Petersburg: Only for Love
Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.
Renata Litvinova
Renata Litvinova
Oksana Bychkova
Oksana Bychkova
Natalya Kudryashova
Natalya Kudryashova
Avdotya Smirnova
Avdotya Smirnova
Natalya Nazarova
Natalya Nazarova
Anna Parmas
Anna Parmas
Aksinya Gog
Aksinya Gog
Also Directed by Renata Litvinova
"Zelyonyy teatr v Zemfire" - the first in the history of domestic film-length musical film, built on one of the concert footage. This is the first Renata Litvinova in musical films. The actress and the director has created not just a concert film, but a relief, partial portrait of Russia's main singer of the last decade. In addition to finely clearly mounted musical numbers in the film are monologues Zemfira. Never before Zemfira was not before the lens of such a frank and at the same time ambitious.
It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Tatyana Samoylova, Lidiya Smirnova and Vera Vasileva. These wonderful women tell about their lifes and careers in hour interview.
Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love.
The story of an extraordinary adventure that a courier had to endure, who was entrusted with the delivery of a parcel with a designer dress.
Renata Litvinova's short film for Ulyana Sergeenko's Fall-Winter 2021/2022 Haute Couture collection, inspired by the beauty of Karelia: its lush green forests, winding rivers and idyllic Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega.
A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.
In September Zemfira organized a mini-tour in honor of the re-release of the first three albums. Solo performance at the Moscow concert hall "Crocus City Hall", September 17, 2010.
The film speaks about universal themes of love, hate and search for love. The portrait of three women represents these three states. Tanya Neubivko has never been in love but optimistically is searing for it. Her unfortunate and even dangerous encounters with strangers on dates almost got her killed. Rita is happily engaged and planning a wedding after a routine medical check-up. Nadya is a very unhappy doctor who hates her husband and finds relief in alcohol. The story takes place in a surreal hospital with the leaking roof and hollow walls and constantly smoking doctors, where Rita is destined to die.
Art film by Renata Litvinova, in which she played the main and only role. One night, the heroine of the short film has an amazing, but at the same time frightening dream. A dream that turns her worldview!
A short story about the transformative power of lipstick for L’Oréal Paris.
Also Directed by Oksana Bychkova
New project directed by Oksana Bychkova and producer Ekaterina Filippova
Boris Ermolaevich Cheryshev was called Churchill at the institute-not only for some resemblance to the British Prime Minister, but also for his extraordinary mind and intuition. These qualities helped him quickly rise through the ranks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Anton Buiucli was launched in July 1969 in Romania. The people who came to work on this steamer became a unique crew in their own way. Many of them worked as a team for a very long time - both ten and fifteen years. This was a rare case in the Sakhalin Shipping Company-with an endless staff turnover. "Anton Buyukly" has become for many sailors not just a place of work, but a real home. And the crew members of this ship remained loyal friends for life.
Lyrical story about two young people, Masha and Maxim, who have to decide what to do.
Slava is a girl who is used to living with emotions, her actions are impulsive and unpredictable. On New Year's Eve, she makes a wish that her husband Valya will become a cool startup in Silicon Valley, and she is "just" a superwoman who will save the world. But time passes, and the miracle does not happen, and Slava, having collected things, leaves her husband. However, the wish made becomes fatal: everything starts to work out for Valya, and Slava continues to live with the expectation that the world will revolve around her.
He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.
Also Directed by Natalya Kudryashova
Russia after the nuclear explosion: a feral tribe of survivors worships the technology of the past. The heart of the tribal chief Saltan is won by a young girl, but the priest Babarikh and her two sisters are not ready to accept this choice. Exiled from the tribe, the Younger and her son Gvidon meet an amazing being who possesses the secret knowledge of the technology of ancient times.
