The war between the Armenian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR is the first crack in the body of the Soviet Empire, and this is the first war for the post-war generation. A war in which there are no right and wrong. A war where everyone is a victim. The first war in modern history, but so similar to all subsequent ones, the end of which is not visible. The film crew spent several months at the checkpoint where the Russians separated the warring parties.

Is a war ever truly over? Battles offers a wondrous view of our discordant world. The film reveals a past that has not passed, by observing the traces that remain in landscape and memory. The troops are long since gone but a ghost army continues to haunt the land. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past. We discover the transformation of people, objects and landscapes after demilitarization. An old man in a land swamped with bunkers, scenes of a bizarre prison camp at night, the last moments of antique explosives, an army of women working on inflatable artillery. How people live with and between the military traces that surround us. Conflict seems to be near, then far off again, but always absurd. Battles is a unique world in which the everyday and the extraordinary are observed with equal attention. A twilight zone where past and present, war and play, threat and innocence intersect.

This film is about Lyudmila (Lyala) Stanukinas, documentary filmmaker, widow of director Pavel Kogan. The film was shot for 4 years as a chronicle, in the style of a "home manual camera". But this story is not about the director, but about a woman struggling with loneliness, keeping love in her heart with all her might. The protagonist exists in episodes of the film without author's comments. Also, the plot is made up of fragments, "snippets" of old films, chronicles.

This is a dramatic story about the incredible earthly and spiritual journey of a Buddhist monk from Russia, who became one of the first preachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States. In 1923, as a young man, he left his home and spent over 30 years in Tibet and India, attaining the Buddhist degree of Geshe. He was a friend of the Dalai Lama and taught at Columbia University, dedicated his life to putting the Buddha's teachings into practice, and trained many talented students, increasing interest in Buddhism in the West.

Animal tamers from various continents shine in the spotlight and struggle for their existence behind the scenes. Namayca, Carmen, Nadezhda, Aliya, and Anosa are five women from four different countries, but all are charismatic animal tamers. They work in the circus and train tigers, lions, and bears. Between toiling and smiling, the female circus artists disclose their passion for their “wild” animals and extraordinary profession. But the director Anka Schmid illuminates the harsh reality behind the sparkling images and offers a respectful view into the exotic life of these artistic performers. The women speak candidly about their wishes and desires – about their lives between freedom and extreme dependence, between admiration and exclusion. And their profession that may soon be outlawed.

12 charming and desperate people from 12 different countries. They risk their lives to protect democracy from tyrants, the world from war. And in their arsenal only laughter and a pencil.

After the insulting public refusal of the chosen one to marry him because of the insufficient size of his “manhood”, Patrick Muth, a young actor, director and screenwriter, sets off on a journey around the world to find out from porn stars, doctors, anthropologists and just men whether “size” is really has the meaning".

Scandalous confrontation between world football stars Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi. In the final match of the 2006 World Cup between France and Italy, French leader Zidane headbutted Materazzi in the chest and was sent off. As a result, the French team lost the match on penalties.

Anna is 31 years old. She lives with her mother, goes to a psychotherapist, meets men from Tinder and dreams of great and bright love. But she is very unlucky in this.

A cineastic journey into the world of Naum Kleiman, one of the most important intellectuals in Russia today. Naum Kleiman, an internationally acclaimed Eisenstein specialist, is the director of the „Musey Kino“, Moscow’s museum of cinema. Since 1989, the „Musey Kino“, has shown previously banned classics of world cinema and Soviet films. Many saw the „Musey Kino“, as Moscow ́s most important intellectual forum. In 2005, the Moscow municipality sold the „Musey Kino’s“ building and it became homeless. In October 2014, the Russian Minister of Culture fired Naum Kleiman as director. In protest, his entire team handed in their resignations. Scenes from iconic movies and interviews with Muscovites of different ages and social backgrounds form a documentary film collage which mirrors Russian reality today.

