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Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?

Now falconers do not go into the forest for prey. Therefore, falconers become more attached to their birds of prey, which creates more experiences and little tragedies. The characters in the film are five people who are connected in different ways to birds of prey. Someone takes care of the affected birds, someone deeply studies the philosophy of falconry. But all of them once had to endure the hardest thing in the life of a falconer - the loss of a bird.

Olya is a loving mother of two children. The children's father is a wealthy businessman who rarely took part in their lives. One "inconvenient" remark turns their lives upside down… This is a story about several weeks of a single woman's life in a continuous struggle for her children. And about the children who are hostages of the situation, to whom no one gives the right to choose.

A documentary about the events that took place at the time of World War II, on the territory of modern China. In 1939, a special unit №731 was formed in Manchuria. It had a laboratory where experiments on Chinese and Russian prisoners were conducted. What happened to the victims of these vile researches? What was the fate of their torturers?

Jan Karski is a hero of World War II, a member of the Polish Resistance and the author of the first official account of the Holocaust. The film was created jointly by filmmakers from Russia and Poland in the year of the centenary of Jan Karski, on the seventieth anniversary of the victory over fascism.

“I want to help people fight not with death, but with life,” says Elina, a clinical psychology student. But only a video camera helps the girl to fight with her life, which she turns on closing herself in her room.

The story is about the indigenous small-numbered people of the Far East - the Ainu, who from time immemorial lived on the Japanese Islands, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands and the south of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The fate of the Ainu people is difficult: according to historical documents, the Ainu were the most numerous ethnic group in the Far East. But at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century, some of the Ainu were assimilated by the Japanese, and some mixed with the Russian population of the Far East. At the moment, the Ainu living in Russia, while preserving their identity, are not included in the list of indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East and are fighting for the inclusion of the Ainu people in the state document of the Russian Federation.

In the mid-90s, three business partners gather in a commune, buy up land in the Moscow region and build three houses on one plot. What will become of this place and its inhabitants after 25 years?

Who is a drug addict? Criminal? Dangerous sick person? Or a hero fighting the worst enemy? It is customary to treat drug addicts as the scum of society, unnecessary and superfluous. But it's not just weak people who start using drugs. Very often, especially in childhood, drugs appear in life as a tool of socialization. Using the example of a personal story of one person, the author tells how people in Russia treat drug addicts, what stereotypes they have to face, whether they manage to start a new life and whether there is a share of responsibility of each of us in the problem of drug addiction.

In 1989, Pablo Escobar entered the top ten richest people on the planet according to Forbes magazine. He led the Medellin drug cartel for 20 years and, according to some estimates, during his activity he transferred $ 25 billion worth of cocaine to the United States and other countries. In the 70s, Escobar literally covered the streets of America with cocaine. Demand was phenomenal, profits skyrocketed. At one point, the Medellin cartel controlled up to 80% of the world's cocaine turnover. Approximately 70 tons per month were shipped to the USA alone. At that time, Colombia was covered by a football wave. The national team was one of the best on the continent in the early 90s. But how did it happen that in a country where elementary problems have not been solved, football came out on top? Why is this possible? This is the story of how one of the most famous criminals in the history of mankind gave a boost to Colombian football and changed its face forever.

This film is the fifth in a series of documentaries “The history of Perm cinema in faces.” The history of Perm animation began approximately in 1965, when Svetlana Mozhaeva created the first hand-drawn cartoon "Seven I". Gradually the animation workshop got time-lapse filming equipment and a staff of artists. The collective portrait of Perm animation is built with the participants’ stories from the “Permtelefilm” period of the distant 60-80s of the last century.

Farid's wife is dead. When she was dying, Farid was diagnosed with blood cancer. Now his relatives are trying to save him, but Farid can’t live without his wife and refuses to be treated.

City Yalta at Azov territory many years ago was a popular and happy place. Now it's hurt to see its abandoned buildings. The nature isn't alright and the people are leaving this area.

More than a hundred years ago, Alexey Gastev wrote the utopia " Express. Siberian Fantasy " about the great Siberian cities of the future. In it, Novosibirsk appears as a Steel City, high-tech and perfect. This film is a reflection on the unfulfilled utopia, the past and present of Novosibirsk in a dance against the background of fragments of its Soviet modernist architecture.

Life is a struggle. This was confirmed by journalists from Ivanovo Andrey Yevgenyevich Moscow student Nikita Mikheenko, who for several years have been trying to prove their innocence, being behind bars on dubious charges. But the presumption of guilt can and should be fought.

The meeting of a man with God is always intimate, always a secret ... Why does a girl decide to devote her life to God, renounce herself and take monastic vows? How will her family accept her choice? How will the father, brother and sister react when communicating with the nun, who is now called Olga.

