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The film focuses on the story of the discovery of the biography and creative heritage of the Russian musician, composer Alexei Butakov, whose fate and musical works have long remained unknown. The film tells about a man who, while in a nazi concentration camp, created music, contrasting the inhumanity of an unbroken spirit and creativity.

Knight of the Orders of the Red Star and Glory, scout Nikolai Shchelkonogov reached Berlin in May 1945. Today he is 94. And he dreams of being there again. In Germany, he will meet 97-year-old Wolfgang Morrell, who was captured in 1942 in Vladimir – in the hometown of the scout Shchelkonogov.

Sonya is an orphan abandoned by her parents. Born with a serious illness, she cannot walk. Kind woman Natasha takes her away from the orphanage and does everything to get the girl back on her feet. One day Sonya learns about Old Believer Agafya Lykova and says she wants to meet her. Brining the disabled child through taiga forest along difficult terrain not every adult can walk is a great challenge, but such is the beginning of this story of love, faith and empathy.

This is an animated documentary about my emigration from Russia after the outbreak of the war.

The Talab Islands, situated approximately 25 kilometers from the Estonian border and equidistant from Pskov, comprise three islands. Two of these, formerly known as Talabsk and Verkhniy, were renamed Zalit and Belov during the Soviet era to honor Red Army soldiers who tragically drowned in 1918 while attempting to establish Soviet power on the islands. In the past, Zalit was home to a thriving fishing collective farm, attracting local residents who had been engaging in lake-related activities for decades. However, contemporary bureaucratic challenges have hindered fishing activities, leading to a shift in the islands' economic focus towards tourism. Pilgrims now frequent the islands to visit the grave of Nikolai Guryanov, the former rector of the local church. Despite the islands' historical significance and tourism potential, they face challenges in terms of infrastructure and services.

People with disabilities... In the United Arab Emirates, they are referred to as "people of determination." In the United States and Europe, they are described as individuals with increased needs. However, in Russia, they often face limited opportunities. Yet, "disability" does not define Katya Sukhinina, who daily demonstrates to the world that a wheelchair is not a life sentence. Life doesn't come to a halt when a person loses the ability to walk.

The Semipalatinsk testing site is a terrifying place that has served as a place for the most horrific weapons of mass destruction ever devised by humanity - nuclear bombs - for a consecutive 40-year period. The Soviet Union's leading scientists and researchers conducted extensive studies on the impact of nuclear weapons on urban areas. They constructed simulated towns, complete with real buildings and even metro stations, to observe and assess the aftermath. These dedicated researchers identified the zones where immediate death would occur, areas where survival was possible but would result in blindness, and regions where individuals would live, but their offspring would suffer from mutations for years to come. They conducted experiments and meticulously analyzed the outcomes, and yet, judging by its current state, it appears as though the entire project was abandoned without a care.

Seven chapters about Robert Rozhdestvensky's love for his Homeland, parents, friends and family, who inspired the great poet throughout his life.

In 2015, in Donbass, an officer of the Vostok battalion, Vladislav Shinkar, lost both legs in battle.

The profession of a military doctor is an everyday feat. This is self-denial. It's when you risk your own life to save thousands of others. The heroes of the film, the doctors of Donbass, stayed in their native land in order to bring peace closer with their work.

Artists from St. Petersburg theaters decide to create the "Wondermobile for Children" – a charitable project for children from orphanages and hospices.

The main characters of the film are people in working professions, those who consciously chose this profession for themselves. Their work, seemingly invisible, underlies many aspects of modern life.

In Krasnoyarsk, contemporary art was born within the Cultural and Historical Center named after V.I. Lenin, built in 1987. Here, bold and innovative ideas were presented, and different cultural worldviews were formed. However, all these ideas are united by one thing – the harsh and beautiful Siberia.

The desire to capture life has been inherent in humans throughout history. This film is an attempt to convey the spirit and movement of time through amateur cinema, the reels stored in basements, attics, and under the beds of the descendants of people who once held amateur cameras.

The film tells the story of the actress from Kirov, Olga Bulycheva, who left for Amsterdam at the beginning of the 90’s.

A hearing-impaired coach conducts classes in sports knife fighting. For the coach, this is not only martial arts. He walks the path of learning the limit of his abilities in order to understand how to fight on an equal footing with a superior opponent. Not to let them anywhere near to avoid them hurting you, or to allow rapprochement. Does this mean making vulnerable not only the opponent, but also yourself?

Lisa is a playful and energetic girl of six who enjoys carelessness and a warm summer in the small village of Kyn.

Galya Kopeikina is a lonely old woman who lives in tropical Sochi. However, on the screen we don’t see the sea or palm trees, but only the cramped space of a Soviet two-room apartment. The director of the film is the great-granddaughter of Galya Kopeikina, who was sent by relatives to negotiate with her great-grandmother. The aim is to convince her to move with one of the relatives in another city. Sounds simple, but it's actually a mission impossible. However, the camera is an outside observer that allows you to look at the situation from a different angle. To see a helpless lonely person instead of an eternally dissatisfied and absurd pensioner. To understand and to love her again.

