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The film is about what children and teenagers of besieged Leningrad survived. 14 surviving heroes and dozens of those for whom only lines of diaries and signatures for children's drawings can now speak, word by word, minute by minute, story after story, revive the siege of memory. What did people actually feel in the besieged city? Which of what we know about the blockade is true, and what is a myth, a stamp from a history textbook? The authors of the film with the help of video comparisons, reconstructions return modern St. Petersburg to the terrible time of the blockade, combining history with momentary.
The film tells what protocols are being treated in Russia and abroad, how the P53 cancer gene was found, what a cancer cell is and whether it is possible to “capture it”, are there killer cells in our body and why they sometimes fall asleep, who and when the disease overtakes. After all, when you know, it's not so scary. After cancer, life goes on.
Katerina Gordeeva's documentary about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine consists of dozens of interviews with Ukranians that have been first-hand witnesses of the war. People from Mariupol, Bucha, Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Volnovakha, Hostomel and other cities have participated in the making of the film. Gordeeva's interviewees recount how they found out about the invasion, how they hid from bombings and how they were forced to leave their homes.
In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the “Serebrennikov case”, “the Seventh Studio case” or “The Platform case”. Six people, among whom is a world-famous director, are accused of having stolen more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances from the state. And for this they can go to jail for 10 years. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out the essence of this matter. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. Studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever succeeded. They understood why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, went to all court sessions.
In January 1989, the Soviet army conducted its last military operation in Afghanistan and began the final withdrawal of troops from this country. Officially, the troops of the USSR completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid-February. Over the ten years of the war, more than 15 thousand Soviet troops died in it. The film of the journalist Katerina Gordeeva “Afghanistan. Man (not) returned from the war ”- the story of those who managed to survive, but could not stop fighting - now in their own country.
From the place where Joseph Brodsky died to the place where he was born, the distance is now insurmountable: there is no country or city where the poet left forty years ago in the world anymore. And that means there's no way to go back. But in the summer of 2014, by order of Brodsky's widow Maria, the last things in the poet's life are sent to the first house in his life. To St. Petersburg, to the corner of Pestel and Liteyny, to the Muruzi house. This film is an attempt at a group portrait of those whom Brodsky would have found if he had had the opportunity to return to Russia today. Formally, the characters of the film are talking about Brodsky. But in these stories, not literary critics, but people who have been strongly influenced by Brodsky, whom they have never seen, there are so many of themselves that a portrait of an entire generation has come out. Generations of Joseph Brodsky's children who had never seen their father with their own eyes in their lives.
The filming of this movie – the story of Russia’s oldest homeless charity “Nochlezhka” – began in January 2022. At the beginning of February 2022, work was underway on the script, and then February 24th happened and all ideas and filming, like many other things, lost their meaning. Two years later, it seemed important to to return to that time, look at ourselves and the country back then, and realize how the ideas and meanings that seemed significant to us had completely changed 24 months later. Or simply ceased to exist.
To a person who does not experience vision problems, it may seem that fine art does not exist in the world of the blind. They don't have it, so they don't need it. “Imagine” is a film-journey to the border area. Blinded due to an illness, an art critic, a fan of painting who lost her sight after the birth of children, an artist who has been blind since childhood. The heroes of the film are people who are in love with art, looking for an opportunity to reconnect with visual culture, cut off by circumstances. What do those who seem to see nothing actually see? What do those who have recently become blind remember? And how do those who live in darkness imagine the world?
The tragedy of the theater center in Moscow on Dubrovka, seized by terrorists in 2002, told by former hostages, special forces and negotiators. What do we still not know about these terrible events, even 17 years later?
The story of one summer of several high school students from an average school of an average town in the heart of Russia. The heroes of the film are classmates of the very girls whose double suicide - a jump from the roof of a high-rise building - shocked the country a couple of years ago and provoked a wave of teenage suicides. Who are they? Which ones? Do you need someone other than yourself? What do we know about their loneliness? And what, in fact, lies behind the statistics of teenage suicides, according to which Russia ranks first in Europe. Six stories that happened in one summer: a house, a dacha, a camp and another amazing place that influenced the life of one of them. Who will be on the edge of that very roof, and who will decide never to climb it again? Why? Starting this movie, none of the crew knew how it would end. Part of the video footage was shot by the heroes of the film themselves.
We follow the life of two Russian adoptees for a few days, one who was adopted into a New Zealand family and one in a domestic Russian family. An in-depth view of both sides.
