Russian documentary films and film market guide 2014-2015

RUSSIAN
DOCUMENTARY
FILMS 2014–2015
andFILMMARKET
GUIDE
•Festivals•Cinemas•Producers•Distributors•
•SalesAgents•TVChannels•

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 hope
that 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 Molodtsov
Producers: 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)
RUSSIANDOCUMENTARY
GUILD
Contacts:
Sergei Kachkin,
Project Coordinator
miffbs@gmail.com
www.miffbs.ru
Contacts:
Alisa Stolyarova,
film programming
stolyarova@cdkino.ru
www.cdkino.ru
Contacts:
Vlad Ketkovich
international@rgdoc.ru
www.rgdoc.ru
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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: GuntisTrekteris,Vitaliy Maskiy, Ego Media,Vertov, Real Cinema
Section: Special Event
Russia | France | Germany | 2015
Director: Alexey Sukhovey; Producer: Anastasia Aleksandrova,
Marie-Odile Gazin
Section: Between The Seas, First Lights
Russia | United States | Bulgaria | 2014
Director: Oleg Mavromati; Producer: Boryana Rossa, Andrei Silvestrov
Section: Between The Seas
France | Russia | 2015
Director: Alexandr Zarchikov; Producer: Nikolay Bem, Jérémie Jorrand
Czech Republic | Russia | Germany | North Korea | Latvia | 2015
Director:Vitaly Mansky; Producer: Natalia Manska, Filip Remunda,
Vít Klusák, Simone Baumann, Petr Kubica
BeyondtheFearGuestsNoPlaceforFoolsTheHalvesUndertheSun
RUSSIAN FILMS (DOCUMENTARIES) in Jihlava IDFF 2015

CHECHEN
Director: Beata Bubenets
Russia, 2015, color, DCP, 76’
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
CREDIT
FOR MURDER
Director: Vladi Antonevicz
Israel / Russia, 2015, color, DCP, 85’
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
GRUMANT: ISLAND
OF COMMUNISM
Director: Ivan S. Tverdovskiy
Russia, 2014, color / black and white,
DCP, 54’
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length
Documentary
OK. GOOD
Director: Alexandra Kulak,
Yulia Kurmangalina, Anna Kornienko
IDFA Competition for Student
Documentary
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OLD WIVES
Director: Galina Krasnoborova, Russia,
2015, color, DCP, 26’
Panorama
SALAMANCA
Director: Ruslan Fedotow,
Alexandra Kulak
Russia, 2015, black and white, DCP, 40’
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length
Documentary
RUSSIAN DREAM
Director: Sergey Debizhev
Sounds Real
UNDER THE SUN
Director: Vitaly Mansky
Russia / Latvia / Germany / Czech
Republic / North Korea, 2015, color,
DCP, 106’
Masters
VARICELLA
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Norway / Denmark / Sweden / Russia,
2015, color, DCP, 25’
IDFA Competition for Kids Docs

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|SOURCESOFFILMFINANCING|
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 rubles
The average amount of state support per one documentary film in 2014 – about 2 million rubles
Documentary 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
| TOPFULL-LENGTHDOCUMENTARIES
IN THERUSSIANCINEMAS IN2014–2015*|
Source: booker’s bulletin
DISTRIBUTER’S WEB SITES
24DOC: 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

