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Moscow, Leningradsky railway station. This place. The time is ours. What fills this place in our time, what kind of people are here, what kind of experiences they have. And how the view of this place changes from these people and their experiences. This is what the film is about.

It has become commonplace: fools and roads are Russia's main disaster. Clever, but petty. We must finally look at the root of all evil. The first age-old trouble is power. The second, equal in size, is the people.

The film tells the story of the World Chess Championship match that took place in Dubai at the end of 2021. For millions of chess fans it was a dramatic three-week tournament between norwegian magnus carlsen and russian jan nepomnyaschy. “the dubai story: behind the scenes of world chess” offers a unique opportunity to see that match from a completely different perspective. never in the entire 136-year history of championship chess matches has a wide audience had a chance to see what goes on before, during and after the event – behind the scenes. unique footage takes viewers on an amazing journey through the atmosphere of preparation for the match where every little detail matters, revealing what challenges the organizers face and what the audience does during the three weeks that the tournament is taking place.

A young artist Gleb gets a job in a mental hospital, where he teaches painting to mentally ill people with neuroses, depression and other disorders. He is glad that he finally has the opportunity to do his favorite thing, while benefiting people. However, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Gleb has been losing faith in the future . Constantly listening to the news, losing close friends who have left the country, watching the horrific actions of the Russian authorities and the general mood around him, he increasingly doubts the adequacy of this world. As a result, Gleb comes to the conclusion that the mental hospital is now, oddly enough, the only normal place and decides to stay there.

Zoya is a journalist who lives on Sakhalin. She belongs to an indigenous small—numbered people - the Nivkh. As a child, she was bullied by her classmates because of her ethnicity, so she left her hometown at the first opportunity. But now she has to return to her native village of Nogliki. While spending winter evenings with her mother, Zoya writes down the stories and legends of her people. Writing a book helps her accept herself for who she is.

The story of the grand victory of the Soviet Union national basketball team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In the final, the Soviet athletes had to compete with the leader of world basketball, the US national team. The Americans have never conceded Olympic gold to anyone before. The main time of the match ended with a score of 49:50 in favor of the Americans. The United States team was already celebrating the victory. There were only three seconds left. No one believed that these three seconds could change not only the outcome of the meeting, but also the entire history of basketball.

Nizhny Tagil resident Andrey Gagarin comes on vacation to his homeland in the Komi-Permyatsky district in the village of Bolshaya Kocha, where in the past he led the folklore group "Micha Asyv" ("Clear Morning"). He visits relatives and friends, together they perform folk songs and dances, talk about the national traditions of their small northern people. In addition, together with all his fellow villagers, Andrei takes part in "bull-killing", an ancient rite of sacrifice of a bull, unusual for modern times.

A minimalist study of an old photograph, accidently found in an antique store. The more you look at it, the more things you see, yet you will never be able to grasp its true meaning. An exercise in looking closely.

The arctic mining city of Norilsk is one of the most polluted in the world - but many residents are still proud to call it home.

Sima is 20 years old. She moves from her grandfather and grandmother's house and finds herself face to face with herself. She tries to understand who she is. And for that goes in search of his father who was a known Soviet hippie dissident.

In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, in the Dybenko basements, drug addict children survive by taking drugs. This is an attempt to look into this terrible world from the inside.

The world of simultaneous interpreters looks absolutely hermetic, and they themselves are representatives of the “old” cultural elite. It began as almost secret knowledge, Soviet diplomatic staff and brilliantly educated Russian émigrés, forced to earn extra money as taxi drivers, largely created simultaneous translation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since the Nuremberg trials and the first UN meetings, simultaneous translation has been an important part of world diplomacy. But it won't always be like this. Perhaps, even during the lifetime of those who witnessed his birth, simultaneous translation will give way to machine translation.

72 years have passed as deer herder Vukvukai lives in the depths of Chukotka. He is an old man full of energy and wisdom - the 'real man of the tundra' whose life can not be seen apart from by the deer. His people take care of a huge herd - over 14,000 deer. Their life is a non-stop struggle for survival and well-being in the most harsh weather conditions of Chaun-Chukotka. They deeply believe in the strength of tradition and so succeed in their struggle. The ancient culture of Nomadic Chukchi takes care of them, so they preserve and follow it. As far as it is now - their realm remains stable.

