Paris - Cannes - Orleans
Director Dmitrey Sharabarin
Russian Federation
Runtime 59:32
Completion Date: September 1, 2016
There are three settlements with loud names in the countryside of Russia’s Altay region: the Russian Paris, the German Cannes and the Ukrainian Orleans. Nowadays life in the villages is very different from what it used to be. People had a long way to go from the Soviet communistic heritage to market economy, from a traditional lifestyle to global urbanization. Now the heroes of Paris-Cannes-Orleans are simply striving to find answers to questions like “What is happening to us?” and “What is the right choice for the Russian countryside?”
100 Rubles for a dream
Director Ivan Artemov
Russian Federation
Runtime 18:00
Completion Date:
First-time Filmmaker
On one of the local TV channel hosting a very popular show "100 rubles for a dream". The essence of the show is that anyone could come and participate by asking the audience to donate money towards his dream to come true. However, nobody for the whole show history could collect the significant amount. That was the case until new hero appeared at the show with his dream.
"100 rubles for a dream" is a story about people with dreams.
Sankt – Female Identities in the Post-Utopian
Director Lene Markusen
Germany
Runtime 50:00
Completion Date: May 1, 2017
Twenty-six years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Norwegian PhD student Lena travels to St. Petersburg. During her stay, she meets Valja and Flarida. The three women, bound by a friendship both improbable and fragile, become allies in spite of their prejudices. Their lives mirror the models, myths and imponderabilia of femininity in daily life in an (post-)utopian society.
Mission: StriPEACE - Unbelievable
Director Tatyana Gulina
Russian Federation
Runtime 30:25
Completion Date: January 1, 2016
Documentary
First-time Filmmaker
Producer, showman and women's ombudsman, Russian Korean Lucky Lee had set himself a global goal: to find peace between 2 belligerent superpowers - Russia and the USA. For that purpose, he spent $1.000.000 of his own savings on producing the first ever anti-war reality show “Make Love Not War”.
Lucky picketed the US Embassy, led “golden tanks of peace” on Times Square in New York, addressed to Hugh Hefner and Mikhail Gorbachyov, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The Media, scared of Lucky's scope of activity, is boycotting him. Both the media and the politicians realized that Lucky might succeed and did their best to prevent it. But Lucky did not yield to despair and made a movie about filming his anti-war reality show starring all of its heroes.
The Impasse
Director Alina Mikhailova
Russian Federation
Runtime 16:00
Completion Date: July 24, 2017
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project
Poland, 1943. Two married couples find themselves confined in a narrow first-class compartment they will have to share the whole journey long. An inconvenience which annoys them... Each protagonist is at the end of their rope. The train represents the only chance to save themselves and their respective loved ones, to escape from the hell of an occupied country.
Tinder surprise
Director Denis Prokoshev
Russian Federation
Runtime 29:09
Completion Date: September 1, 2017
The movie heroine - young director - collects material for a documentary play. For investigation of online dating subject, she creates account in Tinder application not expecting how this is going to end.
In the family circle
Director Vladimir Bayandin
Russian Federation
Runtime 7:07
Completion Date: January 9, 2017
Student Project
In a close-knit Russian family, a new invisible member of it has appeared. Now Mom has faith in the President of Russia so much, that in her eyes he becomes the head of their family. But there is one problem - her son doesn`t share these beliefs. Maybe the New Year's night will help to resolve their conflict?
Krasny
Director Nikolay Sarkisov
Russian Federation
Runtime 01:26:43
Completion Date: March 3, 2017
"Krasny" - is a period 'red western' set in the south of post revolutionary Russia. The film tells a story about a noble woman, red commissar and a Cossack whose paths intertwine in a most unexpected way.
The portfolio of the soul
Director Anton Polyakov
Ukraine
Runtime 01:12:05
Completion Date: August 3, 2017
First-time Filmmaker
This story is about two lost souls who lost themselves and each other. Here already which time they try to sit down on a chair, to understand all and to find a way out. But how much they do not try, always return to where they started, and no matter how they deceive themselves, there is no way out of this enchanted circle.
Lonely souls of microbes
Director Mikhail Romanovskiy
Russian Federation
Runtime 35:00
Completion Date: August 1, 2014
Student Project
A person is constantly changing in every moment of their life and yet remains the same. No matter how lucky, young or even in love we are, we bear our loneliness inside at all times. There is no escaping from it. Its lingering around during drunken parties in the dorms... Watching us... even when we are not in our own bed.
The main character of this movie meets a girl who completely turns his world upside down as he is just beginning to learn how to find his inner peace. Her deliberate loneliness is a reassured protection from all the pain, lost hopes and disappointments. Not quite a love story, but more than just a story of someone's life!
- Do you feel lonesome with me? - Of course.
Adultery
Director Ivan Lopatin
Russian Federation
Runtime 43:01
Bears fishing
Director Sergey Asaulenko
Russian Federation
Runtime 12:00
Completion Date: October 1, 2016
Each year, the brown bears congregate at the mouth of the river to catch salmon. These days fish is still small and bears play performances in salmon fishing
Next to us
Director Protopriest Alexander Novopashin
Russian Federation
Runtime 01:25:00
Completion Date: May 20, 2016
What is happening with our youth? How can it be that outwardly normal young people suddenly take to dangerous cultural practices, pseudo-religious and ultra-radical ideas that drive them to terrorism, suicide and mass murder? Is the transition really so invisible? Can it be true that a physically and mentally healthy human will, out of the blue and of free will, volunteer to take his or her own life along with the lives of tens and hundreds innocent bystanders? The formation of such a goal requires time, a long time. And what of the ones closest to the individual - friends, family, colleagues, the society at large? Did none see the difference in his or her behavior? There must have been signs of change, alienation, a distance building up. Is our indifference to each other not to blame? The creators of the film offer to think about these questions in an attempt to attract the attention of the masses to the problem. It's a story about a college girl who falls in love with a young man who leads her into a religious cult of kamikaze terrorists.
SEMENOVICH
Director Maksim Smirnov
Russian Federation
Runtime 13:16
Completion Date: July 1, 2017
"It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him..."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
This story about the old man and the Ural sea...
Anatoly Semenovich Shatohin - 82 . In the past, production worker, Metallurgist, now he asks God for health, in order to go fishing. Semenovich has its own bold and independent views on many issues of modern life. The story of his life, rich experiences, and their opinions about the present, he shares with his young friend, the author of this film, Maxim Smirnov.
Timely thoughts
Director Dmitry Komarov
Russian Federation
Runtime 12:00
Completion Date: January 28, 2017
A taxi driver at the point of death looks back at a youth mistake trying to repent. He asks random people question and doesn't dare to confess to a priest.