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This story is about a journey, a relationship and returning home. He has already been driving his truck for twenty years throughout Russia while she waits him at home. He is alone on the road. She is together with her beloved pet, faithful friend and protector Irbis. This could continue for longer if he was not terminally ill.

Shot in and around Yakutsk, in a remote region of Siberia, this film wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction.

12-year-old Alyona is taken from a correctional orphanage to a foster family. She suddenly has a mother, father, grandmother, brothers, sisters, new friends. This is a film about how Alena and her relationships with others change in the first months of her new life.

Moscow has been growing and changing ever since it first appeared. And just like its streets, the stories and fates of its inhabitants intertwine with each other and with the city itself. The archaeologists and curators at the Museum of Moscow carefully preserve each such story and object. The museum is also a portal for time travel: here visitors come into contact with the secrets of the past. Do you want to find out what treasures Moscow had been hiding underground? How the oldest buildings and structures in Moscow are preserved? What the largest exhibit in the capital’s museum is? The film The Museum of Moscow. Custodian of Time will show you how Moscow generously shares its past with all who wish to discover it.

Someone called Father Arkady a punk priest, some called a hippie priest. Once he really hippie, and then he left with friends from Moscow to a remote Karelian village and began to build a temple. Over time, this remote village became a point of attraction for many people: poets, artists, scourges, withdrawal addicts, musicians, writers, criminals, photographers. Father Arkady was an unusual priest from the generation of the 90s and in some way reflected the fate of this generation. It all started with freedom and endless celebration, but what did it lead to? Is it all over, or is it just that Holiday has changed?

The story of the wanderer fascinated by the beauty of the native nature. The Old Believer and descendant of the famous tiger hunters Seletkovs, a hunter himself, he travels from the Yenisei to the Far East to visit his mother’s grave in the remote village at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. He will also get a chance to see his brothers, one of who has recently returned home with his family from Bolivia where he lived throughout life.

What is real life? This is when even death you can transform a part of life. This is exactly what Igor Alekseev, a doctor and writer from Saratov, did. In the face of imminent death from cancer, he began to keep an online diary and share with readers the experience of struggle and ... dying.

A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.

The shores of the Laptev Sea, a place of endless tundra and nothing except the tiny Evenk village of Naiba. How do these people live there? What do they do?

Sergey was 6 years old when he was trampled by a horse and became blind. Today he is a professional football player.

The film "His Battalion" in memory of the legendary Motorola includes chronicles of the fighting of Sparta for almost the entire period of the war until 2017.

A docudrama about the life and work of a prominent Soviet and Moldovan writer Ion Druță. In five short stories, both famous and emerging cultural figures from different countries, along with his fellow villagers and admirers, reminisce about the author. The film portrays the life and traditions of the Moldavian village where he grew up, as well as the last years of his life and fame, spent in Moscow.

The creator of the T-34 tank Mikhail Koshkin, mountain climber Mikhail Bobrov, Olympic champion Yuri Tyukalov, sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, composer Veniamin Basner did not perform ostentatious feats, but simply did their job, day after day bringing victory in the Great Patriotic War closer. Their destinies, like threads, intertwined into a single story of courage, talent and unbending will.

Boarding school at St. Nicholas-Shartomsky monastery in the village of Kleshchevka, Ivanovo region. The boys live in the forest with teachers - monks who try to educate them from modern times and educate novices from them. Of course, they protest and want to have fun.

One of the beatitudes says: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied." The heroes of the film "When Spring Comes", soldiers and musicians, poets and volunteers, came to the front line in search of the truth. Each of them has his own path, his own Golgotha. But the truth they are fighting for is the same for everyone.

The heroes of the film will be real people who have faced blood cancer, whose lives are hanging by a thread, who have received hope for salvation by finding an unrelated donor.

A small airport in the north of the Urals. One helicopter. For local residents, this is the only way to get to remote villages cut off by swamps.

A film about simple human love in a large family. The head of the family, Grigory Babanin, went through the Chechen war and managed to keep the warmth that he gives to his children, and there are 16 of them, and all are adopted.

Derby scooter is a sport born of dance marathons that has passed in almost a hundred years, from demonstrative female fights and tracks with alligators to a space where everyone is welcome and everyone is equal. Where is your derby name - a password that opens the door wherever there is a derby rollerball: in the whole world you will find like-minded people, you will be sheltered, fed and warmed. The film tells the story of the first Russian derby rollerball team - White Night Furies from St. Petersburg.

The chief engineer and a group of specialists conduct an inspection of the applicant’s apartment to detect the source of low-frequency noise.

