The passions and pitfalls of a lifetime as actress and teacher, from the Russian Civil War through World War II, are shown from the exploits of Maria Ouspenskaya, who was born in Tula, Tsarist Russia in 1876 and died in Los Angeles, U.S. in 1949. Touched by her versatile performance of domination, care and otherness, a new sense of belonging is found in Maria’s queer transcultural hybridity.

A reimagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's vision of Russian nihilism through fragments from his novel "Demons" and scenes from Perestroika cinema, depicting physical and political apathy in domestic settings.

Every two years, Zhukovsky, a city located 42 km from Moscow, hosts the international aerospace exhibition MAKS on a former military airfield, which is visited by about 300,000 people a day. The Tsagovsky forest around the airfield consists of pine trees, thanks to which it was nicknamed the “lungs” of Moscow. In 2012, illegal logging takes place to widen the highway leading to the airfield, leading to massive protests and arrests of activists. The film is based on interviews with residents of the science city and participants in the events. Subjective memories enter into a dialogue with documentary footage of landscapes and architecture near Moscow, initiating a confrontation with the ghosts of our past and future.

A personal video diary documenting physical and emotional stages of the ascent to the highest point of the former Soviet Union. Through the conquest of the Peak of Communism in the Pamirs one can trace the ideological development of the relationship between humans and nature - from spiritual to militaristic.

Based on Soviet technicolor melodramas from the 1950s the film recreates the macabre choreographies of poststalinism. Everybody is spying on everybody else. Nobody is sure anymore how their sweetheart looks like.

One day in the life of the Orthodox community of Cologne.

During the 1974-91 waste paper collection campaign, people could exchange the collected waste paper for coupons to receive popular books. From conversations with members of the same family, a common story is formed, revealing the relationship between people and books during one day in the life of March 7, 1974.