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Monkey, Ostrich and Grave

Will the life of the video blogger Gorin of Lugansk change after he encounters a UFO? "Monkey Ostrich and Grave" is the story of the video blogger Genadi Gorin of Lugansk (the capital of a new pseudo-republic occupied by Russia), whose life floats parallel to the horrific reality of the unfinished war.

Birmingham Ornament

Overall, the idea is to make ethnicities, politics, races, nations - to make all of them turn into non-existent objects... ...akin to ovals, boxes, blobs, wardrobes! You might think he's really "someone", really a "representative of the people", but really just a representative of skirting boards, of coffee rings, nothing more. Overall, political invective's that should be perceived solely as poetic invective's. Overall, spreading geopolitics across geology and poetics. Like a question-Eskimo, dancing and waving his ribbons in the air, turns and changes on a pillar, becomes a question-Holocaust. In fact, "geopoetics" is a kind of a Holocaust seen as a choir, as an ensemblement, as an Eskimo.

For Marx...

The workers fight for their rights creating independent union. They know that it is the only way to struggle against the owners of the plant.

Eight Images from the Life of Nastya Sokolova

Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s eight tableaus detail the various workplaces, colleagues and situations. To finish it off: deadpan commentary.

No Place for Fools

Sergey Astahov is a gay man converted by Church and state propaganda into an orthodox pro-Putin activist. Composed of terrifying images from Astahov's blog, this documentary by contemporary artist Oleg Mavromatti is the most radical insight into today's Russia and its ideological clashes.

Semiconductor

Romantic Anya Kadet is a video blogger and employee of the railway depot. One day she meets an eccentric Kulebyakin who damages her. All together - both a real fairy tale and a horror movie. The author was inspired by the prose of Yuri Mamleev, but removes like Hitchcock.

Ivan the Fool

A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.

Pancake Machine

The young vlogger Maximka shares revelations about his life, death, women and capitalism before making the decision of sex change. Already as a woman, she shares her thoughts about the transformation and that life as a woman is not what she expected.

Elixir

A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.

Highway M8

Young and talented programmers Andrey and Marina have created a unique computer program of great commercial value. By a tragic coincidence, Marina dies. To complete the program, Andrey needs an access key for Marinin. Andrey is faced with the task of unraveling the secret of Marina's key. Only one photo serves as a clue - a photo of Jose, an old friend of Andrei and uncle Marina. In search of a clue, Andrei sets off on the road along the M-8 Highway, which leads to Vologda, where Jose lives. Lena, the lover of an oligarch who wants to take over the program, becomes Andrey's fellow traveler. On their trail are several more interested persons: a former "super agent", a gangster music lover, a distraught politician, stoned bikers and many others.

Russia as a dream

In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.

The Year of Literature

2015 is declared a year of literature in Russia. But what is it for a writer to live the year of literature? Neighbor informs the writer that his house will be demolished for the construction of the highway. The highway project is posted on the Internet. And you can see a schematically designated house, where the famous contemporary writers have gathered recently: Alisa Ganieva, Anna Kozlova, Pavel Sanaev, Sergei Shargunov, Anton Sekisov and others. Months of waiting are on. And the writer decides to live as if nothing happened. He's writing.

Pepperstein, a Surreal Reality Show

Pavel Pepperstein is one of the iconic artists of his generation and an active participant in the international art scene. The film "Pepperstein, surreal show" explores the origins and turning points in the life and work of the creator of the direction of "psychedelic realism". Pepperstein talks about his childhood in the circle of Moscow conceptualists, friends of his father Viktor Pivovarov and the raves of the 90s, and his whimsical graphics come to life thanks to animation, complementing the kaleidoscope of the artist's life.

Volga-Volga

A remake of the Grigoriy Aleksandrov's "Volga-Volga", a postmodernist deconstruction of the legendary Soviet movie. Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe's head was "glued" to Lyubov Orlova's body, and now Monroe is re-acting the movie, making what was a musical about amateur artists into a tragedy – postwoman wants too much and, eventually, loses her mind. Sometime in the movie, the movie shifts to Antarctica from the Volga, where Monroe-Orlova is looking at the fascinating life of penguins.

Birmingham Ornament 2

Why in the world is a Georgian chorus singing a traditional song that unexpectedly mentions the death of Saddam Hussein? The stars of the film, taken by surprise, talk about this odd turn of events "live". The conversation then shifts to samurais by the sea, the poets Mandelstam, Kliuev and Gorodezky, Moscow in the 1930s, and a Russian painter who immortalized Putin fishing. All surreal glimpses of the artist's relationship with power. The "second part" of a film that stirred a scandal at the Orizzonti section of the 2011 Venice Film Festival. Director's statement The goal of this experimental film was to apply the technology and linguistic peculiarities of modern fine arts to the cinema. The film consists of several lines: each of these lines was shot with its own specific stylistics in different corners of the planet.

Mozg

Talking heads dissecting their lives in post-communist Moscow; off-the-wall sketches; computer-animated insects in a futuristic scenario -- Silvestrov's film deftly eludes categorization while fathoming the very depths of the collective consciousness.