A documentary musical about a measured, like a song, life in the Russian outback somewhere near Vologda. It is sound: music, human voice and silence. A slowing and soothing spectacle, devoid of conflicts and sharp corners.

This film tells about the relationship between the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and his wife Naina. There is a minimum of politics in the tape, and historical events are present exactly to the extent that they relate to the relationship between a man and a woman who met at the age of 18 and lived together for more than half a century.

Filling out the Naturalist Diary was the responsibility of every Soviet school kid. This meditative practice was gone with the fall of the Soviet Union. It was expected to teach school children to be attentive to human labor and the slightest changes in nature over the annual cycle. This film is a poetic reflection on how the woods of the Pskov region are seen through the eyes of the two former Soviet schoolchildren who grew into hermit foresters measuring trees, sowing new ones, and looking for treasures left in the forest 200 years ago.

In a lost village so isolated that it is not on the map of Russia, Sysoi passes on the tradition of Byzantine singing to his son Ivan. Their reclusive family life is filled with self-sustainment and a rigorous spiritual practice that seems to be dedicated to preparing the teenager for the only path in life.

In recent years, a special “folk craft” has developed in Russia, the production of paintings, which are then sold in markets, highways, and street exhibitions. The film tells about the artel of female artists working in this most popular and democratic genre of fine arts.

The viewer is given a chance to immerse himself in the atmosphere of the most famous psychiatric hospital in Russia. Real patients of the psychiatric hospital No. N.A. Alekseeva (popularly “Kashchenko”), real doctors, real orderlies and even the camera is almost unbiased. Because it is a very hidden camera.

For most of today's schoolchildren, the siege of Leningrad is just one page in a history textbook. This film is not yet another attempt to tell them about the abstract “feat of Leningrad”, but an opportunity to see with their own eyes what is behind the seeming state school course. For example, with the help of computer graphics, so close to the heart of modern youth, the authors of the film demonstrated what St. Petersburg would look like today if the veterans had not survived, if the city had been surrendered to the enemy.

Grigory Pomerants went through the entire war from 1941 to 1945, was in the hottest battles, reached Berlin. His observations and reflections on the essence of war and man in war are amazing. So no one has yet comprehended the Great Patriotic War.

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.