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Over the past two years, humanity has faced an absolutely new degree of loneliness and fear – a pandemic. Disunity or, conversely, too close contact for a long time, emotional burnout led society to collective trauma. "New World" is the story of 12 families from Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg, New York, Kiev, Simferopol, Herat, Miami and Dublin. The characters of the film are learning to live in new conditions. We follow their transformation with the help of their own video diaries and special shooting, recording the most intimate and important events that they have lived over the past two years. For all of them, the pandemic is becoming a test of strength. Against the background of a new reality and a new world, we remember the pandemic almost with nostalgia, still feeling its consequences.

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.

The protagonist of the film, Russian composer and singer Alexander Vista, was born into a family of deaf parents. In the past, Alexander worked at the Lenkom Theater, in the legendary rock band Araks. And now he is passionate about interpreting the legacy of classical composers, collaborating with the Gnessin Virtuosos orchestra.

Tatyana Makarova is the chairman of the state farm. She has her own methods of working with subordinates.

The plot of the famous post-war film tale here becomes a metaphor for the dramatic path of Russian cinema from the magnificently decorated pavilions of the "little picture" era to the living reality of the "thaw" period.

A film about the Yakut rock musician Gavril Kolesov - Hannibal.

How do new technologies affect the development of cinematography? Good or bad? Is it true that film has a magical effect on the viewer? The authors of the film, together with psychologists from the Higher School of Economics and Moscow State University. Lomonosov are organizing an unusual experiment, which should prove the difference between the audience's perception of a film screening and from a digital medium.

A film about the dedication of doctors in different parts of Russia, who were the first to begin the fight against COVID-19.

They met at the institute. And they lived a bright, interesting, full of anxiety life, in which there were ups and downs, victories and disappointments. She still speaks of him only in the present tense, saying "Borenka" and "Boris Nikolaevich"with love and tenderness. It's been almost 10 years since his death. And the void after his departure was never filled with anything. Time has not cured me. They had the same life. One for two. Naina Yeltsina is a great woman and a great wife.

An experimental movie with no beginning and no end, shot on a mobile phone while on vacation in Goa. The main character is a Maya girl with a unique outlook on life.

Denis, a teenager from a residential area of Moscow, trying to earn money, washes the headlights of cars stopping at traffic lights. And Denis really wants to become strong and independent. But reality throws up challenges that can not always be sustained.

Russian biggest summer resort Sotchi has been chosen the venue of the Winter Olympic Games of 2014. President Putin has promised enough snow for the Games, no traffic jams and big investments in building the Olympic facilities. How it will effect the neighbouring small villages and if they succeed to survive and keep the living pace they are used to?

A priest, a scientist and a witch talk about God, the meaning of life and death, each through the prism of their being. The leitmotif here is the image of an immortal jellyfish - it is beautiful, but as the completion of a dead-end branch of development, it seems completely meaningless.

"When I am released, I will simply move from one prison to another" (Oscar Wilde). Freedom rarely happens with us. "Who is not with us, we have here" - the words of the head of the correctional colony, which were written at the entrance to the prison.

Deeply personal cinematic journey between two worlds—Catholic Venice and Islamic Dagestan. Inspired by Joseph Brodsky’s essay *Watermark* and Merab Mamardashvili’s lectures on those “doomed to run,” I craft a film-essay about identity, the ache of existing between cultures, and the endless search for home. Through fragments of daily life and raw, intimate phone calls with my mother, I try to make sense of living on the border—between faiths, eras, wars, and pandemics.

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

The landing stage is always between. Between water and land, between ship and house, between town and country, between this and that. Debarkader-portal, but where? Russian Director Maria Murashova has made a fascinating, meditative observation film about life by the water.

Soldiers and commanders of the Anvar Special Forces Unit are advancing at the Kursk front. Together with their comrades-in-arms they are pushing the enemy back to Russia's borders. The unit’s commanders with the call signs Beret and Balu carry out their assigned missions with equanimity, despite the fact that at one point this conflict became a personal matter for them. And there is not a shadow of doubt that a Russian warrior neither seeks revenge nor loots. He saves people, his country, and normal life itself.

