One lady, a director from the provinces, travels to Moscow to see the dream of her life, the superman of the twentieth century, director Nikita Mikhalkov. And the meeting will take place.

He was the first German to photograph Auschwitz. He became the chronicler of the young FRG and GDR. His iconic pictures of the ‘68 movement shape our perception to this day. He continues to work on a series of photographs that he began years ago: the legendary photographer Michael Ruetz. His family originally came from Riga and were publishers of the newspaper "Rigaer Rundschau". Out of fear of Stalin, the family emigrated to Germany in the early 1940s, but they came from bad to worse.

Festivals:
DokFest Munich (Germany, 2023)
DokFest Kassel (Germany, 2023)

Donetsk. Hundreds of sick and wounded children are in urgent need of evacuation. Saint Petersburg. Thousands of lonely elderly people are waiting for help. At the center of the story are two women. Human rights activist Elizaveta Glinka and sister of mercy of the yellow cross Nadezhda Karakozova. Two different worlds, two different troubles, but one common to all, namely, female mercy.

The author of the film began filming his daughter Ella immediately after her birth. He documents the first year and a half of Ella's life, the first experience of her fatherhood, the experience of feelings and gains associated with the stages of the transformation of an infant into a small person.

A film about the life and work of the famous television director Ildus Kurmaleev, the chief director of the Red Square television holding.

Lida Blinova is well-known in the scene of the first contemporary art wave, particularly amongst architects who were very much engaged in arts in 1970s Almaty. However, almost no legacy of her art practices is left for researchers, historians and following generations of today. Being in many senses a shadow-artist of a bigger star, her husband Rustam Khalfin, directors of the documentary are questioning the possibility of the freedom of choice among Kazakhstani women artists like Lida Blinova, embarking on a biographical journey through the genealogy of contemporary art and its formation in Kazakhstan. So, the fundamental question is whether Lida Blinova was a shadow artist or an alter ego?

As Russia wages its physical war against Ukraine, a deeper cultural revolution has been unfolding for three decades – as Ukraine's modern architects have been radically transforming Ukraine's towns & cities with each new project they build – and serving as a deliberate catalyst to accelerate the transformation of society. This film is an anthology of 6 stories of leading architects in Ukraine who are independently spearheading war-related projects.

On the outskirts of Donetsk Petrovna, a shell flew into the house. Everything was blown to smithereens, two washing machines were broken, Masha the parrot was rushing around the cage, there was a tragedy in the family. The sons of Petrovna, laughing and swearing, pull out the remaining junk from the destroyed hut and transport the family to the old Soviet bomb shelter, which has been preserved since Soviet times. And they still consider themselves lucky: “The main thing is that everyone is alive.” On the other side of the front line, on the outskirts of Ukrainian-controlled Svetlodarsk, lives a very similar Petrovna of the same age. She was lucky - the shell hit the neighbors' house, and her barn only burned down. She watches the video, which shows the first Petrovna, and sympathizes: “Everything is the same as we have.” In the third family, in Gorlovka, everything is in order so far. They are already accustomed, just a little, to hide in the basement and live in constant expectation that a shell will fly to them. There's a pry bar in the basement in case the door gets blocked. The film-reportage shows the war in Ukraine on both sides of the front, people separated by an invisible line that suddenly marked the once united land.

This mockumentary is about people who, for various reasons, have become holograms. So, scientists launched an experiment, a person got the opportunity to refuse to exist in the body, to become digital through translation into a hologram. It is impossible to return to the body. A holographic person retains memory, consciousness, vision, hearing, and the ability to speak. Ordinary people see holograms without special devices and can come into contact with them. A new technology that changes the existence of man. Evolution or another form of escape? Some of those who have already become a hologram are trying to understand this.

DJ Tyomati's stepfather attends a shooting range, anticipating a swift victory for Russia in the "special military operation," but he is not eager to participate in it yet. The young man has different intentions – evading mobilization, he boards a plane for the first time in his life and ends up in Armenia, where everything seems new and strange. Despite emigration evolving into a survival journey for him, Tyomati remains resilient, while the video calls with his stepfather can turn into farewell conversations if he chooses to volunteer for the war.

