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Documentary-staged film monograph, a conversation about the fate of a generation, in the center of which is one of his idols — actor, director, poet and novelist Leonid Filatov. The film was shot in connection with Leonid Filatov's unfinished game picture "The Adventures of Tolik Paramonov" based on his novel "Freedom or Death" (a Soviet dissident leaves for the West and becomes a communist there). The film was put into production in 1993 at the Rossfilm studio, but a serious illness prevented the director from finishing the production. The desire to acquaint the viewer with this work was the purpose of creating this project.

The fading art form and ‘language’ of Russian criminal tattoos, formerly a forbidden topic in Russia. The now vanishing practice is seen as reflecting the transition of the broader Russian society. Filmed in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of “The Zone” and “The Code of Thieves” (Vor v zakone).

How did the most popular Soviet film scout Isaev-Stirlitz appear? The script for "Seventeen Moments of Spring" was written in just two weeks under an umbrella on the beach in Yalta. After the release of the film "17 Moments of Spring", all its creators received the RSFSR State Prize.

A large-scale film journey beyond the Arctic Circle, which combines the secrets of shamans and life in the Arctic desert, modern technological process and the struggle of small peoples for their traditions and culture. The film consists of three independent short stories, which are connected by Denis Simachev. He sets off on a journey through the Russian Arctic in search of unique musical tunes.

“While shooting my feature documentary film, Memory, in April of 2021 in Grozny, Chechnya (the birthplace of my mother and where I grew up), I felt the influence of the gigantic portraits of Putin, Kadyrov Senior and Kadyrov Junior all over the city. They observed me from everywhere. In parallel to the production of the film, we set out to capture the feeling of totalitarianism that these portraits conveyed. We got up at 4 in the morning and shot through the window of a car because such actions put us under threat of persecution. We understood that we were documenting the time of the birth of fascism in Russia.” Vladlena Sandu

Today, everyone calls themselves “coaches” - unsuccessful traders, housewives and even criminal adventurers. They collect ten thousand dollars, their accounts contain nine zeros, and increasingly coaches become heroes of criminal chronicles. How to distinguish a real coach from an information gypsy, which of them will really help solve your problem, and which will just take your money? Ksenia Sobchak will try the coaching industry for herself.

The author's view of the events of the history and modernity of Russia is a continuation of the journalistic cycle, which began with the film "You can't live like that".

The documentary film will allow you to look behind the scenes of the team of the legendary Russian fighter Fedor Emelianenko.

The debut of music critic Boris Barabanov as the showrunner of a new documentary series about the small homeland of big musicians. In the pilot series dedicated to Rostov-on-Don, Kirill Serebrennikov, Basta, Shym from "Casta", Vasya Oblomov, Sergey Pimenov ("PPK") and Viktor Pivtorypavlo ("Forbidden Drummers") talk about this city as a home, the first stage and starting station on the way to fame, the neighborhood of blatnyak and metal, hidden doorways, the first toilet actionism, endless southern rave and that "living in the past is the first step in the future."a sign of old age."

This is a leap back in time, into a sharply polarized world of two states that, due to political disputes, have become far from friendly towards each other.

Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion.

For the last 22 years, Viktor Stepanov has lived deep in the forest, five kilometres from the nearest village. His home is a canopy of dense fabric in several layers, an iron stove and an earthen floor. Thoughts about nature and man’s place in the biosphere have accompanied Viktor all his life. He says that after nine months living in the forest you are left “naked”: one-on-one with yourself. At times there is nowhere to hide from melancholy, but the hermit draws strength from his unbreakable bond with the natural environment.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called 'Sorochinsky Fair' after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. This festival presents life in all its vividness, variety, and unpredictability, with the beauty contest as its central motif. The protagonists of Gogol's works are transported to the modern day in all their enchanting absurdity, and they fit in pretty well. It is a kaleidoscope of incidents and viewpoints, observed with engagement and curiosity.

A documentary portrait of the leader of the Leningrad group, musician, poet and foul-mouthed Sergei Shnurov.

From the cursed "city on bones" to the bandit Petersburg. All the myths and legends about the most mystical city in Russia.

A documentary in which six influential mathematicians demonstrate the beauty of mathematics. It's sounds, colors, taste, texture, and balance are revealed through their eyes.

Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times and peoples according to a survey of film critics and animators from different countries.

