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Stories of ordinary "little" people living among the wide fields of Altai and striving to find the meaning of life, beauty even among the oppressive emptiness.
Beauty
8
Kristina Kuzhahmetova
Russia, 2016
27 min
English
A transport interchange is being built in a provincial city. It hangs over houses and over people. Two schoolgirl friends shoot a blog about this place and hope to leave here forever. Against the backdrop of an urban landscape, a relationship develops between two girls, so close that they themselves begin to get confused in them.
Rabbits in the hightlights
8
Alisa Erohina
Russia, 2016
44 min
English
The protagonists of the film are orphans since childhood. They have been living in closed psycho-neurological boarding schools for many years, Natasha in the women's one, Hera and Kolya in the men's one. But now they have a chance to become independent. Thanks to this, they met and love appeared in their lives.

Winner of the national competition of the Flahertiana IFF, the international festivals Eight Women, Let's Live, Pokrov, twice winner of the Stalker film festival, Laurel Branch nominee, participant of the ARTDOСFEST film festival, "Window to Europe”, Canberra Mental Health Film Festival 2019 in Australia, independent documentary film festival RUSDOCFILMFEST-3W in New York.
Let Me Live My Life
8
Olga Averkieva
Russia, 2018
44 min
English
The Great Orthodox Journey of the Monk Zacchaeus.
Frankincense-Navigator
8
Aleksandr Kuprin
Russia, 2016
66 min
The film combined folk legends about the cuckoo, the knowledge of scientists and observations of its life.
Cuckoo's garden
8
Svetlana Bychenko
Russia, 2012
80 min
Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered Georgy Danelia the script for the future film "I WALK IN MOSCOW." At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiev! Both of these films will be called the manifesto of the generation of the sixties, symbols of the era called the "thaw".
Shpalikov. The life of a charming man
8
Olesya Fokina
Russia, 2017
56 min
More than 60 years have passed since the opening of the Kuibyshev reservoir. But Anwar still sees in his dreams his native village, which has gone under water. Will he find the graves of his ancestors, going to the surviving piece of land, battered from all sides by a wave? At this time, in another part of the country, they are going to blow up the rural House of Culture. The former director of the House of Culture, Galina Zhmurova, remains in the village to the last, not wanting to leave her homeland, which is about to be buried under the thickness of the Boguchansky reservoir.
Against the stream
8
Dmitriy Tarhanov
Russia, 2016
76 min
Not everyone dares to sit in front of the camera like that and talk about love, resentment, disappointment, the tragedy of a breakup. But the heroines of the film decided to “undress” in front of the camera. And not only in the figurative sense of the word.
Pain
8
Marina Vinnik
Russia, 2011
6 min
English
More than a quarter of a century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We still feel the contradictory echoes of this process and, probably, we will feel it for a long time to come. There is little left that still unites the former citizens of the former empire. And this is not least Soviet food, an absolutely unique socio-cultural phenomenon of Soviet history and Soviet life.
Eating in the USSR
8
Boris Karadzhev
Russia, 2017
52 min
Oleg and Andrey are truck drivers who have spent most of their lives driving large trucks. After many years of working around the clock, they managed to build a business and solve material problems. They could do what they love and adequately provide for their families. When in November 2015 tolls were introduced in Russia on all federal highways for heavy trucks, the life of drivers changed dramatically. The charging system was called “Platon” (“fee per ton”). Late at night, Andrei and Oleg, along with other truckers, left St. Petersburg for Moscow to cancel this system.
Chronicles of an unhappened revolution
8
Konstantin Selin
Russia, 2016
82 min
Ulyana's mother is a drug addict, and her grandmother is an alcoholic. And that is why the holy sisters from the Community of New Holy Martyrs, where they sheltered and educate Ulyana, consider her to be genetically corrupted and spiritually deceived. But thanks to the film, we will be able to get to know this unique 9-year-old personality, before whom all pedagogical laws fade and even Benjamin's mother herself, a former teacher, and now an Orthodox orphan educator, is lost.
