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The artist meets a girl at a bus stop and falls in love with her at first sight. He decides to paint her portrait and comes to the bus stop every morning to remember and convey her smile.

A documentary essay about the life of the small village of Byki in the Kursk region.

The employees of Prometheus were known as brilliant engineers capable of solving problems of a cosmic scale in the truest sense of the word — they, among other things, developed light-and-life devices for the interior design of spacecraft. The ideologist of the team Bulat Galeev was in correspondence with the classics of experimental art: Nicolas Schaeffer, Frank Malina, Yanis Xenakis, Lev Theremin, and although in Soviet times the bureau could not fully participate in the international art process, today many European institutions work with its archives. Didar Orazov's film, which includes digitized archival materials and new interviews with eyewitnesses of the heyday of Prometheus, is an attempt to touch an original phenomenon that the entire Soviet (and not only) intellectual world watched with awe in the second half of the XX century, to tell about what was behind the inspired experiments, about sincere love towards the future and endless curiosity.

The child admires the fearless heroes, and he is terribly afraid of the dark. Suddenly, the lights were turned off in the house and shadow monsters crawled out of all the cracks. The boy hid, but heard a frightened kitten crying from another room. The boy will have to overcome his main fear, for the sake of saving a friend.

Animation for the documentary "The Russian Ambassador to Korea: Karl Weber and Wang Kojong", directed by Svetlana Belorusova. The project was created with the support of the Kunstkamera and Korea Foundation

The film takes place 200 years ago, when flowers were bigger than houses, and witches turned daughters-in-law into poplars. The Cossack went to war, not knowing that when he returns, everything will be completely different.

A typical story of a man in country H, with wolves, corruption and one bear. The film was presented at the ORFAK pitching and received a special prize at the "Screen Test" pitching

In the city of Kargopol, Arkhangelsk region, a bust of Stalin was dug out of the ground in 2020. Some of the residents wanted to put it on the central square of the city, and some strongly opposed this idea. The city split into pieces. The fact that in 1937 a GULAG camp was opened in Kargopol also played a role. More than 12,000 prisoners felled the forest here and mined peat. The film gives both sides a chance to speak.

This documentary by director Maxim Rys'kin and producer Alexander Uchevatkin tells the story of Ivan Gusev, a legendary native of the village of Sabancheevo in the Atyashevsky District of the Republic of Mordovia who carried out a tank ramming attack during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.

A tyrannical king receives a mirror as a gift, but does not see what he expects in the reflection.

International soldiers of the Donbass militia volunteered to fight Ukrainian neo-Nazism. They’re from Mexico, Columbia, the USA, Serbia, and all over the globe. Locals treat them as heroes, while their homelands consider them criminals and mercenaries. If they return, decades of prison could await them. But they don’t regret it – Donbass has become their home. Unlike international military instructors and mercenaries in the Ukrainian army, foreign volunteers of the Donbass militia have strong motivation. They confront neo-Nazism as their ancestors did. Whatdo they do and how doe they feel about what they see?

Tyva, the poorest region of Russia, ranks first in the country in terms of the number of confirmed losses in the war in Ukraine per capita. Nadezhda Baykara, a resident of the small Tuvan village of Sush, is proud that the men from her family have always served. My uncle died on the territory of Ukraine in the Great Patriotic War, my son participated in the seizure of Crimea, was in Syria. In the spring, Nadezhda's beloved grandson, Aldyn-Herel, died in the war in Ukraine. Baykara is sure that her other grandson will also become a soldier. Meanwhile, local shamans perform rituals to protect soldiers sent to Ukraine from death. Only a few young Tuvans, despite the risks, dare to speak out against the war.

The documentary saga will open the doors of palaces and hovels of one of the most closed nationalities. What a modern gypsy camp looks like, what the mystery of early marriages is connected with, how much it costs to buy a bride and why funerals mean so much in Romale's life — the film will tell about this and not only.

The Russian folk tale "Wonderful Paws" teaches that you can not take other people's things, be fair and honest.

The film is a portrait about the great Ural poet, writer, cultural historian and teacher Maya Nikulina. A deep and multifaceted person, she generously shares her knowledge not only with the students of the gymnasium, but also with everyone who is interested in the history of Russian and world culture. At the same time, she firmly believes that in the modern consumer society, literature and poetry may one day disappear forever.

The film tells about the events that shaped the rocket and space industry of Krasnoyarsk in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as about projects that were recently classified.

The film "Diary of the White Crow" is about one of the first Soviet polar explorers Nina Dima, whose life is closely connected with the history of the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. The world's first woman is the head of a polar expedition in the Northern Land, a participant in wintering at one of the first Soviet polar stations in Tikhaya Bay on Franz Josef Land. Nina Petrovna Demme, a man of amazing destiny, made a great contribution to the study of the animal world of the North.

A veteran of the Second World War, together with an elderly daughter, are fleeing a winter storm in a flimsy wooden hut. Day after day, the cold gets closer and closer, plunging them into a deep sleep. They have no choice but to fall into timelessness in the middle of the frozen steppe.

Artur Shamgunov's new stand-up. A concert with jokes about Tatarstan, family gatherings and the life of an adult man.

A man with a bird in his pocket gets on a train and sits down with a stranger. An argument ensues between them, which ends in an unexpected surprise for both.

