The story of a young guy, child of migrants from Central Asia. He is fond of rap and wants to go to the USA. On the other hand, his father wants to return him to traditions and love for his nationality.

Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 and was held by Vsevolod Gakkel, ex-cellist of "Аквариум". The concept was modelled on cult NY club CBGB-OMFUG. Despite its controversial history this is the place where a new generation of Russian punk music was discovered.

A surreal film with a Freudian theme.

Ten-year-old girl Olei lives with her grandparents and her only friend – Kaunikki the cow in a withering Karelian village on the shores of the White Sea. Suddenly, the girl's grandfather passes away. While her grandmother, gripped by the bitterness of loss, conducts funeral rituals, Olei seeks solace in Kaunikki’s company. But on the funeral eve Kaunikki disappears, and the only person, who could help find her, is dead.

"Krusenstern" is a story of real dramatic events that took place on the famous barge during the regatta in 2000.

Temu, a 12-year-old gamer, is brought on vacation to the remote village of Tsaplino, away from the Internet. However, contrary to expectations, life in the village is bustling around the old stable of the Saltykov boyars, where local boys are preparing for equestrian competitions. 12-year-old Phil and his faithful friend Orlyk really need to win these competitions, but a terrible threat looms over the stable — they want to demolish it. The boys accept the challenge. The search for treasure, the mysterious old ghost, the fire in the stable, dangerous caves and winning competitions - this summer will be the beginning of a strong friendship for the guys.

The documentary is dedicated to the memory of the People's Artist of the USSR, composer Konstantin Orbelian. The last interview with the maestro is about his childhood in Baku, his older brother, his passion for jazz, his musical career, his tours, and his life abroad.

NATO has attacked bridges in Yugoslavia. Capitalism against communism has not stood the test of history. War remains the unchangeable law of the world. People against people, continent against continent.

How do autistic people see the world? What do they feel and what difficulties do they face? The video will allow you to see the world through the eyes of a child with autism spectrum disorders and feel for a minute what he feels.

Boris Karadzhev's documentary "Portraits of the Epoch. Maya Plisetskaya" was released in 2002. It is dedicated to one of the most famous ballerinas of the twentieth century.

It's easy to find out the weather forecast. It is enough to make one click on your phone, tablet or computer. Hardly anyone at this moment is thinking about how this information gets into gadgets. Where and how does the forecast come from? The old ship "Mikhail Somov" goes along the Northern Sea Route from Arkhangelsk to Wrangel Island. For Russian polar explorers, this is the only connection with the mainland. Once a year, Mikhail Somov delivers food, fuel, and equipment to weather stations…

Motygino is the smallest and most inaccessible settlement in Russia, which has a local drama theater. Recently, a young St. Petersburg director arrived there and decided to make him a fashionable place: he invited his friends-actors from the capital and began to develop a new theater. Do you think a warm welcome awaited him?

"Live fast, die young!" Yuri Khoy is the "perfect" embodiment of this famous rock and roll motto. A simple guy from the "left bank", the most dangerous and criminal district of Voronezh, Hoi has achieved incredible popularity in Russia and the near abroad. But Yuri himself was rarely recognized on the streets.

From the Magic lantern almanac. A small Sparrow that cannot learn to fly, to the amazement of its parents, instead of taking off, begins to dance Irish dances.

Teens Olga and Sergey fall in love among the ruins of a provincial industrial town. With their hope of breaking out of the cycle of urban depression and violence, it's too bad their fall break in high school in ending soon...

Inspired by a legend of Provencal folklore, the film tells the story of the Tarasque and Saint Martha. The Tarasque, a gigantic dragon, had settled in a pond near the small town of Tarascon, killed everything that lived, devoured animals and people, burned the crops. People dreaded and hated her, but no one dared to confront him. Martha, a young girl, managed to dominate and tame the dragon, which became quite docile and harmless. But the girl begged not to hurt her, but people wanted revenge on the monster.

The ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS returns for its second year in theaters with 12 charming family-friendly films. The films included are: • Stems - Ainslie Hendersen (Scotland) • Shift - Cecilia Puglesi & Yijun Liu (U.S.) • Pearl - Patrick Osborne (U.S.) • Crin-crin - Iris Alexandre (Belgium) • Mirror - Chris Ware, John Kuramoto, Ira Glass (U.S.) • Last summer in the garden - bekky O’Neil (Canada) • Waiting for the New Year - Vladimir Leschiov (Latvia) • Piper - Alan Barillaro (U.S.) • Bøygen - Kristian Pedersen (Norway) • Afternoon Class - Seoro Oh (Korea) • About a Mother - Dina Velikovskaya (Russia) • Exploozy - Joshua Gunn, Trevor Piecham, & John McGowan (U.S.) • Inner Workings - Leo Matsuda (U.S.) • Corpus - Marc Héricher (France) • Blue - Daniela Sherer (Israel) • Manoman - Simon Cartwright (England) • All Their Shades - Chloé Alliez (Belgium)

Berik, a short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik's doorstep looking for the local bully's football, which he has lost.

Film devoted to director Sergei Parajanov. The film is designed as a confession of the director. There are pictures of various episodes of his life, while shooting, at his home, in prison... The commentary comes in the form of a monologue consisting of excerpts from letters, notes and scripts of his unfinished film The Confession.

