Boris Khlebnikov

This Summer Will End

A young man named Kesha returns to his village after a long absence. He has completed a prison term but now simply wants to live a quiet, normal life. His younger brother, only 17, has plans for college. However, the brothers’ perspectives on the future shift dramatically when Kesha joins a gold-mining crew.

Release Date:2025-02-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Snowflakes in my Yard

It would seem that nothing connects them: Givi is a film director with his family, Levan is a loner living like a homeless man. But they have something in common — their childhood memories. They begin to communicate by correspondence again and help each other. Levan opens up to a friend from an unexpected side, and Givi gets the opportunity to return to his hometown.

Release Date:2025-01-30

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Wife to Be

The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matriarchal—men are present but play secondary roles. The film’s space is filled with rituals: fortune-telling, herb gathering, and bathing. Here, the sacred is intertwined with the mundane. The daughters follow the life paths of their mother, who once traced the steps of the older women in the family.

Release Date:2024-10-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

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Release Date:2024-01-17

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

I Won't Tell

On New Year's Eve, Pavel mistakenly takes someone else's coat, in which he finds expensive jewelry. At home, he realizes that his daughter's letter to Santa Claus remains in the pocket of his lost coat. The father of the family, together with his wife, is trying to find out what exactly the girl wished for. But six-year-old Varya is afraid to talk about her dream, otherwise it won't come true. In order to preserve the child's faith in miracles, parents will have to find a letter that was lost in the vast city of Moscow, and at the same time return the found gift.

Release Date:2024-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

Goddess Like Me

The naive school teacher Lena suddenly loses both her job and her husband. "The problem is definitely in me," she decides, and on the advice of a friend, she signs up to reshape herself for the "Become a Goddess" training. The result is obvious: a new image and a loving admirer Andrey. It's just not clear whether Lena managed to find herself, and whether something very important was lost in the process.

Release Date:2023-09-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:15

Three Minutes of Silence

When two spoiled hipsters embark on the rusty trawler for a summer internship, they get much more than what they bargained for. This shabby boat is the floating home of a dozen weary and irritable sailors, whose only priority is making money and not getting killed in the process. Ice-cold waves, incredibly beautiful but severe seascapes, hard labour and tons of stinking fish is the daily menu. The sea is unpredictable, and the upcoming storm is not the main test that awaits the ship’s crew. Their trip to sea, however, turns out to be more serious and more tragic than either of them could have imagined.

Release Date:2023-06-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

Fishing

To celebrate his return to freedom on parole, Oleg invites his older brother Viktor to go fishing. The peasants take their young sons for company — and an innocent expedition turns into unpredictable consequences.

Release Date:2022-08-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Unreality

About a former reality TV star who, after 10 years of living "on TV", is forced to return to her native provincial town and start a new life.

Release Date:2022-04-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:2

Family

About the life of different generations of one big family. Timofey and Yulia are raising two children, Vadik and Olya are just preparing for the arrival of their first child, and teenager Pasha lives with his parents and begins to taste adult life. All of them face problems and experience joys that make up the life of a family.

Release Date:2022-04-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:1

The Assault

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.

Release Date:2022-01-26

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:7

Sunny Line

Christmas night. Married couple. All the guests have left and it’s time to dig into the marriage relationships – do husband and wife still love each other or not? If they have ever loved at all… Are they telling the truth or are they lying? Can they forgive and forget? Should they stay together or get divorced?

Release Date:2022-01-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

The Kidney

An employee of the fire department - a manipulator and a bribe-taker - is trying to get herself a kidney for a transplant. But this is not easy to do, since she lived her life in such a way that no one wants to help her.

Release Date:2022-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:18

Vote Count:23

My Mom's Penguins

This is a story about commitment and dedication to one's talent which resonates with the difficult topic of the mother's love deficit that is relevant for many.

