“Hunting the Rainbow” is a documentary about how, in today’s Russia, love and private life have become grounds for harassment, persecution, and criminal prosecution. The film begins with ordinary situations that, in a different political context, would have remained part of everyday life: two lovers walking home hand in hand, flirting in a private chat, sharing a kiss on the street. In contemporary Russia, however, these simple acts trigger a chain of violence — because the lovers are of the same sex. And that has now become a crime. Flyers with photographs, curses, and threats appear in apartment buildings. A kiss in public leads to detention and beatings. Private messages in a closed group result in abduction straight from a university classroom and hours of police torture. Through the stories of Lyosha, two men named Sergey, and August, the film systematically reveals how this system operates — from everyday homophobia and workplace pressure to the actions of law enforcement agencies. The film’s central and most brutal storyline follows August, a Siberian man of Chechen origin: a closed chat, a denunciation, kidnapping, torture, threats, and attempts to force him to hand over the names of other “gays.” A key political backdrop to the film is the Russian Supreme Court ruling of November 30, 2023, which designated the so-called “international LGBT movement” as extremist. The film traces how methods of persecution once characteristic of the North Caucasus are gradually spreading to other regions of the country. “Hunting the Rainbow” captures the moment when relative visibility and limited freedom are replaced by a new norm — the need to constantly hide, even within one’s own home.

When the body becomes a battlefield and a passport becomes a sentence, there is only one option left: escape. From Russia, from Russian‑occupied Ukraine, from transphobic Armenia. Just to live, just to love. This is a documentary story of trans people who endured harassment, forced psychiatric treatment, war, and camps to build a home, a family, and themselves.

In Russia, even milkmaids are now being labeled as foreign agents! What led the country to disapprove of the ordinary villager Elena Agafonova? Whom does she work for? And what is the reason behind the widespread fear of her in the entire Tula region? We visited the village of Partizan in the Uzlovsky district and spent several days with Lena to gain insight into her life.

From laws on propaganda and extremism to forced "treatment for orientation"! Are we truly at this point in history?

This is a collection of dramatic stories from people who have endured so-called conversion therapy. Pilgrimages to Iran, psychiatric hospitals, soul-saving Orthodox monasteries, prisons in the Caucasus, and even sessions of exorcising a jinn... The imagination of those convinced that sexual orientation can be "corrected" knows no bounds.

But what are the consequences of this conviction, and how effective is corrective medicine?

Less than 30 years ago, the authorities of Rwanda, with the help of pocket television and radio propagandists, stirred up such a level of hatred in the people that one of the largest genocides in the world broke out here. In terms of the speed of killings, this tragedy outpaced the Holocaust by five times. In just three months, around a million people were killed using the most sophisticated methods. Moreover, it was two peoples who killed each other, speaking the same language, living side by side, and listening to the same fairy tales in childhood. It was highly "talented" propaganda. It managed to explain to people: "Where the attack was coming from!" And to clarify: "If it weren't for us killing them, they would kill us."

A month after the Hamas attack on Israel, a whole movement of "October 7 deniers" emerged. New information events, new horrors – as if deliberately erasing the real tragedy of that morning from memory. We decided to tell several stories of people who will NEVER forget that terrible day, EVEN IF THE WHOLE WORLD PRETENDS NOTHING HAPPENED.

Fearing for their lives and the lives of their loved ones, they decided to take a desperate step to get out in the transit zone of a European airport, surrender to the police and request LGBT asylum. How do gays, lesbians and transgender people who decide to escape to the Netherlands live? And what did this extreme decision cost them?

Documentary film about the forest fires in Siberia during the summer of 2019.

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.

A sharp one and a half hour conversation with the creators, supporters and opponents of the draft amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. What exactly is changing? Why are these emergency changes needed? Is it possible without them? And in which Russia will we wake up after the adoption of the amendments? The authors try to answer all these questions as objectively as possible.