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Old age is what awaits us all. But some just live their lives, while others live without noticing years. Our hero - an artist - a painter, a man who is not discouraged. He is 79 years old and still romantic. He had four wives and did not count how many “muses”. And he wants to fall in love again and only then die. The main thing for him is the love of painting and of course the love of life.

A documentary series about living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project participants are people from different countries who have different attitudes towards forced seclusion and are ready for a lively discussion. “When it's time to close at home, it's time to open up to the world,” is one of the series' slogans.

The protagonist in this experimental documentary is the homeless young artist and drifter Katya Krenalinova, who burned down the house of her mother and stepfather. And now she sleeps at her studio, scraping together just enough to survive. Alexandra Lihacheva places Krenalinova center stage in her directorial debut. She is on-screen for almost the entire documentary: in extreme close-up while being cross-examined by the public prosecutor, and muddled but stoical as she reveals her motives. She has no regrets, and she would be just as happy to set the entire city alight. In the rare moments that Katya is filmed outside, she wanders around in the snow near the burned down house. She poses for the camera like a model in an artistic music video, elusive and mysterious.

People live on the edge of the earth, trying to make money by poaching. Children do not notice the humility of their parents and the chaos surrounding them. Chaos is not so much in the world around us as in the people themselves. Time has stopped, the days repeat each other, and the children gradually become like their fathers.

A fine thread weave scraps at the crossroads of the art cinema, documentary and improvisation with the participation of residents of the five authentic regions of Russia. The characters of the film, artists and fashion designers, will go through the way of reflection and rethinking the outgoing culture, becoming participants of amazing rites and witnesses of the disappearing way of life. Drama, comedy, phantasmagoria - everything is connected with a thin thread with folk philosophy, sadness and beauty of folk culture, ancient signs and new readings.

The Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians who left the power of the Moscow prince for the harsh forests of the Tersky coast in order to preserve their former freemen. Today they fish, farm and even plant forests. They will not exchange their harsh, difficult, but free life for any other.

Over the course of his long career, Boris Efimov drew political cartoons about pretty much every important world event. He spent his entire career at periodicals and newspapers such as Pravda, meaning that for many years he drew under the most exacting, watchful eye of Stalin. In this film made just before his death in 2008 at the age of 108, Efimov explains in one of the many conversations with the director Kevin McNeer that his feelings about the dictator are ambivalent.

A documentary about financial crisis in Russia.

The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.

In the 21st century, under the influence of anti-hunting activism, the very idea that hunting is wrong from a moral point of view since the hunter “enjoys killing” is formed in the mass consciousness. And in general - that rich hunters are wiping out endangered species. Sergey Yastrzhembsky, who never hid his passion for hunting despite facing negative and sometimes aggressive comments, decided, as he himself said, «to restore justice». This is a film about how a properly organized wildlife management changes the everyday life of people for the better, rebuilds the state treasury, creates thousands of new jobs, preserves rare species of animals.

Four guys from Russia went on a 30-day biking trip from Liverpool to London looking for new world music stars. Concert halls and recording studios, rehearsal spaces and record labels, festivals, clubs and streets. As a result: the unique stories from the talented musicians and their live playing against the background of the most musical landscape in the world.

Scientist Efim Lieberman, one of the founders of biophysics, shocked many with his eccentricity. But his contribution to science cannot be underestimated. Together with his colleague Vladimir Skulachev, he proved Mitchell's hypothesis about energy exchange in a cell. This was the second most fundamental discovery, after the discovery of the DNA double helix. In the late 70s, Efim Lieberman created a theory of the quantum computer and the quantum nature of consciousness, many decades ahead of time. And at the end of his life, he sets himself the task of creating new knowledge that unites all sciences and religion.

The film tells us about the history of the Moscow Donskoy monastery and the personality of Patriarch Tikhon. During the difficult years of persecution of the Russian Church, from November 1917 to April 1925, he led it, trying to keep the Orthodox faith pure.

This story is about the birth, rise and fall of a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian cinema - about the "era of cooperative cinema". It did not last long, some 10 years, began in the first years of perestroika and ended by the end of the nineties, but left behind a trail of rumors and legends.

A few weeks from the life of a young Paralympic Andrei Filippov (19 years old), a master of sports in swimming of the blind. Having met with Andrei in his small homeland, we will go along with him a short but important way - from home training in Volgograd to playing in Moscow at the Russian Cup. In this journey, we will try to get to know Andrey a little better and understand how he lives. Every day he has to overcome a variety of difficulties: moral, financial, health problems ... Andrei was born an albino with 5 percent vision in that city where, according to him, being special is almost a crime. And from early childhood he was used to mockery and misunderstanding of his peers. All these years, Andrei has been opposing himself to the world around him, and swimming for him has become a way of fighting for a "place in the sun." In his case, this expression acquires an additional coloring, because direct contact with sunlight is contraindicated for albinos.

