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On the day of the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, the icon of the Mother of God "Derzhavnaya" appeared to the Orthodox world. Historians and theologians believe that this miraculous event cannot be interpreted in any other way than as the assumption of earthly power by the Queen of Heaven to save the Russian land. The Queen is depicted with the Child Jesus on a royal throne, wearing a royal robe with the symbols of royal authority: a crown, a scepter, and a orb. You can worship the icon at the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye.

Continuation of the movie almanac based on the memoirs about the country. A large-scale media project at the junction of a one-man show, animation and a documentary series. Each episode is an excerpt from a book of memories read by a famous artist. The video sequence was created by leading animation artists, and the music was written by a modern composer. The film is a journey through the pages of Russia's past, which comes to life thanks to sincere and personal testimonies. The heroes of the project are both prominent and not very well–known figures of Russian culture, art and history: writers, composers, artists, public figures and ordinary people.

The film is about the Molokans living in the villages of Violetovo and Lermontovo, located in Armenia. Local residents here have been loyal to traditions for centuries and try to protect the purity of their world and national identity. That is why they do not marry people from other nationalities and, over the years of communication with the Armenian population of nearby villages, have not merged with local residents. The main character of the film is a blind old man who will introduce us to the Molokans.

In the strip club, where Katya works as a dancer, she is always surrounded by music. Parties with friends, clubs, bars, portable speakers while walking - in her world there are practically no sounds other than dance music. She gets to the cottage, where she begins to remember about a completely different music, and then about silence.

rina is disabled at 11 years old. Her parents died in a car accident, and she had serious damage to her bone marrow. Doctors say that children with such a diagnosis do not live long. She lives with her grandmother and dreams of becoming an Olympic champion in sport dancing in wheelchairs. Despite everything, she confidently goes to her dream.

Soviet documentary from 1967 about the Venera-4 (Venus 4) mission. Extensive footage of hardware being assembled on Earth is shown. Models are then used to illustrate the mission in detail.

Russian-speaking Katja was born in 1992 in the Estonian city of Narva, not far from the Russian border. She represents the entire generation of the 1990s, which sees itself as a house with no address or railway tracks leading nowhere. In the ruins of the Soviet Union, she searches for her national identity and learns to breathe freedom.

After an accident that resulted in the loss of part of his arm, Dmitry Kalinin starts a global project at his own expense to create an engineering and technical hub, which attracts engineers with advanced ideas. Subsequently, Dmitry helps them implement projects and bring them to mass production, which changes the lives and fate of enthusiastic engineers.

A study of the origins of global primatology, a chronicle of the creation of a unique nursery in Abkhazia, and a story about the cost of medical discoveries and how much humanity owes to its "biological counterparts."

Documentary about the Republic of Mordovia

A film about the history of the Volga village of Krasnovidovo, where Empress Catherine I, the great writer Maxim Gorky and the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin left their traces.

Maria Vinenkova is a prima ballerina of the Musical Comedy Theater, winner of the Golden Mask Award. She is raising four sons. After twenty years of service in the theater, Masha feels that her career is on the decline, and is looking for a new self.

Nikolai Obukhovich is one of the most non-trivial and subtle non-fiction authors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema. At the same time, his paintings were rarely shown on television and in cinemas they were practically not shown. But among the Leningrad and Moscow intelligentsia, Obukhovich's tapes have always aroused genuine interest, thanks to a special look at seemingly well-established, trivial things and concepts.

Tatyana Seminyako learned the language of forest and the philosophy of hunting before she learned how to read and write. From time immemorial, the ancestors of Tatyana and her husband lived on these lands fishing and hunting. When Tanya was very young, she was raised by her grandparents -– the Khanty. They taught her everything. After all, in the forest you do everything yourself. You eat what you caught; you wear what you sewed; you live in what you built. A documentary film about the life of Tanya and her family.

About prostitution in its various manifestations in Russia in the middle of the "zero". Volunteers helping girls, distributing condoms to them. Love, pregnancy, illness.

Once Emilian was a successful businessman, but one day he came to faith, gave up everything and went into volunteering. He created a network of shelters for the homeless "Noah". There are already 18 houses and almost 1000 guests in "Noah". This is a micro empire with its own charter and laws. The most important one is dry. If a person is ready to live by the rules of "Noah", he gets shelter, food and work. If not, it turns out to be on the street.

A documentary cartoon about the relationship of two people who are forced to travel the world.

