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- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 126 min
- Genre Thriller, Drama
- Country Russia, France, Estonia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov
- Writer(s) Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov, Mart Taniel
- Producer(s) Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeniy Nikishov, Alexander Plotnikov
- Cast Yuriy Borisov, Nikita Kukushkin, Timofey Tribuntsev, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Viktotriya Tolstoganova.
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 126 min
18.00-19.00 – Arrivals; photos and red carpet
19.00-21.15 – Opening Ceremony and Film Screening
21.15-00.00 – RFW Kaspersky Opening Party at the W Hotel
Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of. Suddenly he gets a message from hell: after death he will be sentenced to eternal torments. The only way to avoid it is to repent and to find at least one person who will give him forgiveness. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him…
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 51 min
- Genre Documentary
- Country Russia
- Year 2019
- Director(s) Dmitry Shpilenok, Vladislav Grishin
- Producer(s) Dmitry Shpilenok, Petr Shpilenok, Anna Sukhova
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 51 min
Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is spawned in the Kamchatkan waters and then spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters - to breed, start the circle of life, and die. An inexhaustible resource which feeds billions of people on the planet and is replenished every year! But soon, we may find ourselves facing the unimaginable: humans will exhaust the inexhaustible!
- Language Yakut
- Subtitles English
- Duration 144 min
- Genre Drama, history
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Nikita Arzhakov
- Writer(s) Nikita Arzhakov, Vladimir Kuzmin
- Producer(s) Vera Filippova
- Cast Nyurgun Bechigen, Petr Savvin, Anatoly Nikolaev, Vasilisa Mireyeva
- Rating 16+
- Language Yakut
- Subtitle English
- Duration 144 min
Tygyn Darkhan, the leader of a prominent clan, follows the will of his father and aims to assemble the scattered clans and create a great union. But opposing leaders are not ready to share their power. When betrayal strikes, the spirit of war rises above Tuymaada Valley. Many challenges stand in Tygyn’s way, and only indomitable resolve can help him overcome them.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 107 min
- Q&A director Michael Idov and writer Lily Idova
- Q&A director Michael Idov and writer Lily Idova
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Michael Idov
- Writer(s) Lily Idova
- Producer(s) Artem Vasilyev, Vyacheslav Murugov, Maksim Rybakov
- Cast Irina Starshenbaum, Phillip Avdeev, Ksenia Rappoport, Alexander Gorelov
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 107 min
A frank, uncompromising, erotic, and humourous look at modern relationships, creative class, and women’s role in Russian society. The protagonists’ stories are tales of modern relationships, in which feelings are integral to actions, and actions, too, manifest feelings.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 85 min
- Genre Documentary
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Julia Sergina
- Writer(s) Julia Sergina
- Producer(s) Alexander Balashov, Karina Sharafutdinova
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 85 min
A taxi driver Viktor Toroptsev from an endangered city in the Far East of Russia, decides that a critical moment has just arrived in his life. He starts a You-tube channel, where he begins publishing evidence of the abject poverty and lack of rights of his people as well as gathering a team of soulmates.
Victor is sure that he must save his city and all of Russia from inevitable death so he embarks on the pivotal journey of his life, not realising what chain of events he has unleashed.
