In this multiple-award-winning debut film, director Markus Toivo helps his father build a steel gate to their unfinished family house in rural Finland. During the process, they attempt to rebuild a bond which was broken some 30 years prior, when the father left his family and disappeared abroad. A deeply personal and delicate film about family wounds and the changing face of masculinity

A film about the Luhansk militias, whose fates are traced during the most critical period of the war, which has been going on for the fourth year now in the Donbass. Summer 2014, the moment of truth, the death of Russian journalists, hundreds of thousands of refugees. Luhansk, a city with a population of 700,000, is defended by no more than a thousand fighters in these tragic days. Then there will be humanitarian convoys, Russian volunteers will come, Russia will move, begin to help the Donbass, at the same moment everything depended on former collective farmers, miners, teachers, taxi drivers who took up arms and went through each of their unique military paths, became militia fighters, artillerymen, commanders of platoons and regiments, and miraculously defended the city. The authors of the film filmed next to their protagonists, sometimes under fire, but in addition, they distributed cameras to the militias themselves, taught them how to shoot. About the militias of Lugansk, about a thousand brave people who wrote history, without understanding it themselves, this film.

A film about finding yourself and your place in life. A young girl lives in two cities and is trying to figure out where her real home is.

The phenomenon of Babel, as a bright and extraordinary personality, has been tried to be understood by many. Moreover, this was largely due to the fact that there are a huge number of gaps and white spots in the biography of this writer. Babel himself adored hoaxes and often invented a biography for himself. However, the authors of the film did not set themselves the goal of unraveling these mysteries, rather they wanted to look into the soul and understand the inner world of this subtle, deeply feeling person.

We very often stop appreciating what we have. The director decided to create a social experiment among "problem" couples and see what happens if they really have to break up.

Talk about the beginning of the war in the basement with the Russians, who fled after February 24 to Georgia.

Hobbyhorsing—a child’s game, a sport, or a new subculture? As strong passions flare around this youth movement, more and more people are eager to gallop on a plush horse. Among them is our 43-year-old protagonist, who performs on a gelding named Bingo-Bongo.

A professional tennis coach decides to become an artist and paints one painting for a year.

A travel experience, an encounter with other codes and other gods in a contemporary Lithuania. In the country where legends and pagan practices have survived the influence of the Catholic religion and later the Soviet bloc to feed a folklore still tenacious, weighs the strange sensation of presences belonging to another world. If one takes the time to listen and look, the forest seems inhabited, filled with stories and life. This narrative is part of a search of the other and of different spiritualities. Where some indulge in rituals borrowed from Mongolian traditions while others perpetuate a cultural heritage. If Laima, the mother, the one of destiny, of good and bad fortune, still exists in the Lithuanian culture, the ideology of the Soviet bloc is only a painful page of history.

Tired of this reality? Create your own! Video game development has become a new space for creativity. Where to begin? Where to find like-minded people? The authors of the role-playing hit Atom RPG, adventure game Selfloss and Torn Away, game journalist Alexander Kuzmenko and other independent developers tell the story.

A unique film observation of the life of employees under investigation and convicted in one of the oldest prisons in Russia, the Butyrka prison castle, which keeps many secrets and legends about such prisoners as Emelyan Pugachev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Korolev and many others. The film includes interviews and observations of the life of prisoners in prison, where the same events take place as in the daily life of a "man at large", work, a church holiday with a religious procession, elections to the State Duma, New Year, staging a performance.

Architecture is one of the reflections of the history and condition of a country. Through the change of architectural styles, one can directly observe how the state and its residents evolve. In the 20th century, Russia underwent several ideological transformations. This applies not only to the government but also to the way people live, as well as the culture that emerged under the influence of these changes. With each change of power, a new type of building emerged – a reflection of the new regime. From 'Stalinkas' to 'Khrushchyovkas,' from 'Brezhnevkas' to 'new panel buildings.' The film "Heritage" delves into the era of avant-garde, particularly into constructivism. With the help of invited experts from various fields, we explore the influence of this era on society and the ideological ideals laid down during the restructuring period. We ask questions and examine how these architectural and ideological changes have affected people's lives and the formation of the national character.

Mongun-Taiga is the highest peak in Tuva and all of Eastern Siberia. In these mountains, yaks (sarlyks) roam, and Tuvan yak-herders live as they did a thousand years ago. They believe in shamans and revere the spirits of Nature. Their children go off to war and do not return. Only those who cannot live without these wild spaces and the dizzying feeling of freedom remain in the mountains.

Film experiment. This is the story of Mary. We watch her life in a house in which she has no memories yet. This is an attempt to listen to the body and tell a story at the level of physical memory.

The main characters live in their own separate world, where the best birthday present is a new animal skull for the collection, you can go to the supermarket in hoof shoes, and instead of a date, it’s much better to stay at home, play the guitar or cut a new extravagant suit.

Lyubov, the mother of the film's director, recently purchased a well-maintained country house. Her personal life did not work out, the children grew up a long time ago, there is a threat of layoffs at work, so she puts all her strength, free time and energy into repairing the country house, the last island of stability. But even here, things don't go as she planned.

A film about the Veleso Equestrian Drama Theater created by actor Yevgeny Tkachuk in a unique location near St. Petersburg. A team of like-minded people intends to bring to life a phenomenon of a completely new type, where there would be a synthesis of theatrical artistry and organic life-creation, therefore here the horses become full-fledged actors, uniting with human actors in free play.

The film-essay is dedicated to the German documentary filmmaker Colin Ross, who was born on June 4, 1885 and committed suicide on April 29, 1945. Enlightener, traveler, prolific writer, most popular journalist: for a long time cinema was not his main area of interest. But in the 20s of the 20th century, Colin Ross suddenly played a key role in G. W. Pabst’s film Secrets of a Soul, and later made four travel films, forever writing his name in the history of world cinema.

In a few years, you will stop watching blockbusters. And start filming yourself. How to grow from a viewer into an author? Experts in special effects, neural networks and the future in which you are a director tell.

Three short stories about people of our time. Natalia is a retiree whose dreams only came true when she came to Moscow with the intention of dying. Jason is an American with three children who settled in a quiet provincial town. Galina is an animation director whose dramatic experiences in her youth led her to make a spontaneous move to Moscow. For each of them, relocating became the starting point for a new chapter in their lives.