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The old hermit, settled in the forests of Karelia, like an ancient sage from local myths, lives in harmony with nature, away from civilization, and maintains an active lifestyle.

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.

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.

Zimnik is a temporary road formed when the river freezes. But for the heroes of the film, the local residents, strong and stubborn men, this is a life-long road.

The film is about snow and sand sculptures and family relationships.

For several decades, the Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Gorky (or abbreviated CPKiO) was for the Soviet people a kind of "factory of happiness", a model of a "bright future", or "paradise on earth". Time passed. Different political winds blew in the country, slogans and portraits of leaders changed at mass celebrations, sculptures on alleys changed ... Gradually it turned from a "factory of happiness" into a banal "place of leisure", and by the beginning of the XXI century it finally became dilapidated. Today, the old park is actively changing, being reconstructed, trying to adapt to the needs and demands of the new time. At the same time, it is important not to forget that the CPKiO was the product and evidence of a terrible, but very significant era. And to erase her traces does not mean to get rid of her complexes at all

The film "Interview" focuses on the experience of the author's failure. Work begins as a document about the successful public people, entrepreneurs and businessmen. Then it rests on the impossibility of the story from a professional point of view (production problems and the issue of professional fitness author), and gradually comes to a reflection above the difficulties of socialization of the young artist. Trying to apply existing criteria of success to their own practice, or to somehow borrow from outside the strategies of successful behavior, fails. The author manifests inability to meet his own needs, while remaining within the art system.

In Poor Folk, Ilya Kabakov talks about his sources and influences, including the tragic life of his mother, which had a profound effect on his views and artistic career. Together with his wife and collaborator Emilia he discusses Soviet underground art, the birth of Moscow Conceptualism, the couple’s emigration to the USA, and international acclaim after thirty years of almost no exhibitions (Kabakov did not show his work at state-sanctioned exhibitions in the Soviet Union): today the duo’s works are in the world’s leading museums, including MoMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

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.

Exotic wilderness, foothills of the Caucasus. Architect Alexander and artist Marina with their young son Ilya settled here almost 30 years ago. They left the big city in search of peace, solitude and freedom. Ilya grew up in the forest and in the mountains. Now he has the Internet – the only source of communication with the outside world. The relationship between the heroes, externally built on love and attention, internally is full of Chekhov's drama... The film raises the acute social problem of the so-called “downshifting” – a departure from civilization and living as hermits.

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

Anya, a visually impaired girl with albinism, challenges prejudices by taking on the role of a cinematographer for a documentary film.

A wordless exploration of nostalgia during a painful return to our small homeland. The feeling of nostalgia for childhood at an early age is inherent in my generation, and I decided that it was very important to represent this, without imposing the personal, but creating for the viewer the space of his own memories.

The film is about how children see the material and immaterial world of adults.

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.

Relatives of soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine are entitled to compensation — insurance payments, regional grants, and so-called “presidential” benefits. Altogether, the sum amounts to around 14 million rubles, divided among the closest family members. This film tells the stories of three women — Oksana Nazarenko from Karachay-Cherkessia, Natalia Makarova from St. Petersburg, and Anastasia Yudina from the Leningrad region. They are taking the fathers of their sons to court over the payouts, arguing that these men did not raise the children and were absent from their lives after divorce. For us, this is not a film about money, but about the psychology of many Russian families — where the figure of an absent father was replaced by cadet “brotherhood,” and poverty was compensated by the dream of a military career for a child.

Evgeniy Ivanov, who built his own airplane, can no longer fly. He has to come to terms with the end of his dreams being true.

Stories about the development of BMX, parkour and skateboarding in Russia from the inside. The brightest extreme athletes talk about their path and the role of sports in their lives, about victories and defeats.

One day in the life of an ambulance paramedic, a teacher, a factory worker, a scientist, a tram driver and a firefighter — those who do what they love and for whom treating, teaching, saving people is not just a job, but a way of life.

The film tells about the work of a temporary covid hospital at VDNKh.

A lyrical story about a little girl who, once in the house of a sorceress, begins to understand what is good, evil, friendship.

A24 movie about compote.

The father of Russian futurism, Velimir Viktorovich Khlebnikov, wants to publish his book "Boards of Fate", with the help of which people will be able to avoid wars by predicting future events.

These lines from a Soviet song can serve as an epigraph to the film "The White Way". Despite the cold and hunger, literally dying at work, the doctors of besieged Leningrad continued to save the lives of soldiers and citizens to the last, to make scientific discoveries on a global scale. This is a conversation about the victory of the human over the animal, vocation over circumstances. Honest eyewitness accounts, unique chronicle shots of hospitals in the besieged city, a dialogue between the past of Leningrad and modern St. Petersburg.

Kursk railway station, cold train. Night road to the city of Pokrov. Colony N2 is located there, where another trial against Navalny is underway. Ilya Yashin goes to see him as a defense witness, who communicates with fellow travelers and talks about prison, about life and about the war.

The documentary film "Miluta" tells about the building of the same name on clean ponds, where artists, photographers, musicians, writers and just creative people live and work. The film tells the story of three heroes - the inhabitants of a squat (arbitrarily populated abandoned building).