- Language Italian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 136 min
- Genre Drama, history
- Country Russia, Italy
- Year 2019
- Director(s) Andrei Konchalovsky
- Writer(s) Elena Kiseleva, Andrei Konchalovsky
- Producer(s) Alisher Usmanov, Andrei Konchalovsky, Elda Ferri, Mauro Calevi, Raffaella Cassano, Paolo Del Brocco, Olesya Gidrat
- Cast Alberto Testone, Orso Maria Guerrini, Antonio Gargiulo, Yuliya Vysotskaya
- Rating 16+
- Language Italian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 136 min
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici family, ascends to the papacy and charges him with a lucrative new commission – the façade of the San Lorenzo basilica. Forced to lie to maintain favour with both families, Michelangelo is progressively tormented by suspicion and hallucinations, leading him to ruthlessly examine his own moral and artistic failings. Written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, IL PECCATO (SIN) is a gripping reflection on the agony and ecstasy of individual greatness, and the profound humanity behind the legend of the Renaissance.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 88 min
- Genre Comedy, Family
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Ilya Ermolov
- Writer(s) Pavel Ruminov, Roman Melnikov, Sergey Bobza, Alena Baklanova, Ilia Ermolov
- Producer(s) Sergey Bobza, Alexey Kucherenko, Oleg Stepanov
- Cast Ilia Sigalov, Masha Lobanova, Kamil Larin, Nikolay Shraiber
- Rating 6+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 88 min
Family programme with Art Social Charity x Gazprom MT -
Vitya Kasatkin has an unusual hobby, Japanese sumo wrestling. The love of sumo was instilled in him by his father who left Vitya and his mother eight years previously and moved to Japan. That love of sumo, the only thing that Vitya had had from his father, gave him hope that one day his father would return to them. He had been living one dream for years - to take part in the Junior Sumo Tournament in Tokyo, so that his father could see him, realise that he was wrong and return to the family. The persistence with which the boy keeps moving toward his goal is impressive. He won the Tournament which gave him the opportunity to finally get to Tokyo, but ... the world turned upside down when the "Diamond Princess" entered Yokohama bay.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 123 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Roman Vasyanov
- Writer(s) Roman Vasyanov, Ekaterina Bogomolova, Pavel Selukov, Daria Selukova
- Producer(s) Artem Vasiliev, Igor Mishin
- Cast Gennady Vyrypaev, Nikita Efremov, Marina Vasilyeva, Ilya Malanin, Yulia Aug, Irina Starshenbaum, Alena Mikhaylova
- Rating 18+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 123 min
In the USSR in 1984, in the middle of nowhere, a group of friends try to live their lives and maintain their dignity despite the corrupt system and the people running their student dorm. They share their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all, until a tragic event – a female student commits suicide – sends a shockwave through the dorm. This event sets off a chain reaction that will put their love, friendship and beliefs to the ultimate test.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 122 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Anna Melikyan
- Writer(s) Anna Melikyan, Michael Idov, Lily Idova, Evgeniya Khripkova
- Producer(s) Anna Melikyan, Artem Vasiliev, Natella Krapivina
- Cast Konstantin Khabenskiy, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Peresild
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 122 min
What is one to do when one has a wife, with whom life and coexistence are so well settled that even quarrels no longer arise? There are memories, a common past, a lot of good things and lots of nothings, all in all it’s just life, like everyone else’s. And suddenly love comes into the life of this man. What should one do in this situation?
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 100 min
- Genre Comedy
- Country Russia
- Year 2019
- Director(s) Alexey Kamynin
- Writer(s) Vitali Anokhin, Alexey Kamynin, Nikita Kornev, Denis Lipatov
- Producer(s) Ekaterina Golubeva-Poldi, Andrey Mger, Mariya Perlich, Evgeniy Subochev
- Cast Danila Yakushev, Mikhail Troynik, Kirill Kovbas, Ekaterina Ageeva, Ravshana Kurkova, Anya Chipovskaya
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 100 min
A poetic and satiric comedy about modern Moscow and its inhabitants. A truthful story about three friends renting a flat together. During the course of a day, they live through a number of both strange and funny adventures with one outcome looming ahead – they will mature.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 122 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Renata Litvinova
- Writer(s) Renata Litvinova
- Producer(s) Renata Litvinova, Nadezhda Solovieva
- Cast Renata Litvinova, Anton Shagin, Sofya Ernst, Galina Tyunina, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Tatiana Piletskaya, Nikita Kukushkin, Uliana Dobrovskaya, Maksim Sukhanov
- Rating 18+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 122 min
It was a magical time when the great matriarchy reigned: women of an influential clan ruled the territory of the Northern Fields and lived in anticipation of love ... They were all strong, and their every wish was fulfilled, but in the blink of an eye everything changed and chaos began ...
