The focus of the film is on undoubted values, and the criterion is that which has stood the test of time. It is Time that becomes the main "censor" of 10 plots, it is it that determines what to keep for eternity and what to consign to oblivion forever. Each plot of the program strives to become a kind of mini-film with a dramatic basis, conflict and a super-task. The task is to tell simply about the “complex”, to reveal the depth and versatility of the “simple”.

Many people believe that acting is red carpets, star-studded festivals, expensive dresses, and luxurious tuxedos. But what is behind the glamour and glitz? What does it take to become an actor? The path to glory is long and arduous. Not all talent is destined for fame. Not all talent deserves fame. A lucky few reach the top, become recognisable, wealthy, and beloved. Many more live anonymous lives, never fulfilling their dreams. This film was created on the basis of video self tapes and video business cards of actors that they themselves post on YouTube.

The love story of Igor, a young man diagnosed with autism. Igor loves Katya. He wants to see her every day, but Katya lives on the other side of the city and their meetings are extremely rare.

Ilyich's light bulb was canceled by the law on energy saving, and along with this law, the people working at the manufacturing plant were also "cancelled". But the factory workers believe that Ilyich's lamp was buried early, and there are no better lamps for lighting houses and apartments.

The authors are trying to trace the fate of people who, against their own will, are closely connected with the harsh special services. Among the protagonists of the cycle are Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews, the Russian emigrant Konstantin Melnik, who headed French intelligence under de Gaulle, the keeper of the royal galleries, the learned art critic Sir Anthony Blunt and Baroness Maria Budberg-Zakrevskaya.

The world of simultaneous interpreters looks absolutely hermetic, and they themselves are representatives of the “old” cultural elite. It began as almost secret knowledge, Soviet diplomatic staff and brilliantly educated Russian émigrés, forced to earn extra money as taxi drivers, largely created simultaneous translation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since the Nuremberg trials and the first UN meetings, simultaneous translation has been an important part of world diplomacy. But it won't always be like this. Perhaps, even during the lifetime of those who witnessed his birth, simultaneous translation will give way to machine translation.

Here they sleep with a gun under the mattress, dream about Chameleon glasses, read Yesenin, sing in a 20-degree frost, and after "hello" they promise to rape.

The documentary project of NTV columnist Vladimir Chernyshev is an attempt to figure out how it could happen that a country that ruled half the world and achieved stability collapsed in a matter of years? How did it happen that in a world divided in two, one of the halves broke into pieces?

A young girl leaves people to learn a new language for her.

“I didn’t even think that they would give me 8 years for THIS.” More than half of all women in Russian colonies are imprisoned for drugs. Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has become “female folk”, it is about easy money with serious consequences. The four protagonists of the film tell their stories about lost youth, feelings of shame, life behind bars and even a prison wedding.

Village in northwestern Russia. The asylum for the mentally ill is located in an old wooden house. It seems that civilization has not touched either the house or its inhabitants. In this primeval space, the intelligible voice of a person is not heard, and the pain remains mute.

Scientific investigation, where the author, together with the audience, tries to look at the problem from different points of view. We are threatened daily by many dangerous factors, but humanity is learning to adapt and withstand adverse conditions, and sometimes even use them for their own purposes. From traffic jams to open flames, from allergies and bacteria to underground hazards and height phobia, the author will have to face all this and learn from his own experience how to cope with an aggressive environment.

Day of the 90s. Raspberry Red” is an author's project by Igor Prokopenko about a strange, funny and at the same time cruel decade that forever turned the country away from the communist past. Today its history can be read on the commemorative plaque of the sponsors of the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior: LOGOVAZ, MMM, Khoper Invest. How much those words once meant, didn't they? Or you can visit city cemeteries, where the main alleys are given to fashionable monuments of famous brothers who died in the criminal war of the dashing 90s.

We are looking for ourselves (our place) in the disturbing present, in the vague future, sometimes looking into the past, we avert our eyes in fright. Meanwhile, in our country, not on that European patch where we hustle, constantly complaining, but on the whole vast Russian expanse, another life breathes. It depends little on everything that is commonly called the values ​​of civilization, but it breathes deeply. The harsh nature of the north, vast deserted expanses, sea and river fisheries, as one of the main sources of life support, all this formed a unique way of life for Russia, its own culture and even its own special language, which Lomonosov attributed along with Russian and "Little Russian" to the three main Russian dialects. All this together created a completely special human type, a special “Pomor character”, rooted in the White Sea land and absolutely self-sufficient in this rootedness.

Music resists oblivion and death. Yiddish songs help victims of the Holocaust return to their past after half a century of silence. The mother is terminally ill. The daughter is trying to write down the history of the family before the disease has overcome her mother, and she recognizes the people in the photographs in the family album. After the war, they never opened this album because they wanted to get away from the past forever. But music changed the usual course of things. A music therapist begins to visit her dying mother, with whom she sings songs of her youth in Yiddish. Since then, she wakes up at night and speaks in her native language. Her daughter is the only person in the family who understands Yiddish, speaks Yiddish to her and sings songs. The past gradually penetrates into the present. Mother and daughter have very little time to tell each other about the most important things. But the disease progresses, and the mother gradually loses her memory. Everything acquired by them dissolves in the stream of time.

Viktor Ryzhakov became the Sovremennik Theater's artistic director, after the death of Galina Volchek, who directed the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the first production in the theater, the new artistic director chooses a play about a family whose members no longer understand each other. While working on the play, the director and the actors are becoming more and more like the characters of the future performance. It is also difficult for them to find mutual understanding within their "theatrical family”.

A film about maternal love, the path from inner emptiness to creation, from abandoning one's own child to adopting someone else's child and accepting it as one's own.

A movie about a little woman in a foreign city - Italian actress in search for happiness in Moscow. She wants to become a screen actress, but cannot find a job, wants to conquer the theatrical scene, but could not get rid of accent, wants to get married, but has no luck in love... The film is about love, loneliness, faith, dream clashes with reality, self-perception of foreigners in the Russian space.

Once a director with a German surname Del read from Saltykov-Shedrin that "Skopin is such a city where every person has no need to live." And then the idea came to him to create in a small provincial town in the Ryazan region, "where a person has no need to live," a real theater.

“The Shine and Poverty of Kirill Filippov,” this is how the mother of a young aviator who builds an airplane at home in the kitchen would call this film.