Alyona Babenko

A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.

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Retired border guard Sergei Markov, searching for his missing daughter, returns to the border where he served in his youth. To get his daughter back, he must unravel a tangled web of questions and confront the ghosts of the past: crime, revenge, and his own mistakes, which can only be corrected by returning to the beginning—the mountains.

A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women, football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?

Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.

Blockade Leningrad, December 31. In the country house of the Resurrection, living "in a special situation," six people and a chicken gather, who no one can cook. Previously, the cook was engaged in this, but the Voskresenskys were taken away from her on the eve - hard times came on the outside, and the situation is also difficult inside: the youngest son brought a hungry girl, the eldest daughter of an unknown man for whom she is going to marry. Before the New Year there are few minutes left, and the number of problems grows snowball.

Arina is young, reach and independent woman. She's married to a wealthy businessman. But deep inside she's still looking for a true love.

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.

After the cremation of his beloved dog, Savva is heartbroken. On his way home, he drops the box on a stenciled inscription on the pavement. Thinking that it is a sign from his dead friend, he calls the number on the inscription. Soon, a prostitute Anya appears on his doorstep. Anya deceives him and steals the box, thinking that it contains jewelry. Savva calls the number again and goes to the address. In the brothel, Savva finds the box, defeats his offenders, but now Anya is in danger. He saves her, she runs after him and asks for forgiveness. Villainous bullets overtake both - but Savva is saved by the box ... And Savva himself must save Anya.

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The Photographer is an elusive serial killer operating in modern-day Moscow. He leaves numbered tiles at the scenes of his crimes, similar to those placed at crime scenes by forensic teams. The investigation points to the old Red Army barracks in Legnica, and to events dating back to the 1970s. One of the people involved in the investigation is Natasha - the only person to have survived an encounter with The Photographer.

Young, unmarried, a successful surgeon, Dmitry Gorin, on the advice of his sister invites a friend for a date. Attractive teacher, beautiful creation Ana Svetlova loses control of herself under the influence of alcohol and the date turns into a nightmare.

Dina, a former figure skating star, works as a coach in a boarding school for problematic children when she meets Lada - a new and very talented girl.

An ambitious personal growth coach, author of the Predator Psychology manual, unexpectedly finds himself drawn into a confrontation with a millionaire who wants to demolish the garage complex where he keeps his Jaguar. Now he has to prove in practice to the people who believe in him that he is capable of leading them into battle. Called a predator - be ready to show your teeth. A game without rules begins, where kidnapping, blackmail, forgery ... and a giant St. Bernard are used. Problems snowball into a cascade of comedic emergencies.

Since childhood, the main character falls in love with football and dreams of becoming a great footballer to play his most important match. Following his dream, he has to abandon his beloved girl and choose the path of a football player. And now, when there is only one step to the cherished dream, fate disposes of it in another way. The world ceases to exist, because he not only loses the opportunity to realize his dream, but also loses his loved ones. How not to break, follow your dream and return your beloved? Or she will not reconcile with his choice to become a football player?

A story about a provincial theater, where the main character is trying to understand his relationships with his wife, colleagues and his own life.

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.

A young woman Irina, a businesswoman, brings up her 10-year-old son Kirill alone. And everything seems to be good: there is money, an apartment in the center, the son studies in college.... But the boy catastrophically lacks a father. He envies his peers who have a father and suffers a lot....

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

The life of a woman suddenly changes after she meets a mysterious girl on a highway in the night.

Sveta, her two children and stepfather Semen solemnly celebrate the birthday of the hero-submariner Victor - the first husband of Sveta, who went missing five years ago. Right during a toast to the birthday boy, he unexpectedly returns home and claims that all this time he was fulfilling the task of the Motherland.

Little girl Sveta Orlova dreams that her parents will improve their relationship. On New Year's Eve, she makes a wish to Santa Claus, whom she met completely by chance, although in fact it was a swindler dressed in a festive suit - the unlucky swindler Myshkin. Nevertheless, he gives his word of honor to a casual acquaintance that the girl will celebrate the New Year with her parents. Now she expects her wish to come true.

A story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director.

Lyrical comedy about a strange woman. The film begins with the heroine's heavy, hungover morning, after a small lonely holiday the day before. The heroine wakes up, with a habitual gesture turns on the old tape recorder with Boyarsky's cassette, dances and tidies up to the music. Suddenly she realizes that she threw something very important and valuable along with the trash. In a panic, she rushes in pursuit of garbage (garbage truck), meeting other heroes along the way. This is a dynamic and fun road movie with intrigue and unusual, lyrical and deep denouement.

