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Housewives at Yandex are called the department responsible for cafeterias, recreation areas and much more, which makes up the famous homely atmosphere of the company's offices. What is missing from these office coffee points and buffets - and it all appears on schedule, on time, in hundreds of buildings in dozens of cities. In the film, the housewives talk about how their days pass and how their caring work is arranged.

Everyone calls our hero Uncle Yasha (well, if officially, then Yakov Markovich Levitin). And he is certainly a historical person. People enter history in different ways - he entered with a movie spotlight. Yakov Markovich has been working as an illuminator at the Russian Central Documentary Film Studio for almost 57 (!) years. Over the years, he traveled around the country, saw many famous and important people (including all the political leaders of the country - from Stalin to Yeltsin). And he also "illuminated" the era. It was thanks to the light of the searchlights installed by him that it was possible to capture on film almost all the main political events of the second half of the twentieth century.

About the legendary tour of the Soviet football club Dynamo (Moscow) in Great Britain in 1945.

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large serial killers in the world particularly concentrated in Rostov, the same city that witnessed Andrei Chikatilo's infamous killing spree. In response, law enforcement has turned to Dr. Alexander Bukhanovsky, a prominent psychiatrist and criminal profiler, who is implementing radical measures to understand the root causes of this phenomenon and develop effective solutions. Within Dr. Bukhanovsky's clinic, we encounter three of his young patients: Edward and Igor, whose families express deep concerns about their disturbing fantasies, and 'Mischa', who has perpetrated acts of torture and sexual assault. Dr. Bukhanovsky's approach is groundbreaking, offering treatment to potential serial offenders. However, critics argue that by keeping individuals like 'Mischa' anonymous, he may inadvertently shield them from public awareness and accountability, prompting debate over the ethics of his methods.

Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century, he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers, and monks. Hundred yours later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes. And they recognized each other.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a classic of Russian literature, a dissident and a Nobel Prize winner, talks, remembers, reflects. The war, the Stalinist camps, the success of "One Day of Ivan Denisovich". Opal, samizdat, the Nobel Prize, awarded four years after the award. Expulsion from the USSR. Return to the new Russia. The literary patriarch talks about the past, present and future of the country and what it means to be a writer in Russia.

Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, the founders of the Theater.Doc, died in 2018 with a difference of 45 days. Now their student Zarema Zaudinova puts on performances, comes up with new projects so that the theater, which has suffered so much persecution from the authorities, will survive and live a new life.

Why do grown men and women love pony cartoons? Learning to fight with Jedi and Sith lightsabers? Do they sew animal costumes and transform into the animals? Are they leaving for fictional worlds from the reality? The film tells about the Russian geek community, in which the most pressing needs and problems of our time are vividly, sometimes even exaggerated.

Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.

A short reflection on lonely dog walking.

Taxi driver Viktor Toroptsev from a dying city in the Far East decides that a critical moment has come in his life. He launches the Vityok Live Youtube channel in order to become the “main people’s journalist” in the region and rally his fellow countrymen around him. Victor is sure that it is he who must turn his city and all of Russia into Paradise on earth and embarks on the main journey of his life, not yet realizing what chain of events he launched.

Muhammad, a courier of the Yandex.Food service, delivers food on a bicycle in Moscow, which is empty because of the coronavirus. 10 hours a day, six days a week, if there are orders - and it's not easy with them during quarantine. When there are few orders and there are a lot of couriers, you need to move so that the application distributing the work "notices" the courier. Therefore, even without orders, Muhammad travels around the city. At home, in the city of Bukhara, Muhammad has a family, parents and three sisters, he graduated from college with a degree in plumbing, but it's easier to earn in Moscow, and he sends money to his family every month: in Uzbekistan, a person can live for a month for a thousand Russian rubles, including "meat, potatoes, carrots, onions."

Stesha, an observant and artistic 3-year-old, turns her parents' conversations and daily routines into a game. She cares after her plushie Basik and passes the lessons of life onto him. Their naive performance allows a glimpse into the magical process of growing up and taking responsibility.

