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When Alexander Romanov was a student at the Faculty of History at Saratov University and was fond of the works of Vladimir Lenin, he came to the conclusion that the idea of socialism was distorted in the Soviet Union. An attempt to convey this idea to others led him to the Mordovian camps.

Darina is a twelve-year-old girl whose life has recently changed dramatically. After a difficult divorce, the mother moves to her hometown with her daughter. Darina has to start a new life in a new place.

The film is dedicated to the events of the summer of 2021 – extinguishing fires in Yakutia. The focus is on rescuers, volunteers and residents of villages engulfed in fire, who are fighting the elements, protecting their homes and lives from fire. The real picture of forest fires turns out to be much more impressive than all our ideas about them.

This is a documentary film about the Abkhazian artist Zurab Achba. He paints pictures on the porch in the New Athos Church. The film will not talk about artistic technique, genres, the style of the artist, it will be about freedom, about a dream, about life, about something near and far at the same time.

Constant physical and psychological violence, forced abortions, punitive psychiatry, complete lack of privacy, inability to be with a loved one, children taken away – for tens of thousands of women trapped in the stumps of Russia, this is an ordinary life. Capable and recognized incapacitated women, who are quite able to live independently or under the supervision of a social worker, are locked up for life in the barracks of the PSNI, where hundreds of people are kept under one roof, treating them like prisoners of high-security colonies. Those who managed to get out told us their stories.

Accidentally found photos of the grandmother lead the author to think about how the experience of repression experienced by previous generations of the family affects the relationship between relatives now.

An unlikely triangle, with a magnetic homeless Siberian in the center, and partner in surviving (his family) and a home girl by its sides. Everything is hopeless, like Petersburg ruins, the hero is leaving for a while.

The famous German musician Klaus Burger – the "Golden Tuba of Europe", the author of the symphony "Chusovaya" – dreams of leaving the prosperous Baden-Baden and settling in a small village in the Perm Region. About music, philosophy, mental practices and life vicissitudes of Klaus Burger, musician and spiritual emigrant.

Three young people who grew up in large cities come to the remote village of Glazok to work as teachers. Will the guys manage to change the traditional village way of life or will the new life force them to change themselves?

Crisis center for women in Russia. Three women. All they wanted was love. However, their family happiness collapsed, and their beloved became a threat to their lives. Will they find the strength to be happy again?

An extravagant singer and showman is trying to become a star, to create a show on a federal channel and to avoid a divorce. But something always goes wrong.

Angela is one of six children in the family. She lives in a village in Karachay-Cherkessia. Her mother is never at home, and her grandmother is sick, so the girl has to run the household alone, even though she is only 13 years old. Every day is similar to the previous one. Every day she dreams of a different life.

Felix and Antonina are a family of Karelian fishermen. In the early 2000s, Felix was injured and almost stopped walking. Antonina finds the strength to support her husband and continues to run the household. The film is about devotion, love, and a difficult life in a modern village.

On March 6, 2022 during the anti-war protests in Russia more than 5000 people were detained. At the «Brateevo» police station in Moscow at least 11 girls were subjected to physical and psychological violence at the hands of an unnamed police officer dressed in all black. This documentary by BBC tells the story of how the girls were able to find their torturer and his supervisor.

Dance in the Caucasus is not just entertainment, it is a philosophy, a lifestyle, a tradition that goes back centuries. A film about those who are now dancing the ancient dance Simd in South Ossetia.

Someone is born where he enjoys living, and someone is looking for a cherished place until the end of his days. Several of our protagonists, finding such apoint of life support in different ways, appear on the screen in the day-to-day realities of their life and being in the ancient village of Uchma on the banks of the Volga...

Evgeny Nikitin’s passion has garnered both acclaim and controversy, fuelling a life devoted to the opera... and heavy-metal rock.

Within the next few years, you will stop watching blockbusters. And start filming your own. How does a viewer become a director? Arman Yakhin, Igor Mishin, Alexander Uraksin, Maria Chmir and other experts in CGI, neural networks and streaming platforms explore the future where the director is you.

Documentary film by the musical group The Dartz. The plot was mainly based on the band's songs from their debut album.

