A short chronicle of the protest demonstration in the provincial city of Smolensk. Every day Vitaliy holds a solitary picket in the city center. The majority of people simply pass by, but there are some whose attention he was able to attract.

2014, Ukraine. In the center of Kyiv, in the closed space of an engraving workshop, students work next to their teacher. Between two cups of coffee, protected from the outside world, Vladimir teaches them the intricacies of drawing. Time stops here, and fragments of the present penetrate the "vacuum" of the workshop through the sounds and images of the revolution that rumbles on the Maidan.

The story of a woman who was born, raised and lived her entire life in a remote village. Her way of life, worldview, problems, vision of this world add up to a single image, revealing a portrait of a huge number of people living in Russia. They are trying to exist living on the outskirts of a huge country.

Dima, a freelance artist, the son of dissident writer Yuri Karabchievsky, returns to Russia for his brother's funeral after emigrating to America. He cannot accept the changes that have taken place in the country during his absence and does not want to integrate into the new society, which he considers sanctimonious. Stuck for a long 8 years in Russia, he tries to do something big and good, but lives the life of an outsider. After the tragic death of journalist Irina Slavina, Dima decides to arrange a joint exhibition with an artist friend at the Sakharov Center and encourage visitors to a dialogue about what is happening in the country. However, such an impulse does not find a response and goes unnoticed. Disappointed by what happened, Dima returns to America, where he soon dies of cancer.

Every day, volunteers demonstrate that in these challenging times, we need each other more than ever. An ophthalmologist, a Cossack videographer, a priest, an imam, and residents of a small village come together to support Russia's new regions, answering the call of their hearts.

A film about a woman who radically changed her life at the age of 69. Contrary to prejudices and established opinions, she made a career in the modeling business in a year.

The film tells about modern technologies for the production of a high-quality television product, reveals the "television kitchen" and shows the most complex shooting and post-production processes from the technical side.

MISHA is an impressive portrait of Mikhail Bezverkhni, a 73-year-old top musician of Russian origin, who won the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels in 1976. On his return, he was placed under house arrest by the KGB for 14 years. Only in 1990, after the implosion of the Soviet Union, was he able to emigrate to Belgium. Mikhail Bezverkhni apparently lives on the edge of society. He presents himself as a shabby street musician who plays beautiful pieces from the repertoire of great composers. But his appearance is only the veil of his ambivalent relationship with the public. He does not want to be on the big stages; he prefers to play in small halls, in churches, pubs and on the street. He rejects bourgeois success and money. He wants to be Prometheus, who brings the music of the gods to the people.

"The Dream" is a movie about an elderly singer, who's trying to blend in with St. Petersburg's intelligentsia. However, the reality doesn't live up to her expectations, and that makes her recall the once beautiful past.

The author of the film is a young woman, who came from Russia to start her PhD at UC Berkeley. She films her life after her son Lev is born in the US. Her American husband takes her to his family in Cambridge (MA). The film tells the story of the adaptation of a Russian woman living in the US in the moment of a dramatic global crisis brought up by the Russian invasion to Ukraine. Her American family embraces her as a new member. However, her appearance with a newborn in the house of a couple of elderly parents shakes their everyday life. Two-months old Lev brings old memories and unresolved conflicts from the past, which the family has to face now.

The central cemetery in Grozny holds over a hundred thousand graves—Muslims, Jews, and predominantly Christians. It has long been abandoned and overtaken by a forest. Visitors are a rare sight. Thirty years have passed since the war began, yet people still come, searching for long-forgotten graves.

Anton froze his wife's brain.

Sergey Krupnov is an engineer from the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region. For ten years, he realizes his old childhood dream of building a two-seat aircraft of the original design. Will he be able to complete the construction and lift the plane into the sky?

In the center of the plot of the film is the life of Amarsana, a poet from Buryatia. Amarsana lives between Ulan-Ude and Moscow. His friend the poet Arkady also wants to try his luck in Moscow. The film tells about the painful process of the birth of poetry and the search for its place.

There is a belief that the world was formed from the egg of a celestial duck, and the man was created from silt collected from the bottom of the endless ocean. In the east of the European part of Russia, the Mari people live, whose worldview and national culture are counted by centuries of history. They are called the only and last pagans of Europe, whose prayers are conveyed to the Great God of Light - Kugu Yumo, by the intermediary between people and gods - ONAEN.

In 2019, my grandfather passed away and was buried in his hometown in the Luhansk region. My mother and grandmother promised to bring a gravestone to his relatives soon after. After waiting through the pandemic and the outbreak of war, my mother, grandmother, and I are finally traveling to the Luhansk region to install a gravestone for my grandfather.

In the Sixties, Vadim, Soviet engineer, is in love with Vera, biology researcher. But their romance is suddenly disturbed by a mission entrusted to Vadim: sent to Egypt, he must participate in one of the great utopian enterprises initiated by the USSR. Based on unseen archives, this film is inspired by a true story.

Musician Alexei Kortnev in a film about Russia and corruption. Thoughts of the leader of the "Accident" group about the fate of Russia, friends and betrayal. The film also stars the organizer of the Protest Moscow movement and a pensioner from the village of Drachevo, who has no funds for treatment.

Follow artist TomVa as he roams the last village in Moscow territory, lost on an island no one remembers.

The protagonist of the film is the time that has become for the Moscow artist Mikhail Tikhonov the main character of his work, turned to the past, to his roots and to the memories that continue to be the fabric of his life and the material of his paintings. Nothing goes anywhere, and everything continues to be. The film is dedicated to this tradition of philosophizing, while recalling the thoughts of Merab Mamardashvili. Film-communication with Misha Tikhonov, the person who is known and understood only by Mikhail Tikhonov.