Movies: Tikhon Pendurin

All day long the TV shows an ice-hole. Ice-holes are the theme of the day, a winter tradition that unites believers and sportsmen, stars and walruses, the president and the unemployed. In the centre of the news reports are the topics of Baptism, fis...

The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov....

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circum...

Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s ...

The group studies and performs karachay-balkarian folklore. Gollu is a traditional dance for vernal equinox. The band's name is a metaphor because just like spring is the time for revival, Gollu revive, reinterpret and develop traditional culture of ...

The last concert of "Grazhdanskaya Oborona", held on February 9, 2008 in Yekaterinburg....

An avant-garde adaptation of the play by Georg Buchner about the last days of the Dantonists, representatives of the right wing of the Jacobins during the French Revolution. The director freely experiment with form and content, draws parallels with ...

After getting into a hidden from tourists village Kyus Lera will be charmed by the powerful stream of the river Katun', endless green mountains and of course fascinating types of throat signing, which is practised by Kezer Danzheev and Ezendey Balbin...

Passengers of a fixed-route taxi are in the power of one person, who intends to solve their problems with their help....

Sergey "Pakhom" Pakhomov, an actor, psychic and cultural figure, let's say, of a broad profile, celebrated his 50th anniversary by making a pilgrimage from the beginning to the end of Tverskaya Street and back 50 times....

A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking fo...

Ethnofuturist Artists from finno-ugric shaman orchestra UMPU make absolutely unique instruments by themselves. Their concerts are more than performance. It's ritual. Finno-ugric shaman orchestra UMPU work with mythology and symbols of their native cu...

Two beautiful girls, a lake, trees, and an elderly gentleman casually fishing. What happens if the girls go mermaid? Sergei Solovyov himself plays the man too old to care for the strange ideas of some gorgeous nymphs. A cinematic bagatelle by a direc...

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The host of the episode Serafima together with the Y EN will visit the repetition of their band in the studio located in Yoshkar-Ola then drive on a Zhiguli to the village Oshlamuchash, meditate during the boat trip and improvise on a birch bark with...

Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. While often described as ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring. The film is supposed to be the first one dedicated to music as an instrument for death explorati...

This is meeting with vainakh underground from probably one of the most conservative region of North Caucasus. This is a story about young people for whom it's important not to loose connection with their culture and nation. This is a story about desi...

Thanks to the leader of qaynar Radif Kashapov the host of the film Lera will open Kazan from a new side. They will take a walk along the embankment of river Kazanka, visit the national library of the republic of Tatarstan, go deep into the history of...

Meeting with the buryat rapper Bair Tarbaev and his project LUTAAR. Bair takes the host of the episode to his native ulus Sanaga, tells her all about nearby mountains' names and shows a religious service in datsan.We will see not only beautiful burya...

Meeting ethno-electropunk band HAGRIN from Kalmykia and going on a journey in Dark Steppe. But also it's a rave at the dawn, singing sands, burning water, kamlanie, mantras and beats. Journey begins with Kalmyk tale about wise Kooky, who wished to re...