In this film, five great Russian actresses, stars of Soviet cinema. Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Samoilova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Lidia Smirnova, Vera Vasilyeva answer the questions of the film director Renata Litvinova.

"Number 17; My House of Horrors" follows the tragic transformation of a single-family home in Vuhledar, Ukraine, amidst the destructive forces of war. The story begins with Marina, a homeowner who, along with her husband and two children, built her dream home on Sadovaya Street, 17, in Vuhledar. This house was a symbol of love, family, and stability, filled with the warmth of daily life and celebrations. But when war struck in February 2022, their home became a place of unspeakable sorrow, and their lives were abruptly upended.

Olexii’s story provides a harrowing account of survival. Once an IT graduate, his life took a drastic turn when he was captured by Russian forces and held as a POW in the basement of Marina's home. His journey is one of starvation, injury, and suffering, but also of a miraculous rescue and, ultimately, hope.

Fima, a Russian naval infantry soldier, represents the other side of the war. A former diving enthusiast from Vladivostok, he evolves into a key figure in Russian war propaganda. Footage of him searching through Marina’s house, even browsing her family photo albums, reveals the chilling ways in which personal spaces are invaded and repurposed during conflict. Fima’s transformation from civilian to soldier underscores the complex and often dehumanising nature of war.

The heroes of this picture are the winners. They were able to cope with a deadly disease, and it seems that they came out of this fight changed. They, their relatives, their doctors and their donors talk about what and who helped them recover, about what it is like to endure cancer, about how their attitude towards life is changing. These stories, which happened almost simultaneously, are somewhat similar and at the same time very different, because each person took something of his own from the battlefield.

A giant white canvas travels through the streets of Minsk. Inspired by the multi-colored rectangles on the walls of the city, the abstract artist Zakhar Kudin copies them onto the canvas and thus tries to fit into the landscape of his native country. He argues that the purpose of true art is to ask questions, not seek answers. However, such statements do not quite suit the authorities, who, among other curious people, are trying to interpret the work of a street artist. Watching the birth of an artistic phenomenon, the film shows modern Belarus with irony and love and through the mouth of passers-by asks questions that are relevant not only for this country.

On July 30, 2018, documentarian Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" is a portrait of one of the brightest and freest filmmakers of our time; direct speech and fragments of films that form a single statement about the meaning of art, homeland and pain.

Three Russian women in their 30s who all seek the same: security, a higher social status and eternal happiness. Not an easy wish to fulfill in today's Russia, where the patriarchy dominates. So our heroines take matters into their own hands and join a course in the art of seducing a man - preferably a rich one. Seven years of recordings paint a sometimes tragicomic picture of gender roles and femininity in Putin's Russia.

Far beyond the Arctic Circle, Taimyr froze in the snow. The northernmost peninsula of Russia, where the ancient shamans, the ancestors of the Nganasans, found their home. The Nganasans have always been a small people. In the 19th century, only about a thousand people called themselves Nganasans, and this figure did not change for many years. But over the past 30 years, their number has decreased by a third.

From laws on propaganda and extremism to forced "treatment for orientation"! Are we truly at this point in history?

This is a collection of dramatic stories from people who have endured so-called conversion therapy. Pilgrimages to Iran, psychiatric hospitals, soul-saving Orthodox monasteries, prisons in the Caucasus, and even sessions of exorcising a jinn... The imagination of those convinced that sexual orientation can be "corrected" knows no bounds.

But what are the consequences of this conviction, and how effective is corrective medicine?

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

Four chapters about the children of the night, about owls. From these series we will find out who we call owls, which of them live in Russia, which in Africa, we will get acquainted with the habits of these birds and how they raise their chicks. And also find out if owls are smart. In the film, a scientific experiment is conducted on the presence of cognitive abilities in owl birds.

