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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

How the internet affects each of us. Cybersecurity experts, psychologists, and priests discuss the dangers of immersion in virtual reality and how internet addiction is ruining lives.

Plata: The Price of Risk — a documentary about how former Tinkoff Bank executives built a new bank in Mexico from the ground up. Oleg Tinkov, along with managers, developers, and product people from Russia — people who could have stayed home and lived comfortably. Instead, they left and bet everything on an impossible idea. How it turned out — watch the film.

A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural landscape unfolds, where Pushkin meets Godard, Sokurov, Dionysius, Eisenstein, Snyders, Glass, Ozu, and many others. Kleiman reveals the simplicity of mystery, and in doing so, reveals himself.

Valeria Guy Germanica's documentary "Emelianenko", dedicated to MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko.

What happens when the boundaries between the observer and the subject are obliterated? When love appears not as a polished image, but in the guise of a homeless, drunk, and wounded person whom the world has turned its back on? This is a story about love that refuses to acknowledge the "social gutter". It is about equality that cannot be imposed, but can be experienced. In this film, reality rewrites the script. What was intended as a documentary about volunteers helping the homeless suddenly transforms into a chronicle of an impossible love affair. The film producer falls in love with the protagonist – a homeless man named Edik. The camera captures not only the social drama but an inner revolution which comes at a price. The struggle with addiction, rejection, the lure of the streets, and the fear of being authentic. Yet, against all odds, in this struggle we discern a radical act of recognizing humanity in someone who is usually overlooked.

Darya Khrenova — a documentalist and the granddaughter of Ilya Trauberg, a successful apprentice of the great Sergey Eisenstein — is trying to solve the mystery of her grandfather’s death at DEFA studio, which he headed after WWII. During the process of the investigation she finds her family, gains more confidence, and takes up a challenge from her grandfather by directing feature films.

This summer, a camp opens in a Yaroslavl village at an Orthodox community, where teenagers and families with special needs children live together for several weeks. Everyday life here includes prayers and services, chores and saunas, hikes and campfire songs. Teenagers take a break from their devices and learn to care for others, special needs children experience socializing outside the family, and their mothers are able to share the burden of care for the first time in their lives. Shared work and simple forms of happiness form a shared life, erasing the boundaries between "strong" and "weak," between those who help and those in need. All that remains is life: challenging, but full of love.

The story of Pasha Tekhnik—from a prominent figure in the domestic rap underground to a meme-like figure who was never able to overcome his weaknesses.

"Bulgakov. The Secret of the Master" examines a mystical connection that proves to be stronger than the author's original vision. The film shows how the immortal novel stopped being an author's text and began to dictate its will to the creator, interfering with his love, relationship with the authorities, and even bringing his fateful end closer. The viewer will see how fiction inexplicably turned into reality, and how the book's prophecies materialized in Bulgakov's own life, prompting the question: who really held the pen – the man or his immortal creation?

a playful portrait of a local actress who researches an unusual role and a filmmaker that is caught in the metaphorical limb between Siberia and Southern Indiana.

The Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theatre troupe is rehearsing William Gibson's play "The Miracle Worker." In search of authenticity, the actors find themselves behind the scenes of blindness and deafness. They enter the real world of a boy named Petya, his mother, and his teacher. Episodes from the play about the education of a deaf-blind child unexpectedly echo real life, but reality is always more complex and profound than fiction.

After the team missed out on the championship in the last round of the 2023/24 season, Krasnodar is once again going for the first victory in its history, and the camera captures everything that usually remains behind the scenes: coach changes, despair in the locker room, internal tension and personal trials.

A story about fathers with many children who leave a peaceful life and volunteer for their homeland. A surgeon, a builder, a videographer and an entrepreneur become defenders of the motherland and mentors for their children.

The history of the Aniva biological station, when it was just being assembled from people, ideas, tents, drawings, and other things.

A docudrama, timed to coincide with the centenary of Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin", attempts to answer various questions regarding the phenomenon of this celebrated film.

The film featuring Alexander Prohanov, the Russian writer and publicist, is built around the metaphor of a counterattack. The writer uses this metaphor to identify both Russian current geopolitical strategy and the deep metaphysical meaning, the mystical code of the Russian historical algorithm. A counterattack is always a response to an enemy attack, always a defense of one's own territory, culture, faith, and way of life. Russian history is always a counterattack. He who comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword.

Lesha Stolyarov's contemporary art includes bitumen paintings, pictures made of gas burners, abstract art, in short, everything that is incomprehensible to the layman. Recently, Lesha has been going through a creative crisis; he wants to speak about God, but using the artistic means that are unfamiliar to hm. So he decides to make an experiment and travels to the Spaso-Sumorin Monastery in distant Totma to set up an installation amidst the Vologda snows. Only one monk lives in this monastery – Father Feodosiy. Forty years ago, he was a painter but abandoned his craft to serve God. One would think he should be sympathetic to art. However, the ultra-modern artist clashes with an equally "ultra" counterpart – only an orthodox one. Is it possible to reconcile contemporary art and the church, new trends and two-thousand-year-old traditions?

About the storytellers of heroic epics, bylinas, fairy tales and other works of oral folklore.

