A film about the history of relations between Galileo Galilei and Pope Urban VIII and about the fate of his treatise "Dialogues on the two most important systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican".

One of the parts of Leonid Parfyonov's project called "Russian Empire". The cycle is dedicated to Emperor Nicholas II and consists of three series. It fully covers the reign of Nicholas II, from the coronation in 1896 to his abdication and death in 1917.

Members of the Society of Amateur Canary Breeders are all male. On Sunday afternoon, they come to Moscow from different parts of the country, united by a single desire to win a canary singing competition.

Chronicle of the casting for participation in the Israeli project "Cabaret". Russian repatriates, many of whom came to the capital from other cities, talk about themselves, then rehearsals and the only performance of the emerging theater follow. Dreaming of a theatrical career, people gradually transform and become real actors.

In 1790, Alexander Radishchev published the book "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", in which he fearlessly exposed the vices of his time, more precisely despotism, corruption, poverty and lawlessness of the people. For his freethinking, the writer was sentenced to death, which, by the monarch's mercy, was replaced by a 10-year exile to Siberia. The film crew decided to repeat Radishchev's route and see how people live today on the side of the federal highway M10 "Russia", which connects the two capitals. How has Russian life changed over the past two hundred years? Have we started to live better? Richer? Freer? The answer is in the documentary road-movie "Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow: a special way". Chapter 4 (which we bring to your attention) is devoted to the city of Torzhok.

The film DAYMOHK tells the story of Chechen dance star and choreographer Ramzan Ahmadov, whose dance group Daymohk has found refuge with Chechnya’s current president Kadyrov. Momentarily postponing the extinction of this age-old folk dance. But the sacrifice this move takes, is great: in an attempt to save his country’s tradition, Ramzan collaborates with the authorities and sacrifices what he loves the most.

For the 5th anniversary of the Dozhd TV channel, the first creative producer of Dozhd, Vera Krichevskaya, wanted to share with you stories about how the channel changed along with the country. And as a result, a whole documentary series turned out from this idea. It is much wider than life inside the Dozhd. Five episodes about every year of the life of the Dozhd TV channel. In the 5th episode, all the most important things that happened in the life of Dozhd in 2014 - the Siege survey, Timur Olevsky got lost in the Donbass, the investigation of the missing paratroopers in Ukraine and Dozhd's moves from Krasny Oktyabr to the apartment.

Why do people need such a complex brain and how did we get it? Does a person really use only 10% of the capabilities of the brain, and is there a limit to human mental abilities? How are the brains of men and women different? How are feelings born, and can they be detected with the help of technical means? The leader of the project, the famous scientist Alexander Kaplan, with the help of experiments and illustrative examples, will give answers to the most popular questions regarding the work and structure of the brain.

Since May 2012, for almost two years, directors Alexei Pivovarov, Pavel Kostomarov, Alexander Rastorguev, and with them the best young documentary filmmakers have been following the most current events in Russia and posting short videos on the Internet almost every day. "Term" became an alternative to openly propaganda television reports and an experiment in the format of "documentary news", when the authors tried to see its living, human side in every significant event.

Documentary verse. One day in the life of the last narrow-gauge railway passing through the mountains of the Caucasus. There are people of different ages and strata in the car, their conversations and a lone driver, who has been traveling on the replacement of his best friend for 20 years after his death.

A film about the mysterious circumstances of the life and mystery of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He became truly the first great European. First in everything. A genius in art, in love, he easily revealed other people's secrets. But he took his main secret, the formula of happiness and immortality, forever with him.

In the Siberian countryside, marriage is traditionally seen as the greatest achievable happiness for a woman. But the 90-year-old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka, has always remained alone. At the kitchen table, she contemplates life, love, regret and loneliness—has she maybe brought this fate upon herself? The film is a spinoff of a film that screened at IDFA 2016 any many other international film festivals, Siberian Love, in which filmmaker Olga Delane explored the same views on love and marriage.

In Chukotka, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, people live, cut off from the whole world. Their life revolves around hunting walruses and whales and protecting villages from bears coming from the tundra. This turns the film into a meditation on death. Marine animals are the main source of food for humans; skins and offal are used to feed arctic foxes on a fur farm; human cemeteries become food for bears. All inhabitants of these places are involved in the cycle of food and death. The film departs from the usual rhythmic structure of cinema, being built on the principle of a shamanic ritual, a meaning-forming event for the northern peoples.

Two young Muscovites, yesterday's students, work "on the Internet", do not really know what they live for, do not really understand their country, and do not really see prospects in life. The TV was buzzing all ears about the Great Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi, so they rent a car, buy tickets and drive across the country to see the competitions, the sea and Russia beyond the Moscow Ring Road.

The history of the formation of Russian television in faces and memories.

Three Tajik brothers, Ali, and Kamil Fedor, settled 150 km from Moscow in a makeshift hut, hidden behind a fence. Their life is hard, they speak Russian poorly and live away from their families. Their job is to cut and transport the wood from the forest next door. Every day life is punctuated by the hard work, the daily tasks, card games, drinking and bickering with the Russians in the neighboring village. The film speaks of economic exile, bitter life out of another time, double family for some, and the feeling of not quite here nor longer quite out there…

Three months of revolution. From indignant protest to popular unity. From pots on your head to clubs and bulletproof vests. From the euphoria of victory to the mourning of the dead from the Heavenly Hundred. The revolution is like an explosion of awakened dignity, like the euphoria of freedom, like the pain of realizing the price, like the birth of the newest history of Ukraine. Just a few weeks after the end of the revolution, the organizing committee of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival "Docudays UA" hot on the trail of the filmmakers who filmed the Ukrainian protest asked them to provide their best footage to be shown at the opening of the festival. Episodes of future films about Euromaidan have formed a kaleidoscope of revolution that needs no comment.

From the village of Nikola-Lenivets to the village of Zvizzhi 20 minutes on foot. Nikola-Lenivets is the venue for the fashion festival of landscape objects "Archstoyanie". Zvizzhi is the place of residence of Valka, Lyudka, Zhenya and the sixty-year-old "Kukolka" (doll) Natasha. "Kukolka" lives with Valerka, who served time for the murder, because he knows how to repair electrical wiring. Valerka himself goes to spend the night with Zhenya. And Valka, Lyudka's former nanny, now drinks industrial alcohol with her in the garden.

A small person is open to different feelings and different ideas. He still does not know how to defend himself by closing. It is with the help of his six-year-old son, who willingly talks with old people in the park, that Marcel Lozinsky penetrates the world of old age, which is either “not joy”, or wisdom. Profound wisdom to accept the world as it is. And how we all saw him as a six-year-old. And then they forgot.

The protagonist of the film is Danila Zaitsev, an Old Believer born in China, a citizen of Argentina who has traveled almost the whole world. What was he looking for? What were you striving for? Why was he saved? Danila wrote a book about his travels that won a prize in Russia.