In the early 19th century, Nikolai Demidov, a Ural breeder, acquired the tiny Principality of San Donato in the vicinity of Florence. Subsequently, one of the descendants of the Demidov family gave the same sonorous name to a small station near Nizhny Tagil. Film-essay about external and internal relations of peoples and times.

At the cemetery near Moscow for thirty years, shovel to shovel, gravedigger friends Sasha and Yura have been working. The first is a former athlete who undermined his health at the beginning of his career. The second is a graduate physicist in the past, a failed scientist who left science in the 90s for the sake of a quick and solid income. They feel free, provide for their families, and in this they see the meaning of their existence. Yura helps her divorced daughter raise her child alone. Sasha's daughter is already an adult, and the former athlete finds an outlet in coaching, teaching teenagers martial arts. The bogatyr Yura, who even in winter digs naked to the waist, hopes that he will have enough health for another ten years, just in time to put his granddaughter on his feet. Although the former physicist is already 63 years old. Sasha is younger than his partner, but it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to combine the work of a gravedigger and a coach. Friends have a new partner, 40-year-old bankrupt businessman Alexei. He hopes to make ends meet and leave the cemetery quickly, but, as you know, "nothing is more permanent than temporary." Under the bottomless sky over eternal peace. Are the earthly dreams and hopes of our heroes destined to come true? After all, as Brodsky wrote, "each grave is the end of the earth."

"Vertical of power". The explanatory dictionary defines the vertical as a line segment perpendicular to the Earth. It turns out that power itself is at the upper end of this straight line, and the vertical relies on those who are below, and the lower ones do not object to this, because it is more convenient. A film about one of the representatives of such power. And, not the worst. Elena Rzayeva, head of the Zhulansky village council (Novosibirsk region) is active and businesslike. He knows how to solve the problems of his wards and is ready to do it for them.

Every day, Alena walks kilometers through snowdrifts and railway tracks to get to training. Fencing is all she has in life. The tough and demanding coach sees her talent and wants to make her a champion. What does Elena want?

A wide variety of people are invited to experience all the stages of death from dying to existence "on the other side" in order to understand how we imagine and depict death. Death is collective (what will happen to everyone) and individual (what will happen to you).

After a ten-year absence, Victoria comes to her native Budenovsk. There, her relatives and the fresh grave of her recently deceased sister are waiting for her.

Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?

First part of a diptych dedicated to Karelia, a border region between Finland and Russia, and the homeland of the Karelians. Duque‘s essayist narrative portrays moments where the real and the fantastic of a culture come into conflict, “a hallucinated history of Karelia where different layers of time converge”. Karelia - which has belonged to Sweden, the Republic of Novgorod, Finland and Russia - is a region of contrasts due to its border dimension, cradle of Finnish literature and memory space of the wars and repressive policies of the last century. A family from a remote village preserves the vestiges of their ancestral and shamanic-culture; on the other side, the testimony of the daughter of a historian currently in prison. Both stories reflect and criticises Putin’s current actions to rewrite the history of Russia.

Everything goes upside down in one of the social centers of Moscow after the actor Mestan undertakes to teach acting to a group of people with disabilities. Events take an unpredictable turn when love appears on the scene.

A confused person and a place of power. How one affects the other was what interested me when I persuaded two non-actors to go on this journey. A couple of weeks in the countryside, from where the nearest civilization is an hour by bus, and we plunged into a situation that allowed us to reveal the true relationship between two people, between a person and space, between a person and his "I". There is a lot of documentary in this film, however, I call it a fictional story in which real people exist.

Zero hours 28 minutes On April 26, 1986, when going into the electrical test mode, the personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant made a mistake when switching control from the local automatic control system (LAR). There was a release into the atmosphere. Thus began the history of the Great Chernobyl tragedy. But only after 68 hours the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union recognized the fact of the accident. How did the country live these 68 hours? What happened in the Central Committee of the CPSU, which proclaimed the policy of glasnost? Who specifically imposed a ban on notifying the country and the world about the catastrophe? What did the party authorities of Ukraine do? What did the authorities of Sweden and other European countries do, where did the radioactive cloud go? What happened in the “kitchens” of scientists who understood the problem? What orders did the army receive? What happened at the train stations and airports in Kyiv?

The grandson finds the grave of his grandfather, who went to the front in 1941 and died in a fascist prisoner of war camp.

A few weeks in the life of a young Paralympic athlete Andrei Filippov (19 years old), a master of sports in swimming for the blind. Having met Andrey in his small homeland, together with him we will make a short but important journey from home training in Volgograd to a performance in Moscow at the Russian Cup. On this journey, we will try to get to know Andrei a little better and understand how he lives. Every day he has to overcome a variety of difficulties: moral, financial, health problems. Andrei was born an albino with 5 percent vision in a city where, according to him, being special is almost a crime. And from early childhood, he got used to mockery and misunderstanding of peers. All these years, Andrey has been opposing himself to the world around him, and swimming has become a way for him to fight for a "place in the sun." In his case, this expression takes on an additional color, because direct contact with sunlight is contraindicated for albinos.

The film is dedicated to the street war of anti-fascists and nationalists in the 2000s. The focus is on the musical preferences and political ideas of the participants in the conflict, who lost their health and lives in the bloody confrontation FA-ANTIFA. It was a subcultural war, the main front of which was music. It was led by very similar young people who did not fit into the social structure of modern Russian society. Now they have matured, and the activity of street confrontation has decreased. The main feeling indulged in by the characters of the film, named after the cult novel by Anthony Burgess and the film by Stanley Kubrick, is nostalgia, and after it comes a new understanding of the past years and an understanding of the enduring value of the main engine of conflict activity, youth.

Alexander Nikolaevich is very old. The war turned his whole life upside down. But he does not remember the war, and he does not remember insults, he remembers something completely different. He remembers gestures, hand movements, his hands. He forgave everyone. He is ready to shake hands with former enemies. Ready. But he can't. He has no hands. He lost them in the war.

The hypnotic everyday life of the artist Artur Isachenkov, the one hundred and second history of Zen, or the unbearable burden of quoting in the exterior.

The film was shot during the 2013 Amur flood. Postwoman Nadya delivers mail for the villagers suffering from the disaster. Features of the relationship of people living in the outback, far from the city and the center of the country, are manifested in the fight against the elements.

On May 9, at the Immortal Regiment procession in the mountain village of Mizur in North Ossetia, local residents came out with portraits of their warring relatives. One of the posters featured a photograph of an officer who died in March in Ukraine. 33-year-old captain Aslan Dzantiev was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. On May 9, his family arranged a memorial ceremony, neighbors and relatives, according to the traditional Ossetian custom, prepared food and lit a candle on the grave of the deceased. In Caucasian families, men and women do not sit down together at the table and grieve differently, men make toasts and behave with restraint, and women cook food and do not hide their grief. Aslan Dzantiev grew up without a father and remained childless, his mother, grandmother and young widow mourn him at home.

A film about how the 2012 elections were held in a small town in the Murmansk region. Residents of Kandalaksha, the pearl of the Kola Peninsula, are trying to resist fraud by seeking protection of their civil rights in local courts.

Hairdresser Nadya Makarevich, by virtue of her profession, constantly communicates with women. Thanks to her cheerful and good-natured nature, clients tell her many interesting and reverent stories about themselves. The main essence of these stories is the longing for happiness in their personal lives.