Alekhin
Young musician and writer Evgeny Alekhin is waiting for his first book to be published. However, he does not spend his days just waiting, something is always going on in his life. Where is his relationship, his work and…
Chechen
Story takes place during Ukraine crisis, namely its major events - Maidan protests, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass
Film Almanac “Fires in Russia, Summer 2010”
Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is covered by the fire. Around one hundred and thirty villages and towns were burned. Cities and roads have been in the smoke. The authors of these films with the…
Film for Carlos
My son Carlos is the sweetest of the babies, but myin laws aren't very happy about him being "Dark skinned".
Hey, Bro!
Mark is 18, Kirill just over 20. They have known one another for only a month, but it seems as if they're already the best of friends. Their passions are girls, dancing, cloud-rap and skateboarding.
The Last Limousine
Faced with the relentless demise of the factory they work at, Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Luda - bosses, foremen, engineers and workers of the giant Moscow automobile plant ZIL - cling to established…
The Little Prince
In a small village, just at the edge of the former coal mines, father of a large family Oleg Pavlov decides to film Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. He is using the most simple camera, which he bought for his pension.
Monologue
Twenty years passed after Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. But we still see its traces in monologues of its participants, soldiers who have become patients of the republican psycho-neurological clinic.
Morphology
A pathologist and his job are the main characters of the film. He loves his work and his workplace is well suited for a flow of life. Book shelves, a CD collection of a musical gourmet - Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones,…
Mousetrap
Can one escape from his or her family into a mental hospital? An overdose of drugs – and you are “free”. Now Dasha lies on a hospital bed, paints and smokes. She smokes. And smokes. And smokes. Sometimes she is visited…
Optical Axis
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers and monks. Hundred years later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes.…
The Potato Eaters
A Russian family lives in extreme poverty. This is what Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters would look like if it came to life.
September 25
To return to the starting point, it takes only a few stations on the train. The worst childhood memories would show up if you cross the line. The main character of the film, 20-year-old Dima, who grew up in an orphanage…
Shrove Sunday
The Samodurovs family lives in the village of Uglyanets in Russia's Voronezh Region. Shura and her two brothers, Alyosha and Petya, are blind from birth. After the death of their parents, elder brother Shura refused to…
S.P.A.R.T.A. - The Territory of Happiness
This documentary focuses on S.P.A.R.T.A., a “poetic agricultural commune” dwelling in the East Ukrainian village of Caravan. In the early 1990s, the founder of the commune developed his own “theory of happiness,” which…
The Twin
This is the story of two twin brothers, a composer and a painter. Three years ago they quarreled and now can't reconcile with each other.
Winter Go Away
“Winter Go Away” was filmed by the graduates of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s Documentary Filmmaking and Theater School, on the initiative of Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper. Ten young…
Zviszhi
It takes 20 minutes on foot to get from the town of Nikola-Lenivets to the village of Zviszhi. Nikola-Lenivets is the site of Arkhstoyaniye, a most fashionable festival of landscape objects. Zviszhi is the place where…