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This is an unthinkable story about mercy. About Elizabeth Glinka and her followers. About the humanitarian mission of the charity organization “Doctor Lisa's Fair Help" in the Donbas. About the readiness to rush to the rescue at any time of the day or night, to any point of the earth. Despite the war, despite the closed borders. This is a movie about the fact that there are no other people's children. That every child's life is priceless. About how important it is to help, protect, protect everyone who needs, here and now.

Anna is 31 years old. She lives with her mother, goes to a psychotherapist, meets men from Tinder and dreams of great and bright love. But she is very unlucky in this.

This is the story of a Russian family who in September 2020, after several months of quarantine and online training, sold their only house in Oslo, closed their mortgage and rented a yacht for a year to go on a trip with their three sons (9, 7 and 5 years old). In the middle of their 10-month regatta in Lisbon, they were experiencing a tipping point - to move on or stop. This story is about how to stop being afraid and start living your life, and not the life of your children, how to escape from a pandemic, lockdowns and restrictions. And how to re-learn to enjoy the little things, like water in the shower or the absence of mold on the ceiling.

Three stories – shaman girls, a veteran of the Moscow BDSM club and a young actor with mental development peculiarities. About different types of human relationships with his body, mind, memory, feelings... Ancient cultures knew about this non-identity of a person to his body. Modern people seem to have forgotten about this, but the fundamental human desire to be free from the limitations of the material world has not disappeared anywhere.…

How a man lived and worked, to whose songs the whole country lived. What was his inspiration and for whom he wrote the music that sounded in the receiver of every Soviet person.

"Dragons are not boats, Dragons are people." Against the background of sailing races in the Dragon class, real life stories of specific participants-heroes unfold. Each of them is unique in its own way, but their lines are based on a common idea – in order to contribute to the restoration of the Dragon class and all sailing, the hero is forced to sacrifice something personal (money, time, relationships). Only by making a sacrifice can you do a really meaningful thing.

Each nameless person has to get their name. There’s no place where you can get such an acute feeling of the world and life as in a small neglected town on the edge of the earth. We collect intimate and genuine stories of the nameless people living between the wild northern taiga and an old Gulag prison, which still casts its grim shade on their joys and griefs.

A political prisoner convicted for terrorism at the age of 17 gets out of jail after a decade of hard labour and tries to catch on to being free in today’s Russia.

The cassette with the materials of which the film was edited, was found in the archive of film documents. Judging by the nature of filming, it has been recorded by a cameraman in the 90-s for the documentary plot or story. Or probably it's just a video diary about a vacation, taken with professional skill. But in the end, it turned out that 20 years later the found panoramas of sea and mountain landscapes of Crimea inspired the director and the composer for the creation of video pieces for flute with the participation of one artist.

Galya works as a seamstress in an atelier near Chekhov. She works 11 hours a day, cooks, washes, provides a drunken husband. In general, somehow copes. But then her son is taken into the army and Gali's life begins to crumble.

On January 15, 2000, one of Serbia's most famous and controversial political figures was assassinated at the Intercontinental Hotel in Belgrade. His name was Zeljko Rajnatovich. He made a huge contribution to the history of the country, including sports, by lifting the Obilic football club from the bottom and making it the champion of Yugoslavia in 1998. Who needed this murder and why?

As a result of the investigation, at least 32 contractual games were found. 15 teams from Russia took part in these friendly matches. More often, Krasnodar football club participated in such games. He has six matches on his account," said Kostin Stukan from the European Bureau of Investigation. Alexey Smolyaninov has made a documentary based on the leaks of the Football Leaks website, which reveals details of an unprecedented scandal with match-fixing in football.

A huge number of migrants from Central Asia work in Moscow, including those who find time to play football. A special tournament "KG-League" was created for them. At first, he sought to unite the citizens of Kyrgyzstan, but now it has become truly international. Six heroes, five nations and one championship. Football Underground tells the story of the city's most unusual football tournament in the new documentary, Migrants' League.

Alex performs and interacts with Russians on a concert tour from Moscow to the Black Sea resort areas, and for a finale, performs at the Russian "50th Anniversary of Woodstock" Concert.

Macha Ovtchinnikova, author of the film, follows the tracks of her great-great-aunt in Kyiv while her mother tells the story of the aunt’s death, revealing a dramatic episode of the Holocaust: “In my great-great-mother’s home, a little black-and-white picture represented deserted hill covered with dry grass. A little black cross traced on the photograph indicated the approximate place where her sister Esfir was buried with her family. Before the war, Esfir had a happy family, a husband, and three children. They lived in a Jewish neighborhood of Kyiv, close to the Babi Yar ravine.

Ahmed Alsan Amir, formerly Roland Yemanov. The incredible fate of this man is striking in its drama: this is a real story about a man who has two names, two Motherlands, and to whom fate, one might say, gave a second chance. A Russian boy, a pupil of a Leningrad orphanage, turns out to be a descendant of the most ancient family of Maldivian kings.

