A story about a community of Armenians, refugees from the USSR during the Baku pogroms, living in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet mentality and American emigration mixed in an incredible tragicomic proportion. Everyone went through the “Events”, as they call the war in Nagorno-Karabakh (the word itself is taboo). Everyone was forced to flee "in pajamas." The Armenian cemetery in Baku was asphalted. They were expelled from the city in 1988. They were not allowed out of the Soviet Union. The union collapsed. America accepted. They have been living in the USA for 30 years, everything is fine, they have adapted to a new life (financially). But thoughts remained in the USSR.

How to stay a professional but human being? How to live when someone’s pain is a routine? Every day surgeons fight for someone’s life! Sometimes realizing the hopelessness of the situation.

Tamerlane, in order to gain independence and be able to marry his beloved Amina, leaves Grozny for the mountains to work as a shepherd.

A self-portrait of a man who constantly takes pictures of his life. And he turned his wife, daughter and friends into subjects of self-portraits.

Biography of Joseph Brodsky, told in his words and with the help of animation.

A quarter of a century after the death of the outstanding film director, creator of the films "Lermontov", "Dmitry Shostakovich" Albert Gendelstein, only a few lines remained in the film encyclopedia, his personality and work did not fit into the framework of socialist realism. This film is the result of work in many public and private archives, including the archive of Leonid Utyosov, Albert Gendelstein's father-in-law. It is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the film director.

How did the most famous ruler of the 20th century, who committed terrible massacres for decades, manage to attract the most sincere, most devoted love of 120 million people and keep this love in many hearts to this day? What is the main secret of Joseph Stalin?

In a village on the slopes of former coal mines, Oleg Pavlov, a father of many children, is filming Exupery's The Little Prince and filming rehearsals with a cheap camera. Starring him and his four children. Two years of work, and now journalists are already in a hurry to see the film. But the family never invites their father to the table, and for some reason the children refuse to go to the premiere. Oleg himself does not go out to see his eldest daughter when she goes to live in another city. He just sleeps and no one wakes him up.

The material of this film was filmed during 1991-1993, immediately after the death of Sergei Dovlatov. But this is not an epitaph film. This is an attempt to understand the personality and work of the writer in hot pursuit. His father, sister, widow, and friends talk about their Dovlatov in the film. Some try to analyze the phenomenon of the writer Dovlatov, others talk about the features of his character, others recall incidents from the life of Sergei, but they all agree on one thing: in America, their Sergei finally became happy.

They can be found all over the world. They dress differently and speak different languages. They have a different eye shape and hair color, different habits and professions. They have only one thing in common. For the whole world they are Russians. The documentary series The Russians is dedicated to Russian-speaking people who permanently live and work outside of Russia.

1991 the Soviet Union disappeared with the collapse of the country, some DJs turn towards the techno music and LSD, the capital starts to beat with a very different rthym. The directorOlga Darfy remembers her city Moscow, her youth and everyhting she lived during her 20s. Her friend Vanya Salmaksov one of the creator of the parties called GAGARIN PARTIES disappeared in 1998. The director decides then to tell about this dizzying time from fragments of experiencess interviewes, archives and memories asking herself and the people she meets in this journey: where is Vania? Where are all this intense emotions, the excitation, the romanticism? Where this time has gone?

The life of elite chess players during a prestigious international tournament. Portraits of world champions, their everyday humor and analyzes of games played, interests in the gay parade and classical music concerts. Behind the scenes of the wonderful world of chess, in which people were able to preserve the joy of the profession and communication.

In 2014, after Crimea was annexed into the Russian Federation, the country authorities began a genocide against the peninsula’s indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars. Many men were arrested and convicted in trumped-up terrorism cases. Women whose husbands and sons were imprisoned fight for justice, and their children have to become adults ahead of time. Grief unites the entire nation, but every year the authorities arrest more and more Crimean Tatars.

One woman, two husbands, four children, seven pigs and a herd of goats surviving on the last farm in the modern district of Kiev, defending their home and way of life in the environment of the current Ukraine. Natasha Yurchenko used to live in a small village before developers decided to rebuild the area. Her family resisted the developments and they are now trapped between the high-rise buildings. She wants to fight for her home but conflicts surface in the family. How far will she go defending their home? A film portrait of 5 years of life of one (extra)ordinary family in the current Ukraine.

For as long as I can remember, I have always been drawn to look into every St. Petersburg courtyard. Quiet and strange life of the "inner space" of St. Petersburg, sounding behind the scenes stories from the life of city dwellers. This film is a short study on the theme "Portrait of my city".

An attempt by the authors to tell about another, little-known side of the Chechen war. Tell me why, at a time when there were peppy reports on the restoration of constitutional order on Russian television, hundreds of soldiers and officers were almost officially given into slavery to the Chechens? Why were only relatives involved in their fate, while the prisoners themselves remained the subject of bargaining? Why, when liberating Grozny from militants during the second Chechen campaign, soldiers and officers were often sacrificed by the high command.

Using the Dissernet social movement as an example, we will tell you how our actions are connected with our genes, and why some become crooks, while others fight these crooks.

A guy and a girl participate in an experiment, they need to live in the village for six days, doing physical labor and showing their best qualities. They should not swear, they should be the perfect couple, where everyone cares about the other more than about themselves. In their free time, they shoot the trailer for their movie and watch the movie knock down the "settings", exposing hidden relationship problems.

The director's daughter comes to her father. He runs a small monastery compound in the forest. It is important for her to understand how he lives, for him to maintain order in his desert.

About the Yalta Conference, the meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, which took place in February 1945 and determined the fate of the post-war world, mountains of books have been written and many films have been shot. It would seem that these events have long been known. But only relatively recently, thanks to the research of the famous Russian historian William Pokhlebkin, we became aware of the details of the grandiose "culinary" action, a series of banquets that accompanied the negotiations of the allies in the devastated Crimea that war winter. For obvious reasons, these feasts could not fall into the field of view of the then newsreels. But miraculously preserved materials give us the opportunity to feel their scale and specific atmosphere. No one claims that the materials are documentary.