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The movie is an absurdly ironic narrative that reflects the anti-science and anti-American tendencies of recent times.

The poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936-2013) gained wide popularity first of all as a participant in the dissident movement and one of those legendary eight who on August 25, 1968 went to the Red Square to protest against the invasion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, having paid for this several years of imprisonment. She was often called the heroine. She objected: "I'm not a heroine, I'm just an ordinary person." The authors of the film shot Gorbanevskaya for several years, asking questions that worried her as a poet, forced them to go to the square, and how her fate developed after forced emigration from the USSR.

The story of the family life of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova appears as a problem of choosing between the values of life and the goals of art. The necessity of this choice turns sublime love into a struggle for extermination, which, in turn, fuels the creativity of the great artist no less than love.

Natasha, 36, awaits a court verdict that is to decide whether for the next eight years she is to stay under police observation. Persons like her are called repeat offenders: She committed a new crime, even though she had been released on parole. “Lost trust” — this legal formula has become the real punishment for the main character. These six months is the main penitentiary term of her lifetime, the last chance to feel life in all its versatility, and she makes a list of all things she needs to cram into that short timespan: a rock concert, a ballet, a soccer championship, going to the seaside, meeting up friends, and, most importantly, meeting her father to whom Natasha did not have the courage to tell the truth about her second imprisonment.

One of the legends of Soviet television is Valentina Leontieva. One of the first TV presenters. She was called the All-Union "Aunt Valya". The peak of Leontieva's fame came in the late 1960s - early 1970s, when she led the program adored by the people "From the bottom of her heart." And besides, there were festive concerts "Blue light", popular children's programs "Visiting a fairy tale", "Good night, kids", "Skillful Hands", "Alarm Clock"... Leontieva's story about herself in the film is illustrated by film and TV newsreels, photographs of her personal archive. But even the most vivid memories of former glory cannot drown out the pain and longing. Valentina Mikhailovna appears in front of the audience in a housecoat and slippers. The poor atmosphere, the unpretentious decoration of her home, and most importantly, the genuine sadness in her eyes and voice indicate that the once beloved and irreplaceable Aunt Valya was undeservedly forgotten.

After the death of her son Julia seemed to be frozen. I can not regain consciousness. But she believes in a new meeting with the one she lost.

The documentary about the Ukrainian Aidar battalion was filmed in a single 80-minute sequence.

The 40-day war has just ended in Armenia. David completed a 2-year service and has returned home from the front. Uncertain about his next steps, he is actively searching for a job that resonates with him. Arthur served in the army for a year and is currently on vacation. He continues his efforts to recall his favorite tune on the piano. Serezha harbors jealousy toward his brothers who experienced the war. He is getting ready to enlist in the army, as he will turn 18 this year. All three are brothers, and they are all Nina's children.

Hansel's grandfather's wife died. They have lived together for over fifty years. For three years he has been living alone, cannot find a place for himself and constantly misses her.

Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the Russian outback. Symbolizes the slowly naked and dying Russian world.

Mongun-Taiga is the highest peak of Tyva and all of Eastern Siberia. In the harsh climate of the Mongun-Taiga ridge, only yaks... and people survive. Rare travelers get here, and those who do find themselves on another planet, where shamans, yaks, people, spirits of ancestors, mountains and taiga live in amazing harmony and unity... How to protect this fragile world from destruction?

"Andrey Bitov. The Green Suitcase" is the first portrait film in the work of Viktor Tikhomirov. Initially, the picture was supposed to reflect the process of writing the book "Chaos and Order", which was conceived by Andrey Bitov, and be called like a book. Later, due to objective reasons, the tape was transformed into a cinematic portrait of the writer, whose image is revealed through philosophical concepts: "chaos" and "order". The film features music by the groups "Volkovtrio" and "Auction". The film was awarded a special jury prize at the festival" Literature and Cinema " in Gatchina (2002).

They are called "loveaholics", "sozics", obsessed, "love addicts". These are people for whom love has become a disease. It makes them suffer and search, fantasize and act, idealize and avoid. Where does euphoria end and diagnosis begin? The film is a study of the phenomenon of love addiction

Three—time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina is the most famous figure skater in the world. Although she won her gold medals in pair skating, they often talk about her, not about her partners. Paired with Alexey Ulanov, and then with Alexander Zaitsev, she was the undisputed leader despite her small stature. In her life, this word — "contrary" — is more common than others, because by nature she is a fighter, she did not get anything just like that, she had to conquer everything.

The story of two artists, endowed with love and talent, trying to live in personal and artistic freedom in a totalitarian regime.

