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Artdocfest
Artdocfest
March 25, 2020
Films about Vladimir Putin and Putin's time in Russia.
Outside in 2012. The agreed-upon rally on May 6 on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow is violently dispersed by riot police. This is a rally of those who disagree with the results of the presidential election, which Putin won. The protagonist of the film, an activist of the movement "Solidarity" Vsevolod Chernozub decides to stand on Bolotnaya to the end. Neither he nor the other participants in the rally have any idea how events will develop further. Seva is young and confident in the victory of a peaceful protest. He was one of the organizers of the first march on December 5, 2011 after the elections to the State Duma, from that day a wave of protests began in Moscow and Russia. Seva and his comrades are trying to figure out how to act now that so many people are chanting, "Fair elections!" They want to set up a tent city on Pushkinskaya Square the day after the presidential election and push society towards a peaceful regime change. This film is a nostalgia for those times when you could go out into the street and chant "Russia without Putin." This is an attempt to find in the recent past the answer to the main question of today.
Putin forever?
7
Kirill Nenashev
Russia, 2015
95 min
Russian
A film about modern Europe. About its two edges, or, more correctly, extremes. About Europe, which begins in the deserted space of Russian Siberia and ends on the cozy beaches of the Bay of Biscay, where even the laws of nature form fundamentally different styles of human existence. What can unite such different lives? Physically, they are united by the Western Siberia–Western Europe gas pipeline. The pipe not only connected, but also inextricably linked THIS Russia with THIS Europe. The film was awarded the National Film Award "Nika" - 2014, nomination Best Non-Fiction Film.
Pipeline
10
Vitaly Mansky
Russia, Czechia, Germany, 2013
116 min
Russian
English
Two people who came to work in Moscow met on a gravel pass. Sanya and Sparrow. One thirty-seven, the other nineteen. The problems started when they stopped paying salaries. Two lost souls lost at the bottom of life and an unexpected happy ending.
Sanya and Sparrow
10
Andrey Gryazev
Russia, 2009
61 min
Russian
Ten young directors spent two months with the camera. The result is chronicles of the protest winter 2011-2012. The film is about those who make a political agenda, and about those who are not satisfied with such an agenda. People, faces, conversations, rallies, victories and defeats on the eve of the presidential election. Live camera, live characters.
Winter, go away!
8
Aleksey Zhiryakov, Denis Klebleev, Dmitriy Kubasov, Askold Kurov, Nadezhda Leont'eva, Anna Moiseenko, Madina Mustafina, Zosya Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Elena Horeva
Russia, 2012
81 min
Russian
Dima was killed on the 23rd of May 2013 at the age of 21. Enlisted in the Russian army, he was shot in the head during a military operation in Dagestan. His parents face the void following his death, whilst the army continues to train young soldiers for future missions. The two universes intertwine to portray what Dima's life was like and its brutal end.
The Son
8
Alexander Abaturov
Russia, France, 2018
71 min
Russian
English
The events of the film begin on December 31, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new president. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation "successor", as a result of which Russia ended up with the president who still rules the country. The protagonists of the film are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian nation, as always being a silent witness of its own destiny.

Internet-premiere of the film took place on the 12th December 2018 at the Artdoc.Media online movie theatre.
Putin's Witnesses
10
Vitaly Mansky
Latvia, Switzerland, Czechia, 2018
104 min
Russian
English
A film about life, about death, about people who have come close to the border between the first and the second. And about love, the brightest manifestation of life.
Next resurrection
10
Oleg Morozov
Russia, 2008
88 min
Russian
Russian
According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."
Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach
10
Susanna Baranzhieva, Aleksandr Rastorguev, Vitaly Mansky
Russia, 2005
175 min
Russian
English
Imagine that everything you did before is no longer needed by anyone. Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Lyuda are top manager, shop manager, senior foreman, engineer, storekeeper and workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant. Likhachev. They hold on with all their might to routine and professional pride to endure in circumstances where everything around them is collapsing. And now, for the first time in 20 years, the plant receives an order from the Ministry of Defense to produce three classic ZIL convertibles for the Victory Parade on Red Square. Special Shop Director Mikhail and his team are excited to get down to business to prove their worth.
The last limousine
9
Darya Hlestkina
Russia, 2013
73 min
Russian
Irina Gora, without a roof over her head, at the age of 39 inadvertently gave birth to her friend's son. Vanka turned out to be smart. We have been observing him, eight years old, from the moment of his birth. A kaleidoscope of events: a zoo, marmons, a city bath. But everything in the life of mother and son turned Vanya's letter to Putin.
