A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a couple of doubtful, young, charismatic lovers meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise. They have one thing in common – similar emotional problems of suffering and doubts. However, they’ve come to the right place. River cruises in Russia are sometimes called “floating matchmaking agencies”. What does fate have in store for them?

The film is an understanding of the human, political, economic reasons that led to the creation of the GULAG as a system of forced labor. The authors rely on the experience of the writer Varlam Shalamov and a number of recent works on the history of the country.

An intimate experience in a public place.

About the artist Valentina Kropivnitskaya, one of those who organized in 1974 the first free "Bulldozer Exhibition" of contemporary avant-garde artists, which was brutally dispersed by the authorities. Valentina, her husband, artist Oscar Rabin, their son Alexander Rabin, art critic Alexander Glezer and their fellow artists forever changed the situation with contemporary art in the USSR. The film received the Nika National Film Award in 2016 as the Best Non-Fiction Film. Film website: www.soms-films.com

Olga Bokova lives in a town on the border with China in the Far East. Former Russian teacher, now works as a shuttle. The eldest daughter is an excellent student, the youngest is a capable dancer, her parents are alive and well, she has her own three-room apartment. But there is still no happiness. Like many of us, changes in ourselves and in our lives are painfully difficult for Olga.

Every May teams of seasonal workers come to Solovki to harvest seaweed. They go out to sea and mow it down with karbas. In October, the remnants of the brigade returned to Arkhangelsk. In the deserted village, there remains a watchman, wintering with a dog.

Their houses will soon go under water, and the officials do not care! How does Siberia turn into a new Atlantis? Quiet whirlpools of loud construction projects and extra people of a big country.

Young pupils of the Kovalevsky Orthodox Orphanage must fulfill the mission, on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, serve the Divine Liturgy on Mount Elbrus. The chronicle of the ascent unfolds against the backdrop of the lives of boys in an Orthodox orphanage.

The film is about a day in the life of a colony of mentally ill people. On the one hand, there is a feeling of the purest idyll, the joy of joint work and harmony, on the other hand, a growing sense of anxiety and doom.

When we die, there are still some practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. In “Meanwhile on Earth” we take a look at the world around our end station, an industry of death. It is a place where the existential meets the mundane, the sacred meets the profane.

I was 22. I worked in the news. The task to shoot Boris Nemtsov was perceived as a challenge: the old narcissistic bourgeois, well, what is interesting about him? He was 53. He was already a graduate student in physics, and vice-premier, and "Boris Yeltsin's heir". And he turned out to be cool, kind and sincere. And we became friends. And then they killed him. This film is about how a big historical context is narrowed down to a small personal story. How acquaintance develops into friendship. Filming news reports for several years in a row, the camera snatched out a little more than it was supposed to, examined it more closely than usual, turning it into a movie. This is a portrait film. Accidental, passing, tragicomic. A look at a living person who plays the role of a big politician all his life. However, he enjoyed this role. Joke after joke, and now you are Nemtsov's bosom friend. I thought Nemtsov was eternal, I thought I could always shoot him. But life decided otherwise. Leaving me with only 70 minutes of a film about a man who is no more. The work was awarded at the International Film Festival of Documentary, Short Feature and Animated Films "Message to Man" - 2016: "Centaur" Prize for the best full-length non-fiction film of the national competition.

In Soviet times, in the 50s, 60s and 70s, film magazines Our Land, Time Forward and others were regularly created and released on screens. Film magazines consisted of a set of stories about the life of the country and were built on the principle of a newspaper, which begins with big politics and ends with news of culture and sports. These magazines were created mainly to promote the Soviet way of life and only occasionally did something neutral and human appear in them. Film magazine plots are used as archival material in the film.

Поэт читает стихи через зарешеченное окно, монгольская девочка зажигает огонь в печи, с силой дует на пламя, создавая звук, подобный волчьему вою в степи. Как и огонь, фильм вырастает из самого себя, из особого ритма монтажа.

"Shell" is the common name for a dismantling garage. But more than a third of the shells are used for other purposes. Pensioners Karasevs lived in a shell for 79 days, and almost died. What happened in Moscow in 2006?

Nizhny Tagil resident Andrey Gagarin comes on vacation to his homeland in the Komi-Permyatsky district in the village of Bolshaya Kocha, where in the past he led the folklore group "Micha Asyv" ("Clear Morning"). He visits relatives and friends, together they perform folk songs and dances, talk about the national traditions of their small northern people. In addition, together with all his fellow villagers, Andrei takes part in "bull-killing", an ancient rite of sacrifice of a bull, unusual for modern times.

Sockeye salmon is a type of wild salmon. She is born in the waters of Kamchatka, and then goes to the Pacific Ocean, where she spends her whole life. Only once does the sockeye salmon return to fresh water to give birth, start the wheel of life and die. This is an inexhaustible resource that feeds millions of people on the planet, reborn every year. But we may face the terrible fact that an inexhaustible resource will be exhausted through the fault of man.

The protagonist, betrayed by relatives many years ago, now himself, after adultery, turns out to be a traitor in the eyes of his wife and children. Betrayal has its evolution.

The main character is 96. She has not left the house for many years, does not know exactly what day it is, and does not always remember which of her relatives is no longer around. Such a life is called existence. In fact, everything in this life is filled with meaning and emotion, or rather, the changing nature outside the window, anxiety and concern for relatives, even if they have long gone, and enduring tenderness for those around her. It becomes more important than the details of place and time, the details of everyday life and the accuracy of memories.

The film is dedicated to the outstanding works of Russian painting and icon painting collected in the Tretyakov Gallery, the artists who created these masterpieces, as well as the great Russian philanthropist and collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who took on the burden of moral and material responsibility, namely the collection of the national art gallery by means of one person.

The city of Karabash is one of the most polluted points on the world map. The copper smelter, whose work has led to such a deplorable ecological state, has existed for more than 100 years. The author asks a question, is a worker a slave who does not care what will happen to his house and the land on which he lives, or can a worker be a free person?