The Time Guardians

The Time Guardians 2020

4.10

Childless spouses writer Andrei and artist Olga adopt the eight-year-old Ksyusha. The director of the orphanage where the girl was brought up is Andrei Iren's ex-girlfriend. She still passionately loves Andrei and intends to return him at all costs, even if for this he will have to destroy his family happiness. Meanwhile, Andrei is writing a science fiction novel about the dark side of Petersburg. On the pages of his book, the city on the Neva turns into a phantasmagoric world, where time itself has stopped, and the streets are inhabited by soulless creatures. Suddenly, Ksenia enters the world of "dark Petersburg" from the novel by Andrey, where he meets a mysterious friend Paramon. Heroes are waiting for many dangerous adventures...

2020

Umalta Gold

Umalta Gold 2024

2.00

Robbers in shamanic masks attack the convoy and steal 40 pounds of gold. The St. Petersburg gold miner accuses the nomadic Tungus tribe, recruits a detachment of thugs to return the stolen goods and take revenge, but not only he has prospects for gold.

2024

The Belovs

The Belovs 1992

4.70

Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest and strong - he is the drunken poet, the idealist, his philosophy fades into radical nonsense time after time.

1992

Archipelago

Archipelago 2021

6.30

The picture tells about the feat of Russian scientists who are sent to Svalbard as part of the Russian-Swedish expedition in order to measure the actual size and shape of the globe.

2021

Our Africa

Our Africa 2018

1

1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent. After the fall of the Soviet empire Russia lost political interest in Africa, but thousands of kilometers of footage shot on African soil remain. With the help of filmmakers from back then, OUR AFRICA will recreate the time of the “Great Utopia” and expose the mechanisms behind the creation of propaganda films.

2018

Bitch Academy

Bitch Academy 2007

5.00

A documentary on women in St. Petersburg who enroll in a program which will help them land millionaire husbands.

2007

Anatomy of Betrayal

Anatomy of Betrayal 2017

1

What makes men and women lie to others or to themselves? A dramatic movie almanac about the bitter side of love.

2017

Summer Of Sea Buckthorn

Summer Of Sea Buckthorn 2018

1

The film is about the life and death of the outstanding playwright Alexander Vampilov. Life and death, which reflected the era. The two most important meanings are connected in this story. The fate of a simple provincial man who chooses the path of the artist and the love of their native places.

2018

House of Romanov

House of Romanov 1992

5.50

The documentary film dedicated to the life of Nicholas II and his family was edited from chronicle of 1896-1916 from the funds of The Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive.

1992

Sobchak. Woe from Wit

Sobchak. Woe from Wit 2018

1

The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?

2018

I Will Forget This Day

I Will Forget This Day 2010

5.50

A confessional documentary about the thoughts of a woman just before her abortion.

2010

Kamchatka - The Cure for Hatred

Kamchatka - The Cure for Hatred 2014

1

A portrait and self-portrait of the former TV journalist Vyacheslav Nemyshev, who reported on the Chechnyan war in 2001 and now leads a reclusive life on an island.

2014

Рейв внутри

Рейв внутри 2023

1

The main character of the film is DJ Morze, a philologist by training, the creator and ideological inspirer of the OBERWAVE project - a community and a series of parties dedicated to sensual neo-decadent music and the aesthetics of a feast during the plague.

2023

The Balcony of Europe

The Balcony of Europe 2019

1

The story of the film is set in a coastal town along the Mediterranean sea. Here is a popular tourist attraction „Balcon de Europa”. Like from the balkony we are observing a mini model of our world, where the routine of one person take place in the background of massive feasts.

2019

I'm Here

I'm Here 2013

6.00

A day in the lives of six Russian twenty-somethings living in St. Petersburg.

2013

Gillyflower Smells of Perfume

Gillyflower Smells of Perfume 2012

1

For as long as I can remember, I have always been drawn to look into every St. Petersburg courtyard. Quiet and strange life of the "inner space" of St. Petersburg, sounding behind the scenes stories from the life of city dwellers. This film is a short study on the theme "Portrait of my city".

2012

Heavenly Tamper

Heavenly Tamper 2018

1

The film is dedicated to a unique artistic phenomenon—the work of musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who with great strength embodied the understanding of “The Spirit of St. Petersburg” in our time. About this film composer who wrote music for more than 100 movies, and the creator of virtuosic piano, improvisations, Dmitry Shostakovich said, “Karavaichuk is not a talent; he is a genius.” This is how he was discussed, as the last musical genius, in June 2016, when Oleg Karavaichuk passed away. The next year, 2017, he would have turned 90 years old.

2018

Trusha

Trusha 2015

9.00

The story of a young lad and his struggle for survival while living in an orphanage being bullied constantly by some of the older boys.

2015

Russian Like No Other

Russian Like No Other 2017

1

Year after year, a simple farmer from Pskov, François Toulikounkiko, tries to find his original way to succeed in a Russian village and find an answer to the question: "What prevents us from living better?". This is the ironic story of a dreamer of the campaign and true patriot on the struggle against the difficulties of everyday life, big ideas and big projects, "success" that happens where you do not expect it .

2017