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Browse 66 movies from Moscow School of New Cinema
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
The 'Yuha' a story of obsession and despair, two fillings interlinked with true love.
Oct 2015
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
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
In the far north, a fisherwoman lives with her man. However, suddenly, her son returns and changes begin in the family.
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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
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.
Apr 2017
Two old friends meet in a big empty house which belongs to one of them on a cold winter evening. Women have something to recall. But as they drink more it becomes increasingly difficult for the hostess to hide some dark secrets from her insightful friend
Nov 2015
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.
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
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
The two brothers meet for the first time in years at their mother's funeral. The drama that quarreled between them crippled two lives, and the culprit - the eldest - went unpunished. Now he is a businessman, and the essence of his “business” is revealed at the commemoration: the taking of apartments from old people. The younger gets a chance to take revenge, but that means ruining his brother's life.
The lonely Alyona nurses her mother, who has lost her speech and mind to Alzheimer's. The daughter works from home and watches travel TV shows. One day, Alyona invites a man over, but her mother scuttles the date. On the same occasion, the daughter gets a opportunity to entirely change her life.
Sep 2017
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
For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…
Apr 2025
The young couple locked themselves in the apartment, drinking alcohol, drugs and each other. At one point, the line between reality and drug intoxication is erased.
Jan 2021
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.
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