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- The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
- Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.
- 1993. 14-year-old Sanka lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to defend himself against bullies, doesn't want to go to music school, doesn't know how to communicate with girls and from which adults to take an example.
- Follows a group of young thrill-seekers who gather on an island to play a dangerous game with a priceless prize - immortality.
- A drama based on an alleged incident in 1956 Samara, where a young woman who danced with a religious icon was frozen into immobility.
- Fifteen years from its inception, YouTube retains the power to shock and disorient - particularly when wielded by children who have lived their whole lives in its era. A found-footage documentary composed entirely of social media videos by teenagers weathering hostile education and a climate of terror in contemporary Russia, "Manifesto" contains one vignette after another to make viewers wince with discomfort and even outright horror. One's first impulse might be to ask whether any documentary should show such material at all - yet of course, it has been freely available for public viewing all along. As such, "Manifesto" invites uneasy consideration of the differing responsibilities of creating, consuming and externally curating candid video, and provides no guidance. In selecting and assembling several years' worth of amateur video into a constructed, collective life-in-a-day feature, the presumably pseudonymous filmmaker Angie Vinchito takes considerable risks of decontextualization. There's no narration to bind or editorialize these disparate but symphonically despairing mini-narratives of physical abuse and psychological oppression, and "Manifesto" counts on viewers' knowledge of recent Russian politics and social norms to determine which videos present uncompromised reality, which may be documenting pranks or performance, and which have been alarmingly coerced.
- The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
- A young female-thief, Lyubka, helps a criminal gang to steal a suitcase from a better-off Jewish family on a railway station; she often thinks about the well-dressed girl and dreams of swapping lives with her, living in comfort and care. Several years later, in 1952, fate again brings them together, when pregnant Irina, a young doctor, comes with her mother to a distant Ural city. The Irina's mother dies soon and Irina is forced to decide who'll care for her daughter, Sonya, while she's on duty in the hospital. And then she finds a wayward girl who'd just served her term. She is not like the other criminals.
- Katya, 45 year old head of the library, falls in love with a sailor. However, he goes on Katie to her best friend. Having inherited from his father's apartment, Kate is ready to give it to the man who kills girlfriend, to take away from her beloved.
- Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Chechnya are our heroes where others cannot pass. The war has reached the very borders of Russia. The former republics of the Union are on fire. But there are landing troops, and there are no impossible tasks. Stronger than personal adversity and impending disintegration is their will to win.
- Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he loses his sight in an accident. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to his previous life are broken. In this new life blind Zuev encounters an exceptional woman capable of seeing more than other people. Her name sounds symbolic - Nadezhda (translates as 'hope' into English) and she works at the local hospital. Nadezhda will help Zuev find his strength and a new sense of existing. These equally strong but otherwise different people spend together what, perhaps, will be the best days of their lives; but everything has an ending.
- Story about five young Russian boys sentenced to a special school for juvenile criminals. Each of them has a past full of crime and violence.
- First documentary about history of vegetarianism in Russia.
- After a long and almost obsolete family relationship, Katya meets a new love. But her mother and friend see that behind the tutelage of Katya's chosen one is hiding a skilled manipulator and a real domestic tyrant. However, Katya is so fascinated by her former school teacher Aleksandr that she takes even his reproaches and prohibitions as a sign of concern.