In 2009, two young people (Maxim Glavatskikh and Yuri Mozhnov), adherents of the Gothic subculture, were accused of cannibalism and planned brutal murder. Both convicts claim that the accusations are false, and there is no material evidence in the criminal case. The director of the film receives the materials of the criminal case and presents an alternative version of this resonant case, which thundered throughout Russia.

In December 1927, a funeral car arrived in Leningrad, at the Moscow railway station. It brought an urn with the ashes of academician Vladimir Bekhterev and a glass jar with the brain of a scientist hidden from the public eye. Just a few days before, he had gone to Moscow for a congress of psychiatrists. However, according to a telegram recently found in the archives of the Leningrad Institute of the Brain, Professor Bekhterev was urgently summoned to Moscow by the Council of People's Commissars. The last time he was summoned to the Kremlin was three years earlier to see the seriously ill Lenin. To whom was this urgent call? What happened on that mysterious night before Christmas? And are there any documents about the illness and death of Academician Bekhterev?

This is a story about how to overcome fear, change your life forever. This is the love story of a man and a woman doomed to eternal separation. And children who will always bear the seal of what their parents did. The main action of the film takes place in Israel, from 1995 to the present day. Before us is a drama of life, death, hate and love. The film was awarded the National Lavr Prize - 2014 as the Best Film and the White Elephant Award of the Russian Guild of Film Critics and Critics - 2015 as the Best Non-Fiction Film. This tape was the last work of the great Hertz Frank. After his departure, the film was completed by Maria Kravchenko.

The video of the execution appeared online immediately after the brutal murder of two migrants. Moreover, while the Russian law enforcement agencies showed a strange apathy in the investigation, the Nazis quite frankly took responsibility for it. In this situation, an Israeli director penetrates under the guise of a sympathizer into the darkest nooks and crannies of the fascist underground in order to find and expose the killers. However, the result, the documentary thriller Credit for a Kill, paints an ominous picture: many unsolved hate crimes committed in Russia go unpunished, perhaps precisely because they were committed with the assistance of the authorities.

A film about twelve St. Petersburg teenagers who were convicted of criminal offenses under various articles, but received a pardon and their real terms were replaced with conditional ones with the obligation to live in a social rehabilitation center.

Every year in Russia, tens of thousands of people are released from places of detention. They return to a free life, sometimes not for long. The most difficult process of adaptation to "freedom" begins. This film is about the newly released, trying to find their own, new way, as well as about people who help the recent prisoners to get on their feet.

One of the most high-profile investigations of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Investigation of the activities of the sons of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, Igor and Artem, their "business" built on extortion, kickbacks and raiding.

Everyone sees them only as criminals and forgets that they are children. This film is about the fate of teenagers who have committed crimes. They are in a special closed institution and for the first time in their lives they don't have to fight for existence, they don't have to survive. For the first time, they may be who they are, just children.

The hero of the film is an ordinary Moscow teenager. And he lives a completely ordinary life of a Moscow teenager. With one exception, he is a fan of the game "Dog High", although he has not played it for a long time. But today he will try to play again. According to statistics, over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 teenagers have died from strangulation games.

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?

Nikolai Kochegarov is the only remaining resident of the village of Pashki. Only one of his houses has survived, standing in the middle of the field. All his life he was in prison, sometimes for his wife, sometimes for theft. He had a son who drank a lot, robbed houses and did nothing. And one day the son attacked his father, but the father defended himself and killed his own son. My father was given a year of probation. This was in 2011. And now he lives all alone, in winter he cannot get into the village. But every summer his daughter Tatyana visits him, who still loves him the way he is. And he loves her. This is a film about love between a father and his daughter, about the Russian soul and about the corners of the earth forgotten by civilization, where passions sometimes heat up to the limit.

The phenomenon of "shahidism", the consequences of the "Chechen" wars and the phenomenon called the radical Islamization of the Caucasus, through the eyes of one of the first suicide bombers, who miraculously survived during the failed terrorist attack in Grozny.

The protagonist of the film is a former member of a criminal group, has several convictions behind him. The criminal path began with a juvenile colony and eventually led him to the brink of death. Is there a chance to return to normal life if the point of no return is passed, and you yourself become a god for yourself. “I did not return by myself,” admits the hero of the film.

The authors of the film-investigation set a goal to find out the true reasons for the murder of the legendary hero of the Civil War Grigory Kotovsky. For many years, well-known historians and descendants of the red general have been trying to understand who benefited from Kotovsky's death, which was always presented solely as a result of a domestic conflict? The general was killed in 1925, allegedly at a friendly party. He was shot not just by a comrade-in-arms, but by a man who owes a lot to him. Perhaps the origins of the tragedy should be sought in the criminal past of Kotovsky himself. On the other hand, the killer could have been pushed to this step by those who were directly interested in eliminating the popular but absolutely uncontrollable hero of the Civil War from political life.

A film about a generation of thirty-year-old men who left the sport, formed as individuals in the criminal 90s and live in the era of the new Russian stagnation. "Hankering" is a day of their life, their view of the state of things, their ways of overcoming "traction". The film is the winner of the Main Prize of the festival "2morrow/Tomorrow".

Siberia. The sparsely populated village of Krotovo. Farmer Vasily Dmitrievich Abramov lives in the village completely alone, since in 2005 his sons were convicted of murder and sentenced to long prison terms. The film, which was filmed for 10 years, is the last work of the classic of Russian documentary film Valery Solomin. It was completed by his sons Evgeny and Viktor Solomin.

Everything that can happen on Russian roads is accurately and impartially recorded by the DVR cameras that are in almost every car in the country. The super-objective video vividly conveys the Russian national character and color: the constant expectation of a miracle and the anticipation of life's drama. The burning forest here becomes a symbol of the “Russian hell”, a military tank at the car wash is a guide to the world of absurdity and good humor, and a video made near the Kremlin on the evening of the murder of Boris Nemtsov reminds us that evil is always somewhere nearby. There are many other crazy, funny and tragic moments that await us on the road of life.

They are bonded by their pain, longing, and their current residence – a semi-open prison for women. While staging Anton Chekhov’s play, Three Sisters, together with professional actors, imprisoned women reveal their harrowing life-stories, dreams and the longing for a decent life outside the prison walls.

He sharpens the knife, then ties the dog's paws and mouth. We don't know yet what will happen, but the feeling of a threat coming from this person no longer leaves. A former criminal nicknamed Bes (Demon) lives with his family a quiet pastoral life on the seashore, lovingly raises three children, raises dogs (which he then slaughters and eats while being treated for tuberculosis) and takes an order to kill a neighbor, having received a mobile phone as a fee.

An ordinary day for an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, not quite ordinary, but festive, Police Day. Everyday life of an ordinary department against the backdrop of the speeches of the chiefs and the President's speech dedicated to the Police Day. A separate protagonist of the film is a monument to Lenin.