Theory of Education and Uliyana
8
Aleksandr Gorelik
Czechia, 2011
67 min
English
This film is dedicated to the people who made a huge contribution to the development of Siberian documentary cinema, the Khalin spouses. Director Maria Halina and her husband, cameraman Valery Khalin live happily at times, sometimes not so much. But behind everyday life lies a completely different life, full of passions, revelations, disappointments, declarations of love.
About those who smoke, drink and swear
8
Vladimir Eysner
Russia, 2004
50 min
The village of Gorelovka is located in Southern Georgia. It was founded in the mid 19th century by Doukhobors (“spirit-wrestlers”), members a group of Russian religious dissidents banished from Russia by Tsar Nicholas I for their anarchist and pacifist beliefs. The Doukhobors managed to keep their identity and traditions throughout the Soviet period. However, under political and economical pressure, many of them have now left Georgia and their heritage is disappearing with the last inhabitants. Leo Tolstoy was interested in their non-violent outlook and supported them in several occasions.
Gorelovka. Episodes from the life of a disappearing community
8
Alexander Kviria
UK, Georgia, 2011
48 min
English
Anna Politkovskaya was killed for doing her job. Her job was to say what she thought. Marina Goldovskaya filmed dialogues with Anna for twenty years. This is not a film about politics. This is a film about a brave, honest and beautiful woman whose voice was too loud for a country that did not want to hear the truth.
A bitter taste of freedom
8
Marina Goldovskaya
Sweden, USA, 2011
86 min
In St. Petersburg, in a house near the Neva, a father and son live. The father does not let go of the video camera. With her help, he keeps his "diaries", taking pictures at home and away, on the streets of the city and while traveling. Among the protagonists of his film are random passers-by, lonely old people, St. Petersburg bohemia, young people, friends and acquaintances of his son, former prisoners of the Mordovian camps. One day, not finding answers to important questions, the father decides to go to Jerusalem. For some time he and his son travel together, then part. In the life of the father, meanwhile, a serious change is coming.
Happy Man's Diaries
8
Feliks Yakubson
Russia, 2011
90 min
A documentary cycle consisting of 4 films, "Operation" Tora Bora "," Dormitory "," Binom Drozdov "and" KGB. Legends of "Vympel", tells about the history of the most secret special forces group in the USSR "Vympel". It was a unique reconnaissance and sabotage unit, which differed from all the world's similar groups in that it was created in the structure of foreign intelligence.
Vympel. Intelligence special purpose
8
Murad Aliev
Russia, 2004
180 min
Siberia. The sparsely populated village of Krotovo. Farmer Vasily Dmitrievich Abramov lives in the village completely alone, since in 2005 his sons were convicted of murder and sentenced to long prison terms. The film, which was filmed for 10 years, is the last work of the classic of Russian documentary film Valery Solomin. It was completed by his sons Evgeny and Viktor Solomin.
Father and Sons from Krotovo
8
Evgeniy Solomin, Valeriy Solomin
Russia, 2018
56 min
Once upon a time, photographer Yevgeny Burak was a photojournalist, published in large, "central" publications. And although most of his works were not published, he was a photo chronicler of the Smolensk region. Now all this is in the past, in the one that remained in the USSR. Now he is just a photographer. A photographer who decided to go back in time, to take a trip around his native region in search of the heroes of his old photographs of thirty or forty years ago. How are they now?
When life was different
8
Yuriy Burak
Russia, 2010
54 min
The truck driver Valerka and his partner were instructed to drive a fifty-ton transformer from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The men famously got down to business, but did not reach Moscow, halfway through the transformer fell off the truck. So the poor fellows got stuck by the road, waiting for the authorities, guarding valuable cargo from scrap metal hunters. For many months, Kostomarov and Kattin periodically visited Valerka, recording his stories about how he spends time guarding the transformer.
Transformer
8
Pavel Kostomarov, Antoine Cattin
Russia, 2003
16 min
"Yes, death!" is the battle cry of the National Bolsheviks. They are the main work of Eduard Limonov, the protagonists of a multi-figure novel of flesh and blood. Reincarnation of the RSDLP, political sect, or a radical artistic phenomenon?
Yes, death!
8
Alena Polunina
Russia, 2004
26 min
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