FIRST FEATURE FILM SHOT IN SPACE Thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has one month to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station, where she must operate on a crew member. Will she be up for the challenge? Can she overcome her fears and insecurities? Will she be able to perform the complicated surgery in zero gravity, and give the cosmonaut a chance to return to Earth alive?

The Challenge

Klim Shipenko (Son Of A Rich, Salyut 7)

Alexey Trotsyuk

Vitaly Shlyappo

Denis Zhalinsky

Eduard Iloyan

Sergey Titinkov

Konstantin Ernst

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

Tzadik

Sergey Ursulyak

Nikita Mikhalkov

Leonid Vereschagin (Three Seconds, The Crew)

Timur Weinstein

Anton Zlatopolsky (Three Seconds, T-34)

The film is inspired by the record-breaking solo trip around the globe in a hot-air balloon made by the world-famous Russian explorer Fedor Konyukhov in July of 2016. Throughout his remarkable life, Konyukhov has proven time and time again that willpower, perseverance and faith can help overcome fear and doubt, and lead a person to triumph.

Lord Of The Wind

Kolya and Alice live in different worlds. Kolya lives in modern-day Moscow, while Alice lives 100 years in the future. Kolya likes playing video games, writing rap songs and hanging out with his friends. He doesn’t think about the future at all. Alice knows everything about alien animal life, martial arts, and the history of the galaxy. The past holds a painful memory for Alice - her mother was killed in a battle between earthlings and space pirates. The defeated forces of evil will one day return, and worlds will collide. Kolya and Alice will meet, and their meeting will shape the future of our universe.

Guest from the Future

Alexander Andryushchenko

Vadim Vereschagin

Denis Baglai

Fedor Bondarchuk

Mikhail Vrubel

A story of the sky, a long-awaited dream, and a miracle that made global headlines.Damir Yusupov could never have imagined that one day he would be hailed as a hero. As a child he dreamed of flying and was certain that he would follow in the footsteps of his aviator father, but fate seemed to have other plans for him. As years went by, even those closest to him lost hope, but Damir finally managed to make his dream a reality and became an airline pilot. In August 2019 his courage and skill saved 233 lives when he brought his plane down safely in a cornfield after a complete engine failure.

Emergency Landing

Sarik Andreasyan

Ekaterina Muratova

Gevond Andreasyan

The year is 2032. Ten years after a war with a race of genetically altered humans dubbed ‘rats’, special units of ‘rat catchers’ seek out and exterminate the last remaining hybrids. One of them is Zoe. She manages to evade detection using a false identity, and becomes a rat catcher herself. Any out of character slip on her part could expose Zoe for who she really is, and an encounter with her ‘rat’ father, with whom she lost contact during the war, could cost Zoe her life.

Rat-Catcher

Alexey Mizgirev

A horrific car accident turns a married couple's lives upside down. Artist Maria's husband, businessman Kirill, becomes disturbingly perfect. Is he repenting his mistakes and trying to make up for what he almost lost forever, or is it all a figment of Maria's injured imagination?A series of increasingly strange coincidences and signs suggest that Maria can no longer trust herself.

Syndrome

Anton Bormatov

Andrey Radko 

Ekaterina Gordetskaya

Vadim Vereschchagin

Fifteen-year-old Jane is sad and angry at the world after an incident that involved a trauma to her head and leg. Now she has a metal plate in her skull and gets around with the aid of her grandpa’s cane. Jane blames her (now former) boyfriend Ivan for what happened to her, and directs her anger at him. She gradually learns to enjoy life and mends her broken relationship with Ivan thanks to a new acquaintance, robotics teacher Mr. Carin, who becomes her friend and mentor.

Jane not sane

Ivan Kapitonov (The Bride, The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead)

Tatiana Yakovenko

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky (The Bride, The Mermaid:  Lake of the dead)

Ivan Kapitonov (The Bride, The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead) 

A gripping story about the fascinating adventures of a young warrior, Koshchey, in a magical, fantasy world. Our hero ventures to the capital city of the kingdom in search of a ruthless monster – White Shadow. Many years ago, Koshchey swore to avenge his loved ones, who all perished at the hands of White Shadow. In the Capital, Koshchey meets a young sorceress – Circus May. As fate willed it, they end up in the wild lands, where they battle through a series of adventures, overcome numerous trials, save the world and prove that true love is eternal.&nbsp;

