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A short film that deals with a significant problem in Russia – the LGBT minority. It is an excellent sociological experiment for the western world to better understand the horrors that are hiding in one of the largest countries on earth. The testimonies hidden behind knitted dolls are shocking, and any viewer who finds the power to watch ‘Save LGBT in Russia’ should take the short as a door to an unexplored land that can and will be shocking.

Viktor Valerevich Mumikhotkak also known as „Mukha“, Yupik Eskimo from the hamlet New Chaplino (Chukotka, Russia), died tragically in 2012. Somebody stabbed him in his abdomen and cut off his fingers. In 2014, when young Alla Ukuma gave birth to her first son, her mother told her: „Last night I saw Mukha in my dream. He had come back in your boy. Let us name your baby Viktor.“ According to the local people, the dead can return to the realm of the living up to five times. This film essay on life, death and possible return poses the universal question: how do you confront your own end?

A family lives in a house on the mountain. The rhythms of the surrounding nature and love help her to overcome difficult situations.

Thanks to the peculiarities of their place of residence, the characters of this film observe life in its various manifestations. Everyone has their own landscape outside the window. Some live in front of the maternity hospital and daily pay attention to the color of the balls in the sky-blue or pink (a boy was born or a girl). Others wake up every weekend to shouts of "bitter!" and popping champagne - their windows overlook the registry office. And someone constantly has to watch a sad cemetery picture...

This film is about Lyudmila (Lyala) Stanukinas, a documentary filmmaker, widow of director Pavel Kogan. The film was shot for 4 years as a chronicle, in the style of a"home handheld camera". But this is not a story about a director, but about a woman struggling with loneliness, who keeps love in her heart with all her might. The heroine exists in the episodes of the film without any author's comments. Also, the plot consists of fragments, "scraps" of old films, chronicles.

The report “I am Irina” is dedicated to a woman who in an instant lost her sight and hearing. After that, a period of deep depression, despair and unwillingness to live began in her life. One day she meets a man who opened the world of theatrical art for her, which gave Irina a second chance.

Non scientific observations of the jumping fellows life.

Lolita is the one who bears two cultures: her mother is Russian and her father is Azerbaijani. The film is a lyrical story about a girl, who goes to Azerbaijan for the very first time to meet her father’s parents. She wants to know as much as she can about the traditions, culture and morals of her Azerbaijani relatives. Her first acquaintance with Azerbaijan becomes the focus point of documentary.

An inquisitive boy asks his grandfather about a man whose monument he diligently cares for. Who is this man?

The story about my great-grandfather, "sketched" from the words of my grandmother.

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

One dark, dark night, the villagers could not understand the sounds coming from the latrine…

According to the fairy tale of Stepan Pisakhov "a Month from the sky attic". Senya Malina picks up an old, disused month in the sky. With the help of its wonderful glow, he bargains for a "vacation" from an official to go home to see his family. All sorts of miracles happen to him along the way.

The film is about a puppy who got lost in a big and indifferent city and still found new friends.

Two totally different people; a Tourist and a mysterious hobo like stranger meet on a train. Tourist starts to imagine who might be this strangely dressed up guy. Eventually it turns out what the Tourist imagines about the hobo guy is not actually a reality. People generally tend to imagine firstly negative and grotesque about the person next to them that usually do not match the reality, but it still might contain some pieces of the truth...

An audiovisual immersion in the inner world of people with developmental disabilities living in Psychoneurological Institution No. 3 near Peterhof, the documentary short, Mind’s the Limit, tells the story of a place that may look like a treatment facility but is in actuality a place of social adaptation and a space for creative experimentation. Many live under the care of its staff until their final days, while exploring new worlds through abstract painting and electronic music. Creativity is their only way to connect with the outside world. What path do they have to travel for their work to become contemporary art?

The first documentary about the frontman of the popular rock band "Nerves" Zhenya Milkovsky. This is not only a story about the attitude of a rock musician. It is about constant movement, search, humanity, of course, about music and about you and me.

This is a film about the prima donna of Mariinsky Theatre, laureate of international competitions of opera singers Oxana Shilova, lyric coloratura-soprano. Very justly she is called one of the best voices of the Mariinsky Theatre. She dazzled the scenes of Bolshoi, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden etc. But what had she to sacrifice, to win this world recognition? We have to make a choice between our family and our career. And often it is not in favour of our beloved.

