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An adventure film about a group of friends who drank wine, made films, and recorded music at a dacha in the Moscow region.

The life story of Ekaterina Furtseva, the first and only woman to serve as Minister of Culture of the USSR.

The filming of this movie – the story of Russia’s oldest homeless charity “Nochlezhka” – began in January 2022. At the beginning of February 2022, work was underway on the script, and then February 24th happened and all ideas and filming, like many other things, lost their meaning. Two years later, it seemed important to to return to that time, look at ourselves and the country back then, and realize how the ideas and meanings that seemed significant to us had completely changed 24 months later. Or simply ceased to exist.

The film is about a young poet who left the war for Turkey. Unlike many emigrants, no one is waiting for him at home. Double orphanhood makes Slava wonder: How does a person become a poet?

Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. Nikita Martianov is the most decorated wakeboarder in Russia. He returns to the Kuril Islands to become the first wakeboarder who ventured to ride in these extreme conditions. Wakeboarding in this place is almost impossible, but the athlete is determined to make his dream come true and show all the beauty of the most inaccessible and most beautiful shores of our Homeland.

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack in Beslan in September 2004, when terrorists seized Beslan School No. 1. The characters of the film are former hostages, their loved ones and relatives, people who went through these trials. Among them are history teacher Nadezhda Gurieva, 11th grade student Victoria Kallagova, Beslan resident Valery Murtazov, school students Victoria and Olga Kallagov and many others.

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 the historic tour of the Moscow "Dynamo" in the UK in 1945. Then, in November 1945, the Soviet football club Dynamo (Moscow) played with the strongest professional clubs in England, Wales and Scotland. In two matches, the Dynamo players achieved victory, two were reduced to a draw. In total, 275 thousand spectators attended 4 matches. The film was shot in Moscow and London. The archives of Russia and England are used.

The film is dedicated to the outstanding works of Russian painting and icon painting collected in the Tretyakov Gallery, the artists who created these masterpieces, as well as the great Russian philanthropist and collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who took on the burden of moral and material responsibility, namely the collection of the national art gallery by means of one person.

The film consists of fragments of feature films of the twenties. They reflect the life of the country from a variety of sides: we see how people work, eat, drink, have fun, suffer, love.

The legendary Sedin plant was founded in 1911 in Russian Empire, in the city of Krasnodar (Ekaterinodar). The film shows the struggle of workers (rallies, pickets, strikes) for the future of the Sedin Plant and for their rights.

Vera Pavlovna has never been to Saratov. She lived in St. Petersburg and ran a sewing workshop. And in Saratov lived the author of the novel "What to do?" Nikolai Chernyshevsky, who invented Vera Pavlovna and her dreams. This is a film about who and what Chernyshevsky would see in his hometown if he were there today.

Girl photographers are the new rock stars who are changing their views on creativity and social stereotypes. In the film, the heroines-Anya Aristova, Lyubov Kozorezova, Anisia Kuzmina and others-for the first time find themselves in front of the camera lenses, and not behind them, as usual. They will tell you how to create a visual history of the generation, touch on the current topic of self-acceptance and show how they work on their photo shoots.

Former fighter of the Belarusian "death squad" Yuri Garavsky tells how he participated in the abduction and murder of Lukashenka's opponents 20 years ago. Then ex-Interior Minister Yuri Zakharenko, ex-head of the Central Election Commission Viktor Gonchar and businessman Anatoly Krasovsky, who supported the opposition, disappeared in Belarus. Garavsky claims that they were kidnapped and killed by the soldiers of the special rapid reaction unit (SOBR) of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Among them was Garavsky himself.

A large father and a psychologist are daily in a multi-week routine. It, like many residents of the metropolis, overcomes the fear of living a life in vain. He is trying to find a way out - gathers a group to hike in the Himalayas. But on his return from India to Moscow, another peak grows in front of him, and he must overcome it.

Self-Harm is a popular term meaning self-harm without suicidal intent, a symptom of many personality disorders. This film is an attempt to remove the stigma of taboo and public condemnation of such behavior.

