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Raw material taken from the film "The cosmonaut" under CC license. The collection features hours of footage of landscapes and unique locations, shot in the Soviet Union and Spain, and describing the strange journey of a cosmonaut on an empty land.

After the success of the first Brazilian space mission, a scientist intends to accomplish an even more audacious feat. His goal is to launch into space the Nationalist rocket II, this time taking two humans to the moon.

In 1975, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in space.

Against the backdrop of the space race between the Soviets and the US, a 15-year-old girl struggles to affirm her political and gender identity in 1960s Italy.

Yuri, a 35 year old business man, suddenly one day finds his life is going nowhere and decides to become a professional cosmonaut. But the complexity and length of the training prove frustrating, and Yuri questions if he will ever reach his goal, until the accidental death of a fellow trainee suddenly brings him tantalizingly close to realizing his dream, but also close to losing everything.

A short film about a young boy's escape from reality, the search for love and security, about cryptic messages from outer space and an invisible friend in the cellar. Based on the director's own memories, this is the story of a young boy's world filled with fantasies and dreams of distant worlds. His eccentric grandmother is his best friend and his partner in the world of the imagination.

A film about boys dreaming of becoming astronauts. Two friends built an entire spaceport, stole their friend’s puppy Sharik for experiments and renamed him Marsik, trained by eating only herring paste from a tube, and fought with a greedy speculator named Zakurdaev, who mined his garden to keep the boys from sneaking in.

The Soviet Union, 1991: Captain Igor Fedorov is about to set a new record for solo space flight when he loses contact with the base in Kazakhstan.

An old cosmonaut now lives his life in his flat, the same way as he lived it in a space station. He still does heroic missions, and misses his close relatives. His relatives see it differently. Is this old man capable of dealing with society's norms?

A pseudo-documentary narrative about the first living creature in the cosmos: the dog Laika. Almost everyone has heard of Laika, but only a few know what actually happened to her.

This is the story of Muhammed Faris, the first Syrian to go to outer space. He is forced to flee his country, as his ideas for a free Syria make him a target.

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The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space. Moreover, after the forced separation from the cosmonaut corps, Nelyubov's life was tragically cut short.

The main characters of the film are law enforcement officers who have received an order to disperse a peaceful rally. An order which, in fact, contradicts the constitution of their country. We follow how they cope with this dilemma, what they feel and think, thanks to a combination of different techniques taken from varied genres of music videos and documentaries.

In February 1942, aerospace doctors Zygmunt Rascher, Zygfryd Ruff and Wolfgang Romberg conducted a study on the issue of high altitude flight at Dachau Concentration Camp. Over 200 prisoners were used in these experiments and about 80 of them lost their lives. The document begins with the reading of the letters by Zygmunt Rasher to the Reichsführer on experiments; They contain accurate descriptions of death and autopsies. From the documentary we learn that the first man who crossed the space was an anonymous merchant of Jewish nationality - it was in Dachau, 19 years before the Soviet space flight Yuri Gagarin.

With talk of Soviet Cosmonauts just then in space, Kenzhe, the youngest son of the family, does not want to be part of the ‘train’ of children playing at going on the long journey to Moscow and instead tells his mother he is going to be a cosmonaut.

The worm decided to go into space. And the apple he gnawed was perfect for space flight. But after a collision with a hungry planet, very much like an angry apple, the worm decided to return quickly home.

There are children for whom space is "daddy's job", and "cosmonaut" is the closest and dearest person. These children live in Star City. It is they who will tell the audience how dads prepare for space flights and make them.

On an intergalactic singles cruise, Delfino, Zenf, and Rita confront their loneliness.

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

On a lonely mission to Alpha Centauri, Milutin is teamed up with Nimani 1345, a female cyborg designed to fulfill his every need. At first thrilled to be able to control her, Sebastian grows tired of having his desires fulfilled so easily. Longing for human intimacy, Sebastian alters Nimani's programmed responses, but in doing so he risks the mission's security — and his own life.

USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.

Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions.

This is a story about a mother and her only son. And also - about fate and destiny.

A Warren Comics style short portraying a stranded cosmonaut on Mars.

A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.

In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can't provide for his family, and Sergei, a Soviet cosmonaut stranded in the Mir space station, share a common passion: amateur radio. Through this hobby, both men will be able to help each other in facing the dramatic changes of their countries.

A mysterious film, featuring three Russian cosmonauts heading into space, is found. This document is the only and last trace remaining of these three men. A team of journalists decides to investigate in Kazakhstan to solve the mystery of their disappearance.

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A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.

The House at the Edge of the Galaxy is an allegorical short film about the beauty and significance of the here and now, versus the quest for the bigger and better world perpetually beyond our grasp. This cosmic tale takes place at a desolate outpost where a lonely boy is taught by a passing Cosmonaut how to plant a “star” to transform his existence. In the process of yearning for the heavens, he discovers that paradise instead resides in his own backyard.

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometown of Turin. But one night, they recorded something quite different from the usual static that would change their lives forever...

After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his gay brother.

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Over the centuries only few caravans dared to cross the northern route of the silk road that today lies in the territory of Kazakhstan. In this portion of Asian desert there was no place to build a majestic city nor anything else worth fighting for. Until in 1955 the Soviet government realised that those lands, far as they may be from the rest of the World, were just one step away from the Universe.

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A mad scientist trying to create life pushes his experiments too far.