Films

A young family move into a house in the village. Mountains, quiet and a big lemon orchard beyond the window. It seems everything necessary for…

Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat,…

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd…

Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a religious awakening, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions. Can…

Savva lives in a small village in the forest, once protected by regal white wolves, but now easy prey for a gang of ruthless hyenas.…

In a magical faraway land, a flock of sheep are settled in a picturesque village nestled among green meadows and rolling hills. Their carefree life…

This is a film supposedly about the perfect life in an ideal country – North Korea. An eight-year-old girl is studying in an ideal school,…

When a young man kills his cousin in an accident he is overcome with guilt and, in his grief, commits suicide. His father Ignat, a…

Set against the icy landscape of contemporary Kalmykia in southern Russia where Buddhism is practiced by the majority, Elza, a young housewife feels trapped in…

The senior fishery control inspector Trofim Rusanov is old, morose and unsociable, he considers all people surrounding him criminals and is unforgiving of even the…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2015

After their victory over the Snow Queen, the trolls have developed a taste for freedom. Having played a major role in the victory, the troll…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2014 Kolia lives in a small town near the Barents Sea, in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His…

Based on the book by author and family psychologist, Ekaterina Murashova, Corrections Class is the coming of age story of disabled Russian teenager Lena who…

Together with five Soviet avant-garde artists, hero of the Russian revolution Polina Schneider travels to Siberia to ‘civilize’ the native Khanty and Nenets tribes, for…

Father and daughter live in the steppe. And nothing can change this timeless pattern of life. There’s always tomorrow. Every morning father leaves home for…

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2013 A construction worker and a music student foolishly fiddle with an alien transportation device and are flung to a…

Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari is a 2012 Russian comedy-drama directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko. The film was shot in Mari language and tells 23 different tales…

The year is 1357 and Eurasia lives in terror of the formidable Mongol state known as the Golden Horde, led by the greedy and murderous…

High Commendation, Best Performance by an Actress, 2012

Adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen tale, the story begins in a farmyard where chickens, ducks and geese live and lay eggs together. One fine…

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of…

Fortress of War (Russian: Брестская крепость; translit. Brestskaia krepost; festival title: The Brest Fortress) is a 2010 Russian-Belarusian war film recounting the June 1941 defense…

Winner, Best Performance by an Actress, High Commendation – Achievement in Directing, 2011 Elena and Vladimir are an older couple, they come from different backgrounds.…

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2011 When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according…

St. Petersburg in the middle of the 1990’s. In an old boiler room on the outskirts of the city lives a taciturn Yakut, a retired…

A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in…

Based on a renowned poem by Russian writer and actor, Leonid Filatov, The Tale of Soldier Fedot, the Daring Fellow, is a social and political…

It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the German invaders. Fourteen-year-old Nadya is a medium. In a…

There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2008 Asa’s dream is to become a sheepherder and have a flock of his own. We are introduced to Asa, handsomely…

In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.

Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile…

In the last year of the war in his native village he is returned Andrew, who had deserted, returning from the hospital after being wounded.…

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.

The only law is the law of survival. The strongest win. Anton, a young provincial man comes to the capital to see the girl he…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2017 Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2017 Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives,…

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2017 The script of The Bottomless Bag is inspired by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s story In a Grove. The plot takes place during the reign of…

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Leningrad has been left devastated, with its buildings demolished and citizens left in tatters both physically and…

Having quarrelled with his father, the young Altan goes to work in the remote North Arctic. He will have to spend a month alone on…

Ayka just gave birth. She can’t afford to raise a child. She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her…

For director Stanislav Sokolov, Hoffamniada is the culmination of over ten years work on a story about the Prussian literary master of the early 19th…

In 1930’s Yakutia, in Russia’s north-east, Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live in the taiga forest where tending to cows, hunting and fishing make…

Winner – Best Animated Feature Film, 2018 Rezo is an animated documentary movie told and painted by Rezo Gabriadze, a prolific Georgian artist, writer and…

David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself…

People avoid and fear her but make their way quietly to her door, because only she can resolve problems of all kinds. She is a…

The story of former wrestling champion Kakhi whose devotion to his family leads him on a journey from his home in Tbilisi to visit his…

The film is based on two greatest creations of the Russian genius. A short story “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol. And an Opera “The Nose”…

Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. She starts teaching art in a…