Sashka lives in Kostroma, in a dormitory. He doesn’t have a permanent job, but he has alcohol and drug addiction instead. He is 30 years old, and he is completely lost. He tried to enter the monastery, but returned for a new romantic interest. A year later, Sashka's life is different. He now lives in another city with that girl and her son, together they had a daughter. He has a flat mortgaged, he works as a baker and from time to time goes to Kostroma to make some extra money. Life has changed. Has Sashka changed?

Pavel is an entrepreneur from the countryside. He fells dangerous trees in the cemetery, cleans roofs from snow, breeds Hungarian pigs, and studies dialectical materialism. On New Year's Eve, a bride comes to visit him.

The life of Mikhail Sarin is not easy. As always, there is not enough money. His grandson Timur's mom goes on two-week drinking sprees. To somehow survive Misha collects metal at local dumps. At the same time, he, as an inexhaustible sourse of energy, charges everyone around with his optimism.

Under the forced isolation in 2020, Dina Karaman began to keep a video diary, filming from the window of her apartment in St. Petersburg. The deserted urban landscape opening up to the eyes, which seemed to her an eerie dream, pushed Dina to find out what other people dream about while going through the lockdown. Recordings of people recounting their dreams and audio notes contributed by strangers are woven in this piece into a motley web of fears, memories, and hopes.

Data Field is the first in the trilogy of film essays focussing on Soviet and post-Soviet media technologies acting as media mythologies. The rituals, artefacts, and visuals of Soviet modernity, mapped onto a family history, become entry points into the role of technology in the constructions of the future.

A video essay about the relationship between literature, politics and art in contemporary Russia. It focuses on the book Mister Hexogen written by Alexander Prokhanov.

A look at a psychiatric clinic through the eyes of the artist Alexey Stakhanov, who has been living in a neuropsychiatric boarding school for a long time.

A film about the natural energy of a person, about the beauty and benefits of sports, a film about synchronization with music, about common sense, about overcoming all barriers on the way to your dream, about daily training of your body and spirit, about willpower, about strengthening your immunity, about developing and improving your skills, about daily improvement, about controlling your thoughts, a film about a clear view of humanity, a film about the value of what surrounds you, a film about a free lifestyle, about a good mood, about a clearer understanding of your aspirations and goals, a film about the source of your inspiration.

What is a minority dictatorship? The conspirators' public confessions that they do not need elections, but protests, and that which was hidden until the operatives got down to business - in the film "The Overwhelming Minority".

The group of conspirators, which was preparing a military coup in Belarus, was associated with the American special services, and in order to achieve their goal, they were looking for ways out to high-ranking officers of the Belarusian army. Investigation of the State Security Committee - in the film "To Kill the President".

Every year in our country, 17 million tons of usable products end up in a landfill. Part of the problem can be solved by foodsharing-saving food written off from restaurants and stores and distributing it to those in need. Every week, Ekaterina prepares food from the saved products for distribution from the Night Bus of the charity organization "Nochlezhka", young people from the TRIGLINKI community pick up products from vegetable bases and production facilities and deliver them to lonely old people. This film is about them and other food-sharing activists, their successes, problems, and dreams.

Artist Alexander Chursin creates portraits of rappers of the caliber of Notorious B.I.G. and Earl Sweatshirt in the spirit of paintings by old masters, giving the stars of hip-hop images of icons. Observations of his work and Chursin's arguments about the Renaissance, the relevance of painting and the spirit of the 90s-in the film, which was shot for almost a year against the backdrop of post-apocalyptic landscapes of Eastern Europe.

We see a tree in the place where nothing can ever grow, combined with the sound that I recorded near a power plant under electricity lines, where you can never meet anyone, but you can hear voices of predators that are supposed to scare away birds.

An idiosyncratic personal reflection on a mythical image of masculinity in cinema and the clash between cinematic representation and real life. Endlessly repeated shots of aeroplanes and paratroopers taken from Alexander Dovzhenko’s film Aerograd (1935) and an absurd anthem to mythical masculine powers are confronted by home video footage with a much less heroic intonation.

Having received an injury to the cervical spine, a person does not just get into a wheelchair, he loses the mobility of his hands and even simple actions, like eating, become a real test. Can a person in this position become a deputy of the State Duma? Or get into the Russian national team? Hitchhiking? Skydiving? Plunge into the ice hole on the feast of the Epiphany? It turns out that in the world of limited opportunities there are a lot of absolutely healthy people, but not the guys from the Russian Paralympic team in wheelchair rugby.

Dima is a person from the future, who does not find it easy to live in the present.

Video interview about the life of Moscow, about its morning awakening.

A dramatic story about a young film director who is faced with a choice - to live on or die

This is a mockumentary about people who, for various reasons, have become holograms... So, scientists have launched an experiment - a person has the opportunity to abandon the existence in the body, to become digital by translating into a hologram. It is impossible to return back to the body. A holographic person still has memory, consciousness, sight, hearing, and the ability to speak. Ordinary people see holograms without special devices and can come into contact with them... A new technology that changes the existence of man. Evolution or another form of escape? This is what some of those who have already become a hologram are trying to understand.

For 15 years, Natalia has been working in the city of Kimry, Tver region, in a workshop where she paints portraits of people on tombstones. Different people come to her. Someone orders portraits for the loved ones of the deceased, and someone-for themselves for the future...

