This is a story about two orphanages in the city of Ufa, in which a competition based on the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" was announced. The series shows the preparation for the competition, its final, the life of children, their destinies, their games, their dreams. The authors tried to make a funny film about a sad topic.

November 8, 2016 marks 55 years since the very first KVN program went on the air. "Club of cheerful and resourceful" knew good and bad times. For censorship reasons, it was closed in 1972, and was revived only in 1986. But even without the air, KVN existed on student and amateur stages, lived, developed, changed with time and country. There is not a single similar television centenarian in the world. So who are they, the inventors of this "perpetual motion machine" Muratov, Yakovlev and Axelrod?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Natasha immigrates as a child with her family to Germany. The film begins today, twenty years later, when Natasha returns for the first time to her unknown home. Natasha's time in Baikal Port is mainly structured through her everyday encounters with the people who live there. In different situations, she meets them and gets into conversations about employment and living conditions that are still marked by the effects of the Perestroika. While Natasha gains these intimate insights into different ways of living, she reflects on her own position and tries to make a connection with this place, which is a part of her identity. The cinematic drawing of intimate portraits of people living in Baikal Port as well as Natasha’s play- acting as a returning, identity-seeking figure is accompanied by an ever-present recording camera. It shakes, zooms and focuses, it behaves like an autonomous body. This always raises the question of who is the actual experiencing body of this journey – the person behind or in front of the camera?

Stories about people who studied in one of the largest schools in Tallinn, lived in the largest residential area in very similar apartments, played very similar games. Many years after leaving school the director finds his classmates in different parts of the world. A symbol of the common past is a questionnaire, where the most important thoughts and the most tender feelings are recorded. Someone today lives in Berlin, someone in Cambodia, someone in Moscow, but at a meeting 25 years later friends laugh and joke as if they finished school only yesterday.

The film takes place against the backdrop of the events of November 2014. When the diploma of higher education of Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman was in question. How did it happen that a man who positioned himself as a poet for most of his life became the mayor of a city of one and a half million people?

Portrait of a homeless Russian-speaking chess player traveling through Germany and Europe, playing chess with passers-by on the street.

Melodrama about the birth of twins, conceived with the help of IVF. The film crew for several months led the heroine to childbirth, simultaneously facing all the problems associated with late motherhood. The film shows the experience of a woman, shows the true synergy of doctors and patients, united by a single goal which is the birth of a new life.

Nikita works as an archaeologist in St. Petersburg, where he meets a fellow excavator, Eva. Suddenly, he drops everything and heads to Moscow to unearth a forgotten part of his life.

Russia 2012, year of Putin’s re-election. For the first time in 15 years, the population is rising up for political change, starting with the 20-somethings who make up the National Bolshevik Party. Their guru: Eduard Limonov –punk poet turned radical leader. Zhenia, Marat, Anya, Shuka and Tvorog come from the provinces of a country destroyed by authoritarianism and brutal capitalism. With no true political platform, beliefs that flirt with extremism and revolution as their sole religion, they look up to Stalin and Robespierre, Gandhi and the Che. Galvanised by the stories of their patriotic idols, they have chosen to live like revolutionary heroes.

In mid-June, the village of Santo Antonio de Mijoes da Serra in the Valdreu region of Portugal honors its patron saint. On this day, local farmers bring cows, horses, dogs, cats, chickens and rabbits to church for blessing. This ancient tradition is passed down from generation to generation, and now, like centuries ago, people and animals walk together along the mountain road to the temple and grace.

Alexey Belov is a virtuoso guitarist, composer, leader of the Gorky Park band. Olga Kormukhina is a rock singer with the voice of Tina Turner. They are so different and so similar. He admired the timbre of her voice. She admired the musician Belov. They went through life on the same road, but met on a completely different path. After the temptations and disappointments of show business, they slowly but surely walked towards each other and found themselves. This whole world is in the past of now deeply believing Christians Alexei Belov and Olga Kormukhina.

Northern Baikal. The site of the former BAM construction site. Here, behind the fate of the lost generations, the beauty and grandeur of the huge lake is almost invisible.

The family lives in the house on the mountain. The rhythms of nature and love help her overcome difficult situations.

Yana and Sylvia. Two women. Two mothers. Every day is a new stage that must be overcome on the way to a happy life.

The Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov is trying to cleanse Marxism of ideological clichés, but is rebuffed by his colleagues and the Soviet authorities. The struggle for true philosophy turns into a tragedy for him and his loved ones.

Novosibirsk: a town in deepest Siberia, where the absurd and the comical are in constant rivalry within the walls of its crematorium. Death can cause the crossing of paths of those never destined to meet, and I, standing in its midst, am learning to grapple with it.

“The Land of Love” is a documentary film about reindeer, oil, politics and poetry. It tells a story about Yuri Vella, a Forest Nenets reindeer herder and poet who lives in the taiga of Western Siberia, and who tries to prove that one person can stand against the great power that is destroying the environment of the native people.

An audiovisual immersion in the inner world of people with developmental disabilities living in Psychoneurological Institution No. 3 near Peterhof, the documentary short, Mind’s the Limit, tells the story of a place that may look like a treatment facility but is in actuality a place of social adaptation and a space for creative experimentation. Many live under the care of its staff until their final days, while exploring new worlds through abstract painting and electronic music. Creativity is their only way to connect with the outside world. What path do they have to travel for their work to become contemporary art?

Film-portrait of documentary filmmaker, photographer and screenwriter Sergei Skvortsov. Sergei Skvortsov was a film director and cameraman at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Documentary Film Studio, who shot a number of landmark works that had a noticeable influence on documentary filmmakers in the late 80s and 90s.

The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots. Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes became film artists in order to try to understand what happened to their family in the last century and how to deal with this memory today.