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Everyone has equal rights and opportunities, but the heroes of the film "Strong" have to fight for this correct statement. Olga and Alexander are wheelchair users. They want to have decent rights to life, and most importantly, to be perceived accordingly. They will tell you what they had to go through when getting a job, starting a family. How not to give in to emotions and move on?

Vasage, an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, came to Russia to become a reggae musician.

Film about Russian weightlifters, participants of the Russian Weightlifting Championship 2019 in Novosibirsk. On the cleansing of Russian sports from doping.

"Nya" - this is how little nation of central Taimyr, nganasans call themselves. This film is about the destiny of last nganasan shaman. Just forty years ago nganasans still were nomadic on a large territory between mountain massif Byrranga and plato Pytorana. Soviet government didn't understand at all a lifestyle like this, because it is difficult to control nomads. Nganasans were forced to live sedentary. Shamans were repressed and killed. Nowadays nganasan's traditional culture was left only in memory of elders but in archive of russian science academy there are uniqe videomaterials of etnographic expedition from 1968 dedicated to two nganasan shamans, who were conducting a ceremony of first snow encounter. This film introduces to us descendant of those shamans and shows every day life of last Taimyr shaman, who have managed to save all "equipment" inherited from father and grandfather - famous shamans.

Film is the result of joint work of the international team including young authors from Russia, Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Egypt, Spain, Italy, China, Mexico, Poland, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and France. The project consists of more than 30 short video novellas about the citizens of Saint Petersburg of different generations, nationalities, professions and hobbies, whose life is inseparably associated with Saint Petersburg. Ballet dancer, designer of the fashion house, captain of motorship, cannoneer of the Peter and Paul Fortress, archpriest, rabbi, engineer, photographer, reggae performer with a gypsy nickname are among the characters of the film.

Ivanovo. It is –32 degrees outside. Lyudmila recently retired and now hardly ever leaves her home. Each new day resembles the previous one — watching television, having tea with jam, sleeping, and then television again. It feels as though this winter will never end.

Farewell to a person and a place on either side of the window.

After losing a friend whose presence gave a sacred meaning to many moments in the protagonist’s life and the places where they met, she attempts to understand how she should relate to this sacrality now.

A great city inhabited by great people is celebrating yet another great year. Cries of joy mix with the distant rumble of fireworks and wailing of police sirens. Someone’s eyes look staringly at the passers-by. Someone’s voice addresses them quietly. But it is not heard. ‘Have you seen this one person?’

The space between is a place where time stands still. It carefully preserves the memories of the people who once inhabited it: notes, photographs, drawings—everything the fleeing residents, for whatever reason, didn’t take with them to their new home. Mutilated and ailing, it stands at the center of every city, waiting for the moment when a ‘mechanical hand’ will tear it down and turn it into dust. A new house will then be built on the same land, and the cycle will repeat.

A day in the life of a fabric factory, in the depths of Russia: sounds, textures, mysterious machines and mysterious people.

Doctors are trying to save tiny Andrei: he was born too early and weighs only 640 grams. All over the world, a family may choose not to resuscitate a premature baby. Only in Russia and Turkey neither parents nor doctors have such a choice. Anya and Dilya have been fighting the system for many years now: the children were born premature and now they need to fight for their right to study in a regular school and not be left out of normal life. It turns out that saving such a child is not always happiness?

An allegory about the role of art in human life. The film explores how the ideas of a composer and conductor are brought to life and how reality influences the creative process. A musical phantasmagoria with the participation of the Leningrad Region Symphony Orchestra.

A Nanai man living in difficult conditions in a remote village on the banks of the Amur River must provide for his small family by fishing. He, his wife, and child have lived according to the long-established local way of life for many years. Few people remain in the village, and there are no prospects for new settlements. Recently, authorities have imposed controls on fishing here, making life even more difficult for the family. However, they have no plans to leave, despite constant calls to abandon their homeland.

New documentary film by Ivana Solovey.

It is a story about a family of two gay men in Russia. How does one live without hiding the eye? It’s easy if there’s nothing to hide. But how does one recognize when they are in a concrete box? Only friends and family can support you.

What if Putin’s Russia in 2022 had never happened? Such is the hypothesis of this historical-hysterical dystopia, partly generated by AI, and driven by our political unconscious.

A film about the outstanding inventor Lev Aleksandrovich Yutkin.