Musical film by actor Sergei Paranyushkin. One person in the frame. A loner in black jeans and a hat. Our contemporary. A man of the beginning of the 21st century. Pausing in his run to talk to himself. And with each of us. About the main thing. About the transience of the passage of time. About the disease of the century-the consumption of everything and everything, near and far. About the loneliness that burns us. About the people who make us who we are. About music as a divine gift. A salutary, timely word to a contemporary who drinks and drinks the cup of poison of the philosophy of infinite pleasure.

The Rostov producer decides to make a real hip-hop star out of a street kid. Most recently, the producer himself got out of the "ghetto", realizing the American dream-overnight he received fame, money, and a beautiful life. Having met a young bad-ass mulatto rapper, the producer decides to repeat his feat, but already playing the role of an influential patron and mentor.

Dima Voron and his rapper friends live in Nijni Taguil, Russia. At 23 years old Dima has been working at the factory for 7 years. He composes a light and melodious rap, he is talented, just like his friends. For a long time they thought of a way to success. But the city and the mechanics of the factory create a counterpoint to their hope. It is only through their music that they can express their feelings and dreams.

In the forest of Karelia, local pensioners, who have been dubbed "Sun partisans", have been living in tents for several months, replacing each other. These people do not allow you to cut down the forest in which they have been collecting mushrooms and berries for decades. For some time now, the entire life of the "Sunsk partisans" has been spent in the forest, where a real headquarters has developed - here journalists come to them, here they are waiting for news from the court... And on February 8, representatives of the HRC arrived in Sunsky Bor.

The film is a monologue by Masha Rolnikaite (1927-2016), the author of the famous diary book "I Must Tell", who survived the nightmares of the ghettos and death camps in her youth.

In the north of Russia, far beyond the Arctic Circle, on the shore of the White Sea, on the Kanin Peninsula, there is an amazing settlement. The houses in it, almost to the roofs, are covered with sand, and the streets are somewhere deep under the sand dunes. From a distance, this village can be mistaken for an abandoned one. But people live there. The film tells the story of the dramatic transformation of Shoina-a thriving fishing village-into a dying village, almost completely buried in the sand.

The portrait of contemporary Ukraine

We will hear the echoes of the hot August 2020 for a long time. The first-person stories of the security forces who took part in containing the protests and exclusive episodes of operational filming were collected by the ATN team in the documentary "Confrontation".

Documentary animation "It's just space..." is a story about scientists who explore the mysterious processes of space, with the help of a huge field full of antennas, which are located in the Kharkiv region. The discoveries that scientists make may be needed only after decades, but understanding the laws by which nature exists will help create technologies for everyday life.

Vyugina's film tells about the Estonian artist Julo Sooster, who was not recognized as his own either in Estonia or in Russia, where he ended up by the will of circumstances.

The life of Kemerovo photographer and cameraman Konstantin Nagovitsyn is intertwined with key events in the region. Over the 8 years of filming the film, Kostya, a former military cameraman, collaborates with search and rescue services, witnesses a terrible fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, moves to a new apartment and sends his son to the army. The ordinary life of one unusual Siberian.

The report “I am Irina” is dedicated to a woman who in an instant lost her sight and hearing. After that, a period of deep depression, despair and unwillingness to live began in her life. One day she meets a man who opened the world of theatrical art for her, which gave Irina a second chance.

In Yekaterinburg, non–professional retired artists play in the social theater "New Start". Thanks to the ideological inspirer and director Vlad Sakhnov, these people discovered their creative possibilities and forever became infected with the love of the theater.

The "Mountain Peaks" camp, which is closed to outsiders, is the highest training base for MMA fighters. It is located in the Tsumadinsky region - the birthplace of Khabib Nurmagomedov - at an altitude of 2 thousand meters above sea level. The most elite successful and promising young fighters of Russia train on it.

News about new flayers and crippled animals in Russia occurs with enviable regularity. In January 2020, amendments to Federal Law No. 498 "On Responsible Treatment of Animals" came into force, which provide for tougher punishment for cruelty to animals and irresponsible attitude towards them, but the laws remain only on paper.

An elderly man, completely blind, lives in an abandoned village lost among the forests of the Arkhangelsk region. Despite all the misfortunes, he continues to believe in good and does not lose his heart.

Dasha decided to fulfill the most cherished dream in her life – to visit St. Petersburg… Perm Director Kapitolina Dolgikh presents a picture about a girl whose fate United thousands of people.

We are all dependent on something. Addiction to communication and loneliness, sex and abstinence, food and sports, drugs and religion. But sometimes we are afraid to admit to ourselves and others in our phobias, fears and complexes. It is necessary to confess, because this is the only way to get rid of addiction. This strange year bared our fears, made us more vulnerable, we had a lot of time for ourselves, we became more honest. Let's try to talk about why and what we depend on. And how can we help each other become stronger and cope with everything. Addiction is not licentiousness, not permissiveness, but a disease of loneliness, which is almost impossible to overcome alone with yourself.

The film tells about the architect Tsogik Arabian and the fate of the house she built.