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The film Maria's House talks about people with intellectual and mental disabilities. Children and youth who would otherwise be totally deprived of any future, live a normal life here with their everyday joys and sorrows. The village inhabitants have nowhere to hurry, they enjoy doing work they are capable of doing, they selflessly help each other, and they are always glad to welcome new guests. Happiness dwells here

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.

Travel two brothers-fans in Samara for the match the Russian team.

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'

A documentary biography of Russia's greatest filmmaker.

Ludmila Vasilieva survived the siege of Leningrad in 1944. The 83-year-old publicly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine while also running for the office of governor of Saint Petersburg, Russia's second largest city. I CHOOSE TO GO provides a glimpse inside her protest against a repressive system

Pavlensky/Pawlenski, artist and activist, is leading the way in forging social change in Russia. Through an multiple courageous performances, he acts as society's conscience in the face of an increasingly totalitarian state. From lying naked in a coil of barbed wire, to nailing his scrotum to the floor of Red Square, his acts of defiance aim to spark debate and catalyse reform. This documentary follows his mission to challenge the state.

The work of students of the documentary film and theater workshop Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov

This cinematic study tells us a story of one of the most famous lamas in Russia and Buryatia, XII Pandido Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov.

The documentary "We will be the first!" about boys who dream of becoming professional athletes was filmed for 3 years. During the filming, the characters turned into young people. Some of them were forced to give up their dreams, and someone got a ticket to Manchester United. Among the heroes of the film are the Honored coach of Russia Leonid Slutsky and the hope of Russian football 15-year-old Sergei Pinyaev.

More than 50 years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Russia is still divided. Was Stalin a great leader who made Russia into a superpower? Or was he a ruthless dictator, responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people? Virtually no family has been left untouched by the consequences of Stalin’s regime, and in every corner of the country, victims’ families are struggling with history. Throughout society, Stalin’s popularity is growing, and there is a yearning for a sense of national unity. The Red Soul shows how the past lives on in present-day Russia, and thus makes its mark on the future.

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.

Proskurina's personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the master and footage of the shooting of Russian Ark,

The history of the formation of Russian television in faces and memories.

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.

People's Artist of Russia Alexander Belyavsky has played in more than a hundred films, but the first thing that viewers remember is his role as Fox in Stanislav Govorukhin's legendary film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed." Despite the success of the film, the actor himself had always dreamed of a major comedic role. While waiting for offers from comedic directors, Alexander Belyavsky came up with the idea of a television humorous program called "Kabachok 13 Stulev" and hosted it for several years...

In this large family, everybody yearns for sex: both teenagers and adults. Inna is around 50, she is a well-known midwife and a specialist in soft labor. Despite her achievements, Inna feels unhappy. After a difficult divorce, four children support the mother, until one day there appears a mysterious lover who calls her on a journey. The heroine starts emergency fees, but not all issues can be resolved quickly and easily: Inna will have to endure the bureaucracy, the impassable stupidity of the small clerks, and most importantly, the condemnation of her children.

The film tells about the difficult fate of the inhabitants of the Tuoi Khaya village, which was flooded under the Bülüü (Vilyui) Reservoir. About the hardships and suffering of the 500 residents who were forcibly evicted from their homes in various ways and were promised new housing. Despite promises of both Soviet and republican authorities, so far the residents and their children haven't received any compensation. However, the most difficult ordeal for many was the loss of their small homeland.

The documentary "Soyuz-Apollo. The Force of Gravity" is dedicated to the history of the legendary "handshake in space" – the docking in near-Earth orbit of the Soviet and American spacecraft Soyuz-19 and Apollo in 1975. The event took place at the height of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA. The unique international project was an important step of the two nuclear powers towards each other, and the friendly handshake of the crew captains Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford in space inspired hope for a warming of the political climate on Earth. The film uses documentary newsreel footage and memoirs of participants in those historical events: pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR and the Russian Federation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Aviation Major General Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov and Aviation Lieutenant General, test pilot, NASA astronaut Thomas Patten Stafford.

The author's understanding of the causal mechanism of self-destruction of ideological Bolshevism and the country as a whole.

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.

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 film is the true story of Oscar Schindler’s wife, Emilie. Although lost to history (and left out of Spielberg’s movie altogether), the few survivors still alive testify in moving interviews to the fact it was Emilie who actually washed, clothed and fed the Jews her husband saved. This documentary will right a historical wrong and shine a light on Emilie Schindler’s dedication and the risks she took — another example of the man getting all the credit. The real Emilie (in a wheelchair) is shown in the last scene of Schindler’s List. She is wheeled toward Oscar’s grave, though viewers always assumed she was one of the survivors — not the woman who did the saving. (Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival)

In Nikolskoye village of Ruzsky district, farmers decided to restore the production of the first natural cheese of the Russian Empire. The tradition of making baked cheese dates back to 1795. The first cheese, named "Meschersky", was made in the home of Prince Meschersky in his estate of Lotochino. The sign of the village of Lotochina represents until now a merchant with a cheese wheel on a board. The prince had then brought from Switzerland a cheese maker named Johan Müller who developed a cheese recipe, founded a cheese-making school and settled in Russia with his family. Today, we managed to find his descendants; they live and work in the Alps. And make cheese. Very similar to the famous "Meschersky".