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 96 min
- Genre Short films
- Country Russia
- Year 2019
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 96 min
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After us by Inna Tsgoeva, 2021 (15 min)
Giuseppe is an old fisherman. He spends every single day of his lonely life at sea. Nothing ever changes or will ever change. His granddaughter Sofia comes to visit just for a few days. And after their short life together he returns back to the only thing he knows.
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Sister by Alina Dotsenko, 2021 (10 min)
Sisters are talking at night before dream or may be its talking is a dream?
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Bum Bro by Peter Timofeev, 2021 (15 min)
A young rapper and musician walks the streets of the city searching for the homeless. He hunts for their stories, which he records on his phone. After one of these sessions, he gets an unusual idea.
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The Platform On the Right by Ivan Lustin, 2021 (20 min)
After leaving prison, Oleg meets his overly sensitive little brother Pasha and tries to meet his father as soon as possible. On the way from the station to his house, Oleg begins to realize that Pasha hides something from him.
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The Blooper by Sergey Tselikov, 2021 (13 min)
The production designer Kostya’s workday snowballed since the early morning. The studio’s Accounting Department informed him that he was fined. Shocked by the fact, Kostya goes to see the producer, to sort it all out.
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Deleve by Roma Glova (3 min)
Teenage girl makes selfie when strange things start happening.
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Dad by Karina Chuvikova (20 min)
Vasya, a true rogue, never misses any chance to get easy money. After another failed attempt to swindle Vasya ends up in a hospital, where he meets Gena. Gena opens up about his tough life and that soon he’s finally meeting his 27 old son for the first time ever. Gena has cancer so there’s no way to wait any longer. Coming back from lunch Vasya finds out that Gena is gone. So he decides to meet Gena’s son in person to break bad news. As soon as he sees wealthy guy, Vasya introduces himself as his father...
Cheat sheet for the Princess / #небанальнаявизитка by Bukharov Vladimir (6 min)
When an agent introduces his latest star to a film producer, things end bloody. But do they?
- Language Russian and Arabic
- Subtitles English
- Duration 85 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Ivan Bolotnikov
- Writer(s) Konstantin Lopushansky, Ivan Bolotnikov, Vyacheslav Rybakov, Denis Gutzko
- Producer(s) Andrey Sigle
- Cast Géza Morcsányi, Ekaterina Kramarenko, Danijela Stojanovic
- Rating 18+
- Language Russian and Arabic
- Subtitle English
- Duration 85 min
The film is based on a true story. Artur, a former military doctor, leads the quiet life of a widower in a mountain village in Dagestan. Artur learns that his only daughter Maryam, having been recruited by a terrorist organisation, has run away to Syria. Desperate, Artur goes after her. The father is willing to do anything it takes to save his daughter. When do your loved ones become strangers? Can a loving father be faced with a choice: saving his own daughter or somebody else’s?
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 120 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Oksana Karas
- Writer(s) Alexey Ilyushkin, Oksana Karas, Natalia Kudryashova
- Producer(s) Aleksandr Bondarev, Irina Borisova, Dzhanik Fayziev, Maria Ionova, Rafael Minasbekyan, Timur Vaynshteyn
- Cast Chulpan Khamatova, Konstantin Khabensky, Andrzej Chyra
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 120 min
A day in the life of Doctor Elizaveta Glinka. The events of this day reveal the character, lifestyle, and destiny of one of Russia's most beloved palliative care specialists. The film is based on Doctor Glinka's diaries, interviews, and the recollection of her friends.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 98 min
- Genre Tragicomedy
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Julia Kolesnik
- Writer(s) Julia Kolesnik, Alexander Rusakov
- Producer(s) Alexander Kessel, Ruslan Sorokin, Galina Sytsko, Eugeniy Yashchuk, Guillaume De Seille
- Cast Irina Pechernikova, Veniamin Smekhov, Anna Ukolova
- Rating 12+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 98 min
Two people meet and fall in love. Seemingly, it's just an ordinary event. But everyone around the couple declared war against their love. Elsa and Leonid are over 70. Elsa was recently widowed and should have been in mourning, for the husband she didn't love, while Leonid was a complete stranger in the Altai village where Elsa lives, and where the film unfolds.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 135 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 135 min
The Golden Unicorn Awards and the Russian Film Week team are excited to bring you the first ever secret screening at our festival. The movie will be revealed to ticket holders 5 min before the start of the movie, but we can say that it is very unlikely that you have seen this movie, as it hasn't been released in Russia yet (as of 28th Oct) and has only been shown once abroad.
