Portrait of the Artist Anatoly Belkin — a legend of the Soviet underground, still finely attuned to the spirit of the times. Anatoly Belkin is a painter and graphic artist, founder of the magazines *Sobaka.ru* and *Veshch.doc*, deeply embedded in the cultural memory of St. Petersburg. The city on the Neva is unimaginable without him, just as the history of unofficial Soviet art of the 1970s is incomplete without his presence. Since the late 1980s, his solo exhibitions have been held in galleries in New York, Paris, London, and Berlin. In 2004, his large-scale exhibition "Gold of the Swamps" at the Hermitage, dedicated to the fictional “swamp civilization,” shook the Russian contemporary art scene. Today, Belkin’s works are held in the Russian Museum, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, and other prestigious collections worldwide. The documentary drama "High Water" captures Belkin during preparations for his Hermitage exhibition. Constantly in motion, he observes and reflects, noticing the changes in his beloved city. Remembering the past, he looks toward a future that is ambiguous and unpredictable. The artist continues to believe in art as a dam against the worst floods. But will it be enough to avert catastrophes today, as water levels rise across the globe?

This is a story about an amazing person who dedicated his life to his students. Vladimir Alekseevich Fenchenko kindled the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with love for cinema.

The story of Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky, the genius of the theater of the 20th century, who, thanks to the strength of his talent, was able to remain a real artist and an internally free person within the rigid Soviet system. The protagonists of the film, contemporary theater and film directors, including Kirill Serebrennikov, Cathy Mitchell, Lev Dodin, Anna Strasberg and others, show how the Stanislavsky method affects their daily work in theater and cinema.

The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.

Through the stories of physical and psychological trauma of the seven heroines and the director, the film tells about the behavior pattern common among modern people. Many of us found ourselves in the “victim-aggressor-savior” triangle, when it is so difficult to see the situation from the outside in time and stop playing the role of a function in this destructive scheme. The film says that no matter what terrible situation a person finds himself in, he must take responsibility for his life and boldly begin to act, love, live anew.

This film is about Oleg Karavaichuk, eccentric musical genius and famous St. Petersburg composer, who takes his final stroll through Komarovo, a bay-side summer community just outside St. Petersburg where he spent his whole life and wrote most of his works. His final piece, “The Komarovo Waltz”, unveiled here for the very first time, was written as a tribute to the place. The film is the reclusive composer’s eulogy to the community. It also serves as Karavoichuk’s farewell to audience as well as his last address and reminder of things that are truly important – love for your fellow man and virgin nature.