Arriving to check on his distant estate, the village of Sasovo, the young landowner Astakhov meets his neighbor, the landowner Ipatov, as well as his sister-in-law, Marya Pavlovna, and his neighbor, Nadezhda Alekseyevna Veretyeva, who make a strong impression on Astakhov. Planning to leave the next day, Astakhov stays for a while to get to know the girls better, thereby disrupting the tranquility of ordinary estate life. Based on Turgenev's novella of the same name.

A man is being chased through a night city by a mysterious catwoman. During a final confrontation, he will discover the real identity of this strange creature.

A struggle for power between a pianist and his unruly muse turns murderous.

Explores Thomas Mann's post-war German life, his family's stand against Nazi rule, and their journey into exile.

A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to the creation of the Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.

It is a parable about the contradiction between the ”chronicle of wars”, as a historical concept and the comprehensive approach of cultural history for graduates and modern illiterates.

A censor’s tale about the official and unwritten rules of censorship in the People’s Republic of Poland, accompanied by shots and archival photographs. Their selection and presentation reveal the ironic attitude of the authors towards the protagonist’s statements. The film was made in the year of the liquidation of the Main Office for the Control of the Press, Publications, and Public Performances.

Two days before the wedding, Dragana decides that she will not marry the weak and predictable Momo. His headstrong father Leso strikes a deal with her – to act as the bride just for the day. But instead of saving the family’s honor, it only starts a traumatic farce for everyone involved.

The protagonist of Krzysztof Kieslowski's legendary 1977 documentary "Night Porter's Point of View" is revisited by Andreas Horvath, who finds him retired and relatively well in a Warsaw suburb. He lives on a minimum pension in a characterless one-room apartment, with a giant wallpaper depicting a Hawaiian idyll. The former night porter, once a typical exponent of the communist regime, has turned somewhat milder during the years, though he still thinks that under communism life was better.

In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and his creation of the town's first cinema. The peace and calm of the little town of Karkkila, nestled deep in the Finnish forest, is interrupted by unexpected sounds. In the abandoned foundry, noisy building work is taking place. Inside the building, Aki Kaurismäki is both builder and site manager of what is soon to become the Kino Laika cinema. The creation of the cinema is the talk of the town. In the factory still in activity, in a 1960s Cadillac, in a bikers' club, in the local pub, in the woods or in Aki Kaurismäki's former editing room, people start talking about cinema again.

The poor shipwright's daughter Hulda i dating the equally poor clerk Aage. One day she meets theatre manager Winckler who makes her a famous varieté star. Despite her many new suitors, Hulda still only has eyes for Aage. But, as Hulda proclaims, she cannot marry an impoverished clerk. The burning desire for Hulda pushes Aage to desperate measures.

Follows two men whose paths tragically cross after being abandoned by the same woman. As their rivalry grows into open conflict, the film explores themes of masculinity, solitude, lost love, and the fragile pride of those shaped by isolation.

Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of her beloved philosopher Leibniz. As the sittings progress, they embark on a passionate quest to uncover the essence of art, love, and truth in painting.

A guy can't seem to get out of his sleeping bag.

August 1980, strikes break out on the coast. The famous writer cannot decide whether to take the side of the oppositionists or wait for the course of events to unfold. A few months later, he meets an SB agent who followed him as a writer in the 1950s. They remember the Stalinist times.

Life of young Bronja, living in the '70s changed when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by the loss of her mother, her grown up life is again interrupted by a series of tragic events, which she overcomes with positivism.

Hanne is confronted with a potentially serious diagnosis on the very first day of her retirement. This sure comes as a shock. Plus, the results that would seal her fate will not be in until Monday. Now, she not only has to worry about stepping out of her life as a career professional, but also has to wonder whether she will even have the chance to settle into her new role as a retiree. Yet Hanne decides not to tell anyone. She checks into a hotel over the weekend, far from anyone she might know, far away in a different city. No plan, just go with the flow. Opening the door for new encounters she would not have had otherwise. So she finds herself caught between fear and a never-before known lust for adventure.

