In the mountains of Dagestan, on the border with Chechnya, the war turned the lives of one Avar village upside down. A man fights, a man loves mountains, a man cannot leave them and cannot return to his home. Horses in gray apples, eagles over the tops of mountains, cows on the same road with old Soviet cars, we do not go with him on a journey through the mountains of Dagestan, we only become companions of his life for a few minutes.

An ordinary working night in the life of a Moscow taxi driver, during which he comes into contact with the experiences, thoughts and stories of his passengers.

Pasha and his mischievous friend Dan arrive from their provincial hometown to Moscow. Chasing a dream of a whole new adult life, they get to meet the city crew of graffiti writers. Being inspired by the coolest street artist of the city, Pasha starts naively dreaming of becoming a part of his crew. For the sake of achieving the goal, he’s ready to make it as far as possible.

This is a story about a girl who came to a provincial town to work as a general practitioner. The beginning of her career coincided with the beginning of the coronavirus infection and Vika was transferred to work at the Covid center, where she worked selflessly throughout the pandemic. In a small town, Vika became a kind of face, a symbol of resistance to the disease. Vika is a strong person, she was able to break the negative life scenario of an orphanage child, find herself and the profession that people need.

The theme of the documentary "Distances" is the story of a family that is part of the growing economic migration from South Asia, which has significantly expanded in Poland and across Central Europe in recent years. Shiv, Shushila, and their son Nikesh traveled from Nepal to Poland with the hope of finding a better life. Shiv works for Uber and is rarely at home, Shushila remains mentally connected to her homeland, maintaining contact exclusively with the Nepalese family, and Nikesh is a teenager with a strong desire to integrate with his peers. The change in their lives leads to the breakdown of Shiv and Shushila's relationship, and the lack of care for their son pushes Nikesh onto a troubled path. The film about a disintegrating family is a portrayal of the price one must pay today when coming to Europe.

To be raped at 15 by her sister's husband, to give birth to him at 16. And in order not to be “ashamed”, the sister brings her husband to her, and she lives with her rapist for 12 years. What is it, heroism or fear?

Three-year-old Stesha grows up as an observant and artistic child. By copying the behavior of adults, she reproduces in games everyday household rituals, the behavior and conversations of her parents. Plush cat Basik is the object of her attention, care and guidance. It seems that this is just a simple game in front of the dad's camera lens. But shooting is a good opportunity to see yourself from the outside. This is how the first ideas about one's capabilities and responsibility for another are born.

A film about longing for the times when it was fun and carefree.

The film presents a series of interviews with Russian and Ukrainian repatriates who relocated to Israel in 2022 amidst the war between Russia and Ukraine. These conversations, recorded in the fall and winter of 2023 during the ongoing war in Israel, offer a poignant exploration of their experiences and perspectives.

It is 1992 and the first free elections held in Estonia since World War II have to the surprise of all brought to power young and idealistic political forces. They are led by 32-year-old Mart Laar, Europe’s youngest prime minister, who is charged with crafting a country out of chaos. This is a story about gaining and losing trust, about the widening conflict between idealists and a rising economic elite, when a prime minister’s good options grow fewer by the day.

In October 2017, in Paris, France, a mass takes place for the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Many White Russians’ descendants come over, along with recent emigrants. In December 2017, in Nijni Novgorod and Zavoljie, in Russia, a young lady, who has emigrated 10 years earlier to France, comes back to the places of her childhood and tells her memories. In March 2018, in Kronstadt and Saint-Petersburg, in Russia, the director goes to the Archives to find information about her great grandfather who was a captain in Kronstadt at the time of the Revolution. She also films sailors on duty on the island. In April 2018, in Bombay and Goa, India, Ukrainian, Russian and Bielorussian young ladies live and work as models, dancers and children’s entertainers. In June 2018, in Nice, France, a school meant to make Russian language and culture live on among Russian-speaking kids living abroad gives the end-of-the-year show. In January 2019, in Ioujno-Sakhalinsk and Korsakov, Russia, memories of the tsarist penitentiary are still alive. Some animals on the island have their lives closely tied to human ones. Among these animals is the Karafuto-ken, an endemic and endangered dog. In February 2019, in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, Russia, the director finds documents and places linked to the partnership between her great grandfather, Aleksandr Pavlovitch Dlusskiy, and Dmitriy Pavlovitch Grigorovitch for the creation of an aeronautical company. In September 2019, in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand, young ladies work in strip clubs. Close by lies the jungle.

Berlin. City of free artists. Free people. Alexei Cherny has been living in Berlin for many years.

A film-memory telling about the years of childhood and youth of a resident of Tashkent, spent in this city, and which will never be returned.

Igor and his friends live on the streets of a gloomy city. They drink vodka, fight. Residents of nearby houses are in conflict with them. After a while, the hero learns about the death of his father, after which he goes to his parents' house.

"... you work on a farm, shovel manure, you stink, they call you, they say you have success in Paris, they bought your 14 works at once. And at Chanel..." A documentary film about the village of Osmino, the city of St. Petersburg and contemporary art. Shot on a smartphone.

In an attempt to break free from the pressure, Yasya, an exemplary student living under the vigilant control of her grandmother, embarks on a journey to search for missing people in a rescue squad.

Lev is a lonely old man. His wife and only son are long dead. He lives as a recluse in a quiet decaying house on a plot overgrown with tall grass. But one day the peace in Lev's house is disturbed by the arrival of his old acquaintance.

At the end of 1950, a steamship from Argentina carrying 180 sculptures made of wood, marble, plaster, bronze and even cement with a total weight of about 175 tons landed in Odessa. For the sculptor Stepan Erzya, returning to his homeland was a step into the abyss. Having gone through all the circles, having visited his paradise, the creator again returned to purgatory. What for? What did he expect from a country, from a mother who had treated her son more than once like a stepmother?

Atlantic Yellow is the name of the unique variety of granite from Serra da Groba, located on the most rectilinear and southern coast of Galicia, and a passage of initiation paths since the Sumerian culture. This is an area of great Celtic influence that would later connect with Christianism who would appropriate the arcane wisdom to implant its own traditions like the currently Camino de Santiago. Due to its wealth and unawareness, Serra da Groba depicts a great "stone book" in which ancestral pearls of wisdom and powerful cosmo-telluric forces (that have remained as residues of the rustic within the cultural process) are hidden, resisting the orthodoxy-idolatry / truth-falsity division. This fact could explain the mysterious reason why the monks of Cistercian erected one of their monasteries here, face to face with the ocean, despite the dangers that its "outdoors" situation in the 12th century. Perhaps they knew, thanks to the preceding culture the need to live in harmony with nature. Still and moving images combine and are stained by the film material itself, redefining those notions related to the love for the insondability of the wild, but structurally assimilated as illusion and ignorance.

The story of communication with Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, told with the help of transcripts of materials from his archive.