"To be or not to be" - this sacramental phrase is familiar to many. And now the moment comes when the student has to make a personal choice to be or not to be an artist. What attracts them? The profession itself or the way of life in this profession? What is an artist? The film was based on a three-month observation of applicants to the acting department of VGIK.

The film is dedicated to the formation in modern Russia of a new model of the personality cult of the early 21st century. This is a short story from the life of the country's political elite. The film was shot using the method of observation, thanks to which there is a feeling of an endless theater of the absurd, in which the modern political leaders of Russia and their people continue to dwell.

The Russians won the Great Patriotic War not because they suffered great sacrifices, but simply because they fought better. The secret of victory lies in the fact that everyone invested in it not only their life, blood, labor, but also talent. It was in the Novorossiysk-Taman operation of 1943 and in the September assault on Novorossiysk that this manifested itself very clearly. This particular operation of the Second World War is traced and reconstructed with the utmost scrupulousness, using genuine newsreels and eyewitness accounts.

Journalist and activist Barrett Brown is released from prison after spending four years. This is a film about the first days after release, about Brown's trip through Texas on his way to rehab.

A film-dialogue with Russian entrepreneurs during the spread of the coronavirus. This is the personal experience of those who have had to take great responsibility for themselves, their families, employees and customers during this difficult time. Heads and representatives of VKontakte, Citimobil, hh.ru, Delivery Club, British American Tobacco, Pyaterochka, Dodo Pizza, Gett and many others shared their stories.

The inhabitants of seven different parts of the world are trying to answer the questions ‘What is love for you?’. The group includes: the members of two Papuan tribes, the Himalayan nomads, the residents of Northern India, France, Russia and Poland. A full-length documentary by Krystian Matysek is a global portrayal of lovers and married couples who live on one planet at the same time but in different places and cultures. It is a polyphonic chronicle of amorous incidents.

A documentary and poetic film about the life of the poet and front-line soldier Boris Abramovich Slutsky.

We don't choose our love. And love chooses for us. And when we love, we don't care if our chosen one is complete from an ordinary point of view. This is what love is. About such a love that raises questions, and tells the film. About the love of ordinary people and disabled people.

Young and old, gays and straights, intellectuals and blue-collars, natives and outcasts, they have all experienced love. Five New York City couples, aged 18 to 89, went through the familiar phases of love from charm to separation to addiction to addiction over the course of one year. And director Andresevic documented a year of their lives with humor and sympathy. That is love and everything else. What is further and perhaps more love.

Sergei Dovlatov and his era. People and books. Compromises and non-conformism.

The author of this film was convinced that between his godfather, a prosperous citizen of the European Union, and a young woman from a third world country, there can be no sincere relationship, because there is not and cannot be equality between them. This is the logic of life, the director believed. But he had to make sure that there is also the logic of love in the world, which should also be taken into account.

Three American couples, from a social point of view, completely "socially stable", reject the idea of ​​​​traditional relationships for the sake of swing, sex with strangers, which ... Actually, which what? Why do they need sex with strangers? What are they looking for in fleeting "penetrations"? And what does an “open” relationship lead to? And do all their participants go to swing voluntarily, and not to please their beloved? And why are these people not ashamed to appear in front of the camera in the nude and almost at the moment of the “act”? What, in general, leads them? These questions are posed in their film, which tracks the relationship of three swinging couples for a whole year, the authors, the Ganz brothers.

Love in old age is forever. Because tomorrow may not be.

Love in kindergarten is a game, half an hour after a serious relationship, you can marry someone else.

Andrei is 56 years old. When he was born, there was no diagnosis of autism in Russia yet. His mother, Anna Arkadyevna Dolinina, first learned about autism from the movie Rain Man. Andrey himself, when he saw the movie, said, "No, I'm not like that, I can't count so quickly."

"Israel is such a tiny country that the name of its capital takes up more space on the map than the country itself." In this film, the poet Igor Huberman gives us a tour of one of the youngest states and one of the most ancient countries, Israel. He will tell about cities and reserves, about religions and people, about traditions and holidays.

The author of the film refutes the conventional wisdom that people in Moscow live differently than in the rest of Russia. Moving with a camera and filming people as they approach the Kremlin - 280 km, 180 km, 7 km, 2 km from the Kremlin, he shows that life and problems at different distances from the center are very similar. In the very heart of the capital, the Moscow Kremlin, the most disadvantaged residents of the city will have a free tour for guests of the capital.

Viktor Valerevich Mumikhotkak also known as „Mukha“, Yupik Eskimo from the hamlet New Chaplino (Chukotka, Russia), died tragically in 2012. Somebody stabbed him in his abdomen and cut off his fingers. In 2014, when young Alla Ukuma gave birth to her first son, her mother told her: „Last night I saw Mukha in my dream. He had come back in your boy. Let us name your baby Viktor.“ According to the local people, the dead can return to the realm of the living up to five times. This film essay on life, death and possible return poses the universal question: how do you confront your own end?

This is my hundredth film. I always shoot about what I don't know in order to find out. I can't do anything, only make movies. The heroes of this film can't do anything either, only play music. This film is about me and other non-universal people that are changing our world. This film is about recording a piece of music at night.

"Behind every strong man is a strong woman!", Mumine shouts as her husband is arrested. She has 4 children, she's in her mid-30s, and she's the wife of a Crimean Tatar political prisoner. Muslim Crimean Tatars have been oppressed for a long time. They were deported under Stalin, allowed to return under Gorbachev, and since the occupation of Crimea in 2014 under Putin, they are being persecuted again. "Return" is a portrait of Mumine and Maye, two strong women struggling with the consequences of oppression. Their traditional understanding of their role as women does not stand in the way of their dedication. They possess strength, beauty and dignity. Only in their most intimate moments, they are overwhelmed by desperate helplessness.