The film is a study of drag culture in Russia and the life of Russian drag queens in St. Petersburg compared to similar artists from Western countries, where at one time there was a sexual revolution and they became icons of pop culture. Is travesty an art? What is hidden under the mask of foundation and powder? What brought young people into the drag queen business?

An ironic film about how the mayor of one of the Czech villages decided to enter into an unequal battle with the United States of America itself. The mayor and the villagers try to thwart American plans to place a military base on their doorstep. The actors in this play are, in addition to fellow villagers, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama, peace fighters and lobbyists representing the interests of American arms manufacturers. Will the mayor of the town of Trokavets with a population of eighty people be able to stand against the United States? The Czech World shows geopolitics in action and how it affects ordinary people. The personal collides with the impersonal, the concrete with the universal, and man with the so-called "great history".

Documentary film about the late age of motherhood. The director of the film tells his own story. The doctor warns her about the possible difficulties with pregnancy due to endometriosis and insists on urgent IVF. However, in vitro fertilization is a process that you need to be prepared for. Both financially and morally. You also need to have a permanent partner and family support. What if one of the items is missing? What if a few are missing?

Latvian filmmaker returns to Riga to look after his ill Father. Instead of documenting his prolonged stay, he creates a sarcastically fictionalised and hard-to-define personal rollercoaster film, constructed from home videos, reinvented moments, funny improvisations, bright memories, social media interventions, and occasional observational footage accompanied by a written monologue. Real-life situations blend into scripted scenes and wicked interpretations in this snappy comical family diary. Stubborn and grumpy ailing Talivaldis expected son Gunars to arrive only to his funeral. One day the cynical father wishes to look for the right way to the cemetery. Gunars aims to prove that he’ll be alright and asks massage therapist Maria to pretend to be his loving girlfriend.

A school history teacher lives with the idea of a communist revolution in Russia. Organizes a circle of like-minded people. They decide to start small, to save the monument to Dzerzhinsky, which is about to be demolished. However, on the path of great achievements, novice revolutionaries are waiting for alcohol and love.

When Putin called on Russians to kill Ukrainians in the war initiated by him, Anton Shmakov found himself at a crossroads; he could stay in Russia and wait for the summons, or answer his own call and create art. The titled dancer chooses the latter. Leaving the plastic theater in the past, Anton becomes one of tens of thousands of Russians who decided to try their luck in Kazakhstan.

The film is a tribute to the most prominent figures in the world of documentary. For a long time, the famous documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya has been interviewing her fellow filmmakers, the pioneers of American documentary filmmaking. Her interlocutors were Richard Leacock, Albert Meisles, Robert and Ann Drew, Chris Hegedus, Jonas Mekas, Allan King, D.A. Pennbaker, Michael Rubbo and others. All of them tell about the making of films that today are considered classics in documentary film history. We also have the opportunity to attend workshops by people whose experience is a source of inspiration for many.

“Olya is cool. There is a little sparkle next to her, from how light and joyful she is. But her ex-man is not cool at all, and left her a scar as a keepsake, ”this is how the blog of Rina Tsunami, a tattoo artist from Vladimir, begins. She collects the stories of women who come to her studio to hide traces of burns, cuts, gunshot wounds. Covering scars, Rina helps women forget about violence and start life anew. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Valeria Panteeva organizes the Tattoos Instead of Scars project with the Maverick studio. The masters of the tattoo studio, like Rina, cover the scars of victims of domestic violence. But some women don't want them to hide their scars. For Rachel from Newport (UK), the gunshot wound became part of her, her pride, the horror story she was able to live through. Rachel has written a book about violence, collects signatures for petitions to change English law, and creates help groups for those like her.

The film is dedicated to the work of one of the most famous Russian composers, the author of the first Soviet rock opera Alexander Zhurbin. The 4 episodes tell about the different facets of the composer's work, about symphonic music, about musical theater, about cinema, about pop songs. The film is built as a monologue of the protagonist, the shooting was carried out in Moscow, Tashkent, New York, St. Petersburg. The composer's wife, poet and translator Irina Ginzburg, and the son, composer Lev Zhurbin, take part in the film.

A chronicle of a theater project unique for the Russian stage, staged by the British director, actor and psychologist Alex Dauer as part of the Territory festival in the Perm penal colony No. 29.

In October 1947, the "Black Book" was to be published in Moscow - a collection of testimonies and articles about the murder of two million and seven hundred thousand Jews under Nazi occupation in the Soviet Union. The book was shelved by the authorities. The Holocaust of Soviet Jews as if it had never occurred at all. Why did Stalin decide to hide the solid and documented evidence of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union? Did Soviet Jewry’s enthusiasm on the establishment of the State of Israel cause collective punishment against them by the government? Since the revolution, Soviet Jews had been considered loyal partners in the building and administration of the Soviet Union. Why and how did they became suspects of dual loyalty, potential traitors, second class citizens?

Edited by Lydia Tsvokbenkel.

The Center for Contemporary Art on Yakimanka is one of the most important contemporary art institutions of the 1990s in Moscow. It was here that the first open platform for any form of self-expression was created. New artists, gallery owners and curators appeared here, the main events of the artistic life of the last decade of the 20th century took place.

Is it possible to tell about modern Russia in 29 minutes? No. But "Victory Day" is one of the sections of Russia, shown through the stories of protagonists.

At the age of 21, Vasily Vlasov became the youngest parliamentarian in the Russian Duma. With his self-confidence, he could become a new, fresh voice in Parliament. But Vasily's ideals are rooted in the past, sitting at the table in his kitchen, he explains that women should obey their husbands and learn more modest professions, such as being nurses or teachers at school. His friend Katya, who is the same age as Vasily and has her own political ambitions, listens with a smile.

Search for lost time. Against the backdrop of the epoch, we observe pictures from the life of several families in a small seaside town, which at one time was “Soviet Nice”.

The film shows how the famous Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov reflects the events taking place in Russia in his works. We will see his entire creative path from the first successes in the theater to feature films. We will see that the rise and fall of the director's star is also a reflection of Russian cultural politics, from a brief flowering of artistic freedom under Medvedev to a conservative culture backed by authoritarian measures.

Dealing with the dangers of popularizing religious bigotry, the film examines the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, where American missionaries were sent to establish schools and hospitals. Evangelical leaders in the US and Uganda are trying to eradicate "sexual sin" and turn Ugandans into fundamentalist Christians.

No one has yet canceled golden goosebumps. Where are they from? The film is a reflection on the nature of the voice, the essence of creative searches and the origins of musical destiny.

The city of Sochi is Russia's "Riviera", a traditional summer resort for wealthy Russians. It was he who was chosen to host the 2014 Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee. It was a strange choice. When the IOC made the decision, there was not a single place in Sochi suitable for Olympic purposes of any kind. A dubious event was the large-scale construction of an artificial “winter” in a subtropical climate. The closer the Winter Olympics, the greater the depth of contradictions and questions to the Russian authorities.

When I was fifteen, I witnessed the creation of the legendary science fiction film of the Soviet Union. The director was my father. I loved photography and took hundreds of pictures during the shoot. Forty years later, on their basis, I managed to create a film, as Richard Viktorov shoots the film "Through Hardships to the Stars".