Soiga village was founded by monks 400 years ago. At the beginning of the twentieth century, deforestation was organized in the Arkhangelsk region. In the 1950s, a narrow-gauge railway was built to transport timber to the Northern Dvina River. Now the village of Soyga is surrounded by swamps and is located 38 kilometers from the nearest highway. After the reduction of the forest fund, financial support for the road and the settlement ceased. The only way to get there is by the narrow gauge railway, which has existed there since 1958. For about 40 years, local residents and the locomotive driver Boris Petrovich Skumin have been maintaining the road in good condition.

In the heart of Moscow, there is a Spanish restaurant run by the eccentric Donna Lucia. Every day in her institution there is a holiday, a guitar and songs. And it seems that everything is there, and even love, but it becomes more and more difficult for Lucy to have fun day after day.

Jane was born in St. Petersburg, lives in Moscow, works as a model. Her father moved to Russia from Ghana when he was 20 years old. Listening to her father's stories, Jane always wanted to visit her homeland. She had never been to Africa, never seen her relatives, including her grandmother and aunt. Suddenly, Jane learns that her aunt will become the chief of a region in Ghana and decides to travel to Accra to attend the inauguration of the leader and meet her family.

The film “Belarus 23.34” is a story of Belarusians who were subjected to repressions. The film was made on the basis of 25 interviews with victims and chronicles. The film shows the path of a detainee at a protest in Belarus: march and detention, a ride in a prison truck, registration at a police station, trial, prison, release and reflection on the experience.

In Russia, since 2017, 35 criminal cases have been opened against teenagers on charges of preparing mass murders, terrorist attacks or extremist actions. All these cases are distinguished by the fact that there are no victims in them, only statements by the investigation that the schoolchildren planned to do something. The accusation is based on drawings, correspondence on the Internet and photographs. 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov was arrested for five years on charges of terrorism. He and his friends put up leaflets demanding the release of anarchist political prisoners. Schoolchildren built a copy of their city in Minecraft and joked in the general chat about the explosion of the FSB building. Not a real explosion, but a computer one. For drawing a plan to capture the barracks, 18-year-old cadet Vadim Osipov was accused of terrorism and, by a court decision, was sent for compulsory treatment. The editors of the student magazine DOXA were sentenced to two years of hard labor for a video about pressure from university professors on students who participated in rallies. Agora lawyers undertake to protect teenagers.

For us, Beslan ended 10 years ago, for them it has just begun. On September 1, 2004, the four protagonists of the film lost everything, and the world learned about the existence of the North Ossetian city of Beslan. In a few months, they will create a "Mothers of Beslan" committee to fight for an honest investigation into the terrorist attack at school No. 1.

Nicolae is a 9-year-old boy. He is a pupil at the Russian language school in Soroca. He really likes to go to school. He looks forward to going to the "last day of school" to find out if he is going to be accepted into the third grade. He knows all the streets of Soroca, because, together with his brother, Gena, they wander all day. Soroca - is a small town in the north of the Republic of Moldova. It is known thanks to the medieval fortress, the oldest on the territory of the country, but also thanks to the Roma community, that lives compactly in a neighborhood on a hill from Soroca. The Roma are eccentric here. They built big houses, some of them being replicas of known buildings in the world. Hence the name of the movie The Bolshoi Theatre, referring to the well-known building in Moscow, but also to the theatrical nature of the Roma people.

By the road, in an almost abandoned and distant village, more than 150 years after the fairy tale, Emelya the peasant sleeps on a large Russian stove, sleeps, does nothing. It seems that he lies on the side of not only the road, but also life. He knows his forest, remembers the tales of the village, and living his days measuredly, shows his own cherished tale.

The protagonist of the film is a man of absolutely incredible biography and fantastic character. Anatoly Lebed. He went through 5 wars and died in 2012, crashed on a motorcycle. Very little was known about his life. After all, the details of such a specific professional activity are not taken out on the front pages of newspapers. In addition, Lebed himself was very laconic and did not like to talk publicly about his past. He called the war simply work, and, as a rule, kept silent about his awards and wounds.

Each age is given to a person in order to comprehend something important, to experience, to feel, to comprehend. Birth, childhood, youth, maturity, old age, the inevitability of a transition to another world, each stage in a person's life has its own beauty and wisdom. Characters, heroes of their time, reflect on this.

An elderly man shows his wife old films on the screen. The younger brother of Maya Plisetskaya, Azariy, has been in the shadow of the great sister all his life. And all his life he did not let go of the camera, capturing not only his family, but also Roland Petit, Maurice Bejart, Galina Ulanova, Sol Yurok, Alicia Alonso and many others with whom his fate as a dancer and ballet teacher collided. A kaleidoscope of faces and events is formed in the lived life of Azariy Plisetsky, whom Bella Akhmadulina called "brother".

Zhenya is the head of the weather station, Vanya is a junior meteorologist and household assistant. The ship "Mikhail Somov" comes to the Kanin Peninsula once a year, delivers food and then the protagonists are left alone until next spring. One day a storm comes to them and the protagonists are left without communication, alone, alone with bad weather and each other for 3 long days.

Sergey is a millionaire who made his fortune in the 90s, the owner of a large company, is fond of music and motorsport. He used to go ahead, never listening to anyone, to be always right everywhere and in everything. But a terrible accident that happened while drifting and almost claimed the lives of his colleagues in motorsport makes him think and, perhaps, change his life principles.

A girl cannot overcome the barrier associated with her bisexuality and give vent to feelings in relation to other girls. Then cinema comes to the rescue.

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.