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Due to an accident, Dima has been confined to a wheelchair since childhood. Despite the restrictions, he is actively engaged in creativity, writes music and receives awards. But this realization and success does not make him a happy person. One day, his mother leaves on a business trip, and Dima is left to look after his aunt Tina, young and a little frivolous. Soon, Dima's old childhood friend, Aisen, unexpectedly appears, who invites him to arrange an unforgettable weekend and promises to show Dima a real "adult life".
Mar 2023
Dyulus and Afonya are ordinary country guys who love rap and cool cars. During the day they work in the boiler room, in the evenings they record their album and every day they dream of a better life. Especially Afonya, nicknamed Appos, who dreams of dumping into the city, believing that real life is passing by. His comrade Dyulus, nicknamed Trupak, on the contrary, is not eager to leave his native village. But one day, Dyulus receives a letter that radically changes his life and makes him leave for the city, towards fate...
Apr 2021
A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.
Apr 1996
Holding hands, Dayaana and her beloved only daughter Sandaara, walked through an endless forest for a long time. Eventually they reach a distant, unrecognized village full of strange inhabitants and strange happenings. The residents themselves are astonished by Dayaana since they cannot see her daughter...
Sep 2008
Yakutia, the 1930s. Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live their days in thick taiga. Cows, hunting, fishing make up the simple everyday life of the old people. Once early in the winter an eagle flies into their garden. The old people dare no drive it away because eagles are sacred. All through the winter they feed the bird so that it does no attack their cattle. Gradually they grow accustomed to each other. On a cold Christmas day the eagle makes its way into the house and occupies the honorary place in the corner on the shelf next to the icons. From then on the people and the bird start their life together in one house.
Apr 2018
Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.
Jan 2023
Three friends - Baaska, Sashok and Petka - gather in an old village club and learn that their childhood friend Vadim, who came from abroad, did not invite them to his wedding. Trying to cope with the bitterness of lost friendships, they immerse themselves in memories and fantasies about a better life.
Jul 2025
After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev's battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope for replenishment collapses when the convoy, in which the Soviet snipers were traveling, falls under a German airstrike. A handful of soldiers and a young hunter from Yakutia, Yegor Cheerin, survive.
Mar 2021
The life of an ordinary guy was measured and monotonous, but everything changes in an instant, when he mysteriously enters the past...
Apr 2022
Sep 2014
Two friends unexpectedly become the new bosses after a tragic explosion in the gangster underworld, attempting to deceive everyone to obtain the deceased leader's inheritance. But their success is threatened when they learn that a surviving enemy is seeking revenge. In a decisive battle, they must protect their new friends.
Nov 2025
Everyone's favorite story about first love based on the drama of the same name by Timofey Smetanin. They want to marry Nyurguhun to the son of the prince, the girl is in love with the poor Lookuut, and for the sake of love for the young man she is even ready to die.
Sep 2023
Nurgun has spent his entire life wanting to prove his worth to his father, but yet another setback, being fired from his job as a pizza delivery boy, ruins all his plans. And now, it seems, the time has come to acknowledge his insignificance and give up. But as fate would have it, his old friend Saryal (a fitness blogger) shows up and convinces Nurgun to go with him to the village and help with content during his participation in a mowing tournament. Arriving in the village, Nurgun learns that this tournament is very important and serious, as the fate of the entire village depends on its outcome. Everything would be fine, but during the preparations, Saryal gets injured and is no longer able to participate in the tournament, leaving no one but our hero to replace him.
Feb 2026
When you are over 30 years old, it's time to think about starting a family. The heroes of this film are trying to solve this problem in their own way. A tractor driver falls in love with a milkmaid and, with the help of his friend, tries to woo her, getting into curious situations along the way. In such vicissitudes, the second pair also turns out to be.
Jan 1997
There is no escape from the war... 1942. While all the forces of the country are thrown into the fight against fascist Germany, in the southern part of Yakutia there are gangs robbing gold mines. The largest of them is the elusive and brutal Popov gang, which collects stolen gold to organize a military coup in the Far East. In their footsteps, a small detachment of the NKVD under the leadership of Senior Lieutenant Karasev is sent through the snow-covered endless taiga.
Nov 2021
Having quarreled with his father Altan goes to work in the North. He will have to spend a month alone on a deserted island. But soon a neighbor appears. He is old Baibal who has come to the island to spend the last days of his life there. He asks Altan to bury him next to his wife. But the guy finds out that long ago the old man’s daughter went missing. He talks the old man into publishing an entertainment blog to find his daughter and put of the man’s death. Every day Altan does his best to stimulate the old man to live another beautiful day.
Feb 2020
An originally staged film based on a seemingly familiar scenario. A young handsome stranger suddenly bursts into the life of a simple Sakha family of a hunter and his young wife. And then the action develops in the form of a classic love triangle. The denouement is a duel between two men: who will win in this fight? Love or passion?
Jan 1996
Prokopiy, a 27-year-old boy with developmental disabilities, lives with his strict mother, Maria, who keeps him locked away for his own "safety." Life goes on as usual in a remote Yakut village until Prokopiy's cheerful sister, Aiyyna, arrives next door. She gives him warmth, attention, and a sense of "normality," and a simple, pure friendship blossoms between them, which becomes a revelation for the boy. Aiyyna leads him out of his locked room, takes him on a sleigh ride to a party, and for the first time makes him feel part of the outside world. But the closer Prokopiy gets to freedom, the more conflicts he has with his mother, who fears losing control and may not be able to protect her son from the pain society can inflict on him. A touching, harsh, and poetic coming-of-age story about a man who emerges from the safety of a locked world to an ambiguous freedom.
Oct 2026
Parents give a long-awaited bicycle to a little boy. On the very first day, Saryal accidentally breaks his bike. He blames himself and, believing that he let his parents down, runs away from home. Wandering in the forest, Saryal meets a lost puppy and an old man. The old man explains to the boy that this only makes the situation worse. Sarial goes back to the village, returns the lost puppy to the owner and decides to confess everything to his parents.
Yakutia in the 1960s. A boy named Vanya returns home after spending six years in hospitals following a spinal injury. However, the happiness of his reunited family is short-lived: his mother dies in childbirth. To comfort the children, their father tells them about a distant, magical land where Siberian cranes dance, explaining that their mother has transformed into one of those beautiful and sacred birds. From that moment, Vanya dreams of witnessing the rare dance of Siberian cranes and meeting his mother, reborn as a bird.
Apr 2024