Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

During the day, Lera studies humankind and its needs through opinion polls, which are an educational practice at the institute; at night, she dances...

A young truck driver from a small, nameless Russian town sets off on a spiritual journey that has no actual purpose and no verifiable destination,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Nothing is forever. Everything passes. Are you sure? And a woman’s insult? Vera has come with her grandson to see her old childhood friend,...

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...

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient...

In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and...