This is a story about a hunter Valerik who lives in a small Siberian village 700 km from Krasnoyarsk. He spends the whole winter in the forest with his dog Skif, extracting furs to feed his family. Valerik takes pictures of himself with a small digital pocket camera in order to later share his hunting adventures with his beloved wife Zina. He feels himself the master of nature, but the forest in the form of a bear follows in the footsteps of Valerik.

The film is about a premonition of an impending war and an attempt to change the situation in the characters' separate small space, whereas globally everything is already predetermined. The protagonist of the film, Liliya, who resides in Moscow, a mother of three children, shortly before the war organizes celebration for her children along with other children in her native village near the border with Ukraine. The celebration's events takes place as if in the USA.

In 2016, an HIV epidemic was announced in Russia, with more than 1,000,000 cases, and more than half of them women. This film tells the story of three women living with HIV for over 10 years. Opening their faces, they will honestly and directly tell about the history of their illness and life today.

In modern Estonia, a modern factory employs modern workers, a Russian, a Ukrainian and a Chinese. They try to understand each other and the society in which they find themselves.

Long-distance navigator, historian Dmitry Kravchenko goes to the Arctic in search of the disappeared caravel Willem Barents, which in 1596 was covered with ice off the coast of Novaya Zemlya.

Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.

A picture of anti-war resistance against the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022. Young people are desperate and oppressed, speaking quietly in their kitchen and loud on the streets. A very unpleasant journey through the dictatorship, jail and repressions.

Letnyaya Zolotitsa is a village situated along the shores of the White Sea, approximately 180 kilometers from Arkhangelsk. During winter, access to the village is limited to snowmobiles or, alternatively, by air using an old An-2 aircraft. Ilya Ikonnikov, the head of the Letnyaya Zolotitsa landing site, assumes multiple roles, serving as an air traffic controller, airfield watchman, cashier, loader, and stoker—all in one. He travels to the village from his hometown of Onega as part of his duty. Ikonnikov, a former journalist and poet, finds less recognition and congratulations in his aviation work than the personalized epitaphs he crafts. However, he considers the "An-2 service" a calling passed down from his grandfather and father. The village, with fewer than 200 residents, experiences an influx of seasonal inhabitants during the summer. Most employment opportunities are in public organizations such as the post office, school, and administration, offering modest salaries. The Pomors, traditionally engaged in fishing, often find themselves unintentionally engaging in poaching due to challenging bureaucratic regulations. Letnyaya Zolotitsa lacks mobile communication and has limited internet access, but central television is readily available. Conversations often revolve around the war in Ukraine, and patriotism is taught in special lessons at the local school. While Ikonnikov opposes the war, his stance is somewhat of an exception in the village.

The film shows the modern life of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks, which was divided as a result of the tragic events that took place in Russia in the 20-30s of the last century. It so happened that more than one generation of Cossacks who left Russia now lives in Australia, China, and New Zealand. However, they continue to preserve their native culture, way of life, faith, love for the Motherland and the desire to reunite with it. The life of the descendants of the Cossacks who remained in Russia was no less dramatic. Having gone through all the trials of the 20th century, they retained their memory, soul, faith, and this helps them today to restore their destroyed way of life.

He was arrested on the night of December 2-3, 1934. Amazingly, even 3 hours ago he had a heated argument with the director of the film, Abram Room, how to play the key scene of the film "Strict Youth"! The phrase about suffering and mercy did not turn out in any way. Mercy and justice, now Dmitry Konsovsky will have to rely only on them. Just yesterday, he was a leading actor, and today he is a prisoner in the Butyrka prison. His brother, artist Alexei Konsovsky, died in 1991, but he could not get permission to get acquainted with his brother's investigation file, did not find out what his last words were. Now, 70 years later, the grandson Nikolai Vershinin-Konsovsky will tell us about all the dramatic events.

To return to the starting point, it is enough to drive a few stations on the train. The most terrible of childhood memories will appear if you cross the threshold. The hero of the film, 20-year-old Dima, who grew up in an orphanage, one day decided to find his real family. Movie version with English subtitles: https://dafilms.com/film/8306-september-25

Elena is going home, to a village located on the front line in the "gray zone" of the Donetsk region, where she spent her childhood. In the garden, to keep the weeds out of the neighboring plots, her brother planted mustard. The girl lies down in the thorny grass and remembers how big and tasty apricots, cherries, pears, sweet cherries used to be.
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The story of a man who everyone thinks is crazy, but what he does leaves everyone in amazement and remains in memory for many years.

On the border of Russia and Kazakhstan, on the salt lake Baskunchak at the beginning of the 21st century, people had to make a choice. Maybe the most important thing in life. Having become shareholders of their enterprise, they could breathe new life into it and confidently build their future, but they preferred another, more profitable, at first glance, option.

"De facto" is devoted to the problem of appropriation and re-interpretation of history in a post-truth society. Filmed in Lviv in 2016-2017, it shows a complex picture of the coexistence of diametrically different communities in the same post-Soviet space. The annual rituals associated with the events of World War II, initiated by various political, social and ethnic groups, have the character of a performance and, despite the tragic historical context, often cause a comic effect. The film is a joint work of artist Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair and historian Alexandra Vakhter.

Sakhalin is a distant island. April snowstorms bring it in, and if you leave from there, then forever. And if you stay, then forever and out of great love. Masha turns thirty, and she still hasn't left. And she still hasn't left. She can't decide. Or decide.

“When I pray in the morning and in the evening, I always ask: I want to die first, and then finish singing!”, Elena Obraztsova said in her last interview. She gave it to our film crew on November 28, 2014. That evening at the Bolshoi Theater there was a Grand Ball in honor of the 75th birthday of Elena Obraztsova. And for the first time, the best voices of the world Anna Netrebko, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Maria Guleghina, Jose Cura sounded on the same stage. They flew in to congratulate dear Elena. And later, behind the scenes, we agreed to meet here, exactly one year later, to celebrate her 76th birthday. Obraztsova herself only silently smiled. At that time, no one knew about her fatal illness, except for those closest to her.

This person is eagerly awaited by everyone from a lonely pensioner to a successful businessman. Andrey Noskov is a plumber in the Moscow residential area Yasenevo. The film accompanies Andrei on calls to clients, penetrating into the most intimate spheres of Muscovite life.

This is a movie about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teenagers take a Cossack upbringing.

Masha and Ilya were born around the time Vladimir Putin came to power. The girl and the boy, just like their friends, wanted to live in a free, democratic and open country. Fighting for freedom and their future, our heroes organize discussion clubs and protest actions, participate in pickets and give lectures, support their comrades who are behind bars, try to change the minds of their relatives, friends and ordinary passers-by in various Russian cities. “Moscow, come out!” shouts Masha at a rally. But Moscow does not come out, it is busy and in a hurry. The centuries-old machine of unfreedom sweeps the boys away. War breaks out. And we all find ourselves in another reality.

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