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Actors Danila Kozlovsky, Leonid Yarmolnik, Kai Getz and Serafima Goshchanskaya, as well as director Sergey Filatov, cinematographer Bahodir Yuldashev and co-screenwriter Sergey Levitan talk about how the mysterious world of the series was invented and embodied on the screen.

New movie by Marina Maria Ovchinnikova.

What is a traditional Russian sauna like, and is it possible to build it outside of Russia? The three heroes embark on a hot adventure to prove that the Russian bath is a philosophy that can be revived far from home. Ivan Boyarintsev flies to build a sauna in a Mexican hospital on the ocean. Lena, a French Russian, opens the first sauna in Paris, despite the hellish bureaucracy and betrayal. And Sasha Baibarin creates a sauna in the desert at the Burning Man festival and gathers a queue of American fans.

A film about a journey that fulfilled the narrator's, volcanologist Ilya Bolshakov, dream of traveling. The relatively little-known Krenitsyn Peak volcano is a unique geological formation that attracts and delights tourists from all over the world.

In this play, the roles for the two were determined long before their non-accidental meeting. When love is not just a game, a miracle and a life-long fairy tale are born.

The story is about Alexander Kuzmin, who was the chief architect of Moscow from 1996 to 2012 and largely determined the current appearance of the city.

At the age of five, Sasha was lying in an orphanage with crippled arms and back, today he plays the piano and goes to university. Simba the lion cub was bought from poachers and barely survived, today it is a healthy, well-fed animal. How did Leo and the boy's nightmare turn into happiness? Who cares? And is it possible to remain human, no matter what?

The film is about people rescuing and adopting orphans from Donbass. Among the volunteers working on the front line are young people who themselves grew up in foster homes. Now, having matured and matured, they have taken up the baton of kindness in order to also help children who have lost their home and their loved ones.

Officially, there is no such profession, but there are people who have dedicated their lives to this cause. The heroes of our film are organ masters. They are of different ages, and the motives and ways of joining the profession are different. They are united by their love of music, the organ and their willingness to dedicate their lives to this cause. Because even the most modern, large and powerful organ cannot live without the attention, love and care of a small person.

The camera's lens shows the unity of the dissimilar – young people and mature men: professional military men, militiamen who have been defending their lands and the right to speak their native language for 10 years, their Fathers-commanders, volunteers, mobilized military personnel, as well as the guys from the Storm Z squad.

Monk Cyprian (Burkov) performs monastic service at the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery in Moscow. Anatoly Burkov, a Hero of the Soviet Union and a career military officer, lost both legs in Afghanistan, survived three clinical deaths, and returned to the army. This film tells the story of a man who became an example of resilience for many of his contemporaries.

The hero of the film is a 23-year-old guy who became an Olympic champion in breakdancing. The film, created in 2025, tells the story of Russian dancer Sergey Chernyshev's triumph at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, where he became the first-ever champion in breakdancing. Sergey Chernyshev, a native of Voronezh, has been practicing breakdancing since childhood, with his father serving as his coach. His father instilled in him a fighting spirit and a unique perspective on life. In high school, the guy dreamed of going to drama school and acting in movies.

A documentary about the harsh everyday life of Russian soldiers on the front line of a special military operation

Soldiers of the Russian army in Donbas watch documentaries shot on the frontline of a special military operation

The film consists of five short stories, each of which tells about projects in different regions of Russia.

Exile is not the subject of the narrative. Polynices, banished from the city, is not the protagonist but rather a figure of omission, reduced to a shadow. A shadow whose traces can be discerned only through contemplative or conceptual effort.

Every morning, five elderly women gather to weave camouflage nets. As they work, they discuss the news, share their worries, and make up unusual names for the nets.

"I arrived at the Three Stations Square, approached a group of men who looked like they were homeless, and said, 'Hi, guys!' They handed me a paper cup, and everyone took turns drinking from it. I realized that if I passed this test, I could make a film about the homeless."

A film about the incredible and eventful creative path of photographer and artist Olga Michi, as well as about the art group "GROM" that she created. Olga Michi visited the most remote corners of the world, constantly testing her strength: she lived with African tribes, looked for cities lost in the South American jungle, photographed white sharks and swam in a river teeming with crocodiles. But at some point, she felt cramped within the framework of reportage photography, she wanted not only to reflect the world around her - she wanted to create her own.