The Khanty, an indigenous minority that lives in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, take pains to preserve their culture. Artist Nadezhda Taligina and residents of the villages of Muzhi and Yamgort discuss their national traditions, culture, dialects and contemporary realities.

Leonid Parfenov's program “Nabokov's Century” is dedicated to the centenary of the great Russian and American classic. These are, first of all, the stories of people who knew the writer closely: Elena Vladimirovna Nabokova-Sikorskaya - “the favorite sister of the favorite brother”, as Vladimir Vladimirovich called her, and Nabokov's son Dmitry Vladimirovich. Nabokov, who became a genius of two languages and two literatures, is an exceptional case. The film crew visited America, where Nabokov, an American professor of Russian literature, taught at Cornell University for a long time. The viewer will also see the St. Petersburg mansion and the house in Rozhdestvensko estate, where the happy childhood of the future writer took place, his apartment in the hotel in the Swiss town of Montreux, where Nabokov lived the last sixteen years of his life.

Four people have lived for many years in a small apartment. Their hearts remain young, but their minds, clouded by time and a sad, perpetually drunken fate, no longer function clearly and cannot think straight.

A family of Altai ornithologists will go to the south of the continent following the endangered steppe eagles. A similar trip — from the north of Russia to Africa — will be made by Vologda ornithologist Miroslav Babushkin. Sensors mounted on birds will allow scientists to track the eagles’ route and understand the dangers they can face. Ospreys and steppe eagles are birds living in Russia. They were much less fortunate than leopards and Amur tigers. And although feathered predators have all the makings of a “national brand” (remember whose image is displayed on the national emblem and minted on coins), it is likely that these species will soon remain only in heraldry, forever disappearing from the wild.

The film is dedicated to the life of the Christian home of hard work “Noah” for homeless people.

Mikhail Petrovich Zorin is the last surviving signalman of the first composition of the legendary 330th Infantry Regiment (86th Infantry Division), who heroically fought on the Nevsky Piglet during the defense of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. In April 1942, in the course of a powerful onslaught of the German group, almost all the soldiers who were at that time in the regiment's location were killed, and the wounded were taken prisoner. Mikhail Zorin survived thanks to a unique combination of circumstances.

A double portrait against the background of the past war: two participants of the Second world war-a former Wehrmacht soldier Wilfred and Alexandra, who lived in the occupied territory-talk about hatred, fear and death, which failed to destroy them.

Working as a chiropractor in a provincial town, Boris daily receives a wide variety of visitors, from small to large. Individuals are replaced in a never-ending flow, merging into an endless fabulous whirlpool against the background of a birch grove on the wall of the massage room, and there are already miracles and the devil wandering.

After the birth of the sixth child, the father left for another woman. The core of the family was the elder sister Natasha, herself a person of dramatic fate.

The legendary cultural critic, author of books about M. Babanova, B. Brecht, A. Tarkovsky, Maya Turovskaya tells us a novel. Childhood, in people, my universities… She tells it like a writer. Only her novel is not written, but shot on camera and supplemented with photos and newsreel footage. In other words, it's a movie monologue about time. About a communal apartment in Maly Kozikhinsky Lane in Moscow. About my parents and my father's arrest. About kindergarten and school. About friends and girlfriends. About teachers. About the beginning of the war and the evacuation to Sverdlovsk. About her husband, critic Boris Medvedev, who met the war on the border, and ended it in Stalingrad. About parallel studies at Moscow State University and at GITIS. About the fight against rootless cosmopolitans.

A visually impaired violinist, an unsuccessful pianist, an aspiring vocalist and a patriotic accordion player study at the Novosibirsk Conservatory. A musical documentary about their fears and dreams.

Thirteen-year-old Alina is going to summer camp. There, she shares a room with five other girls and takes part in the daily activities, which include games on the beach and lots of sports. At first she hangs back, hesitant, but she quickly finds her place in the group. She makes new friends, flirts with boys at the camp, dances in the evenings to loud music and shares secrets with her roommates. But it’s not so easy for everyone to find a place in the social structure of the camp. For Polina, the summer camp isn’t as warm and friendly as she’d hoped. Failing to connect with the other girls and feeling homesick, she withdraws into her own world. Paper Stars is a Russian coming-of-age film that, thanks to its direct camera style, is able to present an intimate, sensitive impression of teenage girls in a new environment where they feel unsure.

Dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the brilliant architect.

The film "Jazzist" tells about the formation of jazz in the USSR through the personal history and creative path of the musician, founder of the first in the Union jazz-rock ensemble "Arsenal" Alexey Kozlov.

Nestled in the hills of Transcaucasia, and entirely preserved in time, there are several villages founded by the Molokans – a Russian sect of Christians. They were exiled to the mountain Azerbaijani region of Kabristan by Czar Nicholas I in the 1830s. The Molokans now have all but become extinct. The remaining settlers now lack a succeeding generation to whom they could pass on their original traditions, and the film intends to make it possible for the local Molokans to reproduce their history for their descendants sprawled across the world. The film discovers the traces of hidden life left in Kabristan, while simultaneously unveiling the present-day lives of the locals.

On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov was the first cosmonaut to go into outer space, and in July 1975 he was the commander of the Soviet Soyuz-19 spacecraft, which flew as part of the first joint Soviet-American Soyuz—Apollo project. This film is a story about space flights on behalf of the famous cosmonaut during his trip to Kaliningrad.

The film tells about the Moscow art underground through the history of Moscow squats. What does it mean to live today and not adjust at a time when the king of Oats took away, as it seems to us, all the fairy tales?

A startling documentary about the world’s most brutal serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, a former Russian school teacher who was sentenced to death last October after a dramatic trial in which he was convicted of killing, mutilating, and cannibalising 52 women and children. Chikatilo is currently held in a bare provincial prison cell in the south of Russia awaiting a date with his executioner, giving exclusive interviews before and after the trial and plenty of astonishing footage captured by the police and KGB. We hear from relatives of his victims, former work colleagues, and experts on serial killers with the Moscow psychiatrist who proclaimed him sane. Highlights of the dramatic trial included the judges summing up and the sentencing which brought cheers and spontaneous applause from a packed courtroom in Rostov.

"Good Boys.." takes us on a candid tour of Russian youth culture...their dreams, their reality and the many surprising misconceptions of life in Tomsk, the cultural Athens of Siberia, in the 21st century, where a veritable renaissance is taking place.

In 1987, United Nations Commission on Human Rights approved the Resolution on Conscientious objection to military service based on “thought, conscience and religion”. In Russia, the right to have an alternative civil service was guaranteed for the first time by the 1993 Constitution.

On the day of the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, the icon of the Mother of God "Derzhavnaya" appeared to the Orthodox world. Historians and theologians believe that this miraculous event cannot be interpreted in any other way than as the assumption of earthly power by the Queen of Heaven to save the Russian land. The Queen is depicted with the Child Jesus on a royal throne, wearing a royal robe with the symbols of royal authority: a crown, a scepter, and a orb. You can worship the icon at the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye.

Military operators-from the great Patriotic war to the present day. The film is about those who, risking their lives, are always in the thick of things, but are behind the scenes.

The New Saint is a film about Yevgeny Rodionov, an ordinary young Russian boy who fell in the first Chechen war after being taken prisoner and refusing to convert to Islam. He was proclaimed a martyr and many Russians found in Yevgeny their own unofficial saint. The life of Yevgeny’s mother underwent a radical change when her child ‘became’ a saint. By campaigning for his canonisation she keeps the memory of her son alive. The success of her mission is illustrated by the portrayal of Yevgeny’s image on icons throughout the country. Who is this holy soldier exactly and what makes him the perfect icon of Russia today?

People born in Russia in 1917 tell about their fate. Deep personal memories of long-livers add up to the history of the country of the last century.

Zhukov's name was surrounded by rumors, legends, and myths during his lifetime, both positive and negative. Historians still wonder why he survived the army's "purge" before the war and why Stalin did not eliminate him in 1946, accusing him of being a Bonaparte and stealing German trophies.

The documentary film "Marlen. Farewell to the Sixties" is an attempt to go back to the sixties. In addition to the main character of the film, Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev, his sixties friends will try to go back in time and evaluate their lives and films from the distance of the years they lived: Georgy Danelia, Pyotr Todorovsky, Sergei Shakurov, Yuri Rost, Pavel Finn and others.

