Crystal Swan

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.

In November 2023, amidst the height of a global AI boom, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever teamed with the company board to make one of the defining decisions that has drastically reshaped the company as we know it, the firing of current CEO Sam Altman. This controversial decision would lead to immense backlash, ultimately resulting in Altman's return five days later.

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

Two up-and-coming friends, seeing themselves as the future elite of the new world, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that they have been drawn into a massive embezzlement scheme involving billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded communal cell, a purgatory where he must transform himself into a different person in order to survive and return back to the real world, to his family.

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

After suffering a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter. However, his wife has other plans.

In Chernobyl, the Global Kintech Corporation conducts illegal construction. A special interstate commission is trying to interfere with these plans, but right during a press conference, a group of unknown terrorists attacks its leader.

They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to eventually learn not to listen but to hear, not to look but to see. And to find their way.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Minsk, August 2020. Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of peaceful protests. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people are victims of police brutality.

At a provincial film festival, a young director who unexpectedly wins the top prize spends one absurd night with his friends. While everyone around him is discussing the award, drinking, falling in love, arguing about the coolness of the Husky, waking up the plane, the main character gradually understands that the real value of this night is not the victory or the movie, but random intimacy with a person.

In an ideal world of the near future, an exemplary hero commits an act that threatens to ruin his life. Having become an outcast, he must make a decisive choice between two women. Between family and long lost love. Between familiar well-being and an unknown, dangerous future.

In the 19th century, a battle-scarred veteran comes back to his hometown only to discover that his son is suspected of practicing dark rituals. As suspicion and paranoia grow, the family is torn between loyalty, faith, and the shadows of horror lurking in their own community. This mystery drama blends psychological tension with atmospheric dread, exploring the consequences of fear and moral choice.

A movie almanac of five short stories about happy accidents.

In a small Belarusian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja must deal with her mother's death. She takes every duty upon herself to fill the void a mother has left behind. Someone must hold the pieces together. Still, her father decides to send her to an orphanage with the promise of returning. When he fails to show up, she decides to run away and go back home instead.

Anna's son is a drug addict. Mother has a plan on how to get rid of his addiction. An Interpol investigator who runs the case of Anna’s husband becomes an obstacle to the implementation of her plan. He is confident that a woman can help him get the necessary information. Anna has to find out that truth has its own power, that there is guilt that cannot be accepted, and love that cannot be abandoned.

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

When the police finally catch an elusive serial killer, no one can prove his guilt, resulting in the lead detective making it personal.

Nikita, a former Russian Spetsnaz operative, is hired to neutralize the large private security force at a local factory so that his shady employer can extort the business from the factory owner. But Nikita and his group of highly trained fighters get more than they bargained for when it turns out the factory is actually owned by a dangerous warlord connected to the Russian military. By the time the 'hostile takeover' is complete, Nikita reveals that he has orchestrated his own secret mission to take personal revenge on the most dangerous man in Russia.

Nina considers her life as a series of failures. It's like a magnet that attracts trouble. And the fact that neighbors on the communal shamelessly "survive" her, and then her first lay off at the reduction in school, and even an unfulfilled personal life - in everything, Nina blames only her unhappiness. Her friend Masha tries to prove to her that the problem is in Nina herself. She does not know how to stand up for herself and allows others to use her trustfulness. Temporarily, Nina arranges an interpreter for one of the successful companies. There she gets acquainted with the director of the company Roman, who begins to look after her. But Nina does not even realize that once again becomes a "bargaining chip" in someone else's game.

Aysha is preparing for the wedding, but suddenly learns that her brother Timur has disappeared. In search of her brother, the girl returns to her native village, where she encounters not only her own past, but also a secret hidden in the depths of the forest.

On October 25, 1917, construction of a new world began in Russia. One of the foremost workers in this construction was the writer Andrei Platonov. But a bright and fair future, his art and literature were seen by everyone in different ways. Its truth became impossible, and the new world was not built in the way it was conceived. Demanding millions of lives for its existence, a brighter future took the life of the writer’s son, who was arrested at the age of fifteen, and then Andrei Platonov himself. The story of the creation and death of the new world in seven days.

An old woman lives in a remote village in Belarus. As the end of her live approaches, she starts to read the worn-out notebooks of her daughter. Together we go on a journey to the unknown world of a person who is abandoned and forgotten by everybody.

The average Moscow taxi driver starts suspecting that there is something wrong with his clients, who keep going about the city. Mysterious destinations, strange motions, hysterical laughter, puzzling placement of the black bundle. The protagonist is intrigued which leads to an unpleasant discovery. It turns out that the world has long been taken over by “psyons” – psychological operators controlling human mind.