Strong Is The Seed

A small town is dealing with drought.

Four men meet up on the rooftop of an office block for an unusual suicide plan. Driven to the edge by problems and stresses, are going to jump off the roof in a protest against the miserable lives of men. They are in for a big surprise when two more unexpected "guests" with the same suicidal intent join them and share a man-to-man talk.

A film by the famous documentarian Tofik Shakhverdiyev about Valentin Dikul and his patients, strong people, strong in spirit, able to stand on their feet when there was no hope for it after an accident...

At the center of the story – a 12-year-old boy Fedya and his mother. In early childhood, Fedya suffered from severe meningitis and lost his hearing. But his mom was always there – seems that she’s able to carry the whole world on her shoulders and keep all the love of this world in her heart. A special role in the life of this family is given to the music teacher Aleksei Borozdin – thanks to his classes the deaf boy started talking and made it to study in a gymnasium.

Between love, loss and betrayal, three stories intersect to demonstrate our ability to overcome harsh situations.

A sensory, immersive composition takes us on a journey to a place that seems to have stopped in time but remains timeless. A female voice reads a mythological text on the origin of the world and sets the tone for a documentary-meditation on the presence of primeval elements – like water and flora – and their cohabitation with the natives, whose portraits intersperse the film. The stealthy camera follows a boat drifting across the calm waters of a river, as if the latter were the rings of a tree disclosing its history, in a movement that lulls us and drives us to the physical and metaphysical core. Finally, accompanied by an ancestral chant, the etching gives way to a sequence of images (which in turn emerge like a river reducing the field of action to the essential) and moves into a poetic terrain, summoning the imagination of each one.

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

A rich guy's driver who wants to help a poor girl who work in a cabaret introduces her as his master's fiance. She falls in love with the master without knowing his real identity. This leads all of them to face many funny adventures.

The first 'Strong Man' film.

Discovery of the Strahov stadium, the largest stadium in the world, where thousands of gymnasts gathered during the communist era. A wordless film that connects the past and the present of a grandiose location.

A a doc-poem about the woman’s body: dissident, desiring, deviant, empowered, sweaty, throbbing, survivor. On the scene, four artists who defy standards, subvert standards and poeticize their bodies in acts of resistance and transgression.

Bielecki (Gregori Chmara) becomes determined to become a famous writer, but the means he employs in achieving his goal are far from ethical. Bielecki discourages his friend Jerzy Gorski (Artur Socha) by telling him his new work is rather poor, driving him into despair. But Bielecki is such a good friend that he even provides Gorski with the morphine so he can overdose too. With Gorski out of the way, Bielecki can now peddle his friend's book as his own. However, it doesn't take long for Bielecki's evil ways to catch up to him.

A look at the positive lives led by young women in a remote Indigenous community, and how the younger generation has embraced a cultural shift while still proudly upholding their traditional culture.

The performance is based on the play of the same name by Ilya Ilf, and Yevgeny Petrov.

An early film by Vsevolod Meyerhold.