Russian documentary films and film market guide 2014-2015

RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY

FILMS 2014–2015 and FILM MARKET

GUIDE

• Festivals • Cinemas •Producers • Distributors •• Sales Agents • TV Channels •

We wanted to show you current state of the industry in Russia by presenting a selection of production companies, distributors, international film festivals. However, the heart of the catalogue are the films and projects made with the international potential with a wide range of the themes and formats. All infor-mation in the catalogue might be found online as well at www.rgdoc.com

We are happy to present you Russian Documentary Film Market Guide – a unique catalogue made in collaboration between the active players of the Russian Documentary Industry – Russian Documentary Guild, Moscow Business Square and Documentary Film Center with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

In order to give you an understanding of the financing system in Russia, we included a brief description of the government-based support of the documentary films and conditions of this support.

We encourage you to learn more about Russian documentary industry and we hopethat this initiative would help to spread the word about Russian Documentaries!

Editor-in-chief: Konstantin Nafikov,Editors: Vlad Kektovich and Sergey Kachkin

Online catalogue: Georgy MolodtsovProducers: Konstantin Nafikov, Olga Kurina

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Moscow Business Square - the unified communication business platform & lead-ing event for connecting the Russian film-making community with overseas pro-ducers, distributors, representatives of state and private funds, investors and sponsors, working in the sphere of international co-production and cooperation. «Moscow Business Square» combined together up to 400 film industry profes-sionals from more than 20 countries every year. More than 120 co-production projects presented in 6 years. More than 12 co-productions completed.

Documentary Film Center (DFC) is the first Russian cinema hall for documentary films and a brand new cultural and educational venue. This cinema hall is a per-fect place for screenings, thematic lectures, workshops and film festivals. DFC organizes Russian premiere of top documentary films. We usually work di-rectly with international sales and distribution companies (Cinephil, Go2Films, Autlook, Rise and Shine, Dogwoof). Also DFC started recently to work as inde-pendent buying and distribution company.

The Russian Documentary Guild is the only professional organization in Russia, which unites filmmakers and television workers (more than 250 members and production studios from all over Russia) specializing in documentary and pop-ular-science films, documentary TV programs and news coverage. The primary Guild’s projects are International distribution of Russian documentaries under the RGDOC brand, development of the National DOC-club Network and the Na-tional Documentary Rating.

MOSCOW BUSINESS SQUARE

DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER (DFC)

RUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY GUILD

Contacts: Sergei Kachkin, Project Coordinator

[email protected]

Contacts: Alisa Stolyarova, film programming

[email protected]

Contacts: Vlad Ketkovich

[email protected]

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With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Latvia | Israel | Russia | 2014 Director: Herz Frank, Maria Kravchenko, Producer: Guntis Trekteris, Vitaliy Maskiy, Ego Media, Vertov, Real Cinema Section: Special Event

Russia | France | Germany | 2015Director: Alexey Sukhovey; Producer: Anastasia Aleksandrova, Marie-Odile GazinSection: Between The Seas, First Lights

Russia | United States | Bulgaria | 2014 Director: Oleg Mavromati; Producer: Boryana Rossa, Andrei SilvestrovSection: Between The Seas

France | Russia | 2015Director: Alexandr Zarchikov; Producer: Nikolay Bem, Jérémie JorrandSection: Between The Seas

Czech Republic | Russia | Germany | North Korea | Latvia | 2015Director: Vitaly Mansky; Producer: Natalia Manska, Filip Remunda, Vít Klusák, Simone Baumann, Petr KubicaSection: Between The Seas

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RUSSIAN FILMS (DOCUMENTARIES) in Jihlava IDFF 2015

CHECHENDirector: Beata BubenetsRussia, 2015, color, DCP, 76’IDFA Competition for First Appearance

CREDIT FOR MURDERDirector: Vladi AntoneviczIsrael / Russia, 2015, color, DCP, 85’IDFA Competition for First Appearance

GRUMANT: ISLANDOF COMMUNISMDirector: Ivan S. TverdovskiyRussia, 2014, color / black and white, DCP, 54’ IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary

OK. GOODDirector: Alexandra Kulak, Yulia Kurmangalina, Anna KornienkoRussia, 2015, color, DCP, 21’IDFA Competition for Student Documentary

6 | NEW RUSSIANS FILMS at IDFA 2015 |

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OLD WIVESDirector: Galina Krasnoborova, Russia,

2015, color, DCP, 26’ Panorama

SALAMANCADirector: Ruslan Fedotow,

Alexandra KulakRussia, 2015, black and white, DCP, 40’

IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary

RUSSIAN DREAMDirector: Sergey Debizhev

Russia, 2013, color, DCP, 52’ Sounds Real

UNDER THE SUNDirector: Vitaly Mansky

Russia / Latvia / Germany / Czech Republic / North Korea, 2015, color,

DCP, 106’ Masters

VARICELLADirector: Victor Kossakovsky

Norway / Denmark / Sweden / Russia, 2015, color, DCP, 25’

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs

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8 | SOURCES OF FILM FINANCING |

To obtain public support, Russian producer of the film project should obtain the status of "National film". This status allows using the privilege of exemption from VAT (18%). For submission of documents for public support, the projects should not have the status of "National film", but must meet the requirements for this status. The status can be granted after the decision has been made for project support. The status of "National film" must be obtained before the project financing starts.

THE FOLLOWING FILM PROJECTS CAN OBTAIN THE STATUS OF "NATIONAL FILM":• Co-production film projects with those countries which the Russian Federation has signed international

co-production agreements (Bulgaria, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and CIS countries);• Co-production film projects with the participating countries of the European Convention on Co-Production;• Other projects meet with conditions of the Federal Law #126 dated August 22, 1996 On State Support of

Cinematography in the Russian Federation.

Conditions for obtaining the status of "National film" in accordance with the Federal Law #126 dated August 22, 1996 On State Support of Cinematography in the Russian Federation:

Public support for documentary film production in the Russian Federation is carried out by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The public funding of film production under the Russian law may not ex-ceed 70% of the estimated value of its budget. In specific cases, taking into account the artistic and cultural significance of the film project could be decided about the public funding for ‘’National film’’ up to 100%.

• The film producer is a Russian Federation citizen or a legal person duly registered in the Russian Federation;• The majority of the film authors are citizens of the Russian Federation;• The film crew (production directors, photography directors, cameramen, soundmen, artistic directors,

costume designers, film editors and leader actors) includes no more than 30% of people that do not have Russian Federation citizenship;

• The film is shot in Russian or other languages of the people of the Russian Federation, excluding cases when usage of a foreign language is an integral part of the artistic concept;

• Not less than 50% of the total volume of work on film production at estimated prices for film production;• distribution and exhibition is performed by cinematography organizations duly registered in the Russian

Federation;• Foreign investment in film production does not exceed 50% of the estimated cost of the film.

The state support for documentary films in 2014 – about 500 million rublesThe average amount of state support per one documentary film in 2014 – about 2 million rublesDocumentary films supported in 2014 – up to 240 films

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FILM Admissions (thousand) Distributor Country

of production

Citizenfour 33,0 24DOC USA, UK, Germany

Amy 24,0 Documentary Film Center UK

I don`t believe in Anarchy 18,0 Beat Films Russia

The Salt of the Earth 14,0 Premium Film France, Australia, Brazil

Vatican 3D 13,0 Nevafilm Emotion Italy, UK

Dior and I 9,1 Beat Films / Documentary Film Center France

Atlantis of Russian Norht 9,1 Reflexion Films Russia

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck 8,6 Cool Connections USA

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

7,9 24DOC USA

Wacken 3D 5,5 Reflexion Films Germany

Night Will Fall 5,3 Reflexion Films / Documentary Film Center USA, UK, Germany

| TOP FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES IN THE RUSSIAN CINEMAS IN 2014 – 2015* |

Source: booker’s bulletin

DISTRIBUTER’S WEB SITES24DOC: www.24doc.ru Beat Films: www.beatfilms.ru Cool Connections: www.coolconnections.ru Documentary Film Center: www.cdkino.ru

Nevafilm Emotion: www.nevafilm.ru Premium Film: www.premiumfilm.ru Reflexion Films: www.reflexionfilms.com

* Films with more than five thousand admissions and at least 100 copies

10 | PRODUCTION COMPANIES |

April filmlab is an independent film company. Its main goal is to work in the co-produc-tion field. The company produces documentaries as well as fiction films. The team al-ways sets itself a target to make films with high artistic values. The last film it produced is PERM-36. REFLEXION, documentary, 100 min, 2016, Russia (on post-production).

The company specializes in production of documentary films both for TV and cre-ative documentary industry. Based both in Moscow, Russia and Bilbao, Spain the company provides unique co-production possibilities in Russia. The focus of the company is current affairs and social issues documentaries about Russia. The list of completed projects includes more than 30 hi-end documentaries both for TV and theatrical release.

Author studio is an independent film company. The studio is primarily concerned with auteur cinema. Its main goal is work in the co-production sphere. The company produces documentaries as well as fiction films. The most recent productions are the documentary John the Baptist, 60 min, 2015, Russia (in post-production) and the feature film Kharms, 90 min, Russia-Macedonia, a joint project with Proline Film (pre-production).

