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.

Film from among Poets Not Dead series. Grigory Dashevsky was a scholar, a poet, translator and literary critic. His poetry and his thinker studies and ideas became the main phenomena in contemporary Russian culture. Olga Krutilina’s documentary In memjry of Grigory Dashevsky.

Krylov is known and quoted even by children. It would seem that everything is known about him for 250 years, but this is not so. What is the secret of his birth and death? Why did he stubbornly refuse to write fables? Why avoided women and never married? Did he really have an illegitimate daughter?

Russian-born director Aleksey Lapin travels back to his relatives’ home village near the Ukrainian border, where he himself used to spend every summer. The film crew introduce themselves at a specially organized musical event, claiming that they have come to cast a historical film that is to be set in the village. What follows is a charming, semi-fictional documentary by and with the village community. The cinematography in black and white is notable, full of references to classic Russian films, timeless and timely at the same time. Lapin’s feature-length debut is not only an affectionate local portrait with a sense for the absurd, but also a film about film.

The film is intended to acquaint the viewer with the habits and social life of horses, sacred animals for the Sakha people.

He is a monk who has lived in a monastery on an island for many years. She is a director from Moscow. A chance encounter connects them, but hundreds of kilometers and the monastery’s strict rules stand between them. Their only means of communication is through video calls. Neither could have imagined that this correspondence would change their lives and become the foundation of a documentary film.

Contemporary artists are judged by their work. At the same time, the process of creating these works remains hidden from the majority. A few days in the company of Casimir Klein, the “apologist of true art” (as he calls himself), during the preparation of his next performance, allow me to feel the essence of contemporary art. Before us is the opportunity to see how a certain creation is experienced by the creator from conception to execution, what obstacles and unexpected twists of fate (and Klein, one gets the impression, believes in fate) the creative force encounters on its way. Wandering around the city at night in search of inspiration, exploring the space of creativity, talking with the muse, going beyond one's own responsibility, searching for insight, accompanied by an escape from oneself. The promise of high, bright, never seen before.

People have been eating chickens since ancient times. How does this process look from the bird's cage?

In a small city in the Urals, local freemasons - the heirs of the Atlantes - explore and measure cracks to determine areas of weakness and prevent a break. But cracks continue to appear.

Documentary about volunteers and residents of the "Pristaniste" foundation and shelter in Montenegro. The protagonists of the film are Ukrainian refugees, as well as Russians and Belarusians who engage in dialogue with each other despite the ongoing war.

In the dark cabin of a tram driver, the city unfolds through the windows. The rails stretch ahead, twisting and turning, while houses and bus stops flash by on either side. Off-screen, three interwoven stories play out, and through the windows, the events described come to life before our eyes.

An old hermit who settled in the forests of Karelia, like an ancient sage from local myths, lives in harmony with nature, far from civilization and leads an active lifestyle. Nevertheless, thoughts about the past and the eternal do not leave the hero.

The series tells about the main events of April 1945 in the first person. What would happen if the participants, for example, the Yalta Conference and the capture of Berlin had mobile phones. What would they write to their colleagues? With the help of the series you will be able to see the events through the eyes of their participants.

A film about modern women in the North Caucasus. Climber, scientist, head of the family and young schoolgirls. We learn their stories against the backdrop of a sometimes conflicting clash of tradition and the Islamization of the region.

After 45 years of single-party communist rule in Serbia, political parties gained legal status in 1990, and the first multiparty elections in Serbian history were held. Five ex-presidential candidates, today’s misfits, bring back memories of the elections and relive that crucial event, not realizing that they played only supporting roles.