One of the most striking contemporary Czech film-makers and literary figures Martin Ryšavý is himself the central character of his new film. He takes part in the Ukrainian Maidan, takes the Trans-Siberian Express across Russia, sails down the Kolyma river, comes across nomadic reindeer herdsmen, soldiers, mystics, artists and scholars. He tries to comprehend the present situation of two feuding countries of the former Soviet empire. The film´s framework forms the director´s conversation with a Prague optician shot during the director´s check-up.

Never before has a camera penetrated so deeply into the heart of a transnational criminal organization. Despite threats and warnings, the authors tell the whole uncomfortable truth about Russian mafiosi. The characters of the film are famous and respected people in the criminal world. In detail and nuance, they tell the story of the Russian criminal world. And it becomes clear that this is not just the largest criminal community in the world. It is a community organized around a kind of philosophical idea of order.

When director Tatjana Bozic realized that her relationship with her boyfriend threatened to come to a standstill, she decided to embark on a journey and meet her five former lovers again in Moscow, Hamburg, London and Zagreb. And finally find out why all her sincere and passionate relationships invariably end in a breakup drama. In the meantime, perhaps the main man of her life begins to loom on the horizon. But he has yet to be born.

Asino (Italian for donkey) is an epic ode to this beast of burden. The donkey has a long cultural history dating back to Greek mythology and the Bible: Jesus rode into Jerusalem on one; Sancho Panza had a loyal donkey; Winnie the Pooh was friends with the dejected Eeyore. Donkeys stand for stupidity, stubbornness and humility. Asino consists of eight novellas, approximately 20 minutes each. Shot in Italy, Vasiliev's film teeters between reality and allegory, asking viewers to reflect on what they see. The chapter titles (Bacchus, Medea, etc.) and quotes from Apuleius, Pirandello and Aeschylus provide context. The third novella documents the donkey worship in Alba, Italy, where donkey races are held during the Palio. In Asino, donkeys are simultaneously domesticated animals, humans and divine, mythological creatures, so in a sense the film summarises the beast’s role in Western culture.

We are all dependent on something. Dependence on communication and on loneliness, on sex and on abstinence, on food and on sports, on drugs and on religion. But sometimes we are afraid to admit to ourselves and others in our phobias, fears and complexes. It is necessary to confess, because this is the only way to get rid of addiction. This strange year exposed our fears and made us more vulnerable, we had a lot of time for ourselves, and we became more honest. Let's try to talk about why and what we depend on. And how can we help each other become stronger and cope with everything. Addiction is not promiscuity, not permissiveness, but a disease of loneliness, which is almost impossible to overcome alone with oneself.

An exploration of the fragility of our roots, the impermanence of our cultures, and the transience of our freedoms is presented through the lens of a traveling VHS camera in the late 1990s. "Hindsight" provides a visual meditation on the memories of two young Ukrainians emerging from the fall of the Iron Curtain.

"Few people know of Stanislav Petrov… yet hundreds of millions of people are alive because of him." The Man Who Saved the World (Starring: Walter Cronkite, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon and Kevin Costner) tells the gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov - a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale NUCLEAR WORLD WAR, but now struggles to get his life back on track… before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to Apocalypse … and it’s not over yet! With a NEW COLD WAR rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, we still live under the same catastrophic danger that Stanislav faced back then.

There is no one who would like this physiological phenomenon. It causes pain and discomfort. It requires enhanced hygiene measures. It was ostracized in various ancient cultures, and the modern one eschews it as still shameful. There is nothing good about him at all. Except for one, we were all born because of him. About menstruation as a psychological and sociocultural phenomenon.

Expressionist documentary, filmed at the turn of the era and capturing the last days of the Soviet empire through a gallery of female images. This is a unique historical material about the Moscow underground, the sexual revolution in the USSR and contemporary art. The film is about people who broke the sexual taboo and went through the act of liberation from the cruel, crippled world.

Feeling lonely, the child walks from room to room in an unsuccessful attempt to touch his father and mother, to find them in his life.