Contacts: Sergei Kachkin

[email protected] www.sergkachkin.ruwww.onthewayhome.eu

Contacts: [email protected]

Contacts: Ivan Bolotnikov

[email protected]

APRIL FILMLAB

AUTHOR STUDIO

ARTVIDEO STUDIO

The Gorky Film Studio is one of the oldest and biggest studios in Russia. In 2015 it celebrates its 100th anniversary. Over the years it produced more than 1000 movies. They move all distribution channels in Russia and abroad.The Studio owns the territo-ry of 3.4 ha, TV studio and digital equipment for postproduction, the huge collection of clothes (more than 10 thousand), big casting file. The structure of the Studio gives an opportunity to realize the full-cycle of movie production. The Gorky Film Studio has co-production activity with studios and funds in different European countries.

Contacts: Ellada Brotskaya

[email protected]

GORKY FILM STUDIO

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DOKer Project was established in Moscow in 2011 with its focus on the promotion and production of the independent documentary filmmaking. DOKer organizes film screenings, discussions, master classes, lengthy partnerships with various film fes-tivals and many other activities. In 2015 the Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer was founded to make way for the tradition of bringing together independent documentarians from around the globe. The same year DOKer started to act as a production company and has released its first feature documentary Arctic Alchemy by Nastia Tarasova, a road-movie shot in USA and Canada.

“Pervoe Kino”, was founded in 2001 by two young moviemakers – Evgeny Grigoryev & Artem Plolsaty. The main specialization of the company is creation & production of documentary projects – films & cross-media, as well as work in related genres – documentary theater, television, Internet video, music video industry.

Since 2005 Ethnogeographic Research Foundation (Ethnofund) has produced more than 20 documentaries (most of them with Russian State support), that are broadcasted on Russian TV channels. Ethnofund has won a number of prizes and diplomas at different IFFs.

Starting from 2010 Ethnofund is looking for foreign partners and works with international co-productions. Company’s goal is to bring Russian directors and Rus-sian stories to international TV and film market.

Contacts: Irina Shatalova

[email protected] www.dokerproject.ru

Contacts: с[email protected]

Contacts: Vladislav Ketkovich, producer

[email protected]

DOKER PROJECT

DOCUMENTARY HOUSE “PERVOE KINO”

ETHNOFUNDETHNOGEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Marina Razbezhkina Studio is a production company, it was created by Marina Raz-bezhkina, a film director, a screenwriter, a producer, a member of the European Film Academy, of the Nika Russian Cinematographic Art Academy, of the Guild of Docu-mentary Cinema and TV, of the Guild of Russian film directors, of Kinosoyuz. Marina Razbezhkina has also been the founder of the Documentary Film and Theatre School, a close collaborator of the Marina Razbezhkina Studio.


MARINA RAZBEZHKINA STUDIO

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St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Documentary Film Studios is Russia’s oldest state docu-mentary studios, having been founded in 1918. Hundreds of films, covering every aspect of Russian and foreign history in the 20th Century, have been created on the Studio chronics. Today the Studio is one of the largest producers of documentaries, chronicles and film annals in Russia.

The Studios has worked with Oy Yleisradio Ab (Finland), Deutche Welle and ZDF (Germany) (with ZDF the Studios produced the first Russian-German documentary series of films under the general title «Be Cursed, War» which was an examination of the Second World War), the BBC and Channel 4 (Great Britain).

MOVIEMENT STUDIO was formed as a student’s film group in VGIK (State Institute of Cinematography). It is famous for its first international project “Film Train” in 2008. Today the Studio specializes in author’s films, participates in co-productions with foreign companies, channels and foundations.

“Ostrov Studio” is an independent production company founded by Sergey Mirsosh-nichenko (7 Up. Born in USSR series, Unknown Putin) and his colleagues in 1999.

Since 2006 Ostrov Studio programs and organizes documentary sections within the Moscow International Film festival. Since 2010 company produces weekly tv-slot for creative documentaries “Watching and Discussing” at TV Rossia-K (Kultura)

Platforma production is a film company with the main focus for documentaries in co-production between Russia and Germany, predominantly in author’s zone, arts and culture.

Contacts: Elena Dovgan, Festival and distribution manager

[email protected]

Contacts: Alexandr Gundorov

[email protected]

Contacts: Olga Kuchmenko

[email protected]

Contacts: Anastasia Alexandrowa

[email protected]

ST. PETERSBURG DOCUMENTARY FILM STUDIOS

MOVIEMENT STUDIO

OSTROV STUDIO

PLATFORMA PRODUCTION

The company produces films with international partners and for the international market. Currently, company develops 4 documentary film projects (PERM-36. RE-FLEXION; BAU/VKHU; ERA OF DANCE; MAY I JUST BE) and one feature project called ‘’GOOD NIGHT, LANA PETERS’’ (Russian-India-German co-production). REFLEXION FILMS team is professionals with years of experience at international film markets, including the organization of MOSCOW BUSINESS SQUARE, Russian largest interna-tional business platform for the film industry representatives.

Vita Aktiva specializes in film production (feature, documentary, shorts). The compa-ny makes successful foreign co-productions (Germany, France, Serbia, Brazil). Works with Russian and European film funds and markets. Films participate in major Euro-pean festivals (Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Leipzig).

Contacts: Konstantin Nafikov, producer

[email protected]


VITA AKTIVA

REFLEXION FILMS

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[email protected]

[email protected] www.filmstart.pro

[email protected]

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[email protected]

DC FILM

FILMSTART

FISHKA-FILM

MARATHON-ART FILM STUDIO

THE ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY PRODUCTION

«THE XXI СENTURY» NATIONAL FILMS STUDIO-CENTRE

STUDIO217

SVOY POCHERK LLC

VERTOV. REAL CINEMA

ROCK FILMS

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ANTIPODE is a new Eastern European project aiming at the aggregation of rights on the feature, animation and documentary films produced on the territory of the former Soviet Union, the global sales of all types of these rights on these pictures, and certainly on their festival distribution.

ANTIPODE works in the context of established world traditions and principles of cin-ema business. Our company is open to cooperation, does not swagger and is always happy to find new business and festival partners.

Beat Films is a Moscow-based documentary agency that promotes creative documen-taries on modern culture and develops the genre on local scale. It runs the Beat Film Festival, the largest documentary festival with a focus on music in Eastern Europe, curates documentary sections of several film festivals across Russia and distributes both Russian and international documentary titles throughout the year.

REFLEXION FILMS is a world sales company based in Moscow. We are one of the leading Russian sales companies representing documentary content in international market. Its line-up introduces many new titles on Arts & Culture, Social Life, Nature, Ethnography and Science. REFLEXION FILMS also is a full service theatrical distribu-tion company specializing in documentary film theatrical releases in Russia.

By the beginning of 2015 The Network, operated by the Russian Documentary Guild consists of 25 clubs all over Russia and is growing annually. United by partnership agreements, the clubs within the Network screen common doc content, with synchro-nized schedule and promotion, provided at www.rgdoc.ru.

The Network includes DOK clubs in Moscow, Vladivostok, Saint-Petersburg, Izhevsk, Kostroma, Makhachkala, Nizhniy Tagil, Novosibirsk and other cities. The Network pro-motes and screens doc films both in commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Contacts: Natalia Arshavskaya, Festivals and Documentary

[email protected]

Contacts: Alyona Bocharova, Managing Director

[email protected]

Contacts: Olga Kolegaeva

[email protected]

Contacts: Nikita Tikhonov-Rau RGDOC vice- president of Russian Documentary Guild

[email protected]

ANTIPODE SALES & DISTRIBUTION

BEAT FILMS

RGDOC CINEMA NETWORK

REFLEXION FILMS

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DOKer was created 4 years ago to bring wonderful independent documentary films from all over the world to the Russian audience and provide a discussion platform for authors, ex-perts and spectators. DOKer has already seen 8 seasons in 6 major cities located in central Russia (Moscow, Yaroslavl, Saint Petersburg), Ural (Yekaterinburg), Caucasus (Vladika-vkaz) and Siberia (Krasnoyarsk) with more than 300 screenings for over 30,000 viewers.

Documentary Film Center (DFC) is the first Russian cinema hall for documentary films and a brand new cultural and educational venue. This cinema hall is a perfect place for screenings, thematic lectures, workshops and film festivals. DFC organizes Russian premiere of top documentary films. We usually work directly with international sales and distribution companies (Cinephil, Go2Films, Autlook, Rise and Shine, Dogwoof). Also DFC started recently to work as independent buying and distribution company.

The educational TV channel “Culture” has broadcasted since November 1, 1997. His-tory, music, theater, visual art and literature are the main themes of the channels’ programs. The channel cooperates with the largest television companies in the world including BBC, RAI, RM ASSOCIATES, INA, ORF, the European TV channel ARTE, Be-ta-film, Granada, Telemondis, Discovery.

