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From laws on propaganda and extremism to forced "treatment for orientation"! Are we truly at this point in history? This is a collection of dramatic stories from people who have endured so-called conversion therapy. Pilgrimages to Iran, psychiatric hospitals, soul-saving Orthodox monasteries, prisons in the Caucasus, and even sessions of exorcising a jinn... The imagination of those convinced that sexual orientation can be "corrected" knows no bounds. But what are the consequences of this conviction, and how effective is corrective medicine?

"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of Arabov himself. He received a call from a man who claimed that he was his father, who had left him with his mother 40 years ago, and whom Arabov himself had long considered dead…

This film is about the life and fate of one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" was arrested on February 14, 1961, three years after the massacre of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and a year and a half before the publication of Solzhenitsyn's "One Day of Ivan Denisovich" in Novy Mir. Grossman died shortly after Roman's arrest. His fate was taken away from him, but "the manuscript did not burn." Although I could. The film shows for the first time the documents from the "Special Folder" of Vasily Grossman, kept all these years under the stamp "Top Secret", as well as exclusive filming of the transfer of the arrested manuscript "Life and Destiny" from the archives of the FSB in TsGALI.

The Italian island of Sardinia is a pearl of the Mediterranean with a magnificent nature and ancient history. For more than five thousand years, different peoples, cultures and religions have existed on it. Now there are three Russian Orthodox parishes on the island. This film will tell about the spiritual pastors and believers of Orthodox Sardinia.

The film is about the first cooperative house in Moscow, many of whose residents were victims of Stalinist repression. The author of the film’s idea is a long-term resident Dmitry Belanovsky, whose family moved there in 1939. The former owner of the apartment was repressed by the NKVD. For many years, Dmitry was haunted by the thought of who lived before him in this apartment and how the fate of these people was. It took almost twenty years to find the answer.

The story of those who built, and those who now struggle to maintain, the giant Russian war monument in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) known as "The Motherland Calls".

An attempt to discern eroticism in a kaleidoscope of religious and everyday rituals

Investigation of The Dossier Center about the alleged plans of FSB officers to poison Alexei Navalny in 2017 in Kirov.

Tatyana and Artem have been living together for twenty-five years. They have two natural children who are now grown, and a constantly changing number of adopted children. Parents leave their children to Tatyana and Artem's family for temporary upbringing. They are trusted by guardianship authorities, parents who cannot cope with themselves and the responsibilities of raising children, neighbors and older students. But they are not trusted by people who accidentally meet them at the crossroads of fate or social networks. The story is not only about the family of Tatiana and Artem, but also about the distrust of each of us in the kindness and mercy of others.

Every call to the system can turn into a swan lake in every TV one morning.

The film tells about the path of Firuza Sharipova, a boxer from Kazakhstan, to the first championship belt, through professional and personal obstacles.

The short documentary tells the story of LGBT+ couple. Tosya and Masya have decided to challenge stereotypes and fight for their happiness despite the threats and prohibitions inherent in Russia.

This is a fragment from the "book of life"... angels in a heavenly cinema watch torn pieces from eternity... they mount them themselves... actors in the studio duplicate a feature film... actors of the theater of the deaf and dumb voice reality with a gesture... but it is impossible to voice reality…

The video game Disco Elysium was released in 2019. Great sales, prestigious awards — it was a resounding success. The main character of the documentary "Disco Elysium: the battle behind the scene", a gamer, wants to meet with the creators of the game. However, gradually an unexpected truth about his favorite game opens up to him…

An attempt to understand the mystical essence of the tales of a small people in Eastern Europe — the Udmurts.

What is the marriage of two independent creative personalities? What is a marriage made in heaven” and the cooperation of two completely self-sufficient creators? This film, filmed from inside the living environment of the characters, is trying to answer such questions.

On the evening of July 1, 1960, an American military aircraft was shot down over the Barents Sea, which violated the state border of the USSR. What did the RB-47 do in the Barents Sea near the borders of the USSR? How did the events of July 1, 1960 develop on the northern borders of the Soviet state and in Moscow? What was the fate of the surviving crew members of the American reconnaissance aircraft? What happened to the pilot Vasily Polyakov, who shot down the RB-47? The film includes an interview with a crew member of a reconnaissance aircraft, Vasily Polyakov, some materials from the still unclassified criminal case No. 45, film materials from the US State Archives.