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|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
sergkachkin@gmail.com
www.sergkachkin.ru
www.onthewayhome.eu
Contacts: www.artvideostudio.tv
artvideostudio.tv@gmail.com
Contacts:
Ivan Bolotnikov
ivbolotnikoff@gmail.com
APRILFILMLAB
AUTHORSTUDIO
ARTVIDEOSTUDIO
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
ellada@gorkyfilm.ru
www.gorkyfilm.ru
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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
info@dokerproject.ru
www.midff.com
www.dokerproject.ru
Contacts: сontent@pervoe.ru
pervoe.ru
Contacts:
Vladislav Ketkovich, producer
ethnofund@mail.ru
www.ethnofund.ru
DOKERPROJECT
DOCUMENTARYHOUSE
“PERVOEKINO”
ETHNOFUND
ETHNOGEOGRAPHIC 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.
Contacts: marinarstudio@gmail.com
www.razbeg.org
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
spbdfs@gmail.com
www.lendoc.ru
Contacts:
Alexandr Gundorov
wetka@inbox.ru
Contacts:
Olga Kuchmenko
studio@ostrovstudio.com
www.ostrovstudio.com
Contacts:
Anastasia Alexandrowa
kinoblick@yahoo.de
ST.PETERSBURG
DOCUMENTARYFILMSTUDIOS
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
info@reflexionfilms.com
Contacts: julia@salvador-d.ru
www.vita-aktiva.ru
VITA AKTIVA
REFLEXION FILMS
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|OTHERSTUDIOS|
dcfilmstudio@gmail.com
www.dcfilm.ru
filmstartrussia@gmail.com
www.filmstart.pro
a-radov@yandex.ru
www.fishka-film.ru
zimalong27@bk.ru
fond@konchalovsky.ru
www.pc.konchalovsky.ru
wetka@inbox.ru
studio217pro@gmail.com
www.Studio-217.r
svoypocherk@gmail.com
www.eng.svoypocherk.ru
artdocfest@mail.ru
info@rockfilms.ru
www.rockfilm.ru
DC FILM
FILMSTART
FISHKA-FILM
MARATHON-ART FILM STUDIO
THE ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY
PRODUCTION
«THEXXIСENTURY»
NATIONALFILMSSTUDIO-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
festivals@antipode-sales.biz
www.antipode-sales.biz
Contacts:
Alyona Bocharova,
Managing Director
alyona@beatfilmfestival.ru
www.beatfilmfestival.ru
Contacts:
Olga Kolegaeva
forummoscow@gmail.com
www.reflexionfilms.com
Contacts:
Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
RGDOC vice-president of Russian
Documentary Guild
info@rgdoc.ru
www.rgdoc.ru
ANTIPODE SALES
DISTRIBUTION
BEAT FILMS
RGDOC CINEMA NETWORK
REFLEXION FILMS

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DOKerwascreated4yearsagotobringwonderfulindependentdocumentaryfilmsfromall
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
www.dokerproject.ru
Contacts:
Alisa Stolyarova, film programming
stolyarova@cdkino.ru
www.cdkino.ru
Contacts: www.tvkultura.ru
Contacts:
Alexey Layfurov
alayfurov@nks-media.ru
www.24doc.ru
DOKER PROJECT
24_DOC
TV CHANNEL “CULTURE”
|TV-CHANNELS|
DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER
(DFC)

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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: artdocfest@mail.ru
www.artdocfest.ru
Contacts:
Kirill Sorokin, Artistic Director
info@beatfilmfestival.ru
kirill@beatfilmfestival.ru
www.beatfilmfestival.ru
Contacts: ibelikh@gmail.com
www.360.polymus.ru
Contacts:
Alina Shirinkina,
Festival Chief Coordinator
flahertiana@perm.ru
www.eng.flahertiana.ru
BEAT FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTARYFILMFESTIVAL
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 Libergal
Dates: 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
hackettout@gmail.com
www.message2man.com
Contacts: doc@moscowfilmfestival.ru
www.moscowfilmfestival.ru
Contacts:
Kirill Sorokin, Artistic Director
baikal.festival@gmail.com
www.baikalkinofest.ru
MESSAGE TO MAN
MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT
BaikalInternationalFestivalof
DocumentaryandPopular-ScienceFilms
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
kristina.siberiadoc@gmail.com
www.siberiadoc.ru
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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
Contacts: info@mir-znanij.info
www.mir-znanij.info
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: sarstrad@yandex.ru
www.sarstrad.ru
Contacts:
Stepanov Igor, General Producer
Maria Vorobieva, Coordinator
info@kinogildia.ru
SARATOV SUFFERINGS
INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL OF
DOCUMENTARY DRAMA
STALKER INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
Contacts:
Irina Belikh
+79055208889
www.csff.ru
ibelikh@gmail.ru
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, 2016
Extended Deadline – 15 January
Submissions: 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 qa 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
www.midff.com
info@dokerprojec.ru
Contacts:
Maya Kuzina, festival curator
kuzina@cdkino.ru
www.festivalcenter.cdkino.ru
MIDFF DOKer
INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTARY
FILM FESTIVAL CENTER

