The hero of the film is an ordinary Moscow teenager. And he lives a completely ordinary life of a Moscow teenager. With one exception, he is a fan of the game "Dog High", although he has not played it for a long time. But today he will try to play again. According to statistics, over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 teenagers have died from strangulation games.

Butterflies from a private farm are participating in a classical music concert. The story about their birth, the journey to the music hall and the bright but short performance is a reminder of our struggles and shortness of our life. The goal of the movie is not to save the world. It will not make the life of the butterfly longer, not even for a second, but will provide an opportunity to contemplate the beauty of life and inevitability of its end.

A young woman recounts her love story against the backdrop of Russia’s troubled first decade of the 21st century. A heartfelt chronicle of Marusya and Kimi’s 12-year-long relationship, wrought with addiction and mental health issues, paints a portrait of an entire generation struggling to find themselves and feeling extremely vulnerable.

Belarus, 2020. Not so far away, history is in the making. While an entire nation stands up, united for their truth, demanding free and fair elections, police violence erupts and peaceful protesters are put in jail. Physically and mentally traumatized people try to live on. Through the stories of ordinary Belarussian families, we see pain and hope and feel the fear and determination of these people.

The ancient city of Soligalich, an open-air city-museum, seems to have frozen in space and time. . In the workshop, which stands on the site of a former church, women make felt boots by hand. The heroines of the film, imbued with powerful energy and natural artistry, are bright, strong and vital. As guardians of this ancient craft, they are the spirit and the backbone of the country and worthy of the brush of the best artists.

The film is available only on the territory of the Russian Federation.

In the center of the story is the amateur women's choir of the city of Tikhvin. Each of its participants is an ordinary woman who in everyday life is completely unrelated to the stage. Some of them are a shop assistant, someone is engaged in garbage collection, and someone even works as a loader to provide themselves with shelter and food. But all of them are united by a love of music and hope for a brighter future. The arrival of the Italian delegation in the city becomes a real glimpse among the gray everyday life of our protagonists, and their dreams at this moment seem even more illusory.

It is a film about pigs, cows and chicken. Black and white. Without words. Without music. Victor Kossakovsky is offering not just a mesmerizing poetic work of art but also a wonderful life experience. We get to know Gunda the sow, her family and neighbors, and it gives us the reason to think about the secret of consciousness and the value of life of those with whom we share this planet.

Trains cut through the night. Together with the whistle of the locomotive, the roar of the wagons disappears in the distance. But the people who fell asleep at the station, as if waiting for the train, continue to sleep. What are they really waiting for?

In December 2016 was arrested russian historian, specialist in the history of state repressions - Yuri Dmitriev. Most people don't believe in the charges against him, the case falling apart in court. But case is continue and the historian is still under arrest. Life of Yuri Dmitriev and his family was destroyed by the state. This documentary and animation film - is story about friendship one of author of film and girl, who was foster daughter of Yuri Dmitriev and who stood in the center of the process.

A documentary comedy about what is happening in the world outside the window of the author's apartment in a more or less historical district of St. Petersburg. The film was shot with an open camera from an open window in the year of preparation for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the city.

Leon does not want to go to jail. After years of heroin use, he therefore has to commit to therapy. His father Hans-Joachim does not want to die. The artist tries to overcome death through his diaries. For the first time after a long break, Leon visits his father in the Hessian hills. It will be the last time they see each other.

The film is almost speechless. Because it's about the value of sound. And about the deaf. These people differ from those who hear only in that they live in absolute silence, but this does not mean at all that they are flawed or unhappy. The world of silence is just as interesting and significant for them as for those who hear it is the world of sounds.

In March 2018, oncologist surgeon Andrei Pavlenko found out that he had stomach cancer. For almost two years, Andrey fought the disease and simultaneously performed operations, created his own department in the clinic, and launched his own charitable foundation. All this time it was filmed by a team of special projects of the portal "Takie Dela". Andrey's chances of recovery were about 50/50. Eight cycles of chemotherapy, gastric removal, recovery, community service and depression is what he went through during treatment. On January 5, 2020, Andrei died. Before his death, realizing that there was not much time left, he gave his last interview. It became the basis of the film.

Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), a 36-year-old high-achieving academic, grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen — his close friend and high-school classmate, for the first time he tells the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. Through heartfelt interviews between Jonas and Amin, FLEE tells an unforgettable story of self-discovery. It reveals how only by confronting the past is it possible to carve out a future; and the universal truth that only when you stop fleeing from who you are can you find the true meaning of home.

Most researchers consider Andrei Platonov's novel "Chevengur" a great dystopia, but there are people who are sure that there was a settlement with the same or a similar name, for example, Kuchugury, and with the same fate. And in general, there is a view of Platonov as a brilliant documentary filmmaker who did not compose anything, but only wrote down how it really was.

The mother of nine children tells her story. Together with her children, she runs across a large country from poverty, disorder and her husband. Runs and cannot stop in any way, because it is not so easy to find a place where you can survive. The main character is torn between children and work; the school where the younger ones study, and the wedding of the eldest daughter; understanding that with her children she is not needed by the country and others, and the knowledge that she needs children, and they need her, and only for this you need to survive.

One of the inventions of the 20th century that changed the world is television. It appeared thanks to the work of many inventors, one of which is a Russian American, the creator of wireless image transmission technology at a distance, Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin. Paradoxically, he is almost unknown in his homeland.

A spirited 20-year-old Left Block activist tries to find common ground among Russia’s political activists and opposition groups, hoping to bring positive changes to society. Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of open-minded people desperately resist Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The film is dedicated to the dramatic fate of cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov. He was the second understudy of Yuri Gagarin, had a certificate of cosmonaut number 3. But he never flew into space. Moreover, after the forced separation from the cosmonaut corps, Nelyubov's life was tragically cut short.

Sasha Sokolov is a man of mystery. Even more is known about his father, a deeply classified GRU agent, than about his son, a famous Russian writer. Sasha Sokolov's main novel "School for Fools" was called the Russian "The Catcher in the Rye", and Sasha himself was exalted to the "Russian Joyce". In 1975, Sokolov disappeared from the Soviet Union, published three novels, and either disappeared or closed himself off from the world. Many of his fans are sure that he has long been dead. The authors of the film did not just find out that the great Russian writer is alive, they found out that he (like his father) has been leading an interesting double life all these years. They searched for it in different countries and found it. And the writer Sasha Sokolov agreed to speak for the first time. The conversation went on for ten days. The writer spoke about life, simultaneously revealing the secrets of his secret biography, his and his family.