Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Pavel Volya, a resident of the Comedy Club, has a tradition - once a year from the stage of Crocus City Hall to tell the sharpest, freshest and most relevant jokes.

A young girl Kseniya becomes a nurse in the Russian Army during the WWI.

Gena and Cheburashka have a day off. But each of them wants to spend it in their own way: Gena dreams of relaxing with a newspaper and a cup of tea, and Cheburashka cannot sit still for a minute. Will the friends be able to find a solution and spend the day together?

Long ago, the inhabitants of the fairyland drove the evil witch Vergilda into our world and imprisoned her in the Magic Cup, where she languished for 500 years, until the workers of the children's camp, preparing for the New Year, found it and accidentally opened it. Weakened by centuries of bondage, the Witch took over the body of an unsuspecting Senior Pioneer Leader, and now, in order to regain her strength and return to a magical land, she needs other people's fears. And children come to the camp, among whom is the boy Vasya, a great lover of telling horror stories and scaring others. But he does not yet know that everything that he will tell will become reality and will help the Witch in her insidious plans. Then Rorrim Bo, a resident of a fairy land, the son of a hero who defeated the Witch many years ago, comes to the aid of the children. The only trouble is that Rorrie himself is not at all as brave as his father, but is afraid of everything in the world...

The life of a woman suddenly changes after she meets a mysterious girl on a highway in the night.

By knowing oneself, a person knows the whole world. Refusal of self-knowledge distances a person from God. What does a woman seek in a man's world? What passionate and vague dreams control her? The painful search for the Ideal in an imperfect world is realized by a love triangle. While men measure their strength in the fight for a woman, her subconscious has already equalized them in weakness, because next to her Ideal, they are both just insignificant shadows. Perhaps the reason for the collapse is the very existence of an abstract Ideal, which inevitably gives rise to a comparative analysis of the surrounding men, and, as a result, the impossibility of choice. The happiness of motherhood for this woman lies in the absence of a reason for comparison, because the child is certainly pure and beautiful.

A loner Lesha returns to his parental home to make arrangements for a funeral of his Dad with whom he cut any communication long ago, but finds him alive, however seriously ill. Although being deceived the young man enjoys the opportunity to get things work with his father and stays to take care of him. But soon regular arguments and recriminations make Lesha understand it is impossible to restore relationships with his Dad and his chance for a happy life without shadows of the past depends on whether he will be able to embrace his father or keep hating him.

Our hero finds himself pulled into a very unpleasant story that abruptly changes his life. Then Andrew meets his love.

In search of a magic carpet, Vovka travels to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where preparations for the New Year are underway. Vovka quarrels with Morozko and cancels winter, but the Tsar threatens him with severe punishment. Now Vovka must bring winter back at any cost and save the holiday.

Renata and Eduard are a happily married couple. They are expecting a baby. Their idyllic life is shattered by sudden, inexplicable changes in Renata's personality. The changes become final when she displays no feelings and maternal instincts for their newborn son.

The plot centers on an investigation conducted by the curious and resourceful Petya, despite the entreaties of his friends, family, and local law enforcement agencies, and throughout the entire journey he is "assisted" by his younger brothers, Sasha and Kostya. After a series of failures and setbacks, Petya still does not give up, collects all the evidence together, and learns the truth about who is to blame for the disappearance of the artifacts and helps return these exhibits to the museum.

The childless royal couple expected a child for many years. They have got a real monster after the birth of their daughter. The young princess made life in the castle unbearable. The bullying of the governess, who turned out to be an evil sorceress, turned into a curse for the whole family. Fortunately, the kind fairy turned the curse into a test of strength and gave the young princess a groom and eternal love.

Experimental short film by Valery Pereverzev.

Prokhor is a roulette player. His life becomes uncertain after debt collectors knock on his door.

Before his death, Pasha's father asked to scatter his ashes in his homeland, in Uzbekistan. Kolya is ready to fulfill the last wish of the pope at all costs - even if all the relatives are against it.

Seriously ill patient is trying to get help from doctors who already have a lot of troubles...

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.

Artist Lisa, who lacks color vision, breaks up with her boyfriend. She paints vibrant pictures and works with her dog as a support worker for special needs children at an orphanage. One autumn, on a bridge, Lisa meets Mark—a young, successful, but tired and jaded man who jumps into the cold water every year on this day, hoping to feel something.

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Efim Chestnyakov.

Two scientists grow old and weary together in a secret Soviet Institute, their unconventional friendship the only consistency in a lifetime of personal and professional disappointments.

The film depicts the story of a once-famous artist who devoted her entire life to work. After losing job and authority, she looks back at her life and faces overwhelming loneliness. On her way home the artist notices a thieving boy with unusual works. In order to find a company, she takes several lessons where the boy shows her his way of painting.

Psychedelic Sci-Fi about mind travel.

The film is based on the Tatar folk tale and talks about how a poor peasant outwitted a huge evil Div. Which turned out to be not so evil.

In a fashionable bar there are two - a teenage girl and a successful businessman, and between them a conversation begins.

Yakutia, the first half of the 19th century. Bishop Ambrose goes to the snowy steppe to the newly baptized Tungus, accompanied by the disgraced monk Cyriacus, who once refused to baptize "foreigners" en masse. On the way, they are overtaken by a blizzard. The pagan guide Harpoon saves the bishop's life, and the newly baptized Stepan throws Cyriacus to freeze. The death of the elder becomes a miracle of unity: unbaptized Tunguses themselves come to the faith of "Cyriacus", and Ambrose finally sees the truth — about the equality of all before God and love, which knows no difference between baptized and pagans.

