Film follows different age present-day Estonian Russians who are facing difficulties with their identities. 14 CASES is a feature documentary film targeted for international audience taking a fresh look at the present-day Russians living in Estonia. It is a character driven story and it focuses on personal stories of born in Estonia young people who are the descendants of migrants from the Soviet era, representing almost the third generation. Although they lived their whole life surrounded by Estonian national symbols and colours, lifestyle and cuisine, they still speak Russian as their mother tongue, got secondary education in Russian language, listen and watch Russian radio and television, and gravitate towards Russian culture. They feel belonging to the history of Russia and Russian consciousness. But Baltic Russian is not something solid and single. Many Baltics Russians associate themselves with the Russian nationality, while at the same time they are Estonian citizens. Some of them face an identity crisis: a conflict of national identity with civil identity. But most of Baltic Russians feel an awareness of difference, the recognition of being not fully integrated into the society. A lot of Russian high school graduates leave country to study abroad and never return. At the same time there are also those who feel obsessed with languages and mislead by pro-Russia politics but love and prefer to live in Estonia. Almost for four years the film crew followed several Russian-speaking families in a decision-making period. All of them were facing the difficult task – to determine their own or their kids future. According to the age the choices differed. For the parents of five-year-olds – it is not an easy choice of kindergarten, either Estonian or Russian. For the family whose 12-year old son suddenly decides to change the school to Estonian – the question of his established identity which doesn’t well match with boy’s new schoolmates’; for the high-school graduates, the question either to stay or to leave Estonia.

A film about the rave movement, in the style of non-fiction and a parody of documentary television programs. The protagonists of the film, the pioneers of the rave movement in Russia and St. Petersburg, as well as the younger generation, talk about how it all happened and what it led to, as well as what awaits electronic music in the future.

Once a year, a few old friends engage in an ancient ritual game act that is at the heart of a radical shift in consciousness. This is a half-forgotten mystery of the spirit that accompanied the life of our distant nomadic ancestors. Step by step, expanding the range of permitted games, blurring the boundaries between the marginal and the intellectual, the free and the forbidden, the characters are trying to achieve a special state of body and mind.

200 - 300 thousand years ago, on the banks of the river, which today is called Kama, the ancestors of mammoths and elephants roamed. Nowadays, fishermen have found the remains of the bones of these animals in the landslides of the steep Kama coast. The film tells how the discovery of the remains of the trogontherian elephant by Permian paleontologists became the center of social initiative of the inhabitants of nearby villages, villages and even the regional capital.

The film is about priests who came to God in different ways and, in addition to service, are engaged in creativity and science. The film is about how and through what trials the protagonists found the Almighty and realized that He was involved in the fate of each of them. On the example of the ministers of the church, it is shown that the gates to the Faith must be sought in oneself daily and hourly. Only through agreement with conscience can one come to the Lord in order to live in peace and harmony with oneself and with the world around.

Frozen life, what is it? Grandmother lives in a space where time has stopped with the death of her husband. The cultural layer, the traditions of the outgoing generation or the history of a particular family.

The protagonist of the film is a man, father, son and husband rolled into one. This film is his honest and unbiased look at himself and the microcosm surrounding him, covering the geography from Omsk to the Californian coast of the USA. Each stop on this journey reveals the relationship of the hero with his wife, father and friend, and the audio book about meditation that accompanies him everywhere in the headphones becomes a kind of navigator that stitches the routine of the author's existence. The film ends in March 2018.

We see black when we close our eyes. We "see nothing." How long can you live in the dark? A few moments? Several hours? A few days? Some live "in the dark" all their lives. Yes, their eyes are closed, but is their darkness so dark?

The film tells about those Sevastopol heroes who met the events of winter - early spring of 2014 on their land. For the first time we will learn about how the self-defense of the city was organized, how the inhabitants rallied and set themselves the goal of becoming part of Russia. What difficulties they had to go through and what they faced when they had to leave comfortable beds in their apartments and spend the night at checkpoints, patrol the city, in fact, take full responsibility for the present and future of their beloved city.

Stories of women who faced the choice to keep the pregnancy or not.

The film discovers the fountain of youth while following during one year the life of a never-give-up Ukrainian ex-professor Vlasovych, who sets two world records and becomes the world champion in swimming when he turns 94.

The small village of the Saratov region Shikhany in 2018 suddenly became known to the whole world. It was here, according to the British intelligence services, that Novichok, a chemical warfare agent, was produced, with the help of which they tried to kill ex-Russian GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. After that, the once-secret Soviet chemical weapons development center appeared on the world map. Shikhany today is a place from which life leaves. Once part of a huge Soviet military program, the village lost almost all incentives for development after the prohibition of chemical weapons. Now everything has stopped here, frozen and drowned in the atmosphere of winter lifelessness.

The popular rapper Husky is experiencing an existential crisis, the musician is seriously facing difficult questions of self-identification. The search for answers takes him to places where reality and fiction merge, becoming part of the game and speculation.

A film-diary about a 20-year-old girl named Marta, according to her passport Masha. Martha lives two lives. Martha is a bright girl whose reality is like a salute or a kaleidoscope. She is a model, an artist, a DJ at parties. He talks about love, about space, internal contradictions, and in the remaining time, Marta composes the elvish language. Masha's life is the life of a sincere, bright child.

Several people decided to go by boat along the waterways for almost 3,000 km, as their ancestors, merchants and entrepreneurs walked along these routes a thousand years ago. The authors for a month and a half watched them and what happened to them during this trip.

In late 2011 – early 2012 Moscow witnessed mass protest events involving tens of thousands of people. The people’s discontent with the policy of authorities, with their irremovability from office, with manipulated elections and corruption, resulted in numerous rallies, actions and face-offs with police. The first part of the film is a research-chronicle of the collective protest body, of its movements in the city milieu, of typical situations arising between its participants and with the representatives of authorities. The return of politics to the streets of Russian cities marked the change in the existing contract between the authorities and the society. One of the most popular slogans of that time was: “You do not even imagine us.” Five years later, several activists tell the story how the participation in these events changed their lives. The protagonists include a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, the most massive political case of the last years, a female LGBT activist and a socialist historian.

The film "Recovering Memory" is aimed at drawing attention to the problem of Stalinist repressions. The problem of memory and attitude to repression still divides society into two parts. On the one hand, there is condemnation and moral rejection of mass terror and totalitarian dictatorship; on the other hand, there is admiration for the scale of transformations and justification of the illegal persecution and destruction of people that took place at that time. This art project is a kind of video story and at the same time a visualization of an art installation proposed by the artist Nikolai Nasedkin. According to the plan, a symbolic raft with lighted funeral candles passes along the Moskva River. Similar rafts were used to transport logs cut by prisoners. Carrying out this art action in reality on the Moskva River can become a sign of reconciliation and memory, a reminder of the tragic past that should not be repeated.

A story about a shelter, dogs and one artist.

Coffee machine repairman Roman decides to become a hospital clown at the age of 40. Now he has to joke about terrible diseases, look positively into the eyes of death and cheerfully amuse those who are not at all laughing. A few days in the life of hospital clowns.

For several years, Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich investigated Russian people’s relationship of love. Which, she means, is an acute shortage of today’s society. Documentary film director Staffan Julén followed her work and together they depict a process driven by equal parts of political, artistic and humanistic forces.” The film is an intricate tapestry of interwoven stories that express the essence of love, the byzantine paths it can take, and its power to survive, even in the most desperate circumstances. But it also sings of madness, pain, longing and emptiness in a harsh reality that values people by status and money.