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- The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
- An older film critic's life is interrupted by an unexpected visitor.
- A documentary biopic of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Boris Nemtsov got murdered in Moscow in February of 2015.
- A modern take on the classic novel by Alexander Poushkine. Vladimir is a successful banker and a regular at trendy night clubs. Masha is a diligent graduate of a British college and a loving daughter. It looks like they have bright future ahead. However, an unexpected quarrel between two eccentric fathers forces their offspring to live through the conflict of Pushkin's novel.
- This documentary recounts the activities of Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Catholic member of Poland's underground Home Army in World War II. He voluntarily entered the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi camp to witness the murder of Europe's Jews.
- Portrait of one of the brightest and most free filmmakers of our time; direct speech and fragments of films, forming a single statement about the meaning of art, homeland and pain.
- Mysterious Frenchman helped Russian journalist during a difficult period of her life, and now she intends to solve the riddle of his coming.
- In present day Moscow three childhood friends in their forties - former school band players - live their everyday lives of a police officer, a taxi driver and a surgeon. They have lost track of each other. Three stories of betrayal, love and ageing are told in parallel. In fact, unknown to our heroes, their paths cross and their lives become connected. But they are not aware of it even when they reunite for a breaking performance at their graduation anniversary.
- Viola Tarakanova is a young, headstrong bohemian, constantly getting head over heels while investigating extremely dangerous crimes.
- The abuse of psychiatry for political purposes was a systematic practice in the Soviet Union. On the covert orders of the KGB, thousands of social and political reformers-Soviet "dissidents"-were incarcerated in mental hospitals after being labeled with diagnoses of "sluggish schizophrenia", a disease fabricated by "Moscow school" of psychiatry and its leader professor Snezhnevsky. The "anti-Soviet" political behavior of some individuals was defined simultaneously as criminal acts and symptoms of mental illness. Exploring one of the most atrocious crimes a state could ever commit against a citizen, Current Time's "Dissenters And Madness" narrates the story of punitive psychiatry in the USSR starting from the early sixties, when the practice of psychiatry abuse got massive till the late eighties when the state had to admit the use of punitive medicine, the archives started opening, and the truth about punitive medicine became widely known.
- Fedor Mukhin, a womanizing, long-haul truck driver, receives a telegram in which a woman called Maria declares her love for him and asks to drive immediately to her home town of Barabash. Although he does not seem to recall who Mariia is, Fedor takes off for Barabash and discover upon his arrival that Maria has just passed away, leaving him a teenage daughter - Vera ..
- More than a century ago a play about "former people" written by Maxim Gorky made a blast at the Russian theatre circles. Ever since, the world cinema and theatre have been fascinated by the story of the derelicts living in a homeless shelter who find hope thanks to a pilgrim named Luca. The characters of Vladimir Kott's film live at a real landfill site. Their daily routine consists of digging in the heaps of rubbish in search of precious metal scraps and objects to sell, stealing, drinking and fighting heavily ... But they also love, grieve and dream desperately of breaking away from "the lower depths". One day a hobo named Luca appears at the landfill. He is eager to listen to everyone, to give everyone consolation and hope. But people are weak. And despite all their dreams they are not ready to change. They accuse Luca of lying and they start to see him as evil incarnate; this inevitably leads to a tragedy...
- Black comedy about the routine of a large corporation, producing chocolate bars. The claustrophobic office space and its dwellers are part of a funny and grotesque picture. The main character, young man from the marketing department, tries to find his stolen car with the help of militia and head of a local gang. He confronts a chaotic life of a small provincial town outside his office, trying to guess its laws. As a result, he fails to fulfill the task of his American boss, and finds his Ford painted and rebuilt as a street-racer's car. Of course, his personal life also changes...