Short film by Dmitry Davydov
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Alexey Ustinov
Nikolay Soldatov
Zoya Pahomova
She is a healer. A hermit. A Fool-in-God. She is a little over forty years old. She doesn’t disdain alcohol. She can be ridiculous, humiliated, offended. She has long been indifferent about herself. Everybody avoids her and is afraid of her, but secretly at night they all hurry to her home. After all, only she can get rid of their illnesses. For her, this is a damnation, and each time she swears that she won’t help people any more, but each time she is unable to refuse them. She knows that her gift will ruin her some time, but she continues to be the only chance of salvation for people.
A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.
Amateur film by Dmitry Davydov
The film shows a few days from the life of a simple young, rural boy who has life difficulties: can't find a job and pay off his mortgage, but still with a good heart – helps a lonely, sick grandmother chop wood, light the stove and buy food.
Simple guy Diulus never had any luck in his life, but one day he was lucky, he won a large sum of money... to return home with a win, you need to pass the tests that you will overcome with your best friend.
Holding hands, Dayaana and her beloved only daughter Sandaara, walked through an endless forest for a long time. Eventually they reach a distant, unrecognized village full of strange inhabitants and strange happenings. The residents themselves are astonished by Dayaana since they cannot see her daughter...
Taking the form of a travel diary of a television journalist, this documentary tells about the life and work of the people of Yakutia: pilots, artists, drivers, and reindeer herders.
The story unfolds in an alternate reality. Chee-Ke works for the "dance police". By the will of fate, he has to quit. For three years there is no news about the hero. But suddenly the singer Kunnei is kidnapped by the villain Bachata, and Chee-Ke is forced to go on the warpath. The policeman and his assistant must defeat the kidnappers in dance battles.
Short film directed by Evgeny Nikolaev
Documentary by Dmitry Davydov
The film tells the story of the Jia family, a family of talented Taiwanese con men, who are recruited to Singapore by veteran fraudster "Jun Ming" on a Robin Hood-like mission to defraud corrupt tech tycoon "Huai Ren". He forms an unlikely alliance with the family to stop "Huai Ren's" new strategy - a Ponzi scheme that involves tricking ordinary people into buying a digital product he is launching that will "completely change the world".
It tells the story of a group of young men who are wounded by the events of the terrible events of their 18 years of life, including being branded as prisoners, addicted to drugs, and even facing trauma after a loved one is assaulted. Even if they wanted to transform themselves into the people that society expected them to become, in the end there is a turning point that brings them back to fighting the dark side of life again. 18 Rain is a remake of an original film released in 1997 by director Poj Arnon.
It tells the story of a mother and her two sons who lost their husband. The younger son became a thug by joining the wrong crowd, committing robberies, and becoming a thug, while the older son became a well-educated and well-mannered young man. However, the mother devotes all her attention and care to the older son. One day, the younger son extorts money from a poor woman who works at a cafeteria, destroys her belongings, and beats her mentally ill son to steal his money. On a rainy autumn evening, when the older son goes out to buy medicine for his mother, wearing his brother's shirt, the boy who was beaten by his younger brother mistakes him for his younger brother and beats him to death with a brick. As the saying goes, "I put on a coat after the last rain," the film shows how he realizes everything after his brother's death.
Young Antinoos is on vacation on an island where he meets a seductive woman, Eva, who is having a miserable time with her middle-aged husband, Alekos. Eva is attracted to Antinoos, who is her missing part, but at the same time, she feels guilty and tries to suppress her passion.
Family life demands a lot from a loving couple. If they are newly married like Khuslen and Zaya, the misunderstandings are even greater. Due to a minor argument, they quarrel and then, on the advice of their close friends, they spend some time away from home. In addition to their single friends Anujin, Hongoroo, Ideree, and Jawhlan, the situation becomes even more complicated when their love from 10 years ago, Davaa and Onon, are drawn into the relationship. The saddest thing is that these days of separation not only exacerbate their emotional pain, but also when it becomes clear that they will eventually end in divorce, the film becomes even more interesting when their parents intervene. Will they get divorced, and what will happen?
A job interview at a dystopian tech company goes awry.
Dinar falls for Faiz, who brings color to her dull life. Amid their romance, she faces mounting troubles—unpaid tuition, her late father’s debts, and her mother’s cancer. Then, Firman, a wealthy man, offers her an easy escape—but at the cost of betraying Faiz.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and ’80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
