Approaching the border of the country, as well as to the point of searching for the boundaries of cinema and his own existence, the director records a voice message to an unknown person. Around the atmosphere is difficult to perceive the time. Documentary footage of existing cities is combined here with footage of the same cities and people who have already passed away, filmed 25 years ago by the author's father. The space of four cities and dozens of years fades and eventually converges at one point, a black screen. Meanwhile, the director continues to record a voice message to an invisible person.

Chechnya. Grozny. A young director-graduate of the theater school named after B. Shchukin puts his graduation performance on the stage of the Lermontov Theater. The hero himself is from the "mainland", from the city of Pushkino near Moscow. Now, for three months, the unknown “island” of Chechnya will become his home. New orders, customs, traditions and foundations will stand between the young director and the embodiment of his creative idea on stage.

The film draws attention to the grave consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine, the prisoners and the missing. The focus is on ex-prisoners and families who have been searching for their loved ones for several years. Unique testimonies and comments of the "Red Cross", representatives of "Evacuation 200", forensic experts.

This documentary is dedicated to the work of the greatest actress Isabelle Huppert. The secrets of her skill, memories of working with some directors, as well as reflections on acting, cinema and theater are collected in this film.

The film is dedicated to the "Siberian period" of the writer F.M. Dostoevsky. From 1849 to 1859 he was first in hard labor in the Omsk jail, then in exile in Semipalatinsk, served as a soldier in the Siberian Line Regiment. In 1857, his wedding with his first wife took place in the Novokuznetsk Church. It was after Siberia, after physical and spiritual trials, that Dostoevsky wrote his most famous novels, the so-called "Pentateuch". The narration comes from the perspective of his daughter Lyuba, known for her odious character and harshness of statements.

High school student Sonya's life is invaded by a camera that captures her everywhere. Sonya feels like a star. But the movie is not about her.

A portrait film about a spiritual individual who, in one way or another, daily brushes against the 'walls' of reality. Leo, a neo-shaman from Russia, grew up in a military family. After February 24, he moved to Tbilisi, where he earns a living by performing esoteric rituals for emigrants. Through his connection with the otherworldly, he seeks to understand the real world, where he and others feel lost.

Lyuba and Igor are the founders of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center *Instinkt*. They are the only people in the Krasnoyarsk region engaged in this kind of work, which places a heavy responsibility on their shoulders. To support the center financially, they opened a small charitable pet store and veterinary clinic on the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk. Every day, they care for sick and injured animals brought in by visitors. One night, Lyuba and Igor are called to help a critically injured roe deer—a situation that becomes a new and difficult challenge for them.

In a Polish seaside town, Miecia, known as the local “Queen,” rules over her smokehouse - a beloved community fixture. For forty years, her dedication has sustained both the business and its employees. But when health issues force her to step back, its survival is at stake. Set in Łeba, a bustling tourist hub shaped by its post-communist legacy, the film explores the intersection of womanhood, ambition, and identity, asking: What do we lose—and what might we gain—when we let go of the roles that define us?

In difficult moments of life, the community saves, and when it has saved, it begins to burden. This is what happens with the family of Eugene and Elena.

Journey to Chisty Dor, a small village in the Vologda region. Writer Yury Koval lived in it exactly 50 years ago. That country no longer exists, the villages have been empty for a long time, but have the people changed? Is it possible to meet amazing Shukshin "freaks"? Ordinary peasants and village philosophers? Yes! Such people became the heroes of this film. Vyacheslav earns extra money where he can, drinks and tells fables that he believes in with pleasure. Alexander Vladimirovich is a Slavophile, an Old Believer, a hermit who dreams of building a religious community and lives in a bathhouse. But first he needs a house (and it has been under construction for 20 years). The house is another hero of the film, which connected the "man" and the "philosopher". "Deeds Deep" is a film about completely different people who talk about different things and in different ways, but they are trying to do one thing, and about what comes out of it.

Near Arkhangelsk, a murder is taking place in a mysterious "sect". A young journalist Zhenya is going to investigate the case. On the spot, it turns out that the mysterious "sect" is a refuge for women who have experienced domestic violence. In the same place Zhenya meets her sister, who went missing three years ago. The narrative in the film is interspersed with the real stories of women who have been subjected to domestic violence. As well as the director's comments and scenes where we see the director working with the actors, with the story, trying out different actors for the same role.

"Youth 90" is a documentary about life in the Russian provinces at the end of the 20th century, compiled from home videos and television archives. The main characters are ordinary people, the kind about whom films are rarely made. In their faces, we can recognize our relatives, people passing by on the street, or our neighbors. Among them are a young married man, oblivious to what is happening around him, and a conscript who casually marched off to the army, only to end up at war and disappear. Two parts of one reality: peace and war.

Young astrophysicists translate any cosmic phenomena into sound and record any sounds in the reality surrounding them, trying to capture something beautiful in every physical phenomenon and in every moment of their lives.

According to popular beliefs, he brings gifts for Christmas, helps travelers and protects the disadvantaged. Somewhere his name is Santa Claus, somewhere Baba Natal, somewhere Sinterklaas, somewhere Heiliger Nikolaus, this is Christmas Grandfather or Saint Nicholas. But definitely not Santa Claus, this one came from a completely different history of the World. Nicholas the Wonderworker has never been to Russia, but even Catholics admit that in Russia he is revered even more than in their own country. This story is about the phenomenon of St. Nicholas in Russia, better known here as Nicholas the Pleasant, or simply the Miracle Worker.

The film consists of diaries and photographs from 1937, bought by the author at a flea market in Kharkov. Why do people deny their own Soviet history? Is it possible to recreate a historical era through personal stories and, more importantly, personal or collective memory? Where is the point of intersection of personal and collective experience?

A mother and her son come to St. Petersburg to visit their elderly parents. Nina Mikhailovna and Nikolai Ilyich live together almost all their lives in an old three-room apartment. They've been divorced for the last thirty years.

The story unfolds within the only prison in Abkhazia, located in a building that is part of the 6th-century Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The challenging fate of a prisoner leads her on a journey toward 'healing the soul.

All the Light That Remains is a hybrid film blending documentary and fiction to explore how war lingers in memory and place. In a remote Finnish village, Ukrainian workers Oleksandr and Mykyta plant trees on land once used by Ukrainian prisoners of war during Finland’s war with the Soviet Union. As they work, echoes of past and present conflicts emerge, reflecting Russia’s current war in Ukraine. Juxtaposing real geologists with a fictional narrative shaped by the Ukrainians, the film meditates on history, displacement, and the cycles of war.

The film is dedicated to the modern history of Kazakhstan. The unique evidence of direct eyewitnesses and participants in the process of nuclear disarmament of the country, the construction of a new capital of the state and the practical participation of Kazakhstan in international peacekeeping projects from Syria to Ukraine formed the basis of this picture.