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Mikhail returns home after a long absence. A meeting with old friends, full of unexpected surprises, will lead to a reassessment of life values.

A brief dive into the history and modernity of the "Russian Barbizon" — the House of creativity "Academic Cottage named after I. E. Repin" near Vyshny Volochok. Breathtaking landscapes of the Upper Volga and touching emotions of novice artists and established modern masters of the brush.

Former sweethearts cross paths accidentally on the subway many years later. They had been in love with each other in their youth, but now, as they've become adults whose personalities have been formed in very different circumstances, they grew apart.

The film revolves around the world's first space museum. Tour guide Elizaveta talks about space flights, planetarium engineer Dmitry shows the public the stars and planets, Tsiolkovsky’s great-granddaughter Elena helps local actor Andrey get into the role of her famous great-grandfather, an astronautics theorist. All characters are united by their passion for space and pride in their museum.

There are more than one hundred thousand graves in the central cemetery in Grozny. It has long been abandoned and turned into a forest. But among the thickets, rickety fences and monuments broken by shells, you can often meet the Chechen Saipuddin Guchigov. He believes that the souls of the dead are waiting for relatives and for many years he has been helping people from all over Russia find them.

The Nanaisky district, situated on the northeastern banks of the Amur River, lies northeast of Khabarovsk. The Nanai people are among the indigenous communities of the Far East, numbering approximately 12 thousand in Russia. Andrei Beldy, a cultural advocate for the Nanai community residing in the village of Naikhin, expresses concern about the fading of traditions and the Nanai language. Only a few hundred individuals can speak it fluently, with local children receiving instruction from an enthusiastic linguist from Veliky Novgorod. Beldy recounts the historical displacement of Nanais to Sakhalin during Stalin's era to populate the former Japanese territory. He criticizes the current authorities for restricting free fishing, a traditional occupation for the Nanai people. Most villages lack access to gas, and timber is exported abroad. With the onset of the war in Ukraine, many Nanai residents, including the elderly and deceased, received conscription notices.

A poetic journey to the heart of the Ural, where the discovery of an alien creature uncovers a haunting secret.

Designer Lyudmila Norsoyan has terminal cancer. She talks about her life, shares stories in which she was a direct participant, and reflects on the themes of youth, self-determination, and mastery.

In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into a chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way to cope with the grief is to fixate everything with her camera. Her anger guides her to inner emigration to the local underground scene, which became an escape for young russians. This kaleidoscope of shards chronicles not only spirit of the time, but the director’s personality crumbling against the backdrop of global turmoil.

About volunteers and volunteers, as well as their examples of civic patriotism and military valor.

Alexandra, a young photographer, gives an interview for a documentary. She talks about the value of photography, shares her views on life. The film is about the influence of childhood on the shaping and development of personality.

Roman Kositsyn, a well—known stand-up comedian, permanent resident of "StandUp on TNT", "Roasting", founder and participant of the channel "Playground", presents his first big solo stand-up concert "Loneliness on the Square".

Slava and Katya come to the forest for a picnic. This is an important day for Slava; he proposes marriage to Katya. But this fabulous walk will have an unexpected ending.

Short film by Anton Ryazhskikh.

The full-length documentary film “YUDI: Dance in the Dark” tells the story of three people from an orphanage who, in pursuit of the dream of performing on stage, organized their own dance team, YUDI, in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Subsequently, they became finalists in the projects “Minute of Fame” on Channel One in 2007, “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2015 and “America’s Got Talent” in 2018. The film shows in detail the formation of the team and the entire behind-the-scenes life of the main characters, where, in addition to victories and performances with stars on the same stage, there were also personal dramatic moments. The story of the main characters serves as motivation for the younger generation and proves that success on the world stage can be achieved even while in a remote region of Russia.

2017 - I am travelling to Russia with a German tour group. I take the diary of Wehrmacht soldier Buff, killed in action in 1942 when he tried to give first aid to a Russian soldier, as my travel reading. Our itinerary intersects with places where he fought. I grew up in Russia. My grandmother toiled in Stalin's camps. 2022 - the conflict that Russia's attack on Ukraine triggered in me runs through the film. The journey to Russia was characterised by encounters between people whose parents' or grandparents' had common experiences - those of the Second World War. In brief moments of rapprochement, many questions remain unanswered - especially about the purpose of war.