40 km of dirt road. 35 villages. 12 residents. Soon there will be no one left.

Approximately 20,000 Russian houses, businesses and private land have been victims of hostile seizures annually by an organized corporation of criminal bosses, politicians, oligarchs and men of law - the 'Raiders'

What makes a person, an artist who has several decades of international cinematic success behind him, break down and start a new life? People's artist of Russia, winner of many domestic and foreign awards, world-famous film Director Andrey Konchalovsky entered the theater world in 1987, staging the Opera "Eugene Onegin" in Italy at the La Scala theater... In the film, viewers will be able to trace the creative – almost twenty years! – the path of the Director in the performing arts, to see unique moments of rehearsals, fragments of his theatrical productions – the Opera "the Queen of spades" with outstanding artists Mirella Freni and Vladimir Atlantov, the acclaimed performance "Miss Julie" on the stage of the Moscow theater on Malaya Bronnaya, "War and peace", staged at the Mariinsky theater, the Metropolitan, as well as fragments of Grand outdoor performances staged by A. S. Konchalovsky.

The history of mankind is also the history of wars. The film contains military footage of the twentieth century, never included in the official chronicles. The so-called "cuts" are, as a rule, of a "household" nature. The film is an image of a huge and hopeless war, where men wander through the twentieth century, where there is no front line, where the war turns into a mass sexual perversion that destroys the very logic of human existence.

The film tells about the dramatic fate of Lydia Nikolaevna Delectorskaya, muse, model, love of the great French artist Henri Matisse.

With his arrest in early June 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov became a symbol in Russia of resistance to police misconduct. His case was perhaps the first time in the country’s modern history that civil society forced the law-enforcement system to retreat. Over the five difficult days it took to free Ivan, no one was closer to him, his family, and Meduza’s editorial staff than documentary filmmaker Sergey Erzhenkov and the camera crew who assisted him. In this new film from the “Black Flag,” we bring you the Golunov case through the eyes of those who were at the epicenter of these events.

Viktor Tikhomirov made the only female portrait film about the virtuoso pianist Polina Osetinskaya. She started playing the piano at the age of five, and at six she already gave her first solo concert at the Vilnius Philharmonic. Every day, the young pianist rehearsed for 14-16 hours, taught 10 poems and ran 10 kilometers. In the film, she talks about her childhood, strict discipline and vivid images that she came up with to visualize music. The film uses recordings from the pianist's personal archive, footage from Yevgeny Yufit's film "Killed by Lightning" and video chronicles of the 1980s — the first interviews of the Ossetian.

600 km north of Arkhangelsk on the shore of the White Sea is the fishing village of Shoyna. In winter there is an endless night and an icy desert, in summer there is an incessant sun and salty winds that cover the houses with sand up to the roofs. The film is a metaphorical reflection – about Russia, about the eternal trials that have fallen to its lot, about the coveted freedom and about the paradoxical attraction to unfreedom that exists in every Russian person…

A whole ethnographic study on the topic of who are the fans of "Leningrad", performed against all the laws of the genre. The musicians themselves act as accomplices in the filming process here — one of the cameras, for example, is fixed on Shnurov's stomach. Other cameras follow the fans of the band, quite funny and accurately recording their emotions and actions from hugs to fights and transmitting the atmosphere of unbridled fun and off-scale adrenaline, which is famous for "Leningrad". Terribly funny, tearfully cute, sometimes scary - the effect of a full-length presence.

Found footage short about oil.

Ded Moroz embarks on a journey to wish children and adults a Happy New Year 2023 across five countries, striving to bring support and holiday cheer while figuring out where his own home is now.

Little girl Stesha lives in a country house. She is isolated from the outside world and immersed in the world of games and fantasies. Her drawings reflect the inner world - the image of Paradise, which slips away as she grows up.

Audiovisual performance becomes a space for dialogue between composer Vladimir Martynov and young electronic musicians.