Father Frost decides to quit his profession in order to live for himself in his old age. Having relinquished his powers, he leaves Veliky Ustyug for Moscow, goes on a rampage, finds new friends and falls in love for the first time. Attempts to bring the old man to his senses and return him to his normal life by his family - Mother Winter, Stuzha, Metelitsa and Buran - end in failure. This new stage of his life is recorded by a group of documentary filmmakers, and no one suspects what will happen when Father Frost loses his magical powers...

The volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people.

Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world of ballet will not be easy for a man who has made so many enemies over the course of his life.

Sasha, Pasha and Lesha meet at a therapy course for men traumatized by women. Yes, there are some, because in the world of strong women, many men have lost themselves. But our heroes do not want to be victims, they decide to "go on the warpath" and restore justice. One problem - they are still slobs.

Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be not real persons, but phantoms, created by his consciousness. Fantomness, dematerialization of things that are obvious for common sense brings the author to the next stage of thinking - that the illusion of fear is also fruit of our imagination.

A chance meeting between the main characters takes place at the train station at the moment of seeing their families off on vacation. And love! But three weeks fly by like a blink of an eye. The wife and daughter return to Pasha, the husband and son - to Masha. What to do?

Veselchaki is a movie centered on a Moscow nightclub owned by Rosa; he performs as part of the drag revue in the club. The movie starts with five cross-dressing men sharing their stories with a reporter.

The plot is based on a conversation between two women - an adult and a very young one. Both women are filled with claims against each other. But what is hidden behind this, what relationships connect them? In the dialogue, the woman simultaneously tries to escape from the truth and find the truth.

The main characters, or rather the heroines, were 13-year-old girls. Different in character, in social status, they are in love with the same guy - a musician by profession, a rising star of local importance. After one of the concerts, his car is stolen. From this moment, dramatic events develop in the life of our heroes.

The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.

In this movie we follow fate not a person but car: first Soviet Lada. It starts with Brezhnev daughter and then gradually moves on parallel to last years of USSR into wild after-perestroika years with bandits and newly born oligarchs.

And it was glorious Vityaz Borispol prediction that he would have a son who will be a great warrior and save Russia from the great affliction. But, as always, everything turned out the opposite: the hero was born ... my daughter. And salvation of Russia has not been canceled. How to fight the enemy, when he had three heads, each with its flourishes?

Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre’s first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play about a family whose members have ceased to understand each other. While working on the play, the director and actors become more and more like the characters in the future production, and find it increasingly difficult to find mutual understanding within their “theatrical family.”

Masha's son loses a tooth. Masha goes to pawn the ring to get cash and put a thousand rubles under her son’s pillow. Having learned why Masha needs money, the pawnbroker is ready to give the treasured thousand for a baby tooth.

Sasha and Ira have been married for a long time. During the years of marriage their passions subsided, the romance went away, and even the celebration of the thirteenth anniversary of married life turned into a very ordinary event with ridiculous gifts. Iraq meets Gosha - his student love. Unlike Sasha, Gosh pulled himself up. Feelings flare up with a new force.

Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Marina (Alyona Babenko) is a journalist contemplating retiring, bored of writing stories of serial killers and murders that are front page news one day, and then are quickly forgotten the next. At a large house a lawyer is holed up, police are in the front garden, snipers on the roof and the lawyer asks for Marina. She’s a little surprised by this as she and the lawyer have only crossed paths a few times during her career, but agrees to go to the lawyers house. Arriving at the house she’s confronted by the large police presence, she’s given a quick debrief of the situation and requested not to go into the house. She declines and enters the house. Just inside the front door is the lawyers wife, she tell Marina that he’s lost it and locked the children in their rooms and that he’s going to kill them all.

Three young Russian families go for winter vacations to an unnamed exotic country, intending to rent a beach condo. However due to numerous comedic obstacles they never make it to the beach, staying at the hotel for the entire trip.

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Four stories about human relationships and the difficult choices that people's lives depend on.

Near future. A military nurse is taking her wounded husband to safety. But a call from orbital command forces her to make some very tough choices...

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A lyrical serene drama dedicated to love and loneliness

Our life is music. But the question remains: will we have enough time to play it till the end...Formerly famous pianist is terminally ill. Her grownup children have to face a tormenting dilemma: should they torture their mother with the treatment or let go...

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