In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film “Remembering Chekhov”. After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made a difficult decision – not to show it to a wide audience. almost 30 years later, in his documentary “the film that went wrong”, the director tries to understand and analyze the reason for that failure. for the first time he will also show scenes from “remembering chekhov” to the audience.

In the center of the plot is the Vatican list of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the main Orthodox shrine of Kazan. The film describes four layers of Russian history: the liberation of Moscow by the militia of Minin and Pozharsky, the battle of Poltava, the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Great Patriotic War. During all these events, the Orthodox inhabitants of Tatarstan turned to their protector, the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, for help. It is believed that the icon was carried away in 1611 by the Kazan militia and later helped Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow from the Poles.

The most large-scale film ever made about Russian wrestling. The 20-year history of the Independent Wrestling Federation, the stories of its participants, archival footage, and much more.

About the life of Elizabeth Feodorovna, sister of the last Russian Empress.

How does Basta approach work and creativity, where does he get inspiration for musical material? This and many other things are told by friends, colleagues, relatives and friends of the performer - all those who have known Vasily well for many years.

Maxim "Cruel Addict" Doshi, is desperately trying to break through to fame, by all mental and non-mental ways. But things don't go according to plan when public opinion gets in the way.

The 1972 Super Series is one of the greatest events in hockey history. The first meeting of Canadian professionals and Soviet amateurs was much more than just a series of high-profile international matches. It was an ice battle of two powerful superpowers, the brightest confrontation of characters, mentalities and stereotypes, the rivalry of capitalism and communism, transferred to the sports plane. The film will reveal unique facts, sensational statements, revelations of players and a chronicle of events that have not yet been mentioned in any of the materials.

The film tells the story of ancient Ingush lullabies - Ingush women and men tell the lullabies of their families and the stories associated with them: love, friendship, blood feud.

The Solo documentary reveals six unique stories of individuals who use the art of dancing as their own tool in fighting back difficulties, dealing with pain, incomprehension, and obstacles standing in their way to happiness through creative self-expression. Six young performers who belong to completely different styles - classical ballet, contemporary dance, krump, vogue, experimental hip-hop, pole dance - represent the new generation of Russian artists, free from preconceptions, clichés, and ready to be part of the dance revolution. The documentary format of the project looks at real people in an intimate setting and the behind-the-scenes routine of professional dancers.

The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in the Patriotic War, after which it will capture the post-war period - the Stalinist Russian style and the short-lived tandem of Beria and Malenkov. Then it will take us to the "thaw". The period of new heroes - a poet with a guitar Bulat Okudzhava and film directors Mikhail Kalatozov (Katalozishvili), Marlena Khutsiev (Khutsishvili) and Georgy Danelia. The journey will end with the stories of post-Soviet stars - Tsereteli, Tsiskaridze, Leps (Lepsveridze), Tutberidze and Akunin (Chkhartishvili).

For years now, the Kremlin has been systematically trying to use well-trained hackers for its own benefit. In exchange for freedom and protection, they do the dirty work of the state, interfering in other countries’ elections and penetrating government networks. Just how dangerous is Russia’s cyber army?

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.

The authors of the project set an ambitious task - to record samples from the sounds of Moscow and create the music of the city on this basis. This film is a vivid portrait of Moscow and a kind of documentary musical, woven from the sounds, words and emotions of musicians and composers. The film was attended by 20 artists and musical groups of various genres and directions.

The Golden Knight Film Forum was born in the "dashing 90s". The film presents to the audience the chronicle history of the wanderings of the "Golden Knight" through the cities and towns of the Slavic world torn to pieces. At the moment of the devastating turning point of our country, the Film Forum declared its motto: "For moral ideals. For the elevation of the human soul" and remained faithful to him for 30 years.

Additional materials for "Major Grom: Plague Doctor" (2021).

A documentary film dedicated to Alexei Balabanov and his latest film "I also want to".

“While shooting my feature documentary film, Memory, in April of 2021 in Grozny, Chechnya (the birthplace of my mother and where I grew up), I felt the influence of the gigantic portraits of Putin, Kadyrov Senior and Kadyrov Junior all over the city. They observed me from everywhere. In parallel to the production of the film, we set out to capture the feeling of totalitarianism that these portraits conveyed. We got up at 4 in the morning and shot through the window of a car because such actions put us under threat of persecution. We understood that we were documenting the time of the birth of fascism in Russia.” Vladlena Sandu

The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone calls from distant countries and unfamiliar sounds, emotionally devastated and deserted, the city attempts to reconcile with its own voice.