In Saint Petersburg in Russia, there still exist communal apartments, vestiges of the Soviet system. People from all backgrounds and social classes are gathered together here, due to circumstance. They form a cross-section of Russian society grouped together in the same place. Kommunalka is a-slice-of-life portrait of a communal apartment in Sovetskaya Street

“The film is about one of the most terrible and difficult periods in the history of Russia of the 20th century, about the 90s of the last century. For many people it was a shock. The Empire collapsed, human relations and moral values collapsed. Crime and bandits were everywhere. And ordinary people were concerned about how to survive. This period was called perestroika. The people call this time a troubled time. The film reviews social processes from within, not from the outside propaganda side. Much for the modern spectator seems strange, it seems phantasmagoric, but it was so.” -V. Eisner

The full-length documentary film “YUDI: Dance in the Dark” tells the story of three people from an orphanage who, in pursuit of the dream of performing on stage, organized their own dance team, YUDI, in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Subsequently, they became finalists in the projects “Minute of Fame” on Channel One in 2007, “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2015 and “America’s Got Talent” in 2018. The film shows in detail the formation of the team and the entire behind-the-scenes life of the main characters, where, in addition to victories and performances with stars on the same stage, there were also personal dramatic moments. The story of the main characters serves as motivation for the younger generation and proves that success on the world stage can be achieved even while in a remote region of Russia.

Alai Oli is a band that constantly reinvents itself. The band started out in Yekaterinburg, but almost immediately began playing outside the city. And if at the start Alai Oli was listed as a reggae band, then later it became more difficult to define their style. “Everything is intertwined into a single stream,” is how the band’s creator Olya Marquez describes Alai Oli’s songs.

2017 - I am travelling to Russia with a German tour group. I take the diary of Wehrmacht soldier Buff, killed in action in 1942 when he tried to give first aid to a Russian soldier, as my travel reading. Our itinerary intersects with places where he fought. I grew up in Russia. My grandmother toiled in Stalin's camps. 2022 - the conflict that Russia's attack on Ukraine triggered in me runs through the film. The journey to Russia was characterised by encounters between people whose parents' or grandparents' had common experiences - those of the Second World War. In brief moments of rapprochement, many questions remain unanswered - especially about the purpose of war.

Yuri Dud drove along the Kolyma highway, built by victims of Stalin's repressions, and talked with local residents.

Settlements of Bulgarian loggers in the Komi taiga have existed for a quarter of a century. About two hundred thousand young people from Bulgaria worked here, many found their love, some even stayed here forever. The "winds of change" of the early nineties stirred the destinies of people and entire states... This film is about the Bulgarian trace in the heart of the Udora taiga, in the hearts of its inhabitants.

An orphan, a disabled man and a former robber find shelter in a distant dilapidated monastery in the Russian provinces. Difficult living conditions and the strict charter of the monastery differ from life in the world. Each of them will have to make a choice: stay here or go back to the world.

The video refers to the current protests in Belarus, political struggle and state violence through the discourse of fascism. The topic of fascism and victory over it has for a long time been central to the state ideology of Belarus.

The story of an artist who lives in a parallel reality and does not lose contact with real world. Conscious internal emigration. Surreal everyday life. Black and white photography. Fatherland. Brest. Women. Unicorns.

Betrayal is the worst thing that can happen between people. It marks the death of intimacy and trust. Betrayal can only be committed by somebody close, and a person who once trusted or even loved you can suddenly become an enemy.

A film about the nature of southern Kazakhstan and a Dzhambul photojournalist who takes pictures of animals and flowers in his spare time.

The city of Karabash is one of the most polluted points on the world map. The copper smelter, whose work has led to such a deplorable ecological state, has existed for more than 100 years. The author asks a question, is a worker a slave who does not care what will happen to his house and the land on which he lives, or can a worker be a free person?

Behind the monitor of the surveillance cameras, the guard detects a red glow in one of the rooms. The inspection of the premises did not reveal the presence of an outsider. The repeated occurrence of the glow forces the hero to figure out the source of the "problem". In parallel with the investigation, he arranges a "private life", trying himself as an actor.

The protagonist of the film, urban celebrity Iosif Grigorievich, developed his own unique balance system. Medical accuracy and a charge of good mood are guaranteed! But he was destined for a different name and a completely different fate.

The film is about two twins who spent their childhood in the forest on the cordon and saw other children only at the age of seven. They know everything about nature and birds, but have a poor understanding of people and society.

The shores of the Laptev Sea, a place of endless tundra and nothing except the tiny Evenk village of Naiba. How do these people live there? What do they do?

The film consists of fragments ("notes") from the life of a girl with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

As a result of trauma at birth, Vera Kazakova became disabled and can move freely. But she knew by her will change the course of her destiny and find happiness.

One person decided to sell the trailer, which he used as a dacha. And he went to the Black Sea, to the southernmost edge of Russia, where there is a trailer to sell it. But the trailer is not in a simple place. And in a place where the most important questions of life arise. Where a person is alone with himself. Where the mechanism of the universe is almost exposed. Where happiness is about to turn from a fleeting sensation into a permanent state. Where it seems that you can cut off all unnecessary and achieve freedom. Or is it just age? Time, not place?

Everything burns with love. Hidden memories settle like a thin layer of ash. A love story about a fire, pieced together from audiotapes found at Udelny Market.