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Director: Vladimir Marin
Producers: Georgy Sushko
Production company: NP «СT»
Budget (EUR): 17 304 EUR
Festivals: «Rendezvous with Russia», «Russia»,
SYNOPSIS
The 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) 558-31-80
tourskino@gmail.com
Russia | History, Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015A GENIUS IN A HOUSE OF A PROPHET
Trailer available at: www.vimeo.com/channels/rgdoc

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Director: Nastia Tarasova
Producers: Irina Shatalova, Kathleen Bowen
Production company: DOKer Project, Hammersmith Ventures
Festivals: 12th Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA, USA 2015 (National Pre-
miere) Audience Award for the Best Feature
SYNOPSIS
An 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 59407
Russia, USA | Road-movie | 78 min | English | 2015ARCTIC ALHEMY
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Director: Sofia Gorlenko
Producers: Sofia Gorlenko, Gleb Kuznetsov
Production company: Sirin Cinema
SYNOPSIS
Russian 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 Films
Russia | Travel, History, Arts Culture
| 73/52 min | Russian | 2015ATLANTIS OF RUSSIAN NORTH
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Director: Darya Hrenova
Producers: Vladimir Golikov, Natalia Lisovschkaya
Production company: «Studio Andrey Shemyakin»
Festivals: «Rendezvous with Russia»
SYNOPSIS
An 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
+7 (499) 558-31-80
studio-sha@mail.ru
Russia | History | 74 min | Russian | 2015BARON’S LAST CRUSADE

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Director: Beata Bubenets
Producers: Marina Razbezhkina
Production company: Marina Razbezhkina Studio
Budget (EUR): 2500 EUR
Festivals: IDFA 2015 (First Appearance competition), nomination for AWFJ EDA
Award, ARTDOCFEST (competition for feature-length documentary)
SYNOPSIS
Ruslan 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)
gaptschenko@gmail.com
Russia | Human Interest / Social Issues | 76 min | Russian, Ukrainian | 2015CHECHEN

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Director: Julia Kiseleva
Producers: Evgeniy Sulla
Production company: studio A4
Festivals: 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
SYNOPSIS
When 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 20
docfilm@list.ru
Russia | Author | 55 min | Russian | 2014CHILDHOOD BY THE RIVER

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Director: Inna Kokorina
Producers: Alexander Radov
Production company: Fishka-film Studio
Festivals: 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
SYNOPSIS
The 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) 639-79-64
a-radov@yandex.ru
Russia | History | 51 min | Russian | 2015CONVERSATION WITH ODYSSEUS

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Director: Sergey Kutsevalov
Producers: Maria Muskevich
Production company: Delai Film
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 903 684 6944
muskevish@gmail.com
Russia | History | 60 min | Russian | 2015DANCE TO BE ALIVE

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Director: Lera Latypova
Producers: Juliette Cazanave
Production company: Kepler 22 Production
SYNOPSIS
Novosibirsk, 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 34
juliette.cazanave@gmail.com
Russia | Society | 64 min | Russian | 2015FILM-ME

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Director: Ivan Tverdovskiy
Producers: Ivan Tverdovskiy
Production company: Studio «The point of view»
Festivals: ArtDocFest 2014 – Best Documentary, IDFA 2015 – Competition
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 903 256 1626
tochkaz@yandex.ru
Russia | Author | 54 min | Russian | 2014GRUMANT: ISLAND OF COMMUNISM

