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The vast territories beside the Pinega river in northwest Russia are covered by woods and inhabited by more wild animals than people, besides a few villages who live mostly from the forests, fishing, and gardening. Society here can only be described as a matriarchy, where beliefs, spells, and traditional rituals are passed down the female line. Musical contributions from village residents serve as a leitmotif for the film: unsteady renditions of old songs that reveal performances belonging to a distant past. The population of these communities has aged considerably — but the place itself is timeless.

A documentary about an unpredictable and exciting night when a simple birthday party turns into a chaotic adventure. The main character, Maxim, finds himself in the center of events when excessive amounts of alcohol and heated emotions take over. From funny situations to moments when it seems like everything will get out of control, the film captures the dynamics of friendship, fun and unexpected turns that can happen when a celebration becomes a real test for everyone present.

The ancient city of Soligalich, as if frozen in space and time…The city is an open-air museum, with a beautiful and majestic temple architecture fading into oblivion. There is still no gas heating in the city, and the smell of clean snow and stove smoke is in the streets. In the sapogo-katalny shop, which stands on the site of the former temple, women manually create felt boots. They work hard and hard, give birth and raise children! And each has its own destiny…Unique Russian women, worthy of the brush of the best artists, the guardians of the ancient craft, the ancient tradition. The backbone of our country, its essence and salt.

Stories about extraordinary people from North Ossetia with different professions, views and culture, but they definitely agree on one thing - in the boundless love for the place where they grew up and live.

In the film, with the help of family psychologists, an attempt is made to understand the tragic love story of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Their relationship had all the facets, mistakes and crisis situations that men and women go through at different stages of love…

The film tells about the first steps of Evgenia Medvedeva on the ice, about working with Eteri Tutberidze, about everything that the world champion had to give up for the sake of sports, and what to gain. And also - about overcoming, about sincere and complex emotions and real partings. And also - about plans, prospects and about who to be after the sport.

Collecting as an act of love and a way to tame time.

“Kapustin Yar, the place where Alyosha lives, an autistic boy, is a rocket testing ground. I don’t believe that there are places forgotten by God. And I’m trying to guess the plan that combines human strength and apparent weakness at the same time in one place,” says directed by Arkady Kogan.

Timur dreams of being a special rapper — like his idol Morgenstern, with whom he recently struck up a real friendship. But he is a special "Wild" without that: because of the terrible diagnosis, he has been in a wheelchair since childhood, and doctors give him few chances. While relaxing by the sea, Timur and his mother receive an invitation to shoot a TV show on one of the federal channels. The editors promise that it will be a positive program about overcoming life's difficulties. Timur, inspired, together with his mother and a couple of friends, fly to Moscow. But the reality turns out to be tougher than their expectations of the trip.

An attempt to look at volunteering through the volunteers themselves. To find out what motivates these selfless people, to understand who gets more — the one who is helped, or the one who helps. They are all united by one goal — to make the world a kinder and better place, but at the same time they have their own view of volunteering based on personal experience.

Film-observation of the actress of the Theater. Mayakovsky by Galina Alexandrovna Anisimova. Galina Aleksandrovna has a difficult character - she is decisive and uncompromising, but sometimes she is too vulnerable and even suspicious. Together with the heroine, the viewer lives the last year of the life of the people's artist.

The village doctor who works in an X-ray lab in a hospital paints the portraits of the local inhabitants. He literally can see them through. His paintings are very good, he loves those people. Just like other artists Turin in his creative work turns to nude. This is normal, but... Somebody cruelly injures him, breaks his arm, and destroys his mental perception: Turin is not able to protect himself. He is an invalid since he was born.

A short documentary film about Samvel Galstyan - a taxi driver from Erevan. The film puts his profession in the background focusing on Samvel's hobby - he's been an artist since his childhood.

On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin delivered his stunning speech, notifying Russia of his own resignation and, it would seem, went into the shadows. During the year, the film crew followed the first president of Russia. Yeltsin's personal life in the inner circle. Another life, which is recorded on the screen for the first time.

