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On April 14, 2014 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a right-wing politician, publicly attacked two female journalists simply because one of them asked about the sanctions against Ukraine. He ordered to his guards “rape” and “kiss her hard” regardless of her pregnancy and threatened another one with unemployment when she defended her colleague. None of male journalists stood behind the women and tried to stop the high-ranked attacker and his followers.

Grandmother’s relationship with her family is complicated. Since they do not keep in touch, she resorts to “witchcraft” so that she does not feel lonely.

They play in the same city. These teams have the same name. But one club plays in Serbia, and the other in Kosovo. This is only possible in Mitrovica. The story is about a conflict in a divided city and about a cool Kosovo team ready to enter the European Championship. Although only 6 years ago it did not even exist. We will go on a trip to the amazing Balkan region and see how they live football here and dream of big victories.

The film is an investigation by Alexey Smolyaninov about the "Singapore Syndicate", whose members organized hundreds of match-fixing around the world. Is it possible to defeat match-fixing in football? What schemes do criminals use to convince players and coaches to pass the match? Which country is behind the most powerful criminal group of the 21st century?

The evolution of the mother's soul through the eyes of her children.

“This film is my attempt to learn about my father from his diaries. From the 1970s to the 1990s he, Yura Diversant, a well-known figure in the Moscow hippy community, published a samizdat magazine called Svoboda and created the political art group Svobodnaya Initsiativa (Free Initiative), trying to fight the Soviet system. But this is not the most important thing in my film. For me he is, above all, my father, and I never had the opportunity to get to know him before.”

Three Dances is a feature-length documentary film about three generations of ballet dancer boys studying classical ballet at the Hungarian Dance Academy. Each dancer keeps the 600-years-old dance art alive, while struggling with their separation from their families, their strong expectations and having physical and mental pain. While introducing the three main characters in their 1st, 5th and 9th year in the academic year, we would like to establish a general picture of the career path a young student follows in order to become a ballet artist.

Film about the life of the founder and the first art director of the Perm Choreographic College, Ekaterina Heydenreich. Ekaterina Heydenreich stood at the start of Perm ballet school traditions. The title of the film refers to three portraits that foresaw tragic periods in the fate of a talented ballerina and thoughtful ballet mistress.

More recently, Palekh was known worldwide. Now it is rare if a modern resident of Russia remembers at least in which region of his country Palekh is located. How did this happen? Does the city with the highest density of artists per square meter deserve oblivion? And by the way, is it a city at all? The heroes of the film are two local residents who will tell about their understanding of the Russian hinterland and the creative atmosphere that still has not left Palekh.

All-girls team ADYG are on their way to the legendary kids’ championship to prove that they love, are able to and have the right to play football in the face of the prevailing traditions in their native Northern Caucasus that do not welcome women doing such kind of sport.

The camera glides over the blue-green mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau – one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia. It was built half a century ago-away from the bright city lights, closer to the sky – in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia. A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses, a school, a club and an administration. In a small world, lost in space and time – whether it is the Soviet seventies, or the future of the Strugatsky novels – modern artists come with their works. The film unobtrusively confronts opposites-physicists and lyricists, schoolchildren and gray-haired scientists, the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple, artifacts and ancient mountains. But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos, to which people listen with bated breath.

They are told never to tell anyone about themselves in order to appear normal and not be rejected by society. There is an inner tension and fear growing inside the characters. They are intersex people, but there is not much information about LGBT+ in Russian. One day everything changes, and they decide to tell the world about themselves, that intersex people exist, and there are millions of them.

Yasha is 14 years old, and he plays in the band Zavodoy, which he created two years ago. Zavodoy perform at fashionable Moscow venues, participate in collaborations with famous artists and record their second album, but Yasha does not lose her childlike spontaneity. His life is shown through the usual formats for his generation — including screenlife.

In the heart of Moscow, there is a Spanish restaurant run by the eccentric Donna Lucia. Every day in her establishment is a holiday, a guitar and songs. And it seems that everything is there, and even love, but it becomes more and more difficult for Luce to have fun day after day.

The documentary tells about the last years of the life of the Elder Feodosia Skopinskaya, who had an impact on thousands of lives and destinies of people both in Russia and abroad.

"The film is a kaleidoscope" of the opinions of its nine main characters - the greatest modern musicians, who almost confessedly talk about the most important for them, the most subtle things seriously and jokingly: about what is the gift of creativity, about the origin of "this" in a person, about how "this" is given or acquired, about where it goes, about individual and collective creativity, about rhythm and pause, about interaction with the viewer, with the world, about where "it" comes from in the end... "Film-mosaic", "film-orchestra", where everyone has their own unique voice, character, their own individual path, worthy of many films about him, but all this, surprisingly, is composed into a single voluminous statement, woven from monologues, confirmed by the author's music of the film's characters... And it all started in the Cultural Center "ART'ERIA Club", at the crossroads of all types of Art.