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Director: Alexey Sukhovey
Producers: Anastasia Alexandrowa, Marie-OdileGazin, Alexey Sukhovey
Production company: Platforma Production, The Kingdom
Festivals: Artdocfest, Kazan International Muslim Film Festival, Flahertiana, Dok
Market Leipzig, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
SYNOPSIS
Russian 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:
+49 711 72230173
kinoblick@yahoo.de
France, Germany, Russia | Author’s Point of View,
Human Interest | 62 min | Russian, Tadjik | 2014GUESTS
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Director: Alexei Vesker
Producers: Alexei Vesker
Production company: Kinofanat
SYNOPSIS
This 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
+7 903 191 0870
kinofanat-tv@yandex.ru
Russia | History | 57 min
| Russian | 2015ITHOUGHTIWASADAMORALONGWAYTOGOGEZA

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Director: Yulia Kiseleva
Producers: Olga Shaposhnikova
Production company: studio RISK
Festivals: “ArtDocFest”, December 2015, premiere
SYNOPSIS
At 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
+7 910 468 80 26
docfilm@list.ru
Russia | Politics, Drama, Actual | 60 min | Russian | 2015INDEPENDENT

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Director: Boris Sarakhatunov
Producers: Vladimir Golikov
Production company: «Vib-film»
Festivals: «Rendezvous with Russia»
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 (499) 558-31-80
VIB-Film@yandex.ru
Russia | History, Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015KIMANDCLARA

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Director: Elena Poroshina
Producers: Elena Poroshina
Production company: Elena Poroshina
Budget (EUR): 500 EUR
Festivals: 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”
SYNOPSIS
Ljosha 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
+7 906 889 9339
jelenaporoshina@yandex.ru
Russia | Author | 19 min | Russian | 2015KJAL-KELE

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Director: Nikita Sutyrin
Producers: Alexander Kibkalo, Nikita Sutyrin
Production company: DorogaVremeni Studio
Festivals: 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
SYNOPSIS
Day 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 5100
sutyrin@moviement.pro;
sutyrin@gmail.com
Russia | Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015KOTLOVAN

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Director: Elena Laskari
Producers: Ekaterina Meliksetova, Alexey Khanyutin
Production company: ART-PROJECT Foundation
Festivals: 37 Moscow International Film Festival
SYNOPSIS
A 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
+7 499 151 2016
art.project.foundation@gmail.com
Russia | Arts Culture | 62 min | Russian | 2015LARISA’SCREW
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Director: Matvey Troshinkin
Producers: Maria Chuprinskaya
Co-producer: Konstantin Nafikov
Production company: Ethnogeographic Research Foundation
Co-production company: Reflexion Films
Festivals: ARTDOCFES
Distributor: Konstantin Nafikov (Reflexion Films)
Tel: +7 916 966 1531
e-mail: info@reflexionfilms.com
http://www.reflexionfilms-russia.com/
SYNOPSIS
Zhenya 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?
Contacts:
Reflexion Films
Russia | Social, Culture (tragicomedy genre) | 75 min | Russian | 2015MAY I JUST BE

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Director: Elena Demidova
Producers: Vlad Ketkovich
Production company: Ethnogeographic Research Foundation
Festivals: 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
SYNOPSIS
This 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.
Contacts:
Reflexion Films
Russia, Norway, Finland | Author, Factual | 62 min | Russian | 2014MEN’S CHOICE
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Director: Victoria Lopach
Producers: Natalya Lisovskaya
Production company: «Studio Andrey Shemyakin»
Festivals: «Sol zemli», competition program; «Rendezvous with Russia»
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 (499) 558-31-80
studio-sha@mail.ru
Russia | Author | 26 min | Russian | 2015NOT ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

