Film monologue of the philologist, translator Lilianna Lungina about the life of the soul and the world around. With ruthless vigilance, considering her own development from childhood to the last days, she makes internal events no less fascinating than external ones. Her story is a unique combination of confession and scale, large-scale and general plan: it is both a portrait and a fresco, because the heroine does not lose sight of the general, social life for a minute, trying to present to the audience the fate of Russia and, to some extent, Europe in the 20th century.

A film about the creation of the Moscow Metro, which has become a symbol of the whole country. The narrative covers the period from the first pre-revolutionary projects to the Khrushchev era.

A story about a family that lives in a ghost town. 15 years ago there was a job and a happy life. After the closure of the mine, only old barracks, mountains of processed earth and unnecessary people who have lost the meaning of life remained. Is it possible to survive in such conditions and not sink even lower when all moral boundaries are erased? Have these people's hopes for happiness been shattered? And is there a place for a holiday, a dream, love in a hopeless reality?

In Russia, even milkmaids are now being labeled as foreign agents! What led the country to disapprove of the ordinary villager Elena Agafonova? Whom does she work for? And what is the reason behind the widespread fear of her in the entire Tula region? We visited the village of Partizan in the Uzlovsky district and spent several days with Lena to gain insight into her life.

Madina Mustafina again takes root in the forbidden, taboo territory. The heroine of the picture is a modern 18-year-old girl Zhenya, not burdened with social obligations. As a typical bearer of youth subculture, she is not endowed with special talents and lives an ordinary life of a growing up provincial girl, loves to dance, meets guys, teaches her friends how to kiss. In general, neither the norms of behavior, nor the manner of speech, nor the desire to please, in any other way, does she differ from thousands of other girls. Except for one thing: the girl Zhenya is actually a boy.

This is a film about the Great Patriotic War, as the famous Russian writer Viktor Astafiev saw and knew it. A rare recording was made two years before his death. In it, he, not embarrassed in expressions, tells the whole bitter and terrible truth of the war that he went through as a simple soldier. The tape was awarded the Golden Eagle Prize of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia as the best documentary film and the Laurel Branch Award as the best feature film.

Ust-Tsilma is only seven hills and the coast. On the one hand, there is the mighty Pechora, on the other, there are impenetrable forests and swamps. Everything in this distant land breathes death. The Old Believers honor and respect her, because the path to the grave is nothing more than a test, preparation for the eternal. By accepting death, one can learn to understand life.

"Pentagons" is the name given to a semi-dilapidated house in Novouzensk, Saratov region, lacking heating and sanitation. For six months, Andrejs Lošaks and his filming crew observed people who "survive rather than live." The documentary series "Pentagons" portrays the poorest inhabitants of Russia, individuals who have entered an unspoken agreement with the state: you don't interfere with us, and we won't interfere with you. But then, the war began...

For several years, the author has been making film observations of his heroes, peasants from two neighboring villages in the Lipetsk region. One of them, Uncle Vanya, is a poet, a local Kulibin, who builds a starship. The second, Uncle Kolya, wandered through life in an alcoholic stupor, but one day, having experienced a severe shock, he got out onto the “sober” highway. The most remarkable thing about the film is the author's point of view.

If you stop a passerby in a European town and tell them that most of the Christmas trees originate in Georgia, they would be surprised – usually, the label says “Denmark”. We observe the two communities involved in this business. One in Denmark, and the other one in Georgia. We can see many things in common between them and discover also the huge differences in their living conditions, attitudes, and mentality. The seeds of the fir cones are harvested every autumn in Georgia and then sold to the Danish, who grow the seedlings for 7 years to sell them across Europe. These fir trees grow as tall as 60 meters, and to reach the best cones, the pickers have to climb to the very top. Sometimes they lose their balance and fall. Is this all worth the lost lives of cone pickers? Does the multi-billion Christmas tree business redeem something in exchange?

A cinematic testament created over a period of 15 years, "Afterwar" is a meditation on the long-term repercussions of war. Interweaving raw realism and staged performance, this hybrid film follows four children from Priština, the capital of Kosovo, as they transform into adults before our eyes in the country in which the aftereffects of the war from late 1990s are still felt; they remain in limbo, haunted by memories, and dreaming of a better future.

The heroes of the film are the pathologist and his work. This is a favorite job, where everything is arranged for life. Bookshelves, selection of music gourmet CDs: Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, etc. On the walls are oil paintings with views of the morgue. No cynicism, only professionalism, humor and a dream come true of a person who, from childhood, dreamed of understanding why a person actually dies.

Imagine that everything you did before is no longer needed by anyone. Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Lyuda are top manager, shop manager, senior foreman, engineer, storekeeper and workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant. Likhachev. They hold on with all their might to routine and professional pride to endure in circumstances where everything around them is collapsing. And now, for the first time in 20 years, the plant receives an order from the Ministry of Defense to produce three classic ZIL convertibles for the Victory Parade on Red Square. Special Shop Director Mikhail and his team are excited to get down to business to prove their worth.

The film, consisting of eight parts, is fragments of Andrei Bely's biography scattered over time.

As a result of a trauma received at birth, Vera Kazakova became disabled from childhood and, having lost the opportunity to move freely, it seemed that she was doomed to lead a reclusive life. But she managed to change the destined course of events. Vera found the strength not only to get a decent education, to give birth to a son, but also to actively fight for the revival of her small homeland.

This film is about Alexander Orlov, a resident of Soviet intelligence, who disappeared without a trace in Spain in 1938. For more than thirty years, “KGB militants” have been looking for him in order to destroy a man who was involved in most major world operations, in particular, in the export of all gold reserves from Spain to the USSR and the development of an operation to destroy Leon Trotsky.

The film tells about one of the most mysterious peoples of the planet, the Dogon. The Dogon live in southeastern Mali in villages scattered over the rocks of Bandiagara like bird nests. They consider themselves aliens from the planet Sirius B and have knowledge in the field of the structure of the solar system, which scientists became aware of only at the end of the 19th century. Together with the hunter Assama and his family, the author gradually comprehends the multifaceted palette of Dogon life.

In December 1927, a funeral car arrived in Leningrad, at the Moscow railway station. It brought an urn with the ashes of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and a glass jar with the brain of a scientist hidden from the public eye. Just a few days before, he had gone to Moscow for a congress of psychiatrists. However, according to a telegram recently found in the archives of the Leningrad Institute of the Brain, Professor Bekhterev was urgently summoned to Moscow by the Council of People's Commissars. The last time he was summoned to the Kremlin was three years earlier to see the seriously ill Lenin. To whom was this urgent call? What happened on that mysterious night before Christmas? And are there any documents about the illness and death of Academician Bekhterev?

A film about the narrow-gauge railway Seven-city - Druzhba. The film crew went to one of the most remote villages in the Vologda Oblast, which survives only on this narrow gauge railway. The train went for 5 hours, in addition, periodically derailed.

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.