At the heart of happiness lies the desire for love. Each hero, a resident of the village of Nedelnoye, seeks a specific form of this feeling: romantic love, love for a neighbor, a mother, a homeland, or their village. Will they find happiness?

In contrast, Darya Mareyeva’s Double-sided is shot with a lively, dynamic camera. Its characters are young people crowded in rented apartments of panel housing, where these 21st-century songbirds sing their sad tunes.

This is a story about how a Man helped a Man. Ksenia Zueva made a documentary about her friend, neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Dzhafarov, who performed a unique operation, relieving a young man from Rybinsk from a sudden painful illness. The doctor and the patient share their experiences with Ksenia Zueva. This documentary is not only Ksenia Zueva's directorial work, it is also her debut as a cameraman and composer.

Traveling through abandoned places in search of home.

Lieutenant of the Internal Troops, sapper Sergey Arakcheev, who was awarded state awards for demining the territory of Chechnya, was accused of killing civilians, fully acquitted by two jury trials and then sentenced by a military court to fifteen years in prison.

Artist Igor Gusev became popular in Europe, but continues to live in his native Odessa, although every day in this city gives him pain. Odessa is barbarously disfigured by the destruction of the historical fund and the construction of a mediocre new building. The artist is looking for a nature for the ordered painting, and this search revives old wounds in his soul, recalling decay, aging and death.

The tale of how in St. Petersburg watched the match "Russia-Croatia".

The heroes of the film are a pathologist and his work. This is a favorite work, where everything is arranged for life. Book racks, a selection of music gourmet discs: Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, etc. On the walls of the picture are oil paintings with views of the morgue. No cynicism - professionalism, humor and the realized dream of a man who, since childhood, dreams of understanding why a person actually dies.

Blurry figures multiply in the darkness, an otherworldly light breaks through melting textures, a monkey stares intently at something outside the frame, and disturbing landscapes are buried in digital noise. Yeah might be the most ominous work in the retrospective.

A curious portrait of graffiti artist Shepard Fairey.

The Volochanka village is located in the middle of the Taimyr Peninsula. Half of its inhabitants are Dolgans, a Turkic people related to the Yakuts. The other half are the Nganasans, another indigenous people of the North. About a hundred people speak Nganasan all over the world, their traditional culture is under threat. The Terebikhin family came to the village. They are dreamers who come up with tons of different projects. The most ambitious, almost utopian is the construction of the first musk ox farm in Eurasia. But fulfilling the dream is not easy, because life in the North is hard and sometimes deadly.

Vyacheslav, an 88-year-old man, lost his wife a few years ago, with whom they had lived 55 years together. It seemed that the loss could not be made up for, but life goes on. Other women begin to appear in his closed world.

His younger brother Alexey has been living in Moscow for 31 years. Despite the distance, the brothers are still close to each other and are looking forward to seeing each other in Russia.

Based on letters, diaries and archival documents, the participants of the film reveal step by step the life of Marina Tsvetaeva from 1917 to 1922.

Eduard Sagalaev flew to London to sit with Makarevich in the back garden of the studio and talk about life. About why beer cannot be mixed with vodka, but with whiskey. About why Makarevich started writing books and almost stopped diving. About how Makarevich gave his first autograph, and about how a samurai should live. About the love of life and the fear of death.

Those over 50 play football in any weather.

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.

Polina Svezhentseva's film captures the passing of time and the change of epochs with him. The Torpedo Boxing Club is more than 80 years old, dozens of champions have come out of its walls. Now the members of the club are forced to adapt to the changes, having lost their native hall. Looking into the faces of athletes and listening to their stories, the director shows that people united by one idea cannot be destroyed by an excavator.

The hero of the film, Alexander Shaenko, with a group of like-minded people, created the first satellite in Russia, made by amateurs, outside of any government structures. The satellite was launched into space, but unfortunately, it could not reach the specified orbit due to the launch vehicle accident. But this did not stop our enthusiasts. Now they are busy developing a closed biosphere based on microalgae to support long-range space flights. It's not quite working out yet, but the road will be mastered by the walking one.

The documentary is an investigation into why disputes and passions around the personality of Alexander Kolchak are still boiling, as a generalization – questions of historical truth, rewriting history, new views from a new time.

