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The sincere wish of a teenager, with the help of a best friend, to wish mom happy birthday live, turns into an irreparable human tragedy and changes the fate of children.

Every evening a group of grandmothers-druzhinnits appears on the outskirts of Kaluga. Almost all of them over eighty. Armed with red armbands and a formidable word, they come out to clean up their neighborhood. To local drunkards to drink in a court yard became much more difficult.

Once late at night in the underpass a woman encounters a mysterious and scary creature which live in this place.

A person grows up and leaves home. All his life he wants to return home – to the past. But many things are happening that he cannot change: the mother is getting old, the house is being destroyed, the dog is dying. It happens to everyone and it's inevitable. Everything turns into a memory, a dream or a movie.

An old Danish lullaby about a little elephant and a circus.

Two young couples are camping at the river side and horrible and mystical things are about to happen after one of the women drowns.

New film by Evgeny Kovalski

In the late 1980s, a now infamous squat appeared on Moscow’s Furmanny Lane, which quickly became a gathering point for the most promising young artists of the time (Mukhomory, Vadim Zakharov, Yury Albert, and Andrey Filippov, among others) and just daring, high-spirited individuals. The inhabitants of “Furmanny” recall life in Moscow’s first squat and the opportunities created by this unique site.

New film by Vasilisa Yurenkova and Nadia Krutko

Every day, the lives of many people are at risk due to a shortage of donated blood. Each of us, going out on the street, falls into a risk zone. In the operating hospitals of the city and the region, surgeons are fighting for someone's life, children are born in maternity hospitals, patients are brought out of critical conditions in intensive care units, and bleeding is stopped. And to become a donor today means to give all these people hope for tomorrow! But, unfortunately, in recent years, the number of donors has sharply decreased, as people are deprived of information and do not know about the need for donated blood. Also, many people are afraid to donate blood, because they are afraid of getting infected during blood donation, someone thinks that blood donation is harmful to health, but someone would like to, but does not know how and where to go.

A musical dedication to the unreleased films of the 60s. A performance by Oleg Nesterov and the Megapolis group

The story of an old captain who went on his last voyage.

A story of two sisters (one of them is a wheelchair person) living in a village in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia.

Damien and François decided to come out of the closet today but no one really believed them. Obviously, they didn't look gay enough.

The documentary follows Oleg, Andrey, and other long-distance truck drivers from all over Russia, who turned their outrage against the 2015 bill that required truckers to pay taxes when driving on federal roads into a 9 month long protest.

A fairy tale is not a metaphor or an allegory: everything in it is literal. There are strange fairy tales and tales written in kid tongues, untranslatable ones. They don't have morals, but they do have shapeshifting and bewitchment. Your favorite fairy tale is a self-fulfilling prophecy or an inverted one. “Tales” is a dedication to lost films assembled from fragments, films that were rotting in attics, born in the era before Griffith and were cut off suddenly. I achieved the effect of pure affirmation with images whose nature and logic almost cannot be grasped, like a dream or first memories. It can be said, that these are fairy tales from the early childhood of cinema, such as I remember them.

The young doctor-oncologist receives an offer which impossible to refuse - an invitation to a Medical conference in Geneva, where soon will happens competition between the most genius doctors from around the world. But for a victory in this competition the doctor needs the biggest tumor ever seen. For the sake of victory, she is ready for everything, including killing his own patients, for whose life she recently fought. However, death of patience is ultimately not enough to head the victory and the doctor faces a choice that is not so easy to decide. Tumors 3: Doctor Nightmare - not a direct continuation of the previous two parts shot by Alex Wesley, but a new interpretation of the monstrous story with new experiences, horrors, and of course with new victims.

A documentary about a man who solves the problem of individual immortality. He's not going to die. Various options are being considered - from cryonics (freezing of the brain and body), to digital immortality (digitization of consciousness). Note that the hero lives in Russia, where the topic of immortality is practically not explored. However - everything is ahead! Who knows - perhaps this person will be able to become one of the first "immortals".

A friendzoned teen deals with rejection by felling trees with his bare hands.

Last road in the ambulance. The driver - a cheerful Armenian - comes to those who can no longer be helped and becomes for them a guide between life and death. The road, meanwhile, shines with bright lights, erodes in an abstract pattern, yells with sirens. There is an inexorable countdown.

The film is about the Molokans living in the villages of Violetovo and Lermontovo, located in Armenia. Local residents here have been loyal to traditions for centuries and try to protect the purity of their world and national identity. That is why they do not marry people from other nationalities and, over the years of communication with the Armenian population of nearby villages, have not merged with local residents. The main character of the film is a blind old man who will introduce us to the Molokans.

Many years ago, Ivan Petrov, the director of a major transportation company, left for work one morning and never returned. Today, his son, young hipster Vasily, who has just enrolled at Moscow State University, sets out on a long journey across Moscow to the company’s headquarters to uncover the fate of his father.

The film was filmed during the 2013 Amur flood. Postman Nadia delivers mail to villagers in distress. The peculiarities of the relationship between people living in the outback, far from the city and the center of the country, are manifested in the struggle against the elements.

