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.

Women survivors of the Abkhaz-Georgian war find themselves under pressure to leave the disused luxury hotel where they have lived for more than 30 years.

The film tells about the world's largest cross (60 meters high), built in 2000 in Georgia on Mount Zedazeni by the Russian vagabond Borey Ivanov, who has been staying on Georgian soil for over forty years. The official church considers him the organizer and head of a totalitarian sadomasochistic sect. Attention! The opinions of the characters in the film may not coincide with the position of the authors of the film. The film uses the oratorio "Prayers and Meditations" by composer Mikhail Alperin (1956-2018).

The search for the meaning of life is an integral part of the life of every person, and in order to find it, you need to act. Lera went through a long and thorny path to her 27 years, gained inspiring success, love and freedom, but did she find her meaning in life?

The documentary tells about the Chelyabinsk illusionist Alexander Petrenko, who, through his performances, is trying to restore people's faith in miracles.

In the childhood town of Tarkovsky, work on the restoration of the postcard church is carried out by previously convicted people, they are no longer hired anywhere. Behind obscene vulgar anecdotes and smoke breaks, the foundation is rather strengthened for the arrival of the comical commission from Moscow. Work is also in full swing on the Volga, cranes and divers are strengthening the dam so that the city does not go under water, like its third, once flooded during the construction of the reservoir, along with its streets and monasteries. At the bottom you can still see the ancient gates, wheels and the remains of the pavement.

A story about a 25-year-old girl who has been busy with settling in a large communal house on Fontanki 189 for 5 years. She supervises 8 apartments in St. Petersburg. Author, Director, Storyteller and House Administrator are one person.

Artistic endeavour isn’t about competing; even so, applicants still have to be placed in order of merit at the academy’s entrance exams. But how do you assess artistic talent? And what role can art play in today’s world? A layered, observational documentary which presents a portrait of an institution and a light generational statement in one.

In Bryansk, a group of people are engaged in historical reconstruction. They aestheticize the world around them, immersing themselves in the Early Middle Ages. Among them is Sergey, who studies and creates chain mail.