Emil and Ella have always lived in St.Petersburg, they are both 80 years old. Together they’ve spent almost 50 of them doing musicology. They don't "live out their days", they enjoy life and make sense of it. They write, work, go in for sports, hold concerts, build a country house. They are not interested in philistine values. These people live a spiritual life and argue heatedly all day long about music, literature and philosophy.

The music season is over in a goan village. Now Anthony and his friends go to Rishikesh. He always carries the guitar on the go, plays to people always and everywhere, "says hello to a neighbor" and waits for the signs. Where does the road actually begin and end, if you go deep not only into space, but also in time too?

The reserved seat carriages of the train, trees flicker outside the window, they are replaced by waves and the sea, the roar of the engine, the serpentine. He and she. Kobuleti, Georgia, hospitable people and difficult relationships against the backdrop of measured local life.

In December 1927, a funeral car arrived in Leningrad, at the Moscow railway station. It brought an urn with the ashes of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and a glass jar with the brain of a scientist hidden from the public eye. Just a few days before, he had gone to Moscow for a congress of psychiatrists. However, according to a telegram recently found in the archives of the Leningrad Institute of the Brain, Professor Bekhterev was urgently summoned to Moscow by the Council of People's Commissars. The last time he was summoned to the Kremlin was three years earlier to see the seriously ill Lenin. To whom was this urgent call? What happened on that mysterious night before Christmas? And are there any documents about the illness and death of Academician Bekhterev?

The film tells about Sergei Yun-Fu, or Sergei Mao, the son of Mao Zedong, and Nikolai Elizarov, or Chiang Ching-guo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Both of them grew up, got an education and worked in the USSR. One fought as a tanker in the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, the other was one of the leaders of Uralmash. But the Comintern and the NKVD equally disposed of their Russian destinies. Both were valuable figures in Stalin's game of influence in China and in the bitter struggle for power between the two Chinese dictators. Both returned to China to become companions of their fathers in this struggle. They themselves never met. Sergei died in the Korean War in 1950. Jiang Jingguo became the President of Taiwan.

"Brain drain" is a positive and negative process at the same time. On the one hand, the West recognizes the priority of Russian scientists, on the other hand, our science suffers losses. Does this phenomenon pose a serious threat to the future of Russia? Or, in the context of expanding globalization, successful emigrants are valuable for the country not returned to their homeland, but outside it?

In 1942, the Russian partisan Nikolai Kiselev saved the lives of 218 residents of the Jewish town of Dolginovo, who miraculously survived the atrocities of the Nazis. Having traveled thousands of kilometers across the occupied German territory, Kiselev led them beyond the front line. The film tells about one of the most terrible pages of history, about the greatness of the human spirit and about the feat accomplished by the Russian partisan Nikolai Kiselev. The protagonists of the film are real participants in the events.

A documentary film almanac of 9 short stories about people who returned from different parts of the mine to their small homeland, to the Perm Territory, and successfully realized themselves in creativity, business or professional activities. These are real, successful, sometimes sentimental, sometimes funny, with ups and downs, but most importantly, these are happy stories of returning home.

A hairdresser is not only a place where people come to get their hair cut. For many people, this is also the only way to pour out the soul. The hairdresser can open everything. He will cut your hair and throw it away with all your sorrows.

He happened to work with such directors as Larisa Shepitko, Dinara Asanova, Andron Konchalovsky, Vitaly Melnikov. Films based on his scripts entered the golden fund of Russian cinema. And he continues to look for reasons to live. An outstanding screenwriter of our time, Yuri Klepikov, who is celebrating his 75th birthday this year, talks about his profession, about cinema. And not only.

Posthumous portrait of Yegor Gaidar and his time.

From the author: “Pyotr Mamonov is a genius, one of those who shaped my consciousness, a man whose name for me is a sign of that irreconcilable position that an artist should occupy in cultural and social terms. Quite unexpectedly, I was very close and found a friend whom I seem to understand. This friend turned out to be Ilya, the son of Mamonov. When I suggested that Ilya make a film about him, he immediately warned me that if I wanted to contact his father in this way, then I would not succeed.

Tobacco companies make millions on the bad habit of mankind. Ways to quit smoking are also someone's income. We will prove that there are no safe cigarettes, and we will find the most harmful ones on the counter. We will dispel the myth that the consequences of smoking occur only after many years of experience, you can get poisoned at any time. We will reveal all the tricks of manufacturers who deliberately put us on tobacco.

For a month, Uncle Misha has been guarding a barge arrested for debts. Nothing seems to happen to him here. For days on end, he moves around the ship following the shadow, escaping from the heat and a hangover, inventing activities for himself. Waiting for the owner. Uncle Misha is alone all the time, and only local children come to the barge to swim, fish, he allows.

Parents are not allowed into the Kremlin for the New Year Tree, children must go there alone. And now, after visiting the most important New Year tree in Russia, the children go to the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin, where their parents are waiting for them. Faces of children, adults. Sometimes this exit turns out to be quite successful, and sometimes it simply crosses out the previous festival. And in any case, he always says a lot.

