Russia

During World War II, a little girl is left without parents and is forced to hide from the Nazis, taking care of herself on her own. Day after day.

11 wins & 17 nominations.Read More »

With his wife Olya, Vadim wants to buy a German tow truck. But this plan comes to nothing when he falls for a faraway girl he meets online. And so he embarks on an impossible attempt to start afresh a new place with the love of his life.Read More »

Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister Christina. They enjoy evening festivities with their older teenage friends by the fire, go on mellow skateboard rides, and have a quiet daytime nap in the garden house. Caressed by the sun and the warmth of his relatives, hidden in the quiet tranquillity of the garden and far away from the cruelty of the outside world, Vadim enjoys his childhood days. Acting as a serene lullaby that mimics the movements of a gentle breeze, Summer provides warmth, joy and solace, offering hope and strength for the future.Read More »

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A new chief of a “Culture House” is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.Read More »

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Contempory Moscow, Russia. Young Galya (Yuliya Vysotskaya) comes to Moscow from the coal-mining town of Shakhty in the Rostov Oblast near the Black Sea, a journey of over 500 miles. She is pretty and bright, if a bit naive and disorganized. Her dream is to become an elite high-fashion model — a supermodel — and to see her image on the glossy cover of the fashion magazine Beauty. When she meets the editor-in-chief of Beauty Magazine, however, he tells Galya that she lacks the necessary natural beauty and sense of style to be a model, and she will never appear on their cover. She then goes to work as a seamstress for a famous fashion designer. During one of their shows, quite by accident, she ends up walking the runway as a model. They fire her on the spot. Then, seemingly by chance, she becomes the assistant of the owner of an elite, highly exclusive, personal matchmaking agency, which — for a considerable price — arranges marriages for rich men with the most beautiful models in Moscow. Soon, she, too, will learn how to be an “elitnaya nevesta (elite bride)”.Read More »

The film is based on two poems – “Holes” and “Bone” ­– by American poet Eileen Myles, the iconic lesbian voice and permanent figure of the poetic New York scene. In the May of 2017, she came to St. Petersburg, Russia, to present a book – the first published Russian translations of her selected poems. The film is a dialog between Eileen and me, post-soviet queer visual artist. It’s an attempt to put different worlds and queer experiences in a cinematic form, borrowing and sharing with each other images, words, voices, affects, memories, encounters, losses, and intensity of lesbian/queer existence…Read More »

Paulina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern town near the border. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. One day a stranger arrives at the hotel. Torn between a man and a friend, Paulina is trying to understand who she really is and what she wants most in her life.Read More »

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

Unclenching the Fists (Russian: Разжимая кулаки) is a 2021 Russian drama film directed by Kira Kovalenko, a graduate of Alexander Sokurov’s workshop.The film won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Official submission of Russia for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.Read More »

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family’s country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love… to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his “magic”, he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life…Read More »