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Once, long ago, gold was found in the Chelyabinsk region. Today the village of Shershny stands on the site of the former gold mines. A local resident, Galina Georgievna, decides to install a sewage pipe and digs a hole near her house – a simple idea that results in unexpected discoveries.

Could another form of life be waiting for us? Somewhere out there, on a distant Planet D? The film is composed of footage captured in a teenage prison camp, where the author led classes for inmates in 2018, as well as from family video chronicles made in the 1990s. Olesya Rudyka reflects: “When my dad was released from incarceration, we believed we had our whole life ahead of us. He seemed to understand that leaving prison isn’t the end – it stays with you indefinitely and, sooner or later, catches up with you unexpectedly, like a bullet”.

A year ago a place known among Muscovites called Pravda (formerly the largest publishing house of the USSR of the same name was located in this complex) promised to become a center of urban culture. The residents of this space will tell what the truth is for them now.

For 60 years, the artist Mikhail Shemyakin has been creating his "Imaginary Museum", where he explores the interrelationships in art of all times and peoples. About the archive, which was hidden from outside eyes in a French castle until 2023, about the project that combines art and technology, the author himself, the project managers and curators, Big Data ideologists, IT specialists and employees of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition dedicated to the "Imaginary Museum" opened at the end of June 2023.

The film is dedicated to the fate of children evacuated from besieged Leningrad. Orphanages were created at the expense of collective farms, in which hundreds of orphaned children were brought up. Not a single film has been made about how children lived in these institutions. There are fewer and fewer eyewitnesses of those events, only from them you can learn the truth.

From a village teacher and a recognized local historian to an enemy of the Soviet system. Timofey Evsevyev (Evseev) is an ethnographer, folklorist, who was one of the first to try to shed light on the amazing history of the Mari people. The ethnographic collections and handwritten materials collected by him more than a century ago now constitute the "golden fund" of the Mari traditional culture and are significant for the entire Finno-Ugric world. A recognized researcher, "awarded" with capital punishment by the country, the republic, whose legacy he glorified and tried to preserve at the cost of his life.

The whole world knows his pictures — the Victory Banner over Berlin, the traffic controller, the Victory Parade. Printed in millions of copies, minted on gold coins, included in all encyclopedias and textbooks, neither became signs, symbols of the Second World War. Only few people remember the name of their author.

A documentary about the origin of hip-hop culture in Ossetia.

At the age of 20, Jean-Eldar found out that he was adopted in Russia, and he lived on the banks of the Volga for the first four years of his life. Volga, however, he did not remember, as well as the orphanage in which he grew up, he did not remember his mother. And I really wanted to know something about her and about my sister. Therefore, he decided to go to Astrakhan. On foot.

The huntress Nadezhda lives alone in the taiga. In between hunting, she writes local history books full of unique information, myths, legends and epics. What prompted her to pick up a gun and start killing wild animals and birds in the taiga? Why does she prefer solitude? Isn't she scared?

There are still villages in the Bashkir hinterland that are not marked on maps. And there are no roads to them. The only thing that connects them is the river. And in order to deliver mail to the residents, the postman Alyona spends most of his life on the water. The river carried her husband away. She has been living with this pain for many years.

The Huun-Huur-Tu ensemble works with the Tuvan tradition of throat singing and traditional Tuvan instruments. Since the beginning of the 90s, they have been performing all over the world, not letting old songs fall silent and expanding the field of musical experiment around their roots. But director Mikhail Voropaev shoots musicians not on foreign tours, but on a journey along the roads and steppes where their childhood and youth were spent. Between conversations, the group stops every now and then to sing about their land and home — about the past and the future.

Alexander Grigorievich is a lonely man. Both sons emigrated abroad many years ago, each arranged his own personal life and no one remembers his father. Relations with the ex-wife are spoiled, they are not interested in each other's lives. Collecting scrap metal from garbage dumps and handing it over to collection points, only a cat meets him at home.

A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that place and my time there. There are memories pollinated by the pollen of garden poppies the warmth of my hands, toiling in the sunshine and the stories of adults about the big world. Summer, reveries, childhood, prejudices, the realities of the noughties, a small town - shimmering images that can never manifest, but endlessly manifest themselves. The intimate experience is torn by externalised reality: the formerly Latin poppy becomes a threat to gardeners and gardeners, bugs represent terror and flowers represent death.

