Misha, a cheerful and inexhaustible six-year-old prodigy, blows up a kindergarten as a result of another experiment. He is truly upset only by the lack of attention of his parents, who are on the verge of divorce. Right on New Year's Eve, Misha suddenly becomes the hero of a fantastic story: he is...
Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us life on Earth as humanity clashes with the five fundamental elements—earth, air, water, fire, and money— headed towards a critical moment of choice...
Believing his lover will support him, a young Mexican ballet dancer crosses the border to pursue his dreams in San Francisco. But as ambition and love clash with harsh realities, he must face the true nature of their relationship.
A prosperous and calm life in an instant explodes into a monstrous event, and nothing will ever be the same again. A terrible bleeding scar remains in the soul forever. One fine day, a young and charming archaeologist Alexei, five minutes later a doctor of science, learns that his sibling was...
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a...
Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.
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A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important milestones of cinema. Its introduction as a lowbrow entertainment, the impact of WWI and revolutions on the...
After a long rehabilitation, Laura returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her life without the career that gave her fame, fortune and, most importantly, identity.
Set against the backdrop of New Jersey’s Circassian community, a teenager helps out in his family’s struggling diner specializing in Circassian cuisine. When he’s not working at the restaurant, he’s training to become a professional wrestler. After one of his father’s misguided schemes...
Ukrainian cameraman Sasha Shumovich was a shining light in Ukrainian national cinema, but in 1996 he was tragically shot and killed. During his short life he worked with Roman Balayan, Yuri Illenko and, above all, with Sergii Masloboishchykov. In honour of his memory, the director made this...
In Budapest in 1957, one year after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.
Maria Kampf is on a train for her last prison visit to her father Ivan, a Nazi criminal, one of the last Soviet death row inmates. In intimate dialogues in the compartment and hotel, she mentions the biography of her father and the circumstances of his crime - involvement in the murder of more than...
Even before the days of top-rated global shows, Ukrainian television had no money for international formats. To retain viewers, TV workers created original programs. As a result, cult TV shows appeared and gave Ukraine stars who became symbols of the era. Ihor Pelykh sends strangers on a romantic...
In a tiny Azerbaijani fishing village young Sarah's father disappears at sea. Misfortunes abound until the superstitious inhabitants demand a funeral. Rebellious Sarah undertakes one last, and deadly, attempt to find her father.
This film features two Russian communist politicians. Being committed Leninists; both of them have served several terms as city council members. Their horizons are broad, but what concerns them the most is the future of global communism. At one point, by decree of fate, their booming activities...
Husband and wife want to move to a new apartment. During their 10-minute dialogue we get an idea of the real estate market in Kyiv and the priorities of the citizens. Three drug-addicted teenagers are planning their evening, also discussing Kyiv's nightlife. In a sauna, two discharged cooks are...
What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four...
