Alisa Grebenshchikova

"Peppermint Gingerbread" is two stories – two lives. One is extremely sweet and cloying, like a Christmas fairy tale, the second is scary to the point of goosebumps and realistic, like life itself. A life full of children's and adult emotions, experiences and fears, feelings of anxiety and joy. Who is destined to become an orphan with a living mother, and who is ready to find the closest person on earth – mom by faith alone?

"Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut" tells us a story that happened the day before - The New Year. It is the time when we wait for the wishes to come true. The picture is about our dreams that change with time and, unfortunately, become more pragmatic. The characters dedicate their lives to the career without noticing anything around them even their lovers' worries. Living this day together with characters, a viewer understands that it is never too late to implement in life their dreams. A businessman and a housewife; a cab driver and a man-hater; a secretary and a barbershop; a director and an ordinary tutor - everyone has their own New Year. For someone it is a pleasant fuss and an opportunity to make a secret wish. For others it is an annual tradition to make fun of oneself and to laugh at others during "Jester's Night".

The house of culture “Mir” (from Russian: “Peace”) is being taken over by masked people. People who came to the premiere of the show have to face death. Now they are to pass a dreadful challenge, preserving their dignity and courage. This is a thriller about the struggle against the world evil, terrorism, and a win of the word over weapons. The dramatic and emotional story embraces everything — struggle, confrontation, betrayal, heroic deeds, and love!

Most know Pavel Artemyev as "that curly guy from the group «Roots»". At the age of 19, he won the "Stars Factory-1" together with the boyz-band, traveled all over the country with concerts, won the love of countless fans. But when the 7-year contract was over, Artemiev engaged in what he always wanted - his own music, which he creates with his indie band ARTEMIEV. He is still recognized on the street, but much less often. Once upon a time, fame fell on Artemiev too easily and swiftly, now he is trying to earn it consciously. Answering the questions of radio presenter Alisa Grebenshchikova, schoolchildren, teachers and director Margarita Zakharova, Artemiev talks about his path - from the stars to the thorns, which are more valuable than the stars.

A gunshot suddenly breaks the silence of the school hallways. A desperate history teacher holds her whole class hostage. But very soon the situation will change, and the teacher herself will become a hostage.

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

The melodramatic life story of the modern urban intelligentsia. 45 seconds is exactly that short time during which the life of the heroes of the picture has changed. The main character, Tatyana Chernigova, is a successful business woman, a former fearless climber, and she is experiencing a difficult family drama: unsuccessful attempts to have a baby. The trouble does not come alone, and against the background of the heroine’s psychological experiences, a criminal detective tragedy is played out, according to witnesses and participants, she becomes the culprit ...

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Just a bet in a gamble called life. The cynical rebel is trying his fate over and over again, not considering that this is a dangerous rival. Once the game ends in defeat: the arrogant beauty loses everything at once. A successful journalist turns into a desperate old woman and ends up in a nursing home ...

У Егора проблемы. Он занял денег для продюсирования молодых дарований, а молодые дарования, попользовавшись им – ушли к другому музыкальному продюсеру. Теперь Егор должен до конца недели вернуть деньги гламурному бандиту Максимилиану, или представить ему новую талантливую звезду, иначе ему конец. Понимая, что за такой короткий срок он не найдёт ни денег ни звезды, Егор сматывается из Москвы «куда глаза глядят» и оказывается в городке «Глухомань». Там он обманом проникает на дебаркадер к сотруднику рыбнадзора Степанычу, у которого планирует отсидеться, пока не решит, что делать дальше. События развиваются стремительно, и вот уже разъярённый Максимилиан и его головорезы в «Глухомани». На защиту Егора встаёт Степаныч, очаровательная почтальонша Катя, и собака Килька. Это фильм о том, как русская глубинка изменила жизнь неудачливого молодого продюсера: подарила ему любовь и исправила ошибки прошлого. Счастье рядом, просто его нужно заметить.

Fun story about two girls, accidentally encountered on the highway. Each one of them has its own providence problem: a well-known metropolitan Pushkina Anya is in the center of the scandal, for theft in the pharmacy, and granddaughter famous village witches Njura minimizing damage to the defender.

A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her.

Pasha (an avid mountaineer at heart) and Lisa, who lived together for twenty years and raised two children, suddenly realize that their ardent love is almost gone, and they understand each other badly. It happens in any family. But in some families, these crises are somehow resolved, and everything rolls on the usual track. Our heroes are quite unexpectedly tightened in such a cycle of events that takes your breath away! In the year of the twentieth anniversary wife puts an ultimatum — either I or mountains. And that's just when my husband is going to go to the mountains for the last time....

Andrei and Marina are married for 7 years and they feel there is no more love. They ask a famous doctor to help them, and he helps... by putting their minds into the bodies of each other. Now Andrei is in his wife's head, so he lives the life of his own wife, who runs an art gallery, and Marina in the body of Andrei becomes a lawyer...

In present-day Moscow ghosts of three little girls killed by their insane mother randomly pick a person to watch over for a three days. If during this "probation period" person's moral standards appear not to be high enough The Daughters then kill him using telekinesis.

A criminal comedy about the adventure of three friends: Zmey, Parfen and Pisatel, who accidentally found $33.000 which belong to criminal boss

Mechanic Stepanych goes on a tourist trip to Spain with his wife and daughter. Being tired of them Stepanych is looking forward to meet his friend Semyon. Yanychar is a killer hired by oligarch Vorkutidze and is also waiting for Semyon in Spain.

Mechanic Stepanych goes on a tourist trip to Thailand while his wife and daughter are expecting his return and don't even know what kind of events are waiting for them.

A rich and fatally ill man with an apartment, a car and a summer house offers her a girl's hand, heart and all real estate ". The next day after the announcement in the newspaper, a line of contenders lined up for Andrei. They all want to prove that they are in love with him .

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.

Animated actors and vases tell stories from Greek mythology. Part of a 100-film international project on the theme of world culture. (Robert Donn)

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.