Documentary indie film about the northern art festival "Taibola".

In the spring of 1988, in New York, artist Ilya Kabakov is preparing his first foreign installation, Ten Characters. He still does not know how this exhibition at the Feldman fashion gallery will turn out for him and what role these two months will play in his personal and creative life. This is a unique video. The chronicle captures not only creative twists and turns, but also deeply personal experiences associated with the fact that his wife Vika remained hostage in the USSR.

Documentary about cancer and love.

Is cancer a death sentence or an opportunity to challenge yourself? This film tells about people fighting and defeating a terrible disease. But if you think to see patients of oncology departments tortured by heavy treatment, then this is definitely not about them. They didn't break, they didn't give up. They live, and the fullest life imaginable. Horizons never seen before opened before them. They got to know themselves and the world around them many times better than before the illness.

The film tells about the world's largest cross (60 meters high), built in 2000 in Georgia on Mount Zedazeni by the Russian vagabond Borey Ivanov, who has been staying on Georgian soil for over forty years. The official church considers him the organizer and head of a totalitarian sadomasochistic sect. Attention! The opinions of the characters in the film may not coincide with the position of the authors of the film. The film uses the oratorio "Prayers and Meditations" by composer Mikhail Alperin (1956-2018).

"Shelter of Royals" is a project that has no analogues in the world. Musicians Piotr Aidu, Aleksey Lyubimov and restorer Aleksey Stavitsky revive and preserve pre-revolutionary instruments doomed to perish. The film tells how old pianos regain their voices, and we get the opportunity to feel the connection of generations and feel the breath of other eras. This is a story about the triumph of music over time.

As children, many of us went on vacation to our grandparents. This film is an attempt to remember, to recreate the atmosphere of those trips.

The railroad employs many people with different specialties. Not only machinists and conductors, but also doctors, kindergarten teachers, electricians, locksmiths. The authors filmed 12 railway workers of various specialties.

Back in 1941, leaving for the front, the men of a small rural theater asked their girlfriends to keep it. And 7 actresses made a vow to play every day, promising that their front line would be the stage.

Russia and Poland. The history of the two countries has been filled with conflicts and political intrigues for centuries. Periods of war alternated with years of truce. From the film, the viewer will learn what historical events and figures were behind the centuries-old confrontation between the two Slavic peoples. What role did the struggle against the Mongol conquerors play in relations between the Slavs. How the divisions of Poland between other countries led to its disappearance. How Poland was reborn from oblivion, what role did the Russian rulers play in this.

The soul of man reaches for the light, no matter how thorny the path may be. This is the story of Pavel, who ended up in an orphanage. He did not succumb to despair and nevertheless found a family, faith in his own strength.

Few people know, but for the first time Soviet aviation launched airstrikes on Berlin back in August 1941, just 6 weeks after the start of World War II. This picture is about the feat of Soviet military pilots and about the price that had to be paid for a radio message to reach the headquarters “My location is Berlin. Mission accomplished, let's go home".

A film about an ingenious Mordovian nugget who spent more than twenty years on the other side of the world, in Argentina. In the film, the soul of the great Erzya will return. We will assume that at least after death his soul allowed itself to see what the eyes of the Master did not see. Which he never expected. The soul will see the museum. His own museum in Saransk. With his children, his amazing sculptures.

A film about the fate of the scientist Boris Grigoryevich Mirkin, the legend of Soviet computer science, one of the founders of "artificial intelligence". In the 90s, he left Russia at the insistence of his family, his wife was afraid of impending chaos and anti-Semitism. He has taught at European and American universities. However, at the age of 67, he decided to return to Russia, alone, without a family, because here "they both speak and think in Russian." Today he teaches at the Higher School of Economics, raises young cadres, believes that progress cannot be stopped, that artificial intelligence will definitely be created.

The problem of climate, global warming, climate catastrophes has recently come to one of the first places not only in information programs, but also in political statements and in discussions at economic forums. Questions of "weather" in the most general sense of the word today excite millions of people from ordinary citizens to world leaders. Meanwhile, this topic is rather “young”, talk about the coming climate apocalypse is no more than four decades old. But why has this topic suddenly become so relevant? Where does this general hysteria about the climate, which is growing every year, come from? Is humanity really leading the planet (and itself in the first place) to inevitable death by its activities?

Six months ago, 46-year-old Yulia divorced her husband and now lives alone in a three-room apartment. The children have departed. In anticipation of a new love, every evening after work she goes to sing karaoke. But the past is in no hurry to leave: the fate of property jointly acquired in marriage remains unresolved. An ex-husband returns to town.

Petersburg artist Georgy Rashkov presents his world. His painting is paradoxical, but life is simple.

The film tells about the fate of the Nobel laureate Peter Leonidovich Kapitsa. For 10 years, the leading physicist worked in England in Rutherford's laboratory, but circumstances have changed. Returning to his homeland, Kapitsa was no longer able to leave the country. In the context of difficult relations with the authorities, Kapitsa created an institute that has become one of the best physical and technical laboratories in the world.

A full-length documentary-feature film tells about the life and spiritual heritage of the Valaam elder Sheikhumen John (Alekseev). Many of his letters to spiritual children were distributed all over the world. The film includes over a hundred photographs. We will see not only the elder himself, his entourage, way of life, the life of the monks of Old and New Valaam, but also the precious chronicle of the era of the 1930-50s of the twentieth century.

A film about the Tungusovo orphanage for children with mental retardation, which is located in the Tomsk region.