A village boy awaits his father's return from the front. Though he doesn't yet know the alphabet, he begins composing letters and enrolls in school early to learn to write. He believes the Moon Witch — a figure from a fairytale — is behind all the misfortunes of war. In his dreams, he battles her on the moon as she casts black letters — death notices — down to Earth...

Hoffman's classic story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouseking" is the tale of a spoiled prince who lives in a magnificent palace with his magician uncle, Drosselmeier.

Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.

Kahi and Baadur get a letter from Berik, who sent them photographs of women and a letter in which he informs them that he has decided to marry one of them. Having also decided to build their family life with unmarried others, the friends buy a hive of bees and set off on the train.

A young journalist Sofia, who survived the betrayal and death of her husband, has to write an article about a detective. For all his activities, only two of the cases assigned to him remain unsolved. Sofia understands the reason for these failed cases.

Petr Polyakov, director of a large factory, meets a girl named Varya in a very unusual way. She gets into his car and, introducing herself as his daughter, shows Polyakov a photograph of her mother. Polyakov recognises the face in the photograph—it is his former lover, Zinaida.

On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.

Private detective Tom Machata, lost in the dramatic fantasies of crime novels, is pulled into a real-life mystery when his assistant Archibald is robbed of a bag full of money. Clues lead them to investigate women with tiny feet, prompting Tom to pose as a skate helper and Archibald as a shoeshine boy. Tom falls for one of the women and gets hired by her to spy on her boyfriend, who then hires Tom to spy on her.

Once upon a time, a tear fell from a star's eye, hanging in the air like a huge ball, and someone called it Baltanosaurus...

The feature documentary Czechoslovak Architecture 58-89 is the first film that comprehensively maps Czechoslovak architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Brutally beautiful, though brutally neglected. Besides the grey flood of prefabricated blocks of flats, the second half of the twentieth century also saw the creation of exceptional, spiritual and timeless buildings that attracted attention even in the West. In his unique feature-length documentary based on the original idea of Vladimir 518, director Jan Zajícek makes an expedition into the pre-revolutionary Czechoslovak architectural scene. With accounts of leading architects and theorists and impressive shots of the most interesting Czech and Slovak post-war buildings, he creates a plastic portrait of an era where a brave, modern and inspiring spirit flourished alongside the official and the structured.

The murder of an ordinary policeman happened in a provincial town Limansk. Police officer Lyubov Virtanen comes from Moscow to investigate the crime. Her appearance is troubling the local authorities.

Ostap, a young Ukrainian forester, travels to Tashkent to claim a house his aunt left him on Thirteen Poplars Street. There he meets Mastura, a local girl who, charmed by his genuine admiration, offers to show him the city’s hidden wonders. When Ostap departs, he leaves behind not just a house but the memory of a bond that transcends borders.

Three mice live in a cinema. One day, inspired by the gangster movies, they decide to conduct a grand robbery in a cheese shop...

A tall man and a short man argue about whether the object in front of them is a square or a circle. During the struggle, they push the object. It turns out to be a cylinder.

No one ever met the Hermit, and if he did, he did not recognize him by sight. His arrival always initiates a certain "domino principle", an "avalanche" of events, which changes everything beyond recognition. But in this strange place, called Station, it is already awaited. The search for God, the meaning and way of life, himself and his place in this cruel place are made of the people of Wanderers, those who never close their eyes and continue the eternal search.

Gabelkin and Nikita, two little boys from a northern Russian village, never meet, and their lives appear to move in opposite directions. Gabelkin lives with his alcoholic mother, while Nikita is one of the many at a local orphanage. Gabelkin's teacher struggles with the fact that she can't have any children of her own. She'd like to adopt him, but can't, and does all she can to help. Nikita believes his mother is a woman from a photograph he found on the street.

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...

A musician cricket fell in love with a beautiful Butterfly. But then a fat Beetle appeared and began to lure her away with his riches.

Neda and Boyan are travelling in a car to the city. Their memory takes them back to their youth - their unsettled life, their noisy arguments, their vague hopes, picking up individual scenes, episodes, conversations. Their youth had foolishly gone without love. Now they try to resurrect its ghost. It seems to them that not everything is lost yet, everything can be brought back. So there is a deviation from the usual, measured life to themselves, to true feelings.