In the 60s of the XX century the construction of the Nizhnekamsk hydroelectric power station began. According to the plan, 173,000 hectares of land in the republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and the Perm region were to remain under water. Here preparatory work begins: forests are cut down, electrical lines are disabled, the dead of the local cemetery are reburied, residential buildings are destroyed, 700 thousand people are resettled. The village of Semiostrovo was also in the flood zone, and in 1976 the population left these lands, but one person remained. At the same time, despite the government's warnings, the village was not flooded.

When we close our eyes we see the black colour. By this, we mean that we see “nothing”. How long can one survive in the darkness? A couple of moments? A couple of hours? A couple of days? Some of us spend their whole life in it. Their eyes can be closed, but is their darkness as dark as we think?

Children's books affect not only the content, but also the design, aesthetics, and often it was in the design of a children's book that an unexpected leap in art took place, in the design of which - some by vocation, some by force – many outstanding artists of the twentieth century left.

Documentary about Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most prominent Russian writers.

Full-length musical film, built on footage of the concert Zemfira in the Green Theatre of Gorky Park of the city of Moscow

The film is based on archival footage that captures real events that took place in Chuvashia since 2002 and continue to this day.

The documentary tells about a scandalous affair that began in 1976 in Moscow.

This film tells the story of a remarkable Russian filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and actor. His films "The Outskirts" and "The Spy's Feat" have become part of the world's cinematic heritage.

Gelya is enjoying being young. Her elder sister Kristina is expecting a second child at the age of just 17, and people are predicting the same fate for 14-year-old Gelya. After going out for a walk with a boy who is besotted with her, she ends up getting drunk on strawberry beer and sitting on his lap while weeping over her own unrequited love. Gelya then returns home, just as her sister is discharged from the maternity hospital.

«Rodina» means «homeland». It is a 50 minutes road movie about 2 football fans traveling 3000 km from a rural village to the World Cup. The main hero, Uncle Sasha, has never left his village (the place even without mobile services) for 30 years. For the first time in his life he sees foreigners, big cities and his own country not on a tv screen.

Can you enjoy being at a cemetery? Maybe you can - if you are the director of the Jewish cemetery. The main character of the film has held his position for 13 years, and he never loses his optimism and approaches his job with creativity. In the film, the director complains about his life and introduces us to the ins and outs of the funeral business while he smokes and retells national jokes. Along the way, he solves small everyday matters and remembers to share wisdom and moving memories. Viktor Mikhailovich, a manager and a romantic, always knows what could be improved, and why you should never do it. And his dreams go beyond buying a new warm WC for the visitors’ convenience. So what else does he dream about, the man who sends human souls onto their last journeys every day?

The only prison in Abkhazia, whose building is part of the 6th century Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God. One of the inmates got there in a completely different way than the others.

Yura, a former lawyer, now homeless, lives on the side of the federal highway M8. The sacred knowledge that Jura discovered one day attracts crowds of pilgrims to him. And little by little, Yura reveals the secret to his flock...

In the apartment of the Brodsky family in the Muruzi House - just for one day - it is planned to open a museum in honor of the poet, Nobel laureate, expelled from his native country.

Film-portrait of the artist Latif Kazbekov. Meetings in the workshop, where the boundaries between the external world, accessible to the viewer, and the internal are blurred, where the painting as the result is just a pretext for the process. Paper reliefs, thoughtful painting, authentic paper casting and endless questions. An attempt to look at the nature of creativity and understand – how are the paper worlds born?

Every Wednesday, Dr. Liza and her friend Petrovich arrive at the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where the homeless are waiting for them. Bandaging, treatment of wounds, feeding, distribution of medicines and things, but just human participation. It seems to us that all homeless people look the same. If we look at them through the eyes of Dr. Lisa, we can see how different they are.

In one of the most beautiful places in the Urals on the banks of the river Rezh stands the village of Mironovo. Every year graduates of the local school go to the city to study and earn money, with the hope that they will be able to settle there. But in recent years, the mood of the village youth has begun to change.

Oksana and Denis are young. They don’t know each other. Each one has their own life, dreams, and plans. But there is something they share: they both have leukemia and a very difficult and unpredictable operation ahead. “Hour – minus five, hour – minus four… Zero hour”, that’s how doctors count time from chemotherapy to bone cells implantation. This situation requests from Oksana and Denis all the courage they have… Each one of them is fighting illness in their own way. Each one has a fortune of their own.

Yuri and Alexander are veterans of the Afghan war. For many years they celebrate Victory Day together.

