Sergey Ivanov

During the day, Lera studies humankind and its needs through opinion polls, which are an educational practice at the institute; at night, she dances under the pseudonym Gerda in a club to support herself and her mother. The people she meets are as unfortunate as her family. Her father has recently left for another woman, but he constantly returns home, unable to make his choice and thereby making the life of close people intolerable. The mother painfully endures the breakup and constantly sleeps, ignoring reality. Lera doesn’t know how to carry on, where to go and what to live for, and — most importantly — how to improve life. The adult world, invariable unfortunate, which Lera observes day and night, seems hopeless.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Oleg is a suburban guy, he has been into boxing since childhood, now together with his friend Lyokha they work in a car repair shop on the Kanonersky island, where they live your average Russian life. He is saving for a round-the-world trip, making plans until a training session cuts his life into the “before” and “after” parts.

Timur Novikov: Zero Object positions the late artist Timur Novikov as protagonist in this exploration of underground art from St Petersburg. As well as providing a historical overview of the 1980s-1990s, the film features iconic figures in St Petersburg’s underground scene: cult rocker Victor Tsoi, and artists Georgy Guryanov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and Sergey ‘Africa’ Bugaev, among others. From beginning to end, it’s a manifesto for personal and artistic freedom in a forbidding political climate.

In a search of a peaceful retreat, a writer will find something both achingly familiar and long forgotten.

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Two sisters arrive to Moscow trying to find their father who left the family 15 years ago.

While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.

A Russian mother flees to Uzbekistan in WWII where she and her children are taken in by a local family.

An experimental drama about a boy and his illness, a wife looking for a site for her husband’s construction company and a beautiful girl who works on a phone sex-line.

A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Elderly Aleksandra visits her Russian soldier grandson, Denis, at the Chechen war front, providing comfort as she tours his army. All the while, Denis ponders the reason for her unexpected appearance.

What if you deprive 'civilized man' all the gadgets, and send him to the place where he will face the irrational and incomprehensible things?

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.

1984, Sverdlovsk, USSR. A shy freshman, an entrepreneur, a poet and two charming it-girls navigate life in a student dorm, sharing their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all. Suddenly a horrible accident blows up the life of the dorm when a female student commits suicide. The dorm is a miniature model of the world that encapsulates the full range of human passions, acts of bravery and cowardice, aspirations for virtue and failures, of love, friendship and betrayal.

Katya is smart, modest and diligent, but most importantly, she is very convenient for those around her, which they take advantage of. After the death of her overprotective mother, Katya inherits her mother's late lover Andrey Nikolaevich, who has nowhere else to live, along with the house. However, this is not our heroine's main problem. The secrets that her mother hid from Katya during her life, the mortgage debt, because of which she could lose her home, and the mysterious man to whom her mother has been sending large sums of money for many years - Katya will have to figure all this out, and for the first time in her life - on her own.

The main character Alexander, the large businessman and the influential person in the city, after the intense working day is lucky the friend and the assistant Dmitry in restaurant. But to Dmitry's surprise, there they are waited by neither business partners, nor friends - indoors at all there are no visitors. Men should spend time in the company of silent waiters and numerous bottles with content of various fortress. When the door is locked from within, two heroes on a showdown have whole night.

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.

Following her divorce, Marina thinks that she’ll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she’ll find the love of her life in freediving, one of the most extreme sports in existence, built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath. In the vast, mysterious realm of the sea, Marina not only regains her sense of peace and well being, but also redefines her existence.

Father Alexey (a member of the Auctioneer group Oleg Garkusha), an elderly, eccentric and kind priest, spends his days alone, except for visiting his sick brother and his daughter. One day he receives an assignment to visit a deaf girl Violetta (Vasilisa Perelygina) in prison, falsely accused of setting fire to a church. When Father Alexei recognizes her as an orphan, whom he baptized as Barbara in infancy, a new meaning appears in his life.

Music video for song by Jay-Jay Johanson.

The autumn of 1993. In an attempt to puzzle out the death of a famous film director and save the unfinished movie “Boris Godunov” the enamored protagonists fail to notice the moment when they become part of the historical events which will forever change their lives.

While everyone is sitting at home, the Moscow director and several famous artists have to rehearse the new performance remotely. However, not everything goes according to plan, because relationships, sex and parents are now also online. And the play itself adds insanity, because the main role - a real sheep.

A college boxer juggling studies and caring for his brother with cerebral palsy falls in love with a new teacher, but family pressure leads to a heartbreaking clash. As tragedy strikes, the family must search for a way back to hope.

They are the most talented students of the provincial music school. There are four of them, they are a Quartet, and their common dream is to win an international music competition. But their life is not a series of lessons and rehearsals, their life is a constant struggle with their fears, manias and the world around them. Meet. First violin, Andrey is a kleptomaniac, unable to cope with his pernicious passion, which destroys his life. Polina, the second violinist, is madly devoted to music, and in order to maintain the instrument, buy Austrian strings and a dress in which even Schnittke would not be ashamed to play, works as a prostitute. Viola player Masha suffers from schizophrenia and believes that their Quartet is the embodiment of spirits from the fifth purple world. And the main character, cellist Nastya, lives under a false name and hides some terrible secret – and does not even know that a gang of thugs is following in her footsteps.