Zakhar Prilepin is a writer, journalist, screenwriter. The winner of numerous awards talks about his life: cities, meetings, family and work.

Luda has not spoken with her daughter Masha for 30 years. They live in different countries, speak different languages. Accidently recorded first conversation between them has inspired the director to produce this film. Is there any family connection left between them? Is it possible to recover it with a call or a meeting? This film is the personal story of the director`s family. It has never been discussed before. Director`s grandmother and aunt are the main characters of the film who are talking about their past for the first time in public.

Lena managed to find her dream job, she is a crane operator. But daily routine dulls even the most lively delight. Climbing a hundred-meter staircase has turned into ordinary exercise, and even the amazing sunsets are not pleasing. But Lena does not agree to live and work on autopilot.

Eight unique stories about the places and personalities of Rostov-on-Don. The film is part of a media project in which participants, ordinary people of different ages and professions, make films. Documenting the life of their native city, the authors themselves become the main characters of the film, viewing the world through the camera lens, they gradually change their attitude towards it and themselves.

The revolution changes the social, political "landscapes", but above all, it changes the real landscape. For centuries, the center of no capital in the world has looked like Kyiv's Maidan in the past year, looking both like a medieval city and a futuristic fantasy. The revolution, like a medieval carnival, changes the functions of things, shifts them from their places, mixes concepts.

There are almost one million people living with HIV in Russia, but the virus is still widely regarded as a “sinners’ disease”. Sasha Volgina - HIV positive, pregnant and bustling with energy – leads a young activist group protesting against the shortage of antiretrovirals. While fighting for the medicines essential for her and her unborn baby, she faces reluctant government, AIDS denialists and her own past as a heroin addict.

In 1965, Grigory Pomerants read the famous anti-Stalinist report "On the Moral Role of the Personality" at the Institute of Philosophy. In the 60-70s, the time of recognition of Grigory Solomonovich and a long time of persecution began at the same time.

The main character of the film is a tenth-grader who is fond of tattoos, a typical representative of a certain stratum of modern youth, a representative of the younger generation of the millennium. Not a street boy, but completely homely, he is not going to give up his comfort, but he does not particularly strive for more than he has.

A four-novel documentary about the city of Leningrad on the verge of the USSR's collapse. The main characters of the film are independent photographers who documented that time period.

The town of Kupyansk was one of the first places in Ukraine to fall to Russian invaders. Six months later it was recaptured by Ukraine. Left in the ruins of the town, residents are now grappling with questions of guilt and complicity. This film reconstructs the mechanisms of the occupation with those who lived through it: those who were at some point able to flee, and those who stayed. The documentary hears from residents who collaborated as well as those who resisted, whether openly or in secret. It illustrates a panorama of life under occupation and poses the big questions of guilt and complicity.

Six years ago, Natasha was a man, and now she is happy to be in a female form. Boldly reincarnating, she went through many trials and found herself. Natasha is a self-sufficient and cheerful person who was able to live a full-fledged male life, and decided to realize herself in a female guise. Natasha makes people fall in love with her, leaving no room for callousness and rudeness. And then the wildest dreams come true.

"Happiness is not a wallet on the road. It opens from within, and in order for it to open, all the past, all the failures in which the soul came true," Grigory Pomerants wrote. This film is about him. About his path through the influx of love, through an explosion of passion and the tragedy of the death of a loved one to a great love that cancels death itself.

Filled and inspired by the idea of selfless service to people, despite the incredible everyday difficulties and the almost daily threat to health, Volodya and his family live on the lands of the primitive Turkana tribe, trying to make the lives of these people a little easier. The hardships of serving in Africa are shared by many of our heroes' compatriots. By helping financially and regularly making short visits, benefactors feel spiritual belonging, while treating the life of the local people as an unprecedented attraction.

Quiet aria is a docu-drama about drug addicts in rehabilitation. They live in the village of Pashitni, Pskov region. A quiet area of the region is now welcomes the new fates of the boys, who are barely eighteen. They were left with a prayer, a herd of cows, a summer sky black with stars, a pack of cigarettes for each, a ghostly hope for a bright tomorrow, and they themselves had each other.

An intimate autobiographical tale exploring emotions, anxieties, fears, and hopes in the days leading up to marriage.

Diana and Vladimir love each other for more than seven years. After a sudden quarrel, Vladimir flew to the island of Bali. Diana is already ready to forgive him and is looking forward to when he returns to her in St. Petersburg. After eight months of separation, they want to finally meet and decide how to live on.

An essay in memory of Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov and the city of Kyiv where he was born and lived.

Classical filmmaker Hertz Frank has responded to an offer from the Visions du Reel Film Festival to renowned documentary filmmakers to make haiku films. And so, “In the morning today, frost revealed a miracle to me: life after death...”

Self-harm is a growing term for non-suicidal self-harm, a symptom of many mental personality disorders. This film is an attempt to remove the stigma of taboo and public condemnation of such behavior.

A Father and a son are organizing a children's film festival in the village, as each of them has to make a film of his own - their mobile phones serve as cameras, a shovel turns into a tripod. The actors are their own children and grandchildren… The process turns into a real test for both directors and actors. It is a documentary comedy about a father, a son and a large family who live happily in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.