Roberto Bartini is a "man of mystery". Who was this Italian? Aircraft designer or mathematician, writer or artist? Or maybe, as some quite seriously claim, he was an alien? But whoever he really is, almost all historians agree that Roberto Bartini is a genius from the galaxy of Leonardo Da Vinci, Giordano Bruno and Galileo, great scientists born on the Apennine Peninsula. Having left his homeland in 1923 and, by the will of fate, finding himself in the Soviet Union, Bartini fully tasted all the joys and sorrows of life in the USSR. Before leaving Italy, he swore an oath to his comrades in the Italian Communist Party to dedicate his life to making red planes fly faster than black ones. Roberto Bartini remained faithful to this oath to the end.

The film shows the story happened with Leningrad in the World War 2 - the Siege of Leningrad which lasted for three years. The Siege - is one of the symbols of the human’s fortitude, but from the other hand is also a vivid example of the human’s cruelty. By the instrument of the storytelling the film authors chose the wartime chronicles of the both Russian and German records, as well as the reports of the city radio, music of those times and the sounds which surrounded the citizens in times of the siege. Ruthless chronicle records help us better to understand the torment people had to undergo during that horrible wartime. Is it possible to heal the pain caused? How not to repeat the tragedy again?

A film-report and a unique document of the current state of mind in Estonia. After the country gained independence in 1991, most of the monuments established by the Soviet government were eliminated. In the center of the city, however, the Bronze Soldier, popularly called Alyosha, continued to stand. But in 2007, different views on history led to the “bronze night”, tragic clashes and the dismantling of the monument.

This is a film about a little-known page in Russian history, an attempt to create Jewish agricultural settlements in the South of Ukraine and the North of Crimea.

The story of everyday survival of traditional Arctic sea hunters of the Bering Strait in the Far East of Russia is enriched with incredible and heartwarming animated Inuit myths, that, at times, prevail reality. "The Book of the Sea" is a dramatic parable about the vitality of the ancient Arctic culture.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov played many roles in the cinema. But one of them had a huge impact on him and on our society as a whole. What is the attitude towards this work today? The actor, finding himself at the turn of different social eras, reflects on time, on himself, and on his almost fatal protagonist.

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up...

The film is a portrait of the cameraman, screenwriter, director, legendary man Yuri Yanovich Ledin, who spent more than 30 years shooting popular science films about wild animals of the North. Each of his films is months spent in the Arctic, on islands in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.

What binds a person to a certain place on Earth? What lets him say, “I'm from here, and this is my land?” What’s setting the boundaries of our existence? The film immerses us in the daily life of a village near Moscow, where local old-timers live side by side with immigrants from Tajikistan. How do the fences arise, then are destroyed and arise once again between cultures and people?

The Finnish architect Pekka Helin is assigned to plan a new city for 600,000 people in Nepal. Mr. Helin is known for his elegant urban modernism. Now, towards the end of his career, he wants to create something “that has never been made before”. The New City should be characterized by green areas, sustainable energy, and quality housing, combining tradition with modern styles. A paradise for its inhabitants! Soon enough cultural conflicts arise. The Finns & the Nepalese don’t understand each other. A clash between Western dreams and reality of a poor Asian country emerges.

Farewell movie. Farewell to the native land, the original banks of the river and the people who lived on the Angara for centuries. History repeats itself. And again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratsk hydroelectric power station, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of yet another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three protagonists, the writer Valentin Rasputin, the publisher Gennady Sapronov and the critic Valentin Kurbatov.

A film about activists of the youth political movement. Politics was a game for them until the war began.

A series about love and dislike in the small Russian provincial town of Torzhok, about smoldering or raging passions there.

Moscow, USSR. 1930. The Pillar Hall of the State House of the Unions. A group of top rank economists and engineers is put on trial accused of plotting a coup d'etat against the Soviet government.

It's alleged that they made a secret pact with the French Prime Minister, Raymond Poincare, and with other Western political leaders, aiming to destroy the Soviet power, restore capitalism and break up the USSR. All charges are fabricated and the accused are forced to confess to the crimes they never committed. The court, presided by Andrey Vyshinsky, who later became known as the diabolical prosecutor, key-figure in Stalinist show trials and the advocate of mass repressions, delivers death verdicts.

Unique archive footage reconstructs one of the first show trials, masterminded by Stalin, which unfolds as a theatrical performance with actors - prosecutors, witnesses, defendants, judges - lying to themselves, to the audience and to the world. The drama is real, but the story is fake. The film gives an unprecedented insight into the origins of a deadly regime, which made the slogan "Lie is Truth" its everyday reality.

Lived life in the memories and songs of Komi-Permyak women. The film is a portrait of a generation.

10 years ago, the mother of many children, Lena, in a sacrificial impulse, divorced Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. Then a film was even made about this amazing act of the “incomprehensible Russian soul”. Now Lena and Yura are together again after painful trials. And these rural aristocrats of the spirit amaze with the depth of introspection, subtlety of feelings, humor and sadness about the impossible.

Every Wednesday, Dr. Liza and her friend Petrovich arrive at the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where the homeless are waiting for them. Bandaging, treatment of wounds, feeding, distribution of medicines and things, but just human participation. It seems to us that all homeless people look the same. If we look at them through the eyes of Dr. Lisa, we can see how different they are.

This film was created on the basis of 100 fates from 100 interviews. The Second World War. Great Migration of Nations. People traveled to the East hoping to return home in three months. But three months turned into four years of hard work and deprivation. And for many, the evacuation turned out to be life-long. How did the evacuated enterprises that worked for the front affect the development of cities, regions, territories, and the history of the country?

The essence of the film is to understand the man Gorbatchev behind the events and to look at them through his eyes.

The Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians who left the power of the Moscow prince for the harsh forests of the Tersky coast in order to preserve their former freemen. Today they fish, farm and even plant forests. They will not exchange their harsh, difficult, but free life for any other.