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.

The film is about Bulat Okudzhava.

The history of the creation and formation of the innovative online bank of Central and Eastern Europe - Tinkoff. This is a story about how to create a digital bank without branches, and then turn it into a lifestyle ecosystem.

Set against the backdrop of major historical events of the 20th century – the revolution, the dissolution of the Russian Empire, wars, the Stalinist regime – this film tells the stories of people who lived in Perm in different years.

Two skaters from Russia and two skaters from American come together to find friendship and redemption.

Carlos has been just born. He is the sweetest of the babies, but his grandmother is very sorry that he’s was born dark skin. Grandfather Sergey Mikhailovich wants to drink to the health of his grandson and celebrate this event, but grandmother doesn’t allows him to drink. Grandfather wants Carlos to know that he was born in the Great Russian Empire. This is Carlos’s first new year, and I made a movie so that he would remember it, and to talk about hilarious and painful things happening in my new family.

A documentary on women in St. Petersburg who enroll in a program which will help them land millionaire husbands.

The documentary film narrates about blacklist swamps destined to drainage and life stories of its habitants. The film acquaints us with unusual beauty of swamps that save water, make the climate mild, are shelter for many species of birds and animals, as well as for the ancient legends. The film addresses the topic of swamps ecosystem devastation as a result of peat extraction. The audience will hear stories of locals about how their life and home changed by peat reclamation.

A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.

This is a candid and emotional project of Russian-Israeli writer and screenwriter Dina Rubina. Together with director and her close friend Stanislav Mitin she goes back to her childhood and youth spent in Tashkent, contemplates her creative early days in Moscow, and shares how she feels about immigration to Jerusalem. The film is full of excerpts from the writer’s famous works, episodes from films based on her writing, and sketches from her current life. It is dedicated to the anniversary of Dina Rubina - one of the most widely read contemporary authors and recipient of many international awards, whose books are translated into 38 languages.

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.

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.

This film is based on the real events of 1958. He talks about the tests of a secret bomber created by Soviet aircraft designers.

For three years, filmmaker Staffan Julén has traveled with Svetlana Alexievich in Belarus and Russia to document her working method when her reportage books are created. At first, filmmaker Staffan Julén wanted to make a traditional writer portrait on Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich which she was not interested in. Her suggestion was instead that he would tag along with her in her ongoing projects and follow her when she talks to people about love.

Winter, black and white city zero. There is a spy around every corner, a door ready to come for you, an invasion of your personal space in every movement. The hero runs through the stone city, running not only from the ubiquitous system, but also from himself in it. Its history is a fragment of the everyday life in which we do not even wonder what this is for the next check on the road and who unceremoniously enters our house.

In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the “Serebrennikov case”, “the Seventh Studio case” or “The Platform case”. Six people, among whom is a world-famous director, are accused of having stolen more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances from the state. And for this they can go to jail for 10 years. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out the essence of this matter. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. Studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever succeeded. They understood why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, went to all court sessions.

Documentary film from the set of Igor Olshansky’s debut short film “Easter”. Igor Olshansky is a participant of Alexander Sokurov’s programme “Example of Intonation”, a non-commercial film support foundation.

Diana Arbenina is a unique rock star and an idol for many generations. She became popular back in the 90s and still does not leave the stage, filling stadiums. However, her story is not only a series of rock concerts, but also tragic turns in fate, the bitterness of losing loved ones, the joy of motherhood and an endless flow of emotions and love of life, which allows her to overcome herself, create, write music and make people happy. Together with Diana, the viewer will live one day in the life of a rock star: meetings, rehearsals, training, caring for children, communication with her mother, the premiere of a series with her participation. How does a person who is constantly in sight live?

The film is based on the amazing life and incredible fate of Tamara Lisitsian, an honored Artist of the RSFSR, a film director, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and a military intelligence officer.

