On the very edge of the village of Ponazyrevo, in a wooden house with the loud name "Rehabilitation Center", people who have nowhere to go live. The center was organized and sheltered by the rector of the prison church, the priest Father Evgeny. There are strict rules in the house, no alcohol, but from time to time, someone breaks down, starts drinking, leaves. Then he returns. Miron wandered after his release from prison, he did not have a home. He was found dying in an abandoned car and given shelter. He is crippled, half of his body is paralyzed. Outside the taiga window, the family broke up, past ties were broken. How do such people live, what do they think, what do they feel, what can they hope for, what helps them survive?

The film tells about the fate of one of the brightest political adventurers in the history of Russia, the priest Gapon. Paid agent of the Security Department and at the same time the real leader of the working people, Georgy Gapon turned out to be a provocateur of History. It was "Bloody Sunday" that became the turning point, which was inevitably followed by the collapse of the Romanov dynasty and the revolution. On the basis of previously unused documents, the inseparable connection between the fate of one person and the fate of Russia is recreated.

A film about the history of relations between Galileo Galilei and Pope Urban VIII and about the fate of his treatise "Dialogues on the two most important systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican".

The authors of the film violated the boundaries of what was permitted by choosing a deliberately provocative topic for their work: tense interethnic relations within the framework of one single family, where a native of the former Soviet Union and an Ethiopian girl were preparing for the wedding. The question is legitimate whether the son-director had the right to bring rubbish from the hut to a wide public court. These are the most intimate details of the relationship with your own mother, is one of our fundamental commandments about respect for parents violated here?

Time stopped in Salamanca two hundred years ago when the first Mennonites moved to Mexico in search of their place on earth. Here everything is predetermined in advance, and the life of descendants repeats the life of their ancestors. While the protagonist of the film remembers his childhood, trying to find the right answer to the most important question of his life, days, months, and years pass slowly in Salamanca.

The village of Good is located in the Siberian hinterland. The ambulance driver, Fedoseich, dreams of taking to the skies in a makeshift plane. The whole village is watching him. And here comes the cherished hour.

Wise men of different faiths called the same bird by different names, says Grigory Pomerants, a unique thinker of our era. This bird flew to him at the time of the death of his beloved woman.

The main character of the film, Lyubov Kostina, was poisoned by the “fascist” since childhood, because she was born in a concentration camp in the city of Swinemünde. How her difficult childhood developed and our film tells.

The New Saint is a film about Yevgeny Rodionov, an ordinary young Russian boy who fell in the first Chechen war after being taken prisoner and refusing to convert to Islam. He was proclaimed a martyr and many Russians found in Yevgeny their own unofficial saint. The life of Yevgeny’s mother underwent a radical change when her child ‘became’ a saint. By campaigning for his canonisation she keeps the memory of her son alive. The success of her mission is illustrated by the portrayal of Yevgeny’s image on icons throughout the country. Who is this holy soldier exactly and what makes him the perfect icon of Russia today?

10 years ago, the mother of many children, Lena, in a sacrificial impulse, divorced Yura and married a murderer sentenced to life imprisonment. Then a film was even made about this amazing act of the “incomprehensible Russian soul”. Now Lena and Yura are together again after painful trials. And these rural aristocrats of the spirit amaze with the depth of introspection, subtlety of feelings, humor and sadness about the impossible.

Boarding school at the St. Nicholas-Shartomsky Monastery in the village of Kleshchevka, Ivanovo Region. The boys live in the forest with monk teachers who try to shield them from modernity and raise them into novices. Well, the boys, of course, protest and want to have fun.

This is a documentary about a renowned precentor and a church composer Irina Denissova who suddenly becomes a nun in the apex of her career. At the same time, this is a film about God's love towards man. It seemed that a tragedy had occurred: a family of two prominent musicians was ruined, and Irina was abandoned by her husband while struggling with a serious disease of her son. However, she finds a new sense in life rather than being with her beloved husband all the time. Her life is now aimed at being constantly with God. Then, through the prayers of his mother, her son receives a miraculous healing and all her three children embrace faith. The second life of the main character - the one after the tonsure - turns out to be no less abundant, interesting and creative. According to the director of the film, a monastery is by no means a confinement, and the life of the persons who wear black monastic robes is much richer than we can imagine.

The "otherwise gifted" son of a village priest really wants to look at the world from the bell tower of his father's church. But he cannot overcome the fear of the unknown on his own, and then his mother comes to the rescue. For whom will this rise be a feat? And what is the feat of life "cross" or "blessing"?

Someone called Father Arkady a punk priest, someone called a hippie priest. Once he really was a hippo, and then he left Moscow with friends for a remote Karelian village and began to build a temple. Over time, this remote village has become a point of attraction for many people: poets, artists, whips, drug addicts, musicians, writers, criminals, photographers. Father Arkady was an unusual priest from the generation of the 90s and in some way reflected the fate of this generation. It all started with freedom and an endless holiday, but what did it lead to? Is it all over, or is it just that "Holiday" has become different?

ABUBAKAR is 46 years old and participates in the Zikr - ritual dances performed by Chechen Sufi Muslims. At each Zikr he reaches a state of ecstasy and for ABUBAKAR it’s an exorcism, a form of liberation from everything that his people have suffered over so many years of occupation.The presence of his mother, his wife and his nine children make ghosts from the past and present reappear: stories of the 1948 deportation, his daughters under threat from kidnappings, the city of Grozny in the present day, lights, sounds, landscapes, dark faces behind dilapidated walls. All of this brings memory to life mixing it with reality.It is the everyday reunion that a Chechen makes with two pillars of his society, faith and culture, embodied in the Zikr where the sacred merges with the profane.ABUBAKAR defines it as an act of resistance where they reunite with their dead and their pain through dance, music and prayer.

21 days is the period that patients can spend in a hospice. Time here pulsates according to internal cycles: it suddenly contracts, then stretches, then returns to its usual rhythm. Chambers, memories, faces change. The stories of the two characters alternate. Him and her. Random acquaintances. For whom the conversation about death becomes a part of life.

In the remote Siberian taiga, the followers of the former policeman Sergei Torop, who declared himself the new Christ, the so-called Vissarionites, are waiting for the end of the world and are preparing themselves and their children for life in a new civilization. Are they all sincerely glad that they left their former life?

Young pupils of the Kovalevsky Orthodox Orphanage must fulfill the mission, on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, serve the Divine Liturgy on Mount Elbrus. The chronicle of the ascent unfolds against the backdrop of the lives of boys in an Orthodox orphanage.

In Russia, the attitude towards death is paradoxically irrational, we all seem to live forever. Entrepreneur Sergei Yakushin is the only reasonable "crazy" who led a funeral "revolution" in his native Novosibirsk. Yakushin himself turned to face death after being diagnosed with advanced cancer 15 years ago. And they gave me a year to live.

The village of Gorelovka is located in Southern Georgia. It was founded in the mid 19th century by Doukhobors (“spirit-wrestlers”), members a group of Russian religious dissidents banished from Russia by Tsar Nicholas I for their anarchist and pacifist beliefs. The Doukhobors managed to keep their identity and traditions throughout the Soviet period. However, under political and economical pressure, many of them have now left Georgia and their heritage is disappearing with the last inhabitants. Leo Tolstoy was interested in their non-violent outlook and supported them in several occasions.