A paradoxical personality, former police captain Magomed Shamilov is a hero, a sage and a devout Muslim. 16 years ago, he created an Independent trade union of Police and Prosecutor's Office workers in Dagestan to fight cronyism, terrorism, corruption in the "hottest" region of Russia, and he is surprised that he is still alive. Don Quixote is immortal.

In the second part of the cycle, Georgy Zhzhenov talks about himself and about his life in prisons and the zones in which he had to sit. The geography of the sorrowful path is extensive: Leningrad (Kresty prison), Vladivostok, Magadan - from his hometown to the Far East, where the first years of hard labor of Georgy Stepanovich took place.

The writer Sergey Kaledin gained fame and popularity at the dawn of perestroika. His stories "The Humble Cemetery" and "Stroybat" became real bestsellers, were translated and published in many countries of the world. But a few years ago, Sergey realized that he had already realized all his literary plans, and he did not want to write just to confirm his status as a writer. And on the advice of his friend Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Sergei decides to go to work in a children's educational colony...

The young Montenegrin Kabir lives in Moscow with the Russian girl Nastya, the daughter of a Modern Art Gallery owner. Professional collaboration – installation of exhibitions, meeting guests, communication with customers – are the only things that now connect a couple being in crisis. One day Kabir disappears. He returns home to the coast of Kotor Bay. By and by, he is forgetting the Russian language, and Moscow, and the metropolitan art circuit seams nothing but a dream…

The film tells about the life of the mountainous Dagestan village of Chokh in the period between the engagement and the wedding, which was witnessed by a traveler around the world from South Korea.

On the border between Finland and Russia, lazy summer vibes become stifling. Under the burning sun, on an island, two beings rave. Tender wander or anxious waiting on a sensorial experience. What is there to fear from the horizon? They seem to be the only ones foreseeing the upcoming disaster.

“What is success? Does nature have this concept? A successful tree or a non-successful tree? It's just a tree. Successful bird or not? She's just a bird. So either about life, or about the profession, one of the most unusual actresses of our time, Rosa Khairullina, talks.

Three former political prisoners tell the story of their imprisonment in the Soviet-era Perm-36 prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite, mirror-like, reflects the condition of Russian society haunted by phantom pains after the fall of the Soviet Union.

In Tsumikh, Makhacheva brings herself and her own biography to the centre-stage. She interrogates the fraught relationship between personal and public memory by revisiting, comparing and subverting how her late grandfather, Rasul Gamzatov (b.1923 - 2003), is remembered. In the work, Makhacheva’s childhood memories meet her adult remembrances and his public memorialisation, which the film subtly reveals are at odds with one another.

In the spring of 2003, Moscow surgeons separated two Siamese twins, Zita and Gita Rezakhanov. Two girls from a tiny Kyrgyz village lived together from birth: they had a common bladder, fused intestines and three legs for two. Doctors helped the Siamese twins to find a new life, but the girl's happiness was never achieved. The separated sisters had to go through severe depressive episodes and accept that they would never be able to start a family and have children. Neither of them was ready to lose each other, but in 2015, Zita died at the age of 24.

This is the third film of the documentary project "Out of Time". The Himba is perhaps one of the most distinctive tribes in Africa. They exist in their own world, the passage of time has no control over them, even the pressure of Western civilization, which swept the entire African continent in the 20th century, seemed to have bypassed them, leaving their traditions untouched.

The film tells about ancient rituals and traditions, original rituals that were used during weddings and matchmaking... The evening before the wedding in the village of Pskov region. Black-and-white photographs and stories of old women - on the one hand; living rituals, traditions that have come down to our days – on the other. The picture is dedicated to a Russian wedding, but in fact it is about a moment, about the state of a girl's expectation of happiness.

Vasily Sigarev about the film: "After the well-known events, my mother suddenly decided that now I can finally go to Crimea. She sincerely believed that it was impossible to get there earlier. As a result, it had to be urgently evacuated to Moscow, as it turned out that they did not take cards anywhere. And she, spit on a good tradition to carry money, sewing in panties, went, like a white man, with a card. Actually, all that she had time to do was go on some crazy excursion, where they were constantly filmed on the camera, then to sell the discs. From this disk and mounted a movie. I laughed so much when I watched that I decided to do something of this".

