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A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations. Hidden camera footage of negotiations with the owners of the largest national beauty contests and an attempt to answer the question of why these people are not yet in prison. Famous people on the jury are not a guarantee of fair judging. Irrefutable evidence of the corruption of the so-called “stars” who elect the next Miss and Mrs. The collection and subsequent theft of funds for charity is a side business of the owners of fraudulent shows. What actually awaits the titled Misses after purchasing the prize? And what do children's beauty pageants turn out to be like for young participants?

A monochromatic drama portraying the youth in Moscow. These individuals arrange concerts in deserted structures, host clandestine boxing matches, venture into nature, and remain uncertain about how this summer will conclude amidst the backdrop of war.

A story about abandoned churches in northwest Russia.

Plata: The Price of Risk — a documentary about how former Tinkoff Bank executives built a new bank in Mexico from the ground up. Oleg Tinkov, along with managers, developers, and product people from Russia — people who could have stayed home and lived comfortably. Instead, they left and bet everything on an impossible idea. How it turned out — watch the film.

Under the guidance of an experienced artist, the young performer will perfect one of his compositions and record it for the GAZGOLDER label. It is also the story of the formation of talent and the documented path of development of an aspiring artist — from finding himself to performing live with Basta.

Historical facts, evidence from the Russian Orthodox Church, forensic and graphological examinations, as well as the opinions of specialists from various fields who have studied the life of Saint Theodore of Tomsk and Emperor Alexander I the Blessed.

Endowed with outstanding cinematography, and in-depth interviews with competitors, this documentary underlines the gender parity being achieved at an Olympic level. Women compete in ski jumping for the first time at the Winter Games, and Canada is seen beating the United States at the last gasp in the women's ice hockey final. Disciplines given prominence here include speed skating, figure skating, aerial skiing, curling, and the biathlon. Training is analysed as much as the competitions themselves. A suite of accidents and mishaps, and the consequent tears of frustration, remind us that the Olympics is not just about winning.

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...

This documentary follows ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko from his forced exile from Russia, to his death from poisoning in November of 2006.

Valeria Guy Germanica's documentary "Emelianenko", dedicated to MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko.

This summer, a camp opens in a Yaroslavl village at an Orthodox community, where teenagers and families with special needs children live together for several weeks. Everyday life here includes prayers and services, chores and saunas, hikes and campfire songs. Teenagers take a break from their devices and learn to care for others, special needs children experience socializing outside the family, and their mothers are able to share the burden of care for the first time in their lives. Shared work and simple forms of happiness form a shared life, erasing the boundaries between "strong" and "weak," between those who help and those in need. All that remains is life: challenging, but full of love.

This documentary follows the story of a mother's love: from an empty heart to a tragedy that has changed her, to creation and love, from rejecting her own son to adopting someone else's child and accepting him as her own.

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.

The second film of Alexander Sokurov's documentary series "Petersburg Diary" is dedicated to the outstanding Soviet film director Grigory Kozintsev

Documentary montage film by Alexander Vartanov, a subjective look at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia

Where did the stereotypes come from that the "clock is ticking" and a woman must necessarily give birth to children under the pressure of social opinion before the age of 30? Forced pregnancy, reproductive violence and its victims — in the documentary "Fem.doc ".

A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural landscape unfolds, where Pushkin meets Godard, Sokurov, Dionysius, Eisenstein, Snyders, Glass, Ozu, and many others. Kleiman reveals the simplicity of mystery, and in doing so, reveals himself.

Having gone to Samarkand in search of traces of colonial culture, of which there were quite a few left there, having carefully photographed them, we suddenly discovered that it was not the dead buildings that were much more interesting, but the living carriers of this very colonial culture. The result is a film about people who live on the ruins of an empire.

Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s eight tableaus detail the various workplaces, colleagues and situations. To finish it off: deadpan commentary.

A documentary about the creation of Anna Asti's stadium concert.

The Northerners is a cycle of film essays with a focus on northern individualism. Each one of the three parts plays out in different places around the Kola Peninsula over one day. The story revolves around the everyday life of three people who share no formal ties. Igor, who belongs to a dynasty of pilots, is a polar aviation squad commander; Vasily is a tug master at Murmansk’s commercial port; Volodya is a woodcutter, leader of a logging guild. Like most of those living in the north of Russia, they came here for work, and though they weren’t initially planning on staying, they ended up staying forever.

This unconventional film is an observation Teodor Currentzis – one of the most extra-ordinary modern conductors. Backed by pieces from Mozart, Stravinsky, Jean-Philippe Rameau and with choreography by Jiri Kylian, this film is 64 minutes of love, light, life, beauty and being inside music.

In the mid-1990s, Guerra wrote scripts for two animated films by A. Khrzhanovsky, thus making his debut as an author in animation. These are the famous films "The Lion with the Gray Beard" and "The Long Journey". Animated films, where impossible fantasies come to life, seem to be the true territory of Guerra. The movement towards Russia becomes for the Italian master a movement along the vertical of creativity, a metaphor for the limitless possibilities of imagination.

