Perestroika's contemporaries recall the hopes, expectations, and disappointments associated with it. Turning to emotional memory, they realize themselves not just as witnesses and eyewitnesses, but as real participants in history.

The life of Kemerovo photographer and cameraman Konstantin Nagovitsyn is intertwined with key events in the region. Over the 8 years of filming the film, Kostya, a former military cameraman, collaborates with search and rescue services, witnesses a terrible fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, moves to a new apartment and sends his son to the army. The ordinary life of one unusual Siberian.

What precedes the viewer's feeling that something unusual is waiting for him? Why is it enough for one conductor to appear on the stage and only their presence electrifies the air? Why is “conducting a dark business”? What could groundhog day look like? Conduction is a fascinating immersion into the atmosphere of one of the most mysterious musical professions, a film-observation of the work of one of the most unusual contemporary conductors Teodor Currentzis. Stravinsky is replaced by Mozart, then Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jiri Kilian's dance. Step by step enters the world, usually not visible from the auditorium. Frame is strung on frame, sound on sound, word for word, and suddenly you feel immersed in an amazing creative process. And at the same time, you realize that the basis of this being is work. Not hard labor, not monotonous, but beautiful, but at the limit of possibilities.

The film was shot by students of the 2nd TV-directing course of the Kyiv National University of Theater, Film and Television for four months that changed the country. These are stories about people for whom Maidan has become an integral part of their lives, from dancing to shooting. These are eyewitness accounts in which emotions are sometimes more important than words.

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has been conducting a peacekeeping operation in the conflict area between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova. Beginning with an observation of a tripartite "peacekeeping post" on the Dniester River, this documentary shows life in the region sluggishly watched by the mission's soldiers.

Such children in Ukraine are born 5-6 per year. Nobody knows the exact numbers. Every second person dies as a baby. Their skin is as fragile as butterfly wings. This disease is incurable. But with proper care, they can live. The most important thing for a child is a stable, reliable mother. A child can have any state of pain, wounds, and the mother should be there, like a rock. And then the child feels the strength that his mother loves him, and in any sick state, with cries, or more calm, mother is always there.

After leaving Russia in 2003, I return with my mother to Volgograd. Between an idealized childhood that I carry in my memories, and her painful reality of these harsh time we once lived together, we reminisce about the decade following the 1991 Moscow putsch.

The film is only available for watching in Latvia and Russia.

Mila Anufrieva was a style icon, a powerful businesswoman who wasn't afraid to take off her rose-colored glasses and look at the real world. The strange Russian with dark glasses is well known in Dakar and throughout Senegal, many even call her the “albino angel”. Every day she saves children from prostitution and slavery, from self-mutilation by order of local shamans. In African countries, there is a belief that the blood of albinos has healing powers. Albinos are hunted, mutilated, and body parts are sold in local markets as medicine.

Fences are an integral part of Russian culture. They love 3-meter fences in dachas and private homes. City streets are dotted with fences, which often only interfere with normal movement around the city. They like to isolate themselves from the world with an iron curtain. The film is a visual reflection and an attempt to answer the question why life in Russia is surrounded by a fence.

In 2021, for the fourth year in a row, the Omsk region became the first in Russia in terms of population decline, and the song of the Volgograd rock band “Your friend will also go to St. Petersburg” is the anthem of half of those who left. The heroes of "Omsk Bird" do not listen to modern rock and do not read Palahniuk at night, but they also have a desire to leave Omsk. Should they try or does this family have their own way?

Author's family history. We can say that this is a film about my grandfather. It can be said that it is about a horse and about the relationship between a man and a horse, or how the horse influenced the history of the country and the world. And everything will be true, since my grandfather Zavilgelsky Boris Dmitrievich was the director of the First Moscow Stud Farm, where the legendary stallion Kvadrat was born and the no less legendary groom Uncle Vasya worked.

Novaya Gazeta was founded in 1993. This is one of the first independent publications in post-Soviet Russia. And one of the last. Novaya constantly publishes high-profile investigations. He has more than 60 prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the UNESCO Prize, three nominations for the Nobel Prize. The film "Novaya" tells about the life of the editorial office in difficult times.

Editing director - Kirill Sakharnov

This is the story of a rational, skeptical woman, a mother and wife, who does not remember her dreams. Except once, when she dreamed her horse was dying. She woke so scared she went outside in the night. She found him dead. The next dream told her she would die herself, when she was 48.

Ural stand-up comedian Denis tells his whole sad life in one minute.

It happens that the suspicion of stealing a broom and a ring entails the use of a gun and a knife. It happens that someone, trying to fulfill a childhood dream, is caught driving drunk and without a license for the third time. The women who work in the court of a small town know that a lot happens outside the walls of the court, but inside these walls they are trying to create their own pocket world. Judge's assistant Zhenya and secretary of the court session Ksyusha are going to make a film for the anniversary of the court, and meanwhile life goes on as usual with court sessions, birthdays, tea parties and mobilization.

In 2023, the Mossovet Theater will be one hundred years old. In the renovated foyer of the theater there are portraits of Ranevskaya, Plyatt, Orlova, Yursky, Zhzhenov and many other outstanding people, forever inscribed in the history of Russian theater and cinema, in the history of their time. The first century of one of the most famous Moscow scenes has come to its logical conclusion. Now the theater is looking to the future, to a new century, but what does it see there? What's next?

Family digs.

The young acting troupe is at the peak of its fame and success. Under the guidance of the famous theater director Yuri Butusov, they create acutely relevant performances and bathe in the love of their audience. It seems that it will always be so, and they will forever remain young and popular. But there happens a moment when everything starts to collapse...

2017 - I am travelling to Russia with a German tour group. I take the diary of Wehrmacht soldier Buff, killed in action in 1942 when he tried to give first aid to a Russian soldier, as my travel reading. Our itinerary intersects with places where he fought. I grew up in Russia. My grandmother toiled in Stalin's camps. 2022 - the conflict that Russia's attack on Ukraine triggered in me runs through the film. The journey to Russia was characterised by encounters between people whose parents' or grandparents' had common experiences - those of the Second World War. In brief moments of rapprochement, many questions remain unanswered - especially about the purpose of war.

In the form of a fascinating popular science investigation, the author tells about the nature of one of the most insidious diseases, which is called social. What does the Koch wand look like? Why does the Mantoux reaction not suit doctors today? What methods are used to fight the disease by modern scientists and doctors? What precautions are recommended to know and what moral lessons to remember?