?

1947. The first hungry years after the war: fragments of lost death notices still arrive, the Doctors' Case is fabricated, the fight against rootless cosmopolitanism and a new wave of persecution of the clergy are gaining momentum - in one of the remote villages, a little five-year-old girl is being bullied, called a fascist, because her mother returned from a concentration camp with a child, which means she had him with a German. Avdotya, a mother of many children, tries to take care of the girl, but she herself has seven children to feed. Only when the village priest, Father Alexander, appears in the path of the persecuted child does a new story begin - a story of taming and love.

The rich inner world of famous Georgian theater and film director, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son Levan "Leo" Gabriadze, who previously made the horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

Film critic Rita, in an attempt to meet “the one,” embarks on a journey through the labyrinth of her own memories, emotions, and feelings.

Artem Vinokur's second solo concert.

Alexandra meets her birthday with her family. Today, only the closest people are around. Why is it usually the most difficult with them?

The legendary cultural critic, author of books about M. Babanova, B. Brecht, A. Tarkovsky, Maya Turovskaya tells us a novel. Childhood, in people, my universities… She tells it like a writer. Only her novel is not written, but shot on camera and supplemented with photos and newsreel footage. In other words, it's a movie monologue about time. About a communal apartment in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane in Moscow. About my parents and my father's arrest. About kindergarten and school. About friends and girlfriends. About teachers. About the beginning of the war and the evacuation to Sverdlovsk. About her husband, critic Boris Medvedev, who met the war on the border, and ended it in Stalingrad. About parallel studies at Moscow State University and at GITIS. About the fight against rootless cosmopolitans.

On a frozen dark night in remote Siberia, a group of strangers travel home together in a van. When the driver refuses to stop for an elder, a darkening shadow looms over what could possibly be the most tragic night of their lives.

Retired investigator Klimov comes with his granddaughter to his country house to rest before a complicated heart operation. In the country, he finds a fugitive convict Andrei Shilin, whom he had once planted for the murder of his wife Jeanne

A short film by Ivan Dobronravov, shot for the Action charity evening.

New Russian experimental film, which combines fiction and documentary scenes in one continuous narration. The shooting of the film took place in Buryatia - a South-Eastern part of Russia that is considered the center of Buddhism in Russia. In the fictional story a Moscow actress comes to faraway Buryatia to find the man she once loved. She is terminally ill and Buryatia gives her a second chance, she does not believe in miracles, but miracle happens. The real actress Julia Aug, like her character, is also in Buryatia for the first time. The documentary, filmed during the shooting of the film, shows the real Julia's feelings and experiences while she discovers the unique atmosphere, nature and culture of Buryatia.

An experiment in editing. This entry refers to both the initial, likely lost 1919 experiment, created using footage of Ivan Mosjoukine, and the later surviving recreation featuring two unknown actors.

A look at Lenin's Mausoleum as a symbol of Russia's enduring and divided legacy.

The protagonist, an army doctor, veteran of the Special Military Operation, and the sole survivor after his unit's frontline engagement, travels to a see the wife of his fallen comrade in a remote village on the Caspian Sea and pay his respects to the family. Suffering from severe PTSD after an explosion, he is undergoing a hard recovery, uncertain of his future. Tortured by pain and loss, he finds solace in the widow of the heroic major, who has also lost her sense of purpose. An unexpected love blossoms between them, which brings him back to life. Now, he is ready to go back to the conflict zone to fulfill his duty to the country.

The sequel of feature-publicistic film «You Can’t Live Like That». Showing the countrymen charmless and sometimes scaring life picture of once great power with pain and anger, the author tries to uncover the reason of the country’s and nation’s tragedy.

Based on true story. Professor of Genetics Boris Mniszech is a beloved husband and father. On his way to work, he gives a lift to a pregnant woman and drives her fast to the nearest maternity hospital. From that moment on, his life will change completely.

Pasha Veterok is a brilliant con man who created a Ponzi scheme that has lured gullible citizens, businessmen, and criminal kingpins alike. As Veterok prepares to disappear with the money to Bali, his plans are thwarted-someone is already aiming a sniper rifle at him. Young detective Lyosha Boldyrev is assigned to investigate this mysterious murder.

Sacsayhuamán, an ancient citadel amidst the Peruvian Andes, is an architectural marvel. It was built more than 900 years ago, and no living person knows how such large rocks were fitted so perfectly into walls. This documentary takes us on a tour of Sacsayhuamán, offering a brief history of the site, and clues that may help to its understand how it was made. It was edited from photos and video taken in July 2012, when Russian geophysicists conducted soil research there, at the request of Peru's Ministry of Culture.

Senya is a student, a well-known Weiner, confident in his irresistibility. To impress his beloved, he makes her a gorgeous marriage proposal. But unexpectedly, Julia refuses, accusing him of irresponsibility and frivolity. Senya decides to prove his feelings and goes on an archaeological expedition, where they are waiting for incredible adventures, fateful meetings and unique discoveries...

Today is Masha's birthday. She finally decides to meet her father, whom she has never seen. It is separated from him by only one door. She hears a childish voice for her and does not dare to call. She can't take the last step.

About bitches and males.

Anya is spending the evening in her loved one’s company when her husband suddenly appears.

Professional mountain bike riders embark on an unusual journey through Kamchatka. They will drive through the volcanoes and hills of the peninsula, opening new spots, using all available and non-standard terrain. The main purpose of the trip will be one of the most active remote and severe active volcanoes — Shiveluch, which recently began to erupt.

A mother and daughter were brutally murdered in their apartment on Saturday morning. The killer treated the latter cruelly — her face was disfigured beyond recognition. The missing item — an ancient cross with black pearls — was found at one of the acquaintances of the murdered woman. He was hastily tried and sentenced to capital punishment...

The picture is about the impossibility of love of two young people. In the picture, the authors ask themselves whether the responsible person can be happy, how to choose between what you want and what is right and what is generally right.

A parable about loneliness and the fear of death.

After a contract fight somewhere in the open spaces of Russia between St. Petersburg and Moscow, the top Moscow football hooligans return home to the capital with a victory. On the way, their minibus breaks down, which has to be brought into service in the nearest unknown town called Popadaysk. They are forced to stay in this city for the night. At first glance, the usual provincial town, but it was not there. Its criminal authorities, its laws of the street, corrupt cops, its own fashion and style, and its secrets.

Anton made a proposal to Tanya, but he was refused. He decides to take revenge on her. But circumstances change and he realizes that his game has gone too far...

Zhenya and Roman arrive in Moscow and get a job as a servant in a private country house. For them, this is a temporary stage, an opportunity to settle in Moscow, but hopes for a future happy life together are not destined to come true. Soon they find themselves involved in a difficult family relationship between the owners and guests of the house…

Two friends escape from the village to the city in search of a better life. However, finding your place in the city is not as easy as it seemed at first. After making several unsuccessful attempts to earn money and spending the last money on entertainment, the heroes begin to engage in petty crime, not realizing what this can lead to.

Vitaly Suslin's short film "The Sniffer" tells about a village guy, the Sniffer. The main character falls in love with a girl, and for her sake decides to steal.

This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family came from and where he spent his childhood. A large part of the villages are remote from the cities and often have no connection with them, except for air transport...

Nikita Yefimov brings his camera into a Russian high-security detention centre. The head of the penitentiary department offers to personally enact moments from prison life to control its image.