In the most terrible and dark times a journalist has one simple job to record what is happening. The stories of eyewitnesses in order not to allow new history books to lie about what people saw with their own eyes. The people we met had very different life histories and political views. But the war did not make any of them happy. The war brought them trouble, destruction and death. The authors began to shoot this film almost immediately after the start of the war. Filming was long and difficult - thousands of kilometers, more than a hundred hours of recorded interviews, several dozen protagonists. But the main thing is grief, which cannot be measured in any quantities. This film is about the grief brought by the war and about people who are trying to survive.

We find the hereditary Tuvan shaman Chochagar at the most difficult moment of his life, he passes on his knowledge to a student, and he himself moves to a higher level of knowledge of the world and becomes a “white” shaman. Maybe it's just a game, or maybe an unknown, hidden from us reality. Who knows?

Wedding, funeral, denunciation of an unfaithful husband. Memories of the past, hopes for the future, including a future afterlife. All this with a gypsy accent in the gypsy village of Soroca in Moldova.

Tasya, a 12-year-old girl from the village of Tomsino in the Pskov region, wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking him to help her mother, a nurse at a local hospital. The residents of the village, where Tasya and her mother moved shortly before, did not like this, they say, you need to "work, not beg." They started bullying Tasya, and her ex-girlfriend met her online under the guise of a young man and lured nude photos.

Artistic Darina wants to move to Moscow, but lives in a remote province on Sakhalin Island. She is waiting for love and recognition, but for now, she is unsuccessfully looking for a job. Parents believe that their forty-year-old daughter has her head in the clouds. But Darina does not pay attention to this. The islander skillfully paints everyday life with her special sense of beauty and active communication in social networks, continuing to live in the Looking Glass she created.

This film is a portrait of a generation. Each participant is asked, “What is your problem? What worries you? It's amazing how different answers can be, and how much you can sometimes worry about things that seem insignificant. Many problems are not as terrible as they seem at first glance, many problems we invent for ourselves, and compared to some problems, all the rest seem to be just nonsense. We create problems for ourselves by thinking, suffering and talking about them. But what would we do without them?

They hit the camera lens almost four decades ago. Successful workers, winners of social competitions, students, scientists are ordinary residents of the city on the Neva. Today they came to the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio to meet with the footage of the chronicle that captured them. What will this meeting bring?

The ingenious Kira Muratova looks at a person with irony, as if from afar and from above, like at a funny puppet theater, but her eyes are full of sympathy. She divides artists into two categories, preachers and players. He ranks himself, of course, among the latter. Randomness is her muse. Improvisation is a feature of the method. And what is life if not improvisation?

Choreography of everyday life in a small village in Belarus. With the help of static shots and associative montage, "Khan's Body" broadcasts a look at the common life of people, permeated with invisible relations of power. The villagers move and position their bodies according to the situation and their social and professional position. Khan's Body traces intertwined social structures and recontextualizes them through montage. The stage nature of the film frames reveals the surreal theatricality of the institutionalized everyday life.

A documentary film in which the topic of sports swimming is philosophically revealed. The protagonist is going to swim across the Volga, and during the film he is preparing to swim. Film without words.

Small town. Deep province. Poor existence. No events. But here is also life. The film is about simple things, about people going with the flow, about the loss of faith and the blessedness of life.

Albert is haunted by the dreams of his childhood, reminding him of a world within he lost.

What gives Orthodoxy? A simple hard worker, the driver Sergey is going home. On the way, his car breaks down and he finds himself in the middle of an Orthodox procession. Sergei is deeply struck by the religious asceticism of those who bear spiritual bonds in their minds in the name of the revival of the sovereign greatness of Russia.

Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance on the best stages in the world, and a grateful, understanding and appreciating public. But, probably, not everyone knows that it all began in the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, when the Kirov Theater (now the Mariinsky Theater) and the Vaganov Ballet School were evacuated to the city of Molotov (as Perm was then called) from Leningrad, which was already practically blockaded by the Nazis. Then began this evacuation romance that continues to this day.

A film about the everyday life of reindeer herders in the Polar Urals.

Are you at home today? This is a chance to write (invent, shoot or create) something outstanding! Photographer Dmitry Zverev (four-time winner of the Silver Camera award), choreographer Vladimir Varnava (twice winner of the Golden Mask award), the authors of the #Isoisolation project and others talk about where to find inspiration during quarantine.

Karelia. Farm "Yolki". The area is 2.5 hectares. The nearest accommodation is 30 kilometers away. The owner of this land is a young woman, Julia. Now Julia is 36, she left the city when she was 29. She is not a hermit, she loves cheerful companies and often gathers friends at her place. Here she has her own small business in the field of culture and ecotourism. For her, this is the only way to earn money, they are needed to feed the animals, which Yulia has countless on the farm. But she is happy. She dreamed about it from early childhood.

What happened to the children of famous Nazi criminals? What does it mean to be "captured by one's own names"? And what is it like to live, knowing that on the hands of your fathers and grandfathers the blood of thousands, and in some cases millions of innocent lives? It took many months to find the heroes of this film. People who had been in hiding for years did not dare to speak for a long time. Many suffer to this day, trying to get out of the shadows of the past. From the shadow of their fathers.

The film was shot for a month and a half in the lower reaches of the Kolyma River. “This is a film about the Chukchi, who are in natural conditions, graze deer, live among them. This is a film about northern people and how modern civilization affects their lives,” says Eisner.

A film about the life of the workers of the last narrow-gauge railway in Russia, which is used to transport cut wood. Together with him, the villages in which these workers lived also perish. The protagonists of the film are residents of a remote Vologda village, they still hope that their narrow-gauge railway will work, but the void that has captured everything around the village is getting closer and closer to them.