Tesak died a year ago. By this point, everyone had forgotten that he was the main neo-nazi of the 2000s. They also forgot about the interviews in which he dreams of killing people and filming these murders in order to lead the country to revolution. Taken out of context, these phrases from twenty years ago seem like posturing. In this film, Tesak will tell for the first time the full story of the 11 murders he committed from 2002 to 2007. Apparently, this should be considered his last interview. All organizations mentioned in the film are prohibited.

In the spring of 2022, security guards in Moscow are tense. Under the guise of a film competition on the architecture of the city, Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin are permitted, if nothing else, to film the battlements of the Kremlin wall. But how to speak of the attack when you have to say “special military operation”? How to create pictures of resistance when filming any protest is forbidden? By pondering swallows and mathematical catastrophe theory, for example.

The fates of the inhabitants of the small island of Zalita, as in a mirror, reflected the essence of deep Russian life – love and loyalty to the motherland, patience and responsibility, faith in God.

What are they, the inhabitants of their land? Why do they love their city, live and enjoy their shore? Individual short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narrative, acquaint the viewer with the inhabitants of Vyborg, with their traditions, customs and modern realities. The heroes of the plots were those people who create the modern history of their native land. Each of them has his own choice – Vyborg... for the rest of his life.

"Torn off" is, on the one hand, a monologue of one Chukchi, and on the other - of an entire nation. A monologue about life, about the Motherland, about what makes the Chukchi break away from their roots. This film is a possible projection of our future. Because many of us, choosing the benefits of civilization, risk losing ourselves. How to get out of the "blizzard"? It seems the Chukchi know the answer…

An animated documentary about the difficult but very fascinating life of a person and his pets

In his diary , seventeen - year - old Pyotr Lebedev wrote: "The highest, purest love peculiar only to man is the love of science, art and the motherland." He lived his short and extremely fruitful life, burning himself without a trace. Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev experimentally proved the pressure of light on solids and thus entered the history of world science. Russian science will always honor Lebedev as the creator of the Russian physical school. The film is based on the dramatic story of a scientist and a citizen, based on exclusive documentary material.

Scientific research of ancient Chinese craft: fishing with the help of birds. Cormorants are found in Russia and other countries, but only in China have people turned them into winged fishermen capable of catching fifteen kilograms of fish in a day! Only in China do these birds respond to the name. That's probably why they are often called "Chinese dogs". The film reveals the secret of how the ancient Chinese managed not just to tame a free bird, but to make it literally a "dog" that faithfully serves its master…

"All Udege people are animists. They see life all around. And there is no death." V. Arsenyev. From the manuscript "The Country of Udehe"

Writer Mikhail Prishvin kept a secret diary for almost 50 years, from 1905 to 1954. This is a unique chronicle of the life of the country, evidence of the most complex relations between the state and a person trying to understand his time. The film tells about Prishvin's trip to the White Sea Canal and an attempt to write an honest book about this construction site.

In 2005, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of economic crimes and sentenced to 11 years in prison. But this film is not about the most famous political prisoner. This is the reaction of the population of our country to the arrest of Khodorkovsky, recorded conversations on the streets of different cities with the first passers-by. The people's ruthlessness, the desire for blood, the joyful readiness to execute lynching themselves, saving the fatherland, over all who are smarter, richer, freer, over Jews and people of a different mentality – this is a frighteningly objective assessment of us, residents of sovereign Russia, a country whose future may never come.

The hero of the film, Yuri Alekseev, teaches children to play the violin and tries to make their world, and his, too, a little kinder. It does not always work out, but the teacher does not give up. At the International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" – 2014, the film was recognized as the Best non-fiction film of the national competition.

Historical memory is not only archives, libraries, great art collected under the roofs of large museums and private collections. There is collected what belongs to all mankind. But each of us has a historical memory, these are trifles, faced with which, we suddenly recall with all clarity our childhood, the people around us, that long-gone life.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Russia greets those who come back in different ways.

Will Russian courier services interfere with the delivery of large consignments of drugs?

People have been living in space for a long time, in a big House called planet Earth, but only six decades ago we became the real owners of this House, because we got the opportunity to go out and look at it from the outside, from the top point. We have found the perfect tool and limitless opportunities for observing and studying the Earth. How many amazing discoveries have been made since then thanks to scientific instruments raised into orbit. We found out where most of the oxygen we breathe actually comes from, how such powerful and dangerous natural phenomena as typhoons and hurricanes are formed, we looked deep underground and found fantastic processes there. And this is only the beginning, only the first steps in the holistic and systematic knowledge of this beautiful and mysterious space object.

Andrey is 13 years old. He has been sent to a monastery for the summer for misbehaving. He knows the secret passages in the old towers, the name of each bell, and the meaning of life.

