Elena Bystrova

Nadya grew up and became a figure skater. She dreams of the Ice Cup, just like her mother once dreamed of. Gorin objects to his daughter’s sports career - he protects her from any difficulties and one can understand him: he has lost too much. At a secret training session, Nadya meets a young and daring hockey player from Moscow, and first love breaks out between them. The father does not believe in the sincerity of the young man’s feelings and separates the couple. But obstacles only strengthen true love, and when you love, the most fabulous ending can become a reality.

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.

Having learned from his younger brother Pashka about the mysterious death of his father, Yegor returns to his native village after many years of absence. It turns out that the entire inheritance - a farm with a small number of cows and a piece of land - must go to pay off the father's debts to a local entrepreneur. Pashka is categorically against the slaughter of cows and the sale of land. A quarrel breaks out between the brothers. Yegor asks local guys to help take the cows to the neighboring village to the slaughterhouse, but Pashka is ahead of them, who, under cover of night, takes the whole herd in an unknown direction.

Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed.

Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in Detroit, Lyoshka decides on the most desperate act in his life.

The dreams of passionate street dancer Anton are crushed when an accidental injury makes him deaf. But it is exactly at this difficult time that he meets his true love and finds his vocation. Anton learns to listen to the music that comes from the inside and to create his own music through a dance that will never be the same. He starts to teach dancing to kids with hearing impairments and prepares a unique act with them. He takes great risks joining his former team with deaf kids for a new dance to take part in the World Championship.

황실 발레단에 입단한 마틸다는 자신에게 첫눈에 반한 황태자, 니콜라이 2세와 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 금빛 궁전에서 은밀하게 나누던 두 사람의 사랑은 극심한 반대에 부딪힌다. 갑자기 닥친 사고로 왕위 계승 문제가 대두되고, 황실에서는 대관식을 서두르며 약혼자인 알릭스와의 결혼을 종용하는 가운데, 마틸다를 위협하는 사고들이 연이어 벌어지는데…

디마는 800여 세대가 사는 오랜 아파트에서 가족과 함께 살고 있다. 비좁은 아파트에 늘 궁색한 그의 삶은 답답하기만 하다. 자신의 오랜 아파트가 심각한 위험에 처해있음을 알게 되고, 시급한 보수와 대피를 요청하기 위해 행정기관들을 찾는다. 하지만 부패와 무관심에 찌든 시장과 관료들은 디마의 요청에 귀 기울이지 않는다. 가족과 이웃의 생존을 위해, 디마는 홀로 부패한 관료사회에 전쟁을 선포한다. 2012년 칸영화제 비평가주간에서 선보인 (2013)로 눈길을 끈 유리 비코프의 신작 은 현대 러시아 사회의 병폐에 날카로운 메스를 들이대는 감독의 일관된 관심사를 보여준다‘. 러시아적인’ 감수성과 입체적인 캐릭터, 사회비판적 태도를 완성도 높게 결합해내는 감독의 역량은 현대 러시아 영화작가들의 흐름을 대변하고 있다. 고전적인 히어로의 토포스를 독특하게 체화하고 있는 디마 역의 아르툠 비스트로프는 올해 로카르노영화제 남우주연상을 수상했다.

Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their place at OMON - Russian Special Police Squad. They can count only on each other, and their real family is themselves. After working hours they become simple guys with ordinary dreams like family and comfort. But life changes when once in a night club the friends incidentally get in a fight with the local mafia. It turns out that they have no fear and they are ready to stand for each other whatever happens.

제 2차 세계 대전 직후, ‘세상의 끝’이라 불리는 소련 외곽의 마을에 부임해 온 전쟁 영웅 이그낫은 독일인 아이를 키우는 러시아 엄마, 가족을 잃고 숲에서 숨어 살아온 독일 소녀를 만나게 된다. 소련군이 독일인들을 잡아가려 하자, 이그낫과 마을사람들은 숲속에 버려진 기차를 이용해 목숨을 건 대탈주를 감행한다.