Films of Russia 2024

The troubadour and his impostor friends - a Dog, a Cat, a Donkey and a narcissistic Rooster - teamed up to accomplish the feat. The wandering musicians, led by a new leader, will rally again to bring laughter and joy back to the gloomy streets of Bremen. First of all, they must make the King's daughter laugh, but meeting the Princess threatens a dangerous adventure. There are insidious enemies, intrigues and traps against the Troubadour and his friends, but you have to fight for love. And then the Princess ran away from the palace. In one tangle there are criminal schemes of Robbers, intrigues of a Detective, whims and secrets of the royal family, but cheerful musicians with an indefatigable Troubadour will make everyone dance to their tune. What are the Bremen Town musicians willing to do for the sake of the feat?

Grisha, a former spoiled brat, who was a serf and became a man, after a trip to the "past" is sensitive to any injustice. And, of course, he cannot get past the lawlessness that the impudent and spoiled Katya creates. It is not surprising that soon spoiled girl finds itself in a different time.

Single friends are looking for romantic adventures on New Year's Eve and invite strangers to visit. Pharmacist Sima was abandoned by her fiancé three years ago just before the wedding, and she was never able to find happiness. In order not to be bored on the coming New Year's Eve, Sima invites single friends to her place, prints invitations with her home address and throws them into bags of medicine for male buyers who have attracted her attention. Surprises begin when guests appear on the doorstep.

35 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a group of young guys are trying to re-interpret this place of the tragedy through art. The dream of our main character - Igor - is to create a rave in Chernobyl. That would help become the exclusion zone into an accessible platform, and not a heavy Soviet legacy. Igor is going to face a reality in which not everyone is ready to accept Chernobyl as a territory for new opportunities. In the process of creating a rave, the system of black business, corruption and hypocrisy of the authorities is revealed. Igor's path proves that change is inevitable: a dialogue between old paradigms and ideas of a new generation must happen.

Dina (30 y.o., film director, lives in Russia) for the shooting of her own film about the collective memory of innocently tortured ancestors finds an experimental musician Johan, the same age as Dina. Johan is German by blood but living in Belgium. Together they go on an expedition through modern Russia. Dina has a talent for using visual tools. Her element is cinema. She needs another person. She is looking for someone whose element is music and sound. For their expedition, she picks points on the map that evoke pain or excitement. They're shooting places of collective memory; with traces of pain, labor and loss. These places are mass graves of the repressed, a flooded city, dolomite quarries, destroyed churches, impenetrable forests. At each place she wants to capture the special energy of change. She also requires someone to act as her radar. A person who is devoid of Russian trauma, is unaware of the history of these places and thus a different other sign-system. Dina and Johan learn to interact with space and with each other. He is fascinated by her, her generosity and ability to guide him through the most complex of tasks. She admires his sensitivity and courage to relate with the world so directly. Their movements, their contact with others, joint conversations and of course the work lead them to mutual love, which they perceive as a blessing. Even when they disagree on locations, ideas, filming methods, they still only crave intimacy, and perceive their discrepancies as errors. A feeling of love arises between them. But to her this film is a prayer and for him it is a research.

The action of the opera is transferred to Italy in the middle of the last century. Instead of crinolines and wigs, the characters wear jackets, raincoats and business suits and ride around the stage on motor scooters.

Stalker was incredibly lucky: he obtained a rare and valuable artifact "Heart" in the Zone. His younger brother, nicknamed Nimble, was even luckier - he received a tip on a larger target. There is no time to plan a trip. Without waiting for his brother's consent, Shustry sets off to the goal alone. To save his unlucky brother, Stalker is forced to return to the Zone, where his new artifact begins to exhibit unexpected properties. Breaking through military cordons, gangs of marauders and mutants, Stalker encounters something more dangerous than anything he has seen before.

The adventures and magic of the New Year whirled the Tarbosaurs in a winter fairy tale. They are looking forward to new discoveries and are always ready to bravely rush to the aid of friends. Together with the Tarbosaurs, Petya and Katya prepare a holiday in honor of the year of the Dragon, find an oasis in the middle of winter and build an ice castle.

The city's chief jeweler, Khan, decides to organize a luxurious event - a display of the most precious diamond in Russia. However, his plans are ruined when three desperate people, facing financial difficulties, decide to steal this splendor.

The film is based on real events that happened to us on the Chikoy River in the Trans-Baikal region. In the midst of the taiga, far from populated areas, our GAZ-66 vehicle could not cross the ford across the Chikoy River.

