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How to live in abandoned mining villages around Vorkuta.

Denis Bokuradze, director of the Gran chamber theatre from the provincial Volga city of Novokuibyshevsk, is eagerly awaiting the opening of the new stage. For the city of chemists and oil workers, this will be the first real city theatre in its history – Novokuibyshevsk has never had its own theatre building before. Construction takes up all the director’s free time from work on performances, distracting him from rehearsals, taking away his health and attention. Not everything is going smoothly: the builders are missing deadlines and at some point it seems that the construction may stop altogether. The director is trying with all his might to prevent this. At the same time, he is releasing a premiere, preparing for new productions and solving a host of everyday, organizational and creative problems that arise daily in the team and make up the life of a chamber theatre…

A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin's heir apparent; when he led Russia's democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin.

Uncle Vova is something like a crowd entertainer. For example, he plays various musical instruments for sick children in the hospital. But not only that. He has time And to look into the bar, and go to the church, and visit the old mother, and quarrel, and then reconcile with his wife. From the cancer center to the tavern, from the tavern to the kliros. What usually evokes sympathy for human weakness is here a friendly smile. Uncle Vova. It is impossible not to love him. Better have a drink with him.

A talented Buryat artist, working with stone in a unique technique, diligently contributes to his beloved Buryatia. His stones intricately and gracefully encode ethno-cultural motifs, mythology, and the uniqueness of the Buryat people. Will he have the opportunity to implement a significant monumental project, in addition to his small indoor works? This question troubles him, but recognition comes unexpectedly.

In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin passed a bill forbidding the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors.” LGBT youth, now defenseless against insults and intimidation under this “gay propaganda” law, are considered sick, sinful and abnormal. Psychologists, teachers and even parents can be fined or imprisoned for supporting them. Forty-five Russian teens and tweens share their stories through anonymous interviews and video diaries. They detail their humiliations and discriminations, as well as their courageous stands against bullies. Their testimonies are collected online as the Children 404 project, named after the common “error 404 - page not found” web message. The support group’s founder struggles within the system to bring public attention and empathy to the victims of this government-endorsed hate, while activist Pasha decides he must leave his homeland altogether if he hopes to find a boyfriend and lead a normal life. Has a new Stone Age arrived in Russia?

The painting tells the story of young people from St. Petersburg whose lives have been disrupted by the economic and political upheavals of our time.

Journalist Andrey Loshak went to the Velikoretsky procession, one of the main solemn church processions in Russia. Together with the pilgrims, he traveled almost 150 kilometers along the Velikaya River (Kirov region).

This is a film about meanings. More precisely, this is a film about women and the search for meanings. It is also a film about the largest lake in Europe, Ladoga, with its natural beauty and complicated history. And also about how she lives these days, Ladoga and her women… Seven days on the road, more than a thousand km of road, interesting meetings, important life questions, sincere answers to them.

The film crew of the TV program “Earth and Sky” arrives in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz, home to an astrophysical observatory, to prepare a report on a scientific conference. Their work is complicated by conflicts within the team, the host’s inexperience, and the fact that the events unexpectedly take on personal significance for him, shifting the focus of the shoot.

Young scientists are highly appreciated outside Russia. Western universities are hunting for them, seducing them with big money and good conditions. In this film, scientists will tell you why and for what they stay, what they dream about and what they think about the world around them.

This story, told on behalf of Katya Nikitina, is about how in Yekaterinburg in 2012 the authorities once again tried to close the City Without Drugs Foundation, and several criminal cases were initiated against its creator Yevgeny Roizman and like-minded people. At that time, there were about forty drug-addicted girls in the Foundation, among whom was Katya. Eight of them are still alive...

The author of the film captured director Rimas Tuminas in the process of working on the production of the play "The Queen of Spades" at the Bolshoi Theater in 2017.

We recall the bloodiest battle that has become a turning point in the European history of modern times - the Battle of Stalingrad: its causes, its main events. The film takes into account new research, uses little-known or previously unpublished materials of the Bundesarchiv and the Museum "Children of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad-Volgograd".

The story of Magda Goebbels, the wife of Goebbels, an associate of Hitler, is one of the most amazing and shocking stories of the 20th century. The world shuddered to learn that before the suicide in the bunker on May 1, 1945, which followed the suicide of Hitler and his inner circle, Magda Goebbels killed her six children. The youngest girl was 5 years old, the eldest was 12 years old. Only the eldest son of Magda Harald survived, he was at the front.

Belarus is the only country in Europe where there is still a compulsory assignment of students studying at the expense of the state budget. The best graduates of the country who have passed a large competition for admission and who have earned the right to study for free with their knowledge are sent to places where no one else agrees to work due to difficult working conditions and lack of infrastructure.

An attempt to capture reality without destroying it, and to find personal meaning in someone else's experience. One continuous shot - the author walks towards the sunset along the mountainside, shooting from the first person with a handheld camera. Behind the scenes, the story is told by a collage of many voices in a stream of thoughts: they are recorded during their travels, emphasized by the author's music.

