On August 5, 2018, Rudnik, one of the most unusual and lively new documentary film festivals, ended in Sviyazhsk.

Lyrical documentary film about the artist and poet Stanislav Goncharov (1940 - 2003). This film is not a tribute to memory, it is an immersion in the meanings born of the life of a person who, like Ecclesiastes, seemed to have experimented with his destiny. He chose the path of an artist, philosopher, poet. Choosing a path is not quite the same as becoming someone. The path is a test of oneself for truth. Contemporaries, friends and critics, strangers and relatives talk about a man who became a special event at the end of the last century.

He left the city and went to live in a remote village. His wife died after giving birth. He stayed with a disabled child. He is still looking for his woman. This film is about Alexander, who has gone through a lot and is now raising his daughter, hoping to meet his beloved one more time.

Fedor Belomoev, head of the "4Blind" team, is developing devices that help overcome the barriers of deaf-blindness. Only after a series of tests will the fate of "Perkin's case", the team's new development, become clear.

She is a documentary filmmaker, he is an aircraft designer. What can unite these people who have been together for more than half a century? Marina Babak and Vladimir Babak tell about their profession, about the life they lived together.

Autobiographical film by the Ural poet Mikhail Kachusov. About childhood, about poetry, about love for a small homeland.

The main characters are music, lyrics and homeless people against the background of alcohol. "Come in!" - the title of a work by composer Vladimir Martynov, which tells about the composer Henry Purcell, who froze drunk on a winter street. Alcohol addiction equals everyone, homeless and genius. Creativity and alcohol, are they compatible? An attempt to answer this question is made by the composer Vladimir Martynov and the artist Nikolai Nasedkin.

Ten years ago, it was hard to imagine that a blind person could restore vision with the help of prosthetics. Our protagonists did. Gregory and Antonina performed operations to insert an implant into the retina. After a long period of rehabilitation, they successfully use their new ‘bionic’ vision. Antonina can even read texts, written in capital letters. Today, science is on the verge of another amazing technological breakthrough: an implant for the visual cortex of the brain is being tested, and is tested right before our very eyes. So far, testing is conducted on monkeys. The dramatic stories in the film alternate with scientific conversations about the device and the true meaning of vision.

The film tells about the history of the formation and development of the Orenburg region from ancient times to the present.

The film tells the love story of V. Mayakovsky and Ellie Jones, about the birth of the poet's daughter.

Documentary film about the artist Sergei Vasilyevich Vorobyov. He has been engraving all his life. This art is not for everyone. Sergei Vasilievich teaches at the art school, together with students he shoots a full-length film based on the fairy tale “The Little Prince” and continues to create wonderful engravings.

On September 8, 2018, people stood in the squares, streets and courtyards of St. Petersburg and read the names of those who lived and died during the siege of Leningrad. This short film tells how and why this action took place.

Among a large number of artists, Mark Rothko stands out for his unique and original use of color field painting. Most researchers focus on the analysis of his work, the stages of his development as an artist, which he became in America, and his life in the USA. But what made him the person he was? Where are the roots and motives of his work? What underlies his vision of the picture of the world? What environment shaped him as a person? The answers to these questions should be sought in the artist's childhood.

Conversation with a fisherman in Makhachkala, discussions about the war in Ukraine.

In April 2016, the Russian nuclear center (Arzamas-16, Sarov) celebrated its 70th anniversary, where the first Russian atomic and hydrogen bombs were created. The memory of the people who worked at the secret facility, embodied in eyewitness accounts, live sketches of events, official documents, with their indisputable authenticity, recreate the picture of the era with its special unique flavor.

A documentary film about a prominent figure in Russian military aviation, Kuban Cossack Major General Vyacheslav Tkachev.

A story about volunteers who come to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital to brighten up the gray everyday life of children.

The Point of the Future is a new episode of The “Other People?” series emphasizing an acute need for human warmth and love when choosing your life journey. It was filmed in a village for families with foster children located in an inclusive educational complex in Siberia that is unique due to the funds and resources invested but, first of all, the people who help to build the future day by day.

A film about a World War II aircraft that was shot down near Daugavpils and crashed near Rēzekne into Lake Razna. This is the story of a boy who, as a child, heard a story about this incident from an elderly fisherman and connected his whole life with the search for an airplane and the dream of finding it.

The film is about a blacksmith-artist who masterfully forges metal and has a talent for writing poetry. The forging process of an as yet unknown work is built around the fire in the forge, the symbol of blacksmithing. While working, the protagonist is visited by thoughts about work, art and life, which are expressed in his own poems.