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Stories of three Russian women who moved to Abkhazia for different reasons. Protest, escapism and searching for themselves in a phantom country.

Short film by Tima Sabelnikov.

A girl catches a worm for fun and makes it the hero of an impromptu game. When the worm almost dies, the girl understands how valuable even the smallest life is...

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?

The almanac consists of six short stories dedicated to the key punk rock bands of the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia, which formed an original musical style and made a cultural contribution to the development of the musical community of Eastern Siberia. Each part is a kind of alternative film chronicle, capturing the history of the Siberian musical underground from the 1990s to the 2000s, as well as a projection of the punk subculture participants to the present day.

As you name a boat, so it will float. According to this logic, only happy people should live on Schastlivaya Street in Krasnogorsk (Moscow Region). Authors Maria Safronova and Vlada Platonova went there to talk to locals about happiness. Despite the fact that the street has seen a lot (for example, fires), its residents really are cheerful. And Schastlivaya is also home to many cats, each with its own nickname and character.

In the summer of 2024, the educational travel project for bartenders Simple Spirits Academy gathered brand ambassadors of Simple on a grand tour of Russian bars. 11 cities, iconic establishments, exchange of experience, lectures, and, of course, the drinks themselves, which were approached as a separate art form.

A film about attempts to preserve the disappearing language and dance and song culture of the Naukan Eskimos.

In the depths of a tangled forest a lone, odd and somewhat pedantic woodcutter is toiling away. He is clearing out the forest of what he deems impure and ugly. Though the more he clears, the darker and more twisted his forest grows

In a space that seems to be shrouded in complete darkness, light finds a way to protrude, and somehow, warmth emerges. It is the New Year’s, a time to reconnect with family, friends, and have a nice time. It is a holiday of light and happiness. The time is life-affirming: by the celebrations and fireworks, people declare that they exist and that they will break through no matter how cold and miserable life may seem.

Kolya Zvansky is an ordinary Moscow schoolboy, living an ordinary childhood life. Suddenly his father is arrested as an “enemy of the people”, and gradually everyone who was around him turns away from the boy in fear. The music teacher refuses to continue lessons, former friends not only stop communicating, but also begin to beat him. Only the girl whom he loves remains nearby, but she is also forbidden from seeing him. In addition, his mother and brother are threatened with arrest, but most importantly, at school he is persuaded that he must disown his father....

Volunteer rescuers from "Spasrezerv" regularly venture into the depressive looking glass of capital life. They often turn out to be the only hope for people left outside the public eye and safely hidden behind the blank walls of their homes.

The boy writes the words from which the world is created, until he thinks about how to correctly write “dog”.

Summer school is a place where students live side-by-side with nature. The film's characters reflect on the contacts between humans and insects. But theoretical reasoning quickly fades into the background when people find a wasp hive right in the fire cabinet. What to do with it now?

A short humorous story about how you can play sports with a tree.

A meander through dreams of home & strained memories of prevailing state complicity. Commissioned by Shape Arts, leading disability-led arts organisation, Vyhod/exit forms one third of a new set of animated films, part of the Adam Reynolds Award programme.

Early 1970s, a remote Buryat village near the Mongolian border, when Soviet authorities ban the activity of lamas and shut down the datsans. Balma’s world stops the day her son leaves for war. Since then, she sees her child only in dreams, while clinging to the hope of his return.

An animated film based on a Yukaghir folktale. The tale explains why the polar bear has a black nose. Originally, it was completely white and inconspicuous, allowing it to easily sneak up on prey and people, whom it would frighten and steal from. To teach the bear a lesson, hunters set up an ambush, surrounded it with fire, and hit it on the nose with a hot brand. The bear's fur grew back white, but its nose remained black, making it easier to spot. From then on, the bear learned to cover its nose with its paw and avoid people.

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.

For more than 10 years, high school students from the village of Gary in the Sverdlovsk region, along with history teacher Zhanna Saburova, have been coming to the abandoned village of Pelym in the summer. You can only get there by water on a small boat. Travel time is 10 hours. But the tedious road does not frighten the guys. They come here again and again year after year to put in order the abandoned church, the grave of fellow villagers who died in the Civil War, and the obelisk erected by those who did not return from the Great Patriotic War.

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.

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 film offers an introduction to various modes of transportation. In the film, the Color Babies travel by plane, embark on exciting adventures by bus, ride a train, sail on a ship, and conquer space with a real rocket! Explore the important aspects with the Color Babies with love!

Where does sudden inspiration take us? A little girl, after meeting a woodcutter in the forest, decided to play with his axe and cut down all the nearby trees. The serious woodcutter shook his head and suggested that she plant some seedlings. The girl planted the entire area with seedlings and began to think about a new project.

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

Documentary about the Moksha and Erzya people

One evening, an ordinary conversation between two filmmakers quietly turned into a reflection on how ego seeps into creativity, alters relationships, and can ultimately destroy friendship.

Since February 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russians have passed through the front lines. They return home changed—shaped by experiences beyond imagination. They’ve seen shells tear their friends apart, dogs eat corpses. They’ve slept on dead bodies. And they’ve pulled the trigger themselves. How has this changed them? What do they think about the war? Can they find their place in peaceful life? We came to these men with questions that trouble us as well. Eighteen men speak about the terrifying events they took part in. About the choices they made. And how they now judge those choices. Their shared story as men is one of the greatest tragedies to have befallen our country in recent decades.

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

A brief moment between two hands transforms into a wordless journey through fear and imagination, told entirely by gestures

The Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery near Ugledar was founded by Donetsk Schema-Archimandrite Zosima. Located right on the frontline, the monastery became a sanctuary for dozens of monks, priests, and civilians from day one. ‘Fortress of Faith’ is a documentary about survival, resilience, courage, and determination. It is a proof that faith can be a beacon in the darkest time, helping people find a way home and to each other.

A priest prays for a woman he once loved, hoping to bring her back from the darkness. But he becomes trapped in a surreal nightmare. When familiar methods fail, he makes a desperate choice - one that leads to an even deeper descent.

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.

After parting ways with her boyfriend, a young woman embarks on a quest for new love, navigating a series of awkward and humorous dates. Her three friends follow along in their group chat, offering commentary and support as she searches for the right match.

Former punk rock musician and party-goer Dima “Spike” reunites with friends to visit the graves of key figures from Pskov’s informal music scene of the 1980s and 1990s. However, locating these burial sites proves challenging. As they wander in search of a deceased lover, they drink and reminisce about their youth at the site of Dima’s own symbolic grave.

The rector of the church in California, Stepan Pavlenko tells about numerous miracles that occur through prayers to St. John, Bishop of San Francisco.

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.

Short film by Olga Osipova.

A short film, the directorial debut of actress Daria Belyaeva.

Alexandra and her son Semyon have been on the waiting list for a place in a boarding school for two years. A documentary about a few days in the life of a mother and son.

The story of a boy named Todd who collects insects and, together with them, finds himself in amazing imaginary worlds.

"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.

A girl living in a village sees the same dream. Gradually, the boundaries of reality begin to blur.

In spring, apple orchards bloom in Kursk. Asya and her stepfather Sergei, an employee of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, live here. They sense that trouble is approaching the city - sirens are sounding more and more often, enemy drones are flying into the area of ​​the nuclear power plant, and a local crazy artist predicts the apocalypse.

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