In Siberia, Russia, Alexander Kuznetsov follows Yulia & Katia who went from an orphanage to a neuropsychiatric institution. Deprived of freedom, work and family, they had no say in it and getting those fundamental rights back is a long and painful bureaucratic process. "We'll be alright" is their path to freedom.

One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play.

According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."

This film was shot without a single cut, hidden camera in the Puppet Theater. For 10 minutes, the child watches the performance and the whole gamut of feelings is reflected on his face, from jubilation to absolute horror. In just 10 minutes of an ordinary theatrical performance, a 5-year-old boy gains a huge life experience... An absolute classic of non-fiction films.

A young soldier returns from the front line with a serious wound. How will he build his new life?

Two guest workers came to Finland for easy money. The goal of Misha, a worker from the small Ukrainian town of Konotop, is to earn money for apartments so that he can rent them out and no longer work. Colonel of the Soviet army from Lithuania, Sergei Fedorovich, needs to put his pride, Land Rover, in order, and he also wants adventures in retirement. But they didn’t get very well on the summer estate of emigrants in 1918 from St. Petersburg. Martti's mission is to restore the buildings of the estate and thereby resurrect the memory of his grandfather. Martti's young daughter Anna decides to make a film about it.

Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. Actor Yevgeny Mironov shares his memories of meetings with him. Solzhenitsyn's friend Nikita Struve tells how he published The Gulag Archipelago abroad. The widow, Natalya Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, tells about the last days of his life, thoughts, goals and plans of Alexander Isaevich. The authors of the film offer rare shots of foreign chronicles and exclusive interviews of Alexander Isaevich, which have not been published so far.

A story from the very center of events about the birth of a new country, the Donetsk People's Republic. Filming took place over six weeks from April to May 2014. The camera follows 300 revolutionaries who took over the building of the Regional State Administration in the center of Donetsk and declared the independence of the region. The revolutionaries see themselves as the saviors of their people from the bloodthirsty fascist government based in Kyiv. This is a story about how to make a revolution and what happens after that when you get the power. The heroes of the film are Andrei ("Lenin"), who leaves home and mother to change history; the speaker of the new government, Vladimir, and the head of the internal anti-corruption security service, whose task is to capture and interrogate traitors, fascists and enemies of the Revolution. When the heroes believed they had won, their fates abruptly changed course.

On the very edge of the village of Ponazyrevo, in a wooden house with the loud name "Rehabilitation Center", people who have nowhere to go live. The center was organized and sheltered by the rector of the prison church, the priest Father Evgeny. There are strict rules in the house, no alcohol, but from time to time, someone breaks down, starts drinking, leaves. Then he returns. Miron wandered after his release from prison, he did not have a home. He was found dying in an abandoned car and given shelter. He is crippled, half of his body is paralyzed. Outside the taiga window, the family broke up, past ties were broken. How do such people live, what do they think, what do they feel, what can they hope for, what helps them survive?

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the Tu-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

Evi, Finland’s most experienced karaoke hostess, wants to hug her customers’ pain away. She packs her equipment and starts a car engine yet again to travel through the northern landscapes of Finland. Her journey interconnects with the stories of “KARAOKE PARADISE”. Toni, the shyest guy in the world, catches everyone’s eyes when on stage. Kari is searching for love and sings karaoke in his empty car repair shop. Elina can hardly walk because of Parkinson’s, but punk songs make her dance. Laura sings because talking is too painful. Finns have found a unique way out of loneliness: they sing.

Yoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky. This film combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people’s life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening.

"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the strange daily life of Lydia, born Sergei, a queer ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. She lives with her wife Vasilisa, working for a company that prevents bird strikes in airports. Vasilisa trains horses for the police of Moscow. In a wooden house that she built on her own Lydia tries to recreate the atmosphere of Twin Peaks, the famous David Lynch series she loves, and tries to make her own version. Sasha Kulak, the film's director, faces a question that will upset her concept of a of documentary: how can one extract reality from a dream? Sasha's voice draws us in until she becomes a character in a rare cinematic experience.

This is the story of a man who made the history of Mankind, being "on the other side of the window" from those in power. The film was based on Boris Altshuler's book "Sakharov and Power. On the other side of the window"; drawings by Andrey Sakharov animated by Dmitry Geller; memories of friends; rare archival footage and previously unpublished declassified documents.

Ivan Komendantov is only 16 years old. But he is already the ideology secretary of the Stalingrad District Komsomol Committee of Moscow. Vanya wants to quickly become an adult, so he enthusiastically takes on any business, whether it is the rise of the world economy or a special task to seduce a girl.

War correspondent and writer Vyacheslav Nemyshev is a typical representative of the generation of people affected by the Chechen war. Having visited the war 27 times, he was no longer able to adapt to normal life and "escaped" to Kamchatka. Vyacheslav filmed this experiment on himself with a video camera for two years in the hope of finding an answer to the question of how to get rid of the nightmare that the war gave?

The exchange of old Soviet passports for new Russian passports is a milestone in the life of the country. A provincial travel photographer wanders around remote Siberian villages and takes pictures of their inhabitants for new passports. But sometimes they will invite you to film the wedding. And somewhere you can buy a piglet. Following the village photographer and carefully observing everyday rural life, the filmmakers create a kind of poetic canvas that tells about the worldview of people living in the Russian outback at the junction of two cultures, Soviet and modern. The film won an award at the Russia Open Documentary Film Festival in Yekaterinburg.

In 2016, esports games were recognized as an official sport in Russia. The film is a months-long observation of the life of world eSports champions. The AG team consists of students from St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Vladimir and Kazan. They met in the online shooter Warface. Together they won the championships of Russia and the world. And together they change their attitude to gaming, for them computer games are a profession. The first author's documentary film about Russian eSports.

On 24 February 2022, Yevhen, together with his friends, volunteered to join the first aid battalion on the front line. They provided life-saving support and evacuation of the injured. This film reveals the experiences of these young men over six months full of drama, despair, fear, hatred, bitterness, love, and, most importantly, faith in victory. As they left for the front, they sent their families to the rear – to a village in western Ukraine. All of them come to this idyllic place for a couple of days to baptise the nine-month-old son of one of our protagonists. As soon as they rise from the celebratory feast, they have to go back to the front…

Part of the money taken from the sale of tickets will be used for medical evacuation vehicles.

Wise men of different faiths called the same bird by different names, says Grigory Pomerants, a unique thinker of our era. This bird flew to him at the time of the death of his beloved woman.