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A film about the dedication of doctors in different parts of Russia, who were the first to begin the fight against COVID-19.

The camera glides over the blue-green mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau – one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia. It was built half a century ago-away from the bright city lights, closer to the sky – in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia. A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses, a school, a club and an administration. In a small world, lost in space and time – whether it is the Soviet seventies, or the future of the Strugatsky novels – modern artists come with their works. The film unobtrusively confronts opposites-physicists and lyricists, schoolchildren and gray-haired scientists, the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple, artifacts and ancient mountains. But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos, to which people listen with bated breath.

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.

They met at the institute. And they lived a bright, interesting, full of anxiety life, in which there were ups and downs, victories and disappointments. She still speaks of him only in the present tense, saying "Borenka" and "Boris Nikolaevich"with love and tenderness. It's been almost 10 years since his death. And the void after his departure was never filled with anything. Time has not cured me. They had the same life. One for two. Naina Yeltsina is a great woman and a great wife.

On New Year's Eve, the ambulance service and the trauma department of the Torzhok hospital have a lot of work to do. Someone fried cutlets for the festive table and burned himself, someone broke his leg, someone had a sixth birth, and someone just got drunk and fell right under the wheels of a passing car, the daughter beat the old mother, and the man has all the signs of a heart attack, but he refuses to be hospitalized, hoping for a Russian " maybe»... People argue, shout, cry, resist. And only under anesthesia they calm down and fall silent. Anesthesia as a metaphor of modern life, it is as if scattered and in the air. We hear it in the president's congratulatory New Year's speech, and we also calm down... And only the ambulance starts the engine and rushes to the next call.

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 movie about my life that guarantees 10 minutes of pure entertainment.

Gas comes to a distant village. But the village is already full - with its natural sounds...

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.

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.

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.

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.

The film will tell the audience about the life and work of the legendary Japanese textile artist Itchiku Kubota. At the age of 20, while studying the art of dyeing fabrics at the Tokyo Museum, Ichiku Kubota was inspired by the patterns of the special painting on fabric for kimono "tsujigahana". The secret of labor-intensive technology seemed to be lost forever.

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.

Kamancha could die in the Chechen war, could die from wounds or drugs. But he survived and saw the light. He says about himself, "I was a creature, but I want to become God's creation."

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.

The hero of the film is a tenth-grader who is fond of tattoos, a typical representative of a certain stratum of modern youth, a representative of the younger generation of the millennium. Not a street boy, but quite homely, he is not going to give up his comfort, but he is not keen on anything more than he has.

I didn't communicate with him during all my life, but it seemed like I had a communication with mom. And now I am dealing with the courts for simply being their daughter. How can I call you: father or dad? Just want to answer this question...

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?

A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone embankments, pigeons in parks, dandelions breaking through the pavements, aberrations of color and light evoke an increasing sense of unease. Ambient sounds—random conversations, city noises, and a track composed by Mexican sound artist Enrique Arriaga—merge with the visuals, making the film a direct speech of a human/camera/witness about what clearly audible in the actual urban space.

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.

This is a journey into the microcosm, into the world of flowers and insects, into the world that is under our feet, once again telling us that nature remains the greatest master of special effects… We will see that plants, just like us, struggle, feel, see, and even seem to hear. Let's understand that insects, frogs, spiders are all with their own character, and their life is just as eventful as ours. There is a whole cosmos under our feet! And we all draw strength from the same source…

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

He dedicated sculpture all his life. But today he sculpts the figures of his neighbors in a nursing home, as lonely as he is. Every day, observing around himself the extinction of the life and suffering of the elderly, he creates realistic images in his works that compel empathy and cause sympathy.

A film-memoir about the first honest conversation between an adult daughter and the father with whom she had never had a close relationship. Several days after the meeting, her father vanishes without trace once more, this time forever.

The White Guard is the first novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. It describes the events of the Civil War in Ukraine in 1918-1919. The work was conceived by the author as a large-scale trilogy about the civil war, but the author wrote only the first part of it. Confirmation that Bulgakov worked on the second and third parts of the novel are the stories "The Raid", "On the Night of the Third Number", "I Killed" and others. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writing of the novel "The White Guard", to the centenary of the civil war in Russia. This is an attempt to analyze the scale of the historical tragedy through the prism of the views of a great artist.

Lena managed to find her dream job: she's a crane operator. However, the daily routine has dulled even the liveliest enthusiasm. Climbing a hundred-meter ladder has turned into a regular workout, and even the incredible sunsets no longer bring joy. But Lena is not willing to live and work on autopilot.

Dina Loskutova, a person with severe disability, moves from a psycho-neurological boarding school to the House in the wild, where she can live with other people with disabilities and developmental disorders, in the village of Razdolye among ordinary people. How does their life, about the joys and trials of the first years of free life, this film tells.

A techno-melodrama about the past, imaginary and present of Nikita Computer.

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.

In the age of total earning or extraction of money, such concepts as a favorite profession or dream are less and less common in our lives. How can you love a man who has long since died?

Walk along the famous Kaliningrad's Baltic suburb in the company of a local celebrity Seryoga. He has just left the police department, but is not going to stop the fun.

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

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.

She is only 9 years old, and she already knows a lot about life.

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

The story of a family that left a successful life in Moscow and arrived in the Artsakh village. The head of the family is an Armenian, his wife is Russian, his daughter still remembers life in Russia, but speaks more and more about the Armenian nature and the importance of life on the land of ancestors.

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.

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

The base camp at the foot of Mount Everest is a place for strong men. They leave their family and business at home and focus on climbing. Each of them will have to prepare for two months to conquer the main peak of the world. Such men, usually wealthy, are hunted by women under the guise of climbing a peak. One of these girls will keep a diary of conquering, but not Everest, but men.

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.

This found footage film is composed entirely of often-shocking videos that Russian teenagers have posted on social media. Innocent morning rituals on YouTube or TikTok have been placed next to shots of panicking young people fleeing school shooters. And students all over Russia are apparently secretly recording images of violent teachers who can’t keep their hands to themselves. In class they are told that a woman must have sex with her husband whenever he wants; furthermore, students are called idiots and are beaten. One critical teenager is threateningly told that a report will be made about her political views.

Two seasonal migrant workers came to Finland for fast bucks. The aim of misha, a ukrainian labourer from the town konotop, is to earn money and invest them in purchasing of apartments for living on that passive income. the colonel of the soviet army from lithuania sergey fedorovich has to fix his white land rover, which is his gem, and also he is burning for some adventures in the years of retirement. alas, everything didn’t quite go as they had planned. they ended up at the summer place of some emigrants of 1918 (the time of the russian revolution) from saint-petersburg. martti has a mission – to restore the old buildings and revive the recollection of his russian grandfather. so, anna martti’s young daughter has decided to make a film about all of it.

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

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.

From January 1, 2018, every Muscovite receives a box with necessary items for the baby at the maternity hospital. But what about moms with another residence permit?

Based on letters, diaries and archival documents, the participants of the film reveal step by step the life of Marina Tsvetaeva from 1917 to 1922.

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.

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.

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

One of the worst problems in the Russian correctional system is medicine. Cancer is not so much diagnosed as stated, because in prison a person goes to the doctor too late. And for the last right - to die at home, with your family - you also have to fight. Human rights activists, officials, doctors and the main character of the film talk about how this happens.

Nobody has canceled the golden goosebumps. Where are they from? The film is a reflection on the nature of voice, the essence of creative pursuits and the origins of musical destiny.

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.