More than 70 years have passed since the end of world war II, but a peace Treaty has not yet been signed between Russia and Japan. While the diplomats decide, ordinary citizens will hold their peace talks: the Russian, the granddaughter of the head of the pow camp, and the Japanese, the son of a pow who was in this camp. They met in the Khabarovsk territory, where this Stalinist camp was located. On the way, they told each other about how their ancestors were involved in the world war, about where they met the end of this war, about their wives and children… Can they come to an agreement? There's so much that separates them…

The mountains of Altai. Six people slowly rise up... Each of them has their own character, their own fate. And each of them has already overcome the most difficult route in their life – from a severe, deadly disease to a lung transplant, which brought them back to full life. Now these people set off on a difficult journey to show themselves and everyone how limitless their life has become. Meanwhile, in Moscow, the days of those who have yet to take their summit are slowly stretching – to wait and undergo a lung transplant operation. One year of life between Moscow and Altai mountains.

Visions fugitives are the moments of when music is born; they are elusive and normally hidden from the audience. This film is a portrait of the legendary musician and composer Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky (the creator of music for films by Evgeny Yufit, Oleg Kovalov, and others). Shot over year, it focuses on unique episodes during rehearsals. Featured in the film are Vladimir Chekasin, Vladimir Tarasov, Vladislav Pesin, and other outstanding musicians

The legendary spy obtained as much secret information as no one else could. For this, he paid with his own life.

In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engaged the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov’s haunting documentary chronicles the downtime between activity.

The documentary looks into the fate of the girls trapped in sexual slavery. The film unfolds in India, a country that occupies an unhappy first place among countries with the highest volumes of human trafficking. Several prostitutes who became heroines of this film are living in the Red Light district of Mumbai – some time ago they were sold to this district by their own parents. The other plot line of the documentary is the story of a little girl living in one of Northern India’s poorest villages. In a couple of years she too can follow the Mumbai ladies’ path.

Are you at home today? This is a chance to write (invent, shoot or create) something outstanding! Photographer Dmitry Zverev (four-time winner of the Silver Camera award), choreographer Vladimir Varnava (twice winner of the Golden Mask award), the authors of the #Isoisolation project and others talk about where to find inspiration during quarantine.

American psychologist of Russian descent Alex comes to Tuva to open his third eye and learn shamanic practices. Chochagar Kes-Kam becomes his “teacher of shamanism”. Together, the master and the student visit the famous Tuvan shamans and travel around Tuva. But their relationship is being seriously tested.

A portrait and self-portrait of the former TV journalist Vyacheslav Nemyshev, who reported on the Chechnyan war in 2001 and now leads a reclusive life on an island.

In 1994, on the initiative of Perm rock musician Oleg Novoselov, a charitable collection of rock music artists "Songs for Tani M" was created. Funds from its implementation were aimed at the construction of a children's cancer center in Perm. Tanya M., Tanya Modina, was among the children who were treated for a terrible illness. Then she was 7 years old, children were shot on an amateur camera, and Tanya became a "face from the cover" of the disc. In the anniversary of that charity event, the widow of Oleg Novoselov, Lena decides to find Tanya, who should be 22 today. And he finds ... in a female colony, where she fell for a robbery...

Katya is an employee of the Sumarokovskaya Elk Farm; she has been delivering births to elk cows for 20 years and telling tourists about the benefits of elk milk. Katya’s duties sometimes include very cruel things, but she loves her job and her son, for whom she wants a better future like any mother.

A lonely, aging photographer lives in a little town where the traces of the communist era are well-preserved. Love, loneliness, senility, sadness, tiredness, memory, reminiscences, offence… Life becomes black and white when the end is closer, when colors bleach; paper turns yellow and only in the memory faces and smiles are still bright and varied in colors.

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

The Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov tries to purge Marxism of ideological cliches, but is rebuffed by his colleagues and the Soviet authorities. The struggle for a true philosophy turns into a tragedy for him and his family.

The film is about volleyball coach Nikolay Karpole.

A look at the confrontations between American and Soviet aviation over the ocean during the Cold War, through the recollections of direct participants and eyewitnesses.

Alexey Trantsev and Alexey Mutin lost their hands as a result of an electrical injury. Years later, they mastered bionic prostheses and live like ordinary people. Only they sorely lack the ability to feel with their hands — to feel warmth, cold, water, or touch their beloved girlfriend. Meanwhile, scientists are developing a system for sensing hand prostheses.

The documentary will feature interviews with contemporary theorists and practitioners who will share their insights on the concept of a chair.

Anna Grigoryevna, an ordinary Soviet woman, dreamed of a trip to Paris for thirty years. And in 1986, during perestroika, she finally finds herself in the city of her dreams. Her husband and son give her a camera, but because of an excess of emotions, she forgets all the instructions and brings the film, which, when developed, turned out to be a marriage. Recently, the adult son of Anna Grigoryevna found a film. And I decided that this is modern art! He walks around the studios, exhibition curators, they laugh at him, this story is incomprehensible to his mother, his girlfriend is not interested in it. And between these walks, a life passes in which each of these women claims her rights to him.

The second World War echoes throughout the whole Khutsiyev's oeuvre. The director himself did not participate in the war: "The thing is, I didn't fight. I had been a sickly boy, so I was turned down because I still looked like a child. This is sort of like a debt I've been repaying ever since". In "People of 1941", Khutsiyev recites his favourite pieces by war poets and invokes documentary footage.