The young history teacher organizes the revolutionary communist movement which is fighting to preserve the monument to Dzerzhinsky. However, public mistrust, mockery, and alcohol block his path to the goal.

A serial killer has the city in a murderous grip of fear. Assigned to the case are Saxon and Steel, and although they have an unhealthy obsession with cop shows of the 70's they also have a reputation for 'coming down hard on the bad boys'.

Sisters Leah and Olya are trying to establish their own brand of clothes, but during the work hidden family contradictions and bipolar disorder of the older sister make themselves felt.

A brilliant handsome man meets a young girl at the ball and tries to seduce her. How will end this attempt, if one of them is an extraordinary creature?

A film about love, about the relationship of a young couple living in a "civil marriage", and their opinion about marriage is official.

In Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth, marriage, and death. Why were physicians of no help to women enduring the pains of labor and the dangers of childbirth? Why were newly married couples "put to bed" by the priest on their wedding night? What did it mean to "die well" and why was death such a communal affair, both before and after it happened?

In this experimental film, shot in glistening black and white, a young saxophonist attends a school graduation celebration in St. Petersberg. Different versions of the same events unfurl as reality, illusion, dream and mystery intermingle leaving the audience to consider what is real and what is not as they are confronted by one astoundingly original image after another.

An ecological Russian folk musical.

A remote corner in the kingdom of nature is the ideal place for reflections about the meaning of life and the hero’s role in this world: this hero is Rodion Raskolnikov. His tactile and sincere communication with the current of the water in the clear mountain river seems to turn to the Koranic question on man’s original matter – the transparent liquid with which Raskolnikov tries to wash his face whilst dirtying himself. Water is the ‘mirror’ in which the hero sees himself, set against the issue of the ‘superflu- ous man’ and his own destination. Is he a worm? Is this worm disgusting?” – Raskol- nikov asks his reflection. The internal experiences, along with visions of the caring Sonya singing him a lullaby – are an invented reality into which Rodion has escaped, but he is forced to return to the former world, where things are not as they seemed...

A man wakes up, cleans up, dresses himself and sets a kettle on. He looks though the window, observes a hunting cat; prepares and proceeds with the breakfast. The light turns on twice: without and with the cut.

The film is dedicated to the memory of a bright and highly gifted man - documentary filmmaker, cameraman and photographer Sergei Skvortsov, who tragically died in August 2000. The material for the film was photographs of Sergei Skvortsov and his lifetime interviews...

In "normal" life, the heroine of the film works as a saleswoman in a fur coat store. But every Wednesday night, she changes her profession - and gives yoga and meditation classes to local sex workers. Without judging, without accusing, she tries to help them understand and overcome their fears, to feel like worthy women again.

This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family came from and where he spent his childhood. A large part of the villages are remote from the cities and often have no connection with them, except for air transport...

The film tells about a day in the life of actors of the Moscow theater "Studio of Theatrical Art". The actors have so much in common that when they go on stage, they feel like a family...

A factory director gives an interview, and he does not like it very much. Therefore his answers are extremely short. He says mainly "No" or "I do not know." But nevertheless one can understand his attitude to work, war and salvation.

Documentary short film about weirdest legends from Northern Russia villages and forests. Journey to ethnics and folklore of Komi people. Feel the energy of sacred Parma forest. We made expedition to 8 distant villages and collected this stories by local people.

The fates of three children of different nationalities and faiths intersect in distant India. There, the guys are waiting for incredible challenges that can be overcome only through friendship and dedication.

Film of Ivan Maksimov's students. An endless journey in the rhythm of Tarantella — the usual everyday life of passengers of an unusual train.

The film tells about the unique Russian village of Alexandrovka, located in Potsdam, in the very center of Germany. This Russian settlement, built at the beginning of the 19th century, to this day keeps the memory of its distant homeland. The village was built specifically for 26 Russian soldiers with families - singing choir. Their descendants survived in this village until the 21st century. Unexpected relations of Russians and Germans, the intersection of "destinies, events" from the beginning of the XIX century to the present day.

"1190," follows a young woman on a dark journey to find her lost home and identity.

Harry encounters a chef, rappers, Ivan Gamaz, Darth Vader, and even a dementor with a gun.