Sergey is a taxi driver. Day - at home with his wife and children, two - at work. Day - at home with his wife and children, two - at work. Suddenly, a broken arm breaks this habitual rhythm: a month - at home, with his wife and children. Digging from idleness in the shed, Sergey finds a box from under the movie camera. I wanted to become a cameraman ... my parents dissuaded me ... went to the drivers ... married ... children. Sergey wants to find films and photographs that he shot 25 years ago. But where to find them? And what about them?

A behind-the-scenes look at the show of the Collectible Pieces collection by Ural fashion house Ushatava at the Garage Museum.

Fragments of a diary video epic.

A film about young hockey players who, under the guidance of coach Alexander Savchenko, won gold medals at the World Bandy Championship among youth under 18 in Sweden.

Street kids Kolya, Irina, Ksusha and Denis describe the abandoned building they live in as 'a Fairytale place' where anything is possible. Their gang have relied on each other since they were young kids; stealing, begging and turning tricks to survive on the streets of the broken, post-Soviet city of Perm, Russia. All born in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they have created their own kind of society as together they battle with freezing temperatures, harassment from the police and their very vulnerable existance, using drink and drugs to block out the horrors of life and escape into fantasy. The four face their brutal, unforgiving world with grit and often caustic humour, but now, on the brink of adulthood, time is running out for any of the group to escape their toxic situation. Told with candid honesty and heart-breaking humour, A RUSSIAN FAIRYTALE is both eye-opening and utterly compelling, with tragic revelations woven between glimmers of hope.

Twelve-year-old Aglaya dreams of making a film based on her own novel about the magical land of Kolhandra. During her summer vacation in the village, she gathers the neighbors' children and turns them into an amateur film crew. Together they search for locations, come up with costumes and get into character. But soon Aglaya realizes that bringing a fairy tale to life is much more difficult than simply making it up.

Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.

World Order is a nearly two-hour documentary film by documentary film director Vladimir Soloviev examining the vast political changes in the world since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1992. The film was first broadcast on Russian television channel Pervy Kanal on December 20.

They’ve grown up and are ready to enter into a new world, in the anticipation of the exam to get in the Architectural Institute. The rest of life goes on in parallel, everyone has their own problems, their reasons to cry, to choke on grief. The line, which they have to cross, looms ahead.

A story about primeval forests - a world of subtle connections that have been formed for thousands of years. Cedars, spruces, firs grow here, and on the European continent, such forests have survived only in the north of Russia.

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

A documentary melodrama about the birth of twins, conceived with the help of IVF. For several months, the film crew led the heroine to childbirth, facing the problems of late motherhood along the way. The film immerses us in the experiences of a woman and shows the true synergy of doctors and patients, united by a single goal – the birth of a new life.

This is a film about a director's workshop, which was led by People's Artist of the Russian Federation, director-producer Sergey Snezhkin and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, actress Margarita Bychkova. The film was shot by one of the students of this workshop and tells about the same students who studied directing and acting for five years and dreamed of a long and happy life in art, not yet realizing that on the path to a director's career there are no rules and guarantees, and after training the struggle for happiness will only begin...

Rain does not caress the skin, the wind resists blowing, a soul is like a doll forgotten in the house of glass. Tikhon Pendurin’s piece “Death of Cinema” is a dream of a film, the process of falling asleep, a frozen cosmos, the liturgy of a sigh. Fotogénie, a return to the forgotten magic of magician Segundo de Chomon, the mystery of Val del Omar, Alain Resnais surreal theatricality “Death of Cinema” seems to absorb all the magic of cinema and confesses its own forgetfulness. The characters of “Death of Cinema” stand before the justice of truth, naive children turned with pride away from the audience. Here, the main thing is the hallucination of light, a whisper, a prayer, the bewildered physiognomy of cinema, which allowed itself to laugh at its own seriousness. (by Karina Karaeva)

In the depths of Russia and on its outskirts, among the endless forests and fields, among abandoned factories and villages, as if in a long serene dream, there are portraits of young people from different parts of the Russian province, connected to the rest of the country only by a thin line of the railway track, along which they will all leave one day, so as not to return. Or have they already left…

The film tells about the organization and work of the Educational and Methodological Center for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations in Moscow.

The documentary follows Yuri Vella, writer and social activist of the Forest Nenets living in West-Siberia. To give his grandchildren proper education in their natural environment, he establishes an elementary school in his winter camp.

Descent into a cave is about overcoming obstacles, the manifestation of true character and willpower. Our heroes rush to overcome difficulties voluntarily. This is the only way that world discoveries occur. This is exactly what happened with the team of Demidov. Pavel Demidov and his team of Moscow extreme cavers were discoverers of the deepest secrets of the planet. They set a new world record: the Veryovkin cave in Abkhazia, conquered by them, turned out to be the deepest cave on the planet. Each time, researchers are not sure if they will able to come back.

