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The protagonist of the film, Yuly Alekseev, teaches children to play the violin and tries to make their world, and his own, a little kinder. It turns out this is not always the case, but the teacher does not give up.
Violinist songs
8
Vladimir Gerchikov
Russia, 2013
60 min
English
Historical memory is not only archives, libraries, great art collected under the roofs of large museums and private collections. There is collected what belongs to all mankind. But each of us has a historical memory, these are trifles, faced with which, we suddenly recall with all clarity our childhood, the people around us, that long-gone life.
Keepers
8
Evgeny Golynkin
Russia, 2015
31 min
Documentary comedy. A community of Old Believers settled in the upper reaches of the Biryusa. They fenced themselves off from the world with a wall of alienation. The film crew is trying to get through it.
Great rivers of Siberia. Biryusa
8
Pavel Fattahutdinov, Svetlana Bobrova
Russia, 2014
31 min
The story of a strange friendship between the Tuvan shaman Chochagar and the American psychologist Alex, who studies shamanic practices and wants to open his Third Eye. A joint journey through the Places of Power will forever change their lives.

Festivals:

- International festival of author's documentary films "ArtDocFest" (2017, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga)
- International Film Festival "Eurasia" (2018, Kazakhstan, Astana)
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2018, Russia, Vyborg)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flaertiana" (2018, Russia, Perm)
- International festival ""Days of ethnographic cinema"" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (2018, Georgia, Batumi)
- Sochi International Film Festival and Film Award (SIFFA), Special Prize (2018, Russia, Sochi)
- International Film Festival ""Ethnografilm Paris"" (2019, France, Paris)
- Documentary Film Festival "Novaya Gazeta" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Millennium Festival (2019, Belgium, Brussels)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York RusDocFilmFest-3W (2019, USA, New York)
- National telecinema forum "Native paths" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Special Prize in the nomination "Educational film" (2019, Russia, Orel)
- Kratovo Ethnological documentary Film Festival (2019, Macedonia, Skopje)
- International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- On The Road Film Festival (2020, Italy, Rome)
- International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology (2020, Russia, Moscow)
Shamanic lessons for beginners
8
Svetlana Stasenko
Russia, 2017
73 min
English
Can people worship the one who destroyed them? Imagine, for example, a thousand Jews praying at Hitler's grave. Impossible? In modern Russia, nothing is impossible and we continue to pray to those who destroyed us by the millions.