The story of Nikolai Ptukhin through the prism of knowledge of ancient philosophy, struggle with the inner menagerie and communication with his friend, linguist Alexei.

What do children with special needs dream of? Simply of being ordinary: running, playing and making friends. This documentary series follows children living in a world where every new day is a struggle for life, for the chance to dream, and believe in miracles. Their lives are stories of incredible fortitude, courage, and inspiration. Every step forward for them is a victory won with the support of their family and the kind people around them. The film follows four children with rare hereditary conditions from the initial shock and sleepless nights to a normal, fulfilling life which has been made a reality thanks to the support of the Krug Dobra Foundation.

A film about the life of film director Vitaly Melnikov. The son of an "enemy of the people," a student of Yutkevich and Eisenstein, and a witness to Stalin's "personality cult" and its debunking, Melnikov created such celebrated films as "The Chief of Chukotka," "Mama Got Married," "The Eldest Son," "Vacation in September," "Marry the Captain," and "Poor, Poor Pavel." This documentary about Vitaly Melnikov is the director's personal story and the history of our country, inseparable from each other.

Collecting as an act of love and a way to tame time.

A behind-the-scenes look at the show of the Collectible Pieces collection by Ural fashion house Ushatava at the Garage Museum.

Touching the past through the pre-revolutionary archive of my great-grandmother, a contemporary of the 20th century. My hands grope into the dark, viscous depths of time. The abyss resonates, and a foreign present resounds within me. Our voices merge, and a song emerges from oblivion.

What does an actor leave behind? That is the question that Alla Demidova asks herself, the audience, the eternity. She went and lived through the tragedies by Shakespeare, Electra, Phaedra, Medea. Where can one go henceforth? If only become a phantom, an image, something eternal, an enduring reflection of this world in the mirror. This film is a journey away from our reality to an imaginary universe, to reflections, images, phantoms. It starts with an exposition devoted to Alla Demidova at the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music Art. But it does not only document the space; thanks to Demidova's speech it turns into a retrospective of her work, the parts she played, an explication of her approach to acting.

The film examines the blurred line between the event and its subsequent interpretations, turning personal memories into a site of uncertainty.

An inspiring and sometimes sad story about the saving power of skateboarding.

The film crew of the TV program “Earth and Sky” arrives in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz, home to an astrophysical observatory, to prepare a report on a scientific conference. Their work is complicated by conflicts within the team, the host’s inexperience, and the fact that the events unexpectedly take on personal significance for him, shifting the focus of the shoot.

A documentary about a women's youth team from Dagestan, whose members find themselves and friends in the world of football.

Vyksa is a Celebration: A documentary about how an art festival transforms a small town and its residents.

A film-journey through fleeting and tender dreams, shot with a “loving” video camera.

A story about a person who stands alone against the system, strange neighbors, and the growing chaos around them. Frightening things happen nearby, yet life goes on: him still go out to feed the stray cats and leave notes on the walls, trying somehow to reach the people around them. This is St. Petersburg without embellishment - cold, bleak, and full of tension. A city where, among ice and dark courtyards, one stubborn character keeps holding on and refuses to back down.

In this film, I examine VHS archives shot in 1996 by my mother and her friend. They were studying with Boris Yukhananov and experimenting extensively with the camera, exploring its tactile properties as an extension of their gaze and body.

*Zoo* is a film about what happens when a person takes responsibility for another living being. It is about the people who choose this work—once—and stay forever. About animals that fell victim to inhumane treatment but were saved within the zoo. And about how the world increasingly needs places like this—places where every life is priceless.

Soldiers and commanders of the Anvar Special Forces Unit are advancing at the Kursk front. Together with their comrades-in-arms they are pushing the enemy back to Russia's borders. The unit’s commanders with the call signs Beret and Balu carry out their assigned missions with equanimity, despite the fact that at one point this conflict became a personal matter for them. And there is not a shadow of doubt that a Russian warrior neither seeks revenge nor loots. He saves people, his country, and normal life itself.

Putorana is a plateau of waterfalls and rock walls. Here, man is not a hero, but a witness. Silence lies not in the absence of sounds, but in their proportionality. Dissolving into presence, you can forget why you came.

A small postcard — a route compiled from fragments of memory from an album brought from India and bought at a flea market. These photographs were taken by a Soviet architect who built an ancient, anonymous city where every flower is still sacred.

An adventure film about a group of friends who drank wine, made films, and recorded music at a dacha in the Moscow region.

Film about one of Russia's most unusual indie bands, Dagestani jazz band "No, you're kidding".

The story of Alena Lozovskaya, founder of the footwear and clothing brand Razumno.

A place of power for informals: chronicles of youth parties in Kitay-gorod.

Living legends of sailing and surfing cannot imagine themselves without the sea, and they explore the ocean and the limits of their own capabilities through sailing, surfing, and painting.

A trip by SVO soldiers to the village of Uelkal to lay flowers and pay tribute to the WWII pilots who ferried planes along the Alaska-Siberia route.

A film about those convicted of terror and extremism — people who betrayed their families, friends, and homeland. the stories are told by the inmates themselves. do they think they're traitors? what made them turn against their own? what kind of childhoods did they have? what did they see in their cities? what did they dream about? shot inside prisons and correctional facilities across russia.