An ordinary day of an ordinary St. Petersburg guide: a smile on duty, the text bounces off the teeth, the route is scheduled by the minute – the main thing is that the bus with tourists is in time for lunch! It seemed that the life of the guide Marina finally turned into a series of identical, as if under a carbon copy, everyday life, gray as the asphalt of Nevsky Prospekt. And so it was, until the bus suddenly got stuck in traffic at the Anichkov Bridge, and Klodt's famous horses rebelled against Marina and her routine. What can you do, St. Petersburg is a city where miracles happen at every step. A guide can become a person, and the spirits of Nevsky Prospekt can breathe life even into an ordinary bus tour.
Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take mortgages, build country houses. Just like everybody else. But their lives bring them neither happiness nor content. The feeling of "something's not right but I can't put my finger on it" underpins the lives of today's thirty-year-olds. Their childhood took place during the Soviet era, when kids dreamed of becoming heroes, believed in spy stories and a bright future. Yet nobody expected that the dream of becoming a hero would be replaced by the dream of stable and predictable existence. People have stopped dreaming of truly grand things. They just play their roles.
Lonely Lisa lives in a big city. She believes in a miracle and goes to work. Her worthless life can change. We just need someone to notice it.
The main character - Lera - is studying at the social faculty, lives in the province. Her mother is a sleepwalker who believes in miracles, her father recently went to another woman. Lera does not know how to make her life better. She also has a soul, which she dreams of every night. And the tougher the life around becomes, the more often Lera has these dreams. Once, from the world of dreams, the soul steps into the world of life.
Also Directed by Avdotya Smirnova
Boris Ermolaevich Cheryshev was called Churchill at the institute-not only for some resemblance to the British Prime Minister, but also for his extraordinary mind and intuition. These qualities helped him quickly rise through the ranks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of the most famous Russian chansonnier of the 20th century. The story of the artist who left Russia in 1919 and returned to the USSR in 1943, in the midst of World War II. Vertinsky lived, sang, and was popular in Constantinople, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Harbin, Shanghai, and Moscow. He was loved by beautiful women, applauded by royalty and thieves. He was a bohemian man, light and cheerful. However, this painting, first of all, is about his kindness. On the ability not to judge, but to pity, to sympathize with anyone. And for this fate has gifted him with great success and late family happiness. This is a story of how a songbird, an artist, a frivolous creature can live a life of both envy and respect.
Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes to St. Petersburg on business. But more often they are in the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow just to see each other. Because they have an affair.
The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.
The Osipovs are a very ordinary family from Ulyanovsk. Father, mother and son. They are no different from thousands and thousands of other families, except that they are happy. They love each other. The sudden illness of the son drives through them with an asphalt roller. Parents are ready for anything, they lose their home, and sometimes their human form, trying to save their child. At some point, even the mother breaks down. But not the father. The most ordinary person. A provincial carpenter.
A storry about a friendship between two very different women.
A series of short films about the war, shot by young directors. Each of them had to fit their personal attitude to the Great Patriotic War into three minutes of screen time.
Also Directed by Natalya Nazarova
The regional center is not the center of paradise, but a small settlement, lost in the Orenburg steppes. the bus station, where regular buses arrive from all over the area, is a place of meeting and parting. This is where Radik, the protagonist of the story, comes to meet his older sister Rita, who is to take custody of him and his brothers and sisters. A large amount of money falls into the hands of the boy, which he wants to appropriate. But money is always a temptation. And temptation is where the main plot of humanity began.
A Russian emigrant in Scandinavia sends her son to school, but he does not return. In search of a child, she finds herself in a dead end: according to the laws of the "new" juvenile justice, her son is the property of the state.
Exactly five stories from different parts of Russia - from Arkhangelsk to Sakhalin. The modern romantic comedy "Firefly" was filmed in Severodvinsk. The musical film “Not for the River” from Arkhangelsk is dedicated to the ability to establish strong, like sea knots, relationships. The Kazan traffic police officer on duty on the highway, opening the trunk of a stopped car, changes his life forever (“Lost Path”). The heroine of the novel "Tamara" from Krasnoyarsk, showing a hard character in her work, will be helpless in her personal life. The Sakhalin short film "In the arms of the sea" in a poetic manner tells the story of true friendship and farewell.