The film is about snow and sand sculptures and family relationships.

This is a candid and emotional project of Russian-Israeli writer and screenwriter Dina Rubina. Together with director and her close friend Stanislav Mitin she goes back to her childhood and youth spent in Tashkent, contemplates her creative early days in Moscow, and shares how she feels about immigration to Jerusalem. The film is full of excerpts from the writer’s famous works, episodes from films based on her writing, and sketches from her current life. It is dedicated to the anniversary of Dina Rubina - one of the most widely read contemporary authors and recipient of many international awards, whose books are translated into 38 languages.

"The Day of the Common Man" is a film about a ninety-year-old grandfather who lives alone in the village.

Feeling lonely, the child walks from room to room in an unsuccessful attempt to touch his father and mother, to find them in his life.

Having learned of a friend's death, Petya goes to the morgue, the cemetery and the wake

A two-part documentary film about the state of Russia’s prisons today. In-depth interviews with former inmates of all stripes, including those convicted of political, economic, and violent crimes.

In a forest hut twenty versts away from the village lives a fascinating old man. He has rejected civilisation, but has the knowledge to benefit humanity. He is Diogenes, Munchausen and Tesla in one. Philosopher and inventor or just a madman?

Lyudmila Vaulina is a pediatrician. I have worked in the village all my life. This is the first time she has encountered such a child.

Yura, a former lawyer, now homeless, lives on the side of the federal highway M8. The sacred knowledge that Jura discovered one day attracts crowds of pilgrims to him. And little by little, Yura reveals the secret to his flock...

Two films based on fairy tales from the collection of Ero Salmelainen, which presents the best examples of oral folk art of Karelians and Finns.

A comic musical variation of the Russian folk tale “Turnip”.

Russian documentary

One person decided to sell the trailer, which he used as a dacha. And he went to the Black Sea, to the southernmost edge of Russia, where there is a trailer to sell it. But the trailer is not in a simple place. And in a place where the most important questions of life arise. Where a person is alone with himself. Where the mechanism of the universe is almost exposed. Where happiness is about to turn from a fleeting sensation into a permanent state. Where it seems that you can cut off all unnecessary and achieve freedom. Or is it just age? Time, not place?

A film about the deadly power of love — one that cannot be escaped.

A documentary about the closure of a very strange gallery of modern art, which been exists about two months in the center of Minsk in the spring of 2015 and attracted an average of 0-4 visitors per day. In the role of the founder of the gallery — actionist artist Dmitry Veleskevich.

The events in the film are current in 1935. The scene of action is the polar scientific station on Wrangel Island, the USSR outpost in the far north. Here comes the hero of the film - Inspector of the Administration of the Glavsevmorputi Nikolai Zherdev. The reason for his arrival - the tragedy that occurred at the station - the death of Dr. Wolfson, which occurred as a result of an accident.

The film is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the ruling bishop of the Lipetsk diocese - Metropolitan Nikon "Vasin", as well as the 20th anniversary of his episcopal consecration. The hero of the film, overcoming difficulties in the path of pastoral service, gathers around him a faithful flock, serving as an example of love for all.

Danya is a young guy who wants to ensure his family by all means. On the way to this goal, he goes through financial pyramids, misunderstanding of his parents, quarrels with his wife but nothing can stop him.

«Rodina» means «homeland». It is a 50 minutes road movie about 2 football fans traveling 3000 km from a rural village to the World Cup. The main hero, Uncle Sasha, has never left his village (the place even without mobile services) for 30 years. For the first time in his life he sees foreigners, big cities and his own country not on a tv screen.

After the ecological disaster, almost no unpolluted water remained on the earth. A young scientist spends his days searching for a solution to a problem and trying to survive. His only comrade only complicates the situation.

In Poor Folk, Ilya Kabakov talks about his sources and influences, including the tragic life of his mother, which had a profound effect on his views and artistic career. Together with his wife and collaborator Emilia he discusses Soviet underground art, the birth of Moscow Conceptualism, the couple’s emigration to the USA, and international acclaim after thirty years of almost no exhibitions (Kabakov did not show his work at state-sanctioned exhibitions in the Soviet Union): today the duo’s works are in the world’s leading museums, including MoMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Seven years ago Svetlana bought a large farm with land and cattle, sold all her business in the city and left alone for 200 km from Moscow. To do a new thing.

The tale of how in St. Petersburg watched the match "Russia-Croatia".

One's way to Phlegethon - a river of boiling blood in seventh circle of Inferno, where murderers of different ages serve time.

Grigory Pomerants and Zinaida Mirkina are wise men. The topics of their reflections are the need for loneliness, the fate of civilization, the meaning of suffering, and whether a clear conscience is possible.

A film about one of the leaders of the second Russian avant-garde, an outstanding artist Dmitry Plavinsky, our brilliant contemporary.

The genius who invented the time machine is trying to hide from the present in the past. But the future is already knocking on the door.

At the end of 2018, I was asked to make a short film for a small almanac. The task was to comment on some of the important events of the past year. I, as an active citizen, of course, did not waste time on trifles.