About the 8th quartet of D. Shostakovich. This work is sometimes called the composer's epitaph. The authors of the film tried to see in it reflections of the time in which the great composer lived. However, they say that history sometimes tends to repeat itself.

The leaders of aspiring rock bands on the way to their dreams face the usual obstacles, the routine of everyday life, changes in their personal lives, lack of education and money, and counter flows of other people's interests. These difficulties are banal, but because of them, the protagonists begin to doubt whether I really want this? Am I going there? Did I make the right choice?

What is the marriage of two independent creative personalities? What is a marriage made in heaven” and the cooperation of two completely self-sufficient creators? This film, filmed from inside the living environment of the characters, is trying to answer such questions.

In 1992, during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, the famous Sukhumi monkey nursery was at the epicenter of military events. The fighting took place not only on the neighboring streets of Sukhumi, but also directly on the territory of the nursery. Some of the monkeys were transported by the staff to Russia, to a branch of the institute in Adler. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save all primates. Hundreds of monkeys died, unable to endure the cold, hunger, stress. The history of the monkey nursery from Sukhumi is not only another drama of the collision of the world of people and the world of nature. This is a fairly accurate reflection of what happens to the human community itself in the so-called "hot spots".

About the cardiac surgeon and the largest collector of contemporary art Mikhail Alshibay.

The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The film raises questions about the nature of the student-teacher relationship, which inevitably involves submission and conflict, and the nature of the director and hero relationship, which is based on love and a little manipulation.

The first time that Hedi and Karl-Heinz meet there’s magic in the air, but they are initially forced to become pen pals. Separated by the Iron Curtain, they have to explore their feelings by post. Disenchanted with capitalism Karl-Heinz decides to move to the GDR. But life under socialism comes at a price: the Stasi informs him that he will only be granted a residence permit if he spies for them. Disillusioned, the couple is forced to rethink. They come up with a plan for Hedi to leave and head to West Germany via Romania. But then everything that can go wrong does go wrong. This story gives us an unusual take on German history in which, for the film’s protagonists, both states – the GDR and the GFR – are simultaneously a reason to escape and the place they yearn to be.

Political performance art, which provokes and exposes, looks witty and effective in the performance of the Voina art group. This art has brought the group ardent international recognition in the art scene and led its authors to prison terms and arrest warrants. Art that needs smart PR to become a symbol of resistance.

Posthumous portrait of Yegor Gaidar and his time.

A film that tells the story of American journalist Walter Duranty, who worked from 1922 to 1936 as New York Times Moscow bureau chief. Duranty knew the truth about the massive famine deaths in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. But he was silent about it. And he even issued a refutation of information about these deaths leaked to the Western press.

Nikita eats food from the garbage can, sleeps where he can, and dresses in what kind people will give him. Nikita is not homeless, he just has a dream and he is ready to do everything to make it come true.

Yelena is an activist fighting for the rights of cotton harvesters. Muhabata is a farmer who is struggling with the hardships of rural life. This is the story of two strong women in a society where forced labour is considered the norm.

The village teacher Pan Trzhiska found the diary of his grandfather, who almost a hundred years ago was taken prisoner in Russia and later fought there as part of the Czechoslovak Corps. Pan Trzhiska, a film enthusiast and musician, decided to go to his grandfather's "places of military glory" on the Trans-Siberian Express. His journey, his encounters with Russians, his reflections on democracy, the KGB, freedom and philosophy form the basis of this documentary comedy road movie.

This film has become a cult for a whole generation, and over the years its value has only increased. In the center of the story are the young Boris Grebenshchikov, Yuri Shevchuk, Viktor Tsoi, Oleg Garkusha and Anton Adasinsky, people whose work has shaped modern Russian rock culture.

For 20 years, the United States has invested almost 90 billion dollars in the development of the Afghan army, but left as losers - just as the USSR left. The civil war continues, "democracy" has not taken root, a peaceful life is a distant prospect. The new inhabitants of the presidential palace promise not to commit genocide and assure that they are not the same as in the 90s. But nobody believes their words. Why has Afghanistan turned into a Taliban republic again and how will the lives of ordinary Afghans now change? Why should we be worried about what is happening in this distant country?

There are six short stories in the film, named after their protagonists, four girls and six boys. Interviews with children were taken at intervals of four years, more precisely at six and ten years. They have grown up, their tastes, habits, opinions about others, about themselves have changed. They are not alike, live in different families, different social conditions, but they are concerned about the same questions, namely, “what are they?”, “Who do they want to be?”, “What is good and what is bad ?. ."

Lawyer Maria Eismont takes on the Russian judiciary by proving the innocence of her client, activist Konstantin Kotov, in one of the most high-profile political cases in recent years.

My sister passed away several years before I came into the world. I only know her from old family photos and from visits to her grave. Yet she was a present part of my growing up. I fantasized that I was her reincarnation, spent a lot of time thinking whether I would meet the same fate as her and die as a child from a brain tumor. What does my sister mean to my brothers and my parents? And what did her death trigger in them? My film is a search for my role in the family, as a late and a very planned daughter.

Gays from Belarus are trying to live in a country where their existence is denied. The main characters create their own parallel reality filled with alcohol and parties in an escape from loneliness and in search of love.

An attempt to create a commune by the American communists in the 1920s. The history of the creation of the "Münzenberg Trust" in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. Activities of the film company "Mezhrabpom-Rus", propaganda film. The story of the seduction of the Western liberals by the communist idea, Isadora Duncan, Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Margaret Bourke-White. Visits to the country of councils by well-known commissioned European writers, Herbert Wells, Romain Rolland, André Gide, Henri Barbusse, Alberto Moravia. Their relationship with Stalin. Scientists Roberto Bartini, Umberto Nobile, Bruno Pontecorvo in the service of Soviet science. Seduction and disappointment.