There are 200 comfortable leather seats in the theatre and they are allocated on a first-come first-served basis, as there are no seating numbers or rows displayed. Please arrive early to get a good seat.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 146 min
- Q&A Producer Iliya Stewart
- Q&A Producer Iliya Stewart
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Kirill Serebrennikov
- Writer(s) Kirill Serebrennikov
- Producer(s) Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya
- Cast Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Yulia Peresild, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuriy Borisov, Ivan Dorn
- Rating 18+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 146 min
Based on the novel “The Petrovs In and Around the Flu” by Alexey Salnikov, PETROV’S FLU is a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be quite extraordinary.
Set somewhere between reality and imagination, PETROV’S FLU is a visually arresting experience: rough, funny, violent and psychedelic, and yet tender and poetic.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 81 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Ivan Sosnin
- Writer(s) Ivan Sosnin
- Producer(s) Tigran Telunts, Yana Shmaylova, Danil Golovanov, Igor Kuznetsov, Ekaterina Nefeld
- Cast Kirill Kyaro, Olga Sutulova, Artem Kim, Zakaria Al Yazidi, Alexey Serebryakov, Marina Vasilyeva, Yuliya Aug, Fedor Dobronravov, Anton Adasinsky, Vadim Norshtein
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 81 min
Ivan, a janitor, is returning home by train. During the 9,000 km journey fellow passengers, landscapes and time zones change so during the journey he meets many interesting people with their stories about life, love, hope and faith.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 146 min
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Kirill Serebrennikov
- Writer(s) Kirill Serebrennikov
- Producer(s) Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya
- Cast Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Yulia Peresild, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuriy Borisov, Ivan Dorn
- Rating 18+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 146 min
Based on the novel “The Petrovs In and Around the Flu” by Alexey Salnikov, PETROV’S FLU is a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be quite extraordinary.
Set somewhere between reality and imagination, PETROV’S FLU is a visually arresting experience: rough, funny, violent and psychedelic, and yet tender and poetic.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 52 min
- Genre Documentary
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Vitaly Akimov
- Writer(s) Vitaly Akimov
- Producer(s) Vitaly Akimov
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 52 min
Twenty-three-year-old Vitaly Akimov portrays his family in the shrinking Russian provincial town of Arsenyev. Ten-year-old Stepan, his brother’s stepson, acts as a guide to this grim environment, appropriately filmed in black and white. He strums his guitar, fetches water, or plays kindly with his little half-brother. He also witnesses another side of life. Slightly embarrassed, he gingerly walks around his stepfather sleeping off the drink, soaked his own urine on the kitchen floor. Stepan talks cheerfully about the horrific events of his life, or shares his deeper thoughts.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 107 min
- Q&A with Director Sergey Osipyan
- Q&A with Director Sergey Osipyan
- Genre Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Sergey Osipyan
- Writer(s) Kseniya Kiyashko, Aleksandr Lungin, Sergey Osipyan
- Producer(s) Violetta Krechetova, Artem Vasilyev, Sergey Osipyan
- Cast Yuriy Butorin, Galina Tyunina, Kirill Pirogov, Kseniya Kutepova, Polina Kutepova, Evgeniy Tsyganov
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 107 min
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Moscow, 1974. Oleg is almost forty. He is an actor with a charming smile, tired look, and a rich mellow voice. His artistic life is no success, he is neither in much demand in the theatre nor in the movies. Oleg has to work at the radio station, where he plays the part of a Soviet spy in an ongoing radio play. His character lives undercover in the US, passing himself off as an oil tycoon. This play is Oleg's only paid job. On the day when the play is taken off the air by the station chief, Oleg's wife dumps him. These two ordinary occurrences lead to a chain of unexpected events. Oleg meets the playwright, who gets him to write the play further, he starts an affair with the playwright's girlfriend and gets the main part in the movies. In no time Oleg gets and loses it all, ending up the enemy of state.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 89 min
- Q&A with director Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Q&A with director Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Genre Animation, Biography, Drama
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Writer(s) Yuri Arabov, Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Producer(s) Andrei Khrzhanovsky
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 89 min
The film is based on two of Russia’s greatest creations.