Film-reasoning about the connection between generations. There are many questions, but there are practically no ready-made answers. Tatyana Andreevna Frolova is a guideline for finding these answers. Grandmother speaks about her difficult fate with a smile, without bitterness. Her attitude to life, grateful acceptance of everything that she had to endure, becomes the basis of the dialogue, after which, perhaps, she will want to understand herself and critically look at her life attitudes.

A midwife and single mother who “drinks too often and cries too much,” according to her kids, is looking for companionship. Post-divorce, she’s lonely, with a limitless resource to love that’s not being used. Will a sexcation with a married man fill her need? Or will finding a way to love herself?

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

Fear and circumstances – that’s what makes us choose. From the moment of awareness to the moment of making a decision, we are like in a dream. This is a story about Alena Zavarzina – snowboarder, Olympic medalist in 2014, World Champion.

The film is a study of drag culture in Russia and the life of Russian travesty divas in St. Petersburg compared to similar artists from Western countries, where the sexual revolution took place at the time and they became icons of pop culture. Is travesty an art? What is hidden under a mask of foundation and powder? What brought young people into the travesty business?

A middle-aged woman wants to find a husband. It is full of emotions and experiences. The heroine lives with triple strength. But she does not find understanding from her close ones, and her personal life does not add up.

A wave of hidden insanity and mysterious murders started to surge as a group of scientists has discovered that light is a kind of sound and decided to broadcast a sound of the Sun via towers around the world.

From childhood passion to big-time IT: stories about how curiosity, passionate stubbornness, and the habit of finding your own solutions become key professional superpowers.

A new chapter of the video diary of military documentarian Klim Poplavsky is dedicated to the legendary commander of the separate assault battalion of the 114th brigade, Bely.

A documentary about the Erzya poet Ivan Kalinkin

The film is dedicated to the 205th anniversary of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. The painting is based on materials from the archive of the Ministry of Finance, the collection of the Gosfilmofond and private collections. The film reflects the most striking stages of the financial department's activities in the 19th-21st centuries.

The film explores the journey of the soul after the body’s death. Ancient legends, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, posthumous punishment for sins, immersion into past lives, and prophecies about the future of Russia and the entire planet. The film features American professor Raymond Moody, author of Life After Life, people who have returned from the brink of death, and Russian Orthodox priest Father Alexander Borisov.

In the culture of the Old Believers, the main goal is the preservation of religious dogmas. However, their closed nature and commitment to traditions have also helped to maintain their way of life. As the Old Believers become more open to the world, their authentic material culture gradually fades away. To capture this vanishing heritage, we traveled to Tayaty, one of the few remaining sub-taiga villages of the Old Believers. The main goal of our expedition was to find preserved traditional household items and, through their owners, gain a deeper understanding of the design thinking of the Russian people.

Daria, once a nurse in the city, moved with her husband to a village to start a small dairy farm. After her husband volunteered for the army, Daria was left to manage the household and raise their two young children on her own. This resilient woman perseveres, tending the farm, caring for her children, and awaiting her husband’s return.

A master boatman lives in a remote village far from any water. Through his museum, he immerses people in the colorful world of his fantasies. But his wife and everyday life bring him back from the "seas" to the land.

The film speaks about an amazing life of Vitaly Melnikov, a master of the Russian cinema. He was born on the banks of the Amur River, and spent his childhood and youth on the banks of the Irtysh River. He left Khanty-Mansiysk to enter VGIK. He devoted the whole life to film art. The film deliberately refused to interview his fellow directors, film critics and actors who starred in Melnikov’s films. They wanted to show Vitaly himself, to listen to him. After all, the answers to many questions you can find in his cine works, books. The most important views he revealed in the family circle. There are two characters in the film – Melnikov himself and his grandson Artemy, who spent a lot of time with the famous grandfathe.

A brief dive into the history and modernity of the "Russian Barbizon" — the House of creativity "Academic Cottage named after I. E. Repin" near Vyshny Volochok. Breathtaking landscapes of the Upper Volga and touching emotions of novice artists and established modern masters of the brush.

Russian prodigies! They dream of making discoveries, solving problems that no one else in the world has ever solved. There are more and more of them every year. In 2019, at the 50th anniversary World Physics Olympiad in Israel, Russian high school students performed triumphantly, winning four gold and one silver medals.

Quiet aria is a docu-drama about drug addicts in rehabilitation. They live in the village of Pashitni, Pskov region. A quiet area of the region is now welcomes the new fates of the boys, who are barely eighteen. They were left with a prayer, a herd of cows, a summer sky black with stars, a pack of cigarettes for each, a ghostly hope for a bright tomorrow, and they themselves had each other.