24_DOC – the 24/7 TV channel of world’s best documentaries. It is the only doc-umentary channel in Russia and the CIS. 24_DOC is a part of VGTRK’s off-the-air package Digitalis a part VGTRK.24_DOC is:• people and events changing the world• actual stories interesting for wide audience• the fascinating movies noted by the international festivals

Contacts: Irina Shatalova

[email protected] www.dokerproject.ru

Contacts: Alisa Stolyarova, film programming

[email protected] www.cdkino.ru

Contacts: www.tvkultura.ru

Contacts: Alexey Layfurov

[email protected]

DOKER PROJECT

24_DOC

TV CHANNEL “CULTURE”

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DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER (DFC)

mailto:[email protected]

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ARTDOCFEST

It is the largest festival of documentary films in Russia. Russian-language films that have been shot at any location of the world and not earlier than 18 months before the beginning of the Festival can take part in the competition program and noncompetition program “Sreda”. Only films that have not been shown publicly on the territory of Rus-sia before the “Artdocfest” can participate in the Festival. Every year the registration deadline is September 10th. The Festival is held annually in the beginning of December. “Artdocfest” also has non-competition retrospective programs and special screenings that include films shot in foreign languages. These programs are organized by program directorate and the terms are specified with copyright holders on an individual basis.

Beat Film Festival is the largest international documentary festival with a focus on music and modern culture in Eastern Europe, a vibrant mix of film screenings, parties, special events and talks on crossing borders with multimedia, contemporary art, interactive video, etc. It runs in Moscow and has a regional extension that takes place in 15 cities across Russia. 2015 dates: May 28 — June 7.

Contemporary Science Film Festival was founded in 2011 by Polytechnic Museum and its partners. The Festival takes place in October in Moscow and travels around the country during the year. For the international competition the Festival looks for feature-length documentaries about science, scientific activity, real and potential subjects of scientific research.

The festival competition program includes documentaries that develop the cinema-tography aesthetics first introduced by Robert Flaherty in his masterpiece “Nanook of the North”. The festival program also includes Russian documentaries competition “Russian Flahertiana” as well as various workshops and special programs investigat-ing different social and humanitarian issues. IDFF Flahertiana-2015 will take place in Perm in September 18-24, 2014.


Contacts: Kirill Sorokin, Artistic Director

[email protected]@beatfilmfestival.ruwww.beatfilmfestival.ru


Contacts: Alina Shirinkina, Festival Chief Coordinator

[email protected] www.eng.flahertiana.ru

BEAT FILM FESTIVAL

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

FLAHERTIANA

CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL 360

International Documentary, Short, and Animated Film Festival Message to Man is held annually in St. Petersburg. The Festival was founded in 1989 in Leningrad. Registered by FIAPF. Cash prizes.• International Competition (full-length and short documentaries, short fiction and animated films);• In Silico International Competition of Short Experimental Films;• National Competition of Documentary Films;• Special Programs.

The XXV Message to Man will take place on 19-26 September 2015 in St. Peters-burg, Russia. The entry call is open till May 31.

Documentary programs of the MIFF include competition program (up to 7 films) aimed to reach wide theatrical audience. The winner is awarded by Silver Statue of St. George.

“Free thought” is an out-of-competition program, dedicated to the world best films of the year - winners of the film festivals, leaders of box office, new works by great masters.

Programs are created and curated by Sergey Miroshnichenko, Grigoriy LibergalDates: Second part of June, 2015, deadline: April, 1

Place: Irkutsk, Russia. Date: 25th-29th of September 2015.The film festival “PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT” is conceived by the organizers as a

platform to make people think about inter-relations between mankind and nature. The Festival aims at raising environmental awareness by means of cinematography.

Submission of films for the Festival contest programme will finish on the 30st of April 2015.

Contacts: Ann Taraskina, International Department

[email protected]


Contacts: Kirill Sorokin, Artistic Director

[email protected]

MESSAGE TO MAN

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT Baikal International Festival of

Documentary and Popular-Science Films

SIBERIADOC

SiberiaDOC project is based in Krasnoyarsk (Russia) and mainly consists of two parts: Film Club and Travelling Documentary Film Festival around Siberian Region. When SiberiaDOC chooses films, it is geared to creative documentary. These films are inter-esting from the stylistic point, they are expressing an author’s idea and individuality. SiberiaDOC is interested in authors-researchers.

Contacts: Kristina Daurova, program director

[email protected]

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The International Science Film Festival World of Knowledge was organyzed by Len-nauchfilm studio and the Centre of National Film studio in February 2006.

The festival program includes the regular International Competition and the Special program and usually take place in Sankt-Peterburg in the late of October every year. Popular science and education films produced in two previous years are accepted for the International Competition of the festival. Watching the invisible... discovering the unexplored... trying to glance into the future... Everything


THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL WORLD

OF KNOWLEDGE

The festival has been held since 2004. Saratov Sufferings, it is a competition of doc-umentary films, competition of amateur and experimental films, cinema panorama, out-of-competition screenings, special programs, master classes.

Conditions of participation: To participate in the competition the authors should send us documentaries, shoot-

ed on film or video in the period from June 2014 till July 2015 which correspond to the melodramatic genre: • documentaries, full-length and short; • documentaries shooted for TV; • amateur documentaries, shooted on film, video or made with the computer graphics.

The Stalker International Film Festival is aimed at raising awareness of human rights issues and legal consciousness of Russian society through cinema. Stalker Festival is a non-political and non-profit event.The Festival is held annually in Moscow and traditionally opens on December 10th, when adoption of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”by the UN is commemorated throughout the world.The name of the Festival is based on the human values which were advocated in the film- mercy, love to one’s neighbor, personal responsibility of a human being vis-a-vis society.


Contacts: Stepanov Igor, General ProducerMaria Vorobieva, Coordinator

[email protected]

SARATOV SUFFERINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM

FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY DRAMA

STALKER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Contacts: Irina Belikh

[email protected]

FESTIVAL OF ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC FILMS

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Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer has stemmed from the project of the same name which screens independent non-fiction. The Festival seeks theatrical style documentaries. It tends towards new films that have received minimal exposure in Russia. DOKer focuses on independent documentary cinema that incorporates both poetic narrative and social blockbusters; footage and mockumentary; art-house and science-fiction; classic and experiment.

The main principles: - When we say ‘documentary film’ we put the emphasis on ‘film’. - There are countless ways to make a documentary but we believe it has to be dra-

matic and interesting. - Image and sound are as important for docs as they are for fiction films. The film

language is universal, and we use it to tell our stories.Festival Dates – May 20 – 24, 2016Extended Deadline – 15 JanuarySubmissions: through FilmFreeway or FestHome

International film festival CENTER features contemporary documenatries about cities and citizens, urban culture and lifestyle. The festival is a perfect space for screenings, workshops and q&a sessions. It gathers people who are interested in cities and urban issues, today’s society and creative docs. The main festival event is international com-petition. The jury are leading film professionals. The project was created by DFC together with Moscow Museum in 2014.

Contacts: +79265659407

[email protected]

Contacts: Maya Kuzina, festival curator

[email protected]

MIDFF DOKer

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY

FILM FESTIVAL CENTER

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Director: Vladimir MarinProducers: Georgy SushkoProduction company: NP «С&T»Budget (EUR): 17 304 EURFestivals: «Rendezvous with Russia», «Russia»,

SYNOPSISThe part Ivanov took in Leo Tolstoy’s life appeared to be much larger than the position of typist and secretary he conducted. What was the role the Typist played in Tolstoy’s parting from his home, which ended with his death? Whom was AleksandrIvanov for Tolstoy? And who was Tolstoy himself - a genius, a prophet - or an ambitious venturer?The archive of the unique documents which quite magically got into the hands of the film makers - and was collected back then by the strange Typist - helps to throw the light upon many aspects of the biography - and the death of a great genius and adventurer of the Russian culture - Leo Tolstoy.

Contacts:Georgy Sushko

+7 (499) [email protected]

Russia | History, Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015A GENIUS IN A HOUSE OF A PROPHET

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Director: Nastia TarasovaProducers: Irina Shatalova, Kathleen BowenProduction company: DOKer Project, Hammersmith Ventures Budget (EUR): 60 000 EURFestivals: 12th Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA, USA 2015 (National Pre-miere) Audience Award for the Best Feature

SYNOPSISAn adventurous home brewer from Pennsylvania undertakes an unexpectedly harsh journey to the Arctic losing some of his friends on the way but achieving his goal - brewing an old recipe of Arctic ale, popular with the 19-century British sailors searching for the North-West passage.

Contacts:Irina Shatalova

+7 926 56 [email protected]

Russia, USA | Road-movie | 78 min | English | 2015ARCTIC ALHEMYLOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKET


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Director: Sofia GorlenkoProducers: Sofia Gorlenko, Gleb KuznetsovProduction company: Sirin Cinema

SYNOPSISRussian North - the most original and the unique part of the cultural and historical heritage of Russia, which is on the verge of total extinction. The unique wooden architecture, peasant way of life, identity, community, religious. What will happen to these treasures tomorrow? Is there hope for a revival?

Contacts:Kolegaeva Olga, Konstantin Nafikov

Reflexion [email protected]

Russia | Travel, History, Arts & Culture | 73/52 min | Russian | 2015ATLANTIS OF RUSSIAN NORTH

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Director: Darya HrenovaProducers: Vladimir Golikov, Natalia LisovschkayaProduction company: «Studio Andrey Shemyakin»Budget (EUR): 34 136 EURFestivals: «Rendezvous with Russia»

SYNOPSISAn occasion which happened to be unique for the whole world’s history: a Russian general of the European origin becomes the leader of Asian armies - and liberates Mongolia. The new Genghis Khan by the name of Roman Fedorovich Ungern has no idea at all that after the revolution Russia would beget a force neither he nor the ununited Asia are prepared to oppose.

