Dasha is a native nine-year-old Lapp girl. She is an inmate of a Russian orphanage, even when she is not an orphan. Tasha believes that her mother is dead and that her father is in jail for life. To survive she has found a Russian stepmother at the orphanage. One day her biological mother suddenly calls her. In the background of Tasha’s fate lurks the greater global narrative about the “stolen generations”. Children belonging to different indigenous peoples all over the world were “stolen” and placed in orphanages hoping that they might be assimilated into the majority population

The story of 36-year-old Albert, an experienced tire fitter who sang on camera in a dusty hangar and suddenly became famous on TikTok.

In Spain, he is known as El Ruso. In Russia, he is considered to be a man of his time. A boy who fled the civil war and grew up in an orphanage became a friend and ally of the great Russian actors and directors: Lyubimov, Panfilov, Vysotsky, Tarkovsky. The main character in this film is Angel Gutierros. His life and reflections on the past and present, destiny and vocation.

The guy builds his life so that nothing could separate him from his hobby.

The director, Ekaterina Diakova, documents her father who abandoned her. What starts as her indictments, continues as a rediscovery of her father's hidden story. One which reflects the degradation of Soviet men.

Does your life and destiny depend on the place of birth? Someone is destined to be born in the city, and someone is born and lives all his life in the village. Different destinies and stories, joys and sorrows. A film about what it is to live in a Russian village. This is a story about people. About what happened and is happening in the depths of Russia.

The shooting of the film was carried out during an expedition of students of the Department of Ethnology of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University to the Karakol Valley (Republic of Altai). This is a film-search, a search for answers to questions that involuntarily envelop at the first contact with the Karakol valley, at the first conversation in the village, at the first Altaic word, to which you find it difficult to find an equivalent in Russian. In the first part of the film ("Acquaintance"), the authors walk around on a ride from village to village and talk about the role of an ancestor in the life of the Altaians, about the meaning of the concept of souk, about the influence of the Soviet era and unshakable rules that diligently adapt to the 21st century.

"When will the nightmare end?" asks the soldier in the war. The pain of loss leaves the characters of the film only love. Time has frozen, and it is not known what to expect next. It's hard to tell what's true and what's false. Let's look deep into ourselves in the hope of getting an answer. And we'll find him. In your home, relatives and even in a lost cat.

This is a report about political refugee named Ilya Danilov, who in the early days of the protest rode a motorcycle through the center of Minsk and saw with his own eyes how OMON (anti-demonstration police) beat people. During the procession for the freedom of Maria Kalesnikava, he was caught and beaten. Subsequently, Ilya decided to go and defend Ukraine.

The main character of the film is Alexey Starodubtsev. He is a musician (composer, guitarist, pianist, singer) who devotes himself entirely to the art of flamenco. He is not even thirty years old, but he has already managed to create his own flamenco music festival (which celebrated its fifth anniversary), release several albums of original music, visit different cities with his master classes on flamenco music theory, organize the first flamenco guitar competition in Russia, work with world artists. He invests all his resources in the development and promotion of the art of flamenco in Russia. But due to objective reasons (we are not Spaniards after all), it will never be very popular and in demand in the country. Will Alexey have enough strength and resources to not stray from the path he once chose, since he has responsibility not only for himself?

A film about the love of intelligent Moscow women for authentic traditional culture.

This is a film about the city, about human destinies and destiny.

The shooting of the film was carried out during an expedition of students of the Department of Ethnology of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University to the Karakol Valley (Republic of Altai). The second part ("Neighbourhood with the spirits") deals with how sacred knowledge in Altai fits into everyday life, the reasons for the construction of yurts (ails) in the 21st century, the non-obvious functions of fire in the hearth, the master spirits and connections with ancestors, about legends and curses, about the concept of property, and about the limits beyond which Altai goes for the inhabitants of the valley.

In Moscow, a couple is in the midst of a divorce. Their unwanted and unloved son endures the situation in silence, until the day he disappears on his way home from school... Overly critical of the conformist, consumerist, and individualist middle-class, Andreï Zviagintsev’s fifth feature film is also a dark portrait of Putin's Russia. This documentary, shot for the most part in Moscow with the protagonists of the film, will tell about its genesis and how demanding was its making.

Is Gala a muse, an artist, a model, a photographer, a city lunatic, a director or just an ordinary girl? The heroine of the film is a passionate and enthusiastic young girl reflecting on the events of her life. In her life there is a place for love for men, but is there a place for love for yourself? Who is this mysterious heroine? It seems that even Gala herself does not know the answer to this question yet.

In the aftermath of an acid attack that changed their life forever, Ayena explores moments of friendship, resilience and the daily negotiations of two extraordinary young Indian women.

The film tells the story of the creation and development of the largest school basketball league in the world, IES-BASKET. The protagonists of the film share their stories about the past, present and future of school basketball, about why they participate in it and what emotions they get. The protagonist of the film is a children's sport, and Olympic champions, well-known entrepreneurs and major sports functionaries tell about it, who actively help in the work of the school basketball league and without whom it would never exist.

In the fate of one of the greatest athletes, David Rigert, the high and the ordinary, despair and hope are intricately intertwined. He had to both triumph in moments of unprecedented success, and adequately accept defeat, rise and recover after a crushing fall. Rigert competed and won at the Olympic Games, won six world championships, nine European championships, setting 63 world records. But the main thing is that Rigert was a great stage artist. The film tells not only about the stellar pages of Russian weightlifting, not only the history of the weightlifter David Rigert, but also what he does today, this is the education of young athletes.

On October 22, 1999, the premiere of the first musical "Metro" created on the Russian stage took place in Moscow. On this day, young, talented, unknown actors entered the stage of the State Operetta Theater and forever turned the world of the musical theater of Russia upside down. What difficulties did the creators, actors and dancers face. What was this project for them? How did this performance affect the lives of the participants and the musical theater of Russia as a whole.

A cinematographic art-house experience made to compress 125 years of the cinema in two minutes. This subconscious journey through the time will offer you an incredible and deep immersion in the history of the seventh art.