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About the life of four feminists living in Bashkiria and holding completely different views. What are they fighting for? Why are they opposed to each other and to the society in which they live? The film as an occasion to reflect and rethink your experience, regardless of what beliefs you are used to following.

The film introduces Lena, an artist who rethinks Russian folk song tradition, combining it with electronic rhythms and creating music that is understandable and close to the modern listener. She becomes a living bridge between the past and the present, connecting generations through sound. In the film, her world is revealed in two dimensions - black and white and color, as if two realities in which she exists and creates simultaneously.

A living cultural monument: a love letter to the legendary St. Petersburg House of Radio, which has served as a place of power for people of art for decades.

A short and surprising story about never-ending connection with those we love.

A small female doctor spends a significant part of her life at the train station helping homeless people. Why would she do that? The work was awarded the Award of the Academy of Russian Television TEFI, nomination "Best TV movie".

Tatiana Revina, who has brought up several generations of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing, has lost everything. She lives in a crumbling village house with her daughter and three grandchildren. Her grandson Mark wants to become a rapper and a blogger, and is disgusted with sports. Tatiana is trying to instill high benchmarks in him, but they see life way too differently. The summer is over soon, children will move to the city, leaving Tatiana alone, and will make a decision: how and why to live their lives.

"David" is the story of a Jewish boy from Minsk, David Levin, who went through the press of the state machines of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, England, France, and even Israel and did not break down, but retained his humanity, kindness to the world.

The characters of this film are outsider musicians from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk, not losers, but people with their own position. In the lives of Anton (Mårble), Stas (DJ 1985) and mark (Mississippi Landscapes) there are performances at the Boiler Room and Present Perfect — and urban weekdays with "Pyaterochka" and canteens, strange parties, jams on the roof panels, escapes to the village. In the gap between them, there is a lot of talk about music, creativity, and what allows them to remain themselves and not look for ways into the mainstream.

The Skyscrapers of Moscow

The documentary is dedicated to the memory of the People's Artist of the USSR, composer Konstantin Orbelian. The last interview with the maestro is about his childhood in Baku, his older brother, his passion for jazz, his musical career, his tours, and his life abroad.

A heartfelt story about screenwriter Alexander Emmanuilovich Borodyansky, who leads his daughter, for whom the film becomes a journey into the creative and human world of her father. The multi-layered canvas of the film is woven from the voices of comrades and like-minded people, subtle observations and revelations. This is not only a portrait of one of the most versatile authors of Russian cinema, but also a deep reflection on the nature of screenwriting.

In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into a chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way to cope with the grief is to fixate everything with her camera. Her anger guides her to inner emigration to the local underground scene, which became an escape for young russians. This kaleidoscope of shards chronicles not only spirit of the time, but the director’s personality crumbling against the backdrop of global turmoil.

A mockumentary monologue, the script for which was written in conjunction with artificial intelligence, inspired by old popular science films about flora and fauna. A fantasy on the theme of the life of “separated nature”, after human influence on it.

A film about returning to your hometown with music by the Intertext ensemble.

In the autumn of 1941, an SS training camp appeared in the small Polish town of Travniki, organized on the personal initiative of Heinrich Himmler. The cadets of this camp were supposed to be, according to the Reichsfuhrer's idea, Soviet prisoners of war. In the first months after the German attack on the Soviet Union, there were millions of them, exhausted, psychologically crushed, dying of hunger.

The life and events of the country in 2000-2021 in three parts.

Successful businessman Alexander returned to his small homeland to change and revive a village forgotten by everyone in Mordovia. However, the villagers reject the innovations – they are not ready to change their accustomed way of life.

A talented Buryat artist, working with stone in a unique technique, diligently contributes to his beloved Buryatia. His stones intricately and gracefully encode ethno-cultural motifs, mythology, and the uniqueness of the Buryat people. Will he have the opportunity to implement a significant monumental project, in addition to his small indoor works? This question troubles him, but recognition comes unexpectedly.

After graduating from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Grigory Gibert did not stay in Moscow but moved to Krasnodar, where he became the leading expert on the history of cinema in Southern Russia. Over 30 years, he educated thousands of students. Now, Grigory Gibert is embarking on a journey to his roots in Yakutia to find his father's grave. This journey is the most important film for him.

In the early 1990s, in Siberia, in the taiga in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, several dozen people separated from the world and, having organized a community, tried to build their ideal society. It's been almost 30 years. What came of it?

