This family left the city for the countryside, because its head is a typical Russian Munchausen. A dreamer and an unscrupulous. In his yard, he builds a wind turbine and raises beehives with bees to the roof, because in nature, bees live in hollow trees. The wife sometimes argues, sometimes agrees with her husband, takes care of the children, the household and assures that she lives in paradise. And sometimes she plays the piano with her eyes closed. The village around is empty, almost all the inhabitants have left for the cities or died, and the heroes live like on an island. And their children clean the sewers, learn English, German and grow up.

In the Belarusian village of Zarechcha, music sounds almost daily. Performed by Zoya and Valera. He is a multi-instrumentalist, she is a poetess. Each of them passed more than one difficult twist of fate before they were connected by a song.

A documentary observation of the life of the Moscow passenger metro throughout the year. Salavecis, who judges Dostoevsky, the paratroopers in the same carriage as the American Marines and the tragedies and joys of occasional travellers merge into a poetic essay about modern Russia. The well-known metro lobbies with marble walls and gilded lamps create the ideal theatrical backdrop for an absurd tragedy without a protagonist. The Moscow metro corridors are a miniature model of society in a twilight, a neutral zone, in which characters and relationships are clearly drawn.

A small steppe town in the Volga region. Old wooden houses in the center, rotting Khrushchev on the outskirts. Provincial boredom and hopelessness are opposed by two people, an Orthodox priest and a choir director, she is also a Sunday school teacher. The situation might seem normal, if not for one circumstance. The priest is a Frenchman, a former Catholic monk who converted to Orthodoxy. The regent is an Englishwoman, a philologist, and a former Protestant. They are in love with Russia and believe that it is here that they have found their place on Earth.

Narration about the life of the amateur Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko on behalf of the "great old woman" herself. Biography of the era through the prism of its amazing fate. Talent and boundless artistic imagination. Primachenko's works are her personal way to invent and see the vast world without leaving the small village where she spent her whole life.

Deaf, abandoned, snow-covered Belarusian village of Lute. The last inhabitant of this village, Valentina Kirillovna Shpakova, celebrates the New Year.

20 years ago, a young specialist veterinarian Oksana Zhuchkova ended up in the village of Nakhabino near Moscow. There she became the indispensable Doctor Aibolit. Over time, cows, chickens, pigs, horses were replaced by other patients, dogs, cats, guinea pigs.

Portrait of director Andrei Zvyagintsev on the background of the filming of his film.

Why are stars so attractive? With its beauty, unexploredness, great remoteness from the earth? Some made this interest their profession and became scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists, others turned it into a hobby and all their free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories observe the starry sky, discovering new stars, giving them names. This film tells about astronomy, astronomers, professionals and amateurs.

Russian polar station in Antarctica. Two or three panel houses on stilts, two or three paths between them. Fifteen polar explorers. And all around is snow. From routine to extreme, one step towards whiteness. "Zimovka" is a story about people living at the end of the world.

A trilogy of documentaries about the role of Russian Jews in the life of the country and the world.

The protagonist of the film, urban celebrity Iosif Grigorievich, developed his own unique balance system. Medical accuracy and a charge of good mood are guaranteed! But he was destined for a different name and a completely different fate.

By the beginning of the war in Chechnya, the legendary Major Izmailov worked in the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Zhukovsky. Having buried the first conscript who died during the storming of Grozny, he refused to send 18-year-old children to death and went to Chechnya himself to take out the prisoners. And he freed at least 174 people. The film uses a rare chronicle of the Chechen wars from the private archives of mothers who were looking for their sons in Chechnya, as well as negotiating officers from the working group on the exchange of prisoners. For the first time, the heroes of the film tell in detail what they had to go to to free people from captivity on both sides.

Imagine Slovenia completely uninhabitable. Such is the territory of the Semipalatinsk test site. In these 18.5 thousand square kilometers, the atom was not peaceful. For 40 years, from 1949 to 1989, more than 500 nuclear and thermonuclear explosions thundered here, including the most powerful of the ground ones. How does this land live now, and will it ever be habitable? The film crew of the program "Aggressive Environment" visited one of the most radioactive places on the planet.

Lolita has inherited two cultures, as her mother is Russian and her father is Azerbaijani. A lyrical and breathtaking story about a girl, who goes to Azerbaijan for the very first time to meet her father’s parents. She wants to know as much as she can about traditions, culture and mores of her Azerbaijan relatives. Her first acquaintance with Azerbaijan is the main plot of this documental movie.

From the series "History of Russia in Private Chronicles". Documentary ironic fantasy-parable. Photo animation. A biography of a woman she once loved, seen through the eyes of a man she once loved.

In "ordinary" life, the heroine of the film works as a saleswoman in a fur shop. But every Wednesday night, she changes jobs and teaches yoga and meditation classes to local sex workers. Without judging, without blaming, she tries to help them understand and overcome their fears, to feel like worthy women again.

Emir Kusturica calls himself a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous director by chance, and shoots films only in between tours with the No Tuxedo Orchestra. In the same intervals, he receives honorary prizes in Cannes and Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant, a ski slope and yearns that he did not become a professional football player. The life of Emir Kusturica is similar to his own films, in which cats clean shoes, death is treated like tabloid stories, and life is treated like a miracle.

In Tsirk, student clown Alexei is our guide to the State School for Circus and Variety Arts, in Moscow. It's a shabby relic of a vast Soviet circus system instituted to entertain the masses and spread propaganda. While Alexei hones his pratfalls, the committed and underpaid staff remember better, but less free, days.

Tsirk was shortlisted for 'Best Newcomer' at Grierson Awards 2010. It was an official selection at the Sheffield International Docfest (2009) and at the London Russian Film Festival, the British Council Film Festival Moscow, and the VGIK International Student Film Festival.

SPARTA. is the Agricultural Poeticized Association for the Development of Labor Activity. This is how the commune calls itself, which for more than 20 years has been developing the "Theory of Happiness" in a closed collective farm near Kharkov. Unable to come to terms with the collapse of the communist utopia, the "Spartans" created their own. But life develops, as you know, not according to the laws of utopia... International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana - 2013, Best Non-Fiction Film of the National Competition.