The story of four friends who accidentally found a treasure. From a seasoned fisherman, they learned about the secret of the treasure of Stepan Razin himself, who at one time atamanized on the shores of the Great Mother Volga, in the Samara Bow of the Zhiguli Mountains. It was there that he buried his untold treasure, performing a "funeral rite", sacrificing a young Persian princess. During a boat trip, friends get into a terrible storm, after which they find themselves on a desert island.

Experienced astronaut Savva dreams of flying away forever to the most remote part of the galaxy, never to meet people again. However, as a result of a ship breakdown, he finds himself on a gloomy planet, where he meets a friendly alien, Gama.

The film narrates about the Pomors of the past and present. Over ten years of expeditions, the Solovetsky Maritime Museum and the Northern Seafaring Association have sent the yacht St. Peter to dozens of coastal villages and fishing grounds of the Pomor communities. Using as narrator an old Pomor man, the film reflects on past memories and present realia onboard the naval expedition. This is a journey into the past and present of the Pomors, designed to tell more about the indigenous communities along the White Sea coast and the philosophy of the contemporary Russians living off the sea.

A hungry hunter and his dog are chasing a fast hare. They can't catch it, and only the dog's transformation into a Saluki breed will help them.

Grouchy grandpas are trying to drive a young traveler out of their forest, who climbs everywhere and disturbs them. But when the main old man finds himself in danger, the traveler saves him and grandpas accept him into their pack.

The first solo stand-up concert by Elizaveta Varvara Aranova.

This is a story about how a Man helped a Man. Ksenia Zueva made a documentary about her friend, neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Dzhafarov, who performed a unique operation, relieving a young man from Rybinsk from a sudden painful illness. The doctor and the patient share their experiences with Ksenia Zueva. This documentary is not only Ksenia Zueva's directorial work, it is also her debut as a cameraman and composer.

A wealthy heiress who falls in love with a a charming playboy against the will of her influential parents. An experimental film created using a hybridization of neural networks and live-action filming.

Raven is the son of Sirin, the ruler of the fairy-tale land of Irey, which is closed to humans. For breaking the law by falling in love with a mortal, Sirin strips her son of his powers and sends him to the human world for a hundred years. Just before the end of his punishment, Raven meets Anika, the daughter of a shaman from a nomadic tribe. His heart is reawakened, and his return home is in jeopardy. Anika's sister, Machi, discovers Raven's secret and decides to use her sister to obtain the golden apples and enter Irey.

The best teams in the world gathered in Dubai for the final CS2 LAN tournament of the year - they came to meet with old rivals, declare themselves or remain in the status of a leader. The champions of the majors FalleN and Snax, as well as nafany, KaiR0N- and chopper talk about why they love the game, how they cope with defeats and what makes them go to a new round from time to time. Until recently, the esports industry was a community of enthusiasts, but today it is full of betting money and serious contracts. In Egor Ivanov's film, shot for BetBoom, both the young champions and the tournament organizers who caught this meteoric rise got into the shots; and everyone's eyes are equally burning from the opportunities that open up before them right now.

The guy who lives in a hostel wants to have breakfast but is constantly interrupted by his elderly neighbours. Now he has to fight them back or change his point of view and find the right way to finally have his breakfast.

December 1942, Leningrad. 11-year-old schoolgirl Anelya Komarcheva keeps a diary while in the hospital of the besieged city.

Relatives of soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine are entitled to compensation — insurance payments, regional grants, and so-called “presidential” benefits. Altogether, the sum amounts to around 14 million rubles, divided among the closest family members. This film tells the stories of three women — Oksana Nazarenko from Karachay-Cherkessia, Natalia Makarova from St. Petersburg, and Anastasia Yudina from the Leningrad region. They are taking the fathers of their sons to court over the payouts, arguing that these men did not raise the children and were absent from their lives after divorce. For us, this is not a film about money, but about the psychology of many Russian families — where the figure of an absent father was replaced by cadet “brotherhood,” and poverty was compensated by the dream of a military career for a child.

