Alexei Aigui

Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)

George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck interweaves clips, readings from Orwell's diary, cinematic references, and m ...

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole's 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole's own writings, the stor ...

Auction (2024)

André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger. ...

The House Ghost (2024)

Two orphans move from their native village to the house of their adoptive parents. But their hope for a happy life fades away, when they are challenged by an ancient otherworldly force. ...

Silver Dollar Road (2023)

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep ...

Montevideo Unit (2023)

A film about the drama of a talented doctor who fell into a chain of tragic accidents - the death of his wife, psychological trauma that led to the loss of his voice, imprisonment, his daughter's drug addiction and a suicide attempt - but who found the str ...

A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. (2023)

A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important milestones of cinema. Its introduction as a lowbrow entertainment, t ...

The Anger (2023)

In post-war Lebanon, Ida, a young Lebanese girl, flees her small village and her alcoholic mother and goes to the big city. There, she starts dating a European man not knowing what is in store for her. ...

The Adventures of Chuck and Huck (2022)

Two friendly but mischievous brothers Chuk and Gek live with their loving mother in Moscow and miss their father, who works far in the North. Deciding to meet the upcoming New Year together at all costs, they set off on an exciting journey to the mysteriou ...

First Oscar (2022)

The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another s ...

Gogol-mogol (2021)

An adult man, forced to sacrifice communication with his family for the sake of success at work, invites his mother to a restaurant - to take a break from the hustle and bustle, chat with a loved one and finally get out of the state of permanent stress. Bu ...

White Snow (2020)

An inspiring biopic about the legendary skier Elena Vyalbe. Born in a small town in the north of Russia, she had the courage and dedication to overcome a slew of obstacles on her way to becoming the very best in her sport. The film captures a historic skii ...

Prisoner in Kimono (2020)

More than 70 years have passed since the end of world war II, but a peace Treaty has not yet been signed between Russia and Japan. While the diplomats decide, ordinary citizens will hold their peace talks: the Russian, the granddaughter of the head of the ...

The Cardboard Pier (2020)

Back to the Sarmatian Steppe (2020)

A mosaic of unusual destinies of our contemporaries. People shoot, speed forward in Jeeps, gallop on horseback… Strong men and beautiful women, enmity and quest for one's roots… And all this amidst the beautiful and impressive nature: the steppes of Or ...

Good As New (2020)

Found unconscious and robbed on a beach in Thailand, 70-year old Xenophon only knows his own name because it was engraved on his old Soviet watch. He's been left with no money and no identification…and he doesn't speak a word of Thai. But Xenophon is a r ...

The Lenin Factor (2019)

Having dedicated his life to the preparation of the revolution in the Russian Empire, Vladimir Lenin, living in exile in Switzerland, desperately seeks a way back to Russia to take control. Options are few when Lenin receives an offer from Alexander Parvus ...

The Truth (2019)

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will qu ...

Pilgrim (2018)

In Mira's life, everything is wonderful: she is the owner of a fashion gallery, at home a loving husband awaits. But once on the seashore, a man with amnesia is found who remembers her name. No one knows who he is. It is not in any database. But he knows s ...

Aftertaste (2018)

Moscow. The night on the Eve of 1947. The war veteran Victor is going to a girl that he loves. The day earlier he was unloading railroad cars to buy a nice present for Helya. Helya is from Poland, a student of the Moscow Conservatoire. Victor and Helya wil ...

Who Left the Light… (2018)

The film "Who left the Light ..." is dedicated to the memory of theater director, theater and film actor Vladimir Ageev. He has been called "the main alchemist of modern filmmaking." A student of Anatoly Vasiliev, Vladimir Ageev paved his own path in art. ...

Mot Ne (2017)

Based on a real case in Siberia, a woman lost in the taiga is forced to wander with several families engaged in hunting. ...

Double Life. A Short History of Sex in the USSR (2017)

When Lyudmila Ivanova made her infamous claim during a US-Soviet TV programme in 1986 that 'There is no sex in the USSR!', her comment – although roundly mocked at the time – revealed a certain truth about Soviet attitudes towards sex and the ways in w ...

The Secret (2017)

Everybody has a secret. Two young sisters abandoned by their mother. A strange woman sleeping on their couch. A sinister fugitive hiding in their barn. FBI agents snooping around. And the world seems to be coming to an end - with a bang, not a whimper. Yes ...

The Young Karl Marx (2017)

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last pi ...

I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

Working from the text of James Baldwin's unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States. ...

Orleans (2015)

Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by ...

The Cage (2015)

They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor ...

Back in the 1945th... Meetings on the Elbe (2015)

The main character of the film, Lieutenant Yuri Nikitin, despite his young age, is appointed commandant of the small town of Jericho on the Elbe. At the same time, Nikitin must take on quite serious responsibilities for improving life in the town. The four ...

Calculator (2014)

Ten prisoners condemned to exile on a hostile planet XT-59 must pave the way through swamp to reach the Islands of Happiness, the only safe area on the planet, before the harsh climate or the underground horrors kill them all. ...