On the 11th of November 2018 the elections were held in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. One of those who came to vote is a former locksmith Alexander Zaslavsky, a participant under the call sign "Old" in the battles in 2014 and 2015.

In 2016, eSports games were declared the official sport in Russia. Letsplay is a multi-month observation of the life of world champions of eSports. This is a backstage of large-scale computer battles, victories and defeats of the heroes of the virtual world.

Celebrities remember Mikhail Zhvanetsky, with some of the unique footage from rehearsals and his home also featured. This is more than just a tribute: it is a concert film where Sergey Makovetsky, Yuri Stoyanov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Ilya Sobolev, Kristina Babushkina, Pavel Derevyanko, Sergey Zhilin, Stanislav Duzhnikov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Nastasya Samburskaya, Lyudmila Artemyeva, Nikolay Valuev, Sergey Zhilin, and Gleb Kalyuzhny breathe new life into the iconic author’s best monologues.

The story of the creation of Philip Kirkorov's most ambitious show.

A film about the Russian writer Anatoly Gavrilov.

2015 is declared a year of literature in Russia. But what is it for a writer to live the year of literature? Neighbor informs the writer that his house will be demolished for the construction of the highway. The highway project is posted on the Internet. And you can see a schematically designated house, where the famous contemporary writers have gathered recently: Alisa Ganieva, Anna Kozlova, Pavel Sanaev, Sergei Shargunov, Anton Sekisov and others. Months of waiting are on. And the writer decides to live as if nothing happened. He's writing.

Phil Esposito, the legendary Canadian hockey player, was one of the brightest participants in the 1972 series of hockey matches between the USSR and Canada. The film covers the period between 2012 and the present day and highlights the most significant visits of Phil Esposito to Russia. Phil talks about how these trips changed his attitude towards Russia - from a sharply negative one, which persisted for forty years after the end of the 1972 Super Series, to a respectful and friendly outlook.

About the storytellers of heroic epics, bylinas, fairy tales and other works of oral folklore.

The film is based on the events of the 4th International Orthodox Music Festival held in Moscow in February, 1992. The Festival featured not only such famous works as Rakhmaninov's "The All Night Service" and "Liturgy" but also the first performance of the latest interpretations of ancient Russian songs and the sensational first performance of Sviridov's cycle of "spiritual songs".

Vitaly Selin's "Exit from the Water" chronicles the return of Russia's most decorated swimmer, Yulia Efimova, to the sport.

An accountant from the Ural city comes to St. Petersburg in search of acting happiness.

A documentary about a garage that hosted student parties for three years.

Documentary about people who work on illegal allotments near the airport for more than 30 years, but soon the allotments should be destroyed, because of technical progress and development of the area.

The poet Roald Mandelstam lived in postwar Leningrad. He was seriously ill from childhood, rarely left his house, and knew his life would be short. His visitors included the composer Isaac Schwartz and a painters that would come to be known as the "Arafiev circle," a group of independent artists working outside of official oversight. After 50 years, a fresco was discovered under the wallpaper in his communal apartment...

The central episode of the third film is a meeting between G.S. Zhzhenov and the classic of Russian literature V. P. Astafyev (filming took place shortly before the writer's death), as well as a dialogue with General A. I. Lebedev about the fate of Russia.

Documentary about Andrey Dudarenko, Soviet and Russian actor whose most famous role was a silent photo in the first Russian horror film "The Touch" (1992).

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most famous Russian director, often called a genius during his lifetime. He made relatively few films, but each has become a classic of world cinema, including "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," "Mirror," and "Stalker." His films seem to be crafted from air, water, fire, deep emotions, and even his own dreams. This art is profoundly sincere and confessional, but what about the creator behind it? What was this god-like figure like, living a mortal life filled with weaknesses, fears, and doubts?

"Conquered Chechnya is the cornerstone of Putin's power. It all started there. If we admit that the leader of conquered Chechnya is a scoundrel, what will remain of Putin himself?" This is how one Russian official responded when asked about the untouchability of Ramzan Kadyrov, who has created a true sultanate within Russia, operating beyond the reach of Russian law. This documentary is a historical investigation into the blood-soaked path Kadyrov has taken to build his sultanate. It uncovers new evidence of murders surrounding Kadyrov, large-scale corruption of unimaginable proportions, and equally shocking details of his personal life, including a harem with underage concubines and brutal punishments.

The documentary is based on 2 parallel lines: one is Valery Gergiev's trip to Tskhinvali after the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and the history of preparing and holding a concert in the destroyed city.The second line is the Maestro's concert activity, rehearsal and staging in London of Wagner's famous tetralogy "The Ring of the Nibelung", the final part of which is the opera Twilight of the Gods

A police sergeant of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” comes to Moscow to receive the Donbass Volunteer badge as a reward for participating in the hostilities in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists.

It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Tatyana Samoylova, Lidiya Smirnova and Vera Vasileva. These wonderful women tell about their lifes and careers in hour interview.