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The film investigates Muscovites’ attitude to home, it is a story about the tough choices that we make in a big city. The characters of the film are young people who have new values: the importance of living near work, the gym, the city center or being able to quickly put all they have in boxes and move to a new place. Nevertheless, for each of them, it is still important to see their home as a reference point, endowed with special sentimental characteristics, which they are constantly searching.

Shots of forgotten songs, rural and urban landscapes of the hinterland. Young people..

At the cemetery of Armenian town Gjumry one can meet a teenage boy who works as a grave cleaner along with grownup colleagues.

Oleg Kirillov - coach of the intuitive football team. It's hard to believe, but his wards are members of the national football team of the Republic of Belarus among the blind. Each of them appeared on the field for various reasons, but today they face a common task - to maintain their champion status in the national competition. Kirillov himself grew up in a disabled family and knows well how to communicate with his wards. He is not only a mentor, but also a friend of each of the athletes. An important element of the film is work with sound, it completely restored the sound environment that is natural for players, in which they focus on the noise made by the ball and the clear instructions of the coach.

Film-essay about the original villages of the small people of Ludiki. The action takes place in Karelia. The film consists of three parts, each of which is dedicated to one village. Everyday life, myths, fairy tales, people and nature live a special life here, in which everything is important and everything is interconnected. The film contains fragments of a song in the Ludik language, which resembles Kalevala in content.

Viewers of this film will be able to learn in detail, to see with their own eyes how block by block, workshop by workshop in the factory territories, our assault troops liberated the city from the armed formations of the Kiev regime. They will see the finale of the operation – columns of hundreds of psychologically broken Ukrainian soldiers surrendering, and the raising of the first Russian flag in Mariupol.

Ancient and relatively recent prophecies that warned of a global flood. Scientists are trying to figure out the causes of today's anomalies.

In Donetsk, in the terrible and destructive atmosphere of the war, the violin teacher Larisa is raising a children's quartet. Music lessons help children escape from the effects of total horror. larisa inspires children with her example of resilience and courage, desperately hiding her personal family tragedy. soon the quartet will fall apart and the children will disperse in different directions. before that, they will have their last joint performance in moscow, in which they will enter into far from their last battle with darkness, horror and death.

Documentary-chronicle." A film about the 30s of the twentieth century, built exclusively on chronicle footage. His epilogue may be the phrase: "And tomorrow there was a war" - in the meantime, people go to work, walk with children, celebrate the New Year. This is a montage picture from excerpts of chronicle films of the 30s. The chronicles depict many demonstrations, processions, speeches, but in detail the life of not gods and giants, but the most ordinary people who make history is guessed.

March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet knows the scale of the disaster that will unfold in the coming weeks and what trials soldiers and civilians will have to go through.

The Atomic Bomb Reflector is a fantastic invention developed by Sergei Kalmykov to convert destructive force into creative energy. The theatre director Rustem Begenov will ask the audience to fall asleep, sing a song of praise to themselves and switch on a Soviet-era light bulb – anything to make Kalmykov’s invention work. What is Rustem preaching, and to what extent is it comprehensible and necessary for mankind today?

During the day, Oxana paints frames as a man; at night, she puts on her female skin. Oxana is a transsexual living in Moldova, where even expressions of tolerance towards sexual minorities can be dangerous.

He is an influential bishop, a future patriarch, a possible confessor of Putin, a member of the Athos and Izborsk clubs. He is friends with Sechin and Mikhalkov, and lobbies for Vasilyeva's candidacy. The Minister of Culture, Medinsky, waits for him in the corridor for several hours. He is an ideologist of extreme church fundamentalism and a master of hardware games. He is Tikhon Shevkunov, the main character of the documentary film "The Confessor"by Sergey Yerzhenkov and Vladislav Pushkarev.

He lost himself at war and then he awakened in Venice. He was a sniper and he became a photographer because the rifle’s telescopic sight is very similar to the camera’s viewfinder. Roman Cherpak left his home in Ukraine at the age of 14, he has grown up in Israel and now he raises his two sons in Italy and in Moscow and manages his gallery in Venice’s downtown.

In this film, I examine VHS archives shot in 1996 by my mother and her friend. They were studying with Boris Yukhananov and experimenting extensively with the camera, exploring its tactile properties as an extension of their gaze and body.

The film is about the residents of Donbass who stay in their homeland and help each other survive.

The Russian NGO Memorial was founded with the aim of examining human rights abuses committed during the Stalinist period. In the course of a show trial carried out in 2021 in Russia, the organisation was "liquidated". This is the chronicle of its dissolution.

Panorama of the Kama River, banks, coastal area. City of Cherdyn. Views on churches, houses. Exhibits of the Perm Art Gallery. Wooden sculptures of gods, stone sculptures of animals, birds, fish, people.