The Everlasting Story

Andrey Kolpin

Anton Smetankin

Tatiana Tsyvareva

Robert Gndolyan

Daria Stavrovich

Sergey Bogolyubsky

5 episodes, 50 min each This ground-breaking adventure documentary follows a Himalayan expedition led by Vitaly Lazo, Russian mountaineer and high-altitude free rider. He and two other mountaineers – a Russian and a Norwegian – ascend Mt. Dhaulagiri, one of the world’s highest peaks.&nbsp;Choosing to endure extreme conditions unaided, without oxygen masks and with no sherpas to carry their equipment, the group climbs to a height of over 8,000 meters before making a free-ride ski descent.&nbsp;The breathtaking account of their high-altitude feat, professionally filmed by the members of the expedition themselves, is unprecedented. Feature version is also available

Oxygen

A talented spy, elusive like a shadow. A man of many faces whose identity is a mystery. Stopping him is the top priority for Russian counterintelligence because he steals the most guarded state secrets. When it becomes evident that the mysterious spy is operating in Moscow, a young counterintelligence agent gets on his trail. With the country’s national security at risk, the stakes in this game of cat and mouse grow higher by the day.

Shadow

Ilya Kulikov

Ruslan Sokolov

Andrey Semenov

While digging one of the many tunnels for the Moscow metro, Soviet workers unearth ruins of a dungeon. The relic is the key to the secret location of the priceless ancient library that belonged to Ivan the Terrible. Decades later, the foreman’s grandson Ilya discovers the ancient relic in a pile of old junk. What Ilya doesn’t know is that the search for the lost library has been going on for centuries, and now very powerful people are after him. Oblivious to the true value of the family heirloom, he soon learns about it from a mysterious stranger. Ilya and the mysterious stranger decide to try their luck in finding the library. They are soon joined by a beautiful philologist Arina, who takes it upon herself to decipher the encrypted message etched upon the ancient artefact. In search for clues that bring them closer to the coveted discovery, the trio goes on a quest that takes them to dangerous and obscure locations above ground and under water all across Russia, even to the Kremlin’s secret catacombs.

Raiders of the Lost Library

&nbsp;SINGLE SHOT FEAR STORIES&nbsp;A knock on your door sets in motion the feeling of anxiety. Should you open? Who, or what, will you encounter if you do? The characters of this continuous-shot anthology film – a billionaire, a commercial pilot, a trainee police officer, and a young single mother – find themselves in critical situations, facing the unknown. To make the right choice they must look deep within themselves, and recognize the true source of their fears.

Who's there?

Vadim Vereschagin (Billion, Text, Son of a Rich)

Vladimir Maslov

Mikhail Morskov

Vitaly Dudka

Gleb is 35 years old and an example of a successful man: he has a beautiful wife, his own business, and a new country house to dream about. But as he doesn’t find the courage to sort things out like a man with his drunken neighbor who hit his wife, his perfect life changes drastically.

Like a Man

Maxim Kulagin

Mikhail Marizov

Anton Lapenko

Sixteen-year-old servant Greg is in love with Sophia, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. The feeling is mutual but Sophia’s parents want her to marry another - a man of high social standing and low moral values. Greg is forcibly separated from his beloved and made to join General Alexander Suvorov’s army. During the legendary Swiss expedition, Greg earns the respect and loyalty of Suvorov and his men by thwarting a treacherous enemy plot, proving that anyone can be a hero if they are driven by love.

The Swiss Adventure

Alexandr Khant

The movie is based on the real story of Nika Turbina, once world-famous Soviet child poetess, who got completely forgotten in the 1990s. That's when we meet her: at the age of 27 Nika is full of hopes and doubts regarding her gift. Due to the age restriction, she's got just one shot to enter the Drama School, and that's her only chance to separate from her cherishing and oppressive mother. Acquaintance with a new friend Ivan gives Nika hope for a happy future, but there is still something in her memory that triggers her. Tragically cheerful, painfully confused and desperately believing in love and life after childhood, Nika puts everything on the line to overcome ghosts of the past.

Nika

Vasilisa Kuzmina

Vadim Vereschagin (Row 19, Son of a Rich)

Denis Baglay

Fedor Bondarchuk (Stalingrad, Attraction)

Alexander Andryushenko (Sputnik, Attraction, Ice)

Mikhail Vrubel (Sputnik, Attraction, Ice)

8 episodes, 50 min each A journalist Anna, after meeting with a powerful stranger, starts to investigate an unusual case with supernatural forces involved. A physics teacher Vadim and a tech genie Nikita help her to get to the truth.