All that was filmed by famous and famous cameramen during the century of the existence of cinematography is in the vaults of the Krasnogorsk Film and Photo Archive. The restricted access archives belonged to the powerful NKVD. Access to the archives was the discovery of part of the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The transfer of time from today to the unknown past.

In the film, Rudolf Nureyev's friends, classmates, and colleagues recall the moments of his return to his homeland.

Mikhail Klaus, a resident of the village of Rechnikov Zhatai in Yakutia, hails from Austro-Hungarian Germans, as evidenced by his surname, which is rare for these latitudes. It is generally believed that "it's good for a Russian, then death for a German," but Misha's family has become so Russified that it does not fit the saying. Klus is a representative of one of the rarest professions on earth – a shipwrecker. Klus, who works in the wild frost, like other frostbitten people, dreams of going to the sea with his son Sasha. Will he succeed in fulfilling his dream?

In ancient settlements on the banks of the great Yenisei, the traditions of personal, personalized museums are being revived. For the tourists of the cruise ship, this is a far distance and wild exotic, and for the indigenous people it is their homeland.

More than 60 years have passed since the opening of the Kuibyshev reservoir. But Anwar still sees in his dreams his native village, which has gone under water. Will he find the graves of his ancestors, going to the surviving piece of land, battered from all sides by a wave? At this time, in another part of the country, they are going to blow up the rural House of Culture. The former director of the House of Culture, Galina Zhmurova, remains in the village to the last, not wanting to leave her homeland, which is about to be buried under the thickness of the Boguchansky reservoir.

A cinematic journey through the classes of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St.Petersburg where teachers and students spend most of their time and from where young talents take the big stage

An old village house. He looks like an old mighty tree. He is also wise and majestic. And at the same time he is very kind and talkative. He speaks the language of objects accumulated over a long life, cracks, holes, cobwebs, sooty corners, blackened icons in the corners, basins, jars…

They emigrated to Australia to start a new – wonderful – life. Their optimistic video letters to Russia, parents, grandparents, indicate that the goal is almost achieved. Almost.

Deportation... Russians, Kazakhs, Germans, Ukrainians, Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Poles — entire peoples turned out to be outcasts and traitors in the eyes of their state. Tens of thousands of people in the 30-40s of the XX century were torn from their roots and brought to the North Kazakhstan steppes in the vicinity of the city of Akmolinsk.

The beginning of the domestic feature film is the story of the transformation of a naive fairground splint into a salon mystical melodrama. Having gone under the shadow of glass pavilions-greenhouses, early Russian cinema is trying to hide from the impending historical catastrophe. The revolutionary storms that have broken out drive some of the film visionaries first to the Crimea, and then to emigration. For those who remained, the struggle for survival in the new conditions begins with the development of the genre of agitfilm.

Modern shamanism in Russia without mystification through the stories of those traditional peoples in whose culture shamanic beliefs still remain.

An amazing portrait of an 84-year-old Leningrad blockade woman living in an apartment in Kronstadt, where she survived the blockade as a child. The film is not so much about the past as about the present. About the daily life of everyone's beloved grandmother Evgenia, who manages everything: to prepare a meal for the priests, to pray, to support a friend of her youth with a word… This is how strong, cheerful children of war live, they know how to love and be friends for 75 years, take care of their relatives and enjoy life, even remembering the terrible past.

Only the person who is ready to learn everything that our ancestors were able to do can live on a desert island: understand the sea, live by the tides, build a boat, catch fish, find a "common language" with a bear, bake bread… The inhabitants of the remote Cape Alevina in the Sea of Okhotsk are able to do all this. There are only three of them on the island, and suddenly something went wrong.

The Great Orthodox Journey of the Monk Zacchaeus.

The story of the childhood of two dancing boys in an estate with cranes, camels and a pet wolf. A modern landowner built a little world in his native village, where there is everything. A coach comes to him to teach his adopted children Caucasian dances. However, in the eyes of a visitor, family life merges with a huge zoo that surrounds this place.

The main character is an aspiring actress. Her sensible self-reflection on camera, in conversations with a friend and with a psychologist reveals painful personal trauma as an endless material for life and creativity, from which she can’t get out. The typical problem of a girl who ran away to the capital, a stranger in her native family, is uncover in a fragile chamber story with a blurred border between the haunting past, roles in the theater and everyday life.

Collection of documentary works of students of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov about the pandemic.

New movie by Olga Privolnova

The film tells about the seller at the "Specific Market" in St. Petersburg. This is a film study about how a person born in the USSR lives in modern society.

This film is a portrait of the most celebrated citizen of Koenigsberg, the greatest philosopher and humanist of the Age of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant. The purpose of the film is to refute popular idea of the philosopher's life as of a tedious one with no significant events; to convincingly prove deep and true relationship between the life and philosophical ways of the brilliant scientist and an extraordinary man.