Graduated of the institute, Nikita comes to work at the best Kostroma’s factory. Now it is essential for him to learn how to dust down the veneer sheets and to put them into the dryer in the right way.

Former children's homes Inna and Dima are struggling to establish a normal life for themselves and their four-year-old daughter Vary, but something all the time goes wrong? not one, so another.

Is there a life after you got trapped in a rubbish chute? How long would you be able to live with your foot stuck in a bucket? Or with your head stuck in a turtleneck? And what if you enjoy it?..

In the summer of 2018, Olya Misik became known in the protest circles of Moscow as a “girl with the Constitution” - cadres as a young courageous girl read articles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation to riot policemen in all mass media. Not only journalists and students, but also policemen began to recognize the participant of the "Unlimited" street traffic. In September, Olya entered Zhurfak Moscow State University, and now she can be called a prominent Moscow activist.

1080 meters - the depth of the mine "Komsomolskaya", where the heroes of the film descend daily. Around - tundra and abandoned villages. Around Vorkuta there are five mines. After the explosion on the "North" - four. The city lives. Pasha and Roma drive cars around the city, telling us about their lives and finding themselves in various places.

Recent historical events in Ukraine - through the eyes of ordinary Ukrainians and Russians. Simple heroes - against the background of dramatic collisions. The second part of the documentary dilogy.

Is it easy to be a doctor in rural Russia? The main character of the film – doctor of Vologodsk air medical service Sergei Diakov – tells about struggle, hope, empathy and responsibility.

One of kind go pro footage takes you inside the world of 19 year old Kyrill Oreshkin, who has garnered a resputation for freeclimbing moscow's tallest structures.

The film tells about the life of journalist Anastasia Baburova, who was killed on January 19, 2009 in Moscow together with famous lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

Rock is music for young people. Nick Rock-n-Roll, the protagonist of the film, doesn’t agree with it all. He’s 48 years old and as during his youth he still feels music deeply and looking for something special, unusual, which is out of stereotypes and mainstream. This film is about immersion in a world of new independent rock-music in Russia. Dipping into it Nick Rock-n-Roll remembers his own life, analyzing the nature of his passionate love to rock. His eternal search allows Nick not to feel his age that’s why it is necessary for him always to slake his thirst. Features four independent bands: Bosch's With You, Last Tanks in Paris (П.Т.В.П.), Deti Picasso, Salvador

This film is about three modern Russian singers (Irina Bogushevskaya, Svetlana Surganova, Anna Gerasimova), whose life and creative path can serve as a model of fortitude. Each of them had to overcome difficult life trials and remain true to themselves and their creativity. The author of the film and their colleague Elena Pogrebizhskaya talks about these outstanding women with a tragic revelation.

The story presented to the viewer is both the story of Lenfilm, the most difficult period of his life, and the story of the Lenfilm artist Viktor Ivanov, who preserved human dignity and the history of our country in difficult conditions. The time in which Victor lived and worked was not easy: perestroika with its illusions and disappointments. One of the foundations of the film is Vitya's latest work, the cartoon "Sirin", which became his kind of message, a story about his time. The film also features numerous chronicle materials and interviews with famous St. Petersburg cinematographers.

Armed with nothing more than a Yamaha keyboard, Valentin commutes back and forth between his shared flat and a metro underpass in search of happiness.

This film is about love between a father and his daughter, about the Russian soul and about the corners of the earth forgotten by civilization, where passions sometimes heat up to the limit.

The film tells about one of the most mysterious peoples of the planet, the Dogon. The Dogon live in southeastern Mali in villages scattered over the rocks of Bandiagara like bird nests. They consider themselves aliens from the planet Sirius B and have knowledge in the field of the structure of the solar system, which scientists became aware of only at the end of the 19th century. Together with the hunter Assama and his family, the author gradually comprehends the multifaceted palette of Dogon life.

Among those who took to the streets of Russian cities in recent months are people of various political views. This is the story of a young Russian nationalist.

Cinema not only unites, entertains, amazes and educates, but also helps to understand yourself. What do children watch, how do they understand and appreciate in cinema and animation? How do the films viewed affect the behavior of children, their emotions and feelings? Experiments, observations, opinions in a documentary about the interaction of the screen and the young viewer.

