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A film about systemic violence and the silence it leaves behind. It reflects on the legacy of state intrusion into private lives and the cost of impunity — not only for the victims, but also for the perpetrators, who remain free yet internally hollow. This is a story of fear, memory, and resistance — a testimony of those whose voices were never meant to be heard.

‘We will Survive’ is a sequel of ‘I Want Peace and Quiet’ documentary, delving into the challenges of post-traumatic stress and the enduring impact of war. The film presents three compelling and inspiring stories: a militia fighter, a mobilised soldier, and a civilian. All of them faced severe injuries and amputations but managed to survive and now rebuild their lives. Through their experiences, the documentary showcases the remarkable strength, courage, and determination of those who confront and overcome the harsh realities of conflict.

A film about the joint work of Russian scientists and Buddhist monks, studying the phenomenon of "tukdam" - a special meditative state that, according to Tibetan tradition, can persist even after the body's normal life activity has ceased. The film crew observes research in monasteries in India and Nepal, recording both scientific methods and the deep spiritual side of the practice. The film tries to understand whether a true dialogue between science and ancient wisdom is possible, and to come closer to understanding what we call the nature of consciousness.

The voice of Antonina Fatkhullina, a contemporary artist from St. Petersburg, whose metal sculptures have been part of the street space of St. Petersburg for many years, can be heard among the urban landscapes. The artist’s memories and revelations merge with the places where the sculptures are located, the urban environment and the air of the era that has come. Silent witnesses – the artist’s sculptures, under the close observation of the camera, transform urban landscapes into total installations of their time.

Grigory Rimer, a young ambitious entrepreneur from the Urals, launches the production of the first Cobot in Russia at his plant. This is a new generation robot that works together with people, not instead of them. Suddenly, Rimer learns that not only the future of the project is at stake, but also his life.

Lyubov and Igor, the only veterinarians in Krasnoyarsk Krai specializing in the rescue and rehabilitation of wild animals, run the Instinct Centre, where injured and sick animals arrive daily for urgent care. Sometimes, a routine medical visit transforms into a full-scale rescue operation.

The story of the heroism and tragic death of a young monk from the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, who dedicated his life to burying lonely homeless people - those who are called "strange" in the Church.

Veronika Stepanova discusses the phenomenon of computer nerds with a kakashechka up their derriere. Also shades Elon Musk.

Dmitry Dolinin is a master of the Leningrad camera school. But over the years, having become disillusioned with the world of cinema, Dmitry Alekseevich again turned to photography - his first hobby.

In a grand wedding palace, a large European family gathers to celebrate the newlyweds. Joyful voices fill the air — until the sharp strike of a hammer silences them. There is an unresolved conflict in the family, so the scene shifts from the wedding hall to a courtroom. The question looms: what will the verdict be?

The film is dedicated to the Nart epic, which is based on tales of the origin and adventures of heroic heroes (Narts), common among a number of peoples of the North Caucasus. Occupying a prominent place in the culture of the Ingush, it is closely associated with various Ingush families and societies that associate their origin with the Nart heroes. After the adoption of Islam, the Narts lost their divine significance, but the tales and legends about them have forever remained in the people's memory. The video essay conveys the state captured during the expedition to Ingushetia. The giants "went into editing", the past was lost in the new religion. The flow of time carries the tales into oblivion, leaving only scraps of phrases and information that have settled in the locals.

Follows the history of the city Saratov, ts architectural monuments, and famous residents

In his 90s, Russian physics professor Vladimir navigates life in Moscow, torn between Russian and Western values. Separated from his family due to the Ukraine war, he embarks on a final journey to reunite with them, despite recent events.

A week in Leningrad in 1976, as imagined by man and artificial intelligence. Marshal Brezhnev’s anniversary and the first celebration of John Lennon’s birthday in the USSR, the landing of the last Soviet station on the Moon and a memorial service for Nikolai Gumilev, a story about a communist and the legend of Zorro – the grains of history gather in a desert of myth, over which the Red Dragon hovers…

The film is about Captain Evgeny and his crew, who, inspired by ancient Pomor traditions, build a karbas and set off on a 650-kilometer voyage from Veliky Ustyug to Arkhangelsk. Overcoming the difficulties of the journey, the heroes immerse themselves in the rich culture of the Pomors, reviving forgotten crafts and skills. This journey becomes a symbol of the continuity of generations and demonstrates how ancient knowledge can inspire modern people to feats and discoveries.

Photographer Grigory Yaroshenko gets a chance to visit Antarctica and learn about the life of polar explorers. But his wife is expecting their second child, and life changes. Gregory is faced with the question of male self-identification and acceptance of new family circumstances.

The director has been monitoring the progress of the Kutov brothers on social networks for several years, documenting not only the growth of popularity and popular love, but also the dark pages of chemical dependence and loss of self. What is the end of this story?