The little boy Ulve is waiting for his father from hunting, not realizing that very soon he will take his place, and everything will go in a circle.

Sergei Chudakov is either an upstart, or a genius, or perhaps an ordinary scoundrel, whom many have heard of, but no one knew. We have restored the portrait of an ambiguous person to show how easy it is to lose everything if you do not control yourself and your actions.

This film tells the stories of five Russian families who have lost children, mothers, fathers, and grandchildren to shelling. What secret memories do they hold of their departed loved ones? Who do they hold responsible for these deaths? And how do they view the world now? These are the heartfelt monologues of people who have endured the unthinkable yet still retain their capacity for compassion. In this moment, nothing is more important than their words. Over the two years of military action in Ukraine, the UN estimates that more than 10,000 civilians have died—and the shells continue to claim lives every day. Novaya journalists are unable to access Ukrainian territory due to censorship and cannot fully tell the stories of what is happening there.

Summer 2022, two young people are on a road trip. Drama, philosophy and humor in a road movie by TitiMiti.

The only prison in Abkhazia, whose building is part of the 6th century Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God. One of the inmates got there in a completely different way than the others.

“Arambol is a lush tropic tourist destination in the state of Goa in India. It also accommodates for the season (November to March) international contact improvisation community and practitioners of other art forms. In this project, we wanted to explore sides of Arambol that were lost, abandoned, and forgotten. Me (Ivan) and Alaya share two dance languages: contact improvisation and butoh and we were curios to see what spirits and stories can be born from our chemistry. This movie had no script and was fully improvised on the spot.

A bit fun with clouds at sunrise and in-camera editing.

Short movie by Eldor Shodmonkulov.

In 2019, at the international exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Russian Pavilion hosted an exhibition by Alexander Sokurov dedicated to the parable of the Prodigal Son. In 2020, the exhibition was presented in the White Hall of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. This film tells about the exhibition's journey from creation to implementation.

Photographer Grigory Yaroshenko gets a chance to visit Antarctica and learn about the life of polar explorers. But his wife is expecting their second child, and life changes. Gregory is faced with the question of male self-identification and acceptance of new family circumstances.

Silk Road Mountain Race is one of the most difficult multi-day cycling races, the route of which runs through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan: about two thousand kilometers at temperatures from +40 to -15 and with a total climb of 30 thousand meters. The extreme Silk Road attracts cyclists from all over the world, but not everyone manages to overcome it on full self-sufficiency. In 2023, two guys from Moscow, Maxim Lapchuk and Sasha Antipov, decided to test themselves and go on this journey. One of them had been preparing for it for three years, the other decided in a week, without going into details. In Peter Barabaki's film, they tell how it was, and invite the viewer to speculate with them on the question of how people come to realize a big dream — how much recklessness, heroism and risk there is in this, and in the end is it worth it.

Stories about the development of BMX, parkour and skateboarding in Russia from the inside. The brightest extreme athletes talk about their path and the role of sports in their lives, about victories and defeats.

The filming of this movie – the story of Russia’s oldest homeless charity “Nochlezhka” – began in January 2022. At the beginning of February 2022, work was underway on the script, and then February 24th happened and all ideas and filming, like many other things, lost their meaning. Two years later, it seemed important to to return to that time, look at ourselves and the country back then, and realize how the ideas and meanings that seemed significant to us had completely changed 24 months later. Or simply ceased to exist.

Vova Bukharov released his third solo concert "Investor".

The film is a documentary record of the passed stage of the life of the creative association "Buryatsky Underground" ("BATO") for 6 years of its existence.

A mockumentary exploring the theme of magical rituals in the post-Soviet cultural space. The film method is based on the use of information from web resources, investigative journalism, Telegram channels and re-films the rituals described there. Alchemy, occultism and magical rituals become the object of the author’s research, forming a semantic contradiction with the ordinary way of everyday life.