"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.

Lena Chyzh and Oleksii Yaresko are working as deminers. Together with their colleagues, they are trying to clear the eastern part of Ukraine of unexploded ordnance, booby traps and mines. The film presents a sensitive picture of life in eastern Ukraine and how it has changed drastically for the people living there since the outbreak of war 2014. Landmines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices still kill or maim thousands of people around the world each year.

A story about a young man trying to turn his life around: find a job, love, a home, and his place in the world. But it turns out to be not that simple...

A meditative observation of the salt desert and the strange pilgrims who reached its very center. The desert lives according to its own temporary laws. Its main inhabitants are lonely yellow trucks and lost travelers, preparing to become part of an almost alien space.

The film crew arrived at the film festival in May 2018. It turned out that getting on it is not easy without secret knowledge. The group comes to the conclusion that the world has lost its usual properties and began to play an incomprehensible game with them. This is told by the protagonist thirty-five years later in a world where people live underground under fear of terror. He is trying to find the end of the thread of these events, because his life and those long-standing events may be connected. There is a futurological assumption in the film. Everything else is pure truth.

Chiaroscuro is a range of brightness. Life lies somewhere between light and shadow, until one moment everything turns upside down and black becomes white and white becomes black. Sometimes a gray color appears in life, which can be described as the “norm”. But is it?

An intimate and poetic cinema verite with animated interludes reveals the philosophy of life of an old monk and artist, who for many years keeps his monastic vow to find something good in every day. Combining spiritual life with social activism since 2014, he takes multiple trips to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbas, where his vow is challenged by the war-torn reality.

Every summer, young Borya visits his Grandmother in the village. Borya's cousin, Vitek, resides in the village with Grandmother, and they share their childhood together. As the years pass, Vitek enrolls in college, and come fall, he is set to depart the village for another city. In this final summer of his youth, Borya arrives in the village armed with a camera. There, he captures footage for a film dedicated to a place intricately connected to his fondest childhood memories.

The film is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Leningrad, and now the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. The Leningrad school of documentaries has always been distinguished by its truthful approaches to problematic topics. Historical events, images of people, the vital atmosphere captured by directors and documentary operators make up the outline and content of the film. The film includes fragments of works by the best directors of the studio. Vivid shots, signs of the times, expressed in strong images, all this creates a contradictory chronicle of Russia.