A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.

On March 29, 2012, massive anti-government strikes took place in Spain against the government and its far-reaching economic austerity plans. In the very center of Barcelona, ​​protesters were rebuffed by police officers who pacified the crowd with rubber bullets. Everywhere people crowded, fires broke out every now and then, and the doors of offices and shops were closed. The only building whose doors remained open was the Opera House, where Ludwig Minkus' Don Quixote was given that day. On this very day, 32 students of the creative documentary workshop from Pompeu Fabra University took to the streets with cameras, along with their master Victor Kossakovsky, to film a film that captures the day's events. The end result is a "ballet film" consisting of shots of streets and squares taken from various angles. The image is accompanied by music by Minkus, which creates an alienating effect when viewed.

Three times a week, 15 women travel from different parts of the city by public transport, with transfers to a small club located in a former kindergarten. Here, on the outskirts of Minsk, is the only place in the city where they can take dance lessons for a nominal fee of 3,000 Belarusian rubles. The program includes belly dance, tango, blues. The students are no longer young, all at least 50 years old. Each of them had a very difficult life. Having gone through all the hardships, these women have not forgotten how to enjoy life and are still waiting for their "prince".

This film is about the life and fate of one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" was arrested on February 14, 1961, three years after the massacre of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and a year and a half before the publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Solzhenitsyn in Novy Mir. Grossman died shortly after Roman's arrest. His fate was taken from him, but "the manuscript did not burn." Although it could. The film shows for the first time documents from the "Special Folder" by Vasily Grossman, kept all these years under the heading "Top Secret".

My granny Zina had lived in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and, after retirement she moved to Crimea. Cheerful and bossy, she has always been uniting our big family. After the Ukrainian revolution and the annexation of Crimea by Russia, visiting her became an endless hustle. The family was separated, Crimea turned into 'a distant planet’, like Mars, and its’ environment became unfriendly towards grandmother. The same old place... with a new culture, symbols of state, music and propaganda. What a time to be an old lady! Trying to fit into a new environment she ends up feeling mixed-up and lonely. The entire family manages to come for the celebration of granny's 80th anniversary and help her to make a crucial decision.

Documentary triptych about homeless children who survived drug addiction, grew up and began to live an adult life. One of the heroes goes to his native village in search of his mother, but no one wants to help him. Another protagonist, a pregnant girl, wants to give birth to her child, whose childhood will probably be even worse than hers. But her own sisters force her to have an abortion.

About the tragic fate of the German teenager Hubert Loste, who, by the will of circumstances, ended up in the USSR in the era of "great construction projects" and "great terror".

In the remote Siberian taiga, the followers of the former policeman Sergei Torop, who declared himself the new Christ, the so-called Vissarionites, are waiting for the end of the world and are preparing themselves and their children for life in a new civilization. Are they all sincerely glad that they left their former life?

Near the Central Bus Station in the northern part of Israel, in the city of Karmiel, there is a 7-story building surrounded by a high fence with surveillance cameras. About 100 teenagers who came to Israel without families from the countries of the former Soviet Union live in this building. They undergo a nine-month adaptation course, after which they must turn from "Russians" into "Israelis". Excessively long stay in a closed atmosphere produces the opposite effect.

A film about a doctor, about Dr. Lisa Glinka. About a woman who feeds and heals outcasts and the homeless, regardless of their nationality and citizenship. She alone does not receive a salary in the Fair Aid Foundation organized by her. There is nothing in her behavior from a dull worker of the state "mercy service". Dr. Lisa is an energetic, cheerful and charming person who just loves her job very much.

The protagonist of the film is engaged in a completely non-female business, but does not see anything supernatural in this.

The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of his film career, arrest, investigation, detention in Shpalerki and Kresty prisons. The protagonist, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. The audience together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he once knew, long-forgotten names, surnames, lines of poetry come to mind.

The famous English science fiction writer Herbert Wells visited our country three times. The first time was 100 years ago, in 1914. Then in 1920 and 1934. And each time another Russia opened before him, completely different from the one he had seen during his previous trip.

A film about the life and work of the outstanding Russian literary critic, writer, screenwriter, leader of the Russian formal school Viktor Shklovsky. Tracing the brightest moments of this life, tightly intertwined with the life of the twentieth century, is the main task of the film. And, of course, the creators of the documentary could not ignore the writer's love interests, which he wrote about in the famous "letters not about love."

The film tells about the house manager Tatyana Radzievskaya. On the shoulders of this woman lay the difficult duty of the "mistress" of the house, located in the old district of St. Petersburg. Tatyana is forced not only to fulfill her direct duties, but also to listen to the sorrows of the residents, to be an adviser, educator of the younger generation, as well as a cleaner and organizer of subbotniks on the territory of the house. The comic story of a house manager who is dissatisfied with everything gradually develops into a personal drama. After all, all relatives and the real home of the heroine are not in St. Petersburg. And she could have left a long time ago, to live in the village, but she is not ready to leave the tenants who have already become her family, painfully familiar and beloved entrances.

Current anthropological anima-doc is focusing on one of the most "vital" and tangible components of the world's cultural heritage – the cemetery architecture. It is also a gimmick celebrating death with a virtual life flicker, which attempts to capture everything related to the traditions of commemorating the deceased in Europe over the past 5,000 years. This oikumene art piece features very interesting and unique approaches stemming from historical traditions and their modern mutations. The film creates a pseudo-life with the help of the magic of hyperlapse, an anima technique. More than 70 cemeteries in 27 countries are covered in 15 minutes!

The modern television process is unthinkable without the participation of the audience in the studio, a motley crowd of people who want to become famous. People from the crowd, who are they? The authors of the film tried to change the general plan to a close-up and look into the fate of these heroes. The backdrop to intriguing life stories is the television kitchen, where, in fact, the “star” dramas of people from the extras unfold.

The film, directed by Peteris Krilov, is a private look at the life of the artist Gustav Klutsis, one of the leading representatives of the Russian avant-garde art of the early 20th century, whose life drama reflected the tragedy of the entire nation during the Stalinist repressions. This is a story about the ambition, hope, love and responsibility of the artist, which he continues to bear even after his death.

The film tells about people whose childhood was spent in the very heart of Moscow, the Kremlin. Among the participants in the film are Stalin's niece Kira Politkovskaya, Stalin's adopted son Artem Sergeev, Svetlana Alilluyeva, Stepan Mikoyan, Natalya Krestinskaya. Immediately after the revolution, the Kremlin was both home and place of work for Soviet leaders and their families. For children, it was a large communal apartment in which they spent all their free time. There was also a special cinema, and a dining room, and a place for games, a New Year tree closed to prying eyes, and a skating rink. The film is based on the memories of children who once played on Cathedral Square.

Through following the twists and turns of three generations of women in the Russian-speaking Latvian film director’s family, the film attempts to look at the reality of the half-million community of Latvian Russians. It is the story of a grandmother – a veteran of the World War II who came to Latvia in 1955 in search of a better life, a mother – a lecturer in a University, and an eighteen-year-old daughter – young artist. The film tries to find out whether this family has managed to find its place in the society after 30 years of living in an independent country.