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Six months ago, 46-year-old Julia divorced her husband and now lives alone in a three-room apartment. The children parted. In anticipation of a new love, every evening after work, she goes to sing karaoke. But the past is in no hurry to leave: the fate of jointly acquired property in the marriage remains unresolved. An ex-husband returns to the city.

It's useless to be afraid of your actions and desires, the only thing you can do is to have time and to be ready to repent in the Supreme Court.

This tale narrates the life of toys that depends on their master. It's growing, and the fate of toys is changing, and it's scary. One day, it turns out that it is not at all scary, if there is only someone with whom to share his childhood and to whom one can transmit this cozy universe and which is yours.

They met at the institute. And they lived a bright, interesting, full of anxiety life, in which there were ups and downs, victories and disappointments. She still speaks of him only in the present tense, saying "Borenka" and "Boris Nikolaevich"with love and tenderness. It's been almost 10 years since his death. And the void after his departure was never filled with anything. Time has not cured me. They had the same life. One for two. Naina Yeltsina is a great woman and a great wife.

Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which everything goes not according to plan...

Russian documentary

The film tells the story of the actress from Kirov, Olga Bulycheva, who left for Amsterdam at the beginning of the 90’s.

Valery Panyushkin is a famous Russian journalist. At some point, he chose from all the topics, one of the main ones for him. The topic of helping a suffering person. Thanks to Panyushkin, charity in Russia has become the meaning of life for hundreds of thousands of people.

Vika and Seryozha have been dating for almost three years, but they will not get married. They blame this on Seryozha's grandmother, who strongly dislikes Vika. At the same time, their relationship is far from the traditional ideas of romance: they constantly harass each other with reproaches and quarrels. But maybe that's what true love looks like?

Nazar and Zina live in a hut at the very bottom of an old abandoned quarry, oblivious to the surrounding world, its depth and rhythm. Their vain actions and words lead to a great tragedy. And the main thing is exposed — time may seem like a moment or an eternity, but it does not go away as long as there is love.

On the night of August 13, 2012, the Rus Hotel, which stands on the outskirts of Biysk, was especially noisy. The company of four guests, two guys and two girls, was very noisy, they were constantly walking up and down the stairs, laughing loudly and talking loudly. The receptionist made a remark to them, the guests calmed down and went to their rooms. Ten minutes passed. And then the door of one of the rooms opened with a bang and a barefoot guy in underpants ran out of there, holding his stomach, and rushed down the stairs to the street. The hotel security guard met the runner in the courtyard and saw that there was a deep wound on his stomach. "She cut me with a knife," the wounded man said with difficulty. A day later he died in the hospital. The investigation began. The victim's name was Sergey Cherkaykin.

Millennials are the children of default. Now they are 18 years old. They are lovers of Brodsky and strong alcoholic drinks. They talk about what needs to be done, they understand a lot of things that are almost impossible to understand, but they all end up with the same thing, vodka and cheap champagne. What will happen to them next?

This film tells about the relationship between the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and his wife Naina. There is a minimum of politics in the tape, and historical events are present exactly to the extent that they relate to the relationship between a man and a woman who met at the age of 18 and lived together for more than half a century.

Denis, a teenager from a residential area of Moscow, trying to earn money, washes the headlights of cars stopping at traffic lights. And Denis really wants to become strong and independent. But reality throws up challenges that can not always be sustained.

A film about the life of the Kulebak metallurgical plant.

American psychologist of Russian descent Alex comes to Tuva to open his third eye and learn shamanic practices. Chochagar Kes-Kam becomes his “teacher of shamanism”. Together, the master and the student visit the famous Tuvan shamans and travel around Tuva. But their relationship is being seriously tested.

On the federal television channel they shoot an entertainment show, New Year's ether, pop stars. Over the ranks of the crowd, the loud voice of the brigadier rushes: "Besides the fact that you came to have fun, do not forget that you are on work. Enjoy, smile. You can see absolutely everyone in the picture. " But this is not true - most of them no one will ever see. But, if you go to one of the regular participants in the extras home - you can see something that will never be shown on TV.

Tigers and Humans takes a brutal, honest look into the industry and supply/demand that leads to the murder of thousands of tigers each year. The film also shows the beauty and power of the felines and sends a plea to save the tigers.

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'.

In 2017, for the fifth time in London, a beauty contest was held among immigrant girls from the former republics of the Soviet Union-MISS USSR Great Britain. For six months, overcoming rivalry, political pressure, misunderstanding of society and relatives, the girls were preparing for the most glamorous show in the Russian - speaking community of the UK-the final of the competition. And all this to win the title of the most beautiful girl in the country, which is not.

In Soviet times it was impossible to go to a concert of composer Oleg Karavaichuk. Because there weren’t any. Karavaychuk’s eccentricity was too bewildering for the culture officials of that time, and he was practically banned from performing in public. He began to work at the Lenfilm Studio and write film music there. Recognition came to Karavaichuk only in the 2000s. It is summer 2015 and Oleg Karavaichuk gives his “Pure Music” concert. Half a year later he travels to Spain, where rehearses again. While there he meets with journalists and talks about how he senses the smell of death in the streets of ancient Pamplona.

