The film’s protagonist is a man disconnected from the world, living with autism and a split personality. Only he knows the truth: the day on which the story unfolds is humanity's last. The end of the world is imminent. Desperate to warn others, he finds himself ignored by an indifferent society—until he meets someone who understands him. This unexpected connection changes everything, delaying the apocalypse.

Anna Grigoryevna, an ordinary Soviet woman, dreamed of a trip to Paris for thirty years. And in 1986, during perestroika, she finally finds herself in the city of her dreams. Her husband and son give her a camera, but because of an excess of emotions, she forgets all the instructions and brings the film, which, when developed, turned out to be a marriage. Recently, the adult son of Anna Grigoryevna found a film. And I decided that this is modern art! He walks around the studios, exhibition curators, they laugh at him, this story is incomprehensible to his mother, his girlfriend is not interested in it. And between these walks, a life passes in which each of these women claims her rights to him.

Kherson residents return home to the liberated city. What is waiting for them? Joy of meeting with loved ones is replaced by the reality of a life under constant shelling, with no power or water. For others, returning is just a dream. They fled from cities destroyed by the Russian army and found shelter in a refugee center. They dream of returning, but can they return to their former life?

Before embarking on his filmmaking career, director Alexey Balabanov trained as a military translator in the closed city of Gorky. This film, created by students from Nizhny Novgorod, explores the questions: What shapes a young artist's path, and what inspires the stories they choose to tell? For the first time since 1995, the film unveils an archival interview with Alexey Balabanov from one of his earliest film festivals, along with rare footage of his collaboration with Alexey German Sr. at Lenfilm.

A film about how difficult it is for a person in modern Belarusian society to change such basic identification as gender, if this person does not agree with the choice that nature made him.

The village of Donetsk, which is on the border of the unrecognized LPR and the Luhansk region of Ukraine, is one of the most tense points along the entire line of contact, where a war forgotten by many has not subsided for seven years now. The front line here is held by the Ghost battalion. What is it like to spend seven years of your life in a war? What are these people fighting for?

The film is about screenwriter Yuri Arabov and his first experience as a director, the filming of the film “Gjirokastra” in Albania, which tells about state terror and Soviet-Albanian friendship. For the first time, Arabov performs in an unfamiliar role, as if he were playing the role (of the director), building relationships with the actors and crew, while simultaneously giving himself grades. “Gjirokastra” is ready, but is still on the shelf and cannot be released. According to Arabov himself, the filming of the film triggered implicit cause-and-effect relationships in his fate.

This documentary, “a portrait against the backdrop of an era”, is dedicated to the blessed memory of Sergei Lazaruk (1962-2015), a talented film critic, one of the leaders of the domestic film industry, who played an important role in its development. Having lived a short life full of bright events, he remained a faithful and devoted servant of cinema until the end of his days.

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.

In the wind of abstractions, the contours of the hero and the author begin to emerge. The world, as seen through the eyes of an artist living on the outskirts of a village, becomes a symbol of intersecting paths, where space and time dissolve into the fog of an alternate reality, and voices merge into a single body of thought. Does the hero truly exist? Does the author? The slow, meandering narrative is abruptly interrupted by a return. But to where? Which is the dream, and which is the reality?

When the husband of Xenia Petersburgskaya, the patron saint of St. Petersburg, suddenly died in the royal palace, Xenia assumed his identity, declaring that it was she who had died, not he. She then transformed into a holy fool. Through animated sequences, photos, and video recordings Becoming the Other explores Xenia’s life and deeds on the one hand, and the wicked intrigues of the tsarist regime on the other.

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.

"If China was a Town" tells the stories of teenagers from the China Town district in Moscow. They know for sure what is good and what is bad. They proudly tell you how to become a skinhead, and list articles of the criminal code by heart. But in conversations with the director, they go deeper than stories about ideology and share about their relationships with peers, parents and what kind of growing up they should do.