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Director: Alexandra Kulak, Anna Kornienko, Yulia Kurmangalina
Producers: Pavel Karykhalin
Production company: STEREOTACTIC
Festivals: Beat Film Festival, Message To Man, IDFA
SYNOPSIS
A 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 Krasnoborova
Producers: Valdimir Sokolov
Production company: «Novyj kurs»
Festivals: Flahertiana (main competition) 2015, IDFA (Panorama)
SYNOPSIS
High-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)2160058
krasnogalka@gmail.com,
nkstudio@perm.ru
Russia | Ehnographie, Musik, History, Arts and Culture | 25 min
| Komi-permien | 2015OLD WIVES

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Director: Alexander Zamyslov
Producers: Alexander Zamyslov
Production company: Television Technology
SYNOPSIS
This 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
+7 926 616 1921
reception@tvtc.pro
Russia | History, Sport | 50 min | Italian, Russian, French | 2015OLYMPIAD-80

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Director: Anna Shishova
Producers: Vladimir Bazhin
Production company: Center of National Film
Festivals: Artdocfest, 08/12/2015, Participant in competition program, Jury Prize
American Documentary Film Festival, 28/03/2015, Participant in competition program
Krakow Film Festival, 03/06/2015, Participant in competition program
SYNOPSIS
On 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
+7 903 220 3784
ellada@gorkyfilm.ru
Russia | Documentary | 49 min |Russian | 2015ON THE EDGE
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Director: Irina Vasiljeva
Production company: Fishka-film Studio
Festivals: National award «Laurel branch» 2014
SYNOPSIS
Paradoxical 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.
Contacts:
Anna Epshteyn
+7(495) 639-79-64
a-radov@yandex.ru
Russia | Factual | 40 min | Russian | 2014PARABLE OF THE LAME SHEEP

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Director: Evgeny Grigorev
Producers: Evgeny Grigorev, Anna Selyanina
Production company: “Pervoe Kino” Documentary House
Supported by: Anniko Films, 24 DOC, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Budget (EUR): 100 000
Current status: post-production
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 926 216 86 84
nonf@mail.ru
Russia | Arts Culture | 90 min | Russian | 2015PRO ROCK

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Director: Kirill Nenashev
Producers: Maria Muskevich
Production company: An independent production
SYNOPSIS
It 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
+7 903 684 6944
muskevish@gmail.com
Russia | Politics | 93 min | Russian | 2015PUTIN FOREVER?

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Director: Ruslan Fedotow, Alexandra Kulak
Producers: Pavel Karykhalin
Production company: STEREOTACTIC
Festivals: IDFA, Artdocfest
SYNOPSIS
In 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 Soboleva
Producers: Vlad Ketkovich, Oksana Barkovskaya
Production company: Ethnogeographic Research Foundation, Format TV
Festivals: “Message to Man” (Diploma), “Flahertiana” (National Competition)
Distributor: Deckert Distribution GmbH
Marienplatz 1, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 341 215 66 38
Fax: +49 (0) 341 215 66 39
e-mail: info@deckert-distribution.com
www.deckert-distribution.com
SYNOPSIS
When 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
+7 916 674 0654
ethnofund@mail.ru
Russia | Author | 93 min | Russian | 2015SIBERIAN FLOATING HOSPITAL

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Director: Denis Shabaev
Production company: Marina Razbezhkina Workshop Ltd.
SYNOPSIS
Farruh 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…
Contacts:
Ksenia Gapchenko
+31 627 59 6262 (NL),
+7 919 107 7841 (RU)
Russia | Author’s point of view, Social issues | 80 min
| Russian, Tajik | 2015SOMEONE ELSE’S JOB