Mikhail is 59 years old, and for more than 30 years he works at the motor transport enterprise, were he lives in a self-made workshop. He has a beloved pregnant daughter, a hobby to draw paintings and a favourite car of a heavenly color. Natasha, a warehouse keeper, offers him a deal: to hand over the waste metal stored at the warehouse to the scrap metal reception center and split the money. Mikhail takes pity on Natasha and agrees. On the road to the reception center he gets stopped by the police. In order to avoid litigation, Mikhail asks the director of the company not to file a theft report. The director agrees but fires Mikhail anyway. Now he's left homeless and unemployed...

On the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia in the late 1980s, local residents report strange lights descending from the sky. When a reporter arrives to investigate, a ragtag group of teens from a lawless neighbourhood storm the scene and steal his camera. In the hands of its new owners, the device records a mesmerising plunge into their frantic existence.

Veneno, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets Muñeco, a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself. He convinces Muñeco to take him deep into the hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking across the north of Mexico. As they travel together and an unexpected intimacy builds between them, shadows from Veneno’s past resurface, putting both their lives at risk.

In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.

The film follows seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in Mother Teresa’s life, the period where she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order.

Marie Růžová, a child born out of wedlock, grows up in the family of the miller Bořický. She spends her childhood and youth in the company of the Bořickýs son Klement. Klement studies law becomes a laywer and is betrothed to Jiřinka. The latter's mother is concerned about Klement's relationship with Marie and she threatens Bořický's not to allow her daughter to marry their son. In order that she is not the cause of further arguments, Marie leaves secretly for Prague during the night. There she has to earn a hard living as a waitress.

Inspired by “Voyage to the land of Brazil” by Jean de Léry, this short follows the adventures of Nicolas Durand, from Villegagnon, and the estabilishment of a French colony in 16th-century Rio de Janeiro.

A wacky coup d'etat masterminded by a Russian call girl, in of all places, staid Switzerland, is the subject of Daniel Schmid's black humorous satire on power and its misuses.

In the Siberian taiga, a mail plane carrying wages for workers from timber industry and fur farms crashes. Two people skiing in the taiga, two rivals, set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.

The foreman of a small construction crew working on a major construction site is dissatisfied with laziness and a lack of conscientiousness. So he decides to have a frank conversation with those on whom the livelihood of all his crew members directly depends.

The film is based on Moldovan and Romanian folklore about the folk hero Fat-Frumos.

Based on Ossetian folk tales, the film tells the comedic story of the adventures of a poor mountaineer named Uari, who dares to stand up to three brigands who terrorize the entire region.

A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.

Transferred to a rural area from a major research institute in the capital, Lemiashevich makes no secret of the fact that he was not dismissed of his own volition, as stated in his documents, but as a result of a conflict with the management. His critical assessment of the institute’s work found no support, and the overly outspoken employee was advised to change his field of work. At his new place of work, the principled Lemiashevich is forced once again into confrontation. This time, his opponent is the district party leader Artem Zakharovich Borodka, who, wishing to consolidate his authority through falsification, sought to turn the modest tenth-grader Alexei Kostyonok into a model collective farm worker.

In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.

The 50-year-old theater critic Iliev has achieved an enviable social position. A young actress from a provincial theater is his mistress. It is more profitable for Iliev to hide his relationship with the actress from his wife while she is in the countryside. He used his influence to keep the actress in the provincial theater. But during another trip to the provincial theater, things happen to him that contradict his belief in his own infallibility.

The film tells the story of a shift worker named Ivan, who must travel over 9,000 kilometers to return home. Along the way, he encounters a variety of interesting people who change, leaving behind their own stories.

The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go with him to visit an actual Soviet village. There, they witness the birth of the kolkhoz and the dekulakization of wealthy villagers. Then they are transported to the future, to the year 1932, when the first five-year plan is done, and the commune-sovkhoz is established. Movies can move faster than time, but the pace of change in Soviet society is even faster than that.

Kim Bulatovich advertises for a friend, which he needs to resolve some family issues. Vasily, a former teacher who dreams of giving his son a dog for his birthday, responds to the ad.