In the mid-50s of the last century, at the dawn of the Khrushchev thaw, an unknown young director Grigory Chukhray, whose debut - the film "Forty - first" - became a bid for big cinema, quickly and boldly broke into the Soviet cinema. Then, one after another, followed "The Ballad of the Soldier", "Clear Sky", which became a real breakthrough to historical truth and an example of civic courage.

The USSR was the last empire of the planet Earth. Mikhail Gorbachev is practically the only emperor who physically survived his empire. For ten years, the Russian TV viewer practically did not see the first and last president of the USSR. Moreover, we do not know how and how Gorbachev lives today, what he thinks about the past, what he expects from the future.

When you are 19 years old, you want to fall in love, walk, spend nights in frivolous conversations. All this is done by our heroine Lisa. But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that she has to earn her own living and take care of two paralyzed old men. And there is not a single person nearby to lean on. And Lisa lives in the world-famous town of Karabash, in an ecological disaster zone.

Jane was born in Petersburg, lives in Moscow, works as a model. Her father moved to Russia from Ghana when he was 20 years old. Listening to the stories of her father, Jane always wanted to go back home. She had never been to Africa, had not seen her relatives, including her grandmother and aunt ... Suddenly, Jane finds out that her aunt will become the leader of the region in Ghana and decides to go on a trip to Accra to attend the inauguration of the leader and meet her relatives ...

The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.

The film was shot in the intensive care unit of the 71st hospital in Moscow

Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.

Ivan Komendantov is only 16 years old. But he is already the secretary for ideology of the Stalingrad district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow. Vanya wants to quickly become an adult, so he enthusiastically takes up any business: whether it be the rise of the world economy or a special task to seduce a girl.

In September 2022, when mobilization was announced in Russia, residents of the Chukchi village of Egvekinot Maxim Teyunaut and Sergey Nechaev decided to escape so that they would not be sent to war in Ukraine.

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.

"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse." Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as a political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally what is death. A journey through the history of medical imaging and a reflection on the recent death of the director's mother in the decorations of post-Soviet Russia. Getting under the skin of the viewer, the film attempts to comprehend the complex subject of corporeality. The title Bile refers to the physical and mental conditions of the human being. In fact, black bile comes from the old Greek for melancholy: melas cholè.

The main character of the film is DJ Morze, a philologist by training, the creator and ideological inspirer of the OBERWAVE project - a community and a series of parties dedicated to sensual neo-decadent music and the aesthetics of a feast during the plague.

What makes people so attractive? With its beauty, unknownness, immense distance from the earth? Some have made this interest their profession and have become scientists - astronomers and astrophysicists, others have turned it into a hobby and all the free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories watch the starry sky, opening new stars, giving them names. About astronomy, astronomers - professionals and amateurs, tells this film.

A film about a girl who was born and raised in the city and dreamed of becoming a veterinarian to treat pets. But in the process of studying, she realized that she wanted to work in the village, take care of large animals. A fragile girl learns to cope with hard work and make a difficult choice between life and death.

It's time now just to live. Just love each other with the highest power of pure feelings. This movie started many years ago. When we began to shoot it we could hardly imagine how this drama would end. Back then, Lena, mother of three, living Russian soul, divorced the father of her kids Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. What was it? Now, after painful challenges, becoming husband and wife again, Lena and Yura, simple rural aristocrats of the spirit, once again amaze us with the depth of their introspection, delicacy of feelings, with humor and sadness about things that will never happen.