Peasant summer from early spring to late autumn. Today there are no peasant farms in the Voronezh steppes for a long time, the collective farms are a thing of the past, and the various firms created in their place, the land was bought up by huge holdings. Others today are tractor drivers, those who are lucky with work. Other news on the radios, the Donbass is very close, and in that summer of 2015 there were battles going on there. But summer is still a whole life that still needs to be lived.

A film about the narrow-gauge railway Seven-city - Druzhba. The film crew went to one of the most remote villages in the Vologda Oblast, which survives only on this narrow gauge railway. The train went for 5 hours, in addition, periodically derailed.

In the seemingly simple fate of the heroine of the film, Vera, there is a whole tangle of social, national, demographic and other problems of our difficult time.

The painting has the subtitle "Princess M. Tenisheva", and tells about what it was like for Maria Klavdievna to create an art center in Talashkino, Smolensk province, the main goal of which was both the revival of national applied art and the formation of the "Russian Art Nouveau" style. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Center brought together many prominent Russian artists, musicians, and sculptors. The names of Roerich, Serov, Malyutin, Vrubel, Repin, Trubetskoy, Korovin, Prakhov and many others are associated with Talashkino.

The young priest Vladimir Mironov had a truly unique mission – to lead a parish in a strategically important region, on the border of countries, continents and dates, at the junction of different cultures and ways of life. In the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the Peter and Paul and Kamchatka Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in the village of Nikolskoye, Aleut district of the Kamchatka Territory. The only functioning temple on the Commander Islands, it is the easternmost in Russia.

An almanac that brought together 10 independent Russian musicians, whose songs written before February 2022 suddenly began to sound in a new piercing way and have gained importance in today's context.

Olga Gracheva decided overnight to radically change her life. In the past, an accountant, now she is an international Master of Sports in powerlifting.

The hero of the film is a man of absolutely incredible biography and fantastic character. Anatoly Lebed. He went through 5 wars and died in 2012 in the most ridiculous way – he crashed on a motorcycle. Very little was known about his life. After all, the details of such a specific professional activity are not put on the front pages of newspapers. In addition, the Swan himself was very laconic and did not like to talk publicly about his past

If your dream of climbing Elbrus is just an emotion, you will not ascend. For the sake of a medal and a photo, you will not ascend. If Elbrus is a new frontier and a conscious choice - go for it! Rustam Nabiyev, who lost his legs as a result of the collapse of the barracks in 2015 in Omsk, made his ascent on his hands for the first time in the history of mountaineering.

Ukrainian-born, Russian-bred, Afghan-raised, filmmaker once started to catalog all his fences, and then more and more new fences appeared.

The film in a fictional and documentary form, relying on an associative video sequence, tells about the events of Russian history at the end of the 15th century – the time of the “gathering of Russian lands”, when the troops of the autocratic Grand Duke of Moscow John III defeated and conquered the Novgorod Veche Republic.

The film "Don't Be Afraid" tells about the struggle of the Belarusian people for fair elections. The fates of people who responded to the call of blogger Sergei Tikhonovsky and who took part in the 2020 presidential campaign are shown.

Portrait of a homeless Russian-speaking chess player traveling in Germany and Europe, playing chess with passers-by on the street.

Lolita is the one who bears two cultures: her mother is Russian and her father is Azerbaijani. The film is a lyrical story about a girl, who goes to Azerbaijan for the very first time to meet her father’s parents. She wants to know as much as she can about the traditions, culture and morals of her Azerbaijani relatives. Her first acquaintance with Azerbaijan becomes the focus point of documentary.

Twenty-three-year-old Vitaly Akimov portrays his family in the shrinking Russian provincial town of Arsenyev. Ten-year-old Stepan, his brother’s stepson, acts as a guide to this grim environment, appropriately filmed in black and white. He strums his guitar, fetches water, or plays kindly with his little half-brother. He also witnesses another side of life. Slightly embarrassed, he gingerly walks around his stepfather sleeping off the drink, soaked his own urine on the kitchen floor. Stepan talks cheerfully about the horrific events of his life, or shares his deeper thoughts.

Arina is the daughter of a Russian mother and Kurdish father, who left the family and went back to his homeland — Syria. Turning 19, Arina goes to see him in the middle of war-time. She tries to reconnect with him while he is surrounded by three other kids and a new Kurdish wife. Meanwhile, they decide to flee to Europe. The Netherlands becomes their new home. But after a while the family splits up. Arina is trying to be near and offer her support. Will she be able to help, when everything collapses?