Documentary film dedicated to the destiny of the great Soviet actress Tatyana Samoylova

A meld of legendary performers and contemporary artists of today who have been influenced by Ray's music perform in this concert extravaganza.

Baikal is the oldest, the deepest and the purest lake on the planet. But it's not only that - Baikal is an ideal model of our world, as it shall be. Everything is possible here: to walk on water, to touch the sky, to talk with the universe. Baikal is our hope and our future. It's a film about the thirst, about the eternity and about all of us. The genre is epic documentary. The aim is to change the world.

The world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin dreams of flying to the moon. Just like the 12th American astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1968, the space race between the USSR and the United States reaches its climax, and it has to pay for it at the cost of human life.

Donbass. The fourth year of the civil war. One of the military units of the legendary battalion "Vostok". Seven days of existence between war and peace, between hope and longing, between the summer haze and autumn thaw.

The story of the shy and quiet orphan, 16-year-old Red from Vladivostok.

Five star players, five world-class pros with fabulous fees. They are 20 years old, they already know what it means to win. This is the NaVi esports team. The filmmakers talk about a difficult time in their life associated with a major defeat and loss of champion status. Ahead of the guys is the final of the 2020 championship in Poland, which can once again raise them to the top.

The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).

Musical benefit of Lyudmila Gurchenko.

The fascinating and tumultuous lives of Mikhail, Boris and Denis Kaufman (better known as Dziga Vertov) are the focus of this powerful documentary. Using rare archival footage from Russian state film archives and private collections, the brothers' lives and art are traced from Bialystok to Moscow, Paris, and Hollywood.

How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters.

About the creation of the film "Andrei Rublev", about its deep philosophical and artistic meaning, the figure of Andrei Rublev himself and about the influence of the great iconographer on the work of Andrei Tarkovsky.

The telefilm is dedicated to one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

In 1991, the Communist Empire of the USSR was destroyed. And one of the main symbols of Soviet power — Lenin's Mausoleum and Lenin's Body itself were left without an owner. The film tells about Lenin's body, its contents, its protection and different opinions about the future of this body — to sell, to revive ..., to bury. "Lenin's Body" is a film about a society that survived the collapse of the Empire.

Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.

The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?

The hero of the film, the famous director, screenwriter, playwright Vasily Sigarev, tells stories from his life, which, when slightly transformed, become the stories of his plays. For the residents of his native Verkhnyaya Salda it's everyday. For the capital's theaters - an unprecedented reality of provincial life. For the audience - and laughter and horror. For the playwright - numerous prizes and endless pain.

From the Barents Sea, a chill wind seems to blow constantly across a semi-deserted town at the edge of the world. Nevertheless, a little community holds out here. In a flawlessly filmed portrait of this extraordinary place, the theme linking the residents is their determination to chart their own course. Bardak was a marine, but his garrison broke up and his comrades sought a better life elsewhere. He stayed behind among the many empty buildings that are slowly but surely being consumed by the elements. Meanwhile, Dima, a young poacher​, flouts as many rules as he can, but gives friendly directions to lost tourists and reads lovingly to his little daughter. Ferryman Alexander is locked in a silent generational battle with his teenage daughter Masha; her eyes are on the outside world. Further along, a little team of ships from the Second World War turns up, and a woman steadfastly runs a weather station.

Can one tear oneself from hearth and home, even if it is very boring and lonely there? Andrei, a small man in a small place, has spent 15 years of his life working in a community club. But today the large hall is empty; from time to time children come in here to sing. Meanwhile real Belarusian culture with its authentic singing conceals itself far from the state institution in a small local country house. Every now and then Andrei calls on here. Nevertheless he tries hard to revive virtually dead cultural center, his only place and reason for existence.

The word Chernobyl became known worldwide shortly after the 1986 blast. The small town Pripyat, situated just 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, up to this day serves to remind about the extent of the tragedy. Pripyat used to be a lively little town, both a powerful nuclear centre and a conveniently planned city with schools and urban apartments. It is now a dead, lifeless stretch of land littered with scraps of the past.

Darya Khrenova — a documentalist and the granddaughter of Ilya Trauberg, a successful apprentice of the great Sergey Eisenstein — is trying to solve the mystery of her grandfather’s death at DEFA studio, which he headed after WWII. During the process of the investigation she finds her family, gains more confidence, and takes up a challenge from her grandfather by directing feature films.

This film shows the leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution. It is the fragment of ‘Anniversary of the Revolution’ made by Vertov in 1918.

A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV shows and services of the most famous psychics with evidence, names and prices.

For years now, the Kremlin has been systematically trying to use well-trained hackers for its own benefit. In exchange for freedom and protection, they do the dirty work of the state, interfering in other countries’ elections and penetrating government networks. Just how dangerous is Russia’s cyber army?

Greece in summer during tourist season. In a five-star category "all inclusive" lives a seagull with a broken wing. Summer visitors behave differently to the wounded bird. Some do not notice it, others sympathize, others feed it and even try to heal the wounded seagull. How a bird of the seagull family reacts to a relationship so close to humans, the viewer will know by watching this dramatic story recorded on film.

An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.