Based on the prologue to the novel by V. Krapivin “Ships, or “Help me on the way...””. Contents of the prologue: 1950, Petka Vikulov, nicknamed Gramophone, his mother died, he lives with his aunt. One day he finds an icon frame and hides it, since once upon a time his mother also had an icon. For this he is expelled from the pioneers. He decides to run to his father, about whom, however, he knows nothing. He also sings in the choir of the House of Pioneers, a soloist, his signature song is Jim's song from "Treasure Island". When kicked out of the pioneers, he refuses the choir, but is persuaded to perform one last time. He decides to make his farewell speech and run away...

The film tells how intelligence, ingenuity and a lucky combination of circumstances allowed a poor village guy to marry the tsar's daughter.

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack in Beslan in September 2004, when terrorists seized Beslan School No. 1. The characters of the film are former hostages, their loved ones and relatives, people who went through these trials. Among them are history teacher Nadezhda Gurieva, 11th grade student Victoria Kallagova, Beslan resident Valery Murtazov, school students Victoria and Olga Kallagov and many others.

Short documentary. Interview with contemporary artist Alexandra Soko with fragments of her early works.

More than 60 years have passed since the opening of the Kuibyshev reservoir. But Anwar still sees in his dreams his native village, which has gone under water. Will he find the graves of his ancestors, going to the surviving piece of land, battered from all sides by a wave? At this time, in another part of the country, they are going to blow up the rural House of Culture. The former director of the House of Culture, Galina Zhmurova, remains in the village to the last, not wanting to leave her homeland, which is about to be buried under the thickness of the Boguchansky reservoir.

Andrey Shental's Descent into the Fungal' is dedicated to the planetary power of mushrooms. The narrative is divided into two storylines. The main one is a popular presentation of basic scientific facts and latest discoveries in the field of mycology. This storyline is interleaved with utterances of the fungal bodies themselves, which declaim something akin to their own particular credo or manifesto. This combination results in it becoming clear that the relationships the fungi foster with their surroundings (mycorhiza, parasitism, saprotrophy and endophytia) refer unambiguously to contemporary political programmes. In addressing the human audience, the turbantop, hard-skinned puffball, saffron milk cap and other fungi present revolutionary scenarios and a programme for a future world order on non-human grounds, anticipating the struggle against human capitalism.

Only the person who is ready to learn everything that our ancestors were able to do can live on a desert island: understand the sea, live by the tides, build a boat, catch fish, find a "common language" with a bear, bake bread… The inhabitants of the remote Cape Alevina in the Sea of Okhotsk are able to do all this. There are only three of them on the island, and suddenly something went wrong.

The classic story of a woman seeking love. She has aggravating circumstances, or rather, she has a child without alimony, she is unemployed and she is 27 years old. Will Masha meet a man?

Transformation of postmodernism in Russia

Gravedigger Joe welcomes you to the forbidden world of real death. He has worked as a gravedigger for over 20 years. He is not just a master of burying the dead, he is a master of presenting the dead. Sit back and witness the disturbing factual horrors that he is about to show you from his own personal collection of murder tapes.

The plot of the military propaganda movie tells about a young ambitious programmer Alexei Kuzmenkov, who, despite the deferment, goes to the army to learn more about military orders and the device of military equipment to create a computer game. However, while serving, Alexei does a complete "reset" of his entire life. He breaks with illusions about easy victories and quick achievements, overcomes his own weaknesses and temptations, meets reliable and loyal friends, becomes a real man and opens new perspectives of his own life.

Colombia. Lost City in the Jungle. The Lost City is considered a sacred place by the Indians. It contains the energy of the whole world. And the source of this energy is gold. For more than 30 years, a resident of the village of Machete – Pilao Marron leads tourists along a mountain path to the city, which was once the center of a golden civilization.

Poetic dreams of a girl: a dandy fox took all the red colors of autumn on her fur coat and winter came.

The camera glides over the blue-green mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau – one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia. It was built half a century ago-away from the bright city lights, closer to the sky – in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia. A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses, a school, a club and an administration. In a small world, lost in space and time – whether it is the Soviet seventies, or the future of the Strugatsky novels – modern artists come with their works. The film unobtrusively confronts opposites-physicists and lyricists, schoolchildren and gray-haired scientists, the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple, artifacts and ancient mountains. But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos, to which people listen with bated breath.

A film about the life of the Kulebak metallurgical plant.