Sergey Vinokurov

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin in 1840, its surreal mode effortlessly accommodates an automobile and the strains of “When the Saints Go Marching In” on an off-screen radio. Focusing on passion from a woman’s perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body.

Using the patriotic military celebrations of May 9 as an ongoing and disquieting motif, St. Petersburg–based documentary filmmaker Rudnitskaya introduces several ordinary gay and lesbian couples whose legal rights are increasingly invalidated, and whose very lives are in constant danger in a cultural and political climate that’s turned blatantly, unapologetically homophobic.

Using the patriotic military celebrations of May 9 as an ongoing and disquieting motif, St. Petersburg–based documentary filmmaker Rudnitskaya introduces several ordinary gay and lesbian couples whose legal rights are increasingly invalidated, and whose very lives are in constant danger in a cultural and political climate that’s turned blatantly, unapologetically homophobic.

Documentary following a mobile blood donation team travelling through rural Russia, where people sell their blood to make ends meet.

The action in the film takes place in the Far East, on an uninhabited island called Rikord in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan. The lead character, called Fatei after his father, and his family have their own marine farm where they harvest delicacies from the sea. In amazing images of the underwater world and land-scapes of the Primorsky (Maritime) Territory of the Russian Far East, the film Fatei and the Sea tells the story of a little man whose life is inseparable from the big world around him.

A Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait.

There was a split between men and women in the village. Led by the village teachers, the women turned to religion. And then the Finns came... the film is a cross-section of village life in all its diversity. School, students, Aborigines and missionaries, teacher… Their idea of religion and of themselves is a kind of everyday lessons of modern life.

An experimental short film in which the authors, without resorting to synchrons, managed to convey the atmosphere of one of the provincial Russian cities.

The twenty-six-year-old hero, who previously worked as a parking lot watchman, went into business and could not repay the loan. And he has a wife and children. The current situation forces him to look at the world with different eyes.

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Martha, a young teacher, suffers from persecution mania. The phantom of an organization like the KGB arises in her mind and gradually materializes. Fear turns into reality, which drives the heroine crazy.

Martha, a young teacher, suffers from persecution mania. The phantom of an organization like the KGB arises in her mind and gradually materializes. Fear turns into reality, which drives the heroine crazy.

The film consists of five separate short stories about different people. A young man who has just returned from the war in Transnistria. The boys who wipe the windows of cars on the streets for tips. A newly minted millionaire who got rich from criminal operations. A French woman who recently came to Russia for permanent residence. A small theater troupe, cheerful and hoping only for themselves.

The robinsonade of the Polish settler of the XIX century Mikhail Yankovsky in the Far East today directly rhymes with the national project "Far Eastern Hectare". Already 78 thousand people have taken advantage of the unprecedented support of the state and have taken land to dare in the fields of free farming. Twenty–year-old descendant of Mikhail Yankovsky - Egor Bordovsky goes from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok to find himself and master his hectare. Having lost contact with his son, his father also goes to the Far East after Egor.

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