A documentary essay about the life of the small village of Byki in the Kursk region.

Pavel, 28, moved Crimea to a Ukrainian village after the annexation of the peninsula. But it is not easy for him to integrate into the new society. It's easier to be alone.

What is the marriage of two independent creative personalities? What is a marriage made in heaven” and the cooperation of two completely self-sufficient creators? This film, filmed from inside the living environment of the characters, is trying to answer such questions.

The great Mark Rakita is rightfully considered the father of the Russian sabre. One of Russia's most decorated fencers, he won his first Olympic gold back in Tokyo in 1964, and the second in Mexico City in 1968. In addition, he is a six-time world champion, a five-time European champion and a three-time USSR champion. Mark Rakita is also a great fencing coach and teacher, and it's not for nothing that he was awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR: he trained Olympic champions Viktor Krovopuskov and Mikhail Burtsev, as well as three—time world champion Sergei Koryazhkin. Rakita was feared because he was considered the smartest saber player on the globe and won not at the expense of strength, but at the expense of intelligence. Today Mark Rakita is 87, but he is still in the ranks – he is chairman of the Council of Elders and chairman of the Coaching Council of the Russian Fencing Federation.

A documentary about student protests in Belarus. Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus! This is the slogan of all students, which originates from an old student song. Today we, the students of Belarus, instead of learning a variety of professions, are fighting for the right to live in a peaceful and free country.

A priest from Vyatskaya stupid wilderness father Leonid sings and writes poetry. Walks barefoot in winter and summer. In winter, only slippers wear - probably not to embarrass people. In the past, a well-known metropolitan poet, he returned to his native places - where Vyatlag once was and where to this day the zone is the only city-forming enterprise.

The documentary is about notorious criminal case resounded in 2009. Two young men devoted to gothic subculture were accused of cannibalism and cold blooded murder. Both convicts claim for false accusation and also that criminal case is lacking the evidence of crime. The director of the documentary got criminal case papers and presented the alternative version of this story.

The documentary follows the life of Farroukh, a young Tajik immigrant who lives in Moscow outskirts with his family and does odd jobs in dreams of becoming an actor.

Religious, philosophical, mystical interpretation of the traditional theme of Russian literature - "journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow." The cross and the circle, the eagle and the snake, the tree and the stone, Athens and Jerusalem, Babylon and Sodom, male and female - in these archetypal categories the author examines the fate of the Russian capital, its birth and death. The music used is by Anton von Webern, Sofia Gubaidulina, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Orthodox church and Russian folk music.

Usually people don't think about how they breathe. But try to hold your breath for five seconds. Ten. Fifteen. Is it hard? And how do those who have to fight for every breath live? The film tells about the life of people with the most common rare genetic disease of cystic fibrosis. About 3,500 people with this diagnosis live in Russia. Only a quarter of them will live to be 18 years old.

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.

A film-portrait of the outstanding conductor Vladimir Yurovsky, who led the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the E. Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra for many years. Now Yurovsky is the general musical director of the Bavarian State Opera and the artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. A man of the world, open to different cultures, but missing the Moscow winter.

The film tells about the unique Russian village of Alexandrovka, located in Potsdam, in the very center of Germany. This Russian settlement, built at the beginning of the 19th century, to this day keeps the memory of its distant homeland. The village was built specifically for 26 Russian soldiers with families - singing choir. Their descendants survived in this village until the 21st century. Unexpected relations of Russians and Germans, the intersection of "destinies, events" from the beginning of the XIX century to the present day.

Every summer, herds of salmon return to Sakhalin Island from the ocean. Every year their number is dramatically reduced. Vanya's family is destroyed like an ecosystem of wild salmon: his parents do not live together. Yielding to the persuasion of his elder brother, his father takes Vanya with him on a journey around the island. He promises Vanya to show him spawning salmon.

The film depicts the pilgrimage to Jerusalem of schema monk Makary with whom faith is not just the latest craze but the essence of his understanding of life. His main goal is to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, so the greatest value of his luggage is a huge number of memorial notes. In the Holy Land he meets monks, visits Orthodox churches and shrines, reflects on the eternal principles of human life - love, hope, faith.

In 1916, 26-year-old Boris Pasternak came to visit the family of chemist Boris Zbarsky, at that time the manager of the Morozov factories. Impressions from the trip were included in Pasternak's lyrical poems and determined the writer's further creative path. Perm became the prototype of the city of Yuryatin in the novel "Doctor Zhivago".

A film about how citizens defended their favorite square in the center of Yekaterinburg.