Release Date:2021-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Creative Producer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:8

Nuuccha

In late nineteenth-century Yakutia, Habji and his wife Keremes have just buried their second child, and are preparing for a harsh winter of famine. Instead of giving them the help he promised, the local prince foists a Russian convict, Kostya, on the family, who the law decrees must live in the same house as them. They initially struggle to find a common language, and the convict soon decides that he will be the master of the house from now on.

Release Date:2021-08-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Survivors

The series takes place in a small Russian town where a deadly virus appears. Most of the inhabitants die, only a few people remain alive, who are affected by sleeping sickness: people cannot wake up on their own, and after two hours of sleep they fall into a coma.

Release Date:2021-08-12

Department:Writing

Job:Creative Producer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:19

And That’s It

A pandemic has ravaged the world outside. Julia and Volodya are a couple that suffers from Coronaphobia by taking the safety measurements far too seriously. After anticipating all the possible scenarios and doing breathing exercises, the couple reluctantly goes out to the street, a place, in Volodya’s own words, “full of COVID bastards”. Armored and hysterically, the couple arrives at an ordinary supermarket. Almost turning against each other, their suspicion is translated into episodes of excessive outrages against the local shoppers who, according to the couple, are painfully and inconsiderably carefree. Their mission seems to be a success until they encounter an unmasked shopper. From then on, things go downhill for the main characters.

Release Date:2020-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Storm

Respected police detective Gradov reluctantly turns to crime to find the money to pay for his terminally ill wife’s urgent medical treatment. During an investigation into a string of crimes Gradov begins to fall under suspicion, his colleague Osokin becomes convinced of his guilt and determined to expose him. But Gradov has already sacrificed his integrity and knows that he will stop at nothing to save his wife.

Release Date:2019-09-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:6

Polina and Andrey

A short film by the famous Russian director, winner of the Kinotavr Boris Khlebnikov, specially shot for the charity auction Action! 2018.

Release Date:2018-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

An Ordinary Woman

Marina is in her late 30s, she has a successful business and a close-knit family. Her husband is a surgeon and her daughters study at fancy establishments. To everybody her life seems perfect. Though, it is all just a facade concealing the real problems: her husband has a mistress, her elder daughter is a slacker and drug-dealer, her youngest is a sociopath. Well, Marina herself is not really a flower-lady, but a brothel-keeper who is hiding her dark business from everyone. The truth may come out when a girl of Marina’s is found dead.

Release Date:2018-10-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:15

Core of the World

Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.

Release Date:2018-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

The Thick Woman

Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

Release Date:2017-12-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Arrhythmia

Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.

Release Date:2017-10-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:140

vDud

Yury Dud interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and businesspeople.

Release Date:2017-02-07

Character:Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

The Day Before

Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was just announced by all communication sources: the end cannot be avoided. Moreover, it will happen tomorrow. There is one day left until... People of different classes, nationalities and faiths in different parts of a large country - each in their own way - are trying to spend this last day of their lives.

Release Date:2016-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Tanya and Masha

The story is about a telephone altercation between two pensioners who were close friends in their youth.

Release Date:2015-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Concerned

Realizing that something needs to change in life, a simple girl Sasha Gvozdikova leaves Yekaterinburg for Moscow, abandoning a boring job and a married lover. She writes short stories and dreams of getting them published, but overestimates her writing talent. Together with Sasha, two of her best friends from Yekaterinburg, Katya and Alyona, live in Moscow. The plot of the story revolves around three heroines who are trying to find themselves in metropolitan life and in relationships.

Release Date:2015-11-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:21

I Don't Believe in Anarchy

The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.

Release Date:2014-11-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:8

A Long and Happy Life

Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with Anya, a secretary at the local government office. But then Sascha is suddenly faced with a dilemma: the district’s self-seeking administrators, none of whom could be termed squeamish, offer him a lucrative deal for the farm. In legal terms, Sascha doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on since his lease on the farm was only agreed with a handshake. The pressure mounts, and even more so when his employees convince him to stand firm. Against the backdrop of a landscape exposed to the elements, this unflinching man’s destiny takes its course.

