The young oncologist, Nikolay, arrived in Bishkek from Moscow in October 2022 to avoid being conscripted into the Russian military. In Bishkek, where job opportunities in his field are scarce, he is compelled to seek private clients and administer chemotherapy directly at patients' homes. Every evening, Nikolay receives a call from his mother, who is convinced that her son is sacrificing his career for unclear principles. Can Nikolay overcome the challenges, build a new life, and establish a career in a new place?

Svetlana runs a public organization for the rehabilitation of disabled children. She helps other people's children to socialize, but she does not let her son Sasha go. Sasha knows no other life and devotes himself to serving his mother and her work. Despite the misunderstanding of two generations, mother and son help each other and work to form a single team.

Shapsha village is located 25 km from Khanty-Mansiysk. In August 2019, the Kruzhok project held a web development training program for teenagers there. In a week, the schoolchildren made the site of the village, shapsha.io. This film is not about the site and not about the "Mug", it is about how people in Shapsha live, both young and adults.

The theft of the painting "Saint Luke" by the Dutch artist Frans Hals from the Pushkin Museum has become one of the most famous crimes in the field of art. It was even made into a feature film based on it. However, few people know that even before this abduction, the fate of the canvas was filled with tragic events.

An average teenager who lives in an ordinary city embarks on an adventure that takes him across three realms. The first world represents his house and close friends. The second depicts society and its battle for survival. He grew up in the community where he was viewed as inferior. His school experience wasn’t his best time as he was constantly bullied and underwent changes due to puberty. The proper sex education wasn’t provided by his school. The violence and indifference he witnessed in two worlds piqued his interest in discovering his own world of freedom and harmony. At one point, the pressure incoming from two worlds has finalized his decision to proceed his new journey into the third world.

Main heroes - people with disabilities, take part as actors in theater. The stage for them is not therapy or entertainment. This is the only way of life in which they do not have limited opportunities, because for creativity no physical limitations matter. The viewer has the opportunity to immerse himself in the life of this community and to feel the true love, openness and power of people, who seemingly have nothing to hope for in their life. The film was shot with the participation of theatrical companies from Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus.

In 1898-1902, a joint Russian-Swedish expedition carried out unique work on Spitsbergen to clarify the shape and size of the Earth. Expeditions of the Russian Geographical Society set off in the wake of this scientific feat in 2014 and 2016. Showing the dramatic moments of the confrontation of travelers with both the harsh Arctic nature and people both in the past and in the present, the film tells why, how and under what conditions a geodetic triangulation network was created for degree measurement in Svalbard and what remains of it today .

May 9, 2019. A series of observations in the complex and ambiguous environment of this holiday.

A film about Sergei Kuryokhin, one of the most prominent authors in the Russian musical avant-garde of the late 20th century. Unique recordings of concerts, rehearsals, interviews, studio work previously existed separately, mainly in personal archives. Having collected and combined these materials, the director sought to build a story "from the first person", a kind of monologue of the musician.

In May 1991, the exhibition "Russian Art of the Age of Alexander II" opened in Genoa, it featured 75 paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery. The exposition was a huge success. There were only three days left before its closing, as on the night of September 25-26, one of the halls of the Villa Croce Gallery was robbed. The Art Carabinieri, the world's first special unit, which searches for stolen cultural property both in Italy and abroad, helped solve this high-profile case.

Eighth month of the full-scale war against Ukraine. Couple of hundred kilometres from the border Essentuki mud bath clinic is operating as usual. Visitors sign children up for special inhalations, as new portions of throbbing tambukan mud is loaded into the rusty soviet supply system. Exhausted nurses immerse customers into thick substance, then swaddle their bodies. Frontline news and barking voices of propagandists are echoing across the halls. And a laundry worker is keeping count, down below in the basement while singing an old Odessan song…

Three Belarusian students have to work 2 years by assignments in conditions far from usual and comfortable, away from friends, family, professional dreams and amenities... Sasha is a doctor at a village Dubno, Nastya is a teacher of choreography in a town Stolbtsy and a village Nikolaevshina, Oksana is a geologist at a town Slutsk. They are one of many students in Belarus who have to face difficult, boring and sometimes absurd reality of small Belarusian towns and struggle the lack of civilization on their new working places. How to pass this 730 days long test and not to give up your dreams?

Recently, Italians shared some unique information. They discovered an ancient prison where Russian prisoners of war were held during the First World War. For 100 years this story has been considered a legend. But by the centenary of the end of the First World War, Trieste, like many cities in the world, declassified its archives, and the legend came to life. What were the Russians doing here? Why was their captivity carefully hidden from the whole world? Why doesn't Trieste appear on the official website of the Red Cross, where all the camps of the First World War are marked on the map? And why was the prison where the Russians were kept walled up? And finally, what is the fate of these Russians in Italy? Did they return home, or did they forever remain in the terrible catacombs of the ancient city, forgotten in their homeland, where by that time there was already a new government?

Ernst Akramov devoted his entire life to surgery. He is 82 years old. For 30 years he has been living within the walls of the hospital. All he has is his patients and a small room in the hospital.

It so happened that fate brought together the disgraced poet from Leningrad, Joseph Brodsky, and quite loyal philologists, the Abaev sisters from South Ossetia. They have been friends for many years. Diana Vladimirovna Abaeva-Myers graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University and did her postgraduate studies in Leningrad. She then married an Englishman, Alan Myers, and worked at the English School of Slavic and East European Studies. There she successfully defended her dissertation on the work of O. Mandelstam, acquired the status of Doctor of Science and became a professor at the University of London. Another sister, Zara Vladimirovna Abaeva, professor, doctor of philological sciences, the oldest employee of the South Ossetian Research Institute. Vaneeva. She survived the blockade of Tskhinval, the war of 2008, is engaged in science and journalism, continues her active social and political activities in South Ossetia.

With the restrictions associated with the pandemic, everyday life has changed. The film tells about how the days go by for ordinary people who find themselves in voluntary-compulsory confinement in their apartment.

Evgeny Chernyaev is the designer and commander of the MIR-2 deep-sea manned vehicle, which has no analogues in the world. He was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for conducting the Arktika-2007 deep-sea research expedition, during which MIR-1 and MIR-2 for the first time in the history of mankind reached the bottom of the North Pole at a depth of more than 4 km.

Singers Maxim Lyashko and Alexander Ale.F Guryanov performed solo with their songs for many years. But for some time now they joined forces and created the "For Language" program which later had a sequel "For Life". In their Moscow performances, Maxim and Alexander visited the places where their predecessors - buffoons - stayed and walked the streets that remember Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Alexei Remizov, Daniil Andreev, Varlam Shalamov, Alexander Galich, Vladimir Vysotsky. The result was a concert film "For Language / For Life".

This is familiar to almost everyone, when instead of saying "you are very important (-wives) to me", we say "take this, this is for you."

14-year-old basketball players of the Dynamo-Kursk team became Champions of Russia in 2021. On the eve of a new sports season, the team's coaches are trying to cope with the impending transitional age of young athletes and instill strength of character in them.