Sergey Kalvarsky

A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural landscape unfolds, where Pushkin meets Godard, Sokurov, Dionysius, Eisenstein, Snyders, Glass, Ozu, and many others. Kleiman reveals the simplicity of mystery, and in doing so, reveals himself.

Grisha, an official from the committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites, has an ideal plan — to carefully kidnap the boss on New Year's Eve in order to make a deal with another shopping center in the city center himself. Grisha has provided for everything, and it's hard to imagine what could go wrong.

A young woman is engaged to a much older truck driver who promises to build a house for the two of them. A film in the Cabardino language.

A team of talented and cheerful people have come together to realize an ambitious idea – to create giant puppets of Russian writers. The process of bringing the puppets to life takes on the character of an unusual experiment, going beyond the traditional craft of puppet theater. The writers’ first journey ends in a completely unexpected way, forcing their creators to see their creations in a new way…

Brother and son, it was only yesterday that he came back from the army. Only his sister is at home, his mother is wandering somewhere as usual. But the man, who has come back, has changed completely.

Andrei, a Russian nobleman, flesh and blood of the enlightened nineteenth century, volunteers to go to war to go through it together with the people. The fighting takes place in the middle of the merciless Russian winter. And the noble goal unexpectedly becomes the reason for a religious revelation. But does anyone in this world need it? The film is based on the story "Four Days" by Vsevolod Garshin.

Alexander and Ivan are sound engineers; a rattling train took them to Transbaikalia. They thought that this would be another expedition, that they would record the necessary surrounding sounds and, having done their job, would return home. Their main goal was to record in the Marble Gorge, a rotting camp hidden deep in the mountains, a fragment of the Gulag. But what they heard and recorded was not at all what they expected. Everything around them that had seemed inanimate, gone, suddenly began to acquire its own voice.

The St. Petersburg printing house of the Academy of Sciences has served the cause of education since 1727. Her presses produced the first editions of Pushkin, Lomonosov, Euler, Derzhavin, Likhachev... She was lucky to survive into our century.

After the funeral of his young wife Asi, David tries to cope with the loss. The condolences of his friends and the reproachful words of her relatives do not seem to make any impression on him. Suddenly Asya appears on the threshold of the apartment. Her appearances are repeated over and over again until the boundaries of reality and dream for David are finally blurred.

He wakes her up in the mornings and brings her coffee to bed. She does not notice his embarrassment and takes his efforts for granted. Trying to find answers to his questions he turns to strangers though an open-hearted talk with her would be sufficient. He wants to live with her as a man. They are brother and sister.