In the early 70s of the twentieth century, a gramophone record called "Lute music of the XV-XVII centuries" arrived in music stores. She was a truly stunning success and was in almost every Soviet family. The first number on it was the work "Canzone" by the composer Francesco da Milano (1497-1543). To the tune of the "Canzone", the poet Henri Volokhonsky composed the poem "Over the Blue Sky", using biblical images from the Old Testament Book of the prophet Ezekiel. The song "Under the Blue Sky" became the most famous ballad, and the aria "Ave Maria" became a worldwide opera hit. And suddenly, twenty years after the release of the record, it turned out that the withered Italian composers on the cover do not have such works, and their author is the Hero of our film – self-taught Vladimir Vavilov. In the film, Andrey "Ryusha" Reshetin, a violinist, researcher of Russian music and language of the Baroque era, discusses the secrets of music.

A meditative observation of the life of a patriotic park in the depths of Russia. People, driven by propaganda, create the myth of war over and over again. By reconstructing the events of past wars they prepare for the new one.

The most recent work presented in the retrospective, assembled primarily from the directors’ own archives and depicting Novosibirsk’s music scene of the 1990s. A fragmented form and shifting rhythm characterise the visual element of the film as well as its auditory dimension. Guitar noise dissolves into hauntological film loops and indistinct speech merges with fragments of radio and television broadcasts.

A found footage documentary about a volatile young filmmaking couple.

The execution of Nicholas II and his family gave rise to one of the most mysterious questions in Russian history. Did Princess Anastasia manage to escape? Anna Anderson spent her life trying to prove her royal origin. Would modern science put an end to this story? Memories of witnesses, historical documents, genetic analysis, and the letters of Anastasia-Anna Anderson will bring the viewer to the era of terrible shocks in Russia and disclose the secret of the daughter of Emperor Nicholas II.

Sasha lives with his mum in a village in Tatarstan, Russia. He wants to become a soldier. At the age of 9, he joined the Cadet Corps. Now he plans to study in the Naval Academy. His mum insists she will not let him go. Sasha tells his friend about a terrifying family secret. His father was part of a gang and murdered. A few years later, Sasha's mum married another man.

A look at Lenin's Mausoleum as a symbol of Russia's enduring and divided legacy.

Poetic essay on contemporary economic and spiritual problems in Russia.

The Yeisk Chronicles: Not only Mordyukova and Bondarchuk, is dedicated to creative people whose biographies began on Yeisk land.

Grigory Pomerantz did all the war from 1941 to 1945, roamed the Stalingrad circle, was in all the hottest battles, went all the way to Berlin. His observations and reflections on the meaning of war and man caught in the war are shocking. Nobody had thought of this way in the Great Patriotic War.

“Cinema devoured me” said Lyudmila Kusakova, one of the first women art directors at “Mosfilm”. In her hands the panoply of items found at municipal dumps mutated into magical film sets which became a part the golden fund of our cinema. in her work she enjoyed the support of her husband and mentor mikhail kartashov. he helped lyudmila to find beauty in everyday articles and be ahead of time with her ideas. but dissimilar world views inevitably told on their marriage. can love withstand the tribulations in the family of two creative people for whom art and cinema became the meaning of life?

The first feature-length Yakut film. A film that tells in a documentary and game form about the rituals, customs, beliefs, life and lifestyle of the Sakha people. The director recreated on the screen the ancient rituals of the life cycle, almost forgotten by the current Sakha.

Young geographers Kirill Puzanov and Maria Pisareva embark on a journey through unexplored places in the Moscow region. Travelers learn about the characteristics of various animals, walk through the swamps, observe the habits of birds, discover amazing cities, walk through the stunning reserves of the Moscow region. Moreover, the heroes study nature not only on earth, for the most part Cyril and Maria observe nature from a bird's eye view, from a small two-seater plane. It is thanks to small aircraft that a new look at the Moscow region appears.

A bleak look into Ural's art underground after the closure of the Narodnaya gallery, probing into the position these artists hold outside the ambit of institutions and community.

10 June 2013 with a budget of 100 rubles a day, hoping to hitchhike, I went from Obninsk Russia to the east. The ultimate goal was Vladivostok. Had to overcome a distance of 9200 km. During the time I was not restricted. With people, you see, I spent a few hours with someone a few days, but none of them I did not know until this trip

A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.

The creators explore what the cross is like as a cornerstone symbol for humanity, what its installation on Earth means for people and how this changed the picture of the world of peoples and generations.

Every evening a group of grandmothers-druzhinnits appears on the outskirts of Kaluga. Almost all of them over eighty. Armed with red armbands and a formidable word, they come out to clean up their neighborhood. To local drunkards to drink in a court yard became much more difficult.

In his unpublished main work, The Boards of Fate, Velimir Khlebnikov discovered the Law of Time, according to which, as he believed, world history unfolds. "The Law of Time", as well as other discoveries by Khlebnikov, are presented in the film in a playful way with the participation of young people.

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.

The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.