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The film about the Sami is a cross-section of modern life, shown through the example of a small indigenous people of the Kola Peninsula. And in this life, everything is closely intertwined - joy and sorrow, faith and despair. It has a place for a fairy tale, and a difficult life, and the search for Hyperborea, and the history of mystic scientists executed during the years of repression. But next to this, we see attempts to preserve the Sami language and reindeer herding, to support the Sami way of life, we see children happily adopting family traditions. And, finally, we are surrounded by the amazingly beautiful and severe nature of the North, which calms, reconciles and instills hope ...

Sergei Chudakov is either an upstart, or a genius, or perhaps an ordinary scoundrel, whom many have heard of, but no one knew. We have restored the portrait of an ambiguous person to show how easy it is to lose everything if you do not control yourself and your actions.

This film tells the stories of five Russian families who have lost children, mothers, fathers, and grandchildren to shelling. What secret memories do they hold of their departed loved ones? Who do they hold responsible for these deaths? And how do they view the world now? These are the heartfelt monologues of people who have endured the unthinkable yet still retain their capacity for compassion. In this moment, nothing is more important than their words. Over the two years of military action in Ukraine, the UN estimates that more than 10,000 civilians have died—and the shells continue to claim lives every day. Novaya journalists are unable to access Ukrainian territory due to censorship and cannot fully tell the stories of what is happening there.

Workers climb snowy mountains and old ladies sell flowers on the street, the church bells ring and people hang out at a pagan festival, crazy activists near Kremlin "fight back" the hated America and an former Soviet party worker reflects on the truth and Pontius Pilate, a doctor is proud of his "profession without convictions" and teenagers film TikToks. Even the propaganda machine is more concerned about the upcoming 10th anniversary celebration of the Crimea "joining to Russia". It seems no one wants to really participate in the life of these elections, only the obedient uneven march of cadets to the polling places remains. The elections without voting. As always voting.

The film is dedicated to the life of the Christian home of hard work “Noah” for homeless people.

In 2019, at the international exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Russian Pavilion hosted an exhibition by Alexander Sokurov dedicated to the parable of the Prodigal Son. In 2020, the exhibition was presented in the White Hall of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. This film tells about the exhibition's journey from creation to implementation.

How does a binaural microphone differ from a bionic one, what sound effects can you experience if you sit on a fire escape for a long time at night, and what is psychoacoustics? Where do the illusions that we can hear come from, and what wonders of technology do people come up with to record them? Musician and composer Tigran Paravyan, who faced these questions while studying at the Faculty of Sound Research at New York University, studies the possibilities and features of non-standard microphones and acoustics of different spaces. In the film, he travels to unusual places in Armenia, from medieval monasteries to abandoned concert halls, sings and captures songs and sounds of places using experimental sound recording methods.

A poignant documentary about the ideological conflict of generations. The artist Diana opposes the war, but lives with her grandmother, who hates America and proves that Crimea is ours, and special services are on duty at the entrance.

The film is about the Lugansk militia, whose fates are traced during the most critical period of the war, which has been going on in Donbas for the fourth year.

The film "Merciful Sisters" by Yulia Morskaya will tell about the history of the emergence of military field medicine and the Red Cross.

Russia. Character and path. A bitter experience of self-discovery. The theory of the Russian physiologist I.P. Pavlov as the key to understanding Russian history. And Russian history as the key to understanding Pavlov's personality and quest. A man who realized his freedom in the conditions of despotism. A scientist who realized the nature of the Russian crowd using the examples of experimental animals. The visual basis of the film was chronicle materials.

Short documentary. Interview with contemporary artist Alexandra Soko with fragments of her early works.

The conceptual basis of the film, created for the centenary of philosopher Alexander Zinoviev, is the famous dystopian novel "Global Human", the story "Go to Golgotha" and "Live". These works are united by the theme of finding a way out of the impasse of modern civilization.

The film is a documentary record of the passed stage of the life of the creative association "Buryatsky Underground" ("BATO") for 6 years of its existence.

In the late 1980s, a street musician appeared in Moscow who called himself German Baron von Draugel and claimed to be a disciple of the famous jazz musician Eddie Rosner. He asserted that in 1945, as a young boy, he was taken prisoner by Soviet forces, spent half of his life in Magadan camps, and it was there that Rosner taught him to play the trumpet. He told numerous stories about himself, the authenticity of which the well-known Moscow journalist Gennady Zhavoronkov tried to verify. As a result of this journalistic investigation, a completely different picture emerges...

Klaus Burger is a traveling musician. He has been in love with Russia for twenty years now, from his first tour there. Over time, he moved from Germany to the Urals, where he found family and like-minded people. Klaus Burger's lifestyle is extraordinary: at any time of the year he walks barefoot, has his own opinion on every subject, bears the title of "Golden Tube of Europe" and is building a "spiritual" wooden house in the village of Lubimovo in the Perm Territory.

