History of the road and return home. Both in the direct and in the metaphorical sense of these words. For 20 years now, the trucker hero has been traveling around Russia, and his wife is waiting for him at home. He is alone with the road. She is in the company of a faithful friend and protector of the dog Irbis. Here, relations are harmonious, the house is warm, and on the road everything is subordinated to the goal. And this could go on forever. But nothing in life lasts forever.

Through urban exploring, young anti authoritarian Russians and Ukrainians have found a way to take control over their own lives by confronting fear, and sharing their death defying stunts with millions of viewers online. But the realities of the conflict-ridden post-Soviet era - and the fragility of life - don't go away just because you are 300 feet up above the city or 100 feet below. "On the edge of freedom" portrays the riveting everyday lives of Angela, a 23-year old roofer from Moscow, and Vlad, a 28-year old digger from Kiev.

“I keep coming back to those memories. Death this time came very close and took my friend. And she left me. This is how the year began. The strangest year of my life. When I realized that I was gradually losing everything and did not understand how this happened. last year of the millennium. The first year of the life that was left to me for some reason. With this author's introduction, a film diary of one year begins with the miracle of a continuing life.

This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family comes from and where he spent his childhood. A significant part of the villages is remote from cities and often has no connection with them, except for air transport.

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.

Runa, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl, escaped from Iraq to avoid the attacks of ISIS. Together with her family, she had been stuck on the Polish-Belorussian border before she eventually arrived in Poland. She had to grow up at an accelerated speed – after her mother's death she became the head of her family.

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.

The country is getting rid of stray animals - by shooting them. This is happening because most people in the country are indifferent to stray animals. But there is one woman who cares about the lives of these stray animals. Over the course of 5 years, she has accumulated over 200 injured, abandoned and starving dogs in her home. From discomfort and inconvenience, her neighbors have sued her and have already won twice. At the moment, the heroine is awaiting a third lawsuit, the likelihood of losing this trial is known to many. But she is ready to do anything to save her dogs. Will she be able to save them? Or will they be liquidated by court order?!