51
Director: Sofia Geveyler, Julia Bivsheva, Sofia Kucher
Producers: Sergei Miroshnichenko, Fedor Popov, Vladimir Malishev
Production company: Ostrov Studio, Production Center «VGIK-Debut»
Budget (EUR): 245 000 Euro
Festivals: 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.
SYNOPSIS
Eight 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
+7-495-983-03-35
Russia | Sport, Disability, Paralympics, Animation | 73 min
| Russian, English, Chinese, Portuguese, German | 2015
SPIRIT IN MOTION
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Director: Denis Klebleev
Producers: Denis Klebleev
Production company: Independent Production
Festivals: Cinema du Reel, Hot Docs, Locarno, Viennalle, Valdivia, Dok Leipzig
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 903 290 1355
dklebleev@gmail.com
Russia | Author, Science | 52 min | Russian | 2014STRANGE PARTICLES

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Director: Anna Yanovskaya
Producers: Vladimir Repnikov, Mikhail Zilberman
Production company: Studio 217 Ltd
Festivals: Flahertiana 09/2015
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 985 760 3588
studio217pro@gmail.com
Russia | Author | 65 min | Russian | 2014TEN SANTIMETERS OF LIFE

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Director: Alexander Kuznetsov
Producers: Rebecca Houzel, Nicolai Bem
Production company: Petit à Petit production and Independent studio of Siberian
cinema
Festivals: Vision du reel, Nyon, 2014, International festival of Amiens, Ardocfest,
Perm, Corsicadoc, Lassalle
SYNOPSIS
Close 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;
siberiadoc@gmail.com
Russia | Society | 67 min | Russian | 2014TERRITORY OF FREEDOM

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Director: Alexander Zamyslov
Producers: Alexander Zamyslov
Production company: Television Technology
Festivals: VIII Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York
SYNOPSIS
Six 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
+7 926 616 1921
reception@tvtc.pro
Russia | History, Drama, Human rights | 52 min
| Russian, Albanian, Serbian, Italian, Ingush, Arabic | 2015THE BLOOD

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Director: Valeriy Solomin
Producers: Valeriy Solomin
Production company: “Kino-Siberia” Film Production
Festivals: Moscow Int. Film Festival.
SYNOPSIS
Khambo-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
+7 383 346 4547
kinosib@ngs.ru
Russia | Author , Culture, Religion
| 52 min | Russian | 2015THE DAYS OF THE FUTURE BUDDHAS

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Director: Elena Alferova, Victor Aflerov
Producers: Victor Alferov
Production company: Alferov Production
Festivals: 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”
SYNOPSIS
This 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 5454
alferelena@gmail.com
Russia | Sport Culture | 58 min | Russian | 2014THE EAGLE’S DANCE

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Director: Olga Privolnova
Festivals: Doclisboa (feature-length competition), Message2Man (national docu-
mentary competition)
SYNOPSIS
In 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..
Contacts:
Ksenia Gapchenko
+31627596262 (NL),
+79191077841 (RU)
Russia | Human Interest / Social Issues, Author’s point of view
| 57 min | Russian | 2015THE LITTLE PRINCE

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Production company: Shan Design
Director: Sergey Shanovich
SYNOPSIS
Who 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...
Contacts:
Reflexion Films
Russia | Arts Culture | 52 min | Russian | 2014THE MODERN RUSSIAN DESIGN

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Director: Vladimir Kozlov
Producer: Vladimir Kozlov
Production company: Platzkart Production
Festivals: Warsaw Film Festival 2014
SYNOPSIS
Traces 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.
Contacts:
Reflexion Films
Russia | History, Arts Culture | 63/52 min | Russian | 2014TRACES IN THE SNOW

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Director: Aliona Polunina
Producers: Nastya Velskaya, Aliona Polunina, Grigory Yakushev
Production company: WellSky Production
Festivals: DokLeipzig 2014, Dvijenie 2015, Doker 2015, MIFF 2015, 2ANNAS 2015
Distribution 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 festivals@fakturafilm.de | www.fakturafilm.de
SYNOPSIS
It 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
+7 916 114 37 30
AVelskaya@gmail.com
Russia | Social Drama | 47 min | Russian, Ukrainian | 2014VARJA