Contacts:Anna Golikova


Russia | History | 74 min | Russian | 2015BARON’S LAST CRUSADE


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Director: Beata BubenetsProducers: Marina Razbezhkina Production company: Marina Razbezhkina StudioBudget (EUR): 2500 EURFestivals: IDFA 2015 (First Appearance competition), nomination for AWFJ EDA Award, ARTDOCFEST (competition for feature-length documentary)

SYNOPSISRuslan Arsajev has seen quite a few wars already. He is a born fighter, he says, scion of a long line of Chechen fighters. Arsajev, who refers to himself simply as “the Chechen”, can generally be found where there is trouble and strife. For choice, he prefers to fight against the Russians. Director Beata Bubenets followed Arsajev during the Ukraine crisis of 2014. As a volunteer soldier, he protected the demonstrators on Maidan square in Kiev before going east to the Donbass region.

Contacts:Ksenia Gapchenko

+31627596262 (NL), +79191077841 (RU)[email protected]

Russia | Human Interest / Social Issues | 76 min | Russian, Ukrainian | 2015CHECHEN


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Director: Julia KiselevaProducers: Evgeniy SullaProduction company: studio A4Budget (EUR): 8 500 EURFestivals: Nominated for “LAVR” (national award in documentary film and TV), “Best Cinematography” - I International Festival of children’s and youth films “Zero Plus” Russia, Тomination “The past and the future” VIII Open Festival of docu-mentary films and television programs “Kunaki” Russia, the prize of the regional magazine “Samara and province” VII All-Russian festival of documentary films “Salt of the Earth” Russia

SYNOPSISWhen Masha was ten years old she lived in a far away northern village, where she was the only student at the school. She loved her village – q quiet place without any stores, cell phones, and other spoils of civilization. Masha dreamed to build a clinic there. Masha is seventeen now. She goes to a boarding school in a near-by village, and realizes that she needs to leave her home place.

Contacts:Julia Kiseleva

+7 926 535 61 [email protected]

Russia | Author | 55 min | Russian | 2014CHILDHOOD BY THE RIVER


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Director: Inna KokorinaProducers: Alexander RadovProduction company: Fishka-film StudioFestivals: 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

SYNOPSISThe story is about a woman who was placed in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps in her youth, miraculously returned from the “hell” and now she speaks on behalf of those who perished there. Terrible memories of the life and death are told against the backdrop of political events immediately after the Kiev Maidan.

Contacts:Anna Epshteyn

+7(495) [email protected]

Russia | History | 51 min | Russian | 2015CONVERSATION WITH ODYSSEUS


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Director: Sergey KutsevalovProducers: Maria MuskevichProduction company: Delai FilmBudget (EUR): 10 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThe characters of this movie are not quite ordinary people, they are physically challenged people in Russia. In everyday language they are simply called “disabled”. One day they meet with volunteers at Social Center Oduhotvorenieand begin to dance together. Dancing… What does it mean for a person with cerebral palsy or wheelchair users? What does he have to go through to dance his first dance? How do these people live, how do people with disabilities live in Russia today?

Contacts:Maria Muskevich


Russia | History | 60 min | Russian | 2015DANCE TO BE ALIVE


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Director: Lera LatypovaProducers: Juliette CazanaveProduction company: Kepler 22 Production

SYNOPSISNovosibirsk, deep Siberia. A crematorium where absurd became comic. Death, which reunite people that nothing destined to cross. And me, in the middle of it, trying to tame all.

Contacts:Juliette Cazanave

+ 33 6 64 49 46 [email protected]

Russia | Society | 64 min | Russian | 2015FILM-ME


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Director: Ivan TverdovskiyProducers: Ivan TverdovskiyProduction company: Studio «The point of view»Budget (EUR): 150 000 EURFestivals: ArtDocFest 2014 – Best Documentary, IDFA 2015 – Competition

SYNOPSISThe films tells about Russian-operating mine on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago Spitsbergen. And it also tells about miners from Donetsk and Lugansk, who work there.

Contacts:Ivan Tverdovskiy


Russia | Author | 54 min | Russian | 2014GRUMANT: ISLAND OF COMMUNISMLOOK AT: IDFA DOC FOR SALE


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Director: Alexey SukhoveyProducers: Anastasia Alexandrowa, Marie-OdileGazin, Alexey SukhoveyProduction company: Platforma Production, The KingdomFestivals: Artdocfest, Kazan International Muslim Film Festival, Flahertiana, Dok Market Leipzig, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

SYNOPSISRussian countryside. Three seasons. Three get-togethers. Main characters – illegal aliens from Tajikistan and their neighbours. From time to time they cut trees for money, sleep, twist the cat’s tail, fight fire, and kiss their Russian children. If it wasn’t for the 100 bucks – they would have never come here. This is a story about the life of illegal workers from Tajikistan living in a Russian village, where they would have never moved to had it not been for money. From time to time they help cut trees and fight fire. Migrant workers have settled down in a new place: they now have a home, loved ones and children.

Contacts:Anastasia Alexandrowa

+49 711 [email protected]

France, Germany, Russia | Author’s Point of View, Human Interest | 62 min | Russian, Tadjik | 2014GUESTS

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Director: Alexei VeskerProducers: Alexei VeskerProduction company: KinofanatBudget (EUR): 1 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThis is a story about an actor, AlikVotintsev. Rumor has it that he could not stand life troubles and went to Yalta and swam to Turkey at night. So the legend says, but where he mysteriously had disappeared in the middle of 1983 is still unknown. Nobody has seen him after that. What happened in reality and why the missing person was cut out of all the movies, why for a long time until the restructuring his very name was taboo the documentary filmmakers will try to find out.

Contacts:Alexei Vesker


Russia | History | 57 min | Russian | 2015I THOUGHT I WAS ADAM OR A LONG WAY TO GOGEZA


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Director: Yulia KiselevaProducers: Olga ShaposhnikovaProduction company: studio RISKBudget (EUR): 17 000 EURFestivals: “ArtDocFest”, December 2015, premiere

SYNOPSISAt 22, Dasha decided to become a municipal deputy. This period coincided with a wave of opposition protests in Russia. Wave sleep, deputy mandate remained. And there is still unsettled personal life, which has no place in politics.

Contacts:Olga Shaposhnikova


Russia | Politics, Drama, Actual | 60 min | Russian | 2015INDEPENDENTLOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKET


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Director: Boris SarakhatunovProducers: Vladimir GolikovProduction company: «Vib-film»Budget (EUR): 35 931 EURFestivals: «Rendezvous with Russia»

SYNOPSISThe film is about a generation of young people that fate has prepared the hardest tests in the most terrible and cruel war - the Great Patriotic War. Boys and girls of 30’s - 40’s survived everything and, “having grown up before the deadline,” won. Heroes of the film are Soviet military KuzmaGnidash (Kim) and radio operator Clara Davidyuk. They died in an unequal battle with the enemy, left a cherished memory and example of self-sacrifice for the common victory. The film “Kim and Clara” is another page in the history of war. Notthelast ...

Contacts:Vladimir Golikov


Russia | History, Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015KIM AND CLARA


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Director: Elena PoroshinaProducers: Elena PoroshinaProduction company: Elena PoroshinaBudget (EUR): 500 EURFestivals: XXII Festival of Student and Debut Films “Saint Anna-2015”, XVI In-ternational Student Film Festival and artistic photos “Gold five”, V International Festival of Tourism Film “Rendezvous with Russia”, XI Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema, III International Students Festival of Anthropological Films “Ki-noAntrop – 2015”

SYNOPSISLjosha Bakhtiyarov is an old man that lives alone with his dog in a small wooden Hut in the deep forest in the north of the Perm region in Russia. He is the Last man remains from the great Visherskije Mansian people.The story of the film begins when the old man start to recollect his memories about his own Visherskije Mansi’s people, and that’s were the memory of them will remain only in legends.

Contacts:Elena Poroshina


Russia | Author | 19 min | Russian | 2015KJAL-KELE


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Director: Nikita SutyrinProducers: Alexander Kibkalo, Nikita SutyrinProduction company: DorogaVremeni StudioFestivals: XXV Open Festival of Documentary Films “Russia” Ekaterinburg, Russia - Competition ; XIV Baikal International Festival of Documentary and Popular-Sci-ence Films “People and Environment” Irkutsk, Russia - Grand Prix

SYNOPSISDay and night people dig tundra with excavator buckets and bulldozers, tear frost soil with dynamite, turn thousand tons of solid to get coil from the Earth’s interior. Everybody wants to leave for the “big land” but almost everybody stays here. Endless cold, monot-onous work and wish to work out the “northern seniority” lead to the decrease of attentiveness and self-preservation. After another mine disaster, having buried their fellows, workers head for the cut face.

Contacts:Nikita Sutyrin

+7 926 225 [email protected]; [email protected]

Russia | Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015KOTLOVAN


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Director: Elena LaskariProducers: Ekaterina Meliksetova, Alexey KhanyutinProduction company: ART-PROJECT FoundationBudget (EUR): 35 000 EURFestivals: 37 Moscow International Film Festival

SYNOPSISA peculiar “folk craft” has developed in recent years in Russia: straight-line production of oil paintings which are sold on markets, along highways, at street fairs. The film focuses on a crew of female artists who work in this most popular and democratic genre of decorative art.

