Feature Films

The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, whom they know only from a 10 year old photograph. Is he really their father? Why has he come back after so many years?

A husband, wife and two children (a boy and a girl) come from an industrial city to the countryside, to the husband’s birthplace, to stay in his father's old house.

The film takes place during the World War II from the perspective of opposing Soviet and Finnish soldiers stranded at a Sami woman's farmhouse. "Kukushka" was the nickname given by Soviet soldiers to Finnish cuckoo snipers, who ambushed their targets from a purpose-built tree-branch-nest. Thus the title refers to both Veikko (the sniper) and Anni (whose name means cuckoo in Sami, and who is a lone woman living in the forest, much like a cuckoo).

There’s more freshness and electricity in five’utes of BROTHER than in all THE LETHAL WEAPON films put together. (Jay Carr “BOSTON GLOBE”)
Danila Bagrov returns to his native town after two years in the army.

The sequel to Brother. Taking part in a television program, Danila meets his comrades from the Chechen War. Soon one of them is found dead.

Lisa is an intellectual. Her life consists of her work at an ethnographic museum, TV in the evenings, and sex with her ex-husband on weekends. Vika is a typical provincial woman. To her, a holiday in St. Petersburg means vodka, parties, and adventures. They have little in common, or so it seems.

Tata is a beautiful young woman. She is bored, has nothing to do, but everything changes when she meets Misha, a young designer. He appears at her door together with his friends Alya and Oleg. They are young, full of strength and energy. They have talent, skill and a thirst for life…

Ivan is a creative character. His ability to anticipate explosions is a metaphor for his intuitive connection with the surrounding world.

Two young mobsters get hold of a case full of heroin belonging to a local well established and respected gangster (Nikita Mikhalkov). The young neophytes try to cheat him not quite understanding how tough a man he really is.

Ten-year Yuriko is a daughter of influential yakuza Tazio Yamada. Everybody is afraid of him, and he fears for his daughter. After the assault of his bitter enemy, Nakata, Yamada decides to send Yuriko to Italy. But the airplane takes an emergency landing in the Southern part of Russia.

Russia 2020. The country prospers. The main characters are very rich and successful people who can afford anything the money can buy, except youth and happiness. One day they hear that far in the Est, in Altay mountains there is an abandoned Soviet astrophysical complex which is a storage of cosmic particles. It looks like a target. Anyone who spends some time in this device comes out as a newborn, young and regenerated...

One of the Russia’s most original Russian directors (Father, Santa Klaus Is Dead; The Wooden Room; Silver Heads), Yevgeny Yufit has created a enigmatic drama in which a female anthropologist studies the roots of human evolution.

In a secret bunker hidden in a forest, a group of scientists carries out a unique experiment to create a new species of man possessing supernatural abilities. Fatal bacilli destroythescientists`’ds, turning them into instruments of death.

25-year-old Lesha Shultes, a former athlete that had received a serious injury in a car accident, becomes a pickpocket. He lives with his aged mother in a large city. In the mornings he jogs in a park; in the evenings he watches the sports channel on TV. He always buys his groceries at the same store.

Gena is a programmer by vocation and a hacker for real. He is a good guy, but he has a real problems: his girlfriend left him, the mobsters are looking for him, and he is wanted by secret services.

Kostia Gumankov, the young programmer, owing to numerous intrigues appears in the tourist group going Paris. But instead of going on store as all normal Soviet people, Kostia falls in love with the wife of his chief.

Five episodes in which couples try to say the most important things to each other and break the fear of being misunderstood. Five steps towards understanding yourself through a reflection in the closest person.

Late in the fall of 1917, twenty-three year old Dr. Polyakov arrives at the hospital in the provincial town of N. One day, while fighting for the life of a patient, Dr. Polyakov's own life is put in danger. He is saved with an injection of the powerful narcotic morphia.

Ivan Dunaev, a farmer, gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he’ll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things.

A beautiful and visually stunning fairytale. A day in the life of a modern peasant girl who after a chance meeting with a strange character of lore sets out on a lengthy trip beyond her native village.