Diverse days of one provincial embankment. In a remote area of ​​the provincial town, there is an unremarkable old embankment. It was built in Soviet times. At first glance, it may seem that nothing has been happening here for a long time. But observing the same place from the same survey points throughout the year, important changes are discovered, associated not only with natural phenomena, but also with people coming to the embankment. Some of the townspeople appear several times throughout the film. And it becomes clear that these walks along the river are a daily ritual for them.

The story of those who made possible the first human flight into space, but remained behind the scenes. The heroes of the film are Semyon Kosberg and other engineers who worked in the Voronezh design bureau on the third stage of the rocket engine, without which the Gagarin spacecraft would not have entered orbit on April 12, 1961. Memories of Viktor Skachilov, the only surviving member of Kosberg's team, and archive photos are intertwined with animation and an inspired soundtrack created specifically for the film. "Kosberg worked" is about hard work for the sake of a great dream, about scientific breakthroughs and people who do the incredible.

Over the years, the relationship between a man and a woman does not become easier.

In recent years, people have taken to the streets of different cities around the world on February 27... People who remember Boris Nemtsov.

The film is set in the Moscow residential area of Severnoye Butovo. The technician-caretaker directs a team of janitors who, working seven days a week, perform tasks for cleaning yards and entrances. Their tasks are created on the portal "Our City" by the second hero of the film - a young, ambitious lawyer.

The heroine of the film - a young director collects material for a documentary performance. Exploring the topic of online dating, she starts an account in the Tinder app, without even waiting for how things will turn out.

The film tells about a short period of life of a talented person-a musician, a poet, who once studied to be a director, who can not overcome his weaknesses and always balances on the edge.

The action consists of two parts and is timed to the day of the presidential elections in the Republic of Belarus.

Nadia and Nikolai Fyodorovich's job is to save children in the North. They are both air ambulance doctors, but with different experience: Nikolai Fedorovich has been working for more than 40 years, and Nadia-3 years. About the difficult everyday life of doctors – a documentary by Anna Katorina.

Series of interviews with inmates of juvenile prison colony for girls, guilty of murder

St. George Monastery 90 km from Berlin is the only monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate in Germany. About 10 monks and novices live here, most of them in their early twenties. They conduct church services, build and renovate the monastery, the isolated location of which and the absence of parishioners make the daily life of novices from large cities in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia similar to the practice of early Christian hermits. They have different motives for staying here, and for some, the tranquility of a remote German village also means loneliness and doubt.

New movie by Maxim Eruzhenets and Marina Kirakosyan

My father died under obscure circumstances when I was just one year old – one of the millions of Russian men who died too soon in the nineties. Why were those years in Russia so deadly? After 26 years, I want to get to the bottom of this mystery.

A sharp one and a half hour conversation with the creators, supporters and opponents of the draft amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. What exactly is changing? Why are these emergency changes needed? Is it possible without them? And in which Russia will we wake up after the adoption of the amendments? The authors try to answer all these questions as objectively as possible, not accepting any of the parties.

On a night train, a father tells his son a bedtime story. The day after, they will arrive in Siberia, 500 km away from the closest village, to follow Vissarion, a self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus. With his delicate voice, the boy shares his fears and fading memories. An intimate look at the dark nature of sectarianism.

Coronavirus has changed the lives of everyone. What predictions can be made and, most importantly, what lessons can be learned from the current situation?

The war is over. They stayed. Small members of the Caliphate. Five little girls from Russia were left completely alone in the middle of the Syrian desert after their parents were killed. However, the orphans reached the Al Khol prisoner of war camp in the so-called "Syrian Kurdistan". In the process of filming, they were found and returned to their relatives in Chechnya.

An ensemble of Russia’s elite rippers and street artists team up for a plaza-packed full-length that also features huge hubbas and a dreamy soundtrack. Step through the post-Soviet portal to see a granite-covered vision come to life.

This is the story of one homeless man’s transformation after undergoing a nine-month rehabilitation program in a Christian rehab center, after which he tried to start his life over. Misha is 42 years old. He has no passport, a leg injury and sits on a step, begging for handouts with a paper cup. Now he is at rehab center. The rehab center is very much part of the monastery. Following of a strict routine, which revolves around discipline, community, communication and discussion, labour, animals and farming, construction, prayers and hymns, Bible study, as well questions and thoughts about death and happiness. This is what rehabilitation looks like. But will Misha become a new person after rehab?

A young actress, a graduate of the Perm Institute of Culture, goes to Moscow to build an acting career and play in a big movie.