20 years after Mironov's departure, his wife, actress Larisa Golubkina and his closest friends, for the first time with their participation, will reveal little-known pages of his theatrical and private life.

The film is dedicated to the life and creative journey of Professor Irina Evgenyevna Taimanova, a television and theater director, producer, journalist, writer, and Honored Artist of Russia. Her remarkable imagination, boundless creative energy, and a flair for bringing together other talented people have given rise to many notable projects across various fields of art. The film’s protagonist guides the audience through a chronicle of Leningrad/St. Petersburg’s cultural life.

Nastya needs to run away from everything, Nastya needs to stop drinking, Nastya needs to raise her daughter, Nastya needs to leave her husband, Nastya needs, Nastya needs to love-love-love ...

20 years ago, a young specialist veterinarian Oksana Zhuchkova ended up in the village of Nakhabino near Moscow. There she became the indispensable Doctor Aibolit. Over time, cows, chickens, pigs, horses were replaced by other patients, dogs, cats, guinea pigs.

Tatyana Minenko saves orphaned polar bear cubs from death in the clutches of their older brothers, and from severe Chukchi frosts and hunger. But what’s next for these cubs? Zoo life or return to the wild? How much effort does it take to save one polar bear cub from death? And why is it even harder to leave an orphan bear free? The people of the north value their freedom above all else. That’s how they want to see the owner of this land – the polar bear.

BORN TO BE FREE is a revelatory investigation by three intrepid free-diving journalists, Gaya, Tanya and Julia, into the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to the most remote corners of Russia and witnesses, for the very first time, the shocking treatment that whales, dolphins and walruses are subjected to and discovers the corruption at the heart of this cruel international business.

Pavel Filonov is one of the most mysterious artists of the 20th century. Filonov's contemporaries - Malevich, Kandinsky, Tatlin - are known throughout the world not only among art historians, but also to people who are even superficially interested in art. How did it happen that an artist of no lesser stature, who created an absolutely unique, inimitable style in painting, was almost unknown for decades? How did an artist who practically "reassembled" art end up being overlooked?

This is a story of the deputy commander of a reconnaissance platoon. His civilian father and son were killed in 2014 in the ukraine. he left everything behind – his good job, his friends – and went to war. now in 2023 he liberates artyomovsk, leading old men women and children from under the fire. he does not feel pain any more… only the memory of who he is and what he is… he is not taking revenge on anybody… he is merely heading home.

Vinyl record sellers talk about their audience. A documentary about music lovers in the era of streaming platforms. Owners of famous St. Petersburg music stores share stories of triumph and failure. Who buys and who needs vinyl in the streaming era? 10 heroes of different generations, views and tastes talk about how they are trying to save a rare business in a crisis.

15 years ago, our colleague, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was killed. Today, for the first time, we are telling the whole story of the investigation that we have been conducting all these years.

The Russian documentary film features a monochromatic wedding in the Deaf community of Saint Petersburg.

For half a century, elderly scholar Professor Igor Vladimirovich Vishev has championed a radically new vision of humanity’s boldest dream: the attainment of de facto immortality. Blind since youth, he is cared for with quiet devotion by Vera, a frail old woman who is not his wife, but a loyal companion of many years. Professor Vishev believes that the physical death of the body is not the end, and he looks with hope toward a brighter future beyond his own passing.

Architectural office "Khvoya" created by five young architects - graduates of the Academy of Arts. All of them are young, able to work around the clock, united by a common idea. Ilya Spiridonov and his colleagues are preparing for a big, very important competition for "Khvoya". Victory in it promises fame, a cash prize and the construction of the object submitted to the competition.

Almost 80 years after the battle of Moscow, journalist Alexander Nikitin discovered a picture of a young partisan girl hanging from a tree at one of the online auctions selling photographs from the period of the Great Patriotic War. On the back of the photo there is an inscription: "1941. The village of Golovkovo".

A film about the creation of the Moscow Metro, which has become a symbol of the whole country. The narrative covers the period from the first pre-revolutionary projects to the Khrushchev era.

The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space. Moreover, after the forced separation from the cosmonaut corps, Nelyubov's life was tragically cut short.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is going to be elected to this post for the sixth time in a row at the August 9 elections.

A film about Soviet childhood. The focus is on an ordinary Soviet boy, whose story is full of humor and colorful phrases. It is conducted from his birth to the festive graduation night. The whole life of the guy flashes on the screen, the Octobrists, red ties, faith in the victory of communism, admiration for Lenin, the Olympics-80, the iron curtain and the rejection of Western values, the first dances and falling in love, everything points to an irrevocably gone time. Through the prism of everyday life and holidays of an ordinary guy, a whole era of the cult of socialism and faith in the Soviet Union emerges. The film "Collection No. 1" turns back time, making you remember the past with nostalgia.