Sergey Potapov is one of the founders of the "wave of Yakut cinema". Serge is a man of legend, some consider him a genius of the Arctic ethnomodern, others attribute to him the scandalous fame of the "Yakut Tarantino". Potapov becomes a guide for St. Petersburg residents through the "inner country of Sakha" inhabited by the spirits of the Olonkho epic. At the end of June, the Sakha Republic celebrates the national holiday Ysyakh — Yakut New Year, a symbol of rebirth and abundance. The ancient ritual coincides with the birthday of the main character — and this is just one of the keys to unraveling the Yakut master, who saddles the currents of reality.

Friends decided to travel from the capital to the Far East by train to see the ocean. On the way, they were waiting for road adventures, stories of fellow travelers, the beauty of an immense homeland and the search for their own "I".

A film about the life and work of the "paper architect" Ivan Leonidov.

Feature film about Kirill Tolmatsky (Detsl)

A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s like a theatre here', one says in the beginning of the film, and it indeed is, the Theater of Life. The young women working in the office have a job that shifts from being verbally attacked and called idiots, to situations where they are subject to flirt, or where they master the happy ceremony of marriage. Faces, joy, sorrow, fun, despair... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Demonstrators carrying banners.

A group of children is playing in the garden.

In 2023, the band Tequilajazzz embarked on the first tour after the outbreak of the war. In the autumn of 2023, on the volcanic rocks of the Adriatic coast, the band played a special concert "Four Winds", imbued with maritime romance and the mood of the Scandinavian fjords beloved by Evgeny Fedorov.

A film about the Doukhobor community that has lived in the village of Gorelovka in the Republic of Georgia since the 19th century. The few Russians who remained there live in their own closed world of rituals, prayers, and psalms.

This film is about the war. Where evil begets evil. Where there is no politics, questions and answers. This is a metaphysical, documentary parable about the endless war, as such. When it doesn't matter where this war is going or if there is an enemy at all. And the war has been going on since the creation of the world. And it multiplies. And her name is "Bitch".

The film is a reflection on the nature of the charm inherent in St. Petersburg, which never ceases to affect residents and visitors. The city forces those who find themselves in it to rise in their thoughts about it and about life to a philosophical level. St. Petersburg still remains mysterious, undeciphered and therefore endlessly attractive.

In five European cities: Helsinki, Rome, Budapest, Brussels and Moscow, five directors made a film about the place in which they live. The director of the Moscow series Vitaly Mansky lives in the house where the great documentary filmmaker Dziga Vertov used to live. What Vertov saw in his windows and what a modern director sees today.

Pianism is the occupation of piano music. Means masterly possession of the instrument. In the life of the main character, the honored artist of Russia, laureate of international competitions Sergey Musaelyan, this term takes a slightly different meaning.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Motor race Moscow – Sevastopol' / Barges loaded with grain are sent to the starving in the provinces / The Caucasus and its resorts.

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is the most powerful in Russia and the sixth most powerful in the world. It was built during the Soviet Union, from 1963 to 1978 on the Yenisei River in Siberia. In 2009, one of the world's largest man-made disasters occurred at the hydroelectric power station, which claimed the lives of 75 people. It took five years and 40 billion rubles to resume operation of the station. And although the exact cause of the accident has not yet been established, the engineers accused of the accident have been jailed. The accident showed that the Soviet legacy is still firmly in the minds of people, many of whom live in the past and are afraid of the future. The wear and tear of equipment, the backwardness of technology, corruption, a corrupt court, and propaganda based on the cult of "back to the USSR" portend new man-made disasters…

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Peasant People's Commissar for Agricultural Affairs, Vasilij Jakovenko / Health resort Soči / Sanatorium for children / Harness racing - The first Red Derby.

A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience. A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall. He wrote extraordinary novels and dared to protest, fully aware of the consequences. In 2024, Pavel Kushnir died in a prison in Birobidzhan.

Biography of cinematographer Andrey Nikolaevich Moskvin.

How and for what reason do our beloved children turn into difficult teens? At what point does maturity come to them and respect for their parents returns? To answer these questions, you have to live your life. Only cinema can make a simple conversation between father and son overcome time and turn into a dialogue between generations.

What is a human brain? Is it just a part of central nervous system, super computer or master who controls human's life? Modern neuroscience researches will help us answer this questions.

Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance at the best stages of the world, and grateful, understanding and appreciating art public. But, probably, not everyone knows that all this began in the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, when the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) theater and the Vaganovo Ballet School were already evacuated from Molotov, which was already practically blocked by the fascists of Leningrad, to the city of Molotov (then Perm was called). Then this evacuation novel, which continues to this day, began

Sergey Astahov is a gay man converted by Church and state propaganda into an orthodox pro-Putin activist. Composed of terrifying images from Astahov's blog, this documentary by contemporary artist Oleg Mavromatti is the most radical insight into today's Russia and its ideological clashes.

The documentary almanac consists of 6 short stories united by the common theme "Where is the border of Europe". Six short stories made in the film train will make up one full-length documentary about modern Russia through the eyes of those who live in it and those who explore it. The project is a master class for young cinematographers "Kinopoezd: laboratory on wheels".

On the coast of the Arctic Ocean of Chukotka live people cut off from the world. Their life revolves around hunting walruses and whales and protecting villages from bears coming from the tundra. This turns the film into a reflection on death. Marine animals become the food of people, animal leftovers are used to feed arctic foxes on a fur farm, human cemeteries become prey for bears. It seems that all the inhabitants of these places are involved in the cycle of food and death. The film departs from the usual rhythmic structure of cinema, being built on the principle of a shamanic ritual, a meaning-forming event for northern peoples.

A movie about one broken arm, love, sex, betrayal, hate, separation, Alfred Hitchkock, female panties and slightly salted pickles. Natalia Merkulova constantly interviewed her depressed 34-old boyfiend Liosha for several months talking about male-female relationship. The result is this 25 minutes long very honest documentary.

Pablo Picasso, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yasha Heifetz: all of them along with a series of outstanding figures of the 20th Century were captured for the film by a man who was an outstanding person himself. Leonid Kogan was a great violinist. He was perhaps one of the hundred in the USSR who had a chance to experience the taste of freedom. This is a true story about the price of freedom for an artist. When the government suspected his intention to emigrate, they strictly limited his concerts abroad and banned him from leaving the country. A year later the violinist died because freedom was his oxygen.

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions / Delegations and diplomats / Renaming of a confectionery factory / Unloading supplies / Komsomol Day / Red Army maneuvers.

Every year teams of seasonal workers come to Solovki islands to harvest sea kale. They go out to sea and mow it from car-basses. As the last of the teams go back to Arkhangelsk in October, only a watchman and his dog are left to pass the winter.

Filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky invites fans and everyday people across Russia to film short videos of their lives, thoughts, and routines during the COVID-19 lockdown.

His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"

The film tells about the most difficult period in the modern history of Russia - from the late 1980s and the "era of change" to the crisis end of the noughties - through the prism of people who made the most important economic decisions. But this is not a dry enumeration of facts, but an accurate and even unexpected portrait of economists who managed to keep an entire country from financial collapse, and in the center of this group portrait is Alexey Kudrin.

The franchise team gathers to remember how it all began, share their favorite moments from filming, and figure out how the characters of Silver Spoon have changed over time.

The father of the Director Valeria Gai Germanica, the 91-year-old Alexander Brown, is deeply saddened by the death of his beloved wife. He goes on a summer trip together with the family of his daughter. Together they fly to the sea, and little by little the trip to Italy and Greece takes on the dimensions of an ancient tragedy: mortal danger and miraculous salvation, difficulties in translation and conflicts between generations. Human life turns out to be a journey full of emotions that can hardly be borne.

The only women's football team of Dagestan today has only one rival - centuries-old traditions. Future wives and mothers are not supposed to kick the ball around the field. Muslim women who play a male sport have to prove their right to be themselves day after day, destroying stereotypes. For the sake of football, they are ready to challenge family, traditions and public opinion.

The story of Charles Sydney Gibbes, the tutor to Grand Duchesses and Tsarevich Alexei – an extraordinary forgotten tale from the Russian Revolution.

In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.

The film is dedicated to the work of one of the most famous Russian composers, the author of the first Soviet rock opera Alexander Zhurbin. The 4 episodes tell about the different facets of the composer's work, about symphonic music, about musical theater, about cinema, about pop songs. The film is built as a monologue of the protagonist, the shooting was carried out in Moscow, Tashkent, New York, St. Petersburg. The composer's wife, poet and translator Irina Ginzburg, and the son, composer Lev Zhurbin, take part in the film.