Thousands of young Russian Muslim men were lured to join so-called Islamic state taking their wives and children with them. But since the "caliphate" fell last year, those families have disappeared without trace - and grandmothers back in Russia are desperate for news. Tim Whewell finds out why those families joined IS - and travels to Iraq to try to solve the mystery of what happened to them.

"Dembel chocolate" is the name of a song composed by a wandering musician Kasper. He travels around Russia with it hoping to earn extra money and find his listener in every passing car, train, minibus. His journey has no end point, cities and random satellites replace each other. Perhaps the path itself is more important than the goal, and unfulfillment is the payment for the freedom to do only what you want.

It is a story about loneliness, emotional pain and the desire to escape from the web of mental problems being in complicated relationship with oneself.

In the 1960s, newly independent African countries found an enigmatic, distant friend. The USSR generously offered all kinds of assistance in technical, social and cultural development under the slogans of a new ideology of equality and fraternity, but was everything really as rosy as the propaganda claimed?

The film’s director travels to Poland to meet with his relatives who emigrated from Kyiv after the war in Ukraine began. They live a modest life in Starogard Gdański. The director observes the life of his Ukrainian relatives, especially studying the character and attitude towards life of his 11-year-old cousin Potap.

The film tells about a group of Orthodox men on pilgrimage trips to the Holy Places. This is not a fashionable hobby, not tourism, but a real faith. Each of the heroes of the film is looking for God, looking for the meaning of life and looking for spiritual support. Together with them is the author of the film (who is also the operator).

The bear is a fearsome wild giant, a symbol of strength and power. Man dreamed of having him as his ancestor, for centuries measuring his strength with this animal and almost completely destroying it as a species. But a person becomes stronger not in struggle and not in hunting, but in love. Taking care of a bear.

A 19-year-old boy and girl meet and spend the last day together before leaving their hometown, discussing topics of concern to them and life in modern Russia.

There is a woman who from childhood dreamed of giving birth to healthy children and being a good mother to them. She has become a good mother. And she gave birth to sons. But the youngest was born with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. So her life turned out: she fulfilled her dream, and the test from fate, from God. Her whole life is now devoted to her son with cerebral palsy Georgy-Zhora. The eldest son helps his mother whenever possible. The younger Zhora worries that he has become a burden to the family and is trying to learn self-sufficiency. But it is important for a mother to help her son Zhora. His smile matters. And for her, this is happiness and the fulfillment of her dreams.

The film is about a physically unhealthy person who is mentally healthy.

The film tells the story of a 12-year-old girl named Aglaya, who is full of creative ambitions and dreams. Despite her young age, she has written an entire novel about the magical land of "Kolhandra" and now dreams of turning it into a film. During the summer holidays, she arrives at her country house, where she immediately gathers the neighborhood children for filming. Aglaya immerses her friends in the world of her fantasies — they dive into their roles, search for locations, and develop makeup and costumes. However, creating a magical world in reality turns out to be much more difficult than she thought.

The protagonist of the film, theater director Oleg Zhukovsky, does not notice how other people's desires enter and begin to work. The authors of the film are trying to figure out how this happens.

Are family values the same in different families? It is so interesting to look at another family world, which is so carefully hidden from the eyes of the layman. The relationship between fathers and children is an eternal topic for reflection. And it is no coincidence, because childhood memories are the strongest, and the scars, by the way, not only on the knees, remain for the entire “adult” life.

The story of a man entangled in himself and in the surrounding adult life. Anya is a second-year student, having left her family in Moscow, she lives in St. Petersburg and studies film directing. Adult and independent, resolute and risky, dreamer, commander and leader for everyone, and lonely and lost to herself. Too many feelings, thoughts and rebellious energy are closed inside Anya, but what to do if you don’t know where to throw it out and how to live with it?

The film tells about the activities of the Center for Rehabilitation and Development "Maria" from the first persons. What unites all these people? About those people who are not afraid to talk about a problem that is not customary to discuss. What are they silent about? Each character has to itself frankness and depth.

The film documents two years of a gay couple Misha and Otar before their immigration to Israel. The images of the documentary preserved their lives and emotions in the decision making process. While organizing queer tango events and giving tango classes, they are feeling lost about the upcoming departure. Tango is a pair dance that originated in the poor port areas of Argentina at the end of the 19th century. It was danced by men, emigrants from Southern Europe, Africa, South America. The dance expressed their suffering about the abandoned homeland, family and loved ones. As society changes, how we dance changes too. In the modern time the international queer community reinvented it as Queer Tango. It’s a different way to dance, where nobody takes your gender, sexual orientation or choice of role for granted. Like any other popular dance, it is a mirror of the society in which it was developed and from which it emerges. It reflects life and helps people express their complex feelings through dance. People have always moved in search of better living conditions and escaping dramatic political environment in their homeland. The rising level of homophobia in Russia forces many gays and lesbians to leave their country and seek refuge abroad. When narrow-minded traditionalism and xenophobia are rife in the country, tango leads you forward move by move, no matter what gender, sexual orientation or nationality you have.

She never married, she waited for him all her life.

The film is about how three young people from the Russian outback went to St. Petersburg to fulfill their dreams.

The passage of time is irresistible. Everything obeys this ruthless law, things, nature, people, and even life itself! We try our best to outpace its progress, being in an unbridled pursuit of wealth, success and happiness. But what if the race ends, the ground disappears from under your feet, and all aspirations and dreams are exchanged for prison? Even so, life will go on. All people, including the author of the film, are currently serving sentences in prison. This film is a genuine story told by criminals who have committed serious crimes, in which they want to share their experience of repentance and humility, once again opening the camp gates, only this time it will be a view from the inside. You will personally be able to see that “behind the fence” there is a place for genuine feelings of sincerity, love and regret, but most importantly, there is a place for hope that all is not lost and one day the sun will shine on the other side of the fence.

We often run from ourselves in search of a better life, turn a blind eye to the problems that surround us. However, in one moment they can take over us.