Madina Mustafina again takes root in the forbidden, taboo territory. The heroine of the picture is a modern 18-year-old girl Zhenya, not burdened with social obligations. As a typical bearer of youth subculture, she is not endowed with special talents and lives an ordinary life of a growing up provincial girl, loves to dance, meets guys, teaches her friends how to kiss. In general, neither the norms of behavior, nor the manner of speech, nor the desire to please, in any other way, does she differ from thousands of other girls. Except for one thing: the girl Zhenya is actually a boy.

This is a film about the Great Patriotic War, as the famous Russian writer Viktor Astafiev saw and knew it. A rare recording was made two years before his death. In it, he, not embarrassed in expressions, tells the whole bitter and terrible truth of the war that he went through as a simple soldier. The tape was awarded the Golden Eagle Prize of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia as the best documentary film and the Laurel Branch Award as the best feature film.

Ust-Tsilma is only seven hills and the coast. On the one hand, there is the mighty Pechora, on the other, there are impenetrable forests and swamps. Everything in this distant land breathes death. The Old Believers honor and respect her, because the path to the grave is nothing more than a test, preparation for the eternal. By accepting death, one can learn to understand life.

"Pentagons" is the name given to a semi-dilapidated house in Novouzensk, Saratov region, lacking heating and sanitation. For six months, Andrejs Lošaks and his filming crew observed people who "survive rather than live." The documentary series "Pentagons" portrays the poorest inhabitants of Russia, individuals who have entered an unspoken agreement with the state: you don't interfere with us, and we won't interfere with you. But then, the war began...

For several years, the author has been making film observations of his heroes, peasants from two neighboring villages in the Lipetsk region. One of them, Uncle Vanya, is a poet, a local Kulibin, who builds a starship. The second, Uncle Kolya, wandered through life in an alcoholic stupor, but one day, having experienced a severe shock, he got out onto the “sober” highway. The most remarkable thing about the film is the author's point of view.

If you stop a passerby in a European town and tell them that most of the Christmas trees originate in Georgia, they would be surprised – usually, the label says “Denmark”. We observe the two communities involved in this business. One in Denmark, and the other one in Georgia. We can see many things in common between them and discover also the huge differences in their living conditions, attitudes, and mentality. The seeds of the fir cones are harvested every autumn in Georgia and then sold to the Danish, who grow the seedlings for 7 years to sell them across Europe. These fir trees grow as tall as 60 meters, and to reach the best cones, the pickers have to climb to the very top. Sometimes they lose their balance and fall. Is this all worth the lost lives of cone pickers? Does the multi-billion Christmas tree business redeem something in exchange?

The heroes of the film are the pathologist and his work. This is a favorite job, where everything is arranged for life. Bookshelves, selection of music gourmet CDs: Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, etc. On the walls are oil paintings with views of the morgue. No cynicism, only professionalism, humor and a dream come true of a person who, from childhood, dreamed of understanding why a person actually dies.

Imagine that everything you did before is no longer needed by anyone. Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Lyuda are top manager, shop manager, senior foreman, engineer, storekeeper and workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant. Likhachev. They hold on with all their might to routine and professional pride to endure in circumstances where everything around them is collapsing. And now, for the first time in 20 years, the plant receives an order from the Ministry of Defense to produce three classic ZIL convertibles for the Victory Parade on Red Square. Special Shop Director Mikhail and his team are excited to get down to business to prove their worth.

The film, consisting of eight parts, is fragments of Andrei Bely's biography scattered over time.

As a result of a trauma received at birth, Vera Kazakova became disabled from childhood and, having lost the opportunity to move freely, it seemed that she was doomed to lead a reclusive life. But she managed to change the destined course of events. Vera found the strength not only to get a decent education, to give birth to a son, but also to actively fight for the revival of her small homeland.

This film is about Alexander Orlov, a resident of Soviet intelligence, who disappeared without a trace in Spain in 1938. For more than thirty years, “KGB militants” have been looking for him in order to destroy a man who was involved in most major world operations, in particular, in the export of all gold reserves from Spain to the USSR and the development of an operation to destroy Leon Trotsky.

The film tells about one of the most mysterious peoples of the planet, the Dogon. The Dogon live in southeastern Mali in villages scattered over the rocks of Bandiagara like bird nests. They consider themselves aliens from the planet Sirius B and have knowledge in the field of the structure of the solar system, which scientists became aware of only at the end of the 19th century. Together with the hunter Assama and his family, the author gradually comprehends the multifaceted palette of Dogon life.

In December 1927, a funeral car arrived in Leningrad, at the Moscow railway station. It brought an urn with the ashes of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and a glass jar with the brain of a scientist hidden from the public eye. Just a few days before, he had gone to Moscow for a congress of psychiatrists. However, according to a telegram recently found in the archives of the Leningrad Institute of the Brain, Professor Bekhterev was urgently summoned to Moscow by the Council of People's Commissars. The last time he was summoned to the Kremlin was three years earlier to see the seriously ill Lenin. To whom was this urgent call? What happened on that mysterious night before Christmas? And are there any documents about the illness and death of Academician Bekhterev?

A film about the narrow-gauge railway Seven-city - Druzhba. The film crew went to one of the most remote villages in the Vologda Oblast, which survives only on this narrow gauge railway. The train went for 5 hours, in addition, periodically derailed.

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.

A story about the unknown pages of the largest victories of Russian science and technology, about brilliant inventions and strong people.

“Kapustin Yar, the place where Alyosha lives, an autistic boy, is a rocket testing ground. I don’t believe that there are places forgotten by God. And I’m trying to guess the plan that combines human strength and apparent weakness at the same time in one place,” says directed by Arkady Kogan.

Our house immerses into the silence of the night, is covered with long shadows, plays with occasional flashes of the warm flame of a kerosene lamp. Darkness for little Stesha turns out to be a tool for the discovery of another world, sometimes scary, sometimes fascinating. Fragments of vague memories, voices, flashes of light – the precious feelings of early childhood that remain with us forever.

The authors of the film violated the boundaries of what was permitted by choosing a deliberately provocative topic for their work: tense interethnic relations within the framework of one single family, where a native of the former Soviet Union and an Ethiopian girl were preparing for the wedding. The question is legitimate whether the son-director had the right to bring rubbish from the hut to a wide public court. These are the most intimate details of the relationship with your own mother, is one of our fundamental commandments about respect for parents violated here?

The film tells about the exploits performed by Soviet naval paratroopers during the Second World War during the battle with the Nazi troops on the Black Sea.