The short story “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol and the 1930 Opera “The Nose” by composer Dmitri Shostakovich based on Gogol’s aforementioned novel of the same name. The film is dedicated to pioneers, innovators in art and people who were ahead of their time, in that most significantly they had the courage to go against the tide at the cost of personal well-being, and often life. The main characters of the film are the writers Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, director Vsevolod Meyerhold and composer Dmitry Shostakovich.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 113 min
- Q&A with Producer Iliya Stewart and actress Oksana Akinshina
- Q&A with Producer Iliya Stewart and actress Oksana Akinshina
- Genre Horror, Mystery
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Egor Abramenko
- Writer(s) Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotaryev
- Producer(s) Aleksandr Andryushchenko, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pavel Burya, Vyacheslav Murugov, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart, Mikhail Vrubel
- Cast Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 113 min
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 110 min
- Genre Family
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Aleksandr Domogarov Jr
- Writer(s) Ekaterina Mavromatis, Alexander Domogarov Jr, Eugeny Kazachkov
- Producer(s) Ruben Dishdishyan, Leonard Blavatnik, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Narek Martirosyan, Kristina Reylyan
- Cast Viktor Dobronravov, Vladimir Ilin, Leonid Basov, Valeriya Fedorovich, Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Pavel Maykov, Vladimir Simonov, Yan Tsapnik
- Rating 6+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 110 min
The film is inspired by the incredible true story of a shepherd dog named Palma who was inadvertently left at the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother died leaving him with a father he barely knew – a pilot who finds the dog at the airport. It’s a story of amazing adventures, true friendship and unconditional love.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 75 min
- Genre Short
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 75 min
Russian Film Week and Pushkin House are proud to present a selection of short films, with plots ranging from a young sailor writing unanswered letters for his estranged father, to a pair of interpreters navigating tense negotiations between world leaders, a young girl’s life-changing promise, and an escalating confrontation between a director and a censorship-committee-appointed group of producers.
INK OCEAN (ЧЕРНИЛЬНОЕ МОРЕ) / 2021 / 17 MIN

Director: Ivan Sosnin
Screenplay: Ivan Sosnin
Producers: Yana Shmaylova, Anton Smetanin, Anatoliy Zubarev
Cast: Vladimir Sarapultsev, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maxim Samoilov, Vyacheslav Shchenin
Sasha, a young sailor, travels the world and sends letters to his father from every town where his ship stops. For years, his letters receive no reply. Sasha hasn't seen his father since childhood and he doesn't have his phone number. Only his address.
For Sasha, writing the letters becomes something of a ritual, even after getting nothing in reply. Then one day the sailor returns home to find a letter waiting for him.
PROMISES (ОБЕЩАНИЯ) / 2021 / 20 MIN

Director: Lana Vlady
Screenplay: Dmitry Glukhovsky
Producers: Vladimir Maslov, Alisa Rizatdinova
Cast: Diana Pozharskaya, Pavel Derevyanko, Anna Slyu, Natalia Chumburidze, Pavel Chinarev, Irina Cherichenko, Olga Belyavskaya, Aleksander Borisov, Alena Glebova, Lisa Medvedeva
One day, five-year-old Tanya realises that her father will not always be by her side. She decides to make him a promise, one which will stay with her for her entire life, resonating even after she’s gone.