Contacts:Alexei Khanyutin


Russia | Arts & Culture | 62 min | Russian | 2015LARISA’S CREWLOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKETLOOK AT: IDFA DOC FOR SALE


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Director: Matvey TroshinkinProducers: Maria ChuprinskayaCo-producer: Konstantin NafikovProduction company: Ethnogeographic Research FoundationCo-production company: Reflexion FilmsBudget (EUR): 2 000 EURFestivals: ARTDOCFESDistributor: Konstantin Nafikov (Reflexion Films)

Tel: +7 916 966 1531 e-mail: [email protected]://www.reflexionfilms-russia.com/

SYNOPSISZhenya Tsoi impersonates prominent figures of Russian show business, such as Philipp Kirkorov or Lolita. He’s 33 and he lives with his long-time partner Maxim, who is a bus driver and a real brick wall for Zhenya. This is a tragicomical story of two close people who try to create their “family nest” within harsh realities of modern Russia. Is it possible in 21-st century Moscow to be gay and live happily in your small family?



Russia | Social, Culture (tragicomedy genre) | 75 min | Russian | 2015MAY I JUST BE


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Director: Elena DemidovaProducers: Vlad KetkovichProduction company: Ethnogeographic Research FoundationBudget (EUR): 105 500 EURFestivals: IDF “Artdokfest”, Moscow, Russia, 2014, in competition; IDFF “Flaherti-ana”, Perm, Russia, 2015, in competition; IF & TV Ftstival “The Northern Character”, Murmansk, 2015, in competition

SYNOPSISThis film tells three stories about men extracting natural gas on the Yamal Peninsula. They are forced to leave their families for a long time to be able to support them. And one day they have to decide whether earning money is worth all the problems with families. Each of them makes his own choice.



Russia, Norway, Finland | Author, Factual | 62 min | Russian | 2014MEN’S CHOICELOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKETLOOK AT: IDFA DOC FOR SALE


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Director: Victoria LopachProducers: Natalya LisovskayaProduction company: «Studio Andrey Shemyakin»Budget (EUR): 17 021 EURFestivals: «Sol zemli», competition program; «Rendezvous with Russia»

SYNOPSISThe film is an utterly personal story of an outstanding scientist-chemist, GaliKugatova-Shemyakina, told by her son – Andrey Shemyakin. The author desires to convey to his audience only those of his mother’s words that are free from polish and later interpretations, and he also attempts to show the areas of ambiguity and certain understatement - for the genuine woman will never reveal the truth about herself.

Contacts:Anna Golikova


Russia | Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015NOT ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER


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Director: Alexandra Kulak, Anna Kornienko, Yulia Kurmangalina Producers: Pavel KarykhalinProduction company: STEREOTACTICFestivals: Beat Film Festival, Message To Man, IDFA

SYNOPSISA documentary musical on the life hasteless like a song somewhere in the Russian hinterland near Vologda. It is the sound: music, human voice and silence. The slowing-down and pacifying scene, devoid of any conflicts and acute angles.

Contacts:Pavel Karykhalin

pk@stereotactic

Russia | Arts & Culture | 21 min | Russian | 2015OK. GOOD


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Director: Galina KrasnoborovaProducers: Valdimir SokolovProduction company: «Novyj kurs»Budget (EUR): 15 000 EURFestivals: Flahertiana (main competition) 2015, IDFA (Panorama)

SYNOPSISHigh-spirited and sad-eyed old women tell us about their hard life – about their children, diseases, former suiters and favourite songs.Made with mainly close-ups, the film features four amateur singers residing in a remote Komi-Permyak village.

Contacts:Vladimir Sokolov, Galina Krasnoborova

+79816825537, +7(342)2169381, +7(342)[email protected], [email protected]

Russia | Ehnographie, Musik, History, Arts and Culture | 25 min | Komi-permien | 2015OLD WIVES


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Director: Alexander ZamyslovProducers: Alexander ZamyslovProduction company: Television TechnologyBudget (EUR): 40 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThis film tells about the most politicized Olympic Games which had ever been hold in human history. The whole world had been preparing for this event, and because of it the cold war reached its height. And few people know about it.

Contacts:Alexander Zamyslov


Russia | History, Sport | 50 min | Italian, Russian, French | 2015OLYMPIAD-80


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Director: Anna ShishovaProducers: Vladimir BazhinProduction company: Center of National FilmBudget (EUR): 11 350 EURFestivals: Artdocfest, 08/12/2015, Participant in competition program, Jury PrizeAmerican Documentary Film Festival, 28/03/2015, Participant in competition program Krakow Film Festival, 03/06/2015, Participant in competition program

SYNOPSISOn the edge of the village Ponazyrevothe local priest the Father Evgeniy organized “Rehab Center” to give the roof above the heads of people who have no way to go. How they live, about what they think and dream, what they feel, what helps them to survive? The movie “On the edge” tries to give answers to all these questions.

Contacts:Ellada Brotskaya


Russia | Documentary | 49 min |Russian | 2015ON THE EDGELOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKETLOOK AT: IDFA DOC FOR SALELOOK AT: LEIPZIG DOK MARKET


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Director: Irina VasiljevaProducers: Alexander RadovProduction company: Fishka-film StudioBudget (EUR): 40 000 EURFestivals: National award «Laurel branch» 2014

SYNOPSISParadoxical personality, former police captain Magomed Shamilov is a hero, wise man, and a devout Muslim. 16 years ago he founded the Independent Union of Police and Prosecutors in Dagestan to wage war on the clan system, terrorism, and corrup-tion in Russia’s hottest region. Even he’s amazed that he’s still alive. Don Quixote is immortal.



Russia | Factual | 40 min | Russian | 2014PARABLE OF THE LAME SHEEPLOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKET


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Director: Evgeny GrigorevProducers: Evgeny Grigorev, Anna SelyaninaProduction company: “Pervoe Kino” Documentary HouseSupported by: Anniko Films, 24 DOC, Ministry of Culture of the Russian FederationBudget (EUR): 100 000 Current status: post-production

SYNOPSISThe director’s speech: «The most important thing for me is to show you how a dream manages someone’s life. On my heroes’ example, I want to prove that the future is the reason of the present. The way we see our future guides our actions today. On the movie tests 3 beginner rock-bands have told us their dreams & for 3 years we shot the way they follow them. When we had no chance to be with our heroes - they shot themselves on portable HD-cameras & we are including this intimate material in to final cut. I’m sure that this amateur material will also have artistic value as well as our conscious and controllable camera».

Contacts:Anna Selyanina


Russia | Arts& Culture | 90 min | Russian | 2015PRO ROCK


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Director: Kirill NenashevProducers: Maria MuskevichProduction company: An independent productionBudget (EUR): 30 000 EUR

SYNOPSISIt is an attempt to answer some questions: Who is Mr. Putin for Russians, really? Is power in his hands, or in the hands of those who live in Russia? Why do people not to want changes? Could the Putin era last forever?

Contacts:Maria Muskevich


Russia | Politics | 93 min | Russian | 2015PUTIN FOREVER?


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Director: Ruslan Fedotow, Alexandra KulakProducers: Pavel KarykhalinProduction company: STEREOTACTICFestivals: IDFA, Artdocfest

SYNOPSISIn Salamanca time stopped two hundred years ago, when the first Mennonites came to Mexico in search of their place on the Earth. Here everything is predetermined, and lives of the descendants are repeating lives of their ancestors. Private story here is only a part of family history, and one man’s destiny tells us about any other one.While the hero of the film recalls his childhood in search of the right answer to the most important question of all his life, days, months, and years slowly go by in Salamanca.

Contacts:Pavel Karykhalin

pk@stereotactic

Russia | Arts & Culture | 41 min | Plautdietsch | 2014SALAMANCA


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Director: Tatyana SobolevaProducers: Vlad Ketkovich, Oksana BarkovskayaProduction company: Ethnogeographic Research Foundation, Format TVBudget (EUR): 80 000 EURFestivals: “Message to Man” (Diploma), “Flahertiana” (National Competition)Distributor: Deckert Distribution GmbH

Marienplatz 1, 04103 Leipzig, GermanyTel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38Fax: +49 (0) 341 215 66 39e-mail: [email protected]

SYNOPSISWhen the Siberian winter releases its grip, twenty doctors, mostly women, board a special ship - a floating hospital, leaving their families behind. During six month the ship crisscrosses the Siberian North, bringing medical care to the remotest rural outposts. Locals wait for this ship, for them doctors are representatives of big and remote country. For the doctors, it is an adventure that alters them and that many of them have become addicted to…

Contacts:Vlad Ketkovich


Russia | Author | 93 min | Russian | 2015SIBERIAN FLOATING HOSPITALLOOK AT: IDFA DOC FOR SALE


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Director: Denis ShabaevProducers: Marina RazbezhkinaProduction company: Marina Razbezhkina Workshop Ltd.

