This short documentary explores the unique environment of the legendary Baltic Cotton Factory. We will hear how the locals describe their lives with this factory and their expectations for the future.

The story of a Dutchman who took on the burden of helping people with mental disorders. Remco Van der Plaat created a whole village for people with disabilities, giving them a chance for a full and new life.

“It is difficult for healthy people to go to God, for them everything is through the mind. And these people have a very close path to God. They feel God in their hearts.” The film "Ministry" was filmed in an orphanage for disabled children for the benefit of those who watch and listen.

A film about an ingenious Mordovian nugget who spent more than twenty years on the other side of the world, in Argentina. In the film, the soul of the great Erzya will return. We will assume that at least after death his soul allowed itself to see what the eyes of the Master did not see. Which he never expected. The soul will see the museum. His own museum in Saransk. With his children, his amazing sculptures.

In 2005, the diary of Beniamin Berkovich, one of the prisoners of the Novogrudok ghetto in Belarus, was found in the archives of the Jewish Institute in Warsaw. Before the liquidation of the ghetto, the author of the diary handed it over to his pre-war Pole acquaintance and asked him to save it. During the repatriation after the war, at the risk to the family, Romuald Pelyakhovsky (that was the name of the Pole), secretly took the diary to Poland and handed it over to the Jewish Historical Institute. Michael Kagan, an Israeli engineer, and Tamara Vershitskaya, director of the Novogrudok Historical Museum, are following in the footsteps of Berkovich's fate. The authors of the film reveal another page from the history of the Holocaust on the territory of Belarus and try to explore the attitude of different generations of Israeli Jews to anti-Semitism and revenge issues in today's conditions.

The youth get-together is only at first glance unstructured and apolitical. Just as a director stitches films with references and "easter eggs," his young protagonists, increasing their autonomy, create their own system of passwords and codes. This is necessary so that at the time of the collapse of the old system, its representatives continue to not understand what is happening.

Portrait of the native home, the work and everyday life of the famous Latvian poet and translater Uldis Berzins. His imprisoned son, his family and the best friend , KGB agent in the past, poet Janis Rokpelnis. The film includes the e mail letters of the filmmaker and poet and excerpts of his newest works.

The musical documentary film shows the life of four students of the Novosibirsk Conservatory of Glinka. They are united by a desperate desire to achieve something big.

An unexpected love triangle at the center of which is a magnetic Siberian homeless bisexual, with his aging lover (also homeless) and his "domestic" girlfriend with a camera on the sides. Everything is hopeless, much like the ruins of St. Petersburg, from which the protagonist briefly emerges.

The film tells about people whose hands daily create the main components of life on the planet, not only the material basis of our world from metal, concrete or wood, but also what gives our life meaning, inspires and gives us hope. The characters of the film, a metalworker and a fisherman, a steelworker and a farmer, a furniture maker and an anesthetist, are being watched by the film director, who suddenly turns from an observer himself into a creator.

Knutifiction – a process of learning, metamorphosis. It provokes to review one’s own existence and being in this world through the prism of the History and personality of the Latvian Nobel prize nominee poet Knuts Skujenieks. Young soviet poet after returning from studies in Soviet metropolis Moscow to provincial home land, one of 15 soviet republics – Latvia, faces the stagnation and as the premonition to other free minded is captured and doomed for 7 years in Gulag. But, unlike KGB plans, he returns from Camp even more creative and undesirable to the existing system. And he keeps being like this till today, in his 80ies. The film reveals the eternal struggle of a strong personality’s coming to terms with the society and system in which an individual is seen only as the minimum value. Knuts is not a macro revolutionary aiming to change the system, but is rather a micro rebel in his own inner world. His sharp gaze on new times history of Eastern Europe and last 20 years of what is going on in the Globe, provokes the viewer to analyse his own attitude to different times and events, because Knut’s observations are based on his very personal experience during his life.

Tracing her grandfather’s time in 1930s Siberia, the filmmaker uncovers details about an unknown chapter of the history of the USSR and her family. The film includes rare film footage documenting and promoting the first Five-year plan.

There are people who go on vacation not to the sea, but to fields and forests. They are not attracted by “all inclusive”, it is very important for them to find in the ground a nominal object, an award or a medallion of a Red Army soldier who went missing during the Great Patriotic War. According to the initials on the spoon or the number of the award, they identify the Red Army soldier and find his relatives. These people are searchers who have devoted their lives to finding the remains of those who fought for peace, but died and remained nameless in the frozen land.

Yulia is not yet 20, but for several years she has been left to her own devices. Alcohol and night parties become the only option sometimes to forget about responsibility and completely surrender to the elusive youth.

The film is based on the story of the mother of a difficult teenager. She tells how she lived and coped with her daughter's suicide attempt, and then her early pregnancy. Why did it happen? How can this be prevented? She also answers these questions, but from the position of a psychoanalyst.

A film about the fate of the scientist Boris Grigoryevich Mirkin, the legend of Soviet computer science, one of the founders of "artificial intelligence". In the 90s, he left Russia at the insistence of his family, his wife was afraid of impending chaos and anti-Semitism. He has taught at European and American universities. However, at the age of 67, he decided to return to Russia, alone, without a family, because here "they both speak and think in Russian." Today he teaches at the Higher School of Economics, raises young cadres, believes that progress cannot be stopped, that artificial intelligence will definitely be created.

The life of the Kyrgyz is closely connected with the great mountains. The shepherd and his family live in the mountains, at an altitude of 2000 meters, where they breed sheep. Animal husbandry for them is their happiness, sadness, life challenge and their future.

On Bolshoy Solovetsky Island, on the shores of the White Sea, there are old rickety huts. In winter, no one lives in them, because there is no water, no electricity, no communication. But in the summer, people from all over the country come here who want to earn money. These people, day after day, seven days a week, go by boat to the sea. And they return with an unusual catch. For those who are smarter, he is rich. And some even come back empty-handed. But catching is not the point. There is still a lot of hard work ahead.

It is difficult to build a fence if thoughts take you home to your wife, then to the carnival in Brazil, then to transgender people, then to the first people on earth. And only the customer of the fence is able to bring the team of workers to their senses.

The heroine of the film, Svetlana, was left without a job during the corona epidemic, like many others. In order to keep herself busy and earn some money, she came up with a new business, "online drinking buddy." For a fee, she is ready to keep company with a person who is looking for a partner to drink and talk heart to heart. The film is based on unique material, recordings of Svetlana's conversations with her "drinking buddies" clients. In private conversations, people share their experiences, how they are experiencing quarantine, how the coronavirus epidemic has affected their lives.