*Zoo* is a film about what happens when a person takes responsibility for another living being. It is about the people who choose this work—once—and stay forever. About animals that fell victim to inhumane treatment but were saved within the zoo. And about how the world increasingly needs places like this—places where every life is priceless.

There are more than one hundred thousand graves in the central cemetery in Grozny. It has long been abandoned and turned into a forest. But among the thickets, rickety fences and monuments broken by shells, you can often meet the Chechen Saipuddin Guchigov. He believes that the souls of the dead are waiting for relatives and for many years he has been helping people from all over Russia find them.

A young man comes to his hometown and goes for an unplanned walk.

Grigory Pomerants and Zinaida Mirkina are wise men. The topics of their reflections are the need for loneliness, the fate of civilization, the meaning of suffering, and whether a clear conscience is possible.

The city of Suzdal was first recorded in ancient chronicles 1000 years ago. For centuries, it attracted the very energy of life and creative powers of outstanding people. The Grand Dukes Vladimir Monomakh, Yuri Dolgoruky, Andrei Bogolyubsky, Georgy Vsevolodovich erected powerful fortifications around the Kremlin, built and repeatedly rebuilt the main city cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, founded ensembles of princely residences around Suzdal - Kideksha and Bogolyubovo. They nurtured the capital of a new state, the prototype of the Moscow Tsardom - Vladimir on the Klyazma.

On October 20, 1982, during a match between Spartak Moscow and Dutch Haarlem, a stampede occurred on the stairs of the Luzhniki Stadium, in which, according to official data, 66 people died. On the day of the incident, only the visitors of the stadium found out about it, the next day — some of the relatives of the victims, and the information became public only 7 years later. As a result of the criminal case, several people from the stadium management were convicted, but perhaps they were not the only ones responsible for the tragedy. No one has ever put together her complete, comprehensive picture — and director Mikhail Reichelhaus is trying to do just that in his film. Detail by detail, he recreates the sequence of events of that day, relying on documents and talking with eyewitnesses — and it turns out not just an investigation, but also a real cast of that time.

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.

A short film about the St. Petersburg legend of stand-up comedy Yakov Manaenkov.

In recent years, a special "folk craft" has developed in Russia: in-line production of paintings, which are then sold at markets, highways, street vernissages. The film tells about the artel of artists working in this most popular and democratic genre of fine art.

How to turn a modest Instagram store into a small fashion empire? The creators of the brand of basic, laconic, but not boring clothing 12storeez from Yekaterinburg launched their business in the crisis of 2014. And everything worked out: now the brand has many stores across the country and several abroad, huge turnover, a showroom at the Trekhgornaya Manufactory and bright campaigns that invariably attract attention.

Alexander Dunaev was the chief director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater from 1967 to 1984.

A film by the famous documentarian Tofik Shakhverdiyev about Valentin Dikul and his patients, strong people, strong in spirit, able to stand on their feet when there was no hope for it after an accident...

Biblical motifs combined with Suprematism, plus a brilliant idea of integrating the movement of water in the Volga–Don Canal into the action.

The most numerous subculture is a nameless one: it’s the boys’ subculture. Mindlessly at first, they mimic the rituals and habits of adult men. Boys curse, boys raise glasses “for ladies not present here”, until they gradually evolve into men, becoming role models for the next generation of boys. The character of this montage film crafted from discovered tapes makes such full circle: through his childhood, a winter dacha with vodka shots, a picture-perfect 2000s vacation in Turkey and Egypt with his parents, and into adulthood and his own family.

Colombia. Lost City in the Jungle. The Lost City is considered a sacred place by the Indians. It contains the energy of the whole world. And the source of this energy is gold. For more than 30 years, a resident of the village of Machete – Pilao Marron leads tourists along a mountain path to the city, which was once the center of a golden civilization.

On the last in Russia narrow-gauge railway (UZhD), the felled timber is taken out. Together with the felled forest, the villages located nearby also perish. The void from the felling that has taken over everything around is getting closer and closer to the village where the heroes of the film live.

Masha goes to personal growth trainings. Every minute of life is subject to a routine, every step on the road to success is planned. The main thing is to be productive. Masha has a serious purpose.

Katya lives in Rostov-on-Don, studies economics and works part-time at McDonald's. During the World Cup, she became a volunteer - she walks with a huge foam hand and offers fans to "give five".

The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narration, which acquaints the viewer with the inhabitants, traditions, customs and modern realities of the Leningrad Region. The heroes of the plots are those people for whom the cities and villages where they live are the best on earth.

A film about a unique operation that took place during the Holocaust. In August 1942, 270 Jewish people went on a mortal campaign. They had to cross the front line and go through the territory completely occupied by the Nazis. Go through to survive. This group was headed by Nikolay Kiselyov. Leon Rubin is one of the few children who survived. He did everything to immortalize the name of their savior, partisan Kiselyov. “I did everything I had to. I want this to never happen again”. Never again.