A documentary story of one of the most unusual residents of Yakutia, Nigerian Mark Babatunde, who came to the republic following the call of his heart.

On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov was the first cosmonaut to go into outer space, and in July 1975 he was the commander of the Soviet Soyuz-19 spacecraft, which flew as part of the first joint Soviet-American Soyuz—Apollo project. This film is a story about space flights on behalf of the famous cosmonaut during his trip to Kaliningrad.

This is a dramatic story about the incredible earthly and spiritual journey of a Buddhist monk from Russia, who became one of the first preachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States. In 1923, as a young man, he left his home and spent over 30 years in Tibet and India, attaining the Buddhist degree of Geshe. He was a friend of the Dalai Lama and taught at Columbia University, dedicated his life to putting the Buddha's teachings into practice, and trained many talented students, increasing interest in Buddhism in the West.

In the heart of the Eurasian continent, the ancient center of the world where the Silk Road connected China to Europe, the circus is a deeply rooted cultural phenomenon. This film focuses on two circus artists, whose lifelong friendship under the dictatorship in Uzbekistan is affected by the differing political choices they make under the dictatorshop in Uzbekistan.

The life path of Patriarch Tikhon (in the world of Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, a native of the town of Toropets) is a real discovery for his contemporaries. Elected the first Patriarch of Moscow since pre-Petrine times and He was called to pastoral ministry in the most difficult years — during the revolution and The Civil War. He was persecuted and persecuted by the Soviet government, becoming a martyr. In 1981, Patriarch Tikhon was glorified as one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

The painting is based on the memories of Anastasia Shirinskaya—Manstein, who witnessed the exodus of the ships of the Russian squadron from the Crimea. In the autumn of 1920, she was 8 years old, and the girl remembered the Crimean evacuation for the rest of her life. Almost 150,000 people have been forced to leave Russia.

Fragments of a diary video epic.

Former rescuers organize an extreme expedition called "Find a Fallen Star" to feel the high of their work again and share it with friends.

Life in art - is it a departure from reality or an acceptance of it to the full? Self-denial or self-return? "Dmitry from Demerdash" is a story about the paradox of self-knowledge through a foreign culture. A story about a musician who left Russia to play authentic Arabic music.

In difficult moments of life, the community saves, and when it has saved, it begins to weigh down. This is what happens to the family of our heroes – Eugeny and Elena.

The documentary tells about the feat of Leningrad residents, the work of architects and mountaineers, the masking of the city and the preservation of monuments. Thanks to the unique chronicle, drawings and photographs, eyewitness accounts and analysis of historians, fragments and motives of the play " Hecatomb. Siege diary " the film rediscovers the events of the terrible and Holy days of the siege of Leningrad.

Now Siberia is considered to be the heart of Russia. However, many centuries ago it was just another unexplored territory, full of mysteries and danger. Our documentary series explores the most interesting of them. The episode about the discovery of Siberia is ready-made. Another 3 episodes will tell the story of surviving in severe frost, explore the deepest Siberian caves and cover the story of gold-mining in Siberia.

Two weeks later, football players from Abkhazia go to England. The World Cup among unrecognized states and autonomies will be held there. For the national team of Abkhazia, the challenge is to win this tournament at all costs. What overshadows the plans of Abkhazian football players is that it remains unclear to the last whether they will receive a British visa and whether they will even get to London.

Siberia. The sparsely populated village of Krotov. The farmer Vasily Dmitrievich Abramov lives in the village completely alone, since in 2005 his sons were convicted of murder and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment ... The film, shot for 10 years, is the last work of the classic of the national documentary film Valery Solomin. It was completed by his sons Eugene and Viktor Solomin.

Through massive wooden crates inscribed with strange hieroglyphs, the filmmakers lead the viewer into ΚΟΙΝΟΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΣ: a fluid space where history, mythology, and play converge. Here, boundaries dissolve into permeable membranes, allowing fact and fiction, the inner and the outer, the past and the future, the living and the inanimate to exchange forms, meanings, and roles.

Perevoz is a dying island village. Thus, the cemetery on the neighboring island has become a shelter for even more people. Tolik, one of the last remaining residents in Perevoz, has no job. He, as the only boatman in the village, became a ferryman, whose only duty is to help the alive to honor the memory of the departed, and to help the dead to set off on their final journey across the river.

A small postcard — a route compiled from fragments of memory from an album brought from India and bought at a flea market. These photographs were taken by a Soviet architect who built an ancient, anonymous city where every flower is still sacred.