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NIKITA AND NIKITA by Maria Tyulyaeva
Nikita and Nikita is a documentary about 8-years-old boy Nikita, who is suffering from cerebral paralysis. He goes to the swimming pool to learn high diving. Nikita trains hard and jumps from 1-, 3-, 5- and 7m platform and even shows his achievement at a competition. Once it was the day to dive from 10m. A lot of adults came to see the jump, but Nikita didn't. And the prepared prize - railroad - was given to another boy who made his first dive. Duration 17 minutes.
HERBARIUM by Natalia Meschaninova
Beauty contest in the retirement home? “Horror! – you would say. – They barely breathe”. Not at all! Who said that womanhood, beauty and eye shine die before their owners do? Everybody thinks their only consolation are shelves with drugs. But it is revealed that among these shelves the eternal women steel is hidden. And the old ladies manage it very good. 55 minutes.
– Intermission 15 min. –
MOSCOW by Bakur Bakuradze and Dmitriy Mamuliya
Few days of life of one Kirghiz family. Nurik works as an odd-job man in the building. His elder brother Mansur is jobless. Mukhabbat tries to help them to solve their problems. The scene of action in this fiction movie is Moscow. Duration 13 minutes.
GER by Aleksei Kljukin
Two young men support national socialism. They identify themselves as skinheads and they practise paganism. The one with more experience even has a pagan name, Ogneyar (Kokko). He leads his friend to a deserted village, the home of Dobroslav (Hyvärinen), the ideological leader of Russian pagans. The younger skinhead is also going to take up a pagan name. On their way to the village, the men talk about how they ended up joining national socialists and pagans, and how other people see their conviction. In the village Dobroslav welcomes the guests and organises an initiation ceremony. In the rite, the younger man is given a new name, Tverdoslav (Kovanen). Duration 13 minutes.
KINOTEATR.DOC project unites young generation of Russian filmmakers and presents cinema that truly expresses today’s life, opens new heroes and new topics. In their opinion, “new naturalism”, as critics sometimes call direction chosen by KINOTEATR.DOC, should return sight its objectivity and emotions their sincerity. KINOTEATR.DOC hosts annually one of the largest independent documentary and feature film festivals in Russia and the only one in Moscow. KINOTEATR.DOC for the first time in Russia started the edition of documentary films of Russian young filmmakers on DVD. ”In the time when the whole world is becoming a supermarket we want to stand for the idea of a country shop where it is also possible to combine hammer, sponge and milk but where the assortment is determined by the desired of a customer and is not intruded by total manipulations.”
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