Yuri Gagarin is a real idol of the modern Leonardo da Vinci, the ingenious Italian artist Vincenzo Bianchi dedicated his museum on the mountain to the Soviet cosmonaut. The artist equates the spacewalk with the discovery by mankind of a new perspective, which once happened in the Italian Renaissance. The space discovered half a century ago is still not inhabited and not studied by man, so the Master invites like-minded people, students of the Moscow Art Lyceum, to the rock of Arts he created in Cervara di Roma, which rests on space. Does the New World Need Artists? And can they be one?

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.

This film is a journey from the modern world to the past, from the complex to the simple. Changing the appearance of cities is always associated with a change in the model of social relations. Through architecture, you can trace the course of history: victories and defeats, changes in the way of life of people and their key values. This is evidenced by the cities. Grozny, Volgograd, St. Petersburg, Pskov-absolutely not similar to each other, with different historical fate, however, the author shows in the film the common thing that unites their living space: the temple as an image of the universe. The largest mosque in Europe, Mamayev Kurgan, as a symbol of Victory in the World War, the polytheism of Imperial St. Petersburg, the heavenly city of ancient Pskov. However, any architectural project starts with a master pencil. The architect Andrey Anisimov tells about the exceptional features of these cities.

A found footage film compiled from countless YouTube videos in which the people of Russia make a direct appeal to president Putin. A kaleidoscope of the mood in the country – from submissive pleas to pure rage about injustice and rampant corruption.

This is a film about people sitting in booths in the middle of a big city, shoemakers, policemen, stationmasters, security guards and guest workers.

People came to the rally. Why are they here, what do they want to change and why do they leave so early? In a role of themselves - young and elderly citizens of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

In various states and forms (liquid, vapour, ice; raw and refined stone), the elements of this union aim to evoke, with a near-tactile chill on the skin, a multifaceted St. Petersburg: austere and enigmatic, monolithic yet secretive. Water and stone—two opposing forces—merge through human will, not to destroy one another but to create something marvellous. At a certain point, the boundary between ice and granite dissolves: ancient ammonites, once dwellers of the seas, turn to stone; the river’s icy veneer cracks like an old embankment. Out of mist or blizzard, Petrograd emerges before us.

A story about a man-legend, soldier of fortune, about the "mad" hero of Constantine Masaleva. A born warrior. About the fighter of the most terrible and ruthless division of the first Chechen war known as the"Mad company". This is a film about a deadly drug called war, about life after the war and PTSD. About love for Russia. And the strange, sometimes cruel" love " of Russia for its soldiers.

Stories about the past often revolved around lost manuscripts and rare books.

Marilyn Monroe is undoubtedly a sex symbol. In the vast territory of Russia, no woman was born in the 20th century who could claim this title. However, there were many male heroes. Vladimir Mayakovsky is undoubtedly the most prominent figure.

The film is an exploration of the world of contemporary Russian puppet animation through the prism of the experience of the famous artist Marina Kurchevskaya, director Stanislav Sokolov, VGIK students and students of the children's animation studio. The viewer will learn about the complexities and enchanting moments of creating puppets, about creative secrets and unique approaches to art that has continued to amaze with its liveliness and expressiveness for over a century. This film is about the magic of creativity, which inspires recognized masters and young enthusiasts to prefer puppets to all other techniques and delight the viewer with genuine masterpieces of "hand-made" animation.

How is science done? What is behind the scenes of popular lectures and speeches? The film shows three days in the life of the famous popularizer of science Stanislav Drobyshevsky. The film crew visited together with him on archaeological excavations in the village of Khotylevo, Bryansk region, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Department of Anthropology and at the conference "Scientists against Myths".

Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But she is in full swing at the House of Culture, where local residents rehearse the play based on a play by a Spanish playwright. The heroes poison each other, try to shoot their relatives, die writhing in convulsions - and at some point it is no longer clear where life is and where is the theater.

The film covers the period from the autumn of 1932, when Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, tragically died, to 2008. This is a film about how the relationship between Svetlana and Stalin changed, how it happened that even after the death of the leader, his shadow still pursued her, and she fled through cities and countries. The tape is based on a conversation with Svetlana Alliluyeva. The authors managed to find an 82-year-old woman in one of the American nursing homes, and Svetlana Iosifovna agreed to give a detailed interview.