"Shell" is the common name for a dismantling garage. But more than a third of the shells are used for other purposes. Pensioners Karasevs lived in a shell for 79 days, and almost died. What happened in Moscow in 2006?

Nizhny Tagil resident Andrey Gagarin comes on vacation to his homeland in the Komi-Permyatsky district in the village of Bolshaya Kocha, where in the past he led the folklore group "Micha Asyv" ("Clear Morning"). He visits relatives and friends, together they perform folk songs and dances, talk about the national traditions of their small northern people. In addition, together with all his fellow villagers, Andrei takes part in "bull-killing", an ancient rite of sacrifice of a bull, unusual for modern times.

The protagonist of the picture is a descendant of an old noble family, Viktor Alexandrovich Galagan, a ballet dancer, a graduate of the Leningrad Theater School, now a teacher at a children's ballet school. The son of a famous scientist-economist, one of the founders of Soviet accounting. As a teenager, together with his father, he was subjected to repression. Viktor Alexandrovich's memories of the life of his ancestors are intertwined with his real life in an old dacha in the Moscow region with a dozen beloved dogs and Dunya, a housekeeper.

The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.

Ten young directors spent two months with the camera. The result is chronicles of the protest winter 2011-2012. The film is about those who make a political agenda, and about those who are not satisfied with such an agenda. People, faces, conversations, rallies, victories and defeats on the eve of the presidential election. Live camera, live characters.

The young writer and musician Yevgeny Alekhin is waiting for the release of his first book. But this does not mean that his life is a continuous expectation. There are a lot of things going on in it. Perhaps something of what is happening is much more fateful than expected.

The history of human life in photographs. A very personal film made by a director about his beloved late wife.

Former Afghan Mikhail Puchkov is trying to escape from modern society. He invents a dangerous hobby for himself, builds a submarine and seeks solitude in the troubled waters of the Gulf of Finland. But gradually the passion turns into the meaning of life.

At the turn of the millennium, Viktor Pelevin became perhaps the most fashionable, popular and commercially successful writer in Russia. At the same time, he does not appear in public, does not give interviews, wears dark glasses, and does not like being recognized on the street. Who is he, this mysterious Mr. Pelevin? How did it happen that today the most honorable title for a Russian writer, “ruler of thoughts” turned out to be applicable to him? And how did he manage to keep his "incognito"? All this is reflected in the film by people who knew our elusive protagonist well at different periods of his life, his classmates and teachers, friends of youth and colleagues, writers, critics and publishers.

The phrase "Black holes" appeared thanks to science fiction, but came into use thanks to science, which thereby confirmed their existence. Black holes remain as much a symbol of a bold scientific hypothesis as white spots are a symbol of scientific mystery.

On the eve of demobilization, 13 years ago, during the Second Chechen War, 19-year-old Roman was seriously wounded in the head. He miraculously survived, and spent all these years in a continuous struggle with a physical illness, with his own weakness and despair, trying to learn how to live again.

An honest, tough and at the same time touching film about the everyday life of conscript soldiers.

The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.

At the peak of perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction period, the last and most grandiose museum of the Leader was opened. Soon after the opening, there was a change in ideology, and the flow of pilgrims gradually dried up. Despite this, the museum is still in operation and management is looking for ways to attract visitors. The curators of the museum, loyal to Lenin, are doing their best to resist the advance of commercialization. The film "Leninland" tells about the modern life of this amazing museum-reserve and its employees.

In autumn, one hears a lot in the deserted village. Something you can't express with a regular documentary. But with a mixture of feature films, old newsreels and "visual anthropology" with the restoration of the old rite, you can try.

Zimnik is a temporary road formed when the river freezes. But for the heroes of the film, the local residents, strong and stubborn men, this is a life-long road.

Three hours drive from Moscow twenty year old Seryozha spends his free time. It has been a month since he returned from the army.

In places remote from the capital, amateur art is the main center of beauty and culture. This is an attempt to understand what is "big" and "small" in relation to the soul and homeland.

This family left the city for the countryside, because its head is a typical Russian Munchausen. A dreamer and an unscrupulous. In his yard, he builds a wind turbine and raises beehives with bees to the roof, because in nature, bees live in hollow trees. The wife sometimes argues, sometimes agrees with her husband, takes care of the children, the household and assures that she lives in paradise. And sometimes she plays the piano with her eyes closed. The village around is empty, almost all the inhabitants have left for the cities or died, and the heroes live like on an island. And their children clean the sewers, learn English, German and grow up.

Why are stars so attractive? With its beauty, unexploredness, great remoteness from the earth? Some made this interest their profession and became scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists, others turned it into a hobby and all their free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories observe the starry sky, discovering new stars, giving them names. This film tells about astronomy, astronomers, professionals and amateurs.