Kholodny Yar is a mysterious place in the very center of Ukraine, where history intersects with the present in a strange way. It seems that nature remembers all the uprisings and battles, of which there were many. And to this day, outcasts, vagabonds, esotericists, downshifters and just people flock to Cold Yar in search of their place. In a mosaic meditative narrative, the filmmakers try to understand why people find a sense of freedom here.

The director's older brother Saif committed suicide. Shortly before that, her mother died, it seems, an alcoholic. The director feels devastation, despair and loneliness. And he finally decides to do what he has been putting off for a long time and what he is afraid of, namely, to find an Egyptian father who once left his wife and small children and returned to Egypt. Having lost his family, Sami goes to Egypt. He will not find a father, but he will find a family in people who were not yet strangers, in a country not so long ago. And the Egyptian brother, the kindest man, will weep with him over the death of his Danish brother.

The story of the Tel Aviv Photohouse, once the photo studio of Rudy Weissenstein. The Photohouse has been sentenced to demolition, but Weissenstein's 96-year-old widow Miriam is determined to fight for her husband's life's work. This inflexible woman found the main ally and defender of the Photohouse in the one from whom she least expected it, in her grandson Ben. They, who survived a huge loss some time ago, are now united by concern for the fate of the Photohouse.

A century ago, the grandparents of film director Peter Entell had to flee Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres. One hundred years later, Entell faces the same destructive nationalism. People continue to kill in the name of the mother country, flag, culture, religion … The memory of the atrocities suffered by the Jews, the Tatar Muslims of Crimea, and the Orthodox population, is transmitted from generation to generation, and with it the poison of hatred. Crossing checkpoints, Peter Entell takes us from the loyalist Ukrainians to the pro-Russian separatists. The purpose is not to show who is right or wrong – humanity itself is defeated. In the midst of this senseless violence, Like Dew in the Sun transcends cultural, religious and national differences to uncover the deeper bonds that unite us all.

Russian citizens who rebelled against the authoritarian policy of Moscow are seeking asylum in Ukraine. Are they welcomed here? We follow political refugee from Russia Alexey Vetrov who tries to get refugee status in Ukraine. Despite all the burdens of living with no documents, he works and participates many civil actions. The escape of Nurkhan, a journalist, was forced by her covering the so-called Osh massacre in Kyrgyzstan. Now she and her three teenage daughters are seeking for asylum in Ukraine.

The Law "On the redistribution of agricultural land" was one of the first initiatives of the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. During its implementation, thousands of white farmers were dispossessed. They surrendered without a fight out of fear. And only the old farmer Mike Campbell, whose family owned fruit plantations in Zimbabwe for several generations, was not afraid. He and his son-in-law Ben declared war on Mugabe's reform. Neither threats nor severe beatings stopped them. The film follows the Campbell family in their struggle to own what has been theirs for centuries, until the victory that was the decision of the South African Tribunal for Racial Discrimination and Human Rights.

The film explores the growing problems in Ukraine—issues that many are becoming accustomed to, even as they escalate. It delves into the perspectives of Ukrainians and how they navigate this complex and evolving reality.

The poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936-2013) gained wide popularity primarily as a member of the dissident movement and one of the legendary eight who, on August 25, 1968, went to Red Square to protest against the invasion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, paying for it with several years in prison. Gorbanevskaya was often called a heroine. She retorted, "I'm not a heroine, I'm an ordinary person." The authors of the film show several episodes from the life of Natalia Gorbanevskaya, wondering what kind of poet, woman, mother she was, and how her fate was after forced emigration from the USSR.

The languages that once sang me lullabies, torment, destroy, and kill. And I fade away with them. The lullabies fall silent. An internal monologue between two languages and identities.

"Marian Hertz: Model and Ideal Mother", this is how the director's grandmother was presented in a glossy magazine of the 50s. His father, uncle and aunt smile ironically when they see this headline, because their childhood was far from ideal, they ended up in an orphanage when they were very young. And now the relationship with the 95-year-old mother is extremely difficult. Soon after his father completely broke off relations with his grandmother, Tom goes to South Africa at her invitation, where she started a new life some time ago. And he finds answers to painful family questions and new experiences there.