"If the goal is the salvation of the soul, then the end justifies the means." Following the will of his spiritual father, in Soviet times he swore allegiance to the atheists, in the 90s he welcomed money changers in the temple, and in the 2000s he turned the church into an ideological department serving the authorities, and all in order to achieve the main goal - the creation of a Russian Vatican. Like Vladimir Putin, he came as a Westerner and a modernist, and will leave as a guardian and reactionary. A film about the life of the sixteenth Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill.

With his arrest in early June 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov became a symbol in Russia of resistance to police misconduct. His case was perhaps the first time in the country’s modern history that civil society forced the law-enforcement system to retreat. Over the five difficult days it took to free Ivan, no one was closer to him, his family, and Meduza’s editorial staff than documentary filmmaker Sergey Erzhenkov and the camera crew who assisted him. In this new film from the “Black Flag,” we bring you the Golunov case through the eyes of those who were at the epicenter of these events.

Punk is always a choice between two extremes. Or drink until you drop - or become an avid teetotaller. Hot or cold. But never warm. The protagonists of the film are three generations of Russian punks.

Alexander Sysoev was a successful businessman in the dashing 90s. In 1999, he decided to overthrow the current government, first in Vyshny Volochek, and then in the country. In order to take possession of the weapon, Alexander wanted to seize the local police department. On the night of April 9-10, 1999, the eve of the Orthodox Easter, Sysoev fired at the police department of the city of Vyshny Volochek. As a result of this attack, three police officers were killed. Sysoev was detained, and after an investigation in 2000, the court declared him insane and sent him to compulsory psychiatric treatment. 15 years later, in 2015, Sysoev was released. Sergei Erzhenkov found Alexander and went with him to Vyshny Volochek.

He is an influential bishop, a future patriarch, a possible confessor of Putin, a member of the Athos and Izborsk clubs. He makes friends with Sechin and Mikhalkov, lobbies for the candidacy of Vasilyeva. Minister of Culture Medinsky is waiting for him in the corridor for several hours. He is an ideologue of extreme church fundamentalism and a master of hardware games. He is Tikhon Shevkunov, the protagonist of the documentary film by Sergei Yerzhenkov and Vladislav Pushkarev "Confessor".