Movies: Marina Razbezhkina

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run....

Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre’s first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play a...

A beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. A piercing meditation on family unity....

Yar is a place that keeps people, and they can't part with it. If they leave, they will die. The only one who wants to escape from the Yar is our main character Karev. But leaving the Yar, he thereby breaks with all traditional values, and unwittingl...

Fly-on-the-wall documentary on the day-to-day life of Evgeniy Alyokhin, russian poet and musician, and his girlfrend Oksana....

The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deepl...

Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which ...

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....

Тrue Kazakh girls don’t marry Russians. This is what grandma Zeinegul believes in. But her beloved granddaughter disobeyed her will. Many years later the girl comes back to Kazakhstan. Her mother drinks, her grandma prays, her father got married agai...

The demonstrators on the streets of Moscow in July 2019 want just one thing: fair elections. Despite their peaceful protest, 2,700 activists are arrested and hundreds are injured. The active camera places the viewer at the heart of the demonstrations...

Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century, he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers, and monks. Hundred yours later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes. And they recognized each other...

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....

Armed with nothing more than a Yamaha keyboard, Valentin commutes back and forth between his shared flat and a metro underpass in search of happiness....

Nikita is 25 years old and has a rare genetic condition that makes his skin very fragile and untreatable. Such people are usually called "butterflies". Together with his girlfriend Leroy, they are looking for a way to stop the development of the dise...

The film is a portrait of a young writer Alexander Sarapov (literary pseudonym of Bronsky) from a small closed city of Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsky kray. His work had a great influence on people close to him and aroused interest among the leading figure...

80-year-old Zinaida Gorshkova, the last resident of the village of Otary, Mari SSR, entertains herself: walking through the forest, she sings songs that her decrepit memory still preserves: Soviet times of collectivization, church songs from childhoo...

Everyone has their own buzz. For him, the high is war. He was in love with the war as a woman, and the feelings did not go away. He can't go back into battle. All he has now is the house of mercy, the monastery on the next street, and the desire to s...

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...

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...

Mark is 18, and his buddy Kirill is 20. They’ve been friends for just a month but they’re obviously meant for each other. They both crave attention and have a provocative attitude to the world around them. They dance together on the railings of Mosco...