Every evening on the outskirts of Kaluga there is a group of grandmothers-members of voluntary people’s patrol. Almost all of them are over eighty. Armed with red armbands and a formidable word, they go out to restore order in the area. It has become much more difficult for local drunkards to drink in the yard.

ight years ago, Sean Quirk, as a student at the College of Music in Chicago, heard for the first time in his hometown of Milwaukee an audio recording of the Hun-Khurtuu group, world-famous performers of Tuvan throat singing. And Sean's life has changed dramatically. He moved to the capital of Tuva, the city of Kyzyl, married a Tuvan Svetlana Sunduy, they had three children. He received land as a gift from the Government of the Republic of Tuva in the suburbs of Kyzyl and began to build his house.

A year and a half before the surrender of the Third Reich in besieged Leningrad, in accordance with the instructions of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the so-called "Victory Map", a plan for the city of Berlin for the Soviet troops, was printed. The top-secret printing house was located in the carriage of an ordinary train; in order to detail the plan, they were looking for any photographs and postcards with views of Berlin.

A film about the life and fate of a real Russian patriot. All his thoughts, dreams and hopes are inextricably linked with the greatness of the Fatherland. However, over time, cognitive dissonance suddenly penetrates into his consciousness. Finding himself in a severe existential crisis, the hero of the film paradoxically and contradictory rethinks the concept of patriotism.

Veera, 25, is trying to cope with her childhood traumas. She goes to therapy sessions and discusses her problems. But that alone is not enough. She goes LARPing. In LARPing events people physically portray their characters, pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world and/or an imagined world, while interacting with each other in character. In LARPing Veera becomes V, a character that may do things Veera cannot.

A film about the events of 2019, when Russia still had a chance to go the other way. The destruction of the opposition and the actual ban on an alternative point of view from the pro-government led us to today's events.

A film about the poet Vladimir Lugovsky. The director touches upon the period of evacuation of Lugovsky and other Russian writers, artists and artists to Tashkent. "Istanbul for the poor" called Tashkent Alexei Tolstoy. Others found an unusual charm in it, later recalled the green Tashkent cognac. Used unknown materials from the archives of Krasnogorsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata, film magazine "Soviet Kazakhstan".

This dress has become a family legend. It was worn on especially solemn occasions, passing it to each other. Today, family members live in different countries, but the story of the green dress brought them together again in the virtual space.

Sixty-something Orthodox Jewish identical twins Abraham and Shraga live together in their childhood home in Brooklyn. Since the death of their parents, they have lost control of their surroundings, allowing trash to pile up and stray cats and vermin to move in. Forced into action by their neighbor, the brothers agree to let a professional cleaning crew invade their unclean sanctuary. Led by Hanan, a sympathetic Jewish man, the cleaners gently cajole and negotiate with the brothers to confront their demons and finally let things go.

"Money was given only for the coffin and the monument." How does a Russian family get compensation for the death of a soldier in Ukraine? And why do mothers in Russia consider their sons the property of the state?

A story about a woman who has been living in the building of the abandoned Pobeda cinema for the fifteenth year.

The queen of Russian silent cinema, Vera Kholodnaya, was only 26 years old. Of these, she starred only 4 years. Of her more than 50 films, only 5 have survived, but she is not only remembered, she is revered. Vera Kholodnaya was a real star of Russian cinema. There were no others like her. To be smart, and beautiful, and pure, and talented, and happy, and loved by everyone. The film is built on the memoirs of Vera Kholodnaya and people who knew her well, as well as on materials from newspapers and magazines of the 10s and 20s. The film features A. Vertinsky's songs dedicated to Vera Kholodnaya.

A documentary cycle in 5 episodes (45 minutes each), each of which contains one year of the war, the most significant battles, veterans' memories and footage from the chronicle.

“Long echo” – does it refer to the explosion not far from the town? Or to the time when people searched for a new idea for their country? Or is it rather the long echo of Soviet mentality that led to this bloody conflict? The film portrays the town Dobropolye, in Eastern Ukraine – 70 km from the border with the breakaway republics – and some of its people against the backdrop of the war. The characters are inventive and gripping despite their many hardships: they set up a singles club, build a zoo with chameleons, play in a heavy metal band and drive a taxi. The film shows a region that was on our minds for many months, not only in Europe. It shows people on the periphery of the war, how it changed their daily lives and how people react to both their new and old needs. Their struggle for survival is sometimes marked by quirky moments that give the film an unexpected lightness. The two directors Veronika Glasunowa and Lukasz Lakomy started with the preparations for the movie long before the war. This enabled them to build a relationship of trust which endured in wartime, and it helped them obtain extraordinary insights.

The place where the film was shot is no longer on the world map. The village of Kezhma, where the main character of the film, Tamara, was born and lived for half a century, was destroyed and burned down. Tamara returns for the last time to enjoy fishing on the Angara and look at the huge wasteland that was her home recently. Say goodbye forever. In a few months, this place will go under the water of the reservoir of the Boguchanskaya hydroelectric power station. The loss of the homeland by Tamara is the price of our well-being. Isn't the price too high?

Young geographers Kirill Puzanov and Maria Pisareva embark on a journey through unexplored places in the Moscow region. Travelers learn about the characteristics of various animals, walk through the swamps, observe the habits of birds, discover amazing cities, walk through the stunning reserves of the Moscow region. Moreover, the heroes study nature not only on earth, for the most part Cyril and Maria observe nature from a bird's eye view, from a small two-seater plane. It is thanks to small aircraft that a new look at the Moscow region appears.

The twentieth century mocked the Russian village in full. Millions of peasant lives were claimed first by the First and then the Second World Wars. The people were deprived of their faith, dispossessed of kulaks, and taxed with exorbitant taxes. Ill-conceived experiments almost finished the village, which does not live today, but for the most part survives. In place of a number of Russian villages founded back in the 17th and 18th centuries, now there are only wastelands. Today we do not associate the life of very old people living in the Russian outback with the concept of "happiness", but they had it.

Every summer, herds of salmon return to Sakhalin Island from the ocean. Every year their number is drastically reduced. Vanya's family is destroyed like a wild salmon ecosystem, his parents don't live together. Yielding to the persuasion of his older brother, his father takes Vanya with him on a trip around the island. He promises Vanya to show him the salmon spawning.

The authors began to shoot this film even before Russia started the war against Ukraine. They wanted to talk about people who, in the situation of “freedom shutdown” in Russia, continue to do their good and decent work. However, life (and Vladimir Putin) made serious adjustments to the script. Russia sent troops to Ukraine, journalism was actually banned in the country, human rights protection was destroyed. Many of the protagonists of the film faced a terrible choice, how to continue to live and work when your life and your work in Russia are now criminal by definition? The authors continued to shoot the end of the broadcast of "Echo" and the defeat of "Dozhd", searches in the "Memorial" and the termination of the release of "Novaya". Birth of "Novaya Gazeta. Europe”, the renewed first broadcasts of “Dozhd”, the honest and dangerous work of many colleagues from abroad. This film is a unique historical document, a cast of tragedy. This film is about the trouble that happened to Russia and was filmed in real time. Chronicle of a diving country.

Cave paintings and our photo albums have the same source: death. But when does a memory become an image? How does memory work and what is more real: fact or our perception?