The life of the inhabitants of a shelter near Moscow for people in a crisis situation: women with young children, the homeless, victims of abuse.

Gena Chudnenko was born in prison. He also returned there as a teenager-an orphanage worker. And the guy would have had a typical fate for an orphanage: "He stole, drank, went to prison..." if he hadn't started building a temple in the Gene colony. And a miracle happened: a guy with no secondary education built a huge temple according to all the canons of ancient Russian architecture! Since then, Hieromonk Gerontius has built two wooden monasteries of rare beauty and several amazing wooden temples. And most importantly, he brought dozens of ex-cons to God. The author of the film tries to answer the question "how is this possible?", revealing the character of the hero.

An experimental film by Dima Teplov and Pavel Korolko about what an hour of time is when the sun leaves us.

In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads there. A long trip on the Ienissei River, first by boat, then by helicopter, is the only way to reach Braguino. Self-sufficient, both families live there according to their own rules and principles. In the middle of the village: a barrier. The two families refuse to speak. In the river sits an island, where another community is being built : that of the children. Free, unpredictable, wild. Stemming from the fear of the other, that of wild beasts, and the joy procured by the immensity of the forest, unravels a cruel tale in which tensions and fear give shape to the geography of an ancestral conflict.

Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre’s first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play about a family whose members have ceased to understand each other. While working on the play, the director and actors become more and more like the characters in the future production, and find it increasingly difficult to find mutual understanding within their “theatrical family.”

“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.

Spring is a time of love, lightness and endorphins. But the spring of 2020 turned out to be very different, isolating us from each other. The Vesna project tells 14 stories about people who, like all of us, found themselves in quarantine, but were able to learn something important and valuable from this experience. Moscow promoter Andrey Algorithmik, who self-isolated himself in the Powerhouse club he founded; Tbilisi gallerist Giorgi Rodionov, who started recording a podcast about dreams; sex blogger Alina Shikut, who launched an online course about accepting your body; a Director who went to a remote village, and a famous photographer who takes pictures of empty Moscow-14 documentary sketches add up to a General portrait of an optimist in quarantine: after all, spring is also a time of renewal.

About the tragic fate of the German teenager Hubert Loste, who by the will of circumstances came to the USSR in the era of the "great construction projects" and the "great terror".

The robinsonade of the Polish settler of the XIX century Mikhail Yankovsky in the Far East today directly rhymes with the national project "Far Eastern Hectare". Already 78 thousand people have taken advantage of the unprecedented support of the state and have taken land to dare in the fields of free farming. Twenty–year-old descendant of Mikhail Yankovsky - Egor Bordovsky goes from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok to find himself and master his hectare. Having lost contact with his son, his father also goes to the Far East after Egor.

The film is dedicated to the artistic journey of director Alexei Uchitel, who began as a documentary filmmaker (“Rock”, “Obvodny Canal”), made a name with his debut feature films “Giselle’s Mania”, “His Wife’s Diary”, distinguished himself with experimental films “The Stroll”, “Dreaming of Space”, “Tsoi” and multi-budget “The Edge” and “Mathilde”. In the film dedicated to his 70th anniversary, when it is already possible to formulate some results, his favorite artists will help to reveal the endless variety of his creative palette: Yu. Shevchuk, O. Budina, E. Tsyganov, G. Tyunina, E. Mironov, V Mashkov, Y. Peresild, D. Kozlovsky, I. Vernik, S. Garmash. The film uses archival materials of the author, who visited (with a camera) almost all the film sets of his protagonist, whose comments on his new projects will speckle the whole film.

On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in the very center of the capital.. this film, shot spontaneously, sums up the results of 2017, informing and enclosing all the absurdity and absurdity of everything that is happening in our country.

A documentary about people who are engaged in sport dancing in wheelchairs. In the centre of the film are two important personalities; Lena Lozko who founded the Russian Federation of Wheelchair Dance Sport and opened the first Russian club and Alex Berdnikova a member who has over seven years of experience dancing in a wheelchair.

The film is about traveling across 6 seas of the European part of Russia for one month. 8675 kilometers, 45 kilograms, 30 days, 28 commuter trains, 19 cities, 14 dogs, 12 T-shirts, 11 liters, 10 commandments, 7 sins, 2 people.

There are many legends associated with the voodoo religion. Her rituals are surrounded by an aura of mystery. The small West African state of Benin is considered the cradle of this religion. In the holds of slave ships, the voodoo religion crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and now there are over 50 million of its adherents in the world. The protagonist of the film, a teenager Pascal, will have to undergo initiation into the most mysterious cult on earth.

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of modern television changed the history of mankind. The invention has an author, who is almost unknown in his homeland. Vladimir Zworykin, born in Murom, a Russian American, was the person who created distant wireless transmission of images.