On the night of August 13-14, the authorities started a mass release of protesters against rigged presidential elections from prisons on Akrestsina street in Minsk and Zhodzina. All these days hundreds of relatives waited, and some continue to wait under the walls of the detention facility for their children, wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, parents and friends. Detainees come out of prisons and tell about the violence and abuse which they experienced. Information about this is instantly spread on the Internet. People already know the truth. Film director Andrey Kutsila will depict not the stories of torture victims themselves, but their relatives. Under the walls of the prison on Akrestsina street, they are in some emotional state of uncertainty, confusion and hope. The camera will “pick up” individual faces from the crowd and supposedly overhear conversations of Belarusians, filled with pain, anger and despair.

In a St. Petersburg apartment, every room belongs to a family. The four families share the kitchen and bathroom in shifts. One family decides to sell their room and money hungry agents try to sell everyone else's rooms as well.

The film was about a group of Polish ice skaters at the slide of the Warsaw Ice Skating Society. The film was filmed using a pleograph which was an early type of the movie camera invented by Kazimierz Prószyński.

Surviving WWII, small tight-knit Jewish communities (known as Shtetls) in the former Soviet Union clung to the old religion, language and craft until very recently. This documentary explores what used to be and what remains of these small communities, as well as the lives of the people who have chosen to stay.

A film about four women who had an unwanted pregnancy. Two of them had an abortion. And two all the same gave birth, despite the fact that they were not ready for the appearance of the baby. Who of them regrets about his decision? What was the worst choice?

Story of Lendoc (Leningrad Documentary Films Studio). Among the heroes of the film are not only famous film directors who shot films at the studio in different years, but also employees of other professions, like cinematographers, writers, editors, producers, sound designers…

A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on the threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in schoolyards and entrances of sleeping areas, where everything is for the first time and the world is just beginning - from secretly purchased cigarettes and cans with gin and tonic to an adult passport, first love and almost real tragedies.

She was predicted the future of russian Coco Chanel of 21st century – untill her car accident. Consequences of a strong trauma fenced Nastya off from the whole world. But she doesn't intend to change the former way of life, to go on compromises in search of the life’s partner or to reduce the level of her claims.

The two who came to work in Moscow met on the gravel pass. Sanya and Sparrow. One is thirty seven, the other is nineteen. Problems began when they stopped paying salaries. Two lost souls lost at the bottom of life and ... an unexpected happy ending.

Russian Russian Thought, a newspaper founded by Russian emigration in France, and donated to the Russian State Library, tells the story of the film. Among the characters of the film, closely connected with the fate of the newspaper, Count P. Sheremetyev, Prince A. Trubetskoy, the oldest boarder of the "Russian House" Ekaterina de Geerts, the current editorial board of the newspaper. The film tells about the role of this printing body as a link between the abandoned homeland and the Russian diaspora abroad.

"Shell" is the common name for a dismantling garage. But more than a third of the shells are used for other purposes. Pensioners Karasevs lived in a shell for 79 days, and almost died. What happened in Moscow in 2006?

The dusty roads of Odessa preserve and tangle the traces of many a traveler. Led by the shadow of Kira Muratova and their desire to follow her footsteps, Anya and Gleb set out on a journey to find the keepers of her memory, and the characters of her films. These Odessa encounters connect “reality” to the world of Muratova, where, as we know, everything is bound to repeat itself.

The story of a complex relationship between a mother and son belonging to the highest circles of the Moscow elite.

Our film will tell about the changes that have taken place in Russian meteoritics over the past 10 years, and tells about innovations and technologies created both with the help of state support and independently by Timur Kryachko and his colleagues.

The film tells about the famous monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator "Alyosha" in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. The idea to build a monument on Bunardzhik Hill in honor of Soviet soldiers-liberators was born among the residents of Plovdiv back in 1948. The initiative came entirely from "below", from the people, without any recommendation from "above". On May 9, 1948, the Citywide Initiative Committee for the construction of a monument to Soviet soldiers was established, which included public figures, architects, artists, writers and teachers. It was headed by the head of the Plovdiv military garrison, General Asen Grekov. On the same day, the symbolic laying of the base of the monument was made.