A film story about a young talented director of children's theatre, who, despite terminal illness, came to work in the regional city.

“All Clear” or the crazy adventures of a redheaded heartbreaker in perestroika.

A modest employee of a savings bank inherits a valuable art collection. The unexpected wealth changes the course of the heroine's life so much that she does not know whether to be happy or sad. Only after losing everything does the young woman realise what she really needs for happiness.

Tamara, who has left for America, has a sister Natasha in Ivanovsk. Tamara invites her to come and stay with her. She is ready to help Natasha, to do everything necessary to get her back on her feet in an overseas country. But, strange as it may seem, Natasha does not want to accept such a generous gift from her sister and has no intention of leaving her hometown. She lives well here, she has her own business. And Natasha hopes that she will be able to arrange her personal life.

The Making Of... is a unique reflection of the transformation of the time spirit from November 17, 1989, to November 17, 2009. The film reconstruction of the revolutionary moments culminates in a clash between demonstrators and public security on the day of the celebration of the fall of the Iron Curtain. The commented home video transforms over the course of 20 years from a euphoric trip into a picture of social emptiness.

One-time visit turned into a party, the party turned into a flatshare. Filmmaker and musician Jan Foukal and Albert Romanutti, frontman of Bert and Friends and a striking figure of the Czech music scene, become the main characters of the first Czech bromance. Jan has just rented a flat to sort out his family situation. The COVID-19 pandemic robbed Albert of his musical gigs, and he has just broken up with his girlfriend. While some people were writing their lockdown diaries, these two boys used their unique openness, creativity, and an omnipresent Handcam and shot a feature romance about a male friendship.

Journalist Alexei Krivtsov tries to understand in detail how important historical events are assessed at the Institute of Humanitarian Problems in the times of perestroika.

Animated musical telling the story of Lovely Fatma or Beautiful Fatma, it was the only Azeri language feature-length animated film made during the Soviet Union. Göyçak fatma is an animated opera using a mixture of traditional and cut-out animation.

Soviet troops are no longer in Afghanistan and some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of border guards in Tadzhikistan.

Inga, a medical school graduate, is diagnosed with a blood disease. She needs a bone marrow transplant, but Inga is afraid of the operation and considers herself doomed. Vadim, who loves her, having learnt about it, comes to her in the Carpathians, where she works on assignment after graduating from the institute, and offers Inga to become his wife. Vadim's love and faith in the cure help Inga to defeat the disease.

A collective farm agronomist was dismissed and expelled from the Party by the district CPSU committee. Disagreeing with this decision, the agronomist appeals to a higher Party instance. The secretary of the regional committee comes to the collective farm to sort out this complicated case.

Vladimir is already over fifty, and he is bored with the routine of family life. He has found a young and beautiful mistress Olga, with whom he goes on a romantic trip to Yalta. At home Volodya informs that he is going fishing with friends to Solovki. Arriving in the south, Vladimir and Olga suddenly discover that Volodya's wife is also here, and not alone, but in company with a witty and handsome Georgian Givi. At the suggestion of the bruised and deceived in the best feelings of the spouse, the first couple begins to follow the second, and the serene holiday of the heroes acquires an adventurous character.

The universe of Ukrainian village has always been one of the key topics for Oleksandr Koval. This film is his cinematic testament and, at the same time, a lyrical cinematic confession, which was filmed in his native village of Zherdova near Kyiv, where he was born and where he started his "career in cinema" as a cinema mechanic. This work is particularly illustrative with regard to Koval's tragic view of himself as a person who had to conceal his true self throughout his life.

This film tells the story of the patients of the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Clinic who are treated with art, rehearsing Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and its main idea is to reflect on us ‘normal’ people, our lives and actions in the ‘normal’ world.

Katerina has long since divorced her husband and is raising her fifteen-year-old daughter on her own. Her parents have been separated for a long time and now need her help. Her daughter does not help, and at work there is only trouble. But what Katerina needs is not compassion and help, but love.