Set against the splendor of St. Petersburg, Happy Days tells an absurd, strange and fascinating story about a lonely man in a big hostile city.

The movie opens unknown pages of history of the WWII.
May, 8, 1945. Maxim an Internal Affairs officer arrives in a small northern island. There are five young women, five small children, and a captain.

director
Murad Ibragimbekov

An American millionaire of Russian origin Steven is seriously ill. He arrives to Russia to voluntarily withdraw from life. He lives at his house not far from Moscow with young doctor-graduate student Egor and Dasha – his medical attendant, whose life Steven turns into an everyday nightmare.An American millionaire of Russian origin Steven is seriously ill. He arrives to Russia to voluntarily withdraw from life.

Based on a popular verse tale, the film is a genuine folk comedy filled with Russian humor and spirit.

Young pianist Roman Osin gets in a cancer clinic with a diagnosis of Ewing's Sarcoma, where he meets a girl, Julia, a talented artist. Between them there is sympathy, all the free time they try to spend together. Forgetting about their diagnoses, they live as normal young people. But once the disease has appeared, Roma understands that Julia’s condition is getting worse and the medicine here is powerless. Believing in the power of music, Roma decides to perform the Second concert of Rachmaninov in the clinic, hoping that it could help Julia. This is a story about first love, about sacrifice for a loved one, undying hope...

Lisa is an intellectual. Her life consists of her work at an ethnographic museum, TV in the evenings, and sex with her ex-husband on weekends. Vika is a typical provincial woman. To her, a holiday in St. Petersburg means vodka, parties, and adventures. They have little in common, or so it seems.

The Sword Bearer successfully combines elements of a thriller and mystery resulting in a suspenseful dramatic and dynamic film full of action, chasing and fighting.

Crazy day of a prosperous citizen - fitter Vasily began with the verification commission visit complaints fumes coming from the furnace.

Two young half-sisters live apart and do not love each other. But when the younger girl finds herself in serious danger, the elder sister turns out to be the only person who can help her.

Based on actual events. The director turns to a historical theme, opening to an undiscovered page in a book we thought we have fully read, the Book of World War II.
1942. World War II. The USSR.

The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child.

In a coastal town, the pre-election campaign begins. The main candidates for the election are the respected businessman Turist and the local public prosecutor.

А nostalgic story about a young driver who drives an old Russian truck along the roads of the Ural region of Russia. He does not take women seriously until he meets a proud and beautiful girl who drives a luxurious Ford.

The film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall’s images, but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying on both, facts and fantasy (as Chagall himself would).

The film about the commune of hippies, leader of which is obsessed by the idea to present the love and sex to beggars, to the cripples and to the outcasts.

All stuntmen risk their lives. But there is one, who always takes the challenge to meet danger face-to-face. He is a stuntman, a cool, and tough fighter who is able to survive. All alone, he ruins the plans of the Russian mafia.

Philipp Safronov is a farmer, but his peaceful existence is violently interrupted whenamysteriousgroupof people seizes his land to exploit its oil resources. Safronov organizes a gang of tough farmers.

The film is based on real events that took place in Georgia in the 1990’s. The Soviet Union collapsed. Civil and ethnic wars broke out in Georgia, Azer- baijan, and Armenia, three republics in the Caucasus. The post-Soviet Caucasus turned into one large conflict zone.

Fifteen year old Mustafa has a nickname Schizo. He is hired by his mother’s boyfriend to find fighters for illegal fistfights. His life is changed forever when a young man mortally beaten in one of the fights asks Schizo to deliver his prize money to his girlfriend and young son.

Alisa is a young attractive girl waiting for changes in her life. She shares a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg with several other people, an elderly woman who owns the apartment and a young girl Vel. Vel`s boyfriend Valera Myortvy lives there as well.

War rages in the Caucasus and people from different countries and cultures are caught up in its wrath. Chechen fighters hold two Russian Soldiers and a wounded officer captive in a filthy pit.

The film features the life of a teenager boy who lives in the remote taiga settlement. Having been born in an ordinary family of an oil-field driller and a nurse, the boy is a successful schoolboy. Each summer the family goes to the Crimea to visit the boy’s grandmother.