Test (2014)

Set in 1949 on a remote farm near a nuclear testing site, Dina is living a quiet, unremarkable life with her father until two suitors enter her life. ...

Locust (2014)

The innocent summer affair began as a love story between two young people. Lera and Artem could not break it off, as well as they didn`t have enough of faith, patience and desire to overcome all the obstacles on their life path. The Locust Generation wants ...

The Last One (2014)

The old man outlived everyone. His friends, wife, children. But he wasn't lonely. An old fridge buzzed hoarsely in the corridor, and - substituted for friends and family. Every evening he lay down to die. Waking up the next morning he shambled to the fridg ...

The Translator (2014)

WWII mini-series ...

Mirrors (2014)

The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia, then in immigration in Prague and Paris, and then her return to Russia where she committed a suicide a few m ...

Chagall-Malevich (2014)

The film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall's images, but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying o ...

Dubrovsky (2014)

A modern take on the classic novel by Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir is a successful banker and a regular at trendy night clubs. Masha is a diligent graduate of a British college and a loving daughter. It looks like they have bright future ahead. However, an ...

Fatal Assistance (2013)

Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. ...

Bullet Collector (2012)

A haunting, violent tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is visual, nightmarish masterpiece. A shy 14-year-old boy, disconnected from home life and school, and sent to a hellish reform school, eventually lashes out on the injustices ...

Looking for Hortense (2012)

Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva, who orders him to ask his ...

Rondo (2012)

Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, decides ...

The Horde (2012)

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price o ...

And There Was No Better Brother (2011)

This story of two temperamentally different brothers takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku during the 1970s. The elder brother Jalil is a married postal worker who keeps bees as a hobby. Younger brother Simurg is more adventurous by nature and cap ...

From Tokyo (2011)

This film is a very short story about a former rescue worker returning from Tokyo – a man who is quite successful in his everyday life, and who, after hearing about another earthquake in Japan, dropped everything and went there to help. He is flying back ...

Connected by Time (2010)

An unbelievable story about love which survived the horrors of WWII and a time abyss of 67 years. ...

Moloch Tropical (2009)

In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. B ...

The Last Day of Bulkin I.S. (2009)

The last day of Ivan Bulkin's life has come. Death is at his front door and wants him to confirm with his signature that he was satisfied with his life. But Bulkin thinks he can trick the grim reaper and cheat death. ...

Stradivarius Pistol (2009)

Odesa businessman Marfela blackmails a visiting young man, Nikita, into taking on a job that he considers pure pleasure: he must compromise his wife so that Marfela can divorce her and inherit his dying brother's billions without any losses. Nikita seduces ...

The Quiet Family Life (2008)

The Celestial Country (2008)

Young pupils of the Kovalevsky Orthodox Orphanage must fulfill the mission, on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, serve the Divine Liturgy on Mount Elbrus. The chronicle of the ascent unfolds against the backdrop of the lives of boys in an Orthodo ...

Very Russian Detective (2008)

A retired detective is trying to catch a serial killer who uses Russian letters to find his victims. ...

Nude (2008)

Some people collect family albums. Sarmīte Sīle, an accomplished arts scholar, takes a nude photo of herself every ten years. Behind this unique series of nude photos that span a lifetime, is her story. ...

Wild Field (2008)

A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ... ...

The Great Alibi (2008)

Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, ...

Open Air (2007)

Three young people find themselves stranded in the taiga without any means of subsistence and, most importantly, without "vint"—a drug without which they cannot imagine their lives. This forced journey through the taiga becomes for each of them a struggl ...

My Kieslowski (2006)

The Wedding Chest (2005)

Aïdar, a young Kyrgyz man returns home from his studies in France, with a beautiful French fiancée in tow. His fiancée is warmly welcomed by the village and captivated by the beauty of the region, but he stubbornly refuses to tell his family that the tw ...

Ragin (2004)

Based on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself. ...

Mars (2004)

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One ...

My Step Brother Frankenstein (2004)

One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. Krymov denies this, but out of compassion he helps arrange a necessary operation for Pavel. Then certain t ...

The Lover (2002)

This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya's attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn't really know her. ...

Private Chronicles: Monologue (1999)

The collective life of the generation born as Jurij Gagarin became the first man in space. Vitaly Mansky has woven together a fictional biography – taken from over 5.000 hours of film material, and 20.000 still pictures made for home use. A moving docume ...

Retro Threesome (1998)

Set in contemporary Moscow, this comedy drama from 72-year-old director Pyotr Todorovsky is a remake of Abram Room's controversial silent film Bed and Sofa (1927). Actor Sergei leaves his wife and drops in on friend Kostya, married to Rita. Rita and Sergei ...

Country of the Deaf (1998)

Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return sh ...

A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. (2023)

A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important milestones of cinema. Its introduction as a lowbrow entertainment, t ...

The Truth (2019)

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will qu ...