Engelina Borisovna Tareeva is one of the most famous Russian bloggers, the oldest “thousander” of LiveJournal. She is 84 years old. She was born in Kyiv, at the age of 16 she was a tractor driver in a Kazakh steppe village in evacuation, she studied at the philological faculty of Moscow State University, worked in the journal Voprosy Literatury, knew well-known sixties and even a sixties woman herself. Most of Tareeva's nearly five thousand readers are young people. Paradox?

Part 1: The forest at Katyn. Mass graves of more than 20,000 Polish officers and government officials. They were discovered by the Germans in the spring of 1943. Goebels' propaganda immediately gave the matter publicity, blaming the Russians for the crime. Part 2: When the Russians occupied the Smolensk region in September 1943, they came across the graves erected by the Germans at the site of the Katyn massacre. Now they, like the Germans before them, made a propaganda film blaming the Third Reich for the murder of Polish officers.

The inhabitants in the remote villages on the coast of the Barents and White Seas rely on the ship "Klavdia Elanskaya" to connect them to the mainland and bring them supplies. Some people leave in search of a better life, while others come to embrace the challenge.

The Yunost team from Yekaterinburg in 2019 became the world champion in synchronized skating among juniors for the third time in a row. After that, the young figure skaters, led by coach Natalya Sannikova, began training on a new programme for the next World Championship, overcoming falls, pain, resentment and tears and spending an incredible amount of strength, energy, labour and health for the future victory. But in sports, not only the strongest wins, but also the one with stronger nerves.

The film combined folk legends about the cuckoo, the knowledge of scientists and observations of its life.

People on both sides of the Russia–Ukraine border have recently been real relatives, and now they are ready to curse each other, accusing "of all mortal sins." So, who "divorced" us? How did it happen that we began to believe the faces from the TV more than the native people? Why did "brothers forever" suddenly become "we will never be brothers"? The heroes of the film are residents of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kiev, Kharkiv, Slavyansk, Kherson and their relatives and friends from Moscow, Voronezh, Smolensk, Sevastopol and Khabarovsk. The end-to-end story of the film is a dialogue between the director and his cousin, who lives in Lviv and who, unlike the author of the film, categorically did not accept the "revolution of dignity".

Imagine Slovenia completely uninhabitable. Such is the territory of the Semipalatinsk test site. In these 18.5 thousand square kilometers, the atom was not peaceful. For 40 years, from 1949 to 1989, more than 500 nuclear and thermonuclear explosions thundered here, including the most powerful of the ground ones. How does this land live now, and will it ever be habitable? The film crew of the program "Aggressive Environment" visited one of the most radioactive places on the planet.

The film about the work of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, a writer and collector of folklore, author of Ural tales, is based on autobiographical texts and archival photographs of the "Bazhovsky" Urals, many of which have never been published before.

A tragicomic video about the difficulties of communication, in which non-professional actors try to build a dialogue by speaking in different languages (Russian, English and German). Like the characters in a Beckett play, they are in an endless wait at an empty bus stop, and the language and cultural gap turn the conversation into an absurd, but characteristic of today's situation of "non-communication". Translation difficulties are a convenient excuse for ignoring those who are nearby and going into cultural escapism. Is it possible to bridge this gap and make the other hear you?

Russian crochet designer Igor Andreev upcycles unwanted garments, curtains and tablecloths to create fairytale dresses and contemporary face masks. As a schoolboy Igor was banned from joining his local crochet club by those who deemed that “knitting was for women”. Now his fashion brand, Vereja — named after the village where he was born — is becoming world-famous.

800 years ago, in Russia, in Pereslavl-Zalessky, the holy Holy Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky was born. Thousands of kilometers away from Russia, in Northern Italy, in the city of Varese, there is an Orthodox parish named after this great saint of the Russian land. How and how this parish lives.

Participants in the Belarusian protests talk about imprisonment, the role of girls in the Belarusian resistance and a moral test for men.