A priest, father of 9 children, farmer and blogger Dionisy Solyakov, living in a village near Ryazan, and his family take part in an all-Russian vocal competition to compete for 3 million rubles.

Honored Master of Sports, two-time world record holder in long jump Igor Ter-Hovhannisyan, on the day of his 80th birthday, is preparing to receive guests at his house in the village of Zhuravikha and looks back at the years he has lived. It was like yesterday...

The action takes place in the house of cinema veterans. Life has changed in recent years. Our heroes are from a previous time. They are almost like Mohican Indians and their living space is also limited to a small area. But life goes on at the same time…

The employees of Prometheus were known as brilliant engineers capable of solving problems of a cosmic scale in the truest sense of the word — they, among other things, developed light-and-life devices for the interior design of spacecraft. The ideologist of the team Bulat Galeev was in correspondence with the classics of experimental art: Nicolas Schaeffer, Frank Malina, Yanis Xenakis, Lev Theremin, and although in Soviet times the bureau could not fully participate in the international art process, today many European institutions work with its archives. Didar Orazov's film, which includes digitized archival materials and new interviews with eyewitnesses of the heyday of Prometheus, is an attempt to touch an original phenomenon that the entire Soviet (and not only) intellectual world watched with awe in the second half of the XX century, to tell about what was behind the inspired experiments, about sincere love towards the future and endless curiosity.

Gravedigger Joe welcomes you to the forbidden world of real death. He has worked as a gravedigger for over 20 years. He is not just a master of burying the dead, he is a master of presenting the dead. Sit back and witness the disturbing factual horrors that he is about to show you from his own personal collection of murder tapes.

A family lives in a house on the mountain. The rhythms of the surrounding nature and love help her to overcome difficult situations.

Settled on earthen counters, lying under the endless steps of buyers and onlookers, the history of the country for the last 100 years in the stories of the inhabitants of the flea market on Udelnaya.

The film is about the unknown pages of the siege of Leningrad, about the Holocaust at the walls of the city, where the terrible mass murder of Jews took place. In these terrible days, the community found its leader. They became Abram Ruvimovich Lobanov, who in 1943 officially became a Rabbi of Leningrad. Every year, on January 27, the Great choral synagogue of St. Petersburg holds prayers in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, all the besiegers, all the defenders and liberators of Leningrad. They were first performed on January 27, 1944. The film will also tell about a new date in the Jewish calendar - 26 Iyar, the day of salvation and liberation. It was 26 Iyar, or may 9, that marked a turning point in Jewish history, thanks to which the Jews were not only saved from complete destruction, but also found their national home — the state of Israel.

A documentary immersion into the creative world of the artist and musician Svyatoslav Ponomarev, who develops Tibetan throat singing in Russia. The film uses materials from the artist's personal archive, newsreels taken from open sources, as well as fragments of texts by Sergei Kuskov and Heydar Dzhemal.

The execution of Nicholas II and his family gave rise to one of the most mysterious questions in Russian history. Did Princess Anastasia manage to escape? Anna Anderson spent her life trying to prove her royal origin. Would modern science put an end to this story? Memories of witnesses, historical documents, genetic analysis, and the letters of Anastasia-Anna Anderson will bring the viewer to the era of terrible shocks in Russia and disclose the secret of the daughter of Emperor Nicholas II.

Children are the most reliable investment, in the best sense of the word. Each of the little heroes of the film has its own character, different destinies, but they are united by the fact that all these children found themselves in a difficult life situation.

The absence of a man in the family is a given, which is genetically incorporated in Russia. We find confirmation of this even in the traditional toys of Russia. A Matryoshka is a nested doll. All of her children are collected in a large mother-doll. But there was no place for the father. The father's place is at war.

Home movies by cosmonauts onboard the space station 'Mir'. A slapstick look at the lighter side of life and weightlessness in space.

The documentary is dedicated to the history and modernity of the Tyumen region. The main idea of the film is to show Western Siberia as a fundamental part of Russia's power and prosperity through the past, present and future. The characters of the film are extraordinary, creative, freedom—loving and purposeful people with a real "Siberian character". The history, traditions and culture of the region, as a "starting point" for the story of today and tomorrow of the Tyumen region, linking epochs, times and generations. The film was created for the 75th anniversary of the Tyumen region.

For several years, the author has been making film observations of his heroes, peasants from two neighboring villages in the Lipetsk region. One of them, Uncle Vanya, is a poet, a local Kulibin, who builds a starship. The second, Uncle Kolya, wandered through life in an alcoholic stupor, but one day, having experienced a severe shock, he got out onto the “sober” highway. The most remarkable thing about the film is the author's point of view.

Mother and daughter, evacuated after the bombing in Makeyevka, are learning to live anew.