On June 12, Russia Day, opposition leader Alexei Navalny moved the protest from Sakharov Avenue to the very center of the city, to Tverskaya, where a festival of reenactors was being held that day. People in armor mingled with the streams of protesters, with the police in full combat attire. The result is harsh detentions, a stampede and flags from the window of a paddy wagon.

How to raise a man out of a boy? A controversial, not entirely humane, unusual for our society, but effective system of male education is presented by the authors of this film.

“When I was born, all the fingers on my right hand were stuck together. I had two operations in St. Petersburg, in the city of Pushkin, if I’m not mistaken. First, one finger was cut off, then, a year later, the second. I was just a baby. became three fingers. At the moment, on my right hand, it turns out, there is a little finger, index and thumb. From the ring and middle - only metacarpal bones ... "

What could be seen during the Olympic Games in Sochi? Events from the life of residents and guests of the city are shown as they would appear to the eyes of an ordinary person who decided in February 2014 to buy a ticket to this paradise.

Anna, Ole, Fred and Peter are four members of the Emergencies Team — or E-Team — the most intrepid division of a respected, international human rights group (Human Rights Watch). Trained to deal with unfolding crises, the E-Team flies to hotspots all over the world as soon as allegations of human rights abuse surface. Then they get to work — gathering crucial evidence to determine if further investigation is warranted and, if so, to investigate, document, and capture the world's attention. They also immediately challenge the responsible decision makers, holding them accountable. Human rights abuses thrive on secrecy and silence, and the work of the E-Team, backed by their international human rights organization, has shone light in dark places and given voice to thousands whose stories would never otherwise have been told.

In the town of Kolushki, letters whose addressee is not found are sent to the national office of undelivered correspondence. In Poland, there are about a million such letters a year. And many among them are those that are addressed to the Lord God. A lyric-philosophical essay by one of the most recognized documentarians in Poland.

An ideal example of sincere propaganda cinema, created by a great and class-irreconcilable artist. In Europe, in America, in Africa, and even beyond the Arctic Circle, people sing songs about Lenin, friend and liberator of the oppressed.

A film about the melon growers of the Orenburg region, who every year plant watermelons and melons at their own peril and risk. It is not easy to grow an organic red berry. Even harder to sell.

Between 1988 and 1990, three events shook Armenia, a terrible earthquake, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a result, part of the population left their native land. The director followed the lives of several emigrants and told a touching epic story about a rebellious man and a consummate storyteller.

One of the brightest young authors of the world documentary cinema, as a rule, solves essential, existential questions through his films. Here the central problem is the director's own family past, relations with parents, the role of parents in his life. The distant past in an emotional sense is the present for him. And he tried to see him through his sister's eyes. Moreover, the sister, a successful business woman who still cannot cope with the loss of her father and mother, is entrusted with the role of the author's alter ego and even the author's conscience. Another path chosen by the director to get closer to the dead parents is the stoic film observation of hospice patients in the last hours of their lives.

The May demonstration of workers and fireworks, one of the ritual holidays in the USSR, Sokurov shoots as the wrong side of the official genre of Soviet newsreels. He showed the parade of national unity as a tired extras, disintegrating without a director's guiding hand and without a goal. You can write a mountain of philosophical and sociological works, title them "The Psychology of the Crowd" or "The Revolt of the Masses", but still you will not say more about the people gathered in the crowd than is said in this film.

These are love stories of people who have been lawlessly separated by prison. Most of the characters in the film, which was filmed for 4 years, suffered from the imperfection of laws or due to failures in the judicial system. A movie about how difficult it is to wait and fight when there is nothing to hope for. About salvation by love.

For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at IvanoFrankivskTeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements but is also keen to point out that “the heating comes first - and only then do we sing!”. The rehearsal schedule must be organised around the “heating season”. As the collective are trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hotline service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?

Sound version of M. Tsekhanovsky's silent animation. The search for this small avant-garde masterpiece is carried out by two well-known film critics, employees of NIIK, Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev. Film Studies Research brings together film theorists and practitioners, historians, archivists, museum workers and technical experts.

In India, there are still about 2,000 movie theaters on wheels. Mr. Battu's Bioscope Cinema is a brightly colored truck, an old Soviet projector, several meters of white sheets and kilometers of film. The employees of the “cinema” are Battu himself, his right hand Mama and the young man Amit or “sound advertising”, it is he who, through the loudspeaker, notifies potential viewers in distant villages and tiny towns about the luck that has come to them to see the movie. The trio travels along the sun-scorched roads of India, because such is the business and mission of Mr. Battu, he is convinced that cinema can transform a person.

People and dogs. People whose communication is limited to animals. Through the history of the relationship between the owners and their pets, Ulrich Seidl's documentary shows the loneliness and disunity of people in a big city.

Old people who cannot live on their pensions have been gathering at the door of the store since five in the morning. There are enough coupons for everyone. If there are too many people, Anush, Shavershyan's assistant, prints them out, but pensioners forgotten by the state prefer to play it safe, they do not trust philanthropists and politicians, they believe only in one thing, in the queue.

Every year, on the days of the summer solstice, Belarusians celebrate the Kupalle (Ivan Kupala) holiday. This is a celebration of unity with the native land, which has always given the Belarusians an energy charge for the whole year. New couples were created on Kupalle, children were conceived. There are no Belarusians without Kupalle. The current political situation has broken the connection of Belarusians with their native culture, tradition, has replaced the true spiritual values ​​of the nation with a trend of base mass entertainment. But the people's initiative lives on, and traditions live on, and Belarus lives side by side with the imposed absurdity.

A film-concert filmed in March 2014 in the Moscow club ARENA, where the Night Snipers presented the Unplugged program with an expanded line-up of musicians.

Cinema about animals suffers from anthropocentrism, human properties are perforce attributed to animals. The authors change the optics and now we can feel like birds. Cunning, funny, cruel. And gentle winged parents, and unfortunate hunters, and smug predators.