A film about the outstanding Russian architect Andrey Sumatokhin, one of the few contemporary architects working in the post-constructivism style. In addition to architecture, he developed a whole philosophy of life, which he called "Near Science". The film tells not only about the art of architecture, but also about the very concept of "Home" both material and spiritual, about building your "near space", which includes almost all elements of human life and helps a person not to lose himself in the frantic pace of modern life.

The film's hero is Sergey Kolchin, a zoologist and specialist in large predatory mammals of the Far East, who has been involved in the rehabilitation of orphaned bear cubs in various years. He returned cubs that had lost their mothers due to human error to the wild. Long months of living in the forest in the company of bear cubs allowed Sergey to learn many previously unknown facts about the Himalayan bear. The unique video material he collected formed the basis for the film "My Bears. Himalayans". This unusual animal lives in the mountain forests of South, Southeast and East Asia. The northernmost and largest of its seven subspecies, the Ussuri bear, lives in the south of the Russian Far East. Its build and ability to lead a semi-arboreal lifestyle help it survive in the same territory as the tiger and brown bear. The Himalayan bear is a poorly studied and vulnerable species, whose fate personifies the difficult fate of cedar-broadleaf forests.

A creative team of young people comes to the Soviet porcelain factory in the small town of Sysert, who, by creating a creative laboratory at the factory, try to revive its fading production and update the factory's products. But the team has a conflict with the factory workers, which leads to unexpected consequences. The project hangs up, the factory changes its owner, and a former member of the creative team becomes the new director. Will it be possible to revive the production?

"It doesn't matter where you work, the main thing is to save up for a house." Of course, there's no harm in dreaming about the great, but the heroes of the film "Low Tide" have been toiling away in the salt fields of the Indian state of Gujarat since their youth.

Summer, friends, skateboarding — sounds like a formula for happiness. “Family Portrait” captures a few warm days that contain the daily life of a family passionate about skateboarding and tattoos. Although the word “passion” is not appropriate here: they live for it. Gena Kakusha has been skating since the 90s and is now developing skate culture in Russia. His partner Anya Lunina also often gets on the board and also gets tattoos.

An essay inspired by the verses written by poets who perished in the Great Patriotic War.

A story about the history and creativity of the Russian metal band [Amatory].

Due to a record release of water from the Iriklinsky Reservoir, the provincial Russian city of Orsk found itself in a flood zone. Despite assurances from the city’s mayor, Vasily Kozupitsa, on the evening of April 5, a breach occurred in an earthen dam that had been protecting the Old Town district from the rising waters. The floodwaters rushed toward the residential sector, marking the beginning of a natural disaster that left over 6,000 homes submerged. Houses flooded up to their rooftops; the wailing of sirens and nighttime evacuations; a shortage of drinking water; looting; negligence and hypocrisy from the authorities; alongside the rescue of pets and the aid provided by volunteers—through the eyes of witnesses and those affected by the flood, the film chronicles several days in the life of a city facing nature's wrath. Who is to blame?

Experimental short about family connections.

What did a man do when he first saw a woman? He knocked out her teeth. This is a story about the thirst for love and the impossibility of intimacy, about tenderness and violence.

Kristina Yurova's short film debut was created during "ДокКино" documentary workshop in Yekaterinburg. It's a slightly disturbing picture with reasoning about death, suicide and psychiatric disorders, but there's a lot of cute and beautiful elements packed in its compact twelve-minute timing.

Rock paintings and photographs in our albums come from one source: death. But when does a memory become an image? How does memory work, and what is more real: a fact or our perception?

When we lose a loved one, each of us experiences a complex mixture of feelings and memories that must be resolved. Especially if the deceased was of great importance in our lives and had a complex character. A documentary essay about a personal attitude to the tragedy, based on the use of family chronicles and the dreams of the author.

Islamic State oil trade documents, testimonies of local civilians and captured ISIS militants: RT Documentary crew visits Syrian oil town of Shaddadi just 10 days after it was liberated from ISIS. Exclusive results of RT Doc investigation.

The heroine of the film, astronomer Natalia Gorynya, who has been watching the stars for fifty years, goes to the Caucasian Mountain Observatory, talking along the way about life, astronomy and the biggest mystery in the universe…

After a few months of of continuous stay at sea, from frequent overexertion fatigue and something else, I feel the limit of my capabilities and the capabilities of my colleagues.

A documentary about what alcohol does to us. Is there a legal alcohol limit and how do people live with addiction?