The film tells the stories of 30 heroes - residents of the peninsula, who daily go to their favorite work, engage in creative work, help their neighbors and are not afraid to make plans for the future.

A video performance, in which the author examines fitness and aerobics exercises in today’s parks around Moscow as a strange hybrid of totalitarian sport aesthetics, pop cultural new age readings, and the Soviet ideal of harmonious physical development. People who are no longer young warm up under the guidance of a strong, young fitness instructor against the background of the recently restored rotunda in Moscow’s Neskuchny Gardens. The instructor encourages them: «Breathe! You can do it!». They do their best to carry out all the exercises correctly, ready for the main event — a march, to the chant of «left, right, left, right!».

We are far away from the Internet dating world when we gain entrance to the little office where Svetlana runs her Love Agency. Men and women from Arkhangelsk, in northwest Russia, come to her with the same dream: to find a partner in life. It's never too late to fall in love, says Svetlana. But when people with different hopes and experiences are brought together, it is not easy to find the perfect match. —Martina Carlstedt

This film was shot during the last year of Daniil Dondurey’s life in Moscow and Tel Aviv, where he was receiving treatment. Dondurey’s monologue is broken up by city landscapes, the animated buzz of a café, the silence of an emptied dacha… Dondurey talks about his pursuits, encounters, and tastes; he recalls his student years in Leningrad. He jokes, smiles, and hopes.

Docudrama about a young graffiti artist in suburban Saint Petersburg, Russia

A documentary film exploring what makes Russia tick. Director Michael Beckelhimer journeys across Russia to uncover how Russia turned their genius poet Alexander Pushkin into "their everything".

This film is an exploration of the spiritual and scientific side of the pilgrimage phenomenon. The film is an immersion into the world of ancient pilgrims and a walk through old Jerusalem among modern religious tourists.

In the distant northern village of Topolinoye lives a small people of the far north - Tompon Evens. The film tells about their daily life, what the village lives on and what the deer - their sacred animal - is silent about.

The film tells about the spiritual, educational, social, charitable and peacemaking activities of the Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan, tells about the interfaith dialogue and the relationship of the Church with the state and society. The film particularly touches on the topic of political repression of the twentieth century and testifies to the help of the Kazakh people to innocent people who found themselves in exile and camps on the territory of the Republic. Interviews with hierarchs and clergy, prominent public figures of Kazakhstan and ordinary citizens of the country alternate with demonstrations of historical and cultural attractions, unique views of Kazakh nature.

Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the present to the past runs through a polylogue of experts, folk music, works by contemporary artists, musical and creative interpretation of poems by Rahim Sattar and unique archival newsreels shot at the dawn of cinema.

The story of how the three-year-old philosopher Valya, with the help of his mother and doctors, defeated the disease and took his first step on his own.

Leaving his family and city comfort, Vladimir Alekseevich equips himself a house in the taiga. Unity with nature in a small hut is the joy and everyday life of an 80-year-old huntsman. What makes a person choose the path of solitude? Who is he – a loner, an egoist or a sage who has found the meaning of life?

The film tells about the life of a small community of Russian Molokans. Representatives of this small religious group are scattered all over the world, but for several centuries they have maintained their authenticity and strong connection with the homeland that once rejected them. Being under strong pressure for a long time, they were unable to maintain their beliefs and reverent attitude to the world, to the people around them. How and why they did it-these are the questions that we will have to find answers to.

In December of 1991, the USSR started to slowly dissolve and a wave of Western influences flooded the former Soviet states. Seemingly all at once, western consumerism arrived in Russia along with the hope that western prosperity would soon follow.'3OHA' examines the explosive changes in the cultural landscape of the region, from the last days of the Soviet Union to the modern feudalism of now. Via interviews with cultural luminaries like Artemy Troitsky, Igor Shulinsky, the recently incarcerated rapper, Husky, and 4 current day portraits of youth in Russia and Ukraine, a variety of refracted angles come into focus through fake nikes, clubs, drugs, instagram live, and the ghost-like echo of Swan Lake.

This Petersburg you will not see on the covers of glossy magazines and advertising brochures. This city is ghosted and brutal, and it is inhabited by very different, often very gloomy people.

