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Sabina dreamed of an ideal place to live away from civilization. To find him, she leaves the parental home and goes with her husband Sergei and one-year-old Yaseya to Altai. The road turns into a nightmare of daily quarrels: Sabina does not want to help with the child, clean up and cook, and Sergei gets tired of endless scandals. Against the background of growing irritation with each other, Sabina's dreams are increasingly detached from reality. And yet, the journey continues.

Tatyana Dmitrieva, Director of the State Film Fund, and his colleagues, film directors, and critics, tell us about Vladimir Dmitriev, the long-time head of the scientific departments of the State Film Fund. Dmitriev appears to be both recognizable and unexpected, talented and unique in every way.

Weekdays in the office. In between work, employees spend time talking, smoking, doing gymnastics, and personal chores. But a new hobby of one of the employees makes the inner life of the office public.

By the end of the 30s, the ideal world erected on the screen is declared the only true reality. The invasion of fascist Germany destroys this illusion. A person is left alone with history — both in life and on the screen. And in this fight he manages to survive.

Igor lives with his friends on the streets of a gloomy city. They drink vodka and fight, coming into conflict with the residents of nearby buildings. One day Igor learns that his father has died, and returns to his family home.

Experimental documentary film-journey about the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 Denis Davydov. The film returns the viewer to the origins of Dionysian fun. Songs and dances, feats of arms, folk festivals, ecstatic dances, sacrifice, a festive feast and the peace of the heroes will be opened to the eye of the attentive spectator.

An essay about a guy Andrei, aka Vosman, Vosmorych, who lives on the eighth floor of a panel house in a residential area of Moscow. The film is an attempt to portray the complexity of socialization, purposelessness of existence and grassroots urban culture.

Beach, sun, sea. The resort town of Gurzuf. There are 4 characters who live and work there, who no one cares about, but if they don’t exist, this unpretentious beach paradise will fall apart.

The story of Sophie's wedding in a remote village of Tajikistan on behalf of various members of her family.

Wadi Al-Salam in Najaf, Iraq, is the world's largest cemetery, with over 5 million graves. Its hereditary undertakers share their stories.

Each person is the architect of his own happiness. But what can you rely on to achieve this cherished goal? How important is faith for a person as the spiritual basis of all achievements? Is it possible to find happiness alone? The hero answers all questions with his life - a man of sparkling energy, a famous folk musician from Rybinsk, a hereditary blacksmith Mitya Kuznetsov.

From May to September 2022, an unidentified person came and wrote 55 times on three panels in a building courtyard: НЕТ ВОЙНЕ! МИРУ - МИР That is to say NO TO WAR PEACE IN THE WORLD These signs were each time erased by a municipal employee but never by a resident of the building. The film concludes that in 2022, approximately 20,000 people have been arrested for anti-war activism.

We often forget the star artists who were once admired by the whole country. How are their fates? Egor was the first white whale in our country to start performing in dolphin shows, becoming a vivid childhood memory for hundreds of thousands of children. After twenty years of living next to people, he escaped. Studying the history of Yegor, we will get acquainted with unique animals, white polar whales, see their habitats in the wild. They are considered the smartest creatures on the planet along with horses, dogs, monkeys, but, perhaps, it is about beluga whales, Russian whales, that we know the least.

People believe in God. But sometimes there are rulers who dream of taking his place. For these purposes their press secretaries and PR managers come up with absurd and very expensive projects.

A documentary with stunning, funny, sad, and simple stories from people living with HIV. The characters in the film are very different people, like all of us. But they are united by a common problem - HIV infection. Some of the heroes have a positive status, some do not, but they give all their strength to cope with the HIV epidemic in Russia, while others have to learn about their HIV status in front of the video camera. All of them - ordinary average dads and mothers, homosexuals and heterosexuals, psychologists and doctors, former drug users and adherents of a healthy lifestyle - are near you and among you.

A portrait of an incredible woman-muse and wife of the brilliant poet, screenwriter and artist Tonin Guerra.

In the autumn of 1993, Innokenty Smoktunovsky was invited to honor Pushkin's masterpiece "Mozart and Salieri" with his great performance.

A year ago, Svetlana became a director of the youth center in Syktyvkar. Returning from St. Petersburg to her homeland, she gathered an amazing team of young people who are truly passionate about Komi culture.

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.

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.

Through the squelching snow, through reminiscences and farewells, lies the path from the bus stop to summer.

On the federal television channel they shoot an entertainment show, New Year's ether, pop stars. Over the ranks of the crowd, the loud voice of the brigadier rushes: "Besides the fact that you came to have fun, do not forget that you are on work. Enjoy, smile. You can see absolutely everyone in the picture. " But this is not true - most of them no one will ever see. But, if you go to one of the regular participants in the extras home - you can see something that will never be shown on TV.

An attempt to understand the mental pain of a girl named Stepa, who was convicted and is serving her sentence in the Mozhaisk Women's Prison, without any ingratiating courtesies towards the convict or the tone of a righteous person who knows how to live. The painting is shot in the aesthetic of "observation."

An attempt to comprehend the experience of shooting and the life of Russian front-line cameramen in the conditions of numerous, unpredictable and merciless wars of the last two decades. Riga and Vilnius in the late 80s, Karabakh, Abkhazia in 1992, the Chechen Wars, South Ossetia in 2008, Donetsk and Lugansk in 2014 and 2015.

Res communis omnium is a Roman law term that defined things that by their nature are of universal human value - such as land, air. The concept has retained its relevance in international law. When the copyright on a work expires, it goes into the public domain (the more relevant modern term is public domain). Based on an analysis of the creativity of over 500 artists, writers, composers, architects, researchers from all over the world, whose works have ceased to be legally protected by copyright since 2022 (50-60-70-80 years after the death of the authors), we are trying to musically and poetically form to re-read what we got into the public domain at this critical time. It turns out. a kind of time capsule, the works were created over half a century ago,

A film about an artist who was not destined to become an artist. A film about a father told by his son.