About the ruinous indefatigable thirst and the merciless seductive specter of freedom. About how people fall because they fly. About the epicenter of the explosion and the fatal inevitability of the end... When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you...

The documentary film "Avdeev. Open Space" tells about the life and professional path of the Hero of Russia, cosmonaut Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeev. He has completed 3 flights and 10 spacewalks. Until 2005, it was Sergey Avdeev who held the world record for total stay in orbit – more than 747 days, which is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

A wife and her husband feel remorse for cheating on each other.

We are all waiting for something. But when you are young and ambitious, when you are full of energy, and at your feet the whole world and you are ready for real adventures. When the only thing that is really important is money, and preferably a lot of money. Nothing will stop you, and no one will stand in your way. Cinema about people - close and not very strange and so understandable, terrible and beautiful at the same time. After all, people are so different when money appears in their hands. And everyone will get what he wants. Sometimes you just have to wait. After all, life is so arranged.

Elena is a successful business woman of 39 years. Her life has everything except a man on whom she could rely. The work gradually becomes the meaning of her life and, in order to at least somehow resist this, she decides to try her luck at a marriage agency, where she really meets her fate. He may be 10 years younger than her, but is this really a barrier to love?

The 2021 Duma elections made Mikhail Lobanov a recognizable Moscow politician. The 37-year-old mathematician, lecturer at the Moscow State University, has long been involved in social activities: ten years ago he opposed political agitation at the university, participated in the creation of an independent association of university employees to protect their rights, and was almost fired for his activism. In 2021 elections, Lobanov ran for the Communist Party (he is not a member of the party, calls himself a democratic socialist) and waged a powerful grassroots campaign against the pro-government candidate, TV presenter Yevgeny Popov.

Gleb is 35 years old and an example of a successful man: he has a beautiful wife, his own business, and a new country house to dream about. But as he doesn’t find the courage to sort things out like a man with his drunken neighbor who hit his wife, his perfect life changes drastically.

Once a fragile ballerina Olya meets a rude and gloomy boxer Evgeny. The contrast between the worlds of the heroes and their worldview is so striking that the very possibility of intersection of heroes appears as a miracle. Are the heroes ready to accept the same timid feeling that arose between them? Will they overcome everything external and superficial, behind which fragile loving souls are hidden.

Everyone was told that today was the last day, that the sun would set today and never rise again - there would be no tomorrow. Several episodes of different people's lives. We live and do not notice that days and years are passing by. We are chasing financial well-being, status, forgetting about relatives and friends, about real values. Wasting time on all sorts of nonsense and imaginary ideals, we have forgotten how to enjoy simple things. The film is about the love of life and the moments that embody it.

On December 31, 1979, five students come to a sanatorium lost in the Karelian forests to prepare for the New Year's performance. They are led by Associate Professor and the rector's daughter Mymra. Athlete Pasha is going to propose to his girlfriend Katya, but the Associate Professor, who is in love, kidnaps her. Mymra, who has long been jealous of the Associate Professor for young Katerina, arranges a romantic seduction for the Associate Professor. In the midst of a disco party by the pool, the local stoker Vitya intervenes in the fun of the students, an expelled student of the history department who considers himself the descendants of Karelian shamans. He performs a bloody rite, but is mistaken in choosing a victim.

Criminal drama based on the materials of the sensational trial of the adventurous engineer Gilevich. The second series was released at the end of 1917. The 2nd and 4th parts have not survived.

Once upon a time, a mysterious stranger visits a tavern with his unusual barrel organ and gives a scary musical performance to the beggars within.

Russian writer Andrey Bitov and Georgian artist Rezo Gabriadze talk about Pushkin. The picture is made in the synthetic genre of animadoc — at the junction of documentary films and artistic animation.

Egor meets at the bus stop with Marina. She is much older, more experienced, and for some reason immediately invites the guy to her home. Romantic date promises sex. But from the threshold everything goes according to plan.

About exorcism in the Soviet years in an atheistic family.

The person of the once popular film artist Evgeny Steklov is shrouded in gossip and speculation; 10 years ago, he unexpectedly abandoned his dizzying career as a movie star and became a teacher at a theater university. Nevertheless, Steklov is quite happy with life, he has an interesting job, good friends and his beloved wife Marianna. Everything changes when Steklov accidentally finds a box on the mezzanine with the mysterious inscription “ALKOFARADO” with Marianne’s love letters to an unknown recipient.

Documentary about the Soviet film director and his changing fortunes during the Stalin years.

Margaret enlists some supernatural help to avoid a powerful boor, which opens the door to wilder and wilder situations.

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"…

Princess Marusya fell in love with Dr. Toporkov, the doctor who had treated her, but he failed to notice her affection and married a wealthy merchant’s daughter. Several years later, called upon to treat Marusya once more, at last her deep feelings melt his hardened heart... but it is far too late: Marusya is dying.

The demonstrators on the streets of Moscow in July 2019 want just one thing: fair elections. Despite their peaceful protest, 2,700 activists are arrested and hundreds are injured. The active camera places the viewer at the heart of the demonstrations, among the pushing and shoving of the chanting crowds. “You should be protecting us!” shouts a young woman at a soldier, and two big men come and take her away.