Among those who have taken to the streets of Russian cities in recent months are people of various political views. This is the story of a young Russian nationalist.

A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"

Research film in the post-post-memory genre. An attempt to comprehend the creators and participants, as well as their motivations, of the largest theatrical project of 2017 "Motherland" in the historical context that was originally set by the artists. How does Joseph Stalin respond in each of us, what processes does he launch in us? How one of the most tyrannical figures of the 20th century still influences and controls our consciousness and manifests itself directly or indirectly in our life attitudes, in worldview, in work, in relationships with people, and the painful deformation of the psyche continues, which can only be overcome through collective rethinking , the free expression of the statement on the stage and its subsequent experience inside.

The film tells about the environmental catastrophe in Southern Siberia, where coal and gold mining companies cause irreparable harm to the Shors, the indigenous people of Russia. The Shors have lived for centuries on the territory of the modern Republic of Khakassia and the Kemerovo region, but their traditional way of life, language and culture are threatened with extinction.

The protagonist of the film, doctor Andrey Evgenievich Zhukov, an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. Now he is one of the leading specialists in such a complex and important field as resuscitation. According to Zhukov, the causes of the disease, as a rule, are hidden in psychosomatics, in early traumatic experience. And the best way to overcome such problems is creativity!

A film about the life of a 100-year-old Russian woman living in Azerbaijan.

Urbanization is a familiar comfort. The price of such comfort is temptations and temptations, cruelty and indifference. The modern city dissolves and absorbs a person. Man is powerless before the metropolis. Someone can not stand it and runs from this hell to the end of the world, into the wilderness, to nature, harmony, love and freedom. Today in Russia there are about 400 different kinds of communities, family estates, eco-villages as an alternative to the modern metropolis.

When we lose a loved one, we are left with a complex blend of emotions and memories that demand resolution. This is especially true when the deceased played a significant role in our lives and had a multifaceted character. This documentary essay explores a personal response to tragedy, weaving together family chronicles and the author’s dreams.

The film tells about the creative rehabilitation of pupils of psycho-neurological boarding schools in the Moscow region. These are young people who find themselves in difficult life situations. Everyone has a diagnosis. None of them, of course, even dreams of a professional career as a singer or musician. But with enviable persistence they continue to do what they love. In this they are helped by professional musicians, members of the rock group "Attraction Voronov".

A documentary about the life of a pediatric resuscitator. For ten years he has been with children who find themselves between life and death. One day his world collapsed and he was left alone with the empty ceiling of a rented apartment. Then he filled his whole body with tattoos. Then he found himself in the center of two tragedies, to which the attention of the whole world was riveted.

A person often falls asleep with bad thoughts, and at some point it happens that the previous day is not erased from memory. Sometimes this happens several times in a row, and everything experienced by a person accumulates, turning life into an endless introspection. Life is not a reality, but a place where a person ended up just like that. Life and leisure merge into a single whole, and the border between an existential crisis and constant laughter is lost for the person himself and everyone around him. In one reality, there is an incomprehensible art, a long desire for self-development and its complete absence. Friends who have known each other since childhood feel it so differently that the communication gap that arises from the imperfection of human language does not allow them to share their own reality. And yes, not everyone needs it.

A documentary about how grandparents rolled cucumbers. Pickling 3 cans of cucumbers when you are well over 80 is a small feat and a whole adventure.

Stay alone in a big house during a terrible epidemic and try to understand why all this is needed, to look for meaning. And only telephone conversations with her husband and prayer again and again dispel longing and loneliness. An experiment on the verge of game and reality.

The plot of the film is based on a story told by the author's grandfather. The Germans, having shot all the chickens in the village, are hunting for the last little chicken, which is very cunning and agile. Every time the Germans try to catch her, she manages to fool them. Most of all, this little chicken loves to hide under a big tractor box. This reliable large shelter becomes for her a real fortress.

The life story of the distinguished American cultural activist Paul B. Anderson, one of the pioneers who helped break the “iron curtain” of the Cold War. Paul Anderson was one of the founders and for many years director of the Paris YMCA-Press. This publishing house founded in 1921 published hundreds of Russian books included in the golden fund of Russian culture. The life of Paul Anderson was not easy and full of adventures. In the time of WW1 he was delivering food for the Czech and Slovak military prisoners in Siberia, helped disembarrass of Russian soldiers from German captivity, listened to the speech of Lenin when Bolsheviks took the rule of power, was arrested by KGB and spent time in the basement of the Lubyanka prison. Paul Anderson was awarded with many high honors, including the French Legion of Honor and the Order of the British Empire.

The film portrait of modern Russia is compiled from freely available Internet videos.

Military actions have been ongoing in the East of Ukraine for 3 years now. From the first days of war in different hot military action zones women are part of the actions and perform military tasks. However, society still retains an ambiguous, stereotypical attitude towards women in the army... Three women-directors narrate about 6 women-soldiers from across Ukraine. Six different stories, nine different perspectives of war and female heroism in it.

On December 31, an explosion, presumably of gas, occurred in a residential building in Magnitogorsk. 39 people died.

The centenary year of Charles Bukowski was a severe test for the St. Petersburg bar of the same name. Quarantine, government bans, going underground. Over a mug of beer, the bar's regulars, who have almost become one family, talk about the situation in the country and the world.

From the bird’s-eye view the Curonian Spit is a narrow, sandy peninsula that the birds use as a bridge to avoid the dangerous waters of the Baltic Sea. Up to 1.5 million birds pass it on peak days, making it a spectacular place for nature lovers and vacationers. The same landscape is also home for two countries with historically troubled relationship - Lithuania and Russia. Today, two ornithological stations make a first attempt to cross the border through a common bird research project. But will they be 2 birds of a feather?