Sasha Skochilenko is an artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the first to speak out against the 'special military operation' in Ukraine: she changed the price tags in a supermarket and put information about the war on them. Now Sasha is in prison, facing trial. Through the eyes of her friends Sonia and Lesha we witness the ongoing trial up close, exposing the absurdities and inhumanity of the Russian legal system,and the threats that the group of friends who support Sasha encounter in daily life. Over 18 months they await the final verdict. In November 2023, Sasha is sentenced to another 7 years imprisonment for her artistic rebellion.

Aleksandr is a coach of the Irkutsk hockey club. He takes to the team Sergey, a talented player with a scandalous reputation. Aleksandr's daughter, Nadya, accidentally crosses paths with Sergey, they quickly fall in love. Nadya is preparing for the main competition in her life, the Ice Cup in Moscow, and Sergey is invited to the NHL in Canada. Aleksandr doesn't believe in the sincerity of feelings and insists on breaking off the relationship. Lovers face a choice: a great sports career in different countries or personal happiness?

It's 1999. Sasha and his parents spend their summer holiday in a sanatorium, where he gets the titular role in an amateur musical production of Orpheus and Eurydice. He is paired with Polina, an employee of the sanatorium and a local beauty. Sasha falls in love with a girl and, without realizing it, drags himself and his family into an unequal battle with the manager of the sanatorium Misha, who does not hesitate to use any leverage so that Polina stays with him.

The poltergeist takes possession of a new focal face, and Konstantin, along with Mona and Dementius, go to save him. To do this, they have to go through Buddy's consciousness and fears. Will they be able to achieve their goal?

A seemingly minor head injury causes a young, beautiful girl to develop a mental disorder, the manifestation of which is medically referred to as "flickering." Now two completely opposite people live in her body. One of them loves and is ready to love, the other is ready to kill everyone to achieve her goal. It is unknown whether they will coexist in the same body and what will happen when one of them decides to kill the other.

Started as an ordinary story between a tailor and an insurance investigator, the action soon turns into a biblical drama of the eternal theme of the Last Judgment.

Seven multi-genre stories about scientists and global environmental issues. Is it possible to return plants to the desert and save humanity with the help of a super fly? What to do with tons of rice husks and thickets of hogweed and what does the batteries have to do with it? An exciting interweaving of scientific approaches and unique visual styles.

The film is based not only on the storylines of the characters, but also on the principle of continuous dialogue between the actors and the audience about what love is. Each of the five short stories of different genres brings the characters to a critical moment for making a decision: to maintain the relationship or destroy it? This choice must be made by the viewer himself.

Where the earth dies straight into the Universe.

The story of "The 823rd kilometer" is based on the prose of the classic of Tatar literature Amirkhan Yeniki, namely on three of his short stories: "Beauty", "Who Sang" and "For only one hour". The main character of the film is a writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, who has been living in Europe for many years. The writer's terminal illness forces him and his wife to come home to see the place where their family's roots come from for the last time. They meet with their only son, a successful director, a "citizen of the world." The complicated relationship between father and son is set off by touching stories: ?- about two Shakir boys (madrasah students) - 1908; ?- about a lieutenant dying on an ambulance train, who hears the shrill voice of his beloved singing a song through his delirium - 1941; - about the son who was able to visit his native home for just one hour before being sent to the front in 1943. And all these stories, and the modern one created by the screenwriter, and written by Amirkhan Yeniki, converge at one point - the 823rd kilometer, a place of power for all generations of this family.

The story of a teenager Kolya, who, after the death of his mother, ends up in the village with his grandmother. There they eagerly await the return of Kolya's father. However, his father does not come, and Kolya and his brother Vanya go to look for him.

Andrey Ayrapetov jokes about the relationship with his father, who, unlike the comedian himself, supports the war, about his great-grandfather, who was in prison, and about his own attempts to be different from his family.

An unconditional operatic masterpiece that anticipated Verdi's famous triad (Rigoletto, Troubadour, La Traviata) and initiated the genre of lyrical drama, the fate of Stiffelio seems to us today extremely unfair: the world premiere was unsuccessful, the opera was tortured by censorship, and then forgotten for many years. The revival began only in the 1960s, and the opera has never been staged in our country. The Russian premiere of "Stiffelio" is undoubtedly the most important theatrical event of the season, opening to the public an unknown opera by the most famous author.