Yana lives in the northern sea town. She collects stamps and is waiting for her father, who has long abandoned his family. Yana does not hope that he will return, she just loves to wait and believes that this is the quality of real philatelists. Yana is a very strong person, the effects of cerebral palsy are almost invisible, and the slight claudication and a certain oddity, in her opinion, only give her an additional charm. True, Kolya, Yana's friend, does not think so. The girl is upset that he does not see a woman in her ... Once on the beach, Yana meets a sailor. Peter is a very attractive man and also a collector. Collector of women. A short-lived novel flares up, and Yana becomes part of his “album”. Peter, as befits a sailor, goes to the sea, but Yana is happy: fine, when there is someone to wait for, even if this person never appears in her life again. After all, our whole life is an expectation.
Inna lives with her dad and little brother in a small town. Her life changes when a new girl, Masha, comes to her school. They become friends. But Masha is murdered by a maniac serial killer, who kills teenage girls in the town. Inna goes to church for the funeral service. There she meets the priest's son Ilya, whose sister was also murdered.
Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
Also Directed by Anna Parmas
"The Last Six Degrees of Celebration" will be the most touching, kind and magical of all, because your favorite characters will say goodbye to the audience. The film almanac will include five New Year stories. In the novel "Pines" millenial will help his brutal stepfather, Uncle Yura, to make a marriage proposal. In "The Brothers", the inseparable friends, Borya and Zhenya, will once again be on the verge of breaking up, because Zhenya is going to return to Yakutsk. The skier and snowboarder turned the whole city over for the sake of the smile of one beauty in the short story “Restaurant of quick acquaintance”. “The Station for Three” will tell the story of a simple girl from Voronezh who went in pursuit of her happiness - the capital actor Komarovsky, and in the novel “Bad Grandpa” the Snow Maiden will go to save a lonely, but very grumbling grandpa.
Short film created specifically for Auction 2019
Characters of the series "Ostorozhno, modern. 2 " together with new eccentric characters performed by show business stars celebrate the New Year in a 19th century estate near St. Petersburg.
The film’s heroine is the gynaecologist Masha, whose husband leaves her. When a man leaves his wife, he carries away all her hopes for a future. Of course, it would be noble to let the husband go, but Masha is a strong woman and begins a desperate struggle for her infidel husband Misha. The power is unequal. Masha is already well in her thirties, while the fitness-trainer Oksana is just over twenty. But behind Masha stand a great experience of life and two small children. In this situation she is ready to use the entire arsenal available, including extraterrestrial forces. The young Oksana relies only on feelings. And on her fine figure, her magnificent hair and irrepressible temperament. Who will win this fight and get the prize? And what happens when the dream of one of them will become true?
Also Directed by Aksinya Gog
A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.
A Zoom work meeting unexpectedly went wrong. During the call, the boss discusses anti-crisis measures and motivates employees for labor feats, despite the pandemic. Subordinates, being in self-isolation, try to find a balance between work and personal life.
About bitches and males.
Embark on a five-hour film tour of one of the greatest museums in the world: 45 halls and 588 masterpieces of world art, accompanied by enchanting music. Filmed in 4K in one take on the iPhone 11 Pro.
An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.
The film was shot about one of the most dramatic operations of the Alpha group. The plot is based on a real story, described in detail in one of the chapters of Alexey Filatov’s book “People A”. The story of Colonel Anatoly Savelyev. 1997. Winter. Moscow. Swedish Embassy. One terrorist and one hostage. This is not a movie about good or bad guys. Rather, this is a story about a hard fatum.
What do they all share in common? What are they searching for?
The only choice that we do not make ... is to be born or not. But this time everything turned out differently.
About who really loves jam.