The film from a correctional colony explores the theme of self-awareness of a person in captivity. The director shows the prison from an unexpected angle. This is a hypnotizing, oneiric vision. There is no moralizing here. The author is interested in a person and the most precious thing he has - his dreams and his reality. The film contains documentary footage from a correctional colony (a plastic recycling workshop and a residential block), mounted with a monologue of a prisoner in order to understand what is happening with human reality on the other side of the fence.

About the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Hermogenes, the hero of the Time of Troubles, who inspired the militia of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky.

Shot in and around Yakutsk, in a remote region of Siberia, this film wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction.

The film is about the relations between the inhabitants of Russia and the Caucasus, and about their influence on each other. Young Georgian Georgi Iobadze tells the audience the story of the Vainakhs (a group of peoples of the North Caucasus and Georgia) in the period from 1813 to 1913.

This film is a unique historical document, a cast of the tragedy. This film is about the disaster that happened to Russia and filmed in real time. Chronicle of a diving country.

Thousands of people took to the streets of St. Petersburg to express their opinion on the latest events in the country. Among them is the forty-year-old taxi driver Georgy, who is taking part in the protests for the first time. The film is a portrait of modern Russia. Broken silence, whispers and screams.

Cinema not only unites, entertains, amazes and educates, but also helps to understand yourself. What do children watch, how do they understand and appreciate in cinema and animation? How do the films viewed affect the behavior of children, their emotions and feelings? Experiments, observations, opinions in a documentary about the interaction of the screen and the young viewer.

Through the lives of three outstanding perseons, innovators and selfless workers who had a great influence on the development of domestic and world football – coach Mikhail Yakushin, goalkeeper Alexei Khomich, striker and subsequently successful coach Konstantin Beskov, the authors trace more than a century of history of Russian football in the context of time and the life of our country.

How do tech companies run our lives? Is artificial intelligence an assistant or a rival? Would you like to have a chip implanted in you? Why is now the best time to make a career? And also - how much does our life today depend on ourselves and what can we expect tomorrow?

In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.

In the outback of Siberia - in the village of Takuchet - Justas Walker, a born US citizen, lives and works. Here he has his own successful farm of 11 goats, a couple of sheep and several chickens. Russian neighbors dislike him and plot against him, but Justas looks at life with humor even in the most difficult moment. He has two friends, assistants, two Siberian men with a criminal past - Andrey and Vova. All together they are trying to prove with their work that there is still life in the Siberian village.

A short film, based on a series of poems, about childhood, the break with parental, and war.

The film Broken Ties, by independent Russian filmmaker Andrei Loshak, is an unflinching portrayal of families divided by war. It features seven different pairings, whose members speak periodically with Loshak, one-to-one, to explain their points of view. Their conversations extend over the war's first three months, during which time their opinions evidence no change. The film makes no attempt at dialogue -- on the contrary, it is a testimony to the absence of dialogue amidst an unfolding war, and an unsentimental diagnosis of the sickness of a society in which official propaganda proves stronger than even the most intimate family ties.

A film about the importance of memories.

The documentary opens a fascinating page of Russia's development of the Far East, presents the viewer with a heroic portrait of the Russian naturalist and researcher R.K.Maak.

As a child, Victor Starffin fled the Russian Revolution and settled in Japan, where he grew up to find success as a baseball superstar. However, he constantly battled to overcome many hardships such as poverty, xenophobia, and a world war. Starffin is survived by his two daughters who take us on a wild ride of shifting identities, international rivalries, tragic love, and one heck of a fastball.

The girl is doing her best to escape from loneliness, and the young man is trying to keep it. But one day these very different heroes meet.

On April 22, 2022, Spartak, one of the most famous football clubs in the world, will turn 100 years old. This is an important date not only for the history of the club, but for the entire national football as a whole. Popular love that goes far beyond Moscow and even Russia is something that no club in our country can boast of. Golden times are replaced by trophy drought, great coaches are replaced by mediocre ones, great victories alternate with the most offensive and even shameful defeats. But the love of the fans and the passion of the fans is the foundation on which the club stands.

The beginning of the XX century was a turning point in both political and spiritual life. Many avant-gardists are trying to form their own approach to art. Alexander Rodchenko writes the "Last Picture" and puts an end to all fine art. Through design and photography, he becomes a "singer of the new regime." This devotion leads him to the White Sea Channel. Rodchenko becomes a photographer of "reforging" people, turning a blind eye to the horror that is happening.

A documentary telling about the life of the most inconspicuous, but ones of the most important people in theatre. Prop masters, make-up artists, costume and lighting designers – they all don’t receive the proper praise.. but on the other hand, where is their creativity? About this and many other secrets of the cult Moscow theatre RAMT in the film by Matvey Nikolaev and Elena Tyukhanova. Filming took place at the Russian Academic Youth Theatre on June 28-29, as well as on November 4 and 6, 2021 in Moscow. Mounting was produced in January 2022. On February 6, a draft version of the film was released, but later the premiere date was postponed to February 16, due to a request to remove the scene of Elena Tyukhanova at the end of the costume part, where she leaves a historical photograph for the students of “Class-Center”, hugging Polina Lashkevich and Marianna Ilyina-Baltika. This version is kept private on YouTube and is 13 seconds longer.

