They were expelled from Russia for their faith, will, willfulness. For dissent.

Artemy Ulyanov works as an orderly in the morgue. And he writes books. Which are printed by the largest publishing houses.

Zakhar is 7 years old, and his brother Procopius is 9. Each of the brothers already has his own deer and his own tundra for nomadic life. Previously, children born in a nomadic family at this age were almost forcibly taken away to study at a boarding school on the mainland. And they rarely returned to their parents' house. Trying to preserve the traditions of the nomadic peoples in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the authorities decided to revive the practice of "nomadic schools" that disappeared in Russia in the 1930s. This is how 23-year-old Nelly Andreevna ends up in the Zharkov family in order to explain to Zakhar and Prokopiy why mathematics is needed in life and who Vladimir Putin is.

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To understand what is happening in modern Russia, it is not enough to go outside and look around, or read news reports. If you want to get to the bottom of it, then the best way is to radically change your angle of view and look at everything, for example, through the eyes of a horse that serves in an operational regiment in the center of the capital.

A singer with a divine, angelic voice. She lived a bright, but such a difficult life. And she sang in a way that the happiest people do not sing. She was born in Uzbekistan, years of life and audience love connected her with the Soviet Union, she considered Poland her home, and her fate was decided in Italy. On the way to Milan, the singer got into a car accident, which for many years deprived her not only of the stage, but also of a full life. The film was shot in the genre of docudrama and is based on real events. It is based on interviews with Anna's husband Zbigniew Tucholsky, as well as with her close friend Anna Kachalina, music editor at the Melodiya recording studio.

In the town by the sea, from the place visited by tourists "Balcony of Europe" you can observe a miniature model of the world, mass holidays and everyday routine. For the locals, the rhythm of life they have adopted means stability in a rapidly changing noisy world around them.

Far from civilization, where the ties between Man and Nature are still close, one can feel the true breath of the earth, the unity of living and inanimate matter. Rich in poetic visual images, the picture invites you to go into the world of your own sensory experience, to breathe along with the tundra, complementing the video and sound range with your own feelings, experiences and associations. To some extent, this is also an experimental film, an attempt to find new possibilities of film language.

Three homeless people hide from the winter cold in a plywood hut near Paveletsky railway station in Moscow. One day it occurs to them to build a real house. Maybe it will change something in their lives?

Marina has been doing gymnastics for over 15 years. She is the oldest gymnast of the Zhemchuzhina Olympic Reserve School. She would be happy to end her career and live normally, study, have a hobby, love. But at the behest of the coach, she did not go to the competitions that she had been striving for her entire career. Therefore, at the age of 20, she is forced to stay in the sport for another two years in order to wait for the next chance, and her coach is forced to undergo endless trials, because that very prison of Marina is the life of Elena Anatolyevna.

The beginning of the 20th century is characterized by a break in academic traditions that have turned into a monolith. The borders of the empire, which opened up for the intelligentsia, the assimilation of the culture of the West made the art of Russia cosmopolitan. It was in these years that "isms" appeared. Symbolism, acmeism, ego-futurism, cubo-futurism, uturism, imageism, what is commonly called the "silver" age today. This century was not long, but extremely important in the history of Russian art.

Over the hills and far away, in the middle of the Russian steppe, you will find Chess City. It was built by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the first and only President of the Republic of Kalmykia, one of the smallest and poorest republics in the Russian Federation. In Kalmykia, there also lives a boy called Alekhan, who dreams of becoming the World Chess Champion. And his younger brother Amir, who shares the same dream. The road to make their dreams come true passes through the Chess Competition in Chess City.

The film focuses on the experience of authorial failure. The work begins as a document about successful public figures, entrepreneurs and businessmen. Then he comes up against the impossibility of such a narration from a professional point of view, and gradually comes to a reflection on the difficulties of the socialization of a young artist.

A variation on the theme of the relationship between a man and a woman in modern society.

Felix and Antonina are a family of Karelian fishermen. In the early 2000s, Felix was injured and almost stopped walking. Antonina finds the strength to support her husband and continues to run the household. A film about devotion, love, hard life in a modern village.

The profession of this woman seems immoral to many. She works as a sex trainer and teaches how to win a man. And who is the main man in her life?

He was appointed commandant of Kabul immediately after the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan. And three days later, a reward of one million Afghans was announced for his head. Russian soldier of the Guard, Colonel Yuri Dvugroshev, is at the head of one of the most troubled cities on the planet. Assassinations followed one after another. Although in fact his whole life is a continuous game with death. Why was a real hunt arranged for a Soviet officer? Did he know about the true plans of the USSR regarding Afghanistan? And how did you cope with the management of the rebellious city?

Ruslana is a Ukrainian teenager waiting for the desired and unattainable growing up. She explores the outside world with infectious energy. The world of a military town in eastern Ukraine, where there are so many interesting and unfamiliar things, where there is so much danger. Parents do not support her dream to study in Kyiv as a cameraman. But she takes the camera and shoots.

"If the goal is the salvation of the soul, then the end justifies the means." Following the will of his spiritual father, in Soviet times he swore allegiance to the atheists, in the 90s he welcomed money changers in the temple, and in the 2000s he turned the church into an ideological department serving the authorities, and all in order to achieve the main goal - the creation of a Russian Vatican. Like Vladimir Putin, he came as a Westerner and a modernist, and will leave as a guardian and reactionary. A film about the life of the sixteenth Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill.

Old Kazan house. Grandma looks out the window. Someone is waiting. Every day. Her whole house is saturated with this expectation that someone will be found, remember her, thank her for the life she has lived. Is nobody coming?

In a small mining town, 33-year-old human rights activist Yana Polyakova committed suicide. The local authorities, through the local power structures and the KGB, systematically persecuted the woman. Provocations, bullying, psychological pressure, and finally, torture and beatings were used. The woman was convicted for slandering a policeman who severely beat her, with the payment of huge monetary compensation in his favor. Unable to bear the injustice and cynicism, Yana Polyakova took her own life.