The film tells about the personality and feat of St. Joseph of Volotsk the Wonderworker. The film is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the repose of this great Russian saint, whose name is undeservedly forgotten. The film tells about the difficult life of the saint, about the difficult struggle for the purity of Russian Orthodoxy.

On the outskirts, a woman takes care of her old father. To this end, she resigned from work and refused any other personal affairs. Each day is similar to the previous one, every day its burden becomes heavier.

One lady, a director from the province, goes to Moscow to see the dream of her life, the superman of the twentieth century-director Nikita Mikhalkov... And the meeting will take place.

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the TU-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

An animated film, the story of which is collected from quotations from the writings of modern schoolchildren about how people lived in the Soviet Union.

An unusual family with ten children lives in a Siberian village. They do all the work and household chores together. Children grow up, and everyone has their own life ahead of them. And now, despite all the difficulties, they are together... The head of the family talks about his everyday life and whether it is difficult to have such a large family.

Park. Summer. The trees are so happy with the sun that they look like flowers. The chirp of a bird and an empty bench, on which sits a gray-haired old man-he is in a blue uniform, holding a notebook in his hands. What's he doing here? He says he's going to kill... This film is part of the documentary animation project "What am I Doing Here", conceived as a collaboration between playwright Sabrina Karabayeva and animator Maria Sedyaeva. The authors walk the streets of Yekaterinburg and ask all passers-by the same question: "What are you doing here?". Caught off guard, they tell the story as it is.

Four people, four mental diagnoses, one city, one therapist. A reality TV series about the people of Berlin, they live like everyone else-go to work, go to clubs, raise children. But everyone has a "second life" - a mental diagnosis that you have to deal with every day. Every day they keep video diaries and openly, on camera, tell how they are trying to defeat the disease.

The village of Soiga was founded by monks 400 years ago. At the beginning of the twentieth century, deforestation was organized in the Arkhangelsk region. In the 1950s, a narrow-gauge railway was built to transport timber to the Severnaya Dvina River. Now the village of Soiga is surrounded by swamps and is located 38 kilometers from the nearest highway. After the reduction of the forest fund, financial support for the road and the settlement stopped. The only way to get there is by a narrow - gauge railway, which has existed there since 1958. For about 40 years, local residents and the locomotive driver Boris Petrovich Skumin have maintained the road in good condition.

Large-scale protests have not stopped in Belarus for a month now. The riots, which have become one of the bloodiest in the history of the country, were not spontaneous, experts say. And the authors of this political drama, apparently, should be sought on the other side of the Atlantic.

How did BYPOL founder, former investigator Andrei Ostapovich persuade his colleagues to betray, and how much does the betrayal cost? Watch the whole truth about the fugitive security officials in the ATN film "BYPOLicai. Mandate for Betrayal".

The biggest investigation on Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus.

A documentary about how Belarus has changed since August 9, 2020. These are the stories of a little man - our main, most important hero.

You cannot say "former security officials" because they remain faithful to their profession. But in fact, none of the heroes of the film is already working - people did not agree on the characters, principles and assessments of the events taking place with the leadership. We remember how the events developed and try once again to understand what is happening behind the shields.

A documentary film dedicated to girls who went through detention and arrest during the Belarusian protests in August 2020. The first-person film tells how a prison cell changes a person and how long it takes to find a way out – even after being released. “The Sisters of Protest” is a series of monologues of people from different backgrounds, woven into the common experience of a Belarusian girl who is not ready to remain silent when she is deprived of her basic rights.

The film is about how our older generation saved our lives and defeated the plague of the 20th century!

A film based on a script by the Sakhalin ethnographer Alexander Chelnokov. The events of the last months of World War II in the seas of the Far East are associated with modern life on Sakhalin. The heroes of the film are young people who are interested in history and participants in the naval battles of 1945.

Senior sergeant of fire department # 42 Vladimir Kolokoltsev risks his life every day to save people from the fire, despite the disapproval of his family.

A Nigerian girl named Blessing came to Moscow during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. But instead of the promised job, they took away her documents and sent her to a brothel. She worked as a prostitute for 4 months. After her release, she had lived with six friends in a one-room apartment planning to stay in Russia, find a job and arrange her life.

A very private trip through Russia - a world power with a shrinking population, a myriad of ethnic minorities, and vast distances, a country between tradtion and future.

A brutal alpha male who does not respect women decides to return the location of one of his former loves for the sake of increasing self-esteem. But in the end he discovers feelings in himself that he had never thought about before.

Each of my trips to the village is a ritual of memory. In walks to your favorite places, in landscapes and in people, you always try to find images from your childhood and remember those who no longer exist. Memory is fragile, but that's all we have.