Hooligan stripes on jeans — is it art? And the murals on the walls of the bar? And the stickers on your skateboard? And if this is art, should an underground artist be hungry? As answers, we offer a sketch about two art punks - Frankenchain from St. Petersburg and Kirill Burygin from Moscow, who are familiar to many from the brazen and colorful design style of the projects of the Moscow Underdog bar team.

A road movie that introduces us to the wards of the project — elderly people who are in difficult living conditions and equally need support and attention. The leitmotif of the trip was Stepan Brickspacer's search for material to create a large-scale NFT canvas assembled from artifacts and unusually expressive stories of the wards.

Long suppressed by missionaries and then by Soviet anti-religious campaigns, Siberian shamanism has experienced an unprecedented revival following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the number of shamans continues to rise. But who are these new shamans? Are they tricksters, magicians, businessmen, or cultural activists? This film takes a behind-the-scenes look at a Buryat shaman living on an island in the Lake Baikal as he moves between intimate shamanic rituals performed for local clientele and shows performed at various resorts for Western tourists in search of "primitive" cultures.

The picture is about an adult who turns out to be completely unsuited to independent life. He cannot write a letter to his mother, whom he so dreams of finding, is not able to pay off the seller in the store… At the age of 20, Peter Kasikhin does not know the alphabet, and elementary children's puzzles with birds sitting on a branch seem incomprehensible. No, he is not a fool, as many people think he is. I just got into a mental institution once. And, it seems, by mistake. Peter was diagnosed as "uneducated", was not sent to school… Despite everything, Peter, who has long matured, goes to the first class... And let others laugh!

The history of the unique theater, founded in 1943 in Vorkutlag by the will of two Muscovites – the chief and the prisoner (Mikhail Maltsev and Boris Mordvinov). Actors and musicians came out of the barracks to the stage at gunpoint every day to play a play and save their lives. During the war, the Vorkuta Camp Music and Drama Theater showed 600 performances a year, and the troupe consisted of 150 actors. Their children, grandchildren and friends became the heroes of this film.

Reflection on several days spent in Irkutsk, Baikalsk, on Lake Baikal on the island of Olkhon.

The heroes of the film were the participants of the volunteer fire brigade. Where do they get the strength to fight a fire that cannot be extinguished? After all, the wildfires that happen every year cannot be extinguished forever – this war never ends. What is the strength of these people - volunteer firefighters - and what is their weakness? The film was created with donations from future viewers and became an example of a successful crowdfunding campaign. The project originated at the Fair of Ideas for Directors and Civil Activists, held within the framework of "Make a Movie" - 2013.

At a factory with a two-century history, the last masters of the crystal business are resisting the destructive onslaught of modern times.

Through the problem of discovery in science, the film tells about the search and the desire to achieve the seemingly unattainable. The main character believes that he can find the oldest dragonfly in the world. Will his hopes come true?

The film "The Key to a clockwork Orange" is dedicated to the street war of anti-fascists and nationalists of the 2000s. The focus is on the musical preferences and political ideas of the conflict participants who lost their health and lives in the bloody FA-ANTIFA confrontation. It was a subcultural war, the main front of which was music. It was conducted by very similar young people who did not fit into the social structure of modern Russian society. Now they have matured, and the activity of street confrontation has decreased. The main feeling that the heroes of the film, named after the cult novel by Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick's tape, indulge in is nostalgia, and after it comes a new understanding of the years experienced and an understanding of the enduring value of the main motor of conflict activity – youth.

Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581" (another name "Ivan the Terrible kills his Son"), the most famous to us from school textbooks, was banned by Emperor Alexander III in 1885, and thus became the first picture to be censored in the Russian Empire. 130 years later, already in modern Russia, a group of historians and activists appealed to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation with a request to remove the canvas from the Tretyakov Gallery. Is there a causal relationship between the past and the present?

In the late fifties, a strange patient was being treated in one of the Moscow hospitals. Doctors could not diagnose him in any way, and meanwhile he was getting worse and worse. But the unusual patient had no right to tell what happened to him. Mahmud Rafikov was not an employee of the special services or a classified scientist. He was a cinematographer, but his name was not indicated in the credits, his films were numbered, not named, and he himself was under a non-disclosure agreement for fifty years. He was the only one who participated in the filming when Yuri Gagarin landed, he was filming nuclear explosions at close range, and he was lucky enough to survive after the release of radioactive elements on a submarine. Korolev and Kurchatov admired his skill. At the age of ninety-one, this only eyewitness of the events remembers every little thing.