A boy from a small town, just out of his teens, tries to find himself by revisiting his parents’ divorce, which happened when he was a child. He plunges himself into memories of the past, fantasies of what could have been, and talks openly with his mother and father, trying to find the strength to heal and forgive.

A conversation with Vladimir Mayakovsky about the future - from this very future.

A picture of anti-war resistance against the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022. Young people are desperate and oppressed, speaking quietly in their kitchen and loud on the streets. A very unpleasant journey through the dictatorship, jail and repressions.

Sisterless revolves around Albina's psychological reality, seen through a young Tatar woman in Russia. Albina dreamed of becoming a psychoanalyst. Instead, she underwent several episodes of psychosis and psychiatric hospitalizations after her sister Almira experienced psychosis and took her own life. Sisterless is an unsentimental attempt to analyze the work of grief, a feminist commentary on the connection between illness, the contemporary political condition and the consequences of post-Soviet displacement. The narrative is based on conversations between the artist and Albina collected over a year and a half.

A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that place and my time there. There are memories pollinated by the pollen of garden poppies the warmth of my hands, toiling in the sunshine and the stories of adults about the big world. Summer, reveries, childhood, prejudices, the realities of the noughties, a small town - shimmering images that can never manifest, but endlessly manifest themselves. The intimate experience is torn by externalised reality: the formerly Latin poppy becomes a threat to gardeners and gardeners, bugs represent terror and flowers represent death.

This found footage film is composed entirely of often-shocking videos that Russian teenagers have posted on social media. Innocent morning rituals on YouTube or TikTok have been placed next to shots of panicking young people fleeing school shooters. And students all over Russia are apparently secretly recording images of violent teachers who can’t keep their hands to themselves. In class they are told that a woman must have sex with her husband whenever he wants; furthermore, students are called idiots and are beaten. One critical teenager is threateningly told that a report will be made about her political views.

In the spring of 2022, security guards in Moscow are tense. Under the guise of a film competition on the architecture of the city, Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin are permitted, if nothing else, to film the battlements of the Kremlin wall. But how to speak of the attack when you have to say “special military operation”? How to create pictures of resistance when filming any protest is forbidden? By pondering swallows and mathematical catastrophe theory, for example.

Stories of parents with children with disabilities about their own fears and experiences.

A call center employee, tired of monotonous work in the office, runs away into the woods. However, there he discovers bears engaged in the same routine work.

Naughty cats are bored at home, and they run to the trash to eat something interesting. But there they will have an unexpected meeting.

A little magic in the city on the day before the full moon.

Chickenpox is not able to keep the boy from playing with friends. But when everything turns green around the hero and friends run away from him, I don't want to think about games anymore. A story about childhood, illness and the first feeling of loneliness.

Everyday life of one cafe

Mikhail Savelyevich Shaprov (aka the gypsy Shapiro) lived not one, but three lives. Revolutionary romantic and diplomat; "enemy of the people" and political prisoner; a documentary filmmaker who reveals to people all the most important things in this world. The story of Mikhail Shaprov is told by his grandson, director and screenwriter Andrey Raikin.

A Soviet engineer invents a device for detecting anomalous phenomena. To test it, he goes to a place where, according to secret information, strange events occur.

A single girl and a guy appoint a dating to make love without commitment. But tonight everything will not go according to plan.

On a relaxed spring morning, Sasha finds the head of an unknown person in the refrigerator. Only the most unusual friend can help in solving the problem...

The fates of the inhabitants of the small island of Zalita, as in a mirror, reflected the essence of deep Russian life – love and loyalty to the motherland, patience and responsibility, faith in God.

Accidentally found photos of the grandmother lead the author to think about how the experience of repression experienced by previous generations of the family affects the relationship between relatives now.

There are children for whom space is "daddy's job", and "cosmonaut" is the closest and dearest person. These children live in Star City. It is they who will tell the audience how dads prepare for space flights and make them.

Crisis center for women in Russia. Three women. All they wanted was love. However, their family happiness collapsed, and their beloved became a threat to their lives. Will they find the strength to be happy again?

An extravagant singer and showman is trying to become a star, to create a show on a federal channel and to avoid a divorce. But something always goes wrong.

Angela is one of six children in the family. She lives in a village in Karachay-Cherkessia. Her mother is never at home, and her grandmother is sick, so the girl has to run the household alone, even though she is only 13 years old. Every day is similar to the previous one. Every day she dreams of a different life.

Dance in the Caucasus is not just entertainment, it is a philosophy, a lifestyle, a tradition that goes back centuries. A film about those who are now dancing the ancient dance Simd in South Ossetia.

Sergei Mayorov, a virtuoso balalaika player of the legendary state dance ensemble of Siberia, whose solo numbers were admired by half the world, was one of the first in the Siberian region to start making Russian folk instruments at the beginning of the 2000s. His kitchen in a two-room Khruschev- era apartment has turned into a workshop in which he and his wife have been huddled for more than ten years.

Someone is born where he enjoys living, and someone is looking for a cherished place until the end of his days. Several of our protagonists, finding such apoint of life support in different ways, appear on the screen in the day-to-day realities of their life and being in the ancient village of Uchma on the banks of the Volga...