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Browse 67 movies from Moscow School of New Cinema
The 'Yuha' a story of obsession and despair, two fillings interlinked with true love.
Oct 2015
Today is Masha's birthday. She finally decides to meet her father, whom she has never seen. It is separated from him by only one door. She hears a childish voice for her and does not dare to call. She can't take the last step.
Jul 2019
Stasya, a talented young football player who is having a hard time with her parents’ divorce, is going to move to her father in Moscow, with whom she has a complete understanding, which cannot be said about her relationship with her mother and sister. However, the last evening puts everything in its place, and gives the heroine the opportunity to understand where “her people are” and whether the major women’s football league is really what she sincerely strives for.
Aug 2024
Ann, an actress, comes to an audition for a role in a movie directed by the man she thinks she's in love with. Overwhelmed with emotions, she fails the audition, but manages to convince the director to go out for a walk, which then transforms his day into a pleasant evening spent in her company. The desire for love shared by the two single souls jump starts the clockworks of a miracle, which for some reason fails to develop. A classical tale of how everything that transpires with a girl happens mostly inside her head.
Jun 2015
Masha and Valya, vegetarians and abstainers, invite their former friends Natasha and Sergey over. Natasha and Sergey took a mortgage, they are planning a child. Natasha tries to persuade Masha to throw a wedding party, nevertheless she hints at Valya being no good for Masha. Masha in reply tells Natasha that her husband Sergey drinks vodka on the quite. Natasha makes a scene to Sergey. Masha tries to reconcile friends and convince them of their relationship being cracked. The guests are leaving. Valya blames Masha for climbing out of her business. Masha and Valya have a quarrel. Masha remains alone.
Apr 2017
The boy's life in the kids' summer camp has gone wrong from the very start. First, a gang of Indians beat him up, then a girl refused to play the flute with him and then he ended up in a secret lair of a local sorcerer. But what brings the boy most sufferings is his memories of his mother.
Apr 2025
А husband and wife are waiting for their daughter to go to a family dinner, but she is not answering her phone. They go looking for her.
Jun 2017
Lonely young seamstress Masha rents an apartment from widower Valery, who recently lost his beloved wife. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Valery visits Masha almost every day, which prevents her from improving her personal life.
The desire to get her daughter back becomes the driving force in the way of the lead female character as she makes desperate attempts to rebuild their lives upon the release from yet another drug rehab.
Nov 2017
At first glance she is just an ordinary woman, but every couple of months her normal life comes to a halt. Unbeknownst to her loved ones, she goes on a long journey. She jumps from one type of transportation to another, carefully covering up her tracks and building a web of lies during her phone conversations. What is on her mind and what is the purpose of this journey?
May 2018
Jun 2022
A man is accidentally endowed with superpowers. His only desire? For life to go back to normal. He doesn't want to be a superhero, but he can't help it.
Jun 2020
Having learned of a friend's death, Petya goes to the morgue, the cemetery and the wake
Sep 2015
Daughter tries to move from her mother's house to start her own life as an adult. Mom takes it too hard, and one day she finds a new daughter in her garage. Mother and daughter neverending relationship circle.
Sep 2020
In the far North, a fisherwoman lives in silence with her man. Around them lies a night landscape of snow and wrecked ships. Suddenly, her son returns out of nowhere.
Apr 2026
She is 40, he is 30. She is trying to adopt a child. He recently got out of prison and wants to start a new life. They accidentally meet on the day when he gets a job, and spend the whole night together, drink and eat at her expense. It requires understanding and intimacy. He wants peace.
Sep 2017
This is the story of one day in the life of a Georgian family. A fisherman's family celebrates Christmas day.
Apr 2014
In a final attempt to find the truth behind his beloved cousin's death, Jafar decides to face the person who is likely to tell him all. But the cost of it might be too high.
A day in the life of a lonely Lezgi boy in a remote village in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan. All he has is his only friend and a football to keep him going in a village that has no future to offer him. The film is made in Lezgi language with some bits in Azeri.
Mar 2014
For the last 22 years, Viktor Stepanov has lived deep in the forest, five kilometres from the nearest village. His home is a canopy of dense fabric in several layers, an iron stove and an earthen floor. Thoughts about nature and man’s place in the biosphere have accompanied Viktor all his life. He says that after nine months living in the forest you are left “naked”: one-on-one with yourself. At times there is nowhere to hide from melancholy, but the hermit draws strength from his unbreakable bond with the natural environment.
Sep 2018