Lake Baikal is the biggest freshwater lake in the world. It’s famous for its beauty and its unique ecosystem. Presently, Lake Baikal is facing the threat of degradation because of human activity.

Four girls, four stories, four representatives of the modern generation. A documentary film-portrait of those who now live in Russia.

This film is about a CCTV operator who spends his days staring at a split screen. What does he see, who does he notice? Does his work become like making a documentary? What do people think about when they are forced to be under constant surveillance? Maybe they create stories too?

After a few months of of continuous stay at sea, from frequent overexertion fatigue and something else, I feel the limit of my capabilities and the capabilities of my colleagues.

The picture tells the story of one of the equity holders of the Gorod group of companies and plunges into a gloomy reality, where politics, corruption and crime are tightly intertwined.

Davlat is a Tajik merchandiser and a humble father of three children. A well respected businessman in the Pamir area, a mountainous region southeast of Tajikistan in the borders with China. His life has been transformed since the opening of the Tajik-Chinese border and the reconstruction of the old Silk Road: A road full of surprises and new experiences for Davlat and his family.

Ornithologist Vadim Gavrilov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, specialist in bird ecology, brought art to life in the form of photography. Vadim started taking pictures of birds, first just for fun, then for scientific reports, and now his photographs have become not only an applied tool for researchers and students, but also interested many people.

Natalia came to Moscow in the 90s to study as an actress. In her second year at VGIK, she becomes pregnant and leaves the institute. Twenty years later, her son, the author of the film, finds the family tapes that his mother saved up over the years. These videos make him remember the unusual things that accompanied him growing up.

Fayzullo (79 years old), Mardon (73 years old) and Hamrokul (83 years old) are close friends. Until this age, they traveled by bicycle to all 11 regions of Uzbekistan, except for the Khorezm region and the Republic of Karakalpakstan. They were set to tour again in early 2021. Unfortunately, the pandemic began and this dream did not come true. Two years later - in 2023 - they got... another chance to make this dream come true.

Eight North Korean at Moscow film school defected to the Soviet Union denouncing the great leader KIM, Il-sung in 1958. The aftermaths as artists working in Central Asia for 50 years more.

A documentary film about the football club "Totem", consisting of young pupils of the Krasnoyarsk orphanage No. 1. The guys with a difficult fate have achieved great sports success at the world level and were able to successfully socialize in society. Stories of young football players, their coaches and educators of the orphanage. The team goes to the World Cup among children from orphanages in Poland 2018.

On July 25, 1980, the great Russian poet Vladimir Vysotsky passed away. He was 42 years old. He did not die in a duel like Pushkin and Lermontov, did not fall from a bullet and noose like Mayakovsky and Yesenin. The cause of his death was no less dramatic. Vysotsky struggled with death for a long time. But by the beginning of 1980, this duel turned into a fierce fight. After 25 years, we present the first documentary evidence of this struggle. Everyone has the right to their own judgment about the death of a great poet, but no one's judgment can claim absolute truth. According to eyewitnesses, after meeting the new year 1980, Vysotsky's illness began to progress and turned into real agony. We will reconstruct the events with chronological accuracy from January 1st up to July 25th, 1980. The film is told by people who knew Vysotsky closely in the last year of his life.

What do we know about that other life outside the walls of the boarding school? About loneliness and acceptance, friendship and respect in a closed society, betrayal and forgiveness. Smart, honest, strong people, they are not broken and they want to shake hands. Four heroes, four stories worth seeing.

Grandpa Vitya has been involved in pigeons since childhood. This hobby was passed down to him from his father. Victor and his pigeons to this day do not stop attending various exhibitions, as well as orphanages and schools, travel all over Russia and communicate with fellow souls. For grandfather Vitya, there is nothing offensive in the fact that someone considers his hobby as naive childishness, because it is so.

Cancer is still a terrible disease, but not a verdict. The film contains stories of people who were able to defeat him.

A documentary cross-section of the era, the phenomenon of Russian rock and its influence on the minds and souls of people during the period of stagnation and collapse of the USSR. The central characters of Debizhev's documentary research are the main figures of Russian rock, to whom maximum attention was riveted in the 80-90s of the last century, Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergey Kuryokhin.

What would the faces of cities be like if they were embodied in real characters? What stories would they tell us? What is the power and purpose of each of them? Once you have looked into the soul of cities, you will never be able to confuse one with the other. The film is a unique genre of mythological documentary, based on real urban legends, stories, images, it paints a unique image of each city.

A documentary legal drama about Human Rights violations in Soviet Ukraine and modern Russia based on archival chronicles. Heimrad Backer, in some of his projects, used the text of Nazi propaganda in such a way that it became self-evident, commenting on itself. For the same purpose, I use excerpts from a soviet propaganda newspaper. I title parts of the film - scenes in order to emphasize the absurdity, theatricality and cruelty of the trial, as well as the propaganda chronicle.

Festivals:
4x3 Ivano-Frankivsk ISFF
International Ethnographic Film Festival OKO
25e Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris

A film about the ascent to the summit of Latok-1 along the northern ridge in the summer of 2018. Dedicated to the memory of Sergei Glazunov, who went missing while descending from the summit.

A picture about how and why in peacetime people go to war and why they often cannot return from it to the end. There are a lot of such men around us who have returned, but not completely. Much more than you can imagine.