Ten-year-old Felix, a talented and sensitive child, is finishing the school year at a prestigious suburban school in Montreal and preparing for the summer holidays. His main fears, which include his parents' possible divorce, dubious neighbours and even the possibility of contracting AIDS, are compounded by his fear of becoming the victim of a maniac who kidnaps little boys. After a while, when the little boy's imaginary demons meet the demons of the real world, his teenage fears begin to give way to something more frightening and tangible...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.

A worker who monotonously operates a bolt-making machine begins to feel like a cog in the machine.

The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.

Silent animation of the classical story.

The story of the violent transformation of a peasant during the industrialization of Ukraine.

The Kolobok tries to devour starving animals to fulfill its insatiable appetite.

A girl with the strange name of Vanya Ryzhik lives and is raised in an orphanage. She absolutely cannot tolerate lies, has no need for relatives, and is free and independent in her judgements and dreams of a world of free people. Among her peers, she creates a ‘league of flask children,’ homunculi who do not need parental care. When she ends up in hospital, Venia encounters attention and care — and feelings of love and compassion come alive in her.

Unable to cope with his wife's betrayal while on a business trip abroad and troubles at work, a talented scientist sleeps, cleanses himself, and becomes a villager, returning to his roots.

Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.

An experimental documentary film about Friedrich Hölderlin. In the middle of the film, there is a short excerpt from a Nazi propaganda film: O. E. Hasse reads "Der Tod fürs Vaterland" (Death for the Fatherland), the poem that was given to German soldiers on the front lines during World War II. This is contrasted with texts from Hölderlin's late work, which have only recently been edited. This creates a completely different picture of Hölderlin's poetry.

The life of the main protagonist could become the basis for a feature film script. The ambitious boy spends part of the day picking strawberries together with his father. Yet Hubert wants to become a disco polo singer, as famous as Zenek Martyniuk, so after work he focuses on his musical passion. The boy starts with gigs at local fairs and records music videos to his songs. He has an ear for music, dreams about concerts attended by thousands and – which is most essential – has the support of his family that is won over by his enthusiasm.

Polish anti-fascist Zygmunt Golemba, posing as Baron Fedrucci or a Catholic priest, blows up German headquarters, frees Polish prisoners, and kills Gestapo generals. His name becomes a symbol of revenge and hatred for the enemy...

The team investigates a site in a garden in Wales that seems to feature a Neolithic tomb, a Norman tower, a Medieval or Roman walkway, and an ancient sacred spring littered with bronze axe heads, Roman coins, and carved miniature heads.

1941. Kuzma Kroykov is a simple carpenter from Siberia who has been drafted into the army. A junior sergeant and squad leader in a rifle company, he arrives to defend Moscow, where he meets Varvara Oknova, a student at the architectural institute who has been sent to help build fortifications. Decisive, tall, and beautiful, Varvara wins Kuzma's heart. After another battle, they meet again and reveal their feelings for each other. But this love on the front lines is not meant to last—the fighting continues, and Varvara, as part of a sabotage unit, goes behind German lines, where she dies.

The division between girls and boys through education.

The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis.

In Kyiv, Daniel Pritulyak is serving foreigners as guide, who invents a route for the Americans on the life of an obscure but talented poet Danila Pritulyak.

Businessman Vlad Artemiev returns to his native home, where he learns about the death of his father, with whom he has not been in touch for almost a quarter of a century. Memories of the past prevent Vlad from moving on, so he tries to correct all his mistakes. What was hiding behind the long silence of the closest men?

A young woman in a light blue dress and bright red shoes merrily walks along the street with a huge, colorful, long-stemmed tropical metal flower in her hand. She smashes the flower into the windows of parked cars as she passes them.

A man's body is found on the seashore. After conducting a thorough investigation, young investigator Kovalev establishes the identity of the murdered man and his pursuer—a former provocateur who betrayed a group of underground fighters to the Nazis. During one of the interrogations, the criminal recognizes prosecutor Skurchikhin as a former SS Oberleutnant and begins to blackmail him.