SYNOPSISFarruh is a gastarbeiter. Together with his father, mother and brothers he lives in New Moscow and he is ready to take up any kind of job, even underpaid one. But there is another reason why he has left his native Tajikistan and his young wife and small children: Farruh wants to become an actor, a very famous actor…


+31 627 59 6262 (NL), +7 919 107 7841 (RU)[email protected]

Russia | Author’s point of view, Social issues | 80 min | Russian, Tajik | 2015SOMEONE ELSE’S JOB


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Director: Sofia Geveyler, Julia Bivsheva, Sofia KucherProducers: Sergei Miroshnichenko, Fedor Popov, Vladimir MalishevProduction company: Ostrov Studio, Production Center «VGIK-Debut»Budget (EUR): 245 000 EuroFestivals: IV International Sport Film Festival in Zlatibor, Festival of Contemporary Art and Spiritual films «Fresco», International Sport Film Festival in Buenos Aires, III Indian Film Festival in Bombay, X International Sport Film Festival in Tashkent, Doctober of the X International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City Docs DF.

SYNOPSISEight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world (China, Germany, Australia, USA, Russia and Brazil) are fighting for the chance to come to Sochi and win a medal of the highest standard, but before this each of them must defeat the most serious opponent – their own disability. The documentary stories of the athletes are mixed with animated clips done in various styles. The official documentary of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games «Spirit in Motion» by request of the International Paralympic Com-mittee (Germany, Bonn).

Contacts:Olga Mitko, Yana Khmelevtsova

[email protected]

Russia | Sport, Disability, Paralympics, Animation | 73 min | Russian, English, Chinese, Portuguese, German | 2015


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Director: Denis Klebleev Producers: Denis KlebleevProduction company: Independent ProductionBudget (EUR): 1 000 EURFestivals: Cinema du Reel, Hot Docs, Locarno, Viennalle, Valdivia, Dok Leipzig

SYNOPSISThe young quantum physicist Konstantin teaches at a university and during the summer vacation he goes to a university’s sea campus. Every day he teaches for a group of students, and at night he keeps order in the dormitory. Students prefer the summer, the girls and their own youth instead of physics. Like a fish out of the water, Konstantin perceives the surrounding reality through the lens of physics and feels the opposition between the classical world and the quantum one. Both worlds don’t seem to match.

Contacts:Denis Klebleev


Russia | Author, Science | 52 min | Russian | 2014STRANGE PARTICLES


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Director: Anna YanovskayaProducers: Vladimir Repnikov, Mikhail ZilbermanProduction company: Studio 217 LtdBudget (EUR): 28 000 EURFestivals: Flahertiana 09/2015

SYNOPSISThe tragedy in Crimsk took place on the evening of July 6 into the morning of July 7, from Friday to Saturday... The notification system in the city did not work. When the residents became quickly flooded, they tried to call for help to the rescue service, to the local government, to the police, to Emergency Services and many others...

Contacts:Mikhail Zilberman


Russia | Author | 65 min | Russian | 2014TEN SANTIMETERS OF LIFELOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKET


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Director: Alexander KuznetsovProducers: Rebecca Houzel, Nicolai BemProduction company: Petit à Petit production and Independent studio of Siberian cinemaBudget (EUR): 99 938 EURFestivals: Vision du reel, Nyon, 2014, International festival of Amiens, Ardocfest, Perm, Corsicadoc, Lassalle

SYNOPSISClose to an industrial city of Siberia stands a nature reserve made of rocks, birches and isbas. Those who come here find refuge in another world of wild nature, climbing, partying. On this territory, they just live, they just breath freedom.

Contacts:Rebecca Houzel

+33 1 42 01 3002, +33 6 30 92 1988 (France) +7 963 191 2557 (Russia)rhouzel@petitapetitproduction; [email protected]

Russia | Society | 67 min | Russian | 2014TERRITORY OF FREEDOM


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Director: Alexander ZamyslovProducers: Alexander ZamyslovProduction company: Television TechnologyBudget (EUR): 40 000 EURFestivals: VIII Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York

SYNOPSISSix accidents of the blood feud – six points on the map. Thing that must stay in past; nowadays takes up a large place in our world. Bloody slaughter treads his way with strong steps even in the developed Western countries without taking into account any laws and rules of high society.

Contacts:Alexander Zamyslov


Russia | History, Drama, Human rights | 52 min | Russian, Albanian, Serbian, Italian, Ingush, Arabic | 2015THE BLOOD


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Director: Valeriy SolominProducers: Valeriy SolominProduction company: “Kino-Siberia” Film ProductionBudget (EUR): 50 000 EURFestivals: Moscow Int. Film Festival.

SYNOPSISKhambo-lama in northern Buddhism hierarchy practiced in the autonomous republic of Buryatia (a part of Russia) is a senior and deeply revered Buddhist for the local Buddhists. Even the fact that, after 25 years of the most terrific Kolyma concentration camps, Mungko never denied his religion that, according to him, saved him from imminent death and made him extraordinary person in the eyes of faithful Buddhists, worthy of deepest reverence and respect. After the camps he returned to his datsan where he was a khuvarak (disciple) since childhood and through his wisdom, unending optimism, deep knowledge of complex multi-millenial doctrine unconditionally deserved the highest position of Khambo-lama.

Contacts:Valeriy Solomin


Russia | Author , Culture, Religion | 52 min | Russian | 2015THE DAYS OF THE FUTURE BUDDHAS


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Director: Elena Alferova, Victor AflerovProducers: Victor AlferovProduction company: Alferov ProductionBudget (EUR): 5 000 EURFestivals: the winner of «International SPORT films and TV Festival» in Samara, Rus-sia («BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM 2014»), the winner of «36th Sports Film festival» in Palermo, Italy («BEST EDITING», 2015), the participant of the program ‘’Days of Russian culture at EXPO 2015, Milan, Italy, as the winner in “BUENOS AIRES INTER-NATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL 2015”, organized in the framework of the International Circuit “World FICTS Challenge”, our production is compete into “Exsport Movies &Tv 2015 – 33rd Milano International FICTS Fest”

SYNOPSISThis is a film-glorification of the hero in thegenre of ancient Buryat epic - uliger. The storyis about an outstanding young wres-tlers, worldchampion and multiple European champion incombat sambo Bair Omoktuev. His main secretsof success are will and strength, as well as thespirit of his native land the Buryat Republic, itshistorical national traditions, heritage and wisementors. More than once he has performed atraditional victory “dance of the steppe eagle”.

Contacts:Victor Alferov, Elena Alferova

+ 7 916 573 [email protected]

Russia | Sport & Culture | 58 min | Russian | 2014THE EAGLE’S DANCE


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Director: Olga PrivolnovaProducers: Marina RazbezhkinaProduction company: Marina Razbezhkina StudioFestivals: Doclisboa (feature-length competition), Message2Man (national docu-mentary competition)

SYNOPSISIn small village, just at the edge of the former coal mines, father of a large family Oleg Pavlov decides to film Saint-Exupéry’s ‘The Little Prince’. He is using the most simple camera, which he bought for his pension. Two years of filming and editing, and as a result all journalists of Russia are coming to see the premiere screening and to meet good united family. Children even refuse to come to premiere, and Oleg does not say good bye to his daughter who is leaving to another city. He is just sleeping and nobody wakes him up..


+31627596262 (NL), +79191077841 (RU)[email protected]

Russia | Human Interest / Social Issues, Author’s point of view | 57 min | Russian | 2015THE LITTLE PRINCE


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Production company: Shan DesignDirector: Sergey Shanovich

SYNOPSISWho they are - Russian designers: where they work, study and create, what they think about their profession and modern Russian school of design...This project - the first attempt in Russia to systematize the experience of modern Soviet and Russian designers in documentary format. The first from the four films of the project, dedicated to graphic design and introduced more then 60 speakers: from the USSR masters of the industrial design to successful young designers, who done career in the new Russia...



Russia | Arts & Culture | 52 min | Russian | 2014THE MODERN RUSSIAN DESIGN


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Director: Vladimir KozlovProducer: Vladimir KozlovProduction company: Platzkart ProductionFestivals: Warsaw Film Festival 2014

SYNOPSISTraces in the Snow is a feature length documentary on Siberia’s punk scene in the 1980’s. Directed by Russian author and film director Vladimir Kozlov, this first-of-its-kind documentary uses rare footage of Siberian punk legends including the punk poet and songwriter Yanka Dyagileva and the controversial godfather of Russian punk Yegor Letov, along with contemporary interviews, to recount the story of Siberia’s improbable punk scene.



Russia | History, Arts & Culture | 63/52 min | Russian | 2014TRACES IN THE SNOWLOOK AT: IDFA DOC FOR SALE


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Director: Aliona PoluninaProducers: Nastya Velskaya, Aliona Polunina, Grigory YakushevProduction company: WellSky ProductionBudget (EUR): 10 000 EURFestivals: DokLeipzig 2014, Dvijenie 2015, Doker 2015, MIFF 2015, 2ANNAS 2015Distribution Company: faktura film | Kirill Krasovskiy | KrummeStrasse 26 | 10627 Berlin phone: +49 30 12097453, fax: +49 30 921 038 47, mobil: +49 176 70 55 28 80 [email protected] | www.fakturafilm.de

SYNOPSISIt was mid-April 2014 when a civil war started in the South-East of Ukraine. A documentary filmmaker from Russia went to Ukraine to make a film about the war. But then, in Kiev, she met a Russian woman from Moscow. Her name is Varya. She is an archetypal representative of Moscow’s liberal intelligentsia. In 2012/2013, she went to the rallies on Bolotnaya Square. In March 2014, she took part in the Peace March in Moscow to show support for Ukraine.