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Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Producers: Sergey Vinokurov
Production company: 317 film
SYNOPSIS
Is 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
+7 981 711 9115
cinedoc@mail.ru
Russia | Human rights| 29 min | Russian | 2014VICTORY DAY
Festivals: DOKLeipzig,shortdocumentarycompetition,Leipzig,Germany,2014:OneworldFF,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;InternationalHumanRightsFestival“AFilmforPeace”,Medea,Italy,June,2015–SPECIALMENTION;“CeauCinema!”FF,Timiso-
ara, Romania, July, 2015; Venice Film Market; 24thdokumentART - European Film Festival for Documentaries; Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Болонья, Италия);
VerzioHumanrightsFF(Будапешт,Венгрия);34thUppsalaIFF(Упсала,Швеция);KIN(Ереван,Армения);INTERNATIONALTVFESTIVALBAR(Montenegro).

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Director: Dmitry Zavilgelskiy
Producers: Olga Chapochnikiva
Production company: Risk-film
Festivals: V International Film Festival of Science and Technology, Moscow 21-29
October 2015
SYNOPSIS
It’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,
+7-985-492-49-77
dimaze@filmdoc.ru, dimaze@mail.ru
Russia | Science and Author
| 78 min | Russian | 2015WAITING FOR WAVES AND PARTICLES

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Director: Elena Dubkova
Producers: Elena Dubkova
Production company: LLC «KINOHRONIKA»
Festivals: The Film Festival “Sol Zemli”, The Film Festival “Russia abroad”
SYNOPSIS
The 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 36
dubrava63@yandex.ru
kinokor@yandex.ru
Russia | Arts Culture | 54 min | Russian | 2015WHERE HAS THE CIRCUIS GONE

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Director: Darya Khrenova
Production company: Ethnofund
Festivals: “Russia”, National TV Award Laurel Branch (2 nominations)
SYNOPSIS
She 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.
Contacts:
Vlad Ketkovich
+7 916 674 0654
ethnofund@mail.ru
Russia | Disabled in Russia | 64 min | Russian | 2015WHO WILL BE MY HUSBAND

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Director: Yuri Malyugin
Producers: Sergei Miroshnichenko
Production company: Ostrov Studio, Production Center «VGIK-Debut»
SYNOPSIS
This 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.
Contacts:
+7-495-983-03-35
Russia | Disability, Health, Communication, Integration in society
| 44 min | Russian | 2015WORD ON A PALM

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Director: Arkady Kogan
Producers: Vladimir Repnikov, Mikhail Zilberman
Production company: Studio 217 Ltd
SYNOPSIS
This 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 | 2015YANKOVSKIY
LOOK AT: EAST SILVER MARKETLOOK AT: LEIPZIG DOK MARKET

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Director: Irina Vasiljeva
Production company: Fishka-Film Studio
Festivals: ARTDOCFEST-2015
SYNOPSIS
The 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.
Contacts:
Anna Epshteyn
+7(495) 639-79-64
a-radov@yandex.ru
Russia | Factual | 84 min | Russian | 2015YOUR BROTHER CAIN

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|PROJECTS|
Director: Olga Darfy
Producers: Rebecca Houzel, Pavel Lilendeld, Eero Talvistu
Production company: Petit à petit production (France), Patriot (Russia), Kinoport
(Estonia)
Markets: Ardocfest, Moscow Buisiness square, Eurasiadoc, Eurodoc
SYNOPSIS
1991, 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 1988
rhouzel@petitapetitproduction
France, Russia, Estonia | Author | 70 min | Russian180 BEATS PER MINUTE

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Director: Sergey Shanovich
Producers: Sergey Shanovich, Konstantin Nafikov, Sasha Klein, Mike Lerner
Production company: ShanDesign, Reflexion Films, Roast Beef Productions, Sasha
Klein Production
Current status: production
SYNOPSIS
Bauhaus 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.
Contacts:
Reflexion Films
Russia, UK, Israel | History, Art | 90/2X52 min.| Russian, English, GermanBAU/VKHU