For the first time, a team from the Soviet Union came to the Olympics in Finland in 1952. Abroad, no one believed in the victory of Soviet athletes. But they did not know that the backbone of the USSR team consisted of front-line soldiers, blockade survivors, and prisoners of concentration camps.

In the history of the Russian ballet theater, the name of Olga Spesivtseva occupies a place no less significant than the names of Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina. The audience first saw her in 1913 as a beautiful young girl, gentle, captivating and timid, with huge eyes full of mystery. In the early twenties, this girl was a real idol of youth and a conqueror of Paris, and in the early nineties, after a long mental illness, she ended her days away from her homeland, in one of the nursing homes. A star and a victim of her time, a forced hermit and a prisoner of madness, her life is a tangle of glory and oblivion, her name is surrounded by an aura of mystery, delight and contempt...

Amateur photographer Denis Borisov has chosen a difficult mission for himself - to capture in photos and videos the last of the surviving veterans, home front workers, participants and witnesses of the tragic events of the Great Patriotic War. In an old car with photo and video equipment, Denis gets to the most remote places of the Vyatka region. He devotes all his free time to this, because most of his characters are already well over ninety.

Today, environmental issues are coming to the fore. The purity and preservation of nature are becoming a necessary condition for the survival of mankind. The hero of the film, the animalist photographer Sergey Ivanov, fights for respect for the natural world not only with words. His amazing shots of untouched, wild nature fascinate the soul and make people see and appreciate the world around them in a different way. .

The historical path of the holy Prince, the outstanding politician Alexander Yaroslavich, who received the nickname "Nevsky".

The film explores how two ideas can simultaneously coexist within one person: religious and political. Lydia Fedorovna is a deeply religious person, she knows the commandments by heart, including commandment #6 “thou shalt not kill,” but this does not stop her, sitting in front of the TV, from whispering “I wish the Ukrainians would die soon.” Surprisingly, the church scriptures contain the answer to this paradox!

The Nanaisky district, situated on the northeastern banks of the Amur River, lies northeast of Khabarovsk. The Nanai people are among the indigenous communities of the Far East, numbering approximately 12 thousand in Russia. Andrei Beldy, a cultural advocate for the Nanai community residing in the village of Naikhin, expresses concern about the fading of traditions and the Nanai language. Only a few hundred individuals can speak it fluently, with local children receiving instruction from an enthusiastic linguist from Veliky Novgorod. Beldy recounts the historical displacement of Nanais to Sakhalin during Stalin's era to populate the former Japanese territory. He criticizes the current authorities for restricting free fishing, a traditional occupation for the Nanai people. Most villages lack access to gas, and timber is exported abroad. With the onset of the war in Ukraine, many Nanai residents, including the elderly and deceased, received conscription notices.

When Gavrilushka reached the age of one year and three months, his mother was astonished to observe his ability to play the piano. The toddler confidently executed a few chords with his left hand and even began to produce a melody with his right. Every day Gavriil Shcherbenko played more and more and better. Videos capturing the young prodigy's performances started circulating globally, leading to comparisons with legendary figures such as Mozart, Richter, and Beethoven. Gavrilushka has collected a diverse fan base, comprising individuals fluent in various languages, all captivated by his musical talent. Remarkably, while his fans comprehend his playing effortlessly, the young boy himself has yet to utter his first words. Gabriel Shcherbenko's parents view this journey as a remarkable adventure, uncertain whether their child will eventually cease playing or, conversely, embark on a path of professional musical education.

A year before the war, Russia experienced a wave of mass protests triggered by the arrest of Alexei Navalny, a politician detained upon his return to Russia after an assassination attempt by FSB agents. Protesters and allies of Navalny fell under the weight of repression. Over 180 people from various parts of the country faced criminal prosecution, many organizations were forced to shut down, and a wave of political emigration began.

No one knows how an ordinary person in Russia comes up with the idea of taking a child from an orphanage. At first, it seems crazy: everyone is afraid of insurmountable difficulties, but gradually a person begins to act. Very soon, potential parents will find out that the most difficult thing in this quest is to go through the school of foster parents. Alas, not everyone reaches the end.

The work of the Soviet writer, a villager, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Fyodor Abramov, is riddled with pain for a dying village, thoughts about the Russian North and the fate of Russia.

The film consists of three novellas dedicated to the artists of Kaliningrad – Tatiana Androsova and Vyacheslav Darwin, as well as an amazing team of talented individuals who contribute to the creative industry, develop the film industry, and foster festival life in the city.

A veteran of the Second World War, together with an elderly daughter, are fleeing a winter storm in a flimsy wooden hut. Day after day, the cold gets closer and closer, plunging them into a deep sleep. They have no choice but to fall into timelessness in the middle of the frozen steppe.

A film about a selfless and enthusiastic person Evgeny Leonidovich Gloriozov, a five-time USSR champion in sambo and a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, who has been holding sambo sports competitions among children from orphanages for many years.

Not everyone dares to sit in front of the camera like that and talk about love, resentment, disappointment, the tragedy of a breakup. But the heroines of the film decided to “undress” in front of the camera. And not only in the figurative sense of the word.

