A documentary detective story about travel, photography, the search for identity, memory and relationships between people in the modern world. Lada, a Czech traveler, accidentally finds full cassettes of negative film packed in a plastic bag in Sweden. She brings all 22 cassettes home to Prague, submits them to print, and receives 756 captivating shots from a trip of seven Asian men, possibly from China. The film then goes on to tell the story of the search for these unknown tourists, based only on photographs they have lost. The film crew, driven by the desire to return the pictures, investigating the mysterious life of these Asians, reveals the traits of their characters, and with them the nature of modern man.

A daring documentary study of one of the most shocking phenomena of the 21st century, Somali piracy. The film was shot directly in Somalia and contains unique testimonies miraculously obtained by the film crew, reportage shooting, and interviews with presidents and ministers, tribal leaders, simple fishermen and their wives. And with those who were recognized as pirates and imprisoned on a chain, as is customary in Somalia.

Born in Crimea and adopted by a US family in 1993, a young American woman returns to her homeland for the first time in more than 25 years to meet her long-lost family and learn more about her troubled past.

About a father who is not only my parent but also a public figure - a man who shaped the Russian intellectual sphere, supported the annexation of Crimea, and still appears on Russian state television.

The theme of the film is the dialectic of light and darkness and their various manifestations. In 2006, Milan and Tomasz, two Czech electrification experts, traveled to the remote village of Masuku in Zambia to provide electricity to a local hospital building. Four years later, they return there to find out why the system failed and are about to make repairs. While studying faults, they experience a whole series of "short circuits" in the form of a mixture of different worlds, a chaotic fusion of cultures and rituals of all kinds. But Czech guys with "golden hands" are ready to work in any conditions, trying to transfer their technologies and experience to Africans.

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.

My friend and former classmate, Maxim, becomes the hero of the film and the new ideology of my school.

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.

Diva Monroe and the drag queens Marlene and Aura, in search of their identity and commitment to freedom and hedonism, challenge the horrors of war in Ukraine. They join together to organize a charity drag show to help their homeland.

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.

A group of people, mostly women, witness a total eclipse of the sun on the roof of a former lodge of the Odds Fellows in Texas, a secret society that was the forerunner of the syndicate a women's lodge in the 19th century under the name of the Rebekahs.

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.