An intimate portrait of Andrei Tarkovsky by his son.

Seven vagrants set off in search of Divine Bar. But they don't know that they have to sacrifice their lives to end up in the Bar.

Katya and Pasha are a Moscow student couple in their early twenties. They don't care about politics or authorities. They aren't really rebellious, they just want to be left alone and have fun. One day they come to a punk concert at a small club, but two rogue policemen stop the show in the middle of it - there are no formal grounds to do that, but the policemen just enjoy their power. Katya tries to reason with one of the officers, but he reacts in a brutal way, and Pasha has to defend her. Katya and Pasha escape and they hope they're safe. But in Russia, you shouldn't mess with the police, and next morning, the young people learn that they are in trouble. Their only way out is to pay the policemen off, and they embark on a mission of getting the cash - borrowing, begging, doing whatever they can. And they only have several hours to come up with the cash.

Based on an act of vandalism by artist Alexander Brener, the film tells the story of an event that shocked the conscience of enlightened Europe: Brener painted a green dollar sign on Kazimir Malevich’s "White Cross." While Brener’s action sparked fierce debates among art critics and legal experts, the filmmakers declare the “joint” symbol of Brener and Malevich a cult icon of 1998.

Paint-on-glass animated short project overseen by Aleksandr Petrov.

This story is about ambitious people who dream of becoming stars, being recognized at the streets and interviewed for the front-pages stories. Day after day, they do their ordinary jobs but every spare minute they follow their silver screen dream – they work as extras.

A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.

The adventures of an unusual dog named Thriller, who, thanks to a miracle capsule stolen from an underground laboratory, can read human thoughts.

A telegram-tragedy about the last days of Ovid, the Roman poet.

Short horror film.

As a result of an unsuccessful experiment conducted in the laboratory of a chemical institute, a young woman gets a severe burn on her face.

No matter how far the war retreats, its traces are imprinted on the torn earth and the memory of generations for tens, hundreds of years with bloody traces. The body of the earth is burned by shells, torn apart by mines - and we are its Parts. The heroes of the film are young Caucasian guys-children of the war that destroyed their childhood and youth. In this black-and-white movie, the past, present and future alike merge into the color of the tragedy of all times and peoples – the color of war.

While in Moscow thousands of young people are protesting against the current government, corruption in the Russian elite and demanding change, older people in southern Russia, in Krasnodar, are fighting for traditional values and stability. They face misunderstanding and hatred, but all the same, united, they create their own Russia. These women and men created their blog on youtube, in which they post a chronicle of their struggle. They called themselves “Putin Squad”.

According to the story of V. Shukshin, "Stalled."

Iwan Rabcynski, born in St. Petersburg (Florida), writes Russian melodramas under the pseudonym "John F. Romanoff. He gets his inspiration in Brooklyn, his chosen home. His new novel, which is meant to be autobiographical, begins with his Russian great grandfather in St. Petersburg in 1882 and follows three generations as they survive the country's political upheavals.

An infantile artist depends on his domineering wife for everything. But it's time to get out of his comfort zone.

The film is about the fate of three brothers, each of whom has his own skeleton in the closet. The only thread that connects them is their father.

A four-novel documentary about the city of Leningrad on the verge of the USSR's collapse. The main characters of the film are independent photographers who documented that time period.

The tragicomic story of a young filmmaker who found himself faced with a choice: to convey ideals, but to be able to make a movie, or to lose everything for the sake of loyalty to his ideals. The first part of the full-length trilogy, which will include two more works by the director, having compiled the project "About Life and Death".

Eve's Gate is the road to illusory happiness, on which two young Albanian girls run across the sea, so that there, even at the cost of body and soul, but to buy a little happiness. They will have to fight for love, resolve doubts that will force them to think about many things. Whether everything can be sacrificed, whether everything can be sold, how to fill the spiritual void, how to keep happiness...

New animated film by Oksana Kholodova

A funny fantasy film about the adventures of a two-man boy who got into the prehistoric era with the help of a time machine.

The relatives of a deceased want to make some changes after the body has already undergone the funeral rites and been buried according to the rules; the undertaker does not know how to do this, and how to keep within the budget limitations.

Each of these paintings hides a unique story in which the fates of the heroes and the artists themselves are intertwined. What was the fate of the boy Vasyatka from the "Troika" of Vasily Perov? Has Ivan Shishkin really never painted bears? Why did Viktor Borisov-Musatov see ghosts? And is it true that it was the "Defeated Demon" that played a fatal role in the fate of Mikhail Vrubel? The answers to all these questions are in the film almanac "Art and Fact".

Ispoved Bar, a place where all the fates of the heroes intersect. There, a lone employee of the psychological help hotline meets a girl in a bar. Their conversation turns into a tragic confession of a man carrying a load of mistakes of the past.

Based on Vasil Bykov’s story of the same name. During the Second World War a Soviet prisoner of war returns home, but everybody treats him with suspicion. In the course of the questioning it becomes clear that his story differs from what the words of the woman, whom he calls his wife. Only a face-to-face confrontation can unearth the truth.