Sixteen-year-old fat red-haired Masha, an outsider who grew up in a gop environment, is only mocking. Even her family does not take her seriously. But behind the image of the evil-faced schoolgirl lies a vulnerable soul, who simply was not lucky with her childhood.

The Moscow-based fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy has spent a year showcasing his collections across Russia, incorporating elements of Russian avant-garde. He started in Kaliningrad with a collaboration with Adidas, moved to St. Petersburg to launch a partnership with Burberry, and recently presented in Yekaterinburg, referencing Boris Yeltsin and Russia's 2018 World Cup. His latest collection, featuring backgrounds by artist Erik Bulatov, emphasized youth unity and anti-establishment themes. The event, held at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, was more of an art performance than a conventional fashion show. Collaborations with Levi's and Dr. Martens symbolized togetherness and defiance against political divides, resonating with the young generation globally.

For half a year the camera followed a batch of conscripts deep inside the Russian Army. Each of character has undergone an amazing transformation. Cinema-verite method allowed to edit the film as an uncomfortable and outrageous real-life drama.

In the lower reaches of the Indigirka River on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, almost 400 years ago, people founded Russkoe Ustie. They came from the Russian North – Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, they learned local crafts: to fish, hunt animals and birds. They strictly kept their customs, language, spoke the medieval speech until the middle of the 20th century. The permafrost became their promised land.

Today, the world is facing a new challenge — the militarization of outer space. All communications and most weapons are provided and controlled from space. Military and dual—use satellites are a strategically important part of the modern confrontation, without which victory is unthinkable either on the battlefield or in the political arena. Currently, new players are increasingly claiming a military presence in space.

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.

The White Guard is the first novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. It describes the events of the Civil War in Ukraine in 1918-1919. The work was conceived by the author as a large-scale trilogy about the civil war, but the author wrote only the first part of it. Confirmation that Bulgakov worked on the second and third parts of the novel are the stories "The Raid", "On the Night of the Third Number", "I Killed" and others. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writing of the novel "The White Guard", to the centenary of the civil war in Russia. This is an attempt to analyze the scale of the historical tragedy through the prism of the views of a great artist.

The documentary opens a fascinating page of Russia's development of the Far East, presents the viewer with a heroic portrait of the Russian naturalist and researcher R.K.Maak.

The film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received worldwide recognition due to his incredible talent

In this video essay Maxim Seleznyov looks at the images of his hometown Novosibirsk through panoramic eye of Google Maps and combines it with voices of current citizens of Novosibirsk and images of the worlds from video games of his childhood.

This film is unique educational video course which basis on a long-term experience of practical work and teaching activity of the leading masters of Russian animation: Feodor Hitruk, Jury Norshteyn, Edward Nazarov, Andrey Khrzhanovsky.

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.

Just as you don't need to be an athlete to enjoy a sports match, so you don't need to be a scientist to enjoy the course of a scientific conference if you have the right commentator: scientists themselves talk about their colleagues - boldly, honestly, even intimately, ... in a whisper!

Light sadness enveloped Maria Petrovna, enveloped her whole life, her feelings and thoughts. Every day Maria Petrovna waters roses in her garden, but one day they will dry out.

Today, corporations are fighting for you. They will improve the quality of life. But they will collect data about each step and make decisions for you. What do you eat for dinner? What will you watch tonight? What will you do tomorrow? This will be decided by the ecosystem.

A film almanac, in which modern Russian designers and design studios reflect on what we can show the world in addition to Balalaika and Khokhloma. Let's trace the history of Russian visual culture — from the appearance of the Cyrillic alphabet and folk crafts to constructivism, Soviet DIY and metamodern. Let's analyze the visual language of Russian icons, find the motifs of folk costume in modern fashion, look at the Baroque, classicism, Art Nouveau and other styles from the perspective of modern design. We will try to decode our culture and find something valuable in the forgotten together with well-known designers Anton Schneider, Regina Turbina, Alexey Ivanovsky, Tatiana Egoshina, design studios FYD, CLAN, ONY,Just Be Nice, White Russian Studio and more.