A.R.Films is an international filmed entertainment company dedicated to creating and distributing high quality independent content across all available platforms. It works with a broad spectrum of genres; their films range from high-budget war epics to low- and mid-budget dramas and comedies. AR Films develops and produces only projects with the unique artistic vision of the director or writer behind them.

Founded in 2009 by the prominent Russian film and television producer and media executive Alexander Rodnyansky, A.R.Films now has production and distribution capabilities in 22 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and the US.

These include ownership of one of the biggest film licensing and distribution corporations in Central and Eastern Europe; A Company; Russian movie production company Non-Stop Production; the leader in the distribution of independent films, Cinema Without Frontiers (Kino Bez Granits); and the most influential film festival in Russia – Kinotavr.

In the United States, A.R.Films is involved in the production of high-quality independent films. Its first production, Billy Bob Thornton’s film Jayne Mansfield's Car, starring Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Patrick, Ray Stevenson, Frances O’Connor and Katherine LaNasa, is in post-production. A.R.Films, in cooperation with renowned US directors, currently developing and producing a slate of independent films.

A COMPANY works in licensing, distribution and production of filmed entertainment through both its wholly owned subsidiaries and partner companies, building a distribution network across more than 22 countries in Eastern and Central Europe. It owns Berlin-based EEAP (Eastern European Acquisition Pool), Budapest Film in Hungary, and Gala Media in Russia. With a library of over 350 films (including Shutter Island, Million Dollar Baby, the Saw franchise), A Company also distributes the most popular titles from the catalogues of New Regency and Morgan Creek throughout the CIS.

Non-Stop Production is a production company that specializes in high-quality films and event television miniseries. In 2011 Non-Stop Production produced Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena, which received the Special Jury Prize in Cannes "Un Certain Regard"; and Innocent Saturday by Alexander Mindadze, which screened in competition at of the 61st International Berlin Film Festival. In August, production began on the war epic Stalingrad, directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. Television produced by Non-Stop Production includes the period drama The White Guards (Belaya Gvardiya), an adaptation of a novel by Michail Bulgakov; and Dostoevsky, a biopic of legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Cinema Without Frontiers (CWF) owns a library of more than 1500 movies by world’s best directors, including Peter Greenaway, Michael Haneke, Alejandro Gonzбlez Iсбrritu, Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Ki-duk, Takeshi Kitano, Lars von Trier and Stephen Frears.

The Open Russian Film Festival, Kinotavr, is the most important cultural and industry event in Russian film. Dozens of films by Russian-speaking filmmakers from around the world compete each year in the official program of the festival, including films made by first-time directors. Over 5000 movie professionals attend Kinotavr each year and participate in the Fesitval’s roundtables, pitching sessions and film market.

AR Games – a division of AR Films – owns 25% of Syncopate, one of the biggest online game publishers in Russia and the Russian-speaking markets. Syncopate operates GameNet – a self-populating social network for gamers. GameNet is a unique technology that seamlessly integrates social networking and community features with game content, creating an entirely new level of customer immersion. GameNet is the official platform for WCG (World Cyber Games) Russia, and two of Syncopate's titles are WCG disciplines. Syncopate's current game portfolio includes Aika, Magic World 2, Golden Land, Blood Rites, Rage of Titans, and War Inc.

A producer and composer, Andrey Sigle also is a member of the European Movie Academy (EFA).

Russian and foreign critics have described Sigle as one of the best Russian producers of auteur cinema films. Born in 1964, he graduated from the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (Zarukin's piano class). He went on to study in Sweden, where he was invited to attend the Swedish Royal Musical Academy in Goetheborg. Sigle graduated as a film composer, the only one in Russia.

Since the mid-1980s, he has been interested in new musical technologies, including the use of synthesizers. As an arranger and sound producer, Sigle participated in recording albums by Kino, Alisa, and Nautilus Pompilius, as well as solo projects by Sergey Kuryokhin and Boris Grebenshchikov. With Victor Tsoy and Kino, he worked on the films The Needle (1988) and The Heart of a Dog (1988). In 1989, he joined the team working on Lopushansky's fim The Museum Visitor (music by Alfred Schnitke).

In 2002, together with director Dmitry Svetozarov, Sigle founded ASDS Studio, which has produced several television series, including The Dancer, Three Colors of Love, Favorsky, and Crime and Punishment.

Sigle began a new stage in his career when he became acquainted with the director Alexander Sokurov; their joint projects Taurus and Father and Son were acclaimed at international festivals.

In 2004, Andrey Sigle founded the Proline Film Studio specializing in art house and auteur cinema. In 2004, the studio produced The Sun (directed by Sokurov in cooperation with Nicola-Film) where Sigle was both producer and composer. That movie competed for the main prize at the 2005 Berlin festival.

In 2006, the studio completed Konstantin Lopushansky's film The Ugly Swans based on the novel by the Strugatzky brothers and awarded over 20 prizes at various Russian and international festivals. The music written for the film brought Sigle the Michael Tariverdiev Prize at the festival Kinotavr-2006. In December, Andrey Sigle was awarded the title of Meritted Artist of the Russian Federation.

In 2007, Alexandra by Sokurov was completed, and the film went to the competition at the 2007 Cannes festival. At present, the studio is completely work on the fourth film directed by Sokurov, Faust.

Andrey Sigle was the co-producer of the French-and-Russian movie Serko (coproduced by CDP, producer Catherine Dussart), directed by Joel Farge. The film premiered in March 2006.

In 2007, Andrew Sigle was awarded the St.Petersburg Governmental Prize in arts and literature for the film The Ugly Swans.