The film "Whose family will the sun look into" is about the amazing mother Margot and her son Umeda. Umed has Down syndrome, but watching his life, hardly anyone can call him disabled. He is a participant and winner of Russian and international swimming competitions, a soloist of the inclusive musical orchestra "Sunny Notes", a faithful assistant to his mother in all household matters and, most importantly, a young active guy with serious, real dreams and plans for life.

The film is based on a conversation about the directing techniques of Galina Volchek, about the search for intonation when creating performances, which was continuously going on not only on stage, but also behind the scenes, where sensitivity and understanding when working with fellow actors were side by side with rigidity in building a global and very complex mechanism - theater! The film focuses on the intransigence of the Wolf director, but the maternal tenderness and spiritual generosity of Galina Borisovna, for whom Sovremennik was not just a theater, but the first and only home.

At the very Edge of the World, in Primorye, the hero of this film, Vladimir Davydov, a guide on crutches, lives.

A documentary about vintage amateur runner Andrey Chirkov. At the age of 54, he argued with colleagues at work over a glass of vodka that he would prepare and run the Moscow Peace Marathon in four months. Now he is 81 years old and has 180 marathons behind him. Including in Antarctica and the first marathon at the North Pole. Andrey Chirkov is the author of 6 books about running and more than 200 publications in various publications on the topic of sports. The main idea is to show the spirit and essence of amateur running using the example of one person.

On the banks of the Tym River, on Sakhalin, a village with the indigenous peoples of Sakhalin, the Nivkhs, lives its life. Lyuba has long since left her native village for St. Petersburg. However, the memory of her father, a war veteran, and those who fought for greater Russia from a small Sakhalin village haunts the heroine of the film.

Artist Dorward Akopyan is walking in autumn park, remembering the long way to the main dream of his life.

Shoemaker Babayev's stall will soon be liquidated, according to a statement from the city's beautification committee. Only the oriental mantras of the poet Nizami can save the shoemaker.

The story of an ordinary family of the country from the height of a kitchen chandelier. How the spirit of the times, its attributes, the atmosphere of the house and family members have changed in 40 years.

It is a story about loneliness, emotional pain and the desire to escape from the web of mental problems being in complicated relationship with oneself.

He has seven children, but he lives alone. "They offended me very much, I don't want to see any of them," Kami Durge is angry. In his youth, he worked hard to feed a large family — he didn't even think about school. And now, not the finger, trying to catch up, has become the most diligent student. Neither neighbors nor relatives understand his thirst for knowledge and laugh at the old man, but he does not pay attention. "I will get an education and teach the children of our village," a tenth grader dreams on the threshold of his seventieth birthday.

About the activities of volunteers in the capital.

About the young leaders of Russia: those who managed to put their ideas, projects, desires into practice, who were able to succeed, build not just a business in the country, in their city, in their region, but a business that can benefit, move education and technology forward.

A report on hospital clowns.

Tyva, the poorest region of Russia, ranks first in the country in terms of the number of confirmed losses in the war in Ukraine per capita. Nadezhda Baykara, a resident of the small Tuvan village of Sush, is proud that the men from her family have always served. My uncle died on the territory of Ukraine in the Great Patriotic War, my son participated in the seizure of Crimea, was in Syria. In the spring, Nadezhda's beloved grandson, Aldyn-Herel, died in the war in Ukraine. Baykara is sure that her other grandson will also become a soldier. Meanwhile, local shamans perform rituals to protect soldiers sent to Ukraine from death. Only a few young Tuvans, despite the risks, dare to speak out against the war.

A 2012 article in the British The Guardian titled "Russian Banksy" turns the life of Moscow street artist Pasha 183 upside down. The article, in which he is compared to the most famous street art artist today, brings him worldwide fame, popularity and commercialization of creativity - in short, everything that he has struggled with all his life.

In an old town on the banks of the Ural River Neiva, the action of the film unfolds, a dialogue is started between the older and younger generations about the meaning of life. Which way to go? How to deal with alcoholism and drug addiction? Adults instruct the young not only by their example, but also by bitter mistakes.

As a young black man from Guinea, Amadou struggles to make a life for himself in Moscow. In search of the “european dream” and somewhere to call home, amadou leaves his girlfriend behind making an arduous escape into germany, only to discover life as difficult as before. will amadou find his home, or does his journey continue?

