Movies: Marina Razbezhkina

A group of (mostly) European (mostly) avant-garde jazz musicians embarks on a musical tour across Russia. The plan is to travel 20,000 km, from Moscow to Vladivostok, on a bus. The project is organized and solely handled by Yury, Russian discipline-l...

Sakhalin is a distant island. It is swept away by April snowstorms, and if you leave there, then forever. And if you stay, then for good and for great love. Masha turns thirty, and she still hasn't left. And she still hasn't stayed. She can't decide....

Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is engulfed in fires. The authors of the films of the almanac together with the volunteers go to the epicenter of events. Volunteers, foresters, firefighters – they are not heroes in the usual sense of t...

In the circus tent „Joy” the same thing happens every day – they dismantle and assemble the tent with a dome full of stars, give performances, and move on to the next place. Lynx and parrot trainers quarrel over every little thing, and Valera the clo...

Two twin brothers. Bright and charismatic. One paints temples, the other writes musicals. And for three years they have not communicated and live in different cities. What has separated them? Different views on life and creativity or love for the sam...

Graduated of the institute, Nikita comes to work at the best Kostroma’s factory. Now it is essential for him to learn how to dust down the veneer sheets and to put them into the dryer in the right way....

A simple journey from point A to point B turns into an equation with a lot of unknowns, if you are 20 years old and you are Kolya....

The last few years, Matthew and Kate live in the village. An event occurs in their lives that leads to a radical redefinition of relationships. The past and the present are intertwined into one confused story in which the characters lose sleep, drive...

In Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan a city of the future is being built. Named Innopolis, it was officially opened in 2015 and is the first new town to be built in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. The best IT specialists travel there from all ove...

Vova Kayukov suffers from a severe form of cerebral palsy. After the death of his mother from cancer, he lives in a psycho-neurological boarding school near St. Petersburg. His life consists, basically, of watching endless TV shows and TV shows, as w...

The dusty roads of Odessa preserve and tangle the traces of many a traveler. Led by the shadow of Kira Muratova and their desire to follow her footsteps, Anya and Gleb set out on a journey to find the keepers of her memory, and the characters of her ...

Can one escape from family to get into a mental hospital? An overdose of drugs – and you are “free”. Now Dasha lies on a hospital bed, paints and smokes. She smokes. And smokes. And smokes... A closed space of the mental hospital is more and more har...

The son of the village priest is obsessed with the idea of taking a look at the world from his father's belfry. But he can't cope with is fear of the height on his own. His mother helps him. For whom will this ascent become a feat? And what is feat o...

How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily...

They say that if a daughter looks like a father, then she will certainly be happy. But what if you look like a person whom you have never seen in your life? And all you know about him is speculation, fantasy and a small bronze figure....

A provincial Russian family killed off by suicide, murder and manslaughter and a boy who asks about guilt and forgiveness in the midst of all this squalor. Shockingly great....

Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But she is in full swing at the House of Culture, where local residents rehearse the play based on a pla...

My grandmother is 96 years old. She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and became an engineer. I made this film because I wanted to understand who she really is, but instead I understood a little about myself....

In this documentary, we are not going to discover anything about the eponymous musical genre, but instead we will meet a group of workers dismantling a high-rise building made of concrete and metal. The filmmakers observe and register their labour us...

Thirteen-year-old Alina is going to summer camp. There, she shares a room with five other girls and takes part in the daily activities, which include games on the beach and lots of sports. At first she hangs back, hesitant, but she quickly finds her ...