Contacts:Nastya Velskaya


Russia | Social Drama | 47 min | Russian, Ukrainian | 2014VARJALOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKET


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Director: Alina RudnitskayaProducers: Sergey VinokurovProduction company: 317 filmBudget (EUR): 2 000 EUR

SYNOPSISIs it possible to tell about Putin’s Russia with its contradictions and problems in 29 minutes? No, but VICTORY DAY is one of the sections of modern Russia shown though the protagonists’ stories. In 2013 the Russian State Duma passed a law forbidding pro-paganda supporting non-traditional sexual relationship among minors. This law led to an intensification of homophobic feeling in society. There is a military parade is marching outside while the protagonists are sitting in their cozy apartments and telling us about their lives since the law was adopted. “After the Jews and queers”, - one of them says, - all that’s missing is a law against witches”. Welcome to the Middle Ages, welcome to Russia today.

Contacts:Anastasia Lobanova


Russia | Human rights| 29 min | Russian | 2014VICTORY DAY

Festivals: DOK Leipzig, short documentary competition, Leipzig, Germany, 2014: One world FF, Berlin, Germany, 2014; Artdocfest, Moscow, Russia, 2014; Trieste IFF, Trieste, Italy, 2015; DocPoint, Helsinki, 2015; ZagrebDox, official selection, Croatia, 2015; Program of Russian and Ukrainian documentaries, Zurich, Switzerland, Kino Xenix, March, 2015; 32 Dortmund/Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Germany, April, 2015; It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival, competition, Rio, Brazil, April, 2015; DocumentaMadrid, Madrid, Spain, Official selection, 2015; 18th Pink Apple, Zurich, Swit-zerland, April, 2015; Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, May, 2015; 13th Tabor International FF, Croatia, April, 2015; 39thFrameline FF, San Francisco, USA, June, 2015; International Human Rights Festival “A Film for Peace”, Medea, Italy, June, 2015 – SPECIAL MENTION; “Ceau Cinema!” FF, Timiso-ara, Romania, July, 2015; Venice Film Market; 24thdokumentART - European Film Festival for Documentaries; Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Болонья, Италия); Verzio Human rights FF (Будапешт, Венгрия); 34thUppsalaIFF (Упсала, Швеция); KIN (Ереван, Армения); INTERNATIONAL TV FESTIVAL BAR (Montenegro).

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Director: Dmitry ZavilgelskiyProducers: Olga ChapochnikivaProduction company: Risk-filmBudget (EUR): 30 000 EURFestivals: V International Film Festival of Science and Technology, Moscow 21-29 October 2015

SYNOPSISIt’s not an easy scientific task to unravel the true mysteries of existence. It might take more than years – often, decades, even life-times are spent in search for truth, with no guarantee for success. The film centers around well-known physicists Valentin Rudenko, Andrei Rostovtsev and Sergei Troitsky and their search for waves and particles which, if discovered, can change our understanding of the Universe. But no one knows how long the road to discovery will take.

Contacts:Dmitry Zavilgelskiy

+7-901-555-30-26, [email protected], [email protected]

Russia | Science and Author | 78 min | Russian | 2015WAITING FOR WAVES AND PARTICLES


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Director: Elena DubkovaProducers: Elena DubkovaProduction company: LLC «KINOHRONIKA»Budget (EUR): 10 000 EURFestivals: The Film Festival “Sol Zemli”, The Film Festival “Russia abroad”

SYNOPSISThe circus group travels the world. It left the USSR after it’sfailer. It turned out they stayed abroad forever. Our main character is juggler, Sergey Krutikov

Contacts:Elena Dubkova, Ludmila Korshik

+7 912 048 56 [email protected] [email protected]

Russia | Arts & Culture | 54 min | Russian | 2015WHERE HAS THE CIRCUIS GONE


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Director: Darya KhrenovaProducers: Vlad KetkovichProduction company: EthnofundBudget (EUR): 10 000 EURFestivals: “Russia”, National TV Award Laurel Branch (2 nominations)

SYNOPSISShe was predicted to have a fate of Russian Coco Chanel – untill acar accident, when she lost her legs and had serious brain damage.Consequences of a strong trauma fenced Nastya off from the whole world. But she doesn’t intend to change the former way of life, or to look for compromises in search of the life’s partner.



Russia | Disabled in Russia | 64 min | Russian | 2015WHO WILL BE MY HUSBAND


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Director: Yuri MalyuginProducers: Sergei MiroshnichenkoProduction company: Ostrov Studio, Production Center «VGIK-Debut»Budget (EUR): 45 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThis is the story of deaf-blind people who receive information from human hands, facial features and every living touch. These people have no ability to see or to hear, but they know how to use what is often overlooked in the wide flow of information.


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Russia | Disability, Health, Communication, Integration in society | 44 min | Russian | 2015WORD ON A PALM


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Director: Arkady KoganProducers: Vladimir Repnikov, Mikhail ZilbermanProduction company: Studio 217 LtdBudget (EUR): 80 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThis is not a movie about the prominent Russian actor Yankovsky who played in Tarkovsky’s movies or opposite Malcolm Mc-Dowell. It’s not his biography. Neither is it an overview of the parts he played. Nor does it offer hot facts from his private life… Although the material that the filmmakers had at their disposal permitted to shoot all of the above and more. Filipp, the son of Oleg Ivanovich, consented to appear in the film only because he had faith in the concept. Our film is about the presence of someone who is gone, in the life of the living.

Contacts:Mikhail Zilberman

Russia | Author | 72 min | Russian | 2015YANKOVSKIYLOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKETLOOK AT: LEIPZIG DOK MARKET


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Director: Irina VasiljevaProducers: Alexander RadovProduction company: Fishka-Film StudioBudget (EUR): 77 000 EURFestivals: ARTDOCFEST-2015

SYNOPSISThe sin of murder that cannot be washed away, the mark of Cain, a personal catastrophe. This happened to Vyacheslav Shara-yevski 25 years before, when he was a district prosecutor. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when a moratorium was placed on capital punishment, but some thirty men sat together in a single room for six months, expecting to die on the 3rd, 13th, and 23rd. A change happened then, like being born anew. This man who was once an atheist, rationalist, and skeptic now became like a babe, a child of God. He owes his new life to an amazing priest, Alexander Borisov. Between the saint and the sinner is an eternal link. How they need one another.



Russia | Factual | 84 min | Russian | 2015YOUR BROTHER CAIN


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Director: Olga DarfyProducers: Rebecca Houzel, Pavel Lilendeld, Eero TalvistuProduction company: Petit à petit production (France), Patriot (Russia), Kinoport (Estonia)Budget (EUR): 180 000 EURMarkets: Ardocfest, Moscow Buisiness square, Eurasiadoc, Eurodoc

SYNOPSIS1991, I am 18 years old. Leaving my hometown, Petersburg, I move to Moscow. As the Soviet Union collapses, my life changes for good during the first Gagarin Party – I heard rave music for the first time. That night, I flew away to the sound of techno music. “ My life will never be the same ” I told Vanya, one of the organizers of the rave party. Twenty-five years later, I still live in Moscow, in a numbed Russia. I remember those years, full of freedom, hope and energy. I remember Vanya, who disappeared without a trace in 1998. Tracking down his lead, I go back to this fast period using pieces of experiences, testimonies, archives and memories. Where is Vanya Salmaksov? Where are these wild emotions, this extreme excitement, our weird romanticism? Where has this time fled, where has our youth gone?

Contacts:Rebecca Houzel

+33 1 42013002+33 6 30 92 1988rhouzel@petitapetitproduction

France, Russia, Estonia | Author | 70 min | Russian180 BEATS PER MINUTE


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Director: Sergey ShanovichProducers: Sergey Shanovich, Konstantin Nafikov, Sasha Klein, Mike LernerProduction company: ShanDesign, Reflexion Films, Roast Beef Productions, Sasha Klein ProductionCurrent status: production

SYNOPSISBauhaus and VKHUTEMAS are two institutions that have become a mainstay of the avant-gardists of the twentieth century. The first has become the synonymous with design, the second - with bright, but a short phenomenon as the constructivism. They both lasted about 10 years. But in this short span of time they managed to create the future, which we live in. Utopia has become reality.



Russia, UK, Israel | History, Art | 90/2X52 min.| Russian, English, GermanBAU/VKHU


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Director: Gayane PetrosyanProducers: Gayane Petrosyan, Mike LernerProduction company: Baikal Cinema, Roast Beef ProductionsCurrent status: post-production

SYNOPSISAn undercover journey into the dark heart of the world’s most secretive business. At a time when US/Russian relations seem to be at an all time low, there is at least one arena where our friendship appears to be flourishing – the capture and exportation of sea mammals for the American public display and entertainment industry. BORN TO BE FREE is a shocking and revelatory investigation into the global trade in wild sea mammals. With unparalleled and unprecedented access to those involved in the capture and transportation of these creatures, we see for the very first time the shocking and heartbreaking conditions in which the beluga whales, dolphins and walruses that entertain the audiences of America’s aquaria have been subjected to.