A small steppe town in the Volga region. Old wooden houses in the center, rotting Khrushchev on the outskirts. Provincial boredom and hopelessness are opposed by two people, an Orthodox priest and a choir director, she is also a Sunday school teacher. The situation might seem normal, if not for one circumstance. The priest is a Frenchman, a former Catholic monk who converted to Orthodoxy. The regent is an Englishwoman, a philologist, and a former Protestant. They are in love with Russia and believe that it is here that they have found their place on Earth.

Denis and Ekaterina are going to get married. They still have so much to understand, namely, on which finger the ring is put on, what items will be in the wedding contract, and also that it is impossible to become spouses without the traditional rite of blessing by parents. They want to hold a celebration in European style, but relatives insist on a loaf and traditional competitions with collecting money in sliders. You will see what a real Moscow wedding really is and what the spouses really do immediately after the end of the event.

The portrait of the last Russian tsar, captured in unique archival photographs taken by the court photographer von Hahn during the sovereign's hunts in the reserved Belovezhye, rhymes with the footage of the chronicle of the First World War and the mass death of Russian soldiers.

Chronicle of one day in the life of a provincial town. A gallery of characters, veterans, human rights activists, "ours" and many others, united by one theme of the war in Chechnya.

The history of human life in photographs. A very personal film made by a director about his beloved late wife.

“The Shine and Poverty of Kirill Filippov,” this is how the mother of a young aviator who builds an airplane at home in the kitchen would call this film.

If we were to imagine a space where the imprints of human existence are stored, what would that space look like? What would those ‘imprints’ be?

This film is a memoir about a missing mother. The uncertainty with which the author has lived for their whole life is interrupted by sudden news.

Two people. Two different worlds. He is a hermit and a reindeer herder. His home is mountains and taiga covered with snow. He depends only on himself, because his life is absolute freedom. She is a resident of Rome, devotes almost all of her time to work and travel. Their worlds are so different that it seems that there can be nothing in common between them.​

To get to the next world, you don't have to die yourself. It's enough to knock on the neighbors and listen to their stories...

The film is in the language of the Meadow Mari. It's about how the magical spring comes to the Mari village, about pagan priests - these are such Russian druids. We have received consent to remove them not only at home, but also at services where they are not allowed at all.

The film is about a premonition of an impending war and an attempt to change the situation in the characters' separate small space, whereas globally everything is already predetermined. The protagonist of the film, Liliya, who resides in Moscow, a mother of three children, shortly before the war organizes celebration for her children along with other children in her native village near the border with Ukraine. The celebration's events takes place as if in the USA.

This is a story about how the Beautiful Russia of the Future happened in one Russian region in 2020. For several months, citizens became free and freely protested against the arrest of the people's governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal. The protests were covered by independent journalists and bloggers who fell into the millstones of the Khabarovsk Carousel.

An informational video telling about the types and consequences of eating disorders.

The documentary “Armenian Sketches” is a series of short stories about people who represent their national culture and traditions with sincere warmth. Like a puzzle, viewers may put together a big picture out of those stories, revealing Armenia’s centuries-old past and future in the unity of generations and in the unwavering spirit of its people. Video stories are dedicated to Armenian masters of traditional crafts, the creation of a khachkar or the manufacture of musical instruments, as well as present-day innovations.

Volchok, firstly, it is a diminutive of the word Wolf, secondly, this is a toy that, during recovery, maintains the performance of one support. A rapidly spinning top does not fall due to the gyroscopic effect, but when the rotation speed becomes insufficient, the top loses its spin and falls. Sasha, 22 years old, lives usual life in a million-plus city in southern Russia. In the space of her memory, images of childhood and life with her father and a wild wolf in the same apartment arise: once the father took away little Sasha from her drinking mother, and soon a real wild wolf settled in their new apartment.

After leaving Russia in 2003, I return with my mother to Volgograd. Between an idealized childhood that I carry in my memories, and her painful reality of these harsh time we once lived together, we reminisce about the decade following the 1991 Moscow putsch.

1972. A little-known story of the feat of Soviet sailors. International assistance to the Republic of Bangladesh is a heroic milestone for the USSR. Special operation expedition No. 12 is urgently recruited from the forces and means of the USSR Navy to provide assistance to the young Republic. The war between Pakistan and India is in full swing. It is necessary to clear of mines the Bay of Bengal as soon as possible and clear the fairway of sunken ships in order to free the passage for ships with humanitarian aid.

One day in the life of Estella, an extraordinarily inspiring and stylish girl who was diagnosed with cancer a year ago. How does she live with it? What is it facing? What does he expect and what does he feel?

Next July Altai will again drown in the sea of love for the famous countryman – Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. Altaians will celebrate his next birthday.

80-year-old Anna Filippovna and 63-year-old Alexey Fedorovich, residents of the village of Kuchuguri in the Voronezh region (the village about which director Gerchikov shot a real documentary saga), come to New Year's Eve Moscow, although they have not traveled further than the nearest district center from their native Kuchugurs in recent decades....