HIGHER LEVELS (ВЫСШИЕ УРОВНИ) / 2021 / 16 MIN

Directors: Aleksey Saprykin, Ekaterina Germ-Uvarova
Screenplay: Ekaterina Germ-Uvarova, Aleksey Saprykin
Producer: Taya Komarova
Cast: Sergei Kolbintsev, Marсo Dinelli, Sergei Kuznetsov, Julia Сherepnina
One veteran interpreter and one novice have been brought in to translate the negotiations between the leaders of two increasingly hostile nuclear powers. One interpreter is an old hand at navigating the pressures of such high-level meetings; the other has never attended talks between world powers before. As the professional facades of the two leaders begin to crack and tensions grow, the interpreters will have to make a tough decision.
WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MALE (БЕЛЫЙ ГЕТЕРОСЕКСУАЛЬНЫЙ МУЖЧИНА) / 2021 / 15 MIN

Director: Gleb Ross
Screenplay: Gleb Ross
Producers: Alexander Bezkrovniy, Alexander Malinkovich, Gleb Ross, Dmitriy Kormilitsyn, Dmitriy Bushuev
Cast: Andrey Merzlikin, Roza Hairullina, Arman Hachatryan, Dariya Ekemasova, Rano Kubaeva, Anton Melichnikov, Artem Budikov, Elizaveta Martines
Running time: 15 min
Konstantin, an old-school director, is confronted by a group of producers appointed by the censorship committee when he comes into the studio to discuss a new film. They feel his story of ordinary people and traditional values is not suitable; tolerance and progress are on the agenda now. Gradually Konstantin’s patience is pushed to breaking point, and beyond.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 76 min
- Genre Comedy
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Dmitry Efimovich
- Writer(s) Aleksei Litvinenko, Pavel Tikhomirov, Alexander Kagarmanov, Alexander Turkin, Alexander Nikolaev, Aleksey Nikolaev, Dmitry Efimovich
- Producer(s) Anton Zaitsev, Anton Shchukin, Artem Loginov
- Cast Stanislav Starovoitov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Diana Enkaeva, Sevastian Bugaev, Andrey Andreev, Elena Lyadova
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 76 min
The film Pops tells the story of Max going with his family to the birthday celebration of his old dad. During this journey there arise unsolved family problems, concerning personal relationships and upbringing. Max recalls memories from his childhood, where he tries to find a solution to his own family problems. But instead of answers he finds only childhood hurts and hitherto unasked questions. Max is minded to dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 118 min
- Genre Action, History
- Country Russia
- Year 2021
- Director(s) Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov
- Writer(s) Maxim Budarin, Konstantin Galdaev, Georgy Selegev, Ilgiz Zayniev
- Producer(s) Timur Bekmambetov, Igor Mishin, Igor Ugolnikov
- Cast Pavel Priluchnyy, Pavel Chinaryov, Aleksey Filimonov
- Rating 12+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 118 min
A captured Soviet pilot, Mikhail Devyataev, faithful to his childhood friends, leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers imprisonment.
- Language Russian
- Subtitles English
- Duration 125 min
- Genre Drama, History
- Country Russia
- Year 2020
- Director(s) Roman Nesterenko
- Writer(s) Tatiana Miroshnik, Roman Nesterenko
- Producer(s) Vladimir Esinov
- Cast Aleksandr Bargman, Anna Vartanyan, Dmitriy Gotsdiner
- Rating 16+
- Language Russian
- Subtitle English
- Duration 125 min
An impressive war drama, the story of the life and heroism of Naum Balapan – an academic psychiatrist, Doctor of Medicine and a chief doctor of the Sevastopol psychiatric hospital since 1922. With the help of his wife he saved innocent people during the repressions and later during the Nazi occupation until his tragic death in 1942.