How long do feelings last? To find the answer, the director of the film organizes a meeting of his divorced parents in the city of their youth, Ishim, where they broke up 16 years ago.

The club, whose stadium was located in the very center of Moscow, next to the White House — tanks drove through its field in October 1993. Asmaral was coached by one of the most famous Soviet coaches, the ideologist of Spartak football Beskov, Sergei Semak started his career there, and Yuri Gavrilov finished playing. After spending only two seasons in the Top League, Asmaral flared up brightly and disappeared forever. There is almost nothing left — no stadium, no movies, no books, no fans, no museum, no website. This is symbolic for the beginning of the 90s - a time when it was possible to become a millionaire in one day and also quickly lose everything. Nikola Prorokov's film restores justice by telling this amazing story in detail.

Each of the characters personifies different professions, cultures and outlooks on life, but they definitely agree on one thing - in the boundless love for the place in which they live.

A collective film created within the framework of the laboratory "Ya. Fear. Claustrophobia", consisting of videos that were filmed at the beginning of quarantine - from May 2020 to August 2021. Anyone could take part in the project.

Kursk railway station, cold train. Night road to the city of Pokrov. Colony N2 is located there, where another trial against Navalny is underway. Ilya Yashin goes to see him as a defense witness, who communicates with fellow travelers and talks about prison, about life and about the war.

The robinsonade of the Polish settler of the XIX century Mikhail Yankovsky in the Far East today directly rhymes with the national project "Far Eastern Hectare". Already 78 thousand people have taken advantage of the unprecedented support of the state and have taken land to dare in the fields of free farming. Twenty–year-old descendant of Mikhail Yankovsky - Egor Bordovsky goes from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok to find himself and master his hectare. Having lost contact with his son, his father also goes to the Far East after Egor.

What is stronger: the death of a loved one or a state propaganda? The war between Russia and Ukraine goes. Among the all Russian republics, Buryatia almost immediately found itself as a region with the highest number of dead military. Funerals and zinc coffins have been coming to Buryatia almost every day since February 24, 2022. The government of Buryatia is counting the heroes, posthumously. This is a reflection film from the stories and thoughts of loved ones of the new "war heroes", supplemented by the reality of their life in one of the most depressing regions of Russia. This is scary, but worth to know.

The Buryat Underground Creative Association (BATO), the Nerpa music association and the Udmurt artist Toma-3000 tell how they started, how their bas-reliefs and images are connected with Buddhist mythology, what social and cultural themes they touch on, how their art helps the city and ordinary residents. And they also talk — each in their own way - about how important it is not to forget where you grew up.

Next July Altai will again drown in the sea of love for the famous countryman – Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. Altaians will celebrate his next birthday.

One of the most popular questions for comedians: how do you write the material? None of them can give a simple and understandable answer to this question, because no one knows it. This film is an attempt to follow how a stand-up concert is created.

A large-scale film journey beyond the Arctic Circle, which combines the secrets of shamans and life in the Arctic desert, modern technological process and the struggle of small peoples for their traditions and culture. The film consists of three independent short stories, which are connected by Denis Simachev. He sets off on a journey through the Russian Arctic in search of unique musical tunes.

The Almanac of the Laboratory of Scientific Cinema. 16 directors selected the most interesting scientific developments and research at Skoltech and created 16 short films.

The military blockade of Leningrad by German, Finnish and Spanish troops with the participation of volunteers from North Africa, France, Italy, Poland and other countries lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 — 872 days. The war is moving further away from us. It is incomprehensible to us, living now, how it was possible to survive in those conditions? And not just survive, but act, work, invent, create? The answer is always the same – Faith, Hope, Love... with them, a person reaches the limits of his abilities. We are alive thanks to them. Those who died – by their martyrdom. Those who survived – by their feat.

A minimalist study of an old photograph, accidently found in an antique store. The more you look at it, the more things you see, yet you will never be able to grasp its true meaning. An exercise in looking closely.

Home is the story of four generations of a family of Russian Americans, descendants of the Golitsyns, a distinguished princely family. After fleeing Russia, they made their way to France, and from there to the United States. For more than two decades now they have lived in Alaska. This former Russian territory in some mysterious way provides a link if not to their native country, then to their Fatherland, which none of them has ever seen. In its wanderings this large family has not preserved material treasures, but rather their nobility and dignity—the foundation upon with their Home was built.