Mitya Gromov, a sixth-grader, wants to stay for a second year because he likes Nina, who apparently will not go to the next grade with him. He also tries to save an old horse, which is being led to slaughter, but he acts illegally. And then, helping his classmate Vanya in his studies, he kidnaps him from home.... How long these oddities will continue Mitya does not know, and parents tolerate and wait for the end of this terrible time for their son - the transition age.

To be happy, a lover must catch a magic butterfly in his hat. Puppet cartoon about faith in yourself.

Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the members of the Communist Workers' Party and makes leaflets for the events of trade union. His purpose is to overthrow the Republic of Estonia since he does not believe in Estonian independence nor in any national ideals. Yet the clock keeps ticking, tuberculosis spreads rapidly, the world revolution is being postponed. What to do in order to make one's efforts work?

Young Venka investigates the cause of death of a fellow villager during the Great Patriotic War - in the process uncovering a traitor who has been murdering witnesses to his own inglorious past.

Zhora is a well-known master of stuffed birds and animals in the neighbourhood. His wife's overbearing nature and her endless insults about his strange work once awakened in him the desire to leave home.

The life story of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

Bureaucrats from the chemical plant of a small industrial town allow the lake to be polluted with waste. Zaborov, an enthusiast of the fight for environmental cleanliness, starts an open struggle and is defeated. This does not embarrass him and for a while he disappears. Some time later, a prehistoric lizard appears in the lake, which immediately attracts the attention of the world community.

Ksana meets Ivan Mazayev, a miner, and follows him to Magadan. But the difficult life of a miner quickly bores her. She leaves for Moscow, but cannot forget Ivan...

In a certain kingdom, the boyars decided to marry the old tsar. He chose a bride from foreign lands and sent three fools after her - in the hope that they would not be able to fulfil his punishment...

When all the parents in a town leave their misbehaving children to fend for themselves, chaos follows.

160 cameramen simultaneously filmed the 356th day of the war along the entire front line, as well as in the rear. The film that was released on the country's screens became a cast, a snapshot of the country's face at the moment of its deadly battle with the enemy.

Lonely pensioner Evgenia Vasilievna sincerely does not like the whole world around her. And one day the world reciprocates: the robber took away all the pension, his crazy mother is forced into a friend, the riot police cover the brothel that worked in her entrance, and the prostitutes ask to hide them until the raid subsides. The only thing missing is the criminal authorities who "protect" the institution ... And they come - with a demand to compensate them for losses of several million rubles. But where can a simple pensioner get that kind of money? The bandits themselves suggest a way out: you need to open a new brothel, right in Evgenia Vasilievna's apartment.

The grandfather planted a turnip, which grew so big that he could not pull it out. The grandmother's help did not change anything, so they called their granddaughter. Then the dog Zhuchka and the cat came to help, but the turnip still remained in the ground. And only the appearance of a mouse helped the heroes to pull out the root vegetable.

On the island all crocodiles hatch crocodiles and only one of them for unknown reasons has a chick, which immediately calls him ‘daddy’. At first he tries to get rid of the offspring, but then parental feelings triumph and the crocodile starts to protect the child from aggressive neighbours. Later it turns out that, despite their differences, they have a lot to learn from each other.

This experimental film, hand-scraped and painted on the film strip, is a unique and expressive vision of a sick society, expressed by the unnatural existence in a labyrinth. The subconsciousness reflects the attack of bureaucrats on the world of the creative and natural Woodpeckerman, on his surroundings and his universe — a bird cage. In the end, the image of human existence is presented in the form of a reversed pyramid.

After returning from Afghanistan, Vanya Nechkin starts earning money by causing car accidents and receiving interest from insurance companies. The daily risk of his own life suits him fine - a man with a maimed soul gets used to it.

Yakov Danilych is homeless after releasing from prison. He doesn't have citizen permit and can't find job because of felony. He make money for life by one-time job and living under stairs in his former home.

Alexander Petrovich Egorov returned to his native village from the front as an invalid. A year later he was widowed, and four young children were left in his care. For many years Egorov lived alone, and then brought a new wife into the house - a young neighbour Ksenia. The woman was the bride of Alexander Petrovich's younger brother, but never waited for the groom from the war. Ksenia became a mother to Egorov's children, and a few years later gave birth to his son Vasily. Thirty-eight years passed. The boys grew up and left their native nest. Ksenia and Alexander Egorovs decided to visit their children and set off on their way.