A film about the planes of the Great Patriotic War returning to the sky. Behind this return are people who do not forget and will not let anyone forget what our fathers and grandfathers did for us today. The main person in the fate of veteran aircraft is Boris Osyatinsky. Thanks to his energy, more than a dozen aircraft have already been restored in Russia.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov lived under six rulers of the Soviet state. He met with five of them - Beria (read Stalin), Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev - personally and hoped that one way or another he would be able to influence their decisions. But he had a real impact on the society of his country. He was born under Lenin and died under Gorbachev, a year and a half before the day when the state collapsed, which he helped strengthen in the first half of his life and fought against in the second. This "turn", as he himself called it, is the most interesting thing in Sakharov's history.

Film about one of Russia's most unusual indie bands, Dagestani jazz band "No, you're kidding".

Over the years of the war, thousands of Russian prisoners have been released. Until autumn 2024, they could sign six-month military contracts and receive a presidential pardon. Some of them had been convicted of serious crimes and thus avoided decades in prison. Among those released was the murderer of Kemerovo student Vera Pekhteleva — her parents learned about his freedom only six months later. We filmed the stories of victims whose mothers lost track of the convicted killers and still do not know where they are. We also spoke with two former offenders who returned from the front and are now trying to live as ordinary citizens.

International soldiers of the Donbass militia volunteered to fight Ukrainian neo-Nazism. They’re from Mexico, Columbia, the USA, Serbia, and all over the globe. Locals treat them as heroes, while their homelands consider them criminals and mercenaries. If they return, decades of prison could await them. But they don’t regret it – Donbass has become their home. Unlike international military instructors and mercenaries in the Ukrainian army, foreign volunteers of the Donbass militia have strong motivation. They confront neo-Nazism as their ancestors did. Whatdo they do and how doe they feel about what they see?

An amateur philologist strives to share his insights on Bulgakov with the public, despite living a precarious life, sleeping at train stations, and surviving on a meager pension. Undeterred by widespread indifference, he remains determined to make his mark.

The ancient production of Gus crystal is now supported by 100 workers. Among the ruins of the former enterprise, one working workshop remains. The film tells about the inevitably flowing time, about what was and what will never be again.

The film revolves around the world's first space museum. Tour guide Elizaveta talks about space flights, planetarium engineer Dmitry shows the public the stars and planets, Tsiolkovsky’s great-granddaughter Elena helps local actor Andrey get into the role of her famous great-grandfather, an astronautics theorist. All characters are united by their passion for space and pride in their museum.

These places have a tough climate, impenetrable forests and the no civilization. No one would wish to live here. No one except these people. Others would be frightened by the lack of roads but these people appreciate the freedom of movement. The vacuum of information preserves the tranquility of their souls. They do not have ID cards, salaries or pensions. Formally they do not exist at all. But in reality, they live here. They live happily and independently from the state, and they are able to enjoy the authentic beauty of nature in the Tuvan Republic every day.

The film is about Mikhail Kozlov, a master rider of international class, a living legend of the Moscow hippodrome and about his famous horses.

The documentary saga will open the doors of palaces and hovels of one of the most closed nationalities. What a modern gypsy camp looks like, what the mystery of early marriages is connected with, how much it costs to buy a bride and why funerals mean so much in Romale's life — the film will tell about this and not only.

The human right to live on their ancestral land... How difficult it is sometimes to implement it in the Fatherland. And not even in the icy North or the scorching south, but in central Russia itself, where it would be necessary to fight with all the forces of the state for the continuation of the life established there once with hard work, so that our beautiful rural expanses do not turn into a wild, overgrown with weeds, a huge lifeless field. It's hard to survive in a place where everyone is running for a better life. Fortunately, there are still those who remain. And Faith, Hope and Love will help them.

The protagonist, betrayed by relatives many years ago, now himself, after adultery, turns out to be a traitor in the eyes of his wife and children. Betrayal has its evolution.

The film is based on the love story of a Russian woman, Claudia Novikova, and a Japanese, Yasaburo Khachia, who was serving time in Stalin's camps on false charges of espionage against the USSR.