The latest history of Russian cinema covers the period from the 1990s to the 2010s. Thus, cinematography that becomes the subject of film studies reflects many complex socio-cultural phenomena and processes, including cardinal changes in the film industry that have occurred over these decades. Consideration of the recent Russian cinema involves addressing such key aspects as sociocultural changes in society and the logic of the development of cinema itself. In addition to analyzing the artistic originality of the film process and trends in its development, it is necessary to address the issues of industry management, film production, film distribution, without understanding which it is impossible to fully imagine the essence of the development of Russian cinema. The phenomenon of the regional cinemas of Yakutia, Tatarstan, Kalmykia, Buryatia, Bashkortostan and other regions of Russia is among the most fruitful trends of the national cinema. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the most important ethical quality of the hero of the Russian historical and biographical film has become patriotism, the conjugation of the vector of his personal destiny with the vector of development of the state, nation, people, of the general cultural process inextricably linked with the history of the country. Modern processes associated with both local and global changes in society, with the appeal to enduring moral and cultural values, undoubtedly affect the film process, stimulate the search for new expressive means of the cinema language that meet the current needs and demands of society. The article concludes that at the current stage, Russian film research has a large amount of knowledge about the development of the film process in the last three decades, as well as scientific potential and modern methodological tools in order to actualize the idea of the development of domestic cinema in its various aspects (both artistic and organizational and production) in new theoretical studies.