During an experiment in the scientific laboratory, an emergency occurs. To prevent the spread of deadly virus, five employees are quarantined, and such extreme situation forces them to reveal their true nature.

Hanna and Leo are expecting a child. They live near Innsbruck where the mountains touch the sky and where absolute bliss seems to reign. But things turn out quite differently.

A story of lyrical amateurs among professional killers. A group of creative young people tries to maintain an island of safety, peace, and their own unique lifestyle and relationships in a secluded apartment. But freedom comes at a price.

A Farewell to Cinema depicts the axing of state subsidies to the local film industry as Hollywood flicks swamped Ukrainian cinemas, and former film professionals forced to pick random jobs to make a miserable living, struggling to keep their dignity and film heritage from the amnesiac fury of neoliberal diktats. In this precious film, we get a rare glimpse into what exactly was entailed throughout the Eastern Bloc in the passage from ‘Real socialism’ to democracy, in what Soviet dissident Alexander Zinoviev aptly re-named ‘Catastroika’.

The film documents the various mass public protests that took place in Kyiv during the last years of ‘perestroika’ and the first year of independence. The first scenes document the rise of mass democratic protests in Kyiv, principally the People’s Movement of Ukraine and its public actions, which were mostly nationalist in nature. However, during 1991, together with the birth of an independent Ukraine, the situation changed drastically – social frustration grew, the street events became more radical and socially motivated, and shortly turned into apathetic anger at the new social order.

The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an Italian director. She decides to leave her current certainties behind and throw herself into the whirlwind of a tempting opportunity, only she doesn’t count on the fact that not every expectation will actually come true as she had ideally hoped…

The story of the murder of two twin brothers, whom the villagers consider to be one person. Out of fear that the Messiah has come and will bring a terrible judgment, people commit new crimes.

In the Volyn region, in the monastery of XVI century, an old people’s home is located. However, mental patients and former criminals also live there… The authors seem to fix everyday life only, watching its drift. But we see a metaphor of the socialist system of values, declared by the local manager – either Elsa Koch or “Beria in a skirt”: “Socializm is accounting! You have done a good deed – write it down!”

For over ten years, Kyiv artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko have been working on the project of the Park of Memory at Baykovy Hill in Kyiv. Next to the world-famous building of the Halls of Farewell at Kyiv crematorium (architect Avraam Miletsky), Rybachuk and Melnychenko created a series of monumental, unique sculptures over 2000 square meters in size, which represented various key tragedies from the history of mankind. However, at the beginning of 1982, the local authorities decided to cancel the work on the Wall, and to pour concrete over several hundred square meters of ready sculptures. This decision was one of the largest-scale acts of art censorship in the USSR.

The debut film by Serhiy Bukovsky, created at the Ukrainian documentary film studio, gave birth to a new critical wave of Ukrainian non-fiction films. Having received a request to create a film with a seemingly hopeless topic, which has long been overused by Soviet propaganda – the life of a provincial poultry plant – Bukovsky unexpectedly created a film about the deep social crisis of Soviet society. Instead of the typical presentation of socialist work, the film demonstrates the day-to-day dead-end lives of Soviet working women, whose social status strips them of any prospects for a better life.

The story of the tragic love of the young lead singer of the popular teenage pop group "Vacations" Andrey Dymov and the equally young, but quite experienced and professional "priestess of love" Masha.

Because podcasts have a limit, a person who loves his mother + his father would want to make ice or steel or else have a cemetery so that his mother does not suffer for anyone.

We hear readings from Dovzhenko's diary and hear how the great suffering of the Ukrainian people caused him to move away from beauty for its own sake to the search for truth, expressed in his two harrowing wartime documentaries. Stalin's 1944 ban on Dovzhenko's Ukraine in Flames screenplay and his subsequent exile to Moscow had a profound impact on him.

A phantasmagoria about the struggle between the USSR and Israel for the last Jewish family remaining in Odessa.

Young activists attempt an armed attack leading to betrayal. A former member haunts her, exploring violence, beliefs, friendship, and love against societal crises.

Follows the adventurous story of a hen desperate to raise a family, a terrible human tragedy unfolds in the background.

