In Russia, the police are known to break up gay parades. Who would have thought that among the dispersers there are "secret sympathizers."

1939 Moscow. A monstrous murder has been committed in the famous aristocratic house number 12 on Bryusov Lane. The wife of the famous director Vsevolod Meyerhold is dead. There was a rumor in theater circles that an old curse had come true. Leningrad, early 80s. There are several attacks on the apartments of trade workers. The criminals take valuables and kill all witnesses without hesitation. The search for criminals is carried out in an emergency mode, and no one realizes that it will take five years to uncover the secret of the brutal killers.

When, passing in a train through the forests of the Russian Plain, at short stops you suddenly notice rare local residents, you hear their calm, thick dialects, immersed in the noisy branches of ancient trees, you involuntarily ask yourself, is this a reality? It's true? Does everything happen in reality, or does it just seem that we see someone, hear? Maybe it's just the forest telling and showing us its sad melodic tales?

Siberia. The last four houses remained in the old village on the Angara River. Before the eyes of their inhabitants, they burned a large village and continue to burn. The hands of Siberian prisoners are cleaning up the bed of the new reservoir of the fourth hydroelectric power station on the river. Tractors work menacingly around the huts that have survived so far. The villagers meet every new day with fear that they will be burned down. But, despite this, they do not leave their home. This is the last year of the life of the Angarsk village.

Arkady Zverev is a serial killer. Behind him is the tail of crimes in several large cities of Russia. He is detained after he eats a man with his 12-year-old girlfriend. Soon Zverev takes his own life, and the official investigation is stopped. Relatives demand a trial, meanwhile a certain woman falls in love with the image of Zverev and tries to prove his innocence.

Motygino is the smallest and most inaccessible settlement in Russia, which has a local drama theater. Recently, a young St. Petersburg director arrived there and decided to make him a fashionable place: he invited his friends-actors from the capital and began to develop a new theater. Do you think a warm welcome awaited him?

In 1829, Gazi-Muhammad was elected imam and began to gather an army, declaring a ghazavat, a holy war against the infidels. Ghazi-Muhammad inflicted short sudden blows on Russia and quickly retreated to the mountains. The first victories made the imam very popular. After the battle in Gimry, the village lay in ruins, the Russians and mountaineers turned out to be worthy opponents. The battle in Gimry was fatal for Gazi-Muhammad, but the Caucasian war had only just begun.

The only time a high school teacher feels like her students at the Unified State Examination is when, with a cheat sheet, she needs to say farewell to chicks that have already fledged for 8 years, leaving their secondary education nest forever.

A young woman, Alfinaz, mother of two minor children, is going on a long journey to meet her husband. He is a life-term prisoner, and his wife is an exemplary Muslim woman who faithfully waits and hopes for her husband's release. A story about female strength and humility, about humility before the trials that have fallen and gratitude to the Almighty.

Thirty years ago Soviet citizens woke up and saw Swan Lake on TV. A putsch began in the USSR: part of the party elite removed President Mikhail Gorbachev from power. The GKChP members tried to tighten the screws and take away freedom from the media. The journalists then fought the censorship and won. In 2021, the profession of a journalist in Russia will be called prohibited: dozens of people will become “foreign agents” and will be forced to leave Russia, and many independent media will recognize them as “undesirable”.

A film about the fate of a homeless man, launched in 2000.

Old age awaits us all. But if some survive, others live without noticing the years. Our hero is an artist-painter, a person who is not discouraged. He is 79 years old and is still a romantic. He had four wives and countless "muses". And he dreams of falling in love again and then only dying. The main thing for him is the love of painting and, of course, the love of life.

Fear is something that is difficult to explain and difficult to cope with. Every person is afraid of something. I'm afraid of mice. But what is behind the uncontrollable fear of a tiny ball of wool? Maybe the very essence of fear is much more than what one person can describe?

A film about the life of the Kulebaki Metallurgical Plant.

Mother of a girl who committed suicide due to bullying at school; yesterday's teens who have experienced bullying; a girl who herself was involved in bullying. All the characters in this film have something in common: pain, complexes, self-doubt, indifference of adults. But the problem can be solved, and the heroes of the film talk about what to do in such situations.

For 15 years, Natalia has been working in the city of Kimry, Tver Region, in a workshop where she paints portraits of people on tombstones. Various people come to her. Someone orders portraits for loved ones of the deceased, and someone for themselves for the future.

Dina, who alternates between India, Moscow and Odessa, travels to Naberezhnye Chelny, where she grew up, to visit relatives. And especially a distant relative, the girl Ramina.

Portrait of a 60-year-old stuntman from Rostov-on-Don.

Denis, a teenager from a suburb of Moscow, is trying to make money by washing the headlights of cars stopping at traffic lights. And Denis really wants to become strong and independent. But reality throws up tests that can not always be endured.

On the issue of faith, Grigory Pomerants advocated a dialogue between East and West, against the pride of religion.