A film about soloists of the Mariinsky Theater Diana Vishneva and Farukh Ruzimatov.

The film is based on the story of the Oval Sarcophagus with Dionysian scenes from the antique collection of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin. At various times, the owners of the sarcophagus were the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, the Italian Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, and finally, the Minister of Public Education of Russia, Count Sergei Uvarov, who purchased the sarcophagus for his "museum" in the Porechye estate near Moscow. The history of the sarcophagus is an occasion to reflect on the connection between epochs and cultures, the vicissitudes of fate, the mystery of life and death. Filming was carried out in various museums in Moscow, Rome, in the Porechye estate and the Hermitage.

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.

This film is about Alexander Orlov, a resident of Soviet intelligence, who disappeared without a trace in Spain in 1938. For more than thirty years, “KGB militants” have been looking for him in order to destroy a man who was involved in most major world operations, in particular, in the export of all gold reserves from Spain to the USSR and the development of an operation to destroy Leon Trotsky.

Two days after the opening of Timur's grave, on the night of June 22, fascist Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. Many associated this with the discovery of the tomb of Tamerlane. Panic broke out in Samarkand. The expedition was urgently curtailed, the remains of Timur were sent for research to Moscow.

In 2007, a message appeared on the Internet that before her death, the clairvoyant Vanga allegedly predicted that in far Siberia, in Bratsk, on March 17, a chlorine plant located right in the center of the city would explode. That "brothers fall asleep and do not wake up." The author of the film specially goes to the city two days before a possible disaster. And he creates a report not about Bratsk and its inhabitants, but about the era, Russia and our contemporaries.

The inscrutable ways of the inhabitants of the Russian provinces can lead to something important for everyone.

His fate hung in the balance more than once. Denunciations. Injuries. War. But he was invincible. Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Nikolai Berzarin developed a plan to take Hitler's bet. Became the first Soviet commandant of Berlin. And he died in a banal accident, when everyone around was already celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany. This tragedy happened 65 years ago, but there is still no clear answer to the question, what was it really, an accident or a murder?

“Old age is a stage of our life, which, like all its other stages, has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and sorrows”, G. Hesse, “Old Age”.

Today, scientists predict several options for the life of the universe. The first option is not the worst: the Universe as it is now has always been and will always exist. The second option: she was born, changed, and someday, sadly, she will die. Most scientists tend to the latter. The Universe was born as a result of an explosion of a small superdense clot of matter, which had great energy, which began to scatter in different directions. But how did the planets and, ultimately, life itself come from energy? Thousands of scientists are looking for the answer to this question. Peter Higgs is the most expensive scientist for the world economy. His theory of the birth of the universe has already cost taxpayers 6 million euros. And this is not the limit. The Large Hadron Collider, which is capable of confirming the Higgs theory, has not even begun to operate at full capacity. And many are sure that they will never start.

The film attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of the Empire in a broad cultural context on the example of the great empires that have existed for centuries, experienced a rapid flourishing and sometimes mysterious death.

CSKA cheerleaders are the first professional cheerleading team in Russia. The most sexy girls, mini-skirts, dancing, applause, fans, admiring glances from the stands. Ira wants to become one of them and for the second year she goes to all trainings. Will she finally be able to enter the elite girl community?

From the series "History of Russia in Private Chronicles". Documentary ironic fantasy-parable. Photo animation. A biography of a woman she once loved, seen through the eyes of a man she once loved.

“I keep coming back to those memories. Death this time came very close and took my friend. And she left me. This is how the year began. The strangest year of my life. When I realized that I was gradually losing everything and did not understand how this happened. last year of the millennium. The first year of the life that was left to me for some reason. With this author's introduction, a film diary of one year begins with the miracle of a continuing life.

The film is a reflection on the everyday life of an ordinary Ural village, in which one of the streets bears an unusual name for today, the name of Stalin.

It just seems that to become a great artist, it is enough to quit the stock exchange office, go far away to a tropical island and change the top hat for a loincloth. And that's it, Paul Gauguin is ready. No, not all. He also needs a woman, in this case just a girl, Tehura, who will open the earthly paradise of Tahiti to him. Gauguin is a genius, but he could not invent Tekhura. He could only write it off with his beloved.

Here they sleep with a gun under the mattress, dream about Chameleon glasses, read Yesenin, sing in a 20-degree frost, and after "hello" they promise to rape.

Russia. Men live in a frozen reality. As if without past and future. Cycling through meaningless actions and silently listening to the voices coming from the TV and radio. No signal between themselves and the world.

The documentary The Last Year of Darkness is a tantalizing portrait of the underground scene in Chengdu, China. Now IDFA is bringing that scene to real life at an Amsterdam club. This dance event will feature scenes from the hundreds of hours of raw material and music by the film’s stars and editor.

An animation in which children tell the stories of their relatives who worked at the Satka Refractory Materials plant.

Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.