Siege of Leningrad during World War II. Filmed by cameramen-heroes. Without words, without music, only sounds and pictures of a dying city. Or a city trying to survive.

From Oscar nominee Kaouther Ben Hania and winner of the Best Documentary prize at Cannes, "Four Daughters" is a riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood. It reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and performance to examine how the Tunisian woman's two eldest daughters were radicalized.

A film that tells about the strange life of an old woman, almost the same age as the 20th century, who makes the same long journey every day. What drives a person? What determines his life path? The answer to this question is sought in the life story of this woman.

One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play.

There are two weeks before the meeting with the mother. There is a month before death. But the first seems much scarier. "Outro" in music means the completion of a piece, an exit, a sign of the end.

Three Russian women in their 30s who all seek the same: security, a higher social status and eternal happiness. Not an easy wish to fulfill in today's Russia, where the patriarchy dominates. So our heroines take matters into their own hands and join a course in the art of seducing a man - preferably a rich one. Seven years of recordings paint a sometimes tragicomic picture of gender roles and femininity in Putin's Russia.

Since early childhood Anna has loved animals – she taught biology at school and worked in the zoo. As a woman, she realised quite soon that she had to be physically strong too. That is why, at the age of 40, she embarked on a career of a power triathlete and soon became a multiple world champion and the strongest woman in the world. Using the power of social media, she ran a campaign for animal rights, opened animal shelters and looked for new families for dozens of stray dogs and cats. When Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Anna went on to help wounded and abandoned animals.

The film is based on the real diaries of the former Nord-Ost hostage Irina Fadeyeva, whose 15-year-old son Yaroslav was killed during the assault. These are her reflections on the tragedy that happened and her silent appeal to the Russian authorities, which hide the true cause of the death of the child.

In this film, five great Russian actresses, stars of Soviet cinema. Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Samoilova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Lidia Smirnova, Vera Vasilyeva answer the questions of the film director Renata Litvinova.

This elderly woman keeps the economy of a large family. Yes, it cannot be otherwise, because she is a strong person, she survived the death of her husband, and persecution, and the change of eras, and the change of rulers. And a change of country. She is Russian, but she lived her life among the Kurds, in a Kurdish village in Iraq. Her life is now seen through the eyes of an unknown narrator, who has the voice of director Sokurov and comes from a clan of great narrators of Russian literary classics, including official Zaitsev and veteran of the Caucasian wars Maxim Maksimych.

The mother of nine children tells her story. Together with her children, she runs across a large country from poverty, disorder and her husband. Runs and cannot stop in any way, because it is not so easy to find a place where you can survive. The main character is torn between children and work; the school where the younger ones study, and the wedding of the eldest daughter; understanding that with her children she is not needed by the country and others, and the knowledge that she needs children, and they need her, and only for this you need to survive.

In St. Petersburg, on Tramway Avenue, on which, in fact, trams never ran, there is a shelter for underage mothers. More girls, pupils of orphanages, who hardly remember their mothers, must now become real mothers for their own children.

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the Tu-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

In the center of the story is the amateur women's choir of the city of Tikhvin. Each of its participants is an ordinary woman who in everyday life is completely unrelated to the stage. Some of them are a shop assistant, someone is engaged in garbage collection, and someone even works as a loader to provide themselves with shelter and food. But all of them are united by a love of music and hope for a brighter future. The arrival of the Italian delegation in the city becomes a real glimpse among the gray everyday life of our protagonists, and their dreams at this moment seem even more illusory.

The ancient city of Soligalich, an open-air city-museum, seems to have frozen in space and time. . In the workshop, which stands on the site of a former church, women make felt boots by hand. The heroines of the film, imbued with powerful energy and natural artistry, are bright, strong and vital. As guardians of this ancient craft, they are the spirit and the backbone of the country and worthy of the brush of the best artists.

The film is available only on the territory of the Russian Federation.

About prostitution in its various manifestations in Russia in the middle of the "zero". Volunteers helping girls, distributing condoms to them. Love, pregnancy, illness.

The internal dialogue of two Frida Kahlo, a romantic passionate painting of nature and a lonely woman full of skepticism. The film is an attempt with individual strokes (in the spirit of Frida's own technique) to sketch on the screen a portrait of one of the most incredible personalities of the 20th century.

You can forget. You must forget. But it's impossible to forget. What does a woman think and feel 5 minutes before an abortion? The tape was awarded the prizes of the festivals "Window to Europe" (Vyborg) and "Message to Man" (St. Petersburg) as the best short film.

As a result of a trauma received at birth, Vera Kazakova became disabled from childhood and, having lost the opportunity to move freely, it seemed that she was doomed to lead a reclusive life. But she managed to change the destined course of events. Vera found the strength not only to get a decent education, to give birth to a son, but also to actively fight for the revival of her small homeland.

Alina Makarova is a mother of six children, five of her own and one adopted. Her ex-husband is from Ethiopia, which is why all her own children are of mixed origin. Only her adopted son is white, but he is psychologically unstable. Alina's older children realise what complications the adoption might bring, and are afraid that there won't be enough room, time and love for everyone. But she convinces them that it's the right thing. The new boy really turns their life into trouble. Alina shows miraculous patience and pedagogical talents. Her children become her allies in raising the new son. This film is an epic panorama of a fight for love, an ode to motherhood.