Release Date:2013-04-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

Till Night Do Us Part

A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.

Release Date:2012-10-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

There's No Hurry

Every year, 25,000 people die on Russian roads. You could say a whole city is disappearing from our planet. And about a third of its "residents" were involved in an accident due to speeding. Many drivers do not consider acceleration even at 30 km / h a violation, but statistics show that they are wrong. Five different stories combined in movie almanacs will make every viewer, at least, think about the right choice of speed. Both on the road and in life.

Release Date:2012-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Two Days

A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.

Release Date:2011-09-08

Vote Count:21

Crush

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

Release Date:2009-11-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

Help Gone Mad

Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings. Criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from companions and leaves him alone without money and documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and he is about to end as a homeless bum.

Release Date:2009-02-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

He's Gone

Oleg lives in a small Belarusian village with his wife, three children, and his in-laws. He has practiced more than one trade: ensign, tractor driver, technician at a local school... Then he decides to leave for Moscow to earn extra money: the life of many people compels them to do this (it is always better here we are not). Yet, what reason has Oleg? A closer acquaintance with the life that remains behind in Belarus provides an unexpected answer to this question.

Release Date:2007-06-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Diaspora

A series of documentary feature films.

Release Date:2006-07-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Free Floating

"Free Floating" is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad from an ordinary provincial town like many in Russia, with just one kindergarten, one school, one factory. As a result, one grows up here never facing the alternative as to what to choose, for everything is preordained. Leonid is an ordinary lad who, like his peers, goes to discos, dances with girls and picks fights with the local riff-raff later. Everything is going well for him, as his life is totally predictable. But one day the factory closes down and he becomes disoriented. For the first time ever, he is to make a choice on his own and think seriously about what he would like to do...

Release Date:2006-06-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

Roads to Koktebel

A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.

Release Date:2003-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:25

The School for Scandal

A talk show

Release Date:2002-10-02

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Mikhail Boulgakov. Black Snow

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov lived in the era of wars and revolutions. History became a co-author of his works, and the difficult attitude of the authorities had a strong influence on his creative destiny. In Bulgakov's books, there was a place for Russian history, earthly and unearthly love, satire, and the tragedy of a creative personality. About all this – in the author's program of Anatoly Smelyansky.

Release Date:2002-07-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Sly Frog

Short film.

Release Date:2000-07-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

By the Way

The first film by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexey Popogrebsky, shot while studying at VGIK.

Release Date:1997-07-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Comrade Major

San Sanych Kuleshov is a major of the FSB. He works in the wiretapping department. San Sanych has huge opportunities. He can connect to any smartphone, check any laptop, get into any desktop computer and find out everything about his "object". For many years, Sanych was part of a soulless state machine. He didn't ask unnecessary questions and did his job. So he lived to be 50 years old and suddenly realized that people are kind, weak and defenseless. They don't need surveillance, they need help. San Sanych becomes a hero, but a secret one. He appears where he is not expected, and causes good, despite the fact that no one asks him about it.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Third in Bed

Lyuba and Roma are tired of their long marriage, but their pregnant daughter Nastya and son-in-law Stepan decide to help their relatives keep the family together and give a tour to a five-star hotel in Turkey. Parents agree only in order not to upset their daughter, but they do not think about any restoration of relations. On the contrary, Lyuba quarrels with Roma on the plane, demands a divorce, and at the very first dinner starts flirting with the handsome Turk Emin, drinks too much, and in the morning finds a corpse in her bed ... This is how this unusual story begins, in which there is a place for dangerous and fun adventures, blackmail, exploits for the sake of loved ones and a new breath in relationships.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

FSUE LUCH

The boring abbreviation of FSUE LUCH hides the department for combating vampires, demons and the paranormal. The loser and henpecked Kolya accidentally runs into the operatives of the "Ray", and they recognize him as the "chosen one". It is up to him to save the world from terrible evil, but no one knows what his superpower is and how to manifest it. Being chosen becomes his curse and destroys his philistine world.

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:1