This is concert film and at the same time film - opposition, where intersect autumn-winter landscapes of Kazakh steppe and world famous arias of classical opera - Puchini,Verdi, Glinka, Shuman, Brams.
On the early snow two strange women and one man are driving each other in a sledge, warming by the fire, flying on airplane, glazing sky-blue sheep, and in the same time singing with supernatural voices arias from classical, mainly romantic, opera. Actions of this musical film take place among ancient ruins, located in some abstract place of earth. In the center of narration - former actresses, who during their journey found among this ruins old piano and started to perform opera arias, accompanying each other on the instrument. Presenter is Renata Litvinova. This invisible to the whole world concert is accompanied with memories about scenic past - sad and amusing.
Cast: Renata Litvinova, Eriks Kurmangalijevs, Roza Dzamanova
Directed by Rustams Hamdamovs
Valya with a university degree gets the job in the police station, where during investigation experiments he has to imitate crime victims. Group of investigators, which consists of charismatic captain, ensign Luda with camera and rather stupid sergeant, daily takes out defendants to the places of the crimes, where is supposed to restore the whole picture of the tragedy. Additional madness to the situation brings criminals themselves: first threw out of the window own wife, second have drown his beloved in the pool, third for no apparent reason shouted at his friend in the Japan restaurant… naturally, all this investigations are organized for a show (the outcome of the case is prejudged, the criminal will be convicted), what creates the background of light nonsense.
Cast: Jurijs Chursins, Vitalijs Hajevs, Marats Basharovs, Anna Mihalkova, Lija Ahedzakova, Marina Goluba, Maksims Konovalovs
Directed by Kirils Serebrennikovs
977 - code number, concerned with attempt to "examine the harmony with algebra", to find the rules of mathematics in the emotional and mental sphere of the human beings. Movie heroes - voluntary members of an experiment - undergo not only scientific examinations, but also a number of quite life's trials with friendship, love, attraction, envy and "the strongest fit of passion" - curiosity. As a result scientific experiment turns into human, result - not predictable…
Cast: Fjodors Lavrovs, Klaudija Koršunova, Jekaterina Golubeva, Pāvels Ļubimcevs, Alise Hazanova, Andrejs Kazakovs, Olga Demidova, Sergejs Cepovs, Igors Ovčiņņikovs
Directed by Nikolajs Homeriki
20 years old Lenya lives in ordinary country town - there are a lot of such tows in Russia: town, which has only one kinder garden, one school and one factory. Therefore while man is growing up, he doesn't have to choose nor kinder garden, nor school, nor factory: everything is already defined. Lenya is ordinary boy: like other boys of his age, goes to discos to dance with girls, after fights with local hooligans. Everything is fine, because everything is clear.
Suddenly factory closed, and order leaves the main hero's life. For the first time he has to make choice - for the first time he seriously starts thinking, what he would really like to do in this world… Further life forms from sequence of meetings with different people. Lenya is seeking for a job, and without any difficulties gets the best variants, each of them provides future, prospects and new world: friends, teachers and geography.
But because of different, more casual, reasons Lenya doesn't agree to accept any of these jobs. Only a place of learner in the road worker brigade has interested him - too charming and unusual seemed brigadier Roslov. But idol appeared not so honest and fair proletarian…
Cast: Aleksandrs Jacenko, Darja Jekamasova , Jevģēnijs Sitijs, Pjotrs Zaičenko, Boriss Petrovs, Tagirs Rahimovs, Ņina Semjonova, Aleksejs Ošurkovs
Directed by Boriss Hļebnikovs
With the tragic demise of his twenties fast approaching, Michael gets a fistful of reality when his long-time girlfriend Jenna becomes pregnant. Toiling with the idea of settling in to a life of husbandry and fatherhood, Michael gets a surprise side order of confusion when an instant and irrefutable attraction forms between him and 18-year-old Kim. While Michael's best friends weigh their own responsibilities against the desire to take a trip to South America, Jenna's parents attempt to navigate the rough waters of their fatigued marriage. 'The Last Kiss' trails three generations of characters grappling with life's many ups and downs.
Cast: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston, Eric Christian Olsen
Directed by Tony Goldwyn
Confident and cocky, headstrong and handsome, Max Skinner is a successful London banker who specializes in trading bonds. A financial barracuda on the banks of the Thames, Max devours the competition in his efforts to conquer the European market. His latest conquest has netted a tidy seven-figure profit, much to the chagrin of his Saville Row-draped rivals. Max's triumph is in perfect keeping with his philosophy: winning isn't everything, it's the only thing!
Soon thereafter, Max receives word from France alerting him to sad news: his elderly Uncle Henry has passed away. Max, Henry's closest blood relative, is the sole beneficiary of his estate, which includes a Proven?al chateau and vineyard, La Siroque, where Henry cultivated grapes for over thirty years.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hollander
Directed by Ridley Scott
Police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) travels to the remote island of Summersisle to help his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan), find her missing daughter. There, Edward is drawn into a web of ancient traditions and murderous deceit, and each step he takes closer to the lost child brings him one step closer to the unspeakable. And one step closer to the Wicker Man.
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy
Directed by Neil LaBute
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
Two cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner), A.K.A. "The Black Dahlia"-an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public.
While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families--who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim.
Based on the best-selling crime novel by James Ellroy.
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner
Directed by Brian De Palma
A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water many miles from shore, with baby Sara left alone on board. Sara's mother Amy must contend with her aqua-phobia as well as the group's increasing desperation, as the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon the exhaustion of keeping afloat and the struggle to get back on board begin to take a terrible toll. The happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.
Cast: Eric Dane, Ali Hillis, Niklaus Lange, Susan May Pratt, Alexandra Raach, Wolfgang Raach, Cameron Richardson, Richard Speight Jr., Kelly Wagner
Directed by Hans Horn
In English with subtitiles in Lavian and Russian.
As the Maya kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young man chosen for sacrifice, flees the kingdom to avoid his fate.
Cast: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Raoul Trujillo
Directed by Mel Gibson
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Asia Argento, Rip Torn
Directed by Sofia Coppola
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, BREAKING AND ENTERING follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. When a landscape architect's state of the art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him out of the safety of his familiar world.
Cast: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone
Directed by Anthony Minghella