Tamerlane, in order to gain independence and be able to marry his beloved Amina, leaves Grozny for the mountains to work as a shepherd.

Biography of Joseph Brodsky, told in his words and with the help of animation.

In a village on the slopes of former coal mines, Oleg Pavlov, a father of many children, is filming Exupery's The Little Prince and filming rehearsals with a cheap camera. Starring him and his four children. Two years of work, and now journalists are already in a hurry to see the film. But the family never invites their father to the table, and for some reason the children refuse to go to the premiere. Oleg himself does not go out to see his eldest daughter when she goes to live in another city. He just sleeps and no one wakes him up.

The material of this film was filmed during 1991-1993, immediately after the death of Sergei Dovlatov. But this is not an epitaph film. This is an attempt to understand the personality and work of the writer in hot pursuit. His father, sister, widow, and friends talk about their Dovlatov in the film. Some try to analyze the phenomenon of the writer Dovlatov, others talk about the features of his character, others recall incidents from the life of Sergei, but they all agree on one thing: in America, their Sergei finally became happy.

They can be found all over the world. They dress differently and speak different languages. They have a different eye shape and hair color, different habits and professions. They have only one thing in common. For the whole world they are Russians. The documentary series The Russians is dedicated to Russian-speaking people who permanently live and work outside of Russia.

1991 the Soviet Union disappeared with the collapse of the country, some DJs turn towards the techno music and LSD, the capital starts to beat with a very different rthym. The directorOlga Darfy remembers her city Moscow, her youth and everyhting she lived during her 20s. Her friend Vanya Salmaksov one of the creator of the parties called GAGARIN PARTIES disappeared in 1998. The director decides then to tell about this dizzying time from fragments of experiencess interviewes, archives and memories asking herself and the people she meets in this journey: where is Vania? Where are all this intense emotions, the excitation, the romanticism? Where this time has gone?

The life of elite chess players during a prestigious international tournament. Portraits of world champions, their everyday humor and analyzes of games played, interests in the gay parade and classical music concerts. Behind the scenes of the wonderful world of chess, in which people were able to preserve the joy of the profession and communication.

One woman, two husbands, four children, seven pigs and a herd of goats surviving on the last farm in the modern district of Kiev, defending their home and way of life in the environment of the current Ukraine. Natasha Yurchenko used to live in a small village before developers decided to rebuild the area. Her family resisted the developments and they are now trapped between the high-rise buildings. She wants to fight for her home but conflicts surface in the family. How far will she go defending their home? A film portrait of 5 years of life of one (extra)ordinary family in the current Ukraine.

For as long as I can remember, I have always been drawn to look into every St. Petersburg courtyard. Quiet and strange life of the "inner space" of St. Petersburg, sounding behind the scenes stories from the life of city dwellers. This film is a short study on the theme "Portrait of my city".

Using the Dissernet social movement as an example, we will tell you how our actions are connected with our genes, and why some become crooks, while others fight these crooks.

A guy and a girl participate in an experiment, they need to live in the village for six days, doing physical labor and showing their best qualities. They should not swear, they should be the perfect couple, where everyone cares about the other more than about themselves. In their free time, they shoot the trailer for their movie and watch the movie knock down the "settings", exposing hidden relationship problems.

About the Yalta Conference, the meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, which took place in February 1945 and determined the fate of the post-war world, mountains of books have been written and many films have been shot. It would seem that these events have long been known. But only relatively recently, thanks to the research of the famous Russian historian William Pokhlebkin, we became aware of the details of the grandiose "culinary" action, a series of banquets that accompanied the negotiations of the allies in the devastated Crimea that war winter. For obvious reasons, these feasts could not fall into the field of view of the then newsreels. But miraculously preserved materials give us the opportunity to feel their scale and specific atmosphere. No one claims that the materials are documentary.

The war of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1979 is still full of many secrets. And perhaps the most intriguing of them is connected with the operation "Baikal-79", the beginning of the invasion. The battle lasted only 43 minutes in the Taj Beck Palace, the residence of the head of Afghanistan, Amin. But this was preceded by a long chain of intriguing events in Moscow and Kabul.

While in Moscow thousands of young people are protesting against the current government, corruption in the Russian elite and demanding change, older people in southern Russia, in Krasnodar, are fighting for traditional values and stability. They face misunderstanding and hatred, but all the same, united, they create their own Russia. These women and men created their blog on youtube, in which they post a chronicle of their struggle. They called themselves “Putin Squad”.

The film tells about the intertwining of economic and cultural structures in the modern Siberian North, which for some is a place of birth, for others it is a deposit.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Those who come back, Russia meets differently.

In the village of Bolshebykovo in the south of Russia, hereditary peasants live according to the rules and customs that have developed over the centuries. They work almost the same as a hundred years ago, and sing the songs of their great-grandmothers. Their social circle is closed and cozy, neighbors, family. Their natural habitat is nature. Endless peasant labor is the content of life. And the main feature is vitality.

The film is about people who are already recognized in the world musical culture, about those contemporaries who are called "our new composers" in musical circles. Vladimir Martynov, Sergey Zagniy, Anton Batagov and Pavel Karmanov, despite their creative difference and difference in attitude, communicate closely and, one might say, are friends. These are four completely different people, who, nevertheless, are called “composers of the same blood” by critics.

To a person who does not experience vision problems, it may seem that fine art does not exist in the world of the blind. They don't have it, so they don't need it. “Imagine” is a film-journey to the border area. Blinded due to an illness, an art critic, a fan of painting who lost her sight after the birth of children, an artist who has been blind since childhood. The heroes of the film are people who are in love with art, looking for an opportunity to reconnect with visual culture, cut off by circumstances. What do those who seem to see nothing actually see? What do those who have recently become blind remember? And how do those who live in darkness imagine the world?

The film tells about the families of the innocently convicted, in particular, about two mothers whose children are in prison. They are trying to prove the innocence of their children and the falsification of criminal cases by law enforcement officers.