Project "Prometheus"

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title.&nbsp;Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

The World Champion

Alexey Sidorov (T-34)

Rafael Minasbekyan (Furious, Frontier)

Nikita Mikhalkov (The Crew, Three Seconds)

Leonid Vereshchagin

Vladimir Vdovichenkov

Ivan Yankovskiy

Konstantin Khabensky

A film by Gleb Panfilov, a laureate of&nbsp;Locarno, Berlinale, Venice, Cannes.&nbsp; Official selection of Locarno 2021.&nbsp;Boccalino d'Oro 2021 in Locarno for a leading actor. After the military captivity in Germany Russian soldier Ivan Shukhov is declared a traitor to the state under Soviet law and sentenced to ten years of forced labor in a Gulag as Prisoner S-854 . Amidst the harsh snowy wilderness, Ivan and other prisoners are building a massive factory for the Soviet space program.&nbsp;Amazingly, despite all the injustice, hunger, humiliation and fear inherent to daily life in the labor camp, Ivan manages to maintain his best human qualities. Hard-working, honest and sincere, he possesses simple folk wisdom and unshakeable faith in miracles even after having to learn to survive on the brink of death.&nbsp;

100 minutes

Irina Savina

Maksim Panfilov

Gleb Panfilov (The First Circle, Tema, Vassa)

For an athlete, overcoming fears and weaknesses is the only path to victory.The film tells the story of the legendary Soviet boxer Valery Popenchenko, USSR and European champion and winner of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His life was a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs - from his childhood in Tashkent’s Suvorov Military School and service as a border guard, to his first victories and failures, and his friendship with Dynamo sports society coach Grigory Kusikyants.

Mr. Knockout

The movie is inspired by the true story of the making of "Moscow Strikes Back", a documentary film directed by Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov that was shot and produced in an unprecedentedly short timeframe. It won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 1943 Academy Award ceremony, the first such event ever to give awards for documentaries.The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another storyline taking place in the US. After the premiere screening of the already completed documentary “Moscow Strikes Back”, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee is trying to persuade his fellow colleagues to establish a new category of Best Documentary in the upcoming Oscars event.

First Oscar

Sergey Mokritskiy (Battle for Sevastopol)

Natalia Mokritskaya (Jumpman, Zoology, Battle for Sevastopol, Corrections Class, Playing the Victim)

At age sixteen, Sasha wants to stage a personal revolution. For her classmate Danny, daring to say “no” to his overprotective mother is already a major feat of disobedience. Danny and Sasha run away together in protest against the unforgiving rules of adult society where they are not allowed to be true to themselves and their young love is forbidden. Freedom goes to their heads, and what initially feels like a fun idea gradually escalates toward committing a crime. The tale of modern-day Romeo and Juliet transforms to resemble a story of Bonnie and Clyde – two young people angry at the world in which they feel like outcasts.

In Limbo

Ostap Bender. The Beginning Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure.And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force. Osip keeps his new endeavors secret: he is in love with a young woman of high morals and immaculate reputation, while unconvincingly resisting the charms of another woman, an exotic foreign-born vixen.This is the story of Osip’s amazing transformation into a future legend, the “great schemer” and womanizer we know today as Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky. Ostap Bender. The Empire's Gold The hunt for imperial gold continues. A priceless scepter, a treasure that could secure a worry-free life in sunny Rio de Janeiro for Ibrahim Bender and his young apprentice Ostap, has slipped from under their noses and ended up in possession of Nestor Makhno, an anarchist army commander. Makhno is convinced that the scepter is one of many imperial relics hidden in the area. With mafia, partisans, and officers of the Red and White armies all determined to get their hands on the fabled gold cache, Ostap and his mentor Ibrahim must surpass their own brilliance to outmaneuver their rivals and snatch the prize. And with Ostap’s beloved fair maiden losing her trust in him, he must do everything in his power to win her back and stop her from marrying another man. Ostap Bender. The Ultimate Gamble 1919, Solnechnomorsk. Talented adventurers have become too unexpected: now they are wanted by the Russian and Turkish police. They go to the south of Russia to take possession of the golden scepter of Count Rumyantsev. In pursuit of a precious little thing, terrorists, circus performers and even participating ladies can dress up as them. Meanwhile, Ostap’s mother is approaching the paws of the gloomy Satanist Crowley, in whose treasury, by a mysterious coincidence, there is also a scepter ...

Ostap Bender Trilogy

Ivan Samokhvalov

Aleksander Tsekalo

Igor Zaytsev

The film is based on a true story of heroism during the Syrian war, which took place in 2015.&nbsp;Lieutenant colonel Oleg Soshnikov and captain Konstantin Muravyov are deployed to Khmeimim air base in Syria. During a combat flight, their Su-24 is shot down. Both pilots eject after the aircraft is hit, but only one of them returns home alive.