Everyday life of a mobile blood transfusion station in Russia.

A film about the life, games and everyday life of a 7-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family living in a forest near a big city. And, as little Milana finds out, from a normal life.

Two people who came to work in Moscow met on a gravel pass. Sanya and Sparrow. One thirty-seven, the other nineteen. The problems started when they stopped paying salaries. Two lost souls lost at the bottom of life and an unexpected happy ending.

Ten-year-old Yula has but one dream - to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin’s Russia. Something Better To Come is Yula’s story - a dramatic tale of coming of age and maturing to the point of taking destiny into one’s own hands. It is a story of hope, courage, and life, all shot in gripping vérité style that stuns with its directness and immediacy.

Twelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family. She has divorced Zhenya and has found a new man, with whom she and Nadya lives. "Once There Was Love"is the final piece in the multi-award winning trilogy chronicling a tale of a one-time middle class Russian family whose life is slowly coming apart at the edges. Covering the 12 years since the birth of baby Nadya, this film builds upon the previous films, including the Prix Italia-winner "I Love you Natasja", and offers a dramatic story from small town Russia.

A film about modern Europe. About its two edges, or, more correctly, extremes. About Europe, which begins in the deserted space of Russian Siberia and ends on the cozy beaches of the Bay of Biscay, where even the laws of nature form fundamentally different styles of human existence. What can unite such different lives? Physically, they are united by the Western Siberia–Western Europe gas pipeline. The pipe not only connected, but also inextricably linked THIS Russia with THIS Europe. The film was awarded the National Film Award "Nika" - 2014, nomination Best Non-Fiction Film.

In the seemingly simple fate of the heroine of the film, Vera, there is a whole tangle of social, national, demographic and other problems of our difficult time.

Imagine that everything you did before is no longer needed by anyone. Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Lyuda are top manager, shop manager, senior foreman, engineer, storekeeper and workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant. Likhachev. They hold on with all their might to routine and professional pride to endure in circumstances where everything around them is collapsing. And now, for the first time in 20 years, the plant receives an order from the Ministry of Defense to produce three classic ZIL convertibles for the Victory Parade on Red Square. Special Shop Director Mikhail and his team are excited to get down to business to prove their worth.

Discovered in 1596 by Willem Barents, the Svalbard archipelago, which appeared on Russian maps almost at the same time under the name "Holy Russian Islands", was assigned to Norway in 1920. At the same time, 46 states under the agreement have the right to carry out commercial and research activities there, but at the moment only Russia enjoys this privilege. The Russians even have a settlement on the island, the village of Barenburg, called by tourists the "Island of Communism". It is inhabited by shift workers who come here to work.

Every landfill is inhabited by people. They also work, relax, have fun. True, in your own way. Throughout the year, the authors of the film traced the fate of several inhabitants of the "garbage city".

A film about the creation of the Moscow Metro, which has become a symbol of the whole country. The narrative covers the period from the first pre-revolutionary projects to the Khrushchev era.

In 1790, Alexander Radishchev published the book "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", in which he fearlessly exposed the vices of his time, more precisely despotism, corruption, poverty and lawlessness of the people. For his freethinking, the writer was sentenced to death, which, by the monarch's mercy, was replaced by a 10-year exile to Siberia. The film crew decided to repeat Radishchev's route and see how people live today on the side of the federal highway M10 "Russia", which connects the two capitals. How has Russian life changed over the past two hundred years? Have we started to live better? Richer? Freer? The answer is in the documentary road-movie "Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow: a special way". Chapter 4 (which we bring to your attention) is devoted to the city of Torzhok.

A report on the famous French legion, formed from contract soldiers. There are among the legionnaires and immigrants from Russia.

When you are 19 years old, you want to fall in love, walk, sit out the night in frivolous conversations. All this is done by our heroine Lisa. But that's not the point. The main thing is that she herself must earn her own living and take care of two paralyzed old men. And there is not a single person around to rely on. Yes, and Liza lives in the world-famous town of Karabash, in the zone of ecological disaster.

A story about a family that lives in a ghost town. 15 years ago there was a job and a happy life. After the closure of the mine, only old barracks, mountains of processed earth and unnecessary people who have lost the meaning of life remained. Is it possible to survive in such conditions and not sink even lower when all moral boundaries are erased? Have these people's hopes for happiness been shattered? And is there a place for a holiday, a dream, love in a hopeless reality?

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

A film about the narrow-gauge railway Seven-city - Druzhba. The film crew went to one of the most remote villages in the Vologda Oblast, which survives only on this narrow gauge railway. The train went for 5 hours, in addition, periodically derailed.

Peninsula Kamchatka. 2000 inhabitants of a small village are cut off from the outside world by kilometers of impenetrable swamps and mountain passes. They are connected only by regular flights of all-terrain vehicles that deliver products to the village. And here again, two drivers on their old all-terrain vehicles are on the road. This is their life, their destiny, their destiny. Their run No. 31.

The earthquake began on December 7, 1988. No one could yet understand what had happened, but suddenly, at one moment, the telephone connection of the Armenian capital with Leninakan, Spitak and a number of other small towns and villages was interrupted. The entire north of Armenia has practically fallen silent, and this is 40 percent of the entire territory of the republic with a population of one million people. This film is about the life of ordinary people 13 years after a terrible disaster.

A unique family lives in the town of Snezhnoye, Donetsk region. The grandson of the once powerful director Himmash, fifteen-year-old Yura Sikanov, extracts coal to feed not only his sisters, but also his mother and stepfather. A heartbreaking story about the survival of children in the conditions of complete indifference of the adult world.