Was Hungary one the fascists’ side in WWII? Why does a hydraulic chair leg cost 245 rubles in Maxidom, but only costs 105 in «Leroy Merlin»? Did they have socialism there too? So they don’t have that wall paper? Did you know that it’s democratic parliamentarian republic? It’s the birthplace of the Rubik’s cube. You’d be better off holding this glue instead of goofing off. What would you do if you found out your father was a collaborator? The father was repressed, while the son was repressing the uprising. You know, I write about you in my scripts, I give out your secrets, so what do you feel? Is it dad’s wrench? Maybe they can think that you just made me up? Well, at first I didn’t like it, but then I accepted it. Can I go now?

Over a 2-year period, “DIY Country” captures the origins and evolution of the Donetsk People’s Republic in East Ukraine from hopeful and naive beginnings, to hate, destruction and infighting. In the first part we follow the sinister and at times comical mechanics of how our heroes make a Revolution that will immediately eat them up. In the second part we will see them trying to find a role to play in the new State, as power is once again taken away from the people.

Andrey Loshak's film from the series "Profession-reporter".

Silk Road Mountain Race is one of the most difficult multi-day cycling races, the route of which runs through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan: about two thousand kilometers at temperatures from +40 to -15 and with a total climb of 30 thousand meters. The extreme Silk Road attracts cyclists from all over the world, but not everyone manages to overcome it on full self-sufficiency. In 2023, two guys from Moscow, Maxim Lapchuk and Sasha Antipov, decided to test themselves and go on this journey. One of them had been preparing for it for three years, the other decided in a week, without going into details. In Peter Barabaki's film, they tell how it was, and invite the viewer to speculate with them on the question of how people come to realize a big dream — how much recklessness, heroism and risk there is in this, and in the end is it worth it.

For most of today's schoolchildren, the siege of Leningrad is just one page in a history textbook. This film is not yet another attempt to tell them about the abstract “feat of Leningrad”, but an opportunity to see with their own eyes what is behind the seeming state school course. For example, with the help of computer graphics, so close to the heart of modern youth, the authors of the film demonstrated what St. Petersburg would look like today if the veterans had not survived, if the city had been surrendered to the enemy.

“Meat Grinder 2” is an attempt, at one hand, to “listen” to the past – and to distance ourselves from the current moment on the other. The title is referred to the eponymous 1928 OBERIU’s film by Klimenti Mints and Aleksandr Razumovsky, which was proclaimed as an anti-war statement by the authors. “Meat Grinder 2” is constructed from the lines of people who witnessed an air raid. Each line reflects a certain auditory experience, and together they are built into a chronicle of one single day, the sequence of events of which is deconstructed in the film.

The first ever comprehensive history of animation worldwide. Animated with hosts created by Bill Plympton, this films includes over 160 films from 26 countries.

Johann Sebastian Bach was a hereditary musician and devoted his whole life to his favorite work – his brilliant music inspired more than one generation of composers and is still alive today...

There have always been those who said "No" to meat due to different reasons. Whether it be ethical choice, health care or responsible consumption. The film will tell who and why has been giving up eating meat in Russia, and how it's connected to Leo Tolstoy and to Soviet soy developments and to the principle of non-violence.

Two tramps in love. Once Sasha Kirilenko was a musician, and Natasha Latysheva was a journalist. At the turn of historical eras, they, like many of our compatriots, were thrown to the sidelines of life, thrown into Armenia by an inscrutable fate. Here their paths crossed and tied into a tragic knot of love and death.

Katerina Gordeeva's documentary about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine consists of dozens of interviews with Ukranians that have been first-hand witnesses of the war. People from Mariupol, Bucha, Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Volnovakha, Hostomel and other cities have participated in the making of the film. Gordeeva's interviewees recount how they found out about the invasion, how they hid from bombings and how they were forced to leave their homes.

Sound exploration of Krasnoyarsk spaces. Musician Alexander Pustynsky records improvisational musical sketches in various corners of the city and its environs, where the sounds of nature and the city can become part of the sound canvas.

Home is the story of four generations of a family of Russian Americans, descendants of the Golitsyns, a distinguished princely family. After fleeing Russia, they made their way to France, and from there to the United States. For more than two decades now they have lived in Alaska. This former Russian territory in some mysterious way provides a link if not to their native country, then to their Fatherland, which none of them has ever seen. In its wanderings this large family has not preserved material treasures, but rather their nobility and dignity—the foundation upon with their Home was built.

My grandmother doesn't even know where Russia is on the map so I write her a letter from the other side of the world.

Veronica and Alexander, the young family of Ukrainian artists, trapped in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, decided to escape to Vancouver, Canada. This film follows them while they wait for visa in the Fall of 2013.