In a remote village, whose name roughly means "a cold place", this film looks for warmth in encounters. The Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya is situated in the Carpathian Mountains in the border triangle between Poland and Slovakia. The three elderly female protagonists - a farmer, a post office clerk and a biologist - are firmly rooted in a place where hardly any young people are left in 2019, the year of Zelensky's election victory. Over time, the film crew also becomes, at least temporarily, a valued part of the village community.

Dedicated to the contradictions of scientific and technical progress, warning against one-sided technical developments that turn a person into an involuntary consumer.

A small, strange creature named Kolyan makes a living by pickpocketing. Unexpectedly, Kolyan ends up in someone else's wallet and ends up in the victim's house. In the house, he meets a girl and saves her from a burglar, showing heroism and courage.

Gendarme Hoppe is packing to leave for a long-awaited vacation in Germany. Before he can leave the post, however, a Jewish boy shows up. Hoppe must make a decision about the child's life.

The scene is set in the thirties. The film is about a sensitive peasant boy who is caught in the vice of cruel military machine. From the start his masters treat him as an inanimate object, which can change hands without so much as a second thought.

Zoya Pavlovna, a director of a folk theatre, is deprived of the opportunity to see her only grandson. To restore contact with him, the young charming grandmother succumbs to the hurricane pressure of an over-active admirer of her polar explorer son and decides to talk to the father of her former daughter-in-law's new husband.

First-grader Petya had a secret that he couldn't tell his mother. The "Swedish series" of stamps was foolishly traded to a fifth-grader. His faithful classmates expose the deal and help to return the collection to its rightful owner.

The forty-year-old commentator, summing up his life and realizing that his well-being is purely external and essentially nothing significant has been done, leaves for his native village, where, he hopes, he will be able to take a step towards his true vocation.

Ulan follows a sailor whose marriage disintegrates and longs for his younger days on horseback

"Muras," or "The Heritage," is a short film by Tolomush Okeev.

During World Word II, the difficult construction of a railroad through the Boom ravine at Kant-Rybachie. One of the construction workers then takes a train ride along the road he helped build.

A lyrical drama about the incredible intertwining of destinies.

It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.

After the death of his mother, Alexei learns that his father, who was thought to have died in the war, is alive. But everyone tried to forget him, because they knew that he had become a traitor at the front.

A Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.

Yuras, a young man who has served eight years for a minor crime, is released from prison. He finds himself in his village, already in independent Ukraine. On the radio is heard a voice of the first president, who promises Ukrainians the right to a dignified life, and young people in clubs "dance non-Moscow, independent rock 'n' roll". The young man is trying to fit into a new picture of the world, even starting a relationship with a Latvian girl. The smell of freedom and international friendship wafts through the air. Dreamy and full of hope for a new life, Yuras is returned to earth by the executive service of the police, which acts as a long-standing and well-established repressive mechanism.

The whole country - people of different ages, incomes and professions - watch television. All television programmes - news, talk shows, even soap operas - are devoted to the same thing: bathing in a winter ice-hole. The president catches a talking pike in the ice-hole, a fugitive oligarch hides his millions there, an aqualungist artist organises a performance, and a freelancer becomes Orpheus and Sadko at the same time.

Dmitry Radkevich and his understudy Maxim Streltsov test the new Parus catapult system. Although the test ends in failure, the representatives of the design bureau insist that everything is in order. Radkevich disagrees and comes into conflict with them. In his personal life, too, not everything is smooth: he married Olga, despite the fact that he once loved Masha. However, their marital happiness has not come - Olga is jealous of her husband and they are ready to divorce. In the end, during the tests of ‘Sails’, Dmitry dies.

Madina, in a state of trance because of her loved one, commits a crime, ends up in prison, and then in a women's colony. Many of the imprisoned women are “broken” by circumstances. But there are also those who, even in extreme situations, manage to maintain their dignity and independence.

The film tells the story of a Russian soldier captured by Afghan Mujahideen, and his successful escape.

