Shaman, Priest, Driver of the "loaf" and Grandmother Valya are residents of the village of Khuzhir, the only settlement on the island of Olkhon in the middle of Lake Baikal. The characters of the film talk about their lives and the problems they face while living in a special place. The main character becomes Lake Baikal, which gives people the strength and faith to cope with all difficulties.

Dans l'appartement de la famille Brodsky de la maison Muruzi, il est prévu d'ouvrir un musée en l'honneur du poète, lauréat du prix Nobel, expulsé de son pays natal, pour une seule journée. Le film de Pavel Medvedev, empreint de bouffonnerie et de grotesque, raconte une tragi-comédie jouée entre les murs d'un appartement communal de Saint-Pétersbourg.

Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times and peoples according to a survey of film critics and animators from different countries.

A documentary-experimental film that tells about the life and culture of the Volga Germans, as well as about the heritage of this people. Eigengrau is an illusory dark gray color that people see in the absence of light.

An elderly person does not want to fit into generally accepted social roles. Not wanting to deceive himself, defending his beliefs, he refuses to share the values of society.

The film is about a young biker who uncontrollably dreams of getting back into the saddle of his steel horse. May 28, 2011 Boris Vishnyakov had an accident in which he lost his sight. Doctors do not give consolatory forecasts for the young man, but nevertheless, Boris wants to return to the road again. How long the return journey will be, he and we have yet to find out.

I walk around the city, in my ordinary places and not only. I watch crowds and individuals. I go up to them and talk about their loneliness, ask for recipes for this feeling and save their portraits on my Polaroid photographs.

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Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city’s resistance to the Russian occupation. In an extraordinary film for BBC Eye, Dmytro chronicles the harsh reality of life under Russian control, as food and medicines become scarce, people flee and others disappear. Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shelter their five-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war as she increasingly senses the danger around her. “I don’t want them to shoot bombs at me,” she says. After a close relative is threatened by the Russian military, the family makes a difficult decision to try to escape.

In Russia, it’s been dangerous for ordinary people to speak up against Vladimir Putin’s regime for years, but new censorship laws introduced since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have made it tougher than ever. Despite huge risks, Russian filmmakers have been filming the impact of the war inside their country. Whilst many thousands have fled, those that stayed are having to choose - to oppose, support or stay silent about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In the format of a monologue, 10 people from 10 different generations and decades answer 2 frank, personal, eternal questions, reflecting an entire age era of human opinions about happiness and regret.

The film speaks about nature, ecology and people. How do they affect each other? How does nature and ecology change because of the human activity? How do people survive in the changed conditions?

In this film, intimacy is created through the human gaze. The gaze becomes the support of life, and the very life of a person turns into an act of looking, contemplating oneself. Looking into his own memory, captured on video, or into the natural landscape, the viewer seeks to discern order in chaos, to discern the actions of specific forces in the elements, to discern the plot in the flow of time.

The evolution of the mother's soul through the eyes of her children.

Neo-Buddhist Dmitry Enteo, who became an ardent defender of Orthodox values, riveted the public's attention to himself after several eccentric actions. He calls himself an Orthodox actionist and contrasts his activities with the work of the art group "Voina" (War) and "Pussy Riot". He is considered another Surkov project, he claims that God is behind him. Gathering a movement of Orthodox activists around him and calling it "God's will," Dmitry announced his intention to lead Russia, and then the whole world, to the Eucharistic revolution. What comes out of this, and who is Enteo really?

Memories of childhood keep indescribable feelings of freedom, amazing experiments, carefree happiness and eternal love. The past tends to be forgotten, and only the destroyed walls of the pioneer camp remain, keeping the secrets of the past Soviet era.

Listening to him, we think about God, who gave us orphanhood for the sake of the memory of Himself. Share your silence with us, Shavkat.

Tanya works as a taxi driver 101 km from Moscow. Here everyone knows each other, if not personally, then through acquaintances. It seems to belated passengers that they have met Tanya more than once; heart-to-heart conversations and drunken confessions are constantly heard in a taxi. And although Tanya is the fifth for the dispatchers of her fleet, she is always the first by nature. She obscenely curses the workers who washed her car badly, raises children herself and sells vodka in large quantities, at night, after working in a taxi.

Is aging a normal inevitable process or is it a disease? Can it be treated? According to the international classification of diseases, aging is a clinical syndrome with the number R54. Will we learn to treat old age at least in 20 years? 30? In order to "heal" ourselves.

The film paints a portrait juxtaposing two immigrants : Irina Makeenko, born in France but who left to live in the USSR at the age of 12, and Vladimir Kozlov, the film’s director, who arrived in France after the fall of the Soviet Union. White Russians established in the region of Toulouse since the 1920s, the parents of Irina Makeenko believed in Stalin’s promises and returned to the USSR in 1947. Nearly 50 years later, after Perestroïka, Vladimir Kozlov did the same journey in reverse – he, also, motivated by the dream of a better life.

A quarter of a century ago, the documentary film by Juris Podnieks “Is It Easy to Be Young?” was a triumph on the cinema screens of the Soviet Union. Has it become easier for today's youth of Russia than it was for their peers in the USSR?