The film is based on the tragic life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia, then in immigration in Prague and Paris, and then her return to Russia where she committed a suiside a few month after her arrival.

A woman, who was lying on the ground “forty years”; a disabled guy, who made a vow not to budge until the arrival of the kingdom of heaven; ragman, who collects clothes from corpses; a humpbacked old woman, who keeps a head of her lover-executioner in the box; an old man, who collects a heap of rubbish, to make it grow up to the sky...
The director spent more than one year, among his characters, a beggars from Kishinev and started filming by his handheld camera well ahead of joining the VGIK.

A chance meeting of Maya and Jumbo becomes fateful: she falls in love and, without meaning to itself, becomes an accomplice, having decided to fake web. The illusion of love, boyfriends, who did not know how to shoot, and forgery forgery forgery - to get out of this swamp, the girl must find the courage to find freedom.

St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. The handsome and secretive Johann specializes in the fabrication of erotic photographs depicting the floggings of bare-bottomed women. Johann, his assistants and his photographic creations gradually penetrate the peaceful households of two upper class Russian families.

Modern Moscow – European, glamorous, cruel. The city of hopes and deceived expectations.
The only law is the law of survival. The strongest win. Anton, a young provincial man comes to the capital to see the girl he loves.

He is a fighter. He is a legend. His will to win and imposing looks have earned him the nickname Rockhead. Having lost his memory after a car accident, he can’t return to the ring.

All of a sudden, the main characters’ world, never-changing, tedious and painfully familiar, starts to go crazy when it is announced that a gigantic asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. The end of the world is near. The Apocalypse is coming. And then, the moment of truth arrives: it’s time to fulfill your innermost wishes. It’s now or never. It’s too late to retreat. And at that instant, our heroes, surprised at their own decisions, start a mad dance on the very brink of the abyss. No one can stop them now because there’s literally no tomorrow. Winter will certainly never come,in any case.
However, someone might still have a chance

USSR. 1984. The end of the Soviet era. A provincial town. After going to a club the daughter of the secretary of the district committee for the Communist Party disappears.

Psychological drama, after Franz Kafka.
Gregor Samza wakes one morning after a night of uneasy dreams and finds himself literally and symbolically transformed into a huge, repulsive, and fatally wounded insect.

The life of a prosperous Moscow family is shattered when the head of the family learns that he has a grown son from a short encounter with a woman he cannot even remember.

The film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg,tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker. Living in the incinerator room, the Major shovels coal all day, turning a blind eye to his former military comrade turned mobster, the Sergeant, who arrives to dispose of bodies.

The end of the Great Patriotic War in Russia. A 16 year-old sniper of the Hitler Youth is left behind by the retreating Nazis in a destroyed building. A Jewish family made up of an invalid-grandfather, his 15 year-old granddaughter and her mother return from the town’s evacuation to another destroyed building across the street.

A maniac is on the loose in the city. His time - the night. His weather - the rain. After each night like this, his next victim is found. And it is on a night just like this that a student, working his way through college, comes in to work the graveyard shift at a twenty-four hour convenience store. His boss has gone off to gamble at a casino and the boss' wife decides to have some fun.

Oleg is a charming and cruel boss of Russian Mafia. He prepares the party to celebrate the anniversary of the prosperity of his business. His family and guests come together in his mansion in the Malibu.

The version of the unfinished film “Viva Mexico!” by Sergey Eisenshtein, filmed by the cameraman Eduard Tisse in 1930’s during the Eisenshtein's journey to Mexico.

An atmospheric period piece of exquisite beauty set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the capital of collapsing Russian Empire. World War I has already begun. Four young men stick together and play on the same football team.

Tolerance, compassion, and forgiveness are explored in this film, as the two protagonists – an army captain and a lieutenant – are sent to Moscow from a remote army base to find and retrieve two deserters.

A big Russian city- not necessarily Moscow, but the kind that is bustling with all types of life including criminal so the police are not without business. A young agent by the name of Nikolay, whose ancestors on his mother’s side are Georgian, walks into the department which is busy with the investigation of a murder committed by a mysterious blind killer.