Polina Raykina

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

A screen adaptation of the beloved international fairy tale by Alexei Tolstoy in a new way. The story of everyone's favorite hero Pinocchio, his dad Carlo and their friends, told with the help of modern life-action technologies.

Anton Chekhov’s first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Tréplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre. Chekhov’s characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity.

Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.

The film is about a boy who made himself a very necessary stuffed nanny out of old, unnecessary things. And, as happens in fairy tales, the Scarecrow came to life. True friendship is not only about holidays, but also the harsh trials that the heroes overcome with honor.

The Thief of Bagdad is as bright as an Eastern robe and as sweet as tahini halva. It soars in dance, immerses itself in music, and dies from laughter. At the time, when work on the play began, no one could have guessed that this charming, captivating trifle, based on a famous Eastern story, would play a significant role in the life of the theatre and its actors.

Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba the drake, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.