Six talented teenagers from different cities of Russia as part of the National Mathematics Team participate in the International Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They are all very different and similar at the same time. Each of them has already gone through many competitions and qualifying rounds. Now the overall victory depends on the success of everyone.

On September 21 Vladimir Putin announced mobilization in Russia. People are taken to the war from all over the country. Most of them are not from big cities of central Russian regions, but from small places in the Urals, Siberia, and Far East. Even before the mobilization began, Buryatia was 2nd among Russian regions by the number of losses in the war in Ukraine. It is hard to find a town or village in Buryatia that hasn’t received a dead body. This film shows stories of several families who lost their sons. How do parents of dead soldiers answer the question what this war is for? Are they ready to keep sending their children, husbands and brothers to the front? What shall they die for?

A story about a big family, a small town and a strong feeling. The life of a foster family, where there is one mother for five, is strict discipline and built-in rules. Everything collapses when the eldest daughter's boyfriend arrives for the New Year holidays. He is 17, he is eager to become a new member of the family and pronounces the word "mother-in-law" with pleasure.

A love story in a small Russian town.

There is a teenager in the world who dreams of knowing everything. Enrolls in various courses on drawing and computer games. He looks after his little brother and sister and helps his parents around the house. He also dreams of getting married and becoming a father. He dreams of working and providing for his family. And he has already realized one dream: he created an electric scooter for wheelchair users. And he has another dream of getting out of a wheelchair.

The state of the era, where the usual layer of daily life is shifted. Departure and arrival points, where there are no clear identifications, become a constant state for different people. "Neither here nor there," radio excerpts and sleepy anxiety, suitcases and ticket bookings – a description of the border point Dzhankoy, where Ukrainian refugees arrive and depart.

Damir Muratov paints in his art residence Bednotown. In 2 months, these works will hang in the Garage Museum at the triennial of Russian contemporary art. He wants to call the series "Pictures for Matchboxes". At the same time, all sorts of people come to visit for tea, sketches for a puppet show are created and the answer to the question is formulated: what does a Siberian artist consist of?

The director says: "It turned out to be a sketch framed by the history of preparations for the triennial of contemporary Russian art. In fact, everything revolves around it, paintings are painted, a method is formulated, the Siberian metaphysics of Damir Muratov's work, its conceptual base is revealed. The space becomes separate hero: Bednotown is a household name in Omsk. It is a place of power, a workshop, and a place of life for an artist at that time. A variety of people come here. Each character in its own way complements the image of the hero, makes his portrait more real. The film was shot in in the form of a vlog, a rough documentary. I deliberately refrained from visual aestheticization. I wanted to focus on the content without embellishing anything. Make a museum document."

The film participated in the Kinoproba festival in Yekaterinburg in 2018 and was part of the Night of Museums program at the city museum Art of Omsk in May 2019.

The name of this woman is known, rather, to a narrow circle of specialists. The film about one of the first Soviet polar explorers, Nina Demma, is intended to correct this injustice, because her life is closely connected with the history of the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. The first woman in the world, the head of a polar expedition to Severnaya Zemlya, a participant in wintering at one of the first Soviet polar stations in Tikhaya Bay on Franz Josef Land. A man of amazing fate, Nina Petrovna Demme made a great contribution to the study of the animal world of the North.

A film about a girl from the city of Polevskoy. Where Pavel Bazhov created his Ural Tales. Anna turns into the Mistress of the Copper Hill in the evenings, but during the day she works for the family business of funeral services.

Russia and Poland. The history of the two countries has been filled with conflicts and political intrigues for centuries. Periods of war alternated with years of truce. From the film, the viewer will learn what historical events and figures were behind the centuries-old confrontation between the two Slavic peoples. What role did the struggle against the Mongol conquerors play in relations between the Slavs. How the divisions of Poland between other countries led to its disappearance. How Poland was reborn from oblivion, what role did the Russian rulers play in this.

A film about the fate and life of Vasil Kindratsky, one of the representatives of the volunteer movement with the call sign "Kindrat". This is not a classic portrait film, but a kind of requiem film, a journey through memories and places where Kindrat lived and fought. The conductor is his friend and colleague Boris Gumenyuk, for whom the history of relations with Kindrat is very personal. Having met and befriended Kindrat in the war, he tries bit by bit to learn and reconstruct that part of his comrade's life that he did not witness, and for this he meets with Kindrat's close relatives, friends and colleagues. Going to the places where he fought, Boris in a new way understands the path that his comrade went from the moment he entered the war until his death.

The White Guard is the first novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. It describes the events of the Civil War in Ukraine in 1918-1919. The work was conceived by the author as a large-scale trilogy about the civil war, but the author wrote only the first part of it. Confirmation that Bulgakov worked on the second and third parts of the novel are the stories "The Raid", "On the Night of the Third Number", "I Killed" and others. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writing of the novel "The White Guard", to the centenary of the civil war in Russia. This is an attempt to analyze the scale of the historical tragedy through the prism of the views of a great artist.

Since childhood, Stas dreamed of connecting his life with the railway. He graduated from the Institute of Railways and Communications, served in the army, and has been working as an electrician in the Sortirovochnaya diesel locomotive depot for 4 years now. Stas works in an incredibly friendly team and has a decent amount of experience and knowledge behind him to cope with any tasks at the depot without much difficulty. Of course, he knows his business well, but enthusiasm and interest are gradually fading due to the lack of visible growth prospects. Stas does not want to lose such experience, and therefore cannot completely change the field of activity, but he still needs to move forward.

Sonya is an orphan, abandoned by her parents. She was born with a serious illness and cannot walk. But a kind woman Natasha took her from the shelter and began to do everything for the girl to get on her feet. One day Sonya said that she really wants to see the Old Believer female hermit Agafya Lykova. There was no way to take the child through the taiga, a road that a healthy adult could barely tread. But such was the beginning of our story of love, faith and humanity.

Liza Kashintseva records stories for her Instagram followers while also chronicling her participation in political protests in Moscow during 2021-2022, with a deliberate attempt to get herself arrested and experience the inside of a paddy wagon. Somehow, she 'succeeds.'

The soul of man reaches for the light, no matter how thorny the path may be. This is the story of Pavel, who ended up in an orphanage. He did not succumb to despair and nevertheless found a family, faith in his own strength.

This is a film about dissidents, a small group of people who had the courage and resilience to fight for freedom and human rights in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1980s, when the KGB was all-powerful and the protests of individual activists seemed hopeless.

Nick Rooney, a former British diplomat and film Director, carries out a series of seasonal interviews in 2018 with the enigmatic philosopher and adviser to Putin, Alexander Dugin. A man who dreams of overthrowing the current world order and carrying out a tumultuous metaphysical and geopolitical revolution. But, at what price? The film tackles nuclear war, the Skripal spy scandal, the war in Ukraine, Putin, the ultimate purpose of life, beauty, faith and many other topics. It offers a provocative, philosophical and spiritual take on the modern world and Russia, artistically complemented by haunting paintings, wolf hunts, a mystical ballerina and a burning giant Maslenitsa doll, amongst others.

Now falconers do not go into the forest for prey. Therefore, falconers become more attached to their birds of prey, which creates more experiences and little tragedies. The characters in the film are five people who are connected in different ways to birds of prey. Someone takes care of the affected birds, someone deeply studies the philosophy of falconry. But all of them once had to endure the hardest thing in the life of a falconer - the loss of a bird.

In the film we embark on a journey through Europe and get to know 18 different people in the most diverse life situations. They talk about their ideas of identity, explore what moves them in Europe and what political challenges the EU is facing.