He got to Kiev from Lugansk through the Crimea. Appeared with us, because he just needed somewhere to live. Then he moved, because we could no longer be close, we could not find a common language. We are different, but have we really tried to understand each other?

Grigory Pomerants and Zinaida Mirkina are wise men. The topics of their reflections are the need for loneliness, the fate of civilization, the meaning of suffering, and whether a clear conscience is possible.

The film director goes in Ukraine after a long absence for the death of her grand mother. On the spot she discovers the legacy of her grand mother, a book collection, but she doesn’t know what she gonna do with it. Pending a decision, the film director revisits some places of her childhood, old neighbors, family, but also unknown peoples and unknown places. During her meetings we will learn the way the people have lived before the fall of the soviets and how they live today. At the end of her journey, the film director choose to bring back the grand mother’s books with her.

She was predicted the fate of Coco Chanel of the 21st century. But instead, after a car accident, a high fence protects Nastya from the whole world. Is she ready to compromise in the search for a life partner and reduce the level of her claims?

Anatoli and Svetlana live since two years under shelling in their village Pesky, located beside Donetsk Airport. They live partly underground inside their basement, which they transformed into a living place. They are both 72 years old and the last remaining inhabitants of Pesky, where once lived more than 3.000 people before the war broke out between the pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian army. Water, gas and electricity connections are destroyed. The Ukrainian army helps them food supplies. The water well in the garden provides them rain water. Anatoli has been a beekeeper during all his life. The honey bees became part of his life. He feels a deep love and responsibility for them. Abandoning them in the war was no option for him. The elderly couple refused to be evacuated from Pesky, despite the daily non- stop bombing and fighting.

The film follows a young woman's Roberta’s life as time progresses. Created over a course of several years, this cinematic work explores what it means to create and constantly recreate yourself. Roberta is a true portrait of a generation poignantly and with a gentle intimacy portraying the life of Lithuanian youngsters born in the mid-1990s. Roberta doesn’t want much from her life – she wishes to lead a quiet life and to be a good person. However, very importantly, she doesn’t want to be bored too.

20 years. More precisely, already teenagers. They were born in 1983, in the USSR, a now defunct country. In different families, different republics. In 1990, when they were 7 years old, they became the heroes of the first film from the "Born in the USSR" series. Now they are 14. What has changed in the lives of these guys and how do they see and perceive this life?

Sukhum is the capital of Abkhazia, a tiny, unrecognized republic on the shores of the Black Sea. On its highest hill lies a medical institute of research on monkeys, established by the Soviets in the 1920’s. The legend states it was meant to create a hybrid between man and ape. This creature never came to life, neither the communist New Man did. Today, men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments.

Once in India, Zakhara from St. Petersburg could not forget about the war in Ukraine. Her desire to go to the front, even as a volunteer, does not meet with understanding either from her girlfriend, or from relatives, or from friends.

On New Year's Eve, at the Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation for Disabled People with Cerebral Palsy, doctors are preparing a New Year's performance and a concert for their patients. After all, many of them live here permanently, and for them this holiday has become the only spectacle that they can see "live".

Russia, France, Morocco, Mali, Cameroon, Namibia, Ethiopia, Botswana. The film, created on the basis of numerous research expeditions to Africa, shows the micro-civilizations of African tribes, gradually disappearing under the pressure of the development of modern civilization.

At the end of autumn, the first Vyatka's farmers Alexander Leonidovich and Raisa Nikiforovna Orlovsky will arrive at their former estate to say goodbye forever to the farm, where they spent the best and most difficult years of their lives. Years of litigation with a neighboring collective farm led to the decline of their family farm. The attempt of the children of Alexei, Nadezhda and Tatyana to revive life on the farm failed, and the younger Orlovskys are forced to finally move to the city. It is not easy for former farmers to find themselves in a city life that is alien to them. The farm still remains a place where they were truly happy.

Anatoly Krupnov, aka Krupsky, one of the most charismatic representatives of the Russian rock scene, was immediately remembered by the whole being. Creator and leader of the Black Obelisk group. A unique bass player, whom many rock bands dreamed of seeing in their lineup.

The ancient nomads have a game called Alaman, which is played on horseback. The goal of the game is to master the carcass by taking it from the crowd of rivals and throwing it in front of the “owner”, that is, in front of the organizers of the game. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of riders compete for the prize. “Alaman” is not only a game. It is very similar to the world political system.

Perm cardiac surgeon Sergey Sukhanov, who has performed more than 15,000 open heart surgeries in his career, has always considered human life and health to be the most important values ​​on earth. He managed to prove that the Perm Territory needed its own cardio industry, and in the mid-2000s a modern Cardio Center was to appear there. The state allocated significant funds for its construction, but the commissioning of the Center was constantly delayed. Tired of fighting with regional officials, Professor Sukhanov continued to work in a two-hundred-year-old mansion that housed an old hospital. At the end of 2011, Sukhanov unexpectedly received an offer from the Kremlin to head Vladimir Putin's campaign headquarters.

There is a district in Yekaterinburg where most of the inhabitants are visitors from neighboring countries. The characters in the picture are teenagers. They live and study here.

The protagonist of the film, Yuly Alekseev, teaches children to play the violin and tries to make their world, and his own, a little kinder. It turns out this is not always the case, but the teacher does not give up.

An elderly wealthy actor obsessed with playing King Lear tragically experiences his own family drama as he transforms into a real-life Shakespearean character.

Historical memory is not only archives, libraries, great art collected under the roofs of large museums and private collections. There is collected what belongs to all mankind. But each of us has a historical memory, these are trifles, faced with which, we suddenly recall with all clarity our childhood, the people around us, that long-gone life.

Documentary comedy. A community of Old Believers settled in the upper reaches of the Biryusa. They fenced themselves off from the world with a wall of alienation. The film crew is trying to get through it.