Her name is Ida Frank and she is over 90 years old. Born during the Civil War, she fought during the Second World War where she survived three concentration camps. After the war, she worked as a pediatrician for 50 years. On the screen, Ida Frank's monologue is an autobiographical tale that speaks of her life, of choice even when there seems to be none. It is a rare blend of sincerity and agreed language, deeply personal, objective and uncompromising. The story of this woman combines the optimism of youth, the spirit, self-deprecation and a fighting character, all forming a powerful agreement.

First-grader Tanechka lives in a Yakut village with her grandparents. Although her father has not written to her for a long time, the girl has no doubt that he invisibly helps her every time she needs him. Every morning in the village house begins with the anthem of the USSR on the radio, telling about Brezhnev's meeting with the oil workers. However, Tanechka is sure that “every new day reveals something unknown and secret” and wants to tell about those events of her childhood that still cause her, already an adult woman, either tears or great joy. Looking out the window at her peers, the wise heroine asks: “Why do children play all the time? When do they think? Probably never, that's why they are happy? "

The coniferous forest reborned the dead killer. The forest need new blood. The killer goes for murdering.

November 8, 2016 marked the 55th anniversary of the airing of the very first KVN program. The "Fun and Resourceful Club" has known good and bad times: for censorship reasons, it was closed in 1972, and revived only in 1986. But even without the broadcast, KVN existed on the student and amateur stages, lived, developed, and changed along with the time and the country. There is no such TV centenarian in the world. So who are they, the inventors of this "perpetual motion machine": Muratov, Yakovlev and Axelrod?

A film about Andrey Shestakov, head of the microbial biotechnology laboratory at Moscow State University. Together with his team, he travels all over the planet, from the Caucasus to the White Sea, with the goal of finding and testing microbes useful for mankind.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Was Hungary one the fascists’ side in WWII? Why does a hydraulic chair leg cost 245 rubles in Maxidom, but only costs 105 in «Leroy Merlin»? Did they have socialism there too? So they don’t have that wall paper? Did you know that it’s democratic parliamentarian republic? It’s the birthplace of the Rubik’s cube. You’d be better off holding this glue instead of goofing off. What would you do if you found out your father was a collaborator? The father was repressed, while the son was repressing the uprising. You know, I write about you in my scripts, I give out your secrets, so what do you feel? Is it dad’s wrench? Maybe they can think that you just made me up? Well, at first I didn’t like it, but then I accepted it. Can I go now?

Maison d'Être is an exploratory documentary about people's emotional place attachment in highly dynamic Greater Paris undergoing large-scale urban renewal campaigns. Parisien suburbia has been a frontier between world civilisations where wellbeing encounters despair. Here local habits get confronted by government-sponsored plans for urban transformation and social aid. In Paris "home" manifests itself as one of the key existential challenges of the modern culture - a "raison d'être" of everyday life. The film is addressed to both professional audiences of urbanists, city planners, architects, and curious public. It displays numerous conversations among residents, city activists, politicians, city planners and scientists, those who reflect on the regeneration strategy of the socially depressed urban neighbourhoods.

An ecological Russian folk musical.

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...

In Soviet Russia the Altaic shepherding family Urmatov were heroes. Father Kara was showered with honours for regularly exceeding expectations. For his son Boris and his daughter Marina, though, those days are just a memory. Unemployment is now rife in the entire region and worries are drowned with vodka. Marina sets up a small private bakery, baking day and night to ensure the family survives. When debris from a Proton M rocket crash-lands on the mountain pasture, narrowly missing the cabin, Boris and Marina demand a large sum of compensation money from the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Their claims remain unanswered and instead of the much-hoped-for improvement in their lives, the family is beset by more disaster.

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.

Just as you don't need to be an athlete to enjoy a sports match, so you don't need to be a scientist to enjoy the course of a scientific conference if you have the right commentator: scientists themselves talk about their colleagues - boldly, honestly, even intimately, ... in a whisper!

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.

A story of a young fencer on his way to manhood, wrestling with fears and a feeling of guilt, after the loss of an important adult.

30-years old Galy is working as Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) at the morning performances for children. One day Galy meets Vanya, a promising Ded Moroz (Father Christmas), and falls helplessly in love with him.

A special cat takes a miraculous ride through space.

A young girl escapes from her father during a journey she doesn't enjoy.

An old woman, Paradise, walks through the endless corridors in a boarding house for the elderly. While the rest of the residents are preparing for the dances, she stubbornly searches for her house and cannot find it in any way.

To get his paralyzed girlfriend out of depression, the main character, thanks to modern technology, arranges for her to travel around the world without leaving home.

Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.

The story of Sophie's wedding in a remote village of Tajikistan on behalf of various members of her family.