Local Stalinists resist when the statue of Stalin in Gori, the dictator’s birthplace, is torn down. But immersed in nostalgia and ideology, they fail to see that the world has irrevocably changed.

Alexander Malinovsky, a young and energetic conductor, serves as the artistic director of the Youth Orchestra of Folk Instruments at the Donetsk Philharmonic. On the surface, there seems to be nothing unusual about this—except for the backdrop of war. Life in a frontline city creates a unique tension, where the themes of music and war are in constant counterpoint. The film offers an intimate look at life in Donetsk through the eyes of the younger generation, who, despite the challenges of living in a war zone, defy the old adage: 'When the guns speak, the muses are silent.' In Donetsk, they are not. The war has become a constant, but the city refuses to surrender. The city lives on!"

Gennady is a musician from the city of Galich, he has been playing the accordion for over 30 years. In his youth, he was invited to almost all local weddings, funerals and other events. But times and customs have changed, now he lives a lonely life, trying to find new activities for himself. After all, the city is lively with Maslenitsa festivities, which coincided with the presidential elections in the country.

11/18/1983 7 young people from among the Georgian elite attempted to hijack an airplane in order to escape from the USSR. This tragedy is still a national tragedy and an unhealed wound in Georgia. In 2017, director Rezo Gigineishvili made the film "Hostages", in which he tried to analyze what had happened. It was important for each of the filmmakers and real participants in the events to understand why and why they did it. For some victims of the tragedy, the film "Hostages" helped to forgive.

The film tells about the Moscow artistic underground through the history of Moscow squats. What does it mean today to live and not adjust to a time when Tsar Oves took away, as it seems to us, all the fairy tales?

Oksana is a lawyer with extensive experience in civil and criminal litigation. A deeply religious person engaged in icon painting, and for 10 years he has been defending bribe takers, drug couriers, murderers and pedophiles. Oksana now works as a solo lawyer, handling several cases in civil court, constantly immersing herself in the lives of her clients. The heroine herself leads a rather solitary image, devoting time to her hobbies and work. There is no marriage or children in her life. Perhaps the reason lies in the specifics of her work, the specifics of the people she met in her life.

Landshaft sketches the psychogeography of a geopolitically charged landscape and its inhabitants in eastern Armenia. A journey through extractivism, war and displacement.

A documentary portrait with elements of narrative cinema. The film reveals what lies deep in the soul of Vasilisa, an urban explorer, and her friends.

Is cancer a death sentence or an opportunity to challenge yourself? This film tells about people fighting and defeating a terrible disease. But if you think to see patients of oncology departments tortured by heavy treatment, then this is definitely not about them. They didn't break, they didn't give up. They live, and the fullest life imaginable. Horizons never seen before opened before them. They got to know themselves and the world around them many times better than before the illness.

Could you play the nocturne on the drainpipe flute? V. Mayakovsky

Behind the forest, a bird bellows anxiously, mosses rustle over bumps, in the black marshes there is a gloomy reflection of the sky, behind which is space. Scientist Konstantin Yakovlevich Kazakov is 87 years old and he knows that the swamp is the best place on earth.

A young gamer called Bona has, since a small kid, been trying to find his way in the harsh world of esports and now under a professional contract. Bona is very talented in CS:GO, but his mental side fails him every time he is on the verge of success, always resulting in second place.

Inspired by the fairy tales and magic of old Minsk, young Leonid Shvartsman dreams of becoming an animator, bringing stories to life on screen. After enduring many losses, setbacks, the hardships of war, and factory days in Chelyabinsk far from anything magical, he finds his way to the "Soyuzmultfilm" studio, proving that dreams can come true if you view the world through a child's eyes.

The film explores a unique social experiment: can the appearance of a city change if janitors, roofers, and other housing office workers are introduced to art through an intensive crash course at the Russian Museum? Over the span of a year, the film documents the progress and impact of this experiment.

A few years ago, Misha left his hometown for Moscow to build a career as a rapper. Having achieved some success, having regular concerts, he returns to Alatyr and meets his family already as an artist.

The mother of the young director comes with her son to shoot the film. A woman watches the film crew, prepares food for them, helps. Nobody knows that the life drama of the director's mother served as the basis for the film. In the end, the woman must let her adult son come into life, just as she lets the butterfly out of her hands.

A view on youth and their love. This film is exploring a border between feature and documentary movies. It's about that only "kitchen" feelings are important when it comes to art.

In Father Boris’s rehabilitation farm, the paths of Nikita, a newcomer, and Zakhar, a Crimean Romanian, accustomed to the place, intertwine. From 2018 to 2022, as they navigate their way into adulthood, Russia's history unfolds, marked by heightened patriotism and the invasion of Ukraine.

Inspired by the ideas of the outstanding Russian thinker of the beginning of the last century Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov the film crew sets off in search of new "rural utopias", modern models of rural development. Alexander Mikhailovich Nikulin, a social anthropologist, head of the Chayanov Center for Agrarian Research, acts as a guide in this fascinating journey through modern rural Russia. In the film the viewer will visit different parts of Russia and get acquainted not only with traditional farmers and peasants, but also see crocodile and snail farms unusual for a Russian person, as well as new forms of rural development.

As an excursion to the work of botanical and film preservation, "Herbaria" explores in its invisible processes the artistic and political derivations that connect them. Sustained in a narration where times and spaces seem to merge, the records invite us to the fascinating universe of preserving the beauty and memory of a world that insists on disappearing.