In each of his films, director Ilya Averbakh filmed children and the elderly, and confessed to a close friend: “I came to the cinema to film the White Guard".

An attempt to comprehend the changes that have taken place in Russia with people over 100 years, realized in the unusual genre of comparing the current reality and photographs taken at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The photographs, taken by Russian realist photographer Maxim Dmitriev, were printed as large posters and traveled with the film crew to the places where they were taken. People of different classes, social groups and professions consider "themselves" a century later and talk about life and about those they see in the photographs.

The Samodurov family lives in the village of Uglyanets, Voronezh Region. Shura and her brothers Alyosha and Petya are blind from birth. After the death of her parents and older brother, Shura refused to take her sick brothers to a psychiatric clinic. For the last 10 years they have been living together.

The film is a parable about the curse sent by the ancestors.

The story of five cashiers who work the same shift in a supermarket, in Tel Aviv. Most are immigrants from Russia, others are native Israelis. The film follows their relationships, the mutual support and solidarity, dealing with the management and customers, their difficulties making a living and their working conditions, as they try to change their fate. ''Super Women'' is a beautiful example of cinéma verité and a special peek into a hidden world.

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Best Cinematography Award & Special Jury Mention: Doc Aviv International Documentary Film Festival - Israel 2013
Best Documentary Jury Award: International Women's Film Festival Rehovot - Israel 2013
Honorary Mention: Dok Leipzig International Film Festival - Germany

A film about one of the leaders of the second Russian avant-garde, an outstanding artist Dmitry Plavinsky, our brilliant contemporary.

A tour guide, a military man, a bank clerk, an aircraft mechanic and dozens of other restless men from all over Ukraine gather every autumn in Uman to work during the Hasidic pilgrimage for the Rosh Hashanah holiday. For four days, tens of thousands of Hasidim in a festive mood, with songs, dances and a huge amount of luggage, come to this tiny town in a continuous stream. For four days, local "porters" sleep for 3 hours in makeshift halabuds on the side of the road, and the rest of the time they carry tons of cargo on themselves in order to earn their two-month salary in a short time. Along the way, they constantly have to seek mutual understanding with an almost "alien" client and with each other. But it’s hard to upset them with something, because they are sure: “God knows what he is doing.”

A biopic documentary about Boris Nemtsov, whose whole life, starting from a young age, is tightly intertwined with the history of the new Russia. The main voice of the film is the voice of Nemtsov himself, a compilation created by the authors from archival radio and television interviews. At the same time, the film is built on unique archival footage and memories of major figures of the 90s. Among the narrators are Tatyana Yumasheva, daughter and adviser to President Boris Yeltsin, Valentin Yumashev, head of the presidential administration, Yeltsin's press secretary Sergei Yastrzhembsky, businessman Mikhail Fridman, politician Grigory Yavlinsky and many others. This is not only a biography of Boris Nemtsov, but also a film about the history of Russia over the past 25 years.

More than 6000 km from the Russian capital. Coast of the Chukchi Sea. Enurmino village. Getting here and getting back out is only a miracle. But if you ask questions, where is the real Chukotka, then the answer is obvious. Here!

The film is dedicated to a Russian peasant woman-artist Lyubov Mikhailovna Maikova. At the age of 79, Lyubov Mikhailovna began to paint with watercolors, and soon painted with paints. She created more than 150 paintings.

The fire took away not only the property of Alexander, but also his freedom. He moves to live with his mother, where he begins a new life following the established rules. The main rule: no alcohol in the house. Otherwise there will be a scandal. Alexander begins to look for a suitable group of companions who would have a drink, but everyone he meets has his own problems, and to solve them, Alexander is forced to reveal his talent – the ability to predict the future.

The first Russian documentary series about the police, about the "harsh working days" of real policemen, employees of the Moscow Airport Department of Internal Affairs. They perform operational and investigative actions, which are immediately filmed by a film group. Among the protagonists are a district inspector, an operative officer, an investigator, an inspector for juvenile affairs and the head of the police department. Each episode focuses on one crime. The viewer sees with his own eyes how the police work, starting from a call to the police station, ending with the detention of the criminal and his interrogations.

The hero of the film, a young Russian biologist, Alexander Sergeevich Ermakov, has been working on the study of stem cells in the UK for 10 years. But he is a man who dreams of giving his brains to his homeland. He flies to Russia with the hope of finding a job and staying. Here he is met by relatives, friends and misunderstanding of colleagues. Will Alexander Sergeevich stay in Russia?

The film is an understanding of the human, political, economic reasons that led to the creation of the GULAG as a system of forced labor. The authors rely on the experience of the writer Varlam Shalamov and a number of recent works on the history of the country.

About the artist Valentina Kropivnitskaya, one of those who organized in 1974 the first free "Bulldozer Exhibition" of contemporary avant-garde artists, which was brutally dispersed by the authorities. Valentina, her husband, artist Oscar Rabin, their son Alexander Rabin, art critic Alexander Glezer and their fellow artists forever changed the situation with contemporary art in the USSR. The film received the Nika National Film Award in 2016 as the Best Non-Fiction Film. Film website: www.soms-films.com

Every May teams of seasonal workers come to Solovki to harvest seaweed. They go out to sea and mow it down with karbas. In October, the remnants of the brigade returned to Arkhangelsk. In the deserted village, there remains a watchman, wintering with a dog.

Young pupils of the Kovalevsky Orthodox Orphanage must fulfill the mission, on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, serve the Divine Liturgy on Mount Elbrus. The chronicle of the ascent unfolds against the backdrop of the lives of boys in an Orthodox orphanage.

I was 22. I worked in the news. The task to shoot Boris Nemtsov was perceived as a challenge: the old narcissistic bourgeois, well, what is interesting about him? He was 53. He was already a graduate student in physics, and vice-premier, and "Boris Yeltsin's heir". And he turned out to be cool, kind and sincere. And we became friends. And then they killed him. This film is about how a big historical context is narrowed down to a small personal story. How acquaintance develops into friendship. Filming news reports for several years in a row, the camera snatched out a little more than it was supposed to, examined it more closely than usual, turning it into a movie. This is a portrait film. Accidental, passing, tragicomic. A look at a living person who plays the role of a big politician all his life. However, he enjoyed this role. Joke after joke, and now you are Nemtsov's bosom friend. I thought Nemtsov was eternal, I thought I could always shoot him. But life decided otherwise. Leaving me with only 70 minutes of a film about a man who is no more. The work was awarded at the International Film Festival of Documentary, Short Feature and Animated Films "Message to Man" - 2016: "Centaur" Prize for the best full-length non-fiction film of the national competition.

In Soviet times, in the 50s, 60s and 70s, film magazines Our Land, Time Forward and others were regularly created and released on screens. Film magazines consisted of a set of stories about the life of the country and were built on the principle of a newspaper, which begins with big politics and ends with news of culture and sports. These magazines were created mainly to promote the Soviet way of life and only occasionally did something neutral and human appear in them. Film magazine plots are used as archival material in the film.

Поэт читает стихи через зарешеченное окно, монгольская девочка зажигает огонь в печи, с силой дует на пламя, создавая звук, подобный волчьему вою в степи. Как и огонь, фильм вырастает из самого себя, из особого ритма монтажа.