China's first live-action movie shot in space, created and filmed by astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu using an 8K ultra-high-definition camera aboard the China Space Station. It will immerse audiences in the experience of China's space journey, showcasing breathtaking landscapes, life inside the space station, and the authentic inner world of the astronauts.
A film about the incredible and eventful creative path of photographer and artist Olga Michi, as well as about the art group "GROM" that she created. Olga Michi visited the most remote corners of the world, constantly testing her strength: she lived with African tribes, looked for cities lost in the South American jungle, photographed white sharks and swam in a river teeming with crocodiles. But at some point, she felt cramped within the framework of reportage photography, she wanted not only to reflect the world around her - she wanted to create her own.
A heartfelt story about screenwriter Alexander Emmanuilovich Borodyansky, who leads his daughter, for whom the film becomes a journey into the creative and human world of her father. The multi-layered canvas of the film is woven from the voices of comrades and like-minded people, subtle observations and revelations. This is not only a portrait of one of the most versatile authors of Russian cinema, but also a deep reflection on the nature of screenwriting.
The voice of Antonina Fatkhullina, a contemporary artist from St. Petersburg, whose metal sculptures have been part of the street space of St. Petersburg for many years, can be heard among the urban landscapes. The artist’s memories and revelations merge with the places where the sculptures are located, the urban environment and the air of the era that has come. Silent witnesses – the artist’s sculptures, under the close observation of the camera, transform urban landscapes into total installations of their time.
A broken vase is worth more than a whole one. A broken cup becomes a work of art. In Moscow, there is a master who turns damaged things into unique objects, restoring them using an ancient technology. This film explores the fragile nature of not only things, but also people. "Some Japanese Word" can be an inspiration for anyone who has ever felt broken.
A film about the outstanding Russian architect Andrey Sumatokhin, one of the few contemporary architects working in the post-constructivism style. In addition to architecture, he developed a whole philosophy of life, which he called "Near Science". The film tells not only about the art of architecture, but also about the very concept of "Home" both material and spiritual, about building your "near space", which includes almost all elements of human life and helps a person not to lose himself in the frantic pace of modern life.
Ten thousand siddhas, experts in advanced techniques of Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying, gather in India to create the “Maharishi Effect” through long-term group practices. Reduction of crime and violence, reduction of international tensions and improvement of the quality of life in society – these are the global effects when at least 10,000 meditators gather. Is it magic? Or a new scientific paradigm? These are the questions that experts, scientists, teachers and famous followers such as David Lynch are trying to answer.
The film introduces Lena, an artist who rethinks Russian folk song tradition, combining it with electronic rhythms and creating music that is understandable and close to the modern listener. She becomes a living bridge between the past and the present, connecting generations through sound. In the film, her world is revealed in two dimensions - black and white and color, as if two realities in which she exists and creates simultaneously.
Alexey, a researcher at the Saylugemsky National Park. And he has dedicated most of his life to studying and protecting the Snow Leopard. He knows all the trails, crossings, has photographed more snow leopards than anyone else, but... he is the only one of all the employees and specialists who has not seen a leopard in real life, only in camera traps. And he decides to find and see the leopard at any cost.
A film about the simple but surprisingly rich life of the Udege people, who live in the most inaccessible places of the Far Eastern taiga. Our heroines are well over 60, but in their souls they are still mischievous girls and, despite all the difficulties of "forest life", they have retained their youthful enthusiasm, high spirits and love of life. This film is a reflection on lost values, wisdom, the past and the future.
The city of Suzdal was first recorded in ancient chronicles 1000 years ago. For centuries, it attracted the very energy of life and creative powers of outstanding people. The Grand Dukes Vladimir Monomakh, Yuri Dolgoruky, Andrei Bogolyubsky, Georgy Vsevolodovich erected powerful fortifications around the Kremlin, built and repeatedly rebuilt the main city cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, founded ensembles of princely residences around Suzdal - Kideksha and Bogolyubovo. They nurtured the capital of a new state, the prototype of the Moscow Tsardom - Vladimir on the Klyazma.
"Listen!" is a hunt for sounds and meanings. In four episodes from four different regions, we will see how modern ethnic music is born, from the concept to the final track, and try to understand why we listen with such awe to music that features the voices of our ancestors?
The film's hero is Sergey Kolchin, a zoologist and specialist in large predatory mammals of the Far East, who has been involved in the rehabilitation of orphaned bear cubs in various years. He returned cubs that had lost their mothers due to human error to the wild. Long months of living in the forest in the company of bear cubs allowed Sergey to learn many previously unknown facts about the Himalayan bear. The unique video material he collected formed the basis for the film "My Bears. Himalayans". This unusual animal lives in the mountain forests of South, Southeast and East Asia. The northernmost and largest of its seven subspecies, the Ussuri bear, lives in the south of the Russian Far East. Its build and ability to lead a semi-arboreal lifestyle help it survive in the same territory as the tiger and brown bear. The Himalayan bear is a poorly studied and vulnerable species, whose fate personifies the difficult fate of cedar-broadleaf forests.
Grigory Rimer, a young ambitious entrepreneur from the Urals, launches the production of the first Cobot in Russia at his plant. This is a new generation robot that works together with people, not instead of them. Suddenly, Rimer learns that not only the future of the project is at stake, but also his life.
Artist Zhenya Baldina leaves the city for the village of Chupino to start a new life, build a house on a mountain and search for her true self, turning old objects that belonged to her ancestors into sculptures and paintings that resemble messages from the past. Zhenya accepts the challenge of showing her works in the largest exhibition hall of the regional capital. In a year, she will have to not only prepare an exhibition, but also return to herself.
Everyone in life undergoes a personality test, "am I a trembling creature" or "do I have the right"? The case with the old woman falls to the Murmansk judge Yulia Andreyevna Grin. The pensioner may end up on the street after being manipulated by telephone scammers. Due to the loans taken out under their pressure, her apartment is already up for sale. Yulia will have to decide whether to make a standard decision or, at her own risk, defend the victim. If the defense ends in favor of the victim, this will happen for the first time in the history of the practice of the Russian arbitration court.
A documentary elegy about the last days of summer turning into autumn, and about people in a state of transition. They are still enjoying the last day of summer, but they know that autumn has already arrived. Childhood is about to end, the prime of life will fade, old age will turn into decrepitude. But there is this endless day of pure happiness.
Until recently, there was a village called Alekseyevka in the Khachmaz region of Azerbaijan. Alekseyevka was an international homeland for everyone who lived there. After the collapse of the USSR, local residents began to move to other regions of the world for various personal reasons. The film's heroines Larisa and Nina meet in Alekseyevka (now Chaykenary) and try to feel the warmth of the past again.