The action explores the surrealistic absurdist ritual called “Elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus”. This procedure, in my understanding, is a ceremony of an eccentric farce, with the intersection of modern form of religious worship and hierarchical animal behavior of primates.

The pride of Soviet engineers, a secret project hidden in the impenetrable taiga, among swamps and fogs — for a long time the Plesetsk cosmodrome was a serious issue in the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. Today the Plesetsk is a unique launching complex that provides for both Russian defence and scientific space programs. We will go to the extreme north, to the very heart of the taiga, to live one day at the cosmodrome with its inhabitants and witness the launch of a real rocket.

30-years old Galy is working as Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) at the morning performances for children. One day Galy meets Vanya, a promising Ded Moroz (Father Christmas), and falls helplessly in love with him.

Maison d'Être is an exploratory documentary about people's emotional place attachment in highly dynamic Greater Paris undergoing large-scale urban renewal campaigns. Parisien suburbia has been a frontier between world civilisations where wellbeing encounters despair. Here local habits get confronted by government-sponsored plans for urban transformation and social aid. In Paris "home" manifests itself as one of the key existential challenges of the modern culture - a "raison d'être" of everyday life. The film is addressed to both professional audiences of urbanists, city planners, architects, and curious public. It displays numerous conversations among residents, city activists, politicians, city planners and scientists, those who reflect on the regeneration strategy of the socially depressed urban neighbourhoods.

Artom and Lilya husband and wife. They are the children of great scientists. Like me too. We were born in Akademgorodok (USSR), the new Atlantis, built by our parents in the 50s. We saw it, lived there. And meeting each other many years later. Being already from completely different worlds, we decided to spend a vacation together. A serious thought about a possible nuclear strike on our native city, on our homeland, made some changes in our trip. And changed our life too. It was Russia, 2014.

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 story of one love, exploring the inner world with animation and trying to make a history of the disease. The film was shot as part of a week-long school of pre-intensive care at the Rudnik festival.

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.

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.

The film about the legend of Japanese experimental rock Keiji Haino reveals the veil of mystery surrounding the musician for all 50 years of his career. Haino's reflections on music, culture and life, recorded after a performance in Moscow in November 2019, are interspersed with fragments of the performance itself.

Putorana is a plateau of waterfalls and rock walls. Here, man is not a hero, but a witness. Silence lies not in the absence of sounds, but in their proportionality. Dissolving into presence, you can forget why you came.

The project is dedicated to the dramatic vicissitudes of the great composer's life, it is an attempt to understand and comprehend Rachmaninov's musical universe. And it is also a story about how the events of the early 20th century in Russia and in the world influenced the composer's life and were reflected in his creative legacy.

A film about the musical group "Pan Quartet"

A story about the sociological and social phenomenon of tracing from the most competent person, the author of the film Oleg Krasnyansky, the president of the Russian branch of the world association of tracers, those who bravely run on the walls, overcome various obstacles without any equipment and have already become the protagonists of the feature film "Yamakashi" by Ariel Zeytun. In the center of the "true story" are seven tracers and their way of life.

A documentary about a man who solves the problem of individual immortality. He's not going to die. Various options are being considered - from cryonics (freezing of the brain and body), to digital immortality (digitization of consciousness). Note that the hero lives in Russia, where the topic of immortality is practically not explored. However - everything is ahead! Who knows - perhaps this person will be able to become one of the first "immortals".

The documentary follows Oleg, Andrey, and other long-distance truck drivers from all over Russia, who turned their outrage against the 2015 bill that required truckers to pay taxes when driving on federal roads into a 9 month long protest.

The film tells about the reasons for the prohibition of showing certain Soviet documentaries and how the authors got out of the situation in such cases.

The collision of two parallel worlds, the world of high space technologies and the village of Pogorelets, lost in the Arkhangelsk forests. An allegorical story about the life of people in a remote village, which is located near the place where space rockets start. Resourceful villagers, exhausted by unemployment and poverty, have established handicraft production of things necessary in the village economy from the remains of spaceships. The boats are the best.

Shakespeare street is a small back street in Nizhny Novgorod. It was built a century ago for the workers of the leather factory "Kozhevnik". Once a leading factory, "Kozhevnik" is no longer working now, and the inhabitants of the street struggle to find their way in the "brave new world'

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...

If you take care to look down, you can find surprising things and surprising stories. An almanac shot in Moscow, Perm, Grozny and Wrocław (Poland).

Ten years ago, it was difficult to imagine that a blind person could regain his sight with the help of prostheses. Our heroes were able to. Grigory and Antonina underwent surgery to insert an implant into the retina of the eye. After a long rehabilitation, they successfully use the new "bionic" vision. Antonina can even read text written in large letters. Today, science is on the threshold of another amazing technology. An implant for the visual cortex is being tested before our eyes. So far, on monkeys. Dramatic stories in the film alternate with scientific conversations about the structure and meaning of vision.

Since ancient times, there has been an unusual fishery on the Ural River. Every year in August, the inhabitants of coastal villages turn into a kind of entomologists, only they catch butterflies not with nets, but with the help of powerful searchlights, using the phenomenon of phototropism. Observation of this phenomenon evokes associations with the life and purpose of a person.

Having escaped from the clutches of "agitprom", Soviet cinema in 33-34 years again comes into motion. But this movement is almost immediately prescribed a clear boundary. Artists become hostages of their own discoveries. The border is locked.