Contacts:Mike Lerner

[email protected]+447770788544www.roastbeeftv.com

Russia, UK | Nature, Environmental | 80/52 min.| Russian, EnglishBORN TO BE FREE


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Director: Yulia KiselevaProducers: Yulia Kiseleva, Alexandra VorontsovaProduction company: Aurum MediaBudget (EUR): 73 000 EUR

SYNOPSISOur film is about modern scientistswho are studying the human brain. Together with them we will plunge into the mysterious world of research, discovery and experimentation. For example, we know that the brain detects an error before a person makes this error. The brain takes any decision before the person is aware of this decision. In the area of the brain there is responsible who charges for the desire to merge with the crowd. The brain can easily fool its owner, but at the same time you can deceive the brain. Can a person control his brain or the brain controls human?

Contacts:Alexandra Vorontsova


Russia | Science | 80 min | RussianBRAIN. THE SECONT UNIVERSE


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Director: Tatjana SobolevaProducers: Vlad KetkovichProduction company: EthnofundBudget (EUR): 120 000 EURMarkets: ArtDocFest and ADA Pitch, Moscow Business Square

SYNOPSISWe investigate author’s hypothesis that famous book “Through the looking- glass and what Alice found there” is a ciphered de-scription of Lewis Carrol’s strange trip to Russia. We will use animation and different documentary styles following our character, modern Englishman on his trip through today’s Russia.



Russia | Author, Human Interest | 90 min |

Russian, EnglishCARROLL THROUGH THE RUSSIAN LOOKING GLASS


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Director: Nikita SutyrinProducers: Alexandr GundorovProduction company: Moviement StudioBudget (EUR): 95 000 EUR

SYNOPSISDikson is the northernmost town in Russia. Not a workshift settlement or an Arctic research station, but a proper town - with its own school, a hospital with a maternity ward, and places of interest. It is just that it is situated right at the Arctic Ocean, a mere thousand kilometers from the North Pole. Therefore, polar bears are a more common sight in the street than stray cats or even pigeons.Discovered by the Finnish seafarers, named after a Swedish business tycoon, the Russian town of Dikson was an important part of Russia’s 20th century history. But in the 21st century, this unique port on the Northern Sea Route, and the only Siberian town to fend off the German invaders during the World War II is on the verge of being abandoned and resettled.

Contacts:Gundorov Alexandr


Russia | Factual | 90 min | RussianDIKSON, THE HOMETOWN


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Director: Viktors BudaProducers: Uldis Cekulis, Konstantin NafikovProduction company: VFS Films, Reflexion FilmsCurrent status: Post-production

SYNOPSISDuring the second half of the ‘80s, electronic dance music movement was in full swing in the West. The first historical story of the invasion and development of western music and lifestyle in Eastern Europe. This most definitely influenced further democratization of the society up until the complete collapse of the old political system.It was only owing to the evolution of the political situation that the information exchange between the West and the East, with time and technological improvements, could become instrumental in the development of musical culture. First raves in Riga and the following Tape-DJ World Championship in 1989 were events of a new genre that fundamentally changed the view on DJ’s role in dance events. Also the content of dance events changed. The music changed. These events became grounds of a whole new movement. Impulse it gave in direction of Saint Petersburg caused a birth of a new musical culture, which later became popular in all Russia.

Latvia, Russia | History, Art | 90/52 min. | Russian, English, GermanERA OF DANCE


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Director: Anastasia AlexandrowaProducers: Liza Antonova, Anastasia AlexandrowaProduction company: Studio “Passenger”, Platforma ProductionBudget (EUR): 275 000 EUR

SYNOPSISIn history of German literature Gothe’s journey to Italy and Rilke’s - to Russia - were the most important ones for their future work. Russia was a poetical and theological experience in Rilke’s life: ‘... I have a feeling I saw the work of the Creator’. The Russia, that Rilke saw at the turn of the century, was already gone. Would any new, modern days European genius want to see in our country, that was rid of its backbone, his ‘spiritual fatherland’? What could such fine artist, an aesthete, a genius poet, such as Rilke, pos-sibly see in this land, in Russia? In the decline of his years he wrote about Russia: ‘... it turned me into what I am now; inside - I come from there, homeland of my feelings, the origin of my inner world is there...’

Contacts:Anastasia Alexandrowa


Russia, Germany, Ukraine | Arts & Culture, Poetry, History | 85min | Russian, GermanI AM SO ALONE (RIL’KE AND RUSSIA)


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Director: Evdokia Moskvina Producers: Erik Norkroos, Philippe Macgaw Production company: Ruthm plus nul production (Estonia) / Proto-prod co-pro-duction (France)Supported by: Ruthm plus nul productionBudget (EUR): 200 000 Co-production markets the project already participated: EAST SILVER MAR-KET (Check Republic, 2013), Baltic Sea Forum (Latvia, 2012), Dragon Forum (Po-land, 2012)Current status: production

SYNOPSISIt is a story about Russian women recruited by Chinese to weekly cross the Chinese-Russian border in Vladivostok as duty free carriers. A short journey to nirvana and back.

Contacts:Evdokia Moskvina

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Estonia, France, Russia | Social ussies issues | 52’ and 75’ | RussianNEW SILK WAY


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Director: Sergei KachkinProducers: Sergei Kachkin, Konstantin NafikovProduction company: April Film Lab & ReflexionBudget (EUR): 17 500 EUR

SYNOPSISThe Museum of the History of Political Repressions «PERM-36», the story of the imprisonment of three former political prisoners in the ‘Corrective Labour Colony’ «PERM-36» and the «PILORAMA» Forum as a mirror reflecting the condition of contemporary Russian society.

Contacts:Sergei Kachkin


Russia | Human Rights, Personal View, History | 100 min | RussianPERM-36. REFLEXION


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Director: Sergei MiroshnichenkoProducers: Sergei MiroshnichenkoProduction company: Ostrov StudioBudget (EUR): 1 300 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThe film «Rings of the World» is not just about the first Russian winter Olympic games. Pain, fear, desire, the joy of victory and the bitterness of defeat: the official film of the Sochi Olympic Games, created by decree of the International Olympic Committee (Switzerland), gives the greatest world champions a human face.


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Russia | Sport, Olympics | 2x95 min | Russian, Korean, English, Norwegian, Czech, French, Dutch, German, SwedishRINGS OF THE WORLD


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Director: Svetlana StrelnikovaProducers: Vlad KetkovichProduction company: EthnofundBudget (EUR): 90 000 EURMarkets: Edinburg Pitch 2015, ArtDocFest and ADA Pitch

SYNOPSISWe have two main characters in our film. One is Westerner who studies shamanic practices in USA and in Tuva (South Siberia), in order to become shaman and earn money. His friend is Asian, native Tuvin. In former years, being administrative worker, he organized shamanism in Tuva so that it has become profitable business. Now he wants to become shaman himself to make better living. They are very different, but they have the same goal. We will follow physical and spiritual journeys of our friends.



Russia | Author, Human Interest | 52-75 min | Russian, TuvinSHAMANIC LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS


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Director: Svetlana StrelnikovaProducers: Vlad KetkovichProduction company: EthnofundBudget (EUR): 150 000 EUR

SYNOPSISThis adventure film tells us a story from the view of a young Russian actress Inna, who is tired ofa busy and pointless life in Moscow. Wanting change she heads off to journey for a new life.She finds herself on the southern point of Europe, in the small Greek island, charming place, still wild. According to legend the nymph Calypso rules this isolated land. There are no shops, no gas stations, no cash machines, no hotels and there is no need to spend money.



Russia, Greece | Magic, Science, Arts & Culture | 52-70 min | Russian, Greek, English, GermanSTAY AWAY FROM CALYPSO


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Director: Anna Moiseenko, Pavel LoparevProducers: Marina Razbezhkina, Ksenia Gapchenko Production company: Marina Razbezhkina StudioBudget (EUR): 80 000 EUR

SYNOPSIS2014 showed the record number of Russian people who left their homeland. This film is telling the story of those who instead decided to come back. Several young people spent their childhood and youth in the West and Europe decided to come back to Russia to start new life.


+31627596262 (NL), +79191077841 (RU) [email protected]

Russia | Human Interest, Social Issues, Author, Politics, Society | 80 min | Russian, EnglishTHE RETURNES


Documentary Film Center (DFC) is the first Russian cine-ma hall for documentary films and a brand new cultural and educational venue. This cinema hall is a perfect place for screenings, thematic lectures, workshops and film festivals.

The regular program includes present-day documenta-ries, educational and science fiction films. Among the first in Russia DFC brings to Moscow such documentary pre-mieres as «The Act of Killing», «Cathedrals of culture», «Night will fall», «Concerning violence», «Black fish», «1989», «Aiweiwei the fake case», «Francofonia», «¡Vi-van las antipodas!». In the venue of DFC took place also festival show cases as IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Sheffield.

Educational program of DFC includes public talks and lectures of famous documentary film makers, producers and other film professionals: and other film professionals: Ulrich Seidl, Ally Derks, Thomas Balmes, Godfrey Reggio, Philippa Kowarsky, Luciano Barisone and others.

The DFC has distributed documentary titles since 2015. During this time the DFC released 3 titles witch were well received by professional society, media and audi-ence: «Dior and I», «Night will fall», «Amy» (the second highest grossing documentary of all time at the Russia box office).

September 2014 DFC together with the Museum of Mos-cow founded annual international festival «CENTER». This festival unites films which explore city as giant social sys-tem and new borders of the modern megacities.

| Documentary Film Center |

2, Zubovsky Blvd, Moscow, 119021,Russian Federation

Tel: +7 495 637-79-19Web: www.cdkino.ru

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