The story of conservative Maryana, 23, who just emigrated to the US from Ukraine. Lonely in this new and alien world, she meets Anya, 27 years old. Anya works as a dancer in nightclubs for emigrants and agrees to be Maryana's guide to a strange looking glass, the world at the crossroads of the USA and the USSR. Maryana does not yet realize that this journey will change her forever.

Kola Peninsula. Varzuga village. The road has recently appeared here. The inhabitants of a distant village talk about how the world coming from outside influences the identity of the village. How can a village survive in the modern world without wasting what has held the northern land for centuries? Priest Mitrofan Badanin commanded ships in the Northern Fleet for most of his life, and now he is restoring churches on the Kola Peninsula. He shared with the filmmakers his reflections on the fate of the village, the characters of the people, and the faith strengthened by trials at sea.

An industrial monster that devours a person as a person with antediluvian mechanics, absurd automatism and the need to earn money for a minimal existence. The film refers the viewer to many questions about the appropriateness of such an existence.

A legendary director and an extraordinary person who equally easily made "festival" and "mass" films. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a true friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him, his mother, sons, wife and friends.

An experimental documentary about a memory journey in search of a home.

Vyacheslav, an 88-year-old man, lost his wife a few years ago, with whom they had lived 55 years together. It seemed that the loss could not be made up for, but life goes on. Other women begin to appear in his closed world.

A girl crosses the border into Syria to see her father and his new family. There is still peace in the city. The war is somewhere nearby, but here and now the main thing is the very question. And the daughter, finally, asks his father.

Renowned Russian director Andrey Konchalovsky analyzes how Ukraine, formerly part of the Soviet empire and now a large European country, is trying to escape from the close embrace of its former older brother, Russia, and not become one of America's satellites. This large-scale study lasted almost three years. It was attended by ex-president of Poland Alexander Kwasniewski, ex-president of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, ex-president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, 7th UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, ex-prime minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin, businessman Boris Berezovsky, as well as many Ukrainian, Russian and American historians, politicians and journalists. One of the main experts in the film is the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma. The film "Battle for Ukraine" raises many questions. What are the cultural roots of the confrontation between the West and the East? Can a country located at the intersection of European and Russian interests be independent? What is the price of this independence? And since Andrei Konchalovsky is a Russian director, an important place in his research is the idea that Ukraine is not Russia, despite the common historical destiny. This is a painful conclusion both for Russia and for part of Ukrainian society. But only by accepting it, Russia will be able to stop living with the ghosts of the Cold War.

We often forget the star artists who were once admired by the whole country. How are their fates? Egor was the first white whale in our country to start performing in dolphin shows, becoming a vivid childhood memory for hundreds of thousands of children. After twenty years of living next to people, he escaped. Studying the history of Yegor, we will get acquainted with unique animals, white polar whales, see their habitats in the wild. They are considered the smartest creatures on the planet along with horses, dogs, monkeys, but, perhaps, it is about beluga whales, Russian whales, that we know the least.

Who is Sergey Muratov, many people know. One of the three legendary inventors of KVN, professor of Moscow State University, adored by students. Learned many stars of domestic television journalism. The largest theorist and authority, he wrote a mountain of books about television. But few people know that in fact Professor Muratov is an ordinary alien who visited Earth in transit.

This film-discovery, based on real life events of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, will completely change the idea of who we used to call "our everything", not suspecting to what extent it is true.

The life of the student Polina goes on as usual, until external circumstances unexpectedly interfere with her, or rather she is delayed at a rally. The next day, it's time to tell your parents about it. The heroine and her parents are separated not only by distance, but also by her views on life and politics.

Mikhail Savelyevich Shaprov (aka the gypsy Shapiro) lived not one, but three lives. Revolutionary romantic and diplomat; "enemy of the people" and political prisoner; a documentary filmmaker who reveals to people all the most important things in this world. The story of Mikhail Shaprov is told by his grandson, director and screenwriter Andrey Raikin.

After a nuclear war, a small group of people survives in a bomb shelter. They fight for limited resources and struggle with radiation and monsters. This is the plot of a role-playing game organized in Crimean bomb shelters in 2019. The film follows a group of enthusiasts, who explored different versions of the future designed as a post-apocalyptic world. The role-playing game was a way of processing the memory of previous wars and reflecting on the possibility of coming wars — a reflection that today seems uncanny in light of Russia’s invasion to Ukraine in 2022 and the role of Crimean annexation in the current war.

1080 meters is the depth of the Komsomolskaya mine, where the heroes of the film descend daily. Around the tundra and abandoned villages. There are five mines left around Vorkuta. After the explosion, there were four left at Severnaya. The city lives. Pasha and Roma drive around the city in cars, talking about their lives and finding themselves in various places.

Who promised the Muscovites that the war of 1812 would not affect them? What was the punishment for telling news to friends in the 19th century? How did Napoleon and the French behave in captured Moscow? And the main question is, who actually burned Moscow?

Jews were called "the main secret of the Soviet Union." For seventy years they existed in the zone of silence, but this silence attracted a burning and constant interest. Some were sure that the Jews had penetrated everywhere, up to the top of the Soviet power, and ruled the entire USSR. Others looked for Jewish allusions in popular books, songs, films. Still others saw Jewish secret signs everywhere and everywhere. Where are the real facts, and where is the fruit of a sick imagination? And the very phenomenon of the Soviet Jew is also not a very clear thing. How did he remain a Jew, not retaining for the most part his religion, language, without preserving traditions, and often accepting new traditions with pleasure? Culturologist and journalist Anna Narinskaya, who grew up in a “non-Jewish Jewish family,” speaks to witnesses of the time, her friends and relatives, anthropologists and researchers of popular culture, and seems to be moving towards answering all these questions. But these searches lead her to a very strange place.

A documentary dream of a girl who cannot wake up from a traumatic but alluring past, where she was close to her loved ones.

"A lonely man wants to meet." This phrase began to appear more and more often in marriage announcements, on the pages of newspapers and magazines. But today women's most important natural instinct, maternal, has begun to disappear. This is how single fathers raise children. And they don't have much time for their personal lives. How can you find a new wife for yourself, and a new mother for your child? And in general, how to arrange your new life like this? It is especially difficult for men who have become single fathers after a severe tragedy. This happened in the Grigoriev family. This story in the city of Kursk is retold by heart. Igor is the only father of many children here. And the only one is a single father. After the death of his wife Marina, Igor Grigoriev was left alone with 10 children.

“In order to be martyred and die for the faith, a person must feel the reality of the existence of God and the reality of the other world,” say the descendants of those who were martyred for the Orthodox faith in the middle of the 20th century. The Church has already canonized some of these murdered as New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Their children and grandchildren are trying to figure out how their holy relatives related to the main issues of life: the relationship between a man and a woman, the sacrament of marriage, the upbringing of children, death, suffering, sacrifice. And how much all this was passed on to them, the descendants of modern saints.