Ghulja is a city in the west of China, the Chinese and Uighurs live here, but few people know that only 80 years ago it was called the Russian Ghulja. Here the Russian people, who fled from Russia at that time, sought shelter in search of a better life. This is where bayans, accordions, harmonicas and sad Russian melodies came from in these places. How did the fate of the exiles, who endured all the hardships of the twentieth century, but preserved the faith, language and memory of their distant homeland for future generations.

In the village of Pervomaisky near Tula, a local businesswoman decided to ennoble the space near her stall. The young artist painted Christ and the Sistine Madonna for her. Everyone turned on the artist and businesswoman, from the administration and the police to participants in Orthodox Internet forums. As a result, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the entrepreneur destroyed the images of Christ and the Virgin with her own hand. But something remains of the naive fresco. Although not on the wall.

Olga picks up a downed dog on a busy highway. Alive, but with a serious injury, a fracture of the spine. Veterinarians advise the dog to be euthanized, because Rada has little chance of surviving. But the girl decides to fight for Rada's life. And soon she will realize that she is not alone in this struggle. And there are more victims from "our smaller brothers" than she could expect.

Ust-Tsilma is only seven hills and the coast. On the one hand, there is the mighty Pechora, on the other, there are impenetrable forests and swamps. Everything in this distant land breathes death. The Old Believers honor and respect her, because the path to the grave is nothing more than a test, preparation for the eternal. By accepting death, one can learn to understand life.

Humanity actively uses the fruits of his discoveries in the 21st century, and the name of the scientist is little known even in his native Fatherland. The film "The First Physicist of Russia" is a fascinating and vivid story about the fate of the discoverer Alexander Grigoryevich Stoletov, whose life was short and difficult, and the trace that he left in science is like the light of a shooting star, bright and long.

Each of which has its own “Far East”, someone has a hundred-year-old Japanese lighthouse, someone has the old streets of Vladivostok, someone has memories of their ancestors that never leave them, who ended up in the Far East by the will of fate, and someone has temple in a small village on the Kamchatka peninsula. Each of them feels anxiety about the fate of their small homeland, which is going through a difficult moment in its history. At the same time, all these people live with a sense of the possibility of a new life for their region, their country.

The life of father Pitirim and novice Vladimir in one of the abandoned corners of the Perm region, where every day is inextricably linked with the taiga.

A mother comes to see her son, Lieutenant Vitaly Golub, at the graduation of the Rokossovsky DVOKU military school. None of them knows that this meeting may be their last.

Mariupol, summer 2022. The fighting for the city has just subsided, and the inhabitants are beginning to return to a peaceful routine. This film is about the lives of people who survived the war, about those who did not leave, but stayed to help the weak, while maintaining humanity. Chronicle of the reality of the post-war city, where there is a place for pain and laughter, and most importantly, hope.

Once in India, Zakhara from St. Petersburg could not forget about the war in Ukraine. Her desire to go to the front, even as a volunteer, does not meet with understanding either from her girlfriend, or from relatives, or from friends.

For many years, the Frankoni tent circus has been touring cities in the Rostov region. Over Rostov-on-Don, the roar of military jets flying overhead can be heard, as military trucks traveling along the regional roads. The circus functions as a single organism, where everyone involved has their own story and unique worldview, yet all of them are closely interconnected. Circus attendant Dair is on the brink of receiving a summons and is prepared to go to the front line. However, no one can predict their future.

A conversation with Vladimir Mayakovsky about the future - from this very future.

Residents of megacities rarely look at the starry sky. For ordinary people, space is a cold, lifeless, empty space; for an astronomer, it is an endlessly changing, unexplored world. Space is filled with information, and there are people who observe these events, record them, investigate them, and try to make them more tangible, turn them into music, the music of the stars.

The film, based on the script of the St. Petersburg writer Anatoly Agrafenin, is dedicated to the newspaper journalists of the besieged Leningrad. Overcoming incredible difficulties and trials, journalists and printers managed to ensure the production of newspapers in the besieged city, which were published daily, as before the war. Newspapers brought people information about the situation on the fronts, about how the fighting Leningrad lives, instilled confidence in the imminent victory over the enemy. It is no coincidence that the newspaper word in those days was equated with bread.

An attempt to expand consciousness in a voluntary trial of physical pain.

The film is inspired by the work of James Benning. Shots 10 dumps in Tyumen(Russia) in the evening.

The shaman, the priest, the driver of the "loaf" and grandmother Valya are residents of the village of Khuzhir, the only settlement on the island of Olkhon in the middle of Lake Baikal.

The prosperous village of Sinegorye fell into decline after the collapse of the USSR. However , later For 22 years, desperate locals have regained hope for a bright future and the revival of the village.

The film is about victims of pedophilia who lived with their rapists and came under their long-term influence. In Svetlana Makeeva's film, the main characters share their personal stories about the horror of violence experienced in childhood and how they cope with the psychological trauma inflicted.

Street artists from the "Shards" team paint on the walls of St. Petersburg, employees of the municipality paint over their works. Day after day, history repeats itself. Director Pavel Machikhin peers into it, fixing the actions from both sides with equal interest and forcing the viewer, instead of confrontation, to see in this process a kind of dialogue unfolding on the streets of the city.