Scientists, doctors and smokers talk about the power of habit and two important questions that need to be answered before quitting this bad habit.

In the second part of the documentary, in which experts will tell you how addiction works and where to start to cope with it.

When he is at sea, he remembers his little daughter, and then, after many months of separation, he goes to her across the country and remembers the sea.

Natasha dies in her prime. The whole world survived it, the inhabitants of which reflect on the unknown against the backdrop of everyday fuss.

Mother and daughter are returning to their hometown Belgorod during an Easter week. Mother is trying to find her father's grave. Daughter is looking for locations for her first feature film.

During the Great Patriotic War, there were legends about the submarine "Shch-406", which fought in the Baltic Sea. 39 sailors of the crew, led by commander Yevgeny Osipov, could attack the enemy at depth or engage in battle on the surface, which others did not dare to do. And then the boat disappeared…

From Antarctica to Afghanistan. Heroes of real human destinies, military doctors on the line of fire and cold. About what was a feat yesterday, and today it becomes an epic for young polar explorers. Ballad about the struggle for life.

A television documentary dedicated to the anniversary date – the 90th anniversary of the birth of actor, director, screenwriter, writer Vasily Shukshin. "I came to give you Free Rein" is a novel by Shukshin about Stepan Razin, which he dreamed of making into a film. But they didn't give it to him. The film tells in detail about the tragedy of the artist, who for many years fought for his idea, but turned out to be doomed…

Chopped and mixed materials of summer '23 shot on 8mm, 16fps. Sunny, rainy and grainy. Digital edit. /Camera test.

The film is based on the work of Russian writer Vasily Rozanov "Two studies about Gogol", who is trying to unravel the mystery of the writer's work.

At the end of autumn, the first Vyatka's farmers Alexander Leonidovich and Raisa Nikiforovna Orlovsky will arrive at their former estate to say goodbye forever to the farm, where they spent the best and most difficult years of their lives. Years of litigation with a neighboring collective farm led to the decline of their family farm. The attempt of the children of Alexei, Nadezhda and Tatyana to revive life on the farm failed, and the younger Orlovskys are forced to finally move to the city. It is not easy for former farmers to find themselves in a city life that is alien to them. The farm still remains a place where they were truly happy.

Evening. A white bird fluttered up in the shade of the pines. The sun sets and the stars begin their mysterious dialogue with the snow-covered Russian forest. This is how French composer and pianist Nicolas Celagro sees Russia.

In the late 80s, Rudolf Nureyev acquired the island of Li Galli in southern Italy, near Amalfi. Rudolf dreamed of creating a world ballet center here for young ballet talents. But this dream failed to come true...

65,000 Soviet soldiers and officers, prisoners of Stalag 326, remained forever in German soil, becoming victims of Nazi crimes. After the end of World War II, only local residents knew about the "Russian cemetery" in Stuckenbrock. But none of them objected when, at the height of the Cold War, a monument to 42 POW commanders of the Red Army who were shot in Stalag 326 was demolished.

The film is a portrait about the great Ural poet, writer, cultural historian and teacher Maya Nikulina. A deep and multifaceted person, she generously shares her knowledge not only with the students of the gymnasium, but also with everyone who is interested in the history of Russian and world culture. At the same time, she firmly believes that in the modern consumer society, literature and poetry may one day disappear forever.

The film tells about the events that shaped the rocket and space industry of Krasnoyarsk in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as about projects that were recently classified.

Why are some afraid and don't do it, while others are afraid and do it? What is the danger of Fear and can it be controlled? Is it possible to manage your mood and how to deal with stress correctly?

Altai is a sacred place, a concentration of special energy. There you can meet yourself and hear the true voice of your soul. The four heroines of the film embody all the wisdom of this extraordinary place, preserve its traditions and are the conductors of its power. Their sincerity, honesty above all with themselves, their vision of the world and their huge connection with this land are healing, as is Altai itself. They will show this place as they know it themselves — a place of power.

The film "Diary of the White Crow" is about one of the first Soviet polar explorers Nina Dima, whose life is closely connected with the history of the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. The world's first woman is the head of a polar expedition in the Northern Land, a participant in wintering at one of the first Soviet polar stations in Tikhaya Bay on Franz Josef Land. Nina Petrovna Demme, a man of amazing destiny, made a great contribution to the study of the animal world of the North.