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

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.

A film about the work of Russian microbiologists, discoveries, research expeditions. The film also raises the question of how ideas appear, theories and hypotheses are built.

A film about twelve St. Petersburg teenagers who were convicted of criminal offenses under various articles, but received a pardon and their real terms were replaced with conditional ones with the obligation to live in a social rehabilitation center.

With the assassination in 1948 by state security officers of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and Jews. The liquidation of the JAC, the execution of its activists, and the campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitans" form a new state anti-Semitism. The death of Stalin will cancel the massacre, but the former official Russian-Jewish harmony under socialism will no longer be restored. Popularly known superstars have not diminished: Botvinnik is the main chess player, Raikin is the main comedian, Plisetskaya is the main ballerina, Galich and Vysotsky are the main bards, many famous names in various fields, from nuclear physics to light music. But Jews have ceased to be co-authors of Russian communism. And they are no longer allowed into politics, and they themselves are especially actively engaged in "anti-Soviet activities." Without the Jews, the shadow economy is unimaginable, or rather “illegal business”, for which death sentences have been handed down since the early 1960s. And from the middle of the decade, the dissident movement begins to shake the system; the grandchildren of Jewish revolutionaries bring into it the same ardor and fearlessness that their grandfathers did in the overthrow of tsarism. Allowing Jewish emigration in the 1970s makes nationality a means of rejecting socialism and will prove to be a more frequent reason for leaving than the opportunity to reverse one's Russian assimilation. Finally, the collapse of the USSR will put an end to the "Jewish question" in the form in which the last Soviet generations found it.

My neighbor is an ordinary person. But after all, if you observe a person long enough, he ceases to be simple, ordinary. I filmed this film from the window of my apartment for several years. Filmed a neighbor and his beloved old car, to which he is endlessly attached. And in the end, unexpectedly, a movie turned out not about a specific person, but about life in general.

About the cardiac surgeon and the largest collector of contemporary art Mikhail Alshibay.

This film covers 30 years from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture. Triumphs almost always followed by tragedy. Both are part of the history of Russia.

More than twenty years ago, the war ended in Abkhazia. But the shadows wandering in the corridors of the republican psycho-neurological hospital still remind of its consequences. Sometimes it begins to seem that the shadows are us. The monochrome picture of their world sometimes conveys much more meaning than we can perceive.

In 1988, American ships invade Soviet territorial waters. You can't shoot. And the patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet "Selfless" under the command of Vladimir Bogdashin goes to ram.

Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.

Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, Euromaidan activist and native of Crimea. After the Russian annexation of Crimea, he became an active opponent of the occupation. In May 2014 he was arrested by the Russian security service, charged with planned terrorist attacks and transported to Moscow. After over a year in custody, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, despite the fact that the testimonies were given under duress and evidence was insufficient. Sentsov never pled guilty. Director Askold Kurov follows the progress of the trial and the attempts of Oleg’s family, friends and lawyers to save him from prison. The notorious case inspired protests around the world: the European Film Academy and many renowned filmmakers such as Pedro Almodovar, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Ken Loach, Johnny Depp and others called for Oleg’s release. Kurov’s investigation gradually reveals an absurd and frightening Kafkaesque story about how anyone can become a victim of a ruthless state machine.

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered Georgy Danelia the script for the future film "I WALK IN MOSCOW." At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiev! Both of these films will be called the manifesto of the generation of the sixties, symbols of the era called the "thaw".

More than a quarter of a century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We still feel the contradictory echoes of this process and, probably, we will feel it for a long time to come. There is little left that still unites the former citizens of the former empire. And this is not least Soviet food, an absolutely unique socio-cultural phenomenon of Soviet history and Soviet life.

The documentary film Another Life continues the main theme of The Happy People series: man’s faith in himself and his great capacity for survival. This is a film about strong people who are free spirits and who are not concerned with the majority of things that excite city dwellers. Perhaps these fates can serve as an example, can help us see ourselves through another person’s eyes, and allow us to take a new look at our own lives.

This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family comes from and where he spent his childhood. A significant part of the villages is remote from cities and often has no connection with them, except for air transport.

Anatoli and Svetlana live since two years under shelling in their village Pesky, located beside Donetsk Airport. They live partly underground inside their basement, which they transformed into a living place. They are both 72 years old and the last remaining inhabitants of Pesky, where once lived more than 3.000 people before the war broke out between the pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian army. Water, gas and electricity connections are destroyed. The Ukrainian army helps them food supplies. The water well in the garden provides them rain water. Anatoli has been a beekeeper during all his life. The honey bees became part of his life. He feels a deep love and responsibility for them. Abandoning them in the war was no option for him. The elderly couple refused to be evacuated from Pesky, despite the daily non- stop bombing and fighting.

The story of a strange friendship between the Tuvan shaman Chochagar and the American psychologist Alex, who studies shamanic practices and wants to open his Third Eye. A joint journey through the Places of Power will forever change their lives.

Festivals:

- International festival of author's documentary films "ArtDocFest" (2017, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga)
- International Film Festival "Eurasia" (2018, Kazakhstan, Astana)
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2018, Russia, Vyborg)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flaertiana" (2018, Russia, Perm)
- International festival ""Days of ethnographic cinema"" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (2018, Georgia, Batumi)
- Sochi International Film Festival and Film Award (SIFFA), Special Prize (2018, Russia, Sochi)
- International Film Festival ""Ethnografilm Paris"" (2019, France, Paris)
- Documentary Film Festival "Novaya Gazeta" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Millennium Festival (2019, Belgium, Brussels)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York RusDocFilmFest-3W (2019, USA, New York)
- National telecinema forum "Native paths" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Special Prize in the nomination "Educational film" (2019, Russia, Orel)
- Kratovo Ethnological documentary Film Festival (2019, Macedonia, Skopje)
- International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- On The Road Film Festival (2020, Italy, Rome)
- International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology (2020, Russia, Moscow)

A series of video observations in the spirit of "visual anthropology", filmed by the author in the period 2008-2016 in Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland and Russia. Life as it is, strange, incomprehensible, clumsy and beautiful.

In a snow-covered village, the shepherd Ivan Sergeevich lives. Every morning Ivan Sergeyevich cleans up manure and feeds the cows. This is how it goes day after day. One winter morning, an unfamiliar man arrives in the village in an expensive car and offers Ivan Sergeevich a good job in the city. Ivan Sergeevich happily agrees. A stranger takes Ivan Sergeevich from the village to the city…

Grigory Gorin Prize for the best screenplay, diploma of the Guild of Film Critics and Critics at Kinotavr-2017. The film is a participant of international festivals, including "Stalker" and the International Film Festival in Busan.