Sergeу has been traveling through 22 countries for 2 years. He met with pleasant and dangerous acquaintances, funny and tragic situations, love story, despair and joy. This is a story about finding yourself and your place, about growing up, courage, freedom and a strong unstoppable stream of life.

Documentary films have the amazing ability to present reality, even when the authors wanted to create propaganda. This was the case with “Triumph of the Will of Leni Riefenstahl”, and with less talented documentarians who filmed the Stalinist trials and the “happy life” of the Gulag. We don’t think that this film has exaggerated claims... But this film is certainly a valuable video evidence of the tragedy that came with the war in Ukraine. Below we publish the author's summary of the film:

What is childhood made of? A cliff, a river, snowfall, a grandmother, a crow on a fence, all these images, bypassing our still fragile consciousness, penetrate us and determine our future life. And the one who manages not to lose all this, but to retain and preserve it, gains a chance for immortality. And nothing less is worth living for.

A film about a village with the poetic name Svetlana, which is located two hours from St. Petersburg. It was built by volunteers more than twenty-five years ago for people with disabilities of physical and mental development, doomed to special psycho-neurological boarding schools of a closed type. Many of them, before they got to the village, could not connect even two words, they sat at home, within four walls. Svetlana avoids the words "disabled" or "sick", preferring to call such people "guys". They do not do miraculous healings and special trainings here, the diagnosis is not important here. Here the children simply create the conditions for a normal human life. Healthy and sick communicate on an equal footing, work together, put on performances and run a joint household. Disabled people do not feel sick and flawed. Everyone is equal here. The shooting of the film lasted about 13 years.

The main character of the film is Alexey Avdeev, a well–known artist in the Far East, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the author of hundreds of canvases and a participant in dozens of exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The artist now defines his main mission in life in short – to teach people to see the beautiful. According to the master, there was a time when he fussed, ran, tried to grab more.

The documentary "The Fate of Man" is about veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

During the First World War, a battalion of Russian soldiers was sent to France to assist in combat operations. To this day, the French honor the memory of Russian soldiers.

Filmmakers are reaching out to veterans to share their stories with the younger generation. The stories of what gave hope will be included in the film and thus remain imprinted for future generations.

In the darkest time for the faith, Patriarch Tikhon managed not only to resist the revolutionary government, not only to stay with the people and help those in need when the church itself was subjected to unprecedented persecution, but also to stop the split of the church. What was Patriarch Tikhon like?

Aglaya's father left the family when she was twelve. 28 years later, his daughter invites him on a trip to Georgia to learn together about the origins of their family. Everyone keeps their own audio travel diary to get to know not only their roots, but also each other.

Letnyaya Zolotitsa is a village situated along the shores of the White Sea, approximately 180 kilometers from Arkhangelsk. During winter, access to the village is limited to snowmobiles or, alternatively, by air using an old An-2 aircraft. Ilya Ikonnikov, the head of the Letnyaya Zolotitsa landing site, assumes multiple roles, serving as an air traffic controller, airfield watchman, cashier, loader, and stoker—all in one. He travels to the village from his hometown of Onega as part of his duty. Ikonnikov, a former journalist and poet, finds less recognition and congratulations in his aviation work than the personalized epitaphs he crafts. However, he considers the "An-2 service" a calling passed down from his grandfather and father.

Dr. Sergey Pyzhyanov, a doctor of biological sciences and professor, has dedicated his entire life to studying birds on Lake Baikal. During the summer, you won't find the professor at home – he heads to the islands to do the routine work of an ornithologist, which includes counting nests, birds, and collecting materials for laboratory analysis. The professor looks hopefully to the future, aiming to continue his work with both birds and students.

Makar Kurilov is one of the Yukaghir people, the ancient inhabitants of northeastern Siberia. After working as a reindeer herder in a state farm for thirty years, Makar decides to drastically change his destiny -– he becomes the leader of an ethnic group, teaching traditional dances and singing to the children.

After the death of their father, the sisters are trying to save their apiary, but it is not easy for them to abandon the constant memories of the creator of the family business – their recently deceased father.

A film about life at the intersection of scientific, spiritual and everyday life. Like a drop of water, this film seeks to collect and convey the meanings that everyone finds for himself, in his heart, in his sincere quest and in his exceptional experience.

The film is dedicated to a Russian peasant woman-artist Lyubov Mikhailovna Maikova. At the age of 79, Lyubov Mikhailovna began to paint with watercolors, and soon painted with paints. She created more than 150 paintings.