Two are locked in an apartment on the eve of Victory Day. Where others see fireworks, they hear explosions and air raid alerts.

Nineteen-year-old conscript Aleksey was seconded to the northern border part, remote from civilization. This is one of the few border outposts guarding vast territories of the Russian state near the Arctic Ocean. Five more soldiers, middle-aged contractors, serve at the post. Each has its own story and its own secret, which made them hide from the real world in this snowy unreality. But still, colleagues gradually begin to open up to each other. And how else to carry out an absurd service on the northern border littered with snow, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest tree?

From 2001 to 2007, Russia lost more than 3,000 soldiers killed. There were no wars, at least no official ones, at that time. But the soldiers died. Mostly conscripts. The reason is army crime.

Dima Voron and his rapper friends live in Nijni Taguil, Russia. At 23 years old Dima has been working at the factory for 7 years. He composes a light and melodious rap, he is talented, just like his friends. For a long time they thought of a way to success. But the city and the mechanics of the factory create a counterpoint to their hope. It is only through their music that they can express their feelings and dreams.

A film about the fate of a homeless man, launched in 2000.

Old age awaits us all. But if some survive, others live without noticing the years. Our hero is an artist-painter, a person who is not discouraged. He is 79 years old and is still a romantic. He had four wives and countless "muses". And he dreams of falling in love again and then only dying. The main thing for him is the love of painting and, of course, the love of life.

Fear is something that is difficult to explain and difficult to cope with. Every person is afraid of something. I'm afraid of mice. But what is behind the uncontrollable fear of a tiny ball of wool? Maybe the very essence of fear is much more than what one person can describe?

What is so attractive in the underwater world? Why are some of us so drawn to places where it is impossible to breathe? And why even there a person is seized by an irresistible desire to shoot. Once in the water world, many “get hooked” on it, like on a drug, and can no longer do without immersion. But it can kill like any drug. Because everything in life has a price.

A film about the life of the Kulebaki Metallurgical Plant.

Mother of a girl who committed suicide due to bullying at school; yesterday's teens who have experienced bullying; a girl who herself was involved in bullying. All the characters in this film have something in common: pain, complexes, self-doubt, indifference of adults. But the problem can be solved, and the heroes of the film talk about what to do in such situations.

At 16, everything happens for the first time. Life seems infinitely long and happy. 16 years is a novelty of sensations and a sea of illusions. Two teenagers meet online and meet in Moscow to celebrate the New Year together. They are the same sex, which is what makes the situation not quite normal. That doesn't mean it's abnormal though.

For 15 years, Natalia has been working in the city of Kimry, Tver Region, in a workshop where she paints portraits of people on tombstones. Various people come to her. Someone orders portraits for loved ones of the deceased, and someone for themselves for the future.

Dina, who alternates between India, Moscow and Odessa, travels to Naberezhnye Chelny, where she grew up, to visit relatives. And especially a distant relative, the girl Ramina.

The documentary film tells the story of Andrey, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and his wife Angela, who left her job to care for him. The film depicts their daily life, the challenges they face, and how they strive to cope with the disease.

“Just One: The True Story of Patient Zero” tells the story of the person commonly referred to as “patient zero” — the first Soviet citizen diagnosed with HIV. The official history of the epidemic in the USSR begins with this 1987 case, a crisis that has since affected millions in Russia: those living with the virus and those who have died from AIDS. Yet almost nothing is known about this individual. The few existing facts have long dissolved into myths, propaganda, and misinformation. No photographs, no footage — nothing. The biography of “patient zero” had to be reconstructed from scratch, turning the film into a historical investigation.

Portrait of a 60-year-old stuntman from Rostov-on-Don.

Denis, a teenager from a suburb of Moscow, is trying to make money by washing the headlights of cars stopping at traffic lights. And Denis really wants to become strong and independent. But reality throws up tests that can not always be endured.

On the issue of faith, Grigory Pomerants advocated a dialogue between East and West, against the pride of religion.

Many of the inhabitants of the first cooperative house in Moscow were shot during the years of the Great Terror. Now the building is located at Dolgorukovskaya, 5, in the past it was Kalyaevskaya, 5. The family of Dmitry Belanovsky moved there in 1939. According to the story of his father, the former owner of the apartment, by the name of Gurevich, was repressed by the NKVD. For many years, Dmitry was haunted by the thought of what kind of people lived here before him, why they were arrested and how their fate turned out. It took almost twenty years to find information about the former tenant. Through his own, almost detective, investigation, he managed not only to identify this person, but also to find his relatives.

Anna and Pasha work as taxi drivers. A month before the presidential elections in Belarus their passengers are enthusiastically discussing the situation in the country. The pre-election race is eventful, new candidates do not leave anyone indifferent. Some believe that Belarus is an island of stability in a turbulent world, while others vote for change with all their hearts. The gallery of portraits and opinions will show Belarusians on the eve of the historical events of August 2020. Whose dreams were closer to reality? What price did the heroes and the crew have to pay for them?