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Browse 27 movies from IRI
The film, written by Roman Super and Ivan Proskuryakov, tells about the only circus in the world where difficult teenagers learn circus art and become real artists. Using its example, the Uppsala Circus project shows how creativity can give children the opportunity to live more interesting and successful lives. The film makes it clear to teenagers that there are places where they will be welcomed, and people who are ready to understand and help.
Nov 2021
Nine-year-old Mitya lives with his grandmother in the village. Everything in the boy's life is familiar and understandable until his grandmother falls ill and sends him to the pharmacy in the district center. Along the way, Mitya meets manga fan Kira, and this meeting changes everything for Mitya. Meanwhile, his grandmother waits for her medicine.
Nov 2025
Mountain road movie: the hero's journey to his small homeland, which became an opportunity for him to improve relations with his son and restore the once lost connection with his father.
Oct 2024
Valya persuades her classmate Sonya to skip classes and go swimming in the river, where there is sun and freedom. She timidly agrees and, in order to justify herself in the eyes of the class teacher, writes her an explanatory note. But the love that Sonya dreamed of does not happen: having received the desired kiss, Valya loses interest in her. She could have kept silent, endured, but Sonya assesses the situation - yes, life does not always match dreams - and leaves in time. She returns to the class teacher with a guilty conscience, flushes the explanatory note down the toilet. It seems that this is a failure. But in the final scene she still smiles: this experience was not in vain. Everything will still be.
Aug 2025
The girl Nadya wants to marry her beloved boyfriend and for this purpose she plunges into the marathons of info-fraudsters.
An unlucky father is trying to restore his relationship with his seven-year-old son after a divorce. He takes his son to the final match of his favorite hockey team, but it suddenly turns out that the tickets are fake. Hoping to rectify the situation and introduce the boy to his idol, the father hijacks a bus with hockey players and takes them to his son.
Nov 2024
An ideal sports career is an Olympic champion, two-time world champion, three-time champion of Russia and Europe in ice dancing. But in January last year, a sudden illness almost took Roman Kostomarov's life. He was in a coma, doctors performed several operations on him and had to amputate his limbs. Forecasts for recovery were less than a percent. But he survived. Thanks to the love and support of his family and loved ones, he did not lose faith and embarked on the path of recovery. And 11 months later, Roman went back on the ice with his partner Tatyana Navka to perform their famous program "Carmen", which brought them an Olympic gold medal. He, like his hero bullfighter, was able to tame the disease and regain a full life.
Mar 2024
Events unfold on the eve of the New Year: a play is being prepared, children are waiting for gifts, adults are fussing. But a mysterious incident threatens to ruin the holiday for everyone at once. Varvara and her faithful friend Vasya immediately get down to business. Santa Claus himself helps them in the investigation, although he is not real. While everyone is talking about miracles, Varvara prefers to look for answers with the help of logic, because for her the New Year is a great reason to reveal another mystery.
Dec 2025
During a long journey, Grisha and his stepmother, Vika, spend more time together than ever before. The further they travel, the closer they come to confronting their most difficult emotions—and the person they haven't spoken about in a long time.
Having received yet another chemotherapy treatment, Kirill, for the first time in his life, was unable to join the tradition once started by his uncle - gathering in an abandoned village. How will warm memories of family and home help him cope with his illness?
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At the university, a history teacher asks students to write a letter to their great—grandfather, who fought at the front. This assignment changes the lives of the guys.
Jan 2020
Katya is raising her deaf son, Misha, alone. She is particularly concerned about Misha's inability to speak, unlike his peers with a similar disability. The boy finds his voice after experiencing his first small tragedy. A joyful event is intertwined with a painful experience, love with resentment.
A short film about a team of young esports players who enter a real World War II battlefield during a computer game championship. They decide to participate in the battle, because history is being made here and now.
Mar 2020
Friends decided to travel from the capital to the Far East by train to see the ocean. On the way, they were waiting for road adventures, stories of fellow travelers, the beauty of an immense homeland and the search for their own "I".
Mar 2023
In the outback of Siberia - in the village of Takuchet - Justas Walker, a born US citizen, lives and works. Here he has his own successful farm of 11 goats, a couple of sheep and several chickens. Russian neighbors dislike him and plot against him, but Justas looks at life with humor even in the most difficult moment. He has two friends, assistants, two Siberian men with a criminal past - Andrey and Vova. All together they are trying to prove with their work that there is still life in the Siberian village.
Aug 2022
Thousands of kilometers of snowy silence, severe frosts and piercing winds, the deceptive fragile beauty of the ice. It’s the Arctic, the end of the world, where, in the words of one of the characters, the human soul means the universe. Perhaps that is why for ages these disturbing expenses have lured the fearless and the romantic. This is where the history of the great country was made – the Northern Sea Route was laid. In this film the past meets the present and the heroes of today – captains and crews of the superpowerful atomic icebreakers – just like their predecessors set off on voyages unaware of what lies ahead for them, what trials await them on their long arctic route…
Apr 2025
Today the weather was warm. I dressed warmly. At three o’clock, I made a candle at Anya’s—and then drowned it. I’ll chat with you, and then I’ll have some nuts. You were right about Anton wanting to kiss me. He and Natasha had a fight, but they made up. We didn’t have any porridge, so we ate cottage cheese with jam instead. If you were here, you’d cook, remember? Yura’s back is sore because he’s always hunched over. There was fog today. At the street near the Circle. The foggy dew. For lunch, we had pasta and cheese. I helped Oksana cut it. She called me clumsy after I ran to the barn in a dress, slipped, and—bang!—landed in the mud. The moment I pick up Dasha in my arms, Masha wants to be held too. No bingo tomorrow; we’re taking a break. Time to rest. Goodnight. Talk to you sometime; not today.
Revive the spirit of the times, fall in love with the characters, think through every detail, from coats to dances - and all this is not in vain. The result of the work brought dozens of awards, record views and sincere emotions of millions of viewers. It's time to return to the set and remember how the atmosphere of the late 80s came to life on screen. Screenwriter Andrei Zolotarev, director Zhora Kryzhovnikov, producer Fyodor Bondarchuk, new stars Leon Kemstach and Anna Peresild, together with experienced actors - from Ivan Yankovsky to Sergei Burunov - will reveal the main secrets of working on the event series. And they will honestly share their feelings about what happened after the premiere.
Jul 2024
The nature of the Crimean peninsula is beautiful and diverse - here you can find numerous caves, grottoes, bays with cozy beaches, as well as unique salt lakes - azure blue and pink reservoirs with salt water. They are a source of cosmetic and food salt, as well as medicinal mud.
Feb 2023
The film's heroes, children of Russian emigrants and witnesses of history, Professor Egor Reznikov of the University of Paris and Professor Alexei Sossinsky of the Independent University of Moscow (IUM), lead the viewer along the traces of the Resistance on the French island of Oléron after 77 years.