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Director: Gayane Petrosyan
Producers: Gayane Petrosyan, Mike Lerner
Production company: Baikal Cinema, Roast Beef Productions
Current status: post-production
SYNOPSIS
An 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
mike@roastbeeftv.com
+447770788544
www.roastbeeftv.com
Russia, UK | Nature, Environmental | 80/52 min.| Russian, EnglishBORN TO BE FREE

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Director: Yulia Kiseleva
Producers: Yulia Kiseleva, Alexandra Vorontsova
Production company: Aurum Media
SYNOPSIS
Our 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
+7 926 906 8321
docfilm@list.ru
Russia | Science | 80 min | RussianBRAIN. THE SECONT UNIVERSE

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Director: Tatjana Soboleva
Markets: ArtDocFest and ADA Pitch, Moscow Business Square
SYNOPSIS
We 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.
Contacts:
Vlad Ketkovich
+7 916 674 0654
ethnofund@mail.ru
Russia | Author, Human
Interest | 90 min |
Russian, EnglishCARROLL THROUGH THE RUSSIAN LOOKING GLASS

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Director: Nikita Sutyrin
Producers: Alexandr Gundorov
Production company: Moviement Studio
SYNOPSIS
Dikson 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
+7 985 762 11 53
wetka@inbox.ru
Russia | Factual | 90 min | RussianDIKSON, THE HOMETOWN

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Contacts:
Reflexion Films
Director: Viktors Buda
Producers: Uldis Cekulis, Konstantin Nafikov
Production company: VFS Films, Reflexion Films
Current status: Post-production
SYNOPSIS
During 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 Alexandrowa
Producers: Liza Antonova, Anastasia Alexandrowa
Production company: Studio “Passenger”, Platforma Production
SYNOPSIS
In 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:
+49 711 722 30173
kinoblick@yahoo.de
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 production
Budget (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
SYNOPSIS
It 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
+79261686140
moskvina.evdokiya@gmail.com
Estonia, France, Russia | Social ussies issues | 52’ and 75’ | RussianNEW SILK WAY

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Director: Sergei Kachkin
Producers: Sergei Kachkin, Konstantin Nafikov
Production company: April Film Lab Reflexion
SYNOPSIS
The 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
+7 906 700 8226
sergkachkin@gmail.com
Russia | Human Rights, Personal View, History | 100 min | RussianPERM-36.REFLEXION

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Director: Sergei Miroshnichenko
Producers: Sergei Miroshnichenko
Production company: Ostrov Studio
Budget (EUR): 1 300 000 EUR
SYNOPSIS
The 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.
Contacts:
+7-495-983-03-35
Russia | Sport, Olympics | 2x95 min | Russian, Korean,
English, Norwegian, Czech, French, Dutch, German, SwedishRINGS OF THE WORLD

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Director: Svetlana Strelnikova
Markets: Edinburg Pitch 2015, ArtDocFest and ADA Pitch
SYNOPSIS
We 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.
Contacts:
Vlad Ketkovich
+7 916 674 0654
ethnofund@mail.ru
Russia | Author, Human Interest |
52-75 min | Russian, TuvinSHAMANIC LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS

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Director: Svetlana Strelnikova
SYNOPSIS
This 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.
Contacts:
Vlad Ketkovich
+7 916 674 0654
ethnofund@mail.ru
Russia, Greece | Magic, Science, Arts Culture | 52-70 min
| Russian, Greek, English, GermanSTAY AWAY FROM CALYPSO

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Director: Anna Moiseenko, Pavel Loparev
Producers: Marina Razbezhkina, Ksenia Gapchenko
SYNOPSIS
2014 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.
Contacts:
Ksenia Gapchenko
+31627596262 (NL),
+79191077841 (RU)
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
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tem and new borders of the modern megacities.
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