Andrei Proskuryakov's documentary delves into a profound examination and contemplation of the events that transpired on January 31, 1945. On that day, the Nazis perpetrated a large-scale execution of approximately 3,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp on the shores of the Baltic Sea, near the village of Palmnicken in East Prussia. The film is meticulously structured around three pivotal individuals: Martin Bergau, a former Hitler Youth member who was connected to the tragedy; Gunther Nitsch, a German-American writer whose grandfather was involved in exhuming the victims» bodies; and Simcha Koplowicz, the son of Sheva Koplowicz, a survivor of the massacre. Through these characters, the documentary meticulously examines the historical silence that surrounded this tragedy and endeavors to reveal the unvarnished truth surrounding the event.

A visual work at the intersection of cinema and performance, game and documentary approach. The project refers to the corporeality of human nature, the teachings of Mikhail Bakhtin about the carnival culture of the Middle Ages, quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Filming took place in the summer and autumn of 2015 on the wild beaches of the Crimea, where there has long been a culture of seasonal nudist settlements. Residents of these settlements voluntarily became participants in the project.

Once this place was one country, the Soviet Union, but now it is the border between the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania, Russia and the European Union. The Russians, whose ancestors were brought here from the east, still live in German houses, among German cemeteries. Across the border - Lithuania, which survived the Soviet occupation, the mass exile of Lithuanians to Siberia and regained independence 30 years ago with the collapse of the USSR. The life of the border regions on both sides of the two-meter fence may be different, but people are similar.

On July 25, 1980, the great Russian poet Vladimir Vysotsky died. He was 42 years old. He did not die in a duel like Pushkin and Lermontov, did not fall from a bullet and a noose like Mayakovsky and Yesenin. The cause of his death was no less dramatic. Vysotsky struggled with death for a long time. But by the beginning of 1980, this duel turned into a fierce fight. After 25 years, we present the first documentary evidence of this struggle. Everyone has the right to their own judgment about the death of a great poet, but no one's judgment can claim absolute truth. According to eyewitnesses, after the meeting of the new 1980, Vysotsky's disease began to progress and turned into a real agony. We will reconstruct the events with chronological accuracy from January 1 up to July 25, 1980. In our film, people who knew Vysotsky intimately in the last year of his life tell us.

A film about Olga Lander, a front-line photojournalist who endured all the hardships of the war and went down in the history of Russian and world photography.

A story about a unique person, the keeper of the Krasnaya Gorka fort, located in the village of Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Region, Alexander Ivanovich Senotrusov. About the Hero “in life”; about his unique path and fortitude; about how Alexander Ivanovich defended the fort and to this day guards it for us. The film will not only tell about the historical site, but will also reveal the significance of the fort, and will also show the amazing efforts of Alexander Ivanovich Senotrusov and his team to preserve this important site for future generations.

Gagarin's surname is known all over the world. The name Titov is not familiar to everyone today. But it could have been the other way around. Herman Titov could become the first cosmonaut of the planet! But just two days before the start, he was appointed Yuri Gagarin's understudy. Before that, they were on a par and, according to experts, Titov was ready to fly better than Gagarin. We will learn about why the world fame did not go to Titov, but Gagarin from the person closest to Titov — his widow Tamara. We also learn from her about the Titov family drama — the death of the firstborn, which could influence the decision of which of the two worthy ones to fly.

Several dozens of soldiers in the military train are transporting an exhibition with captured weapons from Syria across Russia. Artists of military ensembles accompany this festive event. In each city, they are greeted by thousands of people who dance and take pictures with them, while children swear allegiance to their homeland. The train that is mentioned in the film then travelled 28 000 km in 2 months and visited 62 cities.

"The Female Voice of the Arctic" is a documentary about bright and successful modern women, representatives of ethnic groups of the Sakha Republic.

Returning home, the young rapper Yarik thinks about who would again borrow money for food. Yarik writes a new track-the stakes are high, he wants to change his life. But a series of failures haunts the guy, the financial collapse is compounded – he is fired from his job. Yarik continues to work on the track. He admits to his girlfriend that he was cut, now she does not know how they will make ends meet, but the rapper assures that the release of the track will change everything. The day before the premiere of the song in periscope, Yarik learns that his PR agent will no longer be engaged in its promotion. The next day, Yarik and a friend prepare for the presentation of the song themselves...