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Circulation of passers-by and cars in the paved street on the occasion of the Tsar's coronation.

About 30 ethnic groups live in the Republic of Dagestan, each with its own language and customs. The prevalence of the Muslim way of life is a distinctive feature of this republic. The number of men taking second and third wives has increased. However, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a man can only be married to one wife. So, being both a law-abiding citizen and a model Muslim is not yet possible.

Artem loves Yulia, Yulia loves Artem. They recently graduated from school, moved to Moscow and began an independent life. In search of part-time jobs, Artem comes up with the idea of creating another image from Yulia - Eva Elfie - and making an amateur video for Pornhub. Suddenly, the video becomes popular, Eva gets more and more job offers, and Artem becomes the boyfriend and producer of a world celebrity. The heroes seem to fall into the "American dream", but in their personal lives there are more and more problems and doubts.

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.

A story about the Zenit football club and its century-long history: interviews with veterans and current players, former and current managers, cult fans, historians, musicians, theater and film actors, and many others.

For several years, scientists studying images of our planet from space have been talking about an unusual phenomenon that periodically appears on the surface of the deepest lake in the world, at Baikal. Every year, when the lake is covered with ice, huge concentric circles of regular shape appear on it. They are not visible from the earth, but from space these huge geometric figures are clearly visible.

After the resounding success of the song "Lyubimka," the NILETTO group found love and a large fan audience. But is it so fun and easy to live at the "high speed" of popularity? When creativity becomes a routine, our heroes go on a trip to their native places for inspiration. Along the way, performing small concerts in places associated with his youth.

On October 25, 1917, construction of a new world began in Russia. One of the foremost workers in this construction was the writer Andrei Platonov. But a bright and fair future, his art and literature were seen by everyone in different ways. Its truth became impossible, and the new world was not built in the way it was conceived. Demanding millions of lives for its existence, a brighter future took the life of the writer’s son, who was arrested at the age of fifteen, and then Andrei Platonov himself. The story of the creation and death of the new world in seven days.

Enthusiasts from Russia take on the challenge of restoring one of the most famous British football clubs, which has fallen into decline. Their journey is marked by cultural differences, organizational hurdles, and skepticism from those around them. Gradually, a personal initiative transforms into something greater — an attempt to prove that a love for the game can transcend borders and bring together people with vastly different perspectives.

Women of different nationalities live in central Dagestan: Avars, Kubachinks, Lachki, Godoberinki, Didoiks. In 1994, obstetrician-gynecologist Aishat Magomedova opened a charity hospital for them in the center of Makhachkala. She was worried about the situation of mountain women in the villages of Dagestan, where there are no roads, gas, and water. According to local traditions, all the physical labor in the family household falls on the woman: caring for the livestock, in central Dagestan women of different nationalities live: Avars, Kubachinks, Lachki, Godoberinki, Didoiks. In 1994, obstetrician-gynecologist Aishat Magomedova opened a charity hospital for them in the center of Makhachkala. She was worried about the situation of mountain women in the villages of Dagestan, where there are no roads, gas, and water....

Unbelievable but True, World's Largest Group of Natures Living Wonders.

A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.

Inna Makarova entered the history of cinema with her very first leading role – the brave underground worker Lyubka Shevtsova from the Young Guard. The film became the leader of the Soviet film distribution in 1948, and at the age of 22, Makarova received the Stalin Prize of the first degree. However, the actress had to wait almost ten years for the next big role: only in 1956, director Alexander Zarkhi approved Makarova for the role of Katya Petrashen in his film "Height" without trial.

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary bulletins,” which were published daily online, allowed for wide-ranging content; in the feature film version, however, the filmmakers focused solely on the members of various opposition groups. Nevertheless, the work’s neutral position remains and viewers have to interpret the objectively presented situations for themselves. The main characteristics of this strongly authentic movie include close contact with the protagonists, precise editing, and an effectively controlled release of information.

He is, as they say, "typecast" – kind, honest, noble and strong-willed. The role of the captain in the film "Ivanov's Childhood" became the peak of actor Valentin Zubkov's career, and the footage of Kholin walking in a grove with a beautiful nurse Masha and a kiss shot from a trench when the girl hovered in his arms over a pit entered the treasury of world cinema...