The film is the winner of the international competition of the Ji.hlava-2017 festival.
The Wall
8
Dmitriy Bogolyubov
Russia, 2016
43 min
English
The "Frankoni" Tent Circus has been touring the cities of the Rostov region for many years. Amidst the backdrop of military aircraft flying over Rostov-on-Don and military trucks traversing the region's roads, the circus stands as a unified entity. Each worker, with their unique history and perspective on the world, is tightly interconnected within this collective. Dair, who adheres to a uniform, anticipates receiving a summons any day now, prepared to head to the front line. However, the uncertainty of the future remains a mystery to all.
Circus
8
Yana Reinson
Russia, 2023
67 min
Russian, English
Almost like a lab experiment. A 2nd year student decided to live for a month on a scholarship of 2200 rubles.
How I Ate My Scholarship
8
Pavel Afanasev
Russia, 2011
24 min
The second film about the life of Olga Bergholz begins on June 22, 1941 and ends with the days of the Great Victory. Suffering, struggle combined in the personal fate and work of the poet in the conditions of besieged Leningrad. The greatest tension of all forces and "brain muscles" became the main test in her life. The third part of the film tells about the post-war period of the life of the poetess. About new trials and about the country that has changed after the war. On documentary footage, Olga's diary entries and memoirs of contemporaries sound.
Leningradka
8
Ludmila Shakht
Russia, 2014
88 min
A romantic story of a family of clowns, the birth of their circus numbers, told by the main characters themselves, clowns Dolly and Domino. As in any family, there are problems here. Not all of them develop easily and naturally, as in the circus arena. But great love for each other, for their profession, for the art to which their lives are dedicated, helps them cope with all problems.
The Clown Family
8
Nataliya Gugueva
Russia, 2003
30 min
English
The real Mysteries of Existence, which science investigates, are not easily given into hands. Sometimes the search takes not years, but decades, sometimes even the whole life of a scientist. And the result is not guaranteed. The protagonists of the film are well-known physicists Valentin Rudenko, Andrey Rostovtsev and Sergey Troitsky, who are searching for such waves and particles, the discovery of which can change our understanding of the world seriously and globally. But no one knows how much longer it will take to find them.
Waiting for waves and particles
8
Dmitriy Zavilgelsky
Russia, 2015
78 min
Russian
The collision of two parallel worlds, the world of high space technologies and the village of Pogorelets, lost in the Arkhangelsk forests. An allegorical story about the life of people in a remote village, which is located near the place where space rockets start. Resourceful villagers, exhausted by unemployment and poverty, have established handicraft production of things necessary in the village economy from the remains of spaceships. The boats are the best.
On the edge of being
8
Dmitriy Zavilgelsky
Russia, 2002
26 min
To return the war of 1914 to our historical memory, to remember its great battles and bitter defeats, its heroes is the main task of the film. The tape uses documentary footage of the First World War. Moreover, when off-screen the announcer talks about the division of forces, the confrontation of countries, the military threat looming over the world, on the screen there is a chronicle of peaceful life, fashion shows, girls swimming in the river, passers-by on beautiful streets. The actions of all countries, subtle political moves, diplomatic tricks are described in detail.
Forgotten War
8
Boris Krinitsyn
Russia, 2002
60 min
A young teacher working in an orphanage in the north sets himself the goal of earning a large sum of money for a ticket to warmer climes and taking a girl with him. But his official salary is close to the subsistence level, so he has to do a "night job", to beat money out of debtors. Both areas of his life begin to influence each other, and he risks losing everything.
Zero
7
Nikita Belorusov
Russia, 2015
22 min
The film is based on a conversation between two philosophers and a historian, Merab Mamardashvili, Dmitry Seseman and Yuri Geller, which took place 25 years ago in 1986. So much has changed in the world since then, and the thoughts of the film's characters about freedom and slavery, about totalitarianism and democracy remain relevant today.
Nostalgia for window glass
7
Valeriy Balayan
Russia, 2011
20 min
A film about Russian people, Old Believers, who have been living in Romania for three hundred years.
Russian glory
7
Tofik Shahverdiev
Russia, 2009
26 min
Story of Gulnara, mother of 142 children, who is being sued by union officials' for child trafficking, sexual and labour exploitation. The object of the claim(charges) is the Issyk-Ata resort property, famous for its healing mineral geothermal hot springs, which was donated to Gulnara's orphanage by businessman Afanasy in the 90s, who then renounced the world to enter a convent for personal reasons.
Meerim
7
Aleksandra Rechkalova
Russia, 2018
50 min
English
The film is an observation of the life of the Filippov family, who live in the north, far from civilization. This is a film about the path of man to man, about how nature, work and creativity save a person from spiritual death, give him the strength to live on and do not let him break.
Lake
7
Daria Blokhina
Russia, 2016
29 min
Russian
Movie metaphor. Each episode of our life can also hide a mystical meaning. The tape is created in the form of a black-and-white filmstrip with moving frames. As it was at the dawn of the cinema era.
PIETA
7
Nikolay Makarov
Russia, 2011
13 min
A film about a Russian village, an ordinary Orthodox parish, which is considered by the authors as the very ideal eco-village that the “greens” have been talking about for so long. Sincere surprise, reverence for Life, Creation is born in modern man only when he sees the "wild" world, the reserve.
Russian reserve
7
Valeriy Timoschenko
Russia, 2009
60 min
The study of existential drunkenness turns into an in-depth observation of dozens of people who, consciously or in a state of altered consciousness, try to find the relationship between trauma, addiction and hope for salvation.
Anonymous
7
Ivan Oganesov
Armenia, 2023
48 min
English
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