Rescued from Earth's nuclear annihilation, four friends crash-land on an unknown planet and courageously set out to locate a new home capable of sustaining their species.

Self-portrait film: the author documents himself and his own vision of the world and nature around him to give the viewer this perspective and to encourage them to be attentive to what surrounds us. For the phonogram, the author compiled the music by composer Jean-Michel Jarre and his own recordings of the sounds of nature, which he made especially for the tape.

An epic comedy about a cyclist and doping, where the author involved his comrades and neighbors. Despite the entertaining nature, we had to work on the tape to carefully prepare and think through the script, props, and shooting locations. The film is complemented by new music written by Regina Zheleznyakova (Regina Collage).

This is the author's first film. It records careful observation of changes in the life cycles of flora and fauna that occur in the garden near his house in Vynnyky. The structure of the film is based on the change of seasons. Accordingly, filming and work lasted all year round. Originally, the tape was silent. In 2020, Regina Zheleznyakova (Regina Collage) and Pavlo Olefirenko (Pilikayu) wrote music for it.

Vera is an elite prostitute who works with foreigners while also carrying out KGB assignments. One day, she falls in love with a wealthy German and dreams of moving to him forever.

Two Soviet boys go to Africa to free the black girl Kane from captivity. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles, they wrest Kane from the grip of the oppressor-colonizer.

The story is about a chick who lives behind a fence on a farm and conducts a choir of the other chicks. After meeting a self-important turkey, the chick also becomes conceited and decides to make his name in the world outside the chicken coop. After being nearly killed by birds, fish, and a cat, he returns home chastened and decides to stay where he is.

On the 24th of February, in the morning, my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and undervalues all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse. We were there for 10 days, sleeping in the basement, hiding from bombings, totally isolated. I wanted to get out, my boyfriend’s parents insisted on staying. In the end, we managed to escape with the last green corridor hours before Russian troops finally entered the city. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.

A young girl marries a maître d'hôtel. Unprepared for her new life involving big money and crime, she returns to her hometown and becomes a currency prostitute.

In 1969, Penny Slinger and her then partner filmmaker Peter Whitehead were given permission to produce a body of work in Lilford Hall, a decaying mansion in Northamptonshire, England. Shot over the course of several weeks while living in the estate with actress Suzanka Fraey (The Other Side of the Underneath), Lilford Hall documents the fractured intimacy between the three artists.

The disappearance of his fifteen-year-old daughter and the indifference of the police to this fact prompted the film's protagonist to conduct his own search. A young woman he meets ‘by chance’ agrees to help him, but she has her own plans.

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.

The tired and aging leader of the USSR, Stalin, decides to resort to suspended animation to rest and recuperate. He awakens many years later on April Fool's Day, in the midst of Perestroika.

Nuclear war breaks out and the staff and patients of a mental hospital take refuge in an underground bunker and accidentally get locked in. Disciple soon disintegrates and the patients, led by Richard, start to resist authority. Richard devises a scheme for a new social order where the sane will take no part. The doctors try to resist but are ultimately overcome.

Pavel Tarlov acts as a reviewer for his friend, who is about to defend his dissertation. Delving into the work, he discovers a number of beautiful assumptions that are not confirmed by practice and refuses to evaluate it. Vadim reproaches Pavel for his cruelty and refuses to work with him on the same expedition...

The protagonist of the film, the talented glassblower Nikolsky, whose works are exhibited at vernissages, is a lonely man who lives in an exquisitely furnished flat with a sheepdog named Peter. But this is only one side of his life. On the other hand, Sergei Sergeyevich is a virtuoso professional killer who justifies his crimes by saying that he only kills ‘scum’. His ‘clients’ are monsters from corrupt power structures. Nikolsky receives an envelope from an imposing elderly man in a restaurant with the surname and photograph of the person who needs to be ‘taken care of,’ along with an address and money. The deadline is two weeks. Upon receiving the order, he gets as close as possible to his client, infiltrating his life before ending it. At the same time, it becomes clear that the client has three respectable women in his power, who are connected by one profession - prostitution.