Yuri Vella is a Nenets hunter and poet, fighting with an oil concern for his ancestral lands.

In 2016, an HIV epidemic was announced in Russia, with more than 1,000,000 cases, and more than half of them women. This film tells the story of three women living with HIV for over 10 years. Opening their faces, they will honestly and directly tell about the history of their illness and life today.

It's easy to find out the weather forecast. It is enough to make one click on your phone, tablet or computer. Hardly anyone at this moment is thinking about how this information gets into gadgets. Where and how does the forecast come from? The old ship "Mikhail Somov" goes along the Northern Sea Route from Arkhangelsk to Wrangel Island. For Russian polar explorers, this is the only connection with the mainland. Once a year, Mikhail Somov delivers food, fuel, and equipment to weather stations…

In the illegal business that Max is engaged in, his "specialty" is called "pawnbroker" or "kladmen". He took up this dangerous job to pay for his studies at the institute and save up for a good guitar.

In 2020 humanity is faced with a disease that has taken many lives. What to do when left alone with the symptoms of the dreaded virus? Go to the hospital or be isolated while waiting for the disease to subside? The film tells about the life, routine and problems faced by a girl who was left alone during quarantine in a Ukrainian dormitory.

Yana and Sylvia. Two women. Two mothers. Every day is a new stage that must be overcome on the way to a happy life.

Journey to the places of events of 1944 in the Soviet Arctic and Northern Norway. A story about the friendship between the Norwegian and Soviet participants in the liberation of Northern Norway.

For the besieged Leningrad, the primary need was bread. But it was equally important to ensure the smooth operation of transport communications. In order for the city to live, people had to go to the factories, soldiers - to the front; it was necessary to transport a huge amount of cargo… The most indispensable transport was the tram.

In the 60s of the last century, Soviet archaeologists opened a center of Paleolithic culture in the Southern Urals. Rock paintings of the Kapova Cave became a sensation in the world of science. There are not many places like Kapova Cave on Earth, where the evidence of the life and work of ancient people has been preserved.

A documentary about people whom the state, the guardianship authorities and the closest relatives recognized as incompetent, perhaps because they are all pupils of the PNI. Our heroes live in a separate house of accompanied residence in the village of Razdolye, where they earn money themselves, partially supporting themselves as far as they can. Famous people often come to this house. The first episode of this series tells about the arrival of the writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin.

Somewhere among the panel high-rise buildings the author met a strange boy – Mitya Elizarov. Why did they meet, what did it lead to, and was it for real?

A film about the life of the Kulebak metallurgical plant.

The independent theater project Liquid Theater explores the topic of addiction by working with addicted patients at a drug treatment clinic. As a result of the work, a performance arises, and the main character, patient Ivan Ivanovich, becomes a clown.

Kolya Voronov, a 17-year-old boy with a synthesizer, who gained viral popularity in the mid-2000s with the song "White Dragonfly of Love" and quickly became the center of attention of journalists. He has been invited to interviews and talk shows countless times, and his eccentric songs have been parodied and covered by famous artists. This went on for several years, and then there was silence. Kolya disappeared. A serious mental illness threw him into real isolation, where only he, the cat and the music exist.

Nikolai Khardzhiev. The largest expert and collector of the Russian avant-garde. The owner of the rarest works, the collector who had taste, understanding, smell, remarkable abilities of persuasion. An extraordinary person, a storehouse of knowledge and a keeper of treasures collected in a Moscow apartment. Towards the end of his life, he decided to leave and move his collection and archive to Holland. As a result-a personal drama, the death of his wife and a collection scattered around the world…

This dress has become a family legend. It was worn on especially solemn occasions, passing to each other. Today, family members live in different countries, but the history of the green dress has brought them together again in the virtual space.

What if there will be the Last Judgment for artists? Will the decision of the Last Judgment coincide with the conclusion of the Russian court, which doomed the artist to 20 years of exile? As a child, Avdei Ter-Oganian was fascinated by the works of avant-garde artists. So, the harder he tried to be the professional in the field of avant-garde art, the more critical and provocative he seems to be. But his colleagues, artists, who often became objects of Avdei’s provocations, and even representatives of authorities tolerated him. But once, during Moscow's Art Manege Fair in December 1998, Ter-Oganian conducted a scandalous performance: with a hatchet, he destroyed several icons - cheap objects, one he painted over with a profanity. His performance caused public protests towards his mistreatment of these icons, although they were just objects sold for tourists as souvenirs on the streets. As the scandal grew, Ter-Oganian's exhibit was closed, and further performances were prohibited.

Even at the end of the earth, two people cannot hide from a pandemic that has been going on for the third year. Post-apocalypse. Civil War. The earth has become depopulated and the only principle that rules the world is “Every man for himself”. You can survive if you stick together. But what if you’re the only one in the end?