At different times, people look at the camera in different ways: at the beginning of the 20th century not the way they did in the 1920s, in the 1940s differently than now... The cinematic look, developing, begins to influence the human perception of all reality. A certain character, on whose behalf the narration is being conducted, searches in the film archive for frames in which people look at the camera, and carefully examines them, trying to discover the hidden meaning of these gazes from the past.

Mother and daughter, forced migrants from Chechnya who survived the war. Both lost their husbands. Now they live in a small town with the belief that everything will work out.

A portrait of the Russian filmmaker Alexei Guerman via an exploration of the making of his latest film, an adaptation of It Is Difficult to Be a God, a science-fiction novel by the Strougaski brothers, on which he has been working for several years, Hard to Be God explores the director's complex relationships with his crew, who he rules with a rod of iron. The film exposes the power relations of authority and the submission of a film crew to a director who is trying to change history, fight servitude and advocate freedom.

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov lived in the era of wars and revolutions. History became a co-author of his works, and the difficult attitude of the authorities had a strong influence on his creative destiny. In Bulgakov's books, there was a place for Russian history, earthly and unearthly love, satire, and the tragedy of a creative personality. About all this – in the author's program of Anatoly Smelyansky.

Everyone has their own buzz. For him, the high is war. He was in love with the war as a woman, and the feelings did not go away. He can't go back into battle. All he has now is the house of mercy, the monastery on the next street, and the desire to start a different life.

Motygino is the smallest and most inaccessible settlement in Russia, which has a local drama theater. Recently, a young St. Petersburg director arrived there and decided to make him a fashionable place: he invited his friends-actors from the capital and began to develop a new theater. Do you think a warm welcome awaited him?

The blockade of Leningrad is one of the symbols of human resilience, but at the same time it is the clearest example of inhuman cruelty. The author of the documentary "Blockade" chose the chronicle of the war years from the Russian and German archives as a tool for narration, adding to it only the music that sounded in those years, archival recordings of Leningrad radio reports, and the sounds that accompanied the residents of the city throughout the days of the blockade. Is it possible to heal the pain caused? How not to repeat the tragedy again?

Somewhere deep in a large country, along a river surrounded by forests and swamps, there is a small Siberian village. Seven months of the year, this village becomes inaccessible: you can only reach it in the summer. Time seemed to have stopped there. The Director returns to his birthplace with a camera to answer the question: what are we looking for when we leave home?

A documentary film dedicated to Alexei Balabanov and his latest film "I also want to".

Eva is a talented artist. However, she fails to break through the harsh world of cash. Sometimes there is not enough money even for brushes. She decides to do a new project - to create a galaxy of vulvas. To fulfill her desire, Eve needs models. All the girls posing for the artist are lonely, like the heroine of the film herself. And each has its own sad story ...

A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"

In a Komi village, we listen to inner sounds and see figures of Komi people. As we approach the edge of this enchanted world, we do not want to trespass it with our logical explanations.

A couple undergoes a 6-day experiment, in which they have to live in a remote village and play perfect people. He is an experimental film director, she is an actress. They must avoid any kinds of conflicts and always be nice. They are doing quite well in playing perfect untill they start shooting their own film trailer. That is where their settings go off.

Born in the USSR: 28 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 28.

Nafset, 28, now lives in Moscow and calls herself a Man of Peace. Nafset is blind from birth. She also performed solo at the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in Sochi. Nafset is flying to Maykop to give a concert and receive the title of Honored Artist. She will meet with relatives, journalists, officials of all stripes, the local symphony orchestra and the audience. For them, she is not a Person of the World at all, she is her own, local, Adyghe. The heritage of the republic. But is this role acceptable to Nafset herself?