Stories of relationships with men of two girls in love with each other.

In 2018, an agreement was signed on the transfer of the Ingush lands to the Chechen Republic. The Ingush protested and fought for justice. After regular rallies in 2019, criminal prosecution of leaders and protesters began.

In Caucasus, men and women tell stories about their fascination with prehistoric monuments. Offering a hallucinatory perspective on ecstatic effects and ancestral powers, the film is also about how stone activates children's paranormal capacities. Bodies and minds are put to the test and question our relationship with the visible and the invisible.

The film is about how a motorcycle trip to the island of Gotland led to reflections on the work and life of director Andrei Tarkovsky.

The film tells the story of the Russian Navy officer Vasily Boisman, who, seriously wounded after the Battle of Port Arthur, was taken prisoner by Japan. According to the laws of that time, Vasily, as an officer, had the right to return to his homeland, but he chose captivity — together with the crew of his ship, remaining faithful to the duty of the Human and the Office

The train is a small country. Pensioners and babies, hard shift workers and intelligent students live in it. Who is poorer - in a reserved seat dormitory, richer - in a closed compartment, away from the main mass of people. But they are all locked in the tight iron interior of the train, where all life is an endless wait. When will they finally arrive? Where? In March 2019, two NSU journalism students, Oleg Tsiplakov and Nikita Lopatin, went from Moscow to Vladivostok along the famous Trans-Siberian Railway. 6 days on the road, 9 thousand kilometers behind and more than 15 interviews with passengers of the E100 train - all in order to figure out who they live with in one country and what kind of country it is.

The heroes of this picture are the winners. They were able to cope with a deadly disease, and it seems that they came out of this fight changed. They, their relatives, their doctors, and their donors talk about what and who helped them recover, about what it is like to endure cancer, about how their attitude towards life is changing. These stories, which happened almost simultaneously, are somewhat similar and at the same time very different, because each person has taken something different from the field of pain.

A monologue revealing the inner world of a young girl, a talented violinist, playing in a provincial chamber orchestra. It is far from that glamorous constellation of divas who daily pour their cold light from the sky of modern Russian television. It is an amazing combination of beauty, intelligence and talent. That is why she is not a star.

The personal mythology of everyday life creates a personal system of signs, meanings and images in public space. Sequences of places, views, movements, contacts and observations push the boundaries of reflection over the ordinary. The self-evidence of what is happening and the routine forms of social interaction build a documentary narrative through the prism of individual experience of perception.

Take a look at the world of the most amazing dinosaurs and find out how and where they lived and why they disappeared. Huge, scary, strange-looking creatures. New evidence sheds light on the lives of these mysterious animals. We thought we knew them. What did they really look like? How did they really move? And why were they so huge? This is an amazing story about sex, survival, and body parts transformed beyond recognition.

What modern technologies can help humanity in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic? A documentary about medical robots that helped eliminate the outbreak in China.

Once the populous Russian-Tatar village Tankaevka gradually comes to desolation. Abandoned wooden houses gap with windows failures, orchards overgrow with swan and bird cherry trees. Nevertheless, the life of the remaining twelve inhabitants continues: they leisurely repair a rusty tractor, knit birch brooms, sculpt dumplings and, recalling the past, sing old forgotten songs.

During the joint makulatura campaign of 1974-91 Soviet citizens could exchange collected waste paper for coupons to obtain popular and otherwise unavailable book titles.

Every day Alena walks kilometers through snowdrifts and railway tracks to get to training. Fencing is all that she has in her life. A tough and demanding coach sees talent in her and wants to make her a champion. And what does Alena want?

Short movie about the amateur racer, who is going to be the first racer from russia who took part in one of the toughest race in the world.

At the center of the story – a 12-year-old boy Fedya and his mother. In early childhood, Fedya suffered from severe meningitis and lost his hearing. But his mom was always there – seems that she’s able to carry the whole world on her shoulders and keep all the love of this world in her heart. A special role in the life of this family is given to the music teacher Aleksei Borozdin – thanks to his classes the deaf boy started talking and made it to study in a gymnasium.

A film about the first Japanese expedition to Antarctica at the beginning of the last century. This trip involved Sakhalin dogs under the guidance of mushers from the village. Ochikho (now the village of Lesnoye, Korsakovsky District).

The hermit and philosopher and reindeer herder Alexander has lived alone for many years in the heart of the arctic taiga in Yakutia. Alexander's life is an endless struggle for survival. Instead of a shop, there are mountains, instead of a refrigerator, a stream, instead of the Internet, a walkie-talkie. For 20 years he has not been to the city. Someday he wants to go on a world tour, to see Tibet, Rome, Australia. But for now, deer, nature and a dream are all that he has.