Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It's been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one's hands is illegal.

In 1941, in the village of Bolshoy Priklon, while seeing her husband off to the front, a woman bartered 5 glasses of tobacco for him, but did not manage to hand it over. She kept this tobacco for a long time, hoping that her husband would return, and when very harsh times came, she changed tobacco for food in order to feed her eight children. After that, she was arrested on a denunciation as a speculator and sent to the camp along with the youngest, just born son. Since then, seven brothers and sisters have been looking for their younger brother, who, if he survived, could not remember anything about himself. This story is not only about separated twin brothers Miklos and Tibor Blaer. It is about everyone who was crippled by the war.

"We propose to look at the history and present day of the Kremlin through the eyes of people who have served the Kremlin for years. The film consists of five episodes. The first is the preparation of the Kremlin for the New Year, the second is dedicated to the Kremlin as a presidential residence, then the Arsenal and military history, the fourth is about symbols, the fifth series talks about the Kremlin as a museum. For example, a woman spent her whole life studying the Monomakh's hat. She, this keeper, talks about this hat like that! However, you need to watch the film," says Vitaly Mansky.

40 km of dirt road. 35 villages. 12 residents. Soon there will be no one left.

The fate of Kamenny Island on Lake Kubenskoye and the fate of Alexander Pligin, a Vologda resident, a talented engineer, a master of sports in jumping, a father of three children, have become inseparable for some time. And even death is not a hindrance.

The "otherwise gifted" son of a village priest really wants to look at the world from the bell tower of his father's church. But he cannot overcome the fear of the unknown on his own, and then his mother comes to the rescue. For whom will this rise be a feat? And what is the feat of life "cross" or "blessing"?

The fate of Russian women who married foreigners and went to live in a foreign country. The happy story of Laura Yablochkina and Tonino Guerra, the dramatic story of Albina, a girl from Kemerovo, and Chai, who, due to tragic circumstances, had to move to a small town in Vietnam, the story of Elizaveta Kishkina, the wife of Mao Zedong's associate Li Lisan, who spent 8 years in a Chinese prison .

With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary’s borders open up and everyone wants to travel to Western Europe. Unfortunately, this is an expensive pleasure. What good is freedom if you can’t afford it? By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world. For a long time, forgery goes on smoothly, but when the police start an investigation, the friends discover that freedom comes at a price.

It has become commonplace that fools and roads are Russia's main disaster. Clever, but petty. We must finally look at the root. The first age-old trouble is power. The second, equal in size, is the people.

This is a documentary about a renowned precentor and a church composer Irina Denissova who suddenly becomes a nun in the apex of her career. At the same time, this is a film about God's love towards man. It seemed that a tragedy had occurred: a family of two prominent musicians was ruined, and Irina was abandoned by her husband while struggling with a serious disease of her son. However, she finds a new sense in life rather than being with her beloved husband all the time. Her life is now aimed at being constantly with God. Then, through the prayers of his mother, her son receives a miraculous healing and all her three children embrace faith. The second life of the main character - the one after the tonsure - turns out to be no less abundant, interesting and creative. According to the director of the film, a monastery is by no means a confinement, and the life of the persons who wear black monastic robes is much richer than we can imagine.

The first film tells about the childhood of Joseph Dzhugashvili, the fate of his father and mother, as well as his studies at the theological school and the Tbilisi Seminary. The second part is about Dzhugashvili's work in Baku, about his first wedding, as well as about numerous exiles and escapes from them. In the third film, the authors analyze various signs of Dzhugashvili's cooperation with the police, find out if there is documentary evidence for this. The film ends with Joseph returning to revolutionary Petrograd in 1917.

A story about the endless desire of a child to free himself from the rough world of his parents. Lisa must smile and be happy on command, she must stop crying when told to. She often runs away from her mother, from a house where she feels bad. “Why are you always running away? What doesn’t suit you?”, the girl constantly hears these questions, but she cannot explain, and it is only clear that her own soul in the body of a fragile creature cannot come to terms with the surrounding reality.

A film about a generation of thirty-year-old men who left the sport, formed as individuals in the criminal 90s and live in the era of the new Russian stagnation. "Hankering" is a day of their life, their view of the state of things, their ways of overcoming "traction". The film is the winner of the Main Prize of the festival "2morrow/Tomorrow".

In December 1941, the Nazis shot 4,500 people in Yalta. Most of them were Jews. The Soviet government did not want to bury these people. Even the obelisk at the place of execution was erected after the war with the money of the relatives of the victims. In July 1994, Mikhail Degtyar came to this execution pit and saw a terrible picture, namely, skulls, bones, documents of people shot 53 years ago were scattered very close to the Yalta International Hotel. After 9 years, Mikhail Degtyar again returned to the place of execution of the Yalta Jews. What has changed during this time?

Monochrome contrasting winter landscape, shot in Kyshtym, on both sides of the Techa riverbed, in the Southern Urals. This area, equal to 23,000 square kilometers, is one of the most radioactively contaminated in the world. Regular operation and several major accidents at the Mayak nuclear power plant have resulted in water, soil and air pollution. However, people living here are constantly exposed to radiation. Neither distress signals nor rumors about the consequences of the catastrophic explosion in 1957 are spread by local residents, meanwhile, after Chernobyl and Fukushima, the disaster in Kyshtym is considered the third worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. One of the most serious nuclear accidents on Earth remained hidden from the public. Today, 55 years after these apocalyptic events, the struggle of the people who live here is more than just survival.

The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.

Svitlana was born in Mariupol, which has been in the Russified part of Ukraine for a long time. She explores the colonized part of her mind and tries to find answers to the question of how Soviet totalitarianism and Russification affected relations in her family, which consists of four generations of women.

Berlin, 1920-1930s. A colony of Russian cinematographers is creating film production on a truly Hollywood scale. Hundreds of studios, dozens of "stars", European blockbusters.

A documentary investigation of a sensational event hidden from society for forty years, namely, the jump of two Soviet paratroopers, Pyotr Dolgov and Evgeny Andreev, from the stratosphere from a height of 25 km. The secrecy of this experiment, conducted in 1962, and the death of one of Dolgov's testers deprived the heroes of their well-deserved fame. The investigation conducted by the author of the film, the analysis of materials declassified on his initiative, made it possible to restore the details of the event and return the names of the heroes to the public

An adventurous comedy, the main characters of which are real Russian politicians, two leaders of the organization "Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region". They are plotting a trip to Nepal, where the civil war has recently ended, in order to reconcile the two opposing communist parties of that country and, thereby, hasten the advancement of equality and brotherhood throughout the world. Initially, the information about the trip was invented by them as a "newspaper duck" to draw attention to themselves and their organization. But, by coincidence, they really had to go to Nepal.