Kids and mothers
9
Aleksandr Rastorguev
Russia, 2007
92 min
Russian
The author defines the genre of the picture as a film novel. A very personal story of pride, betrayal, disappointment, and the beginning of a new life. Russia. 2007. Presidential elections are to be held exactly one year later. The political opposition is determined to take decisive action and dreams of taking power into its own hands. But politics in the film is just a background, an environment in which the main characters exist. The film is not about politics, but about people in politics and politics in people. For the heroes of the film (and they are, in fact, the archetypal characters of Russian history, carriers of the "virus" of the revolution), this year is a test and a starting point for a new life.
A revolution that never happened
9
Alena Polunina
Estonia, Finland, 2008
97 min
Russian
Since May 2012, for almost two years, directors Alexei Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev, and with them the best young documentary filmmakers have been following the most current events in Russia and posting short videos on the Internet almost every day. "Term" became an alternative to openly propaganda television reports and an experiment in the format of "documentary news", when the authors tried to see its living, human side in every significant event.
Term
8
Aleksey Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov, Aleksandr Rastorguev
Russia, Estonia, 2014
83 min
Russian
A story about a family that lives in a ghost town. 15 years ago there was a job and a happy life. After the closure of the mine, only old barracks, mountains of processed earth and unnecessary people who have lost the meaning of life remained. Is it possible to survive in such conditions and not sink even lower when all moral boundaries are erased? Have these people's hopes for happiness been shattered? And is there a place for a holiday, a dream, love in a hopeless reality?
Miner's day
9
Andrey Gryazev
Russia, 2010
62 min
Russian
Oleg Mavromatti's film is an absolutely new genre of audiovisual work. It is made entirely from Internet footage, but at the same time it has a very bright, very individual rhythm, peculiar only to Oleg, and a way of organizing the artistic fabric. The protagonist is a real person who tries to find himself in a virtual environment by publishing his video diaries. We see how his consciousness dissolves in the media space, in which there is no death, which means there is no life. This existential drama about human loneliness makes the viewer look inward and see the abyss of media propaganda. The tape was awarded as the Best Documentary at the National Film Festival of Debuts "Movement" -2015.
Fools don't belong here
8
Oleg Mavromatti
Russia, Bulgaria, USA, 2015
82 min
Russian
English
Oleg and Andrey are truck drivers who have spent most of their lives driving large trucks. After many years of working around the clock, they managed to build a business and solve material problems. They could do what they love and adequately provide for their families. When in November 2015 tolls were introduced in Russia on all federal highways for heavy trucks, the life of drivers changed dramatically. The charging system was called “Platon” (“fee per ton”). Late at night, Andrei and Oleg, along with other truckers, left St. Petersburg for Moscow to cancel this system.
Chronicles of an unhappened revolution
8
Konstantin Selin
Russia, 2016
82 min
Russian
Anton is 12 years old. He lives with his grandmother in a little house outside Moscow. He spends his holidays with his pals or just plays around with his babushka, who lovingly teases him back. Those carefree days of summer vanish when he goes off to a military training camp, like most Russian children do, where we find him armed and in uniform…
Summer with Anton
8
Jasna Krajinovic
Belgium, 2012
61 min
Russian
English
At the peak of perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction period, the last and most grandiose museum of the Leader was opened. Soon after the opening, there was a change in ideology, and the flow of pilgrims gradually dried up. Despite this, the museum is still in operation and management is looking for ways to attract visitors. The curators of the museum, loyal to Lenin, are doing their best to resist the advance of commercialization. The film "Leninland" tells about the modern life of this amazing museum-reserve and its employees.
Leninland
8
Askold Kurov
Russia, 2013
52 min
Russian
English
The Wall
8
Dmitriy Bogolyubov
Russia, 2017
43 min
Russian
English
In the spring of 2017, after the release of the film by Alexei Navalny and FBK “He is not Dimon to you” about Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, many young people and schoolchildren joined the next protests. Young people have become the driving force behind Navalny's presidential campaign. It was they who actively participated in the creation of a regional network of political headquarters, subjected to pressure from the state. In the first episode of the film "The Age of Dissent" there are stories of three young supporters of Navalny, whom the local authorities have declared war on.
Age of disagreement
9
Andrey Loshak
Russia, 2018
35 min
Russian
The battle for Donetsk Airport (May 2014 - January 2015) through the warriors's eyes of both sides. The humans behind the battle. The Donetsk Airport, Ukraine. Rebuilt in 2012, but now a scene of utter devastation - shortly after Russian-backed separatists have taken it over. Weaving together the voices of fighters on both sides supported by battle video, we tell an unvarnished story of war through the eyes of those who were there. The desperate fight for an airport whose capture seems more symbolic than strategic, they also show how human nature can adapt - in sometimes disturbing ways - when one's life is on the line.
Airport Donetsk
9
Andrey Erastov, Shahida Tulaganova
USA, 2015
36 min
Ukrainian, Russian
English

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