Village Khoroshee in the Siberian outback. Here the hero of the film lives and works as an ambulance driver. At the gate of his house is a small plane in which our hero once tries to take off ...

In Vladikavkaz, a town nestled in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, an Ossetian women's football team tackles traditional gender stereotypes by challenging a group of guys to a game. They'll prove once and for all that strength and hot tempers run through both the men and women of their culture.

This film is about a person who is unique to the present. The representative of the ancient people found an amazing balance between the life of his ancestors and modern life. He remains active and "alive” in difficult conditions. He doesn’t complain about fate, he just works very hard. He has no equals in fishing skills. He is experiencing some kind of absolutely unity with nature, he doesn’t fight with it. His family consists of three dogs and two cats and there’s no one closer.

Academic work of 4th courses of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).

The heroines of our film are sure that the whole world rests on their hair. But the girls themselves are bald. Throughout the film, Arina, Katya and Yana try to “make friends” with their peculiarity.

The coronavirus epidemic is closing schools. A teacher from St. Petersburg and his students continue their lessons remotely. Forced isolation makes them almost equal. He no longer stands in front of them while they are sitting. They no longer respond by raising their hand. He may not be distracted by their questions. They can leave the class without asking permission. But they need to be able to understand him. And he must learn a new way of thinking. His past holds an experience of forty years. His future holds them, his students.

A report on the famous French legion, formed from contract soldiers. There are among the legionnaires and immigrants from Russia.

Sergei is seven years old. He believes in Batman. Not wanting to discuss the tragedy that happened in the family, Sergei's older brother, Misha, starts playing superhero in real life. The brothers create their own world, incomprehensible to others. But can the game last forever?

To the aural accompaniment of sloshing mud and gurgling water, Russians soak themselves in the curative mud baths of a historic spa. It is October 2022, and the full-scale invasion in Ukraine has been underway for seven months. This place, however, seems completely unaffected. Before visitors can enjoy the benefits of being packed in mud, they have to deal with a complex jumble of prohibitions, stamps, voucher systems, and other bureaucratic hoops and hurdles.

«What are they doing? Making a human shield! They hid behind old men! Idiots! Damned Ukraine! It makes me so angry!» Mariupol residents who had to hide in the cellar during Ukrainian shelling share their stories. Over 400,000 people in Mariupol had to go underground because they weren’t allowed outside the city by the Ukrainian units. The film features stories of courage and perseverance people displayed in crisis. For example, a Russian soldier drives under gunfire to distribute humanitarian aid; a volunteer from Texas helps reunite families separated during the evacuation. A courageous OB-GYN helps 25 women give birth during the bombing. Where did they find the courage, and what awaits them?

The story of a surf school in Kamchatka, spending its last season on the shores of the Pacific Ocean - a film about farewell, freedom and people who are not afraid to start all over again.

In March 2022, my mother died. After her leaving, the thread connected me with my past life, with the feeling of home, seemed to tear. Despite the fact I had a little daughter and a husband, I still felt very lonely. To overcome the longing for my mother I decided to take a trip through the memories of her. The things remained from her became guides on this path. Old photos ceased to be tied to time. Although mom is not around, she has left traces by which I can find her in myself, in the environment. This is a film about accepting loss, about accepting legacy.

The film is about a unique social experiment. Will the appearance of the city change if janitors, roofers and other housing office workers are introduced to art and sent to the Russian Museum for educational instruction? “Make it beautiful” records the progress of the experiment throughout the year.

Mikhail Ugarov is the head of the Documentary Theater department at the School of Documentary Film and Theater, playwright, director, artistic director of the Theater.doc, ideologist of the New Drama movement, member of the organizing committee and one of the organizers of the Lyubimovka Young Drama Festival, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Human Rights Group Award, twice winner of the Golden Mask Award. In 2013, he made his debut as a film director. He died on April 1, 2018.

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.

Millennials are the children of default. Now they are 18 years old. They are lovers of Brodsky and strong alcoholic drinks. They talk about what needs to be done, they understand a lot of things that are almost impossible to understand, but they all end up with the same thing, vodka and cheap champagne. What will happen to them next?

Once incredibly talented and energetic young people - the artist Ilya Epelbaum and the actress Maya Krasnopolskaya - were lucky to meet, and then find themselves "at the right time in the right place." This is how their unique creation appeared in Moscow: the first private, family puppet theater "Shadow". They toured half the world and won countless professional awards, including eleven "Golden Masks". For 35 years, luck and success have not left this happy married couple. Until trouble came into their lives...