On Saturday morning, a mother and daughter were brutally murdered in their apartment. The murderer treated the latter cruelly - her face was disfigured beyond recognition. The missing thing - an old cross with black pearls - was found at one of the acquaintances of the murdered woman. He was hastily tried and sentenced to capital punishment.

A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.

An eccentric musical about what awaits a young honest man who does not want to enjoy the benefits of a "profitable place", despite the fact that he has a young wife, a very persistent mother-in-law and an influential uncle.

A poor parish buries an old icon and spreads rumors of a prophetic dream. When the icon is "discovered," it is believed to have healing powers, attracting crowds and increasing Pankrat’s income. A rival priest complains...

Martha, a young teacher, suffers from persecution mania. The phantom of an organization like the KGB arises in her mind, then it materializes. Fear becomes reality.

After his parents divorce, 15-year-old Valya Lapin is forced to move with his mother to the province, where everything disgusts him. But he knows that as soon as the school year ends, he will move to his father in Canada. Lapin decides to lie low, wait, simply exist in anticipation of the move. The only thing he allows to approach him from his new life is running. After all, it helps him escape from reality.

About an international detachment that fought during the Civil war in Donbass.

A story about how all living things are interconnected. A haiku film about the unity of all things.

Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is said that has been killed in action but Tonya refuses that there's a mistake and believes that her son is still alive.

Three-year Bubby, son of unemployed person, searches on rubbish heaps every junk that can be sold. On these pitiful pence all family forces to live. Every day Bubby goes out “on work” in the enormous lacerated shoes of the senior brother-schoolboy.

A puppy and an old dog are looking for a missing boy. From the footprints on the pavement, they learn that the boy left on a bicycle and violated the traffic rules all the time.

A simple guy from Podolsk ends up in the Moscow Police Department and morally prepares for all sorts of humiliations. But the representatives of the law suddenly turn out to be exacting intellectuals.

Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 10 wild years of their young lives.

An archaeologist, a movie director and a student. They are modern intellectuals, living moments of doubt, reflection and obsessive thirst for activity.

The picture tells about the mass famine that engulfed 35 provinces of Soviet Russia in the early 1920s with a total population of approximately 90 million people. The Volga region, Ukraine, Bashkiria, Kazakhstan and Western Siberia suffered the most. The film tells not only about this disaster and its causes, but also about how citizens of different countries tried to help the hungry.

Two inventors propose a machine for easy soap packaging while an evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine.

It's Christmas Eve in a small mountain train station and no train is coming since all the tracks are blocked with snow. Four people are waiting for a train that doesn't show up. They don't know each other, how long it's going to take, or if they will ever reach their destinations. But as the hours pass, Madalina, Cristi, Ozana, Alex share the absurd, the despair, and the hope. Because they are accidentally stuck here. Because no one knows when it will end. And because it's Christmas.

Two gangs of professional racketeers are engaged in robbing savings banks in a small resort town, competing with each other and not knowing that they work for the same owner. Both are hindered by the veterinarian Maksimkin. Superman, who is in love with Lucy, takes the cash register one by one, being sure that only he can make Lucy happy.

Part one of this two-part epic follows the life and deeds of Boris I – a strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders.

Rado, an orphan from a poor Sofia neighborhood, has been in and out of school for troubled youth for years. Although he is approaching adulthood, he is yet to finish 8th grade. He cannot reconcile his pride and sense of justice with the kind of education provided by people who are deprived of sensibility and human warmth. Rado asserts his right to freedom by frequently running away. During one of his escapes he meets the love of his life, Albena. She is a good student, and comes from a well-educated, sophisticated family. This new and unexpected connection intensifies Rado's desire for freedom and independence, and leads them both into uncharted territory.

Anna finds a Riesenschnauzer puppy on the street, which has been abandoned by its owners, takes it for herself and names it Nyurka. Then this dog is stolen from her, her lover does not want to help Anna to find the stolen dog and they break up. Anna is helped by a dog trainer. Together they manage to find Nyurka, but the new owner, who has renamed her Daisy, does not want to give the dog back, as he earns good money from selling puppies with her help. With the help of the police who intervened in the case, Anna gets her dog back, but a real ‘war’ begins between Anna and the intruders