Since early childhood Anna has loved animals – she taught biology at school and worked in the zoo. As a woman, she realised quite soon that she had to be physically strong too. That is why, at the age of 40, she embarked on a career of a power triathlete and soon became a multiple world champion and the strongest woman in the world. Using the power of social media, she ran a campaign for animal rights, opened animal shelters and looked for new families for dozens of stray dogs and cats. When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Anna went on to help wounded and abandoned animals.

Every year, October 26, on the anniversary of the attack on Dubrovka, relatives of the victims and former hostages gather in the square in front of the scene of the tragedy. The next day, clearing the area. And so - every year. A third of Russia's population knows nothing about the Nord-Ost tragedy. News reports of federal channels on the day of the memory of the victims of the tragedy do not exceed 27 seconds.

Ivanna, jeune femme nénètse et mère de cinq enfants, vit dans les plaines de l’Arctique russe. Comme toute sa famille, depuis des siècles, elle mène une vie nomade dans la toundra et veille sur son troupeau de rennes. Livrée à elle-même, elle lutte pour la survie de sa famille. Mais bientôt, Ivanna sera forcée de retrouver son mari, en ville. Une vie meilleure l’y attend-elle ? Le réalisateur Renato Borrayo Serrano a suivi pendant quatre ans la dure réalité d’une nomade de la toundra – une femme coriace qui regarde la vie en face, ne perd jamais le sens de l’humour et rêve, au plus profond d’elle-même, de sécurité et de liberté.

La projection sera suivie d’un débat avec le réalisateur !

Ivanna is a young Nenets woman and mother of five, living in the Russian Arctic. Like her family for centuries before, she has led a traditional nomadic life in the tundra, driving a herd of reindeer. Most of them die, and she knows she will soon be left without a livelihood and be forced to make a dramatic decision. The film is about four years of a Nenets family from the harsh life in the tundra to modern everyday life in the Siberian city of Dudinka. It is both a liberating drama and a melancholy requiem for a lost way of life.

For the film, the author chose a small part of the three thousand works that made up the art object. In the film, these images come to life, are transformed into a video sequence.

Russian city with a population of two thousand tenths. A punk chef and his student who exist in everyday life, where all routes and meetings are scheduled, and the density of urban development allows you to move only in the “home-work-pub-house” square. "Gray" as one of the synonyms of everyday life, but there is something beyond it.

On March 25, 2008 municipal services of the small city of Shchekino in Tula region of Russia opened the apartment in the big house and found a corpse of the person on a sofa.These the 68-y woman Valentina Abramova appeared the person. It was succeeded to find out that she approximately in 1994 died and lay dead 13 years. I turned into a mummy. During this time nobody took an interest in its destiny. Nobody came into its apartment. Neither neighbors, nor relatives, neither social services of the city, nor police. Authors of the movie I decided to make the investigation and to answer a question:"How it occurred?". And still authors of the movie wanted to restore an image of this person on the basis of meetings with her acquaintances, search of personal belongings and Valentina Abramova,s photos.

The film chronicles the final journey of 88-year-old Russian former top-secret scientist and philanthropist Dmitriy Zimin, alongside his longtime American friend Augie Fabela, acting US police officer. Against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions between Putin’s Russia and the USA and the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the film captures the closing scenes of a life and a time of peace. Zimin’s story is an embodiment of the harsh historical cycles that have defined Russia over the past century.

In St. Petersburg, on Tramway Avenue, on which, in fact, trams never ran, there is a shelter for underage mothers. More girls, pupils of orphanages, who hardly remember their mothers, must now become real mothers for their own children.

The Tankograd documentary takes places many years after the Cold War. A young generation of Russians face a heavy legacy from the old USSR. Radioactive accidents, leaks and waste from the production of atomic bombs have made their city the most radioactively contaminated place on earth. Curiously, the city also has one of Russia's most vibrant dance scenes.

What is real life? This is when even death you can turn a part of life. That is exactly what Igor Alekseev, a doctor and writer from Saratov, did. In the face of imminent death from cancer, he began to keep an online diary and share with readers the experience of struggling and dying.