A recap of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. A look back at Sweden's path to a surprising quarter-final and France's journey to World Cup gold.

Two young teachers in search of happiness decide to change their lives dramatically. One runs away from a working village to a metropolis, the other, on the contrary, seeks solitude and leaves the noisy capital for a village. The girls have only three months of summer vacation to make a decision and take a decisive step. Will they go against their family, friends, their fears? Will they become happy?

The film is about the Vietnamese branch of the Wing Chun martial arts style.

The first feature film about KVN. A unique project filmed at the KVN festival in Sochi without the permission of the festival organizers. The history of this path to the heights of the youth game itself.

A documentary film-portrait about a former literature teacher from Tulskaya oblast, Russia who has now become a famous porn actress and video blogger Eva Berger, her way into porn industry and the price she pays for her choice.

Dramatic view of an oil well fire in Baku.

The story of pop singer ANNA ASTI.

A documentary about the phenomenon of the Brother duology and its place in the country's cultural code. Directors Anna and Grigory Selyanov explore Balabanov's legacy, rare archives, and routes from Moscow to New York to understand how these films united several generations of Russians.

An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”, later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns and hotel beds, protest rallies and office routine, train compartments and courtrooms, night walks and police vans – you have never seen any politician so close. This is a story how a journalist assignment turns into a genuine friendship.

The documentary series "Born in the USSR" is a unique chronology which began in 1989 and has continued for more than 30 years. The authors follow 20 children from different Republics of the former Soviet Union revisiting their life stories every seven years. The new film focuses on the age of 35 years, the time of adulthood and re-evaluation when a man finds himself at the "midpoint" of his life. This is a series about the coming of age of a generation, the search for oneself, about the human being undergoing changes in the changing world.

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August 2 of the same year, a demonstration of Alexander Michon's program took place, which included the film "Fire at an oil fountain in Bibiheybat".

Every year, approximately 48,000 children end up in orphanages. Some find families, others remain in the orphanage until they reach adulthood, and only then set out on their own. But how can you become independent in the adult world without an adult? How do you manage your daily life if you don't know one? How do you find work and save money? And what about finding friends and love? Psychologists, foundation leaders, and the children themselves will discuss the subtle difficulties, stereotypes, and adaptation outside of orphanages. This film is an inside look at the problem of orphanhood in Russia—the perspective of people who are tackling it right now.

100 years of Russian jazz history in one groundbrea­king documentary movie.

Alexey Trantsev and Alexey Mutin lost their arms as a result of electrical injury. Years later, they have mastered bionic prostheses and currently handle the everyday tasks well. The only thing that is sorely lacking is the ability to feel with their hands - to feel warmth, cold, water, or to sense the beloved girl by touch. To address this need, scientists are developing a sensing system for prosthetic hands. Will they be able to create artificial sensations and what is behind the scientific discoveries?

The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov.

This film is not about the concert. It’s about how it’s made. The artists, the choir, the orchestra, the sound, the light, the movement. Almost everything that happens behind the scenes of the laboratory. Our documentary film about LAB — for you.

Music, dance and art are not just components of human existence. It's something that can keep you alive when there's nothing else left. We know examples when only the strength of the spirit, backed by hope, helped people to survive in the most difficult conditions and resist cold, hunger and death itself.

Two salt harvesters in India struggle to break a cycle of poverty as their dreams clash.

Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb, someone as an outstanding public figure and human rights activist. All his life Andrei Sakharov lived between two fires - science and humanism - and this dualism formed the basis of the film. The picture will show the scientist as he saw himself, through his dialogues with the Conscience.

Maxim "Cruel Addict" Doshi, is desperately trying to break through to fame, by all mental and non-mental ways. But things don't go according to plan when public opinion gets in the way.

Alexey is shooting a movie about himself. He is in search of a boyfriend. Everything would be alright, if Alexey's mother could accept his sexuality. Alexey comes to visit her and admits that he likes boys, saying 'Don't you anticipate any grandchildren from me'. We find Alexey at Tarkovsky film festival, where he apparently came to rest. Alexey meets Grisha, and a stormy holiday romance begins.

Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn't he stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

About the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Hermogenes, the hero of the Time of Troubles, who inspired the militia of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky.

Don't Call Him Dimon is a 2017 Russian documentary film about the corrupt affairs of Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. According to the film, Dmitry Medvedev has stolen property estimated to be worth about $1.2 billion.

In 1993, Nikita Mikhalkov made a feature film “Remembering Chekhov”. After the footage was edited, he realized that the film went wrong. thus he made a difficult decision – not to show it to a wide audience. almost 30 years later, in his documentary “the film that went wrong”, the director tries to understand and analyze the reason for that failure. for the first time he will also show scenes from “remembering chekhov” to the audience.

The story of the short but brilliant life of Ergasha Khamraeva, actor and playwright of the Soviet cinema who laid the foundations of the new art in Uzbekistan. The film is dedicated to those who fell during the Great Patriotic War.

Summer 1991. The last days of the Soviet Empire. Dark clouds gathered over Moscow as the Soviet government prepared to turn back the clock of history. While the world focused on the crashing Soviet Empire, this film focuses on the people who would've been among the first to suffer repression - the women and men who have broken sexual taboos in a consummate act of liberation against a rigid, crippled world. This is a view from their vantage point, unveiling the shadow-side of Soviet culture in the wake of the revolution, where the real provocative nudity is the nakedness of the soul.

In the Siberian village of Yartsevo, there's a boarding school. Every autumn, about thirty children of Old Believers from various villages come here to study. From a familiar world with a set of strict rules, the teenagers find themselves in an environment full of temptations. Studying away from home often becomes a challenge for them. Helping them cope is provided by the nannies who work at the Yartsevo boarding school. They temporarily act as the children's parents.

On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.

The main protagonists of this slow-paced film are abandoned or suspended spaces associated with the production, distribution, and viewing of cinema in various localities across North Ossetia. The discussion of the decline of the film industry also serves as a way of pointing to the ambiguous position in which the progressive modernist project found itself in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Ignatov proposes poetic ways of establishing new relations with this project in response to the need to reinvent the links between past and future. The abandoned spaces are brought to life by two visiting musicians playing the uadynz, traditional Ossetian flutes.

The question is, whether Katya Golubeva, an icon of the European underground cinema, determined her fate with the parts she played, or the fate of her characters affected her own fate?

Fifty scenes form a dialogue between two cities — New York and Moscow.

why cannes is a gulag, zvyagintsev is an electron, and anton dolin listens to bach on the croisette promenade

From Istanbul, feminist Anastasia Polozkova probes Russia's post-2022 assault on reproductive rights. In calls with activists, doctors and researchers in Russia/exile, Turkish and Kurdish feminists, she asks: ban in law, or in practice?

The new film about Sergei Bondarchuk is not a traditional description of the life of a famous director and not a biopic timed to coincide with a round date. The creators of the film focus on a unique period in the history of world cinema - the post-war "thaw" euphoria and the time of great hopes, the key character of which was the author of "War and Peace". What was this man and cinematographer who shot both chamber dramas and megalomaniac battle projects? And how did he, the winner of many USSR awards, manage to become a figure of world significance and a link between the two superpowers during the Cold War era?

In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.

Masha dreams of becoming an actress and takes part in the new production of the inclusive project “Interaction”. But the fear of the stage, because of which it falls into a stupor, jeopardizes the first international tour of the troupe.

Many many words have been written and a few ingenious TV documentaries have been filmed about the great Russian rock band Auktyon, which recently celebrated 30 years of playing music. Everything is completely different in the case of the film Encore: it took seven years for the director, Dmitry Lavrinenko, to make it; he needed just that amount of time to capture the wayward grace still preserved by Fyodorov, Garkusha, Ozersky and their associates. If you look behind the powerful music facade, you find not a story of a band but chronicles of a voyage aimed at incredible, incomparable music. Encore shows how the songs which are now known by heart were composed; it also shows things generally left aside: pieces of everyday life, tour diaries, conversations, including the key phrase: "You should not look at the liberty too much, you might feel dizzy.