Alexey Belov is a virtuoso guitarist, composer, leader of the Gorky Park band. Olga Kormukhina is a rock singer with the voice of Tina Turner. They are so different and so similar. He admired the timbre of her voice. She admired the musician Belov. They went through life on the same road, but met on a completely different path. After the temptations and disappointments of show business, they slowly but surely walked towards each other and found themselves. This whole world is in the past of now deeply believing Christians Alexei Belov and Olga Kormukhina.

A four-novel documentary about the city of Leningrad on the verge of the USSR's collapse. The main characters of the film are independent photographers who documented that time period.

Everyday war correspondents travel to the most dangerous zones of Donbass. Though journalists have no military education, it’s vital to understand how to behave under shelling and be familiar with weapons. In 2014 a reporter, Evgeny Poddubny, went to cover the conflict in Donbass. For Evgeny and his colleagues, reporting the true story is more than just a job. They must be ready to perform their task quickly and with no second chances. Journalists often have to sleep in the streets and take turns guarding each other. They cannot stay at hotels as Ukrainian missiles regularly strike these buildings though they house civilians and journalists. How do war correspondents manage to perform their job in such harsh conditions?

The staff of the Vera Hospice Foundation has been fighting for many years to alleviate the suffering of terminally ill people, both adults and children. Much has been achieved along the way, but much more needs to be done. How to make it so that not only to live, but also to die was not excruciatingly painful?

A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.

The poet and publicist Yury Mikhailovich Kublanovsky has many places on Earth that are dear to him. To the poet for seventy, and his flash-memories, being experienced anew, “close” times: what was experienced once and lived now. The film is about the fate of a man for whom the Motherland, wherever he is, is always there.

The film is a confession about the inhabitants of the island of Fire, near Vologda. The pardoned murderers — one hundred and fifty "suicide bombers" for whom the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by Presidential Decree — are asking for execution...

Filmed in June 2022. Posted in September 2023. Although it could have in October.

A group of young girls live at a strict monastic school in Russia. The children's playful world stands in contrasts with the strict rules and lifestyles of the nuns.

In some chronicles, the beginning of Russian history dates back to the year 6360 (852 AD). From this ancient past, the director gazes into the modern capital of Russia, painting broad strokes of captured moments on the canvas of contemporary history. A morning in Izmailovo, the opening of a fair, the celebration of City Day at the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, the high-rise construction of the City, a concert on the square, a religious procession at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a boat trip on the Moskva River, pedestrians walking along the streets, and the evening lights of a tired city...

Aleksey Kozlov is interested in drifting and decides to build a drift car from an old rare Toyota Cresta car from 1987 with body number JZX-71 (hence the name of the film). This is a story about a simple guy who lives in Kamchatka, where there is still no infrastructure for training, where there is snow on the road 9 months a year, but he dreams of competing in the most prestigious race in Russia RDS-GP, where top pilots compete with each other from all over the world.

Russia. Character and path. A bitter experience of self-discovery. The theory of the Russian physiologist I.P. Pavlov as the key to understanding Russian history. And Russian history as the key to understanding Pavlov's personality and quest. A man who realized his freedom in the conditions of despotism. A scientist who realized the nature of the Russian crowd using the examples of experimental animals. The visual basis of the film was chronicle materials.

Through the lives of three outstanding perseons, innovators and selfless workers who had a great influence on the development of domestic and world football – coach Mikhail Yakushin, goalkeeper Alexei Khomich, striker and subsequently successful coach Konstantin Beskov, the authors trace more than a century of history of Russian football in the context of time and the life of our country.

A lively and ironic puppet-documentary road movie by Tatiana Soboleva about two young directors who are on the road in search of a solution for a future performance.

What is love? This is when your friend sleeps with your girlfriend, and you - with his!

They are afraid of life itself, but they perform a feat every day. They are difficult to control, but they control others. They are children with special needs who have become heroes of their city. Their choreographer socializes them through dancing and gives love to more than a hundred others. So what happens if hundreds of them fall in love?

A film about soldiers who have been to war. About military friendship and the Afghan syndrome.

The hero of the film, a young guy, Vaska, was deprived of all human freedoms and locked up forever behind the fence of a disabled house. With the help of good sorceresses, he overcame the state dragon, conquered the life he dreamed of and was rewarded with the love of a beautiful girl, whom he had been seeking for many years.

The film was edited from the materials of the diary filming in Grozny from May 5 to May 13, 1995. This is an attempt to record the condition of civilians who unexpectedly became witnesses and victims of a large-scale political conflict.

A documentary about several families in people in Moscow over a timespan of 16 years. How their lives and relationships have changed.

A film about choices in life. Any significant decision can fundamentally change our destiny. What if you're only 16 and the life of another person depends on you? Only standing on the edge of the abyss, you can realize what is really dear to you.