Nenets children from the tundra enter the alien world of a boarding school to learn how to navigate the modern world. Urban comfort prevents them from preserving traditions, without which they will not survive after leaving school.

The hero of the film - a young scientist-crystallographer Artem Oganov has achieved outstanding results in his industry. He predicted the composition and structure of a substance that is located deep in the earth, almost 3,000 kilometers from the surface. This discovery made him famous all over the world.

The picture became a continuation of the series "Kuchuguri and Surroundings" released in the 1990s.

In the Voronezh village of Kuchugury, in the Nizhnedevitsky district, on the very border with the Kursk region, Vladimir Gerchikov is filming a documentary soap opera - a series about local residents whose worldview combines the myths of the Soviet past and deep peasant wisdom in the most bizarre way. The Kuchugur chronicle includes 25 episodes in which it shows the naked truth about a modern village drowning in impassable mud, thinking aloud about Gorbachev and Yeltsin, interpreting current events as they understand them.

A young leopard named Leo 80 M, an inhabitant of the Ussuri taiga, arrogant, confident in his strength and agility falls into a poaching trap. He, exhausted and emaciated, is found by Russian border guards and called for the help of naturalist scientists from the Land of the Leopard Nature Park. The leopard has a badly damaged paw. Scientists are fighting for his life. This newcomer, who found himself in trouble, had never before caught the eye and in the camera traps of specialists. Leo 80M is a unique specimen. The absence of phalanges on his paw makes him helpless in the struggle for life in the wild. Will the leopard return to its land?

The classic story of a woman seeking love. She has aggravating circumstances, or rather, she has a child without alimony, she is unemployed and she is 27 years old. Will Masha meet a man?

From January 1, 2018, every Muscovite receives a box with necessary items for the baby at the maternity hospital. But what about moms with another residence permit?

The film is dedicated to the centenary of Alexander Galich. One of the great trinity of bards Galich - Okudzhava - Vysotsky, who for decades determined the social and intellectual climate of the country. The authors of the film tried to understand how it happened that he, a recognized playwright and screenwriter, challenged the authorities and chose the fate of a disgraced bard, an idol of informal culture, went his way from well-being to rejection, to unofficial glory? He was forced to leave the USSR, three years later he died tragically in Paris, and his songs keep coming back and coming back to us.

What do you see in your dreams? With this question the director turned to friends and acquaintances from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, USA, Italy, Israel and Somalia. Dreams and nightmares combined into a poetic story about life and death, in which the traumatic experiences of the last war in Donbass, personal losses, experience of life with coronavirus, humor, surrealism and eroticism found their place.

Medical workers tell us what difficulties they faced during the peak moments of the epidemic, saving lives of people across the country. The film also features comments by scientists, psychologists and journalists about the causes and consequences of the pandemic.

Video essay in the found footage technique. The film is built on a visual metaphor, it uses an ironic juxtaposition that tells about the strange force that makes humanity at all times, as if by itself, line up in even rows and arrange itself.

This is a film about DJ, vocalist, host and showman, former lead singer of the "140 beats per minute" group Yura Abramov, who left this world in January 2020.

Gentle and sincere confessions of the participants of the IsoIsolation flash mob, which recreate famous works of art at home for entertainment and fight against a new reality filled with anxiety and death.

A documentary film shot together with the residents of the Verkola village.

A film-observation of the state of the atmosphere through the eyes of a lyrical hero - an ascetic meteorologist who lives and works surrounded by ice and snow at a meteorological station lost in the forests of the Valaam archipelago.

The film is about the Sakhalin and Nivkh writer Vladimir Sangi. The writer's life is closely intertwined with the fate of the people, the endangered aborigines of Sakhalin – the Nivkhs.

An introduction to the maritime lifestyle of the Crimean peninsula in the summer of 2020 using freely available streams from webcams installed in public places for the purpose of local tourism promotion.