A white-headed old man named Robert Belov, blind, feeble in body, but with a thunderous voice and an iron character openly hates any power. At the same time, he dearly loves poetry and people who are somehow connected with poetry. He loves the Perm prison region – where the authorities, without particularly delving into details, pushed poets and murderers. He writes a book of salty jokes about these people called "Perm region". In the company of random fellow travelers, he goes to Pasternak places in the Urals, forcing landscapes and voices to sound differently, and thereby creates an informal, lively guide to the Kama region.

Lydia and Evgeny Alekseev are the most eminent basketball couple in the world in terms of awards. They are the first captains of the men’s and women’s national teams of the USSR. Evgeny was the first coach and founder of the CSKA basketball team. Under the leadership of Lydia Alekseeva, the USSR national team did not lose a single international match from 1964 to 1984, repeatedly winning the title of world and Olympic champions. The Alekseevs were the participants in the Great Patriotic War, and were awarded military orders and medals. They lived in a happy marriage for over 60 years and raised two daughters.

They have no experience, no resources, no knowledge, but when has this stopped sincere enthusiasts? A portrait of Russian pioneers of low-budget thrash horror — a genre that rarely comes into the focus of the general public's attention, which director Maxim Poltavchenko lovingly shows in all their grotesque and inventive variety.

Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.

Stories of residents of the city of Tulun who suffered from flooding in June-July 2019. Their life after the cataclysm.

This film is about Lyudmila (Lyala) Stanukinas, a documentary filmmaker, widow of director Pavel Kogan. The film was shot for 4 years as a chronicle, in the style of a"home handheld camera". But this is not a story about a director, but about a woman struggling with loneliness, who keeps love in her heart with all her might. The heroine exists in the episodes of the film without any author's comments. Also, the plot consists of fragments, "scraps" of old films, chronicles.

The film is based on a series of videos for the Internet dedicated to front-line operators of the Great Patriotic War.

Nikita is 25 years old and has a rare genetic condition that makes his skin very fragile and untreatable. Such people are usually called "butterflies". Together with his girlfriend Leroy, they are looking for a way to stop the development of the disease and get acquainted with famous scientists Alla and Vadim Zorin, who agree to conduct an experimental treatment.

A dramatic worldly and spiritual journey of a Buddhist monk from Russia who became one of the first scholars and preachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the USA. In 1923 he left his home and spent over 30 years in Tibet and India. He was a friend of the Dalai Lama and taught at Columbia University. He devoted his life to putting the teachings of Buddha into practice and raising interest in Buddhism in the Western world to a new level.

This is a film about the prima donna of Mariinsky Theatre, laureate of international competitions of opera singers Oxana Shilova, lyric coloratura-soprano. Very justly she is called one of the best voices of the Mariinsky Theatre. She dazzled the scenes of Bolshoi, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden etc. But what had she to sacrifice, to win this world recognition? We have to make a choice between our family and our career. And often it is not in favour of our beloved.

This is the story of a young girl who lives like most of us between love and hate, quarrels, unfulfilled dreams and hope for a better tomorrow.

Children are preparing for a war, preparing to kill. For some, it’s just toys, but for others, it is broken fates. And everywhere they are the toys in the adults hands.

About the fate of the wandering poet Alexander Brunko.

Danya is a charismatic and eccentric young man who is having difficulties communicating with the opposite sex. At 24, he is still a virgin and dreams of finding real love. At a dance class, our hero meets a girl who shows a mutual interest in him. They come very close to having a sexual encounter, but overexcitement prevents Danya from parting with his innocence.

Ilyich's light bulb was canceled by the law on energy conservation, and along with this law, people working at the manufacturing plant were "canceled". But the factory workers believe that Ilyich's lamp was buried early, and there are no better lamps for lighting houses, apartments.

In March 2018, oncologist Andrey Pavlenko learned that he had stomach cancer. Over the years of consultations, Andrey identified three main feelings of patients: confusion, fear, and apathy. And he believes that the doctors themselves are to blame for the fact that patients are afraid and do not understand what is happening. Together with the project" Such things", Andrey begins an experiment. From that moment on, the illness, the changes in his life, the memories, the everyday thoughts become public. Viewers and listeners will learn about the obstacles faced by a person who knows everything about cancer himself. It is not customary to speak publicly about such problems of oncology as training specialists or paternalistic relations between doctors and patients, but Andrey is ready for this, because he believes that the main weapon in the fight against cancer is information.

In December 2016 was arrested russian historian, specialist in the history of state repressions - Yuri Dmitriev. Most people don't believe in the charges against him, the case falling apart in court. But case is continue and the historian is still under arrest. Life of Yuri Dmitriev and his family was destroyed by the state. This documentary and animation film - is story about friendship one of author of film and girl, who was foster daughter of Yuri Dmitriev and who stood in the center of the process.

Young astrophysicists translate any cosmic phenomena into sound and record any sounds in the reality surrounding them, trying to capture something beautiful in every physical phenomenon and in every moment of their lives.

The film represents a story about the village the director of the film was born and grew up in

Simon Elevich Shnol is a professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, one of the organizers of the world's first Department of Biophysics at the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. An amazing memory and the talent of a storyteller easily unite different episodes of life in time and space. Through the prism of the biography of Simon Elevich, we see a whole era, from the repressions of the 1930s and the devastation of the war years to the revival of the country and the formation of new scientific knowledge.

A village. A house in that village. An old woman comes back there for summer. Day after day she tries to renew life in this almost abandoned and overgrown with grass place, resisting nature and the passing time.