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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

“I have been working hard this summer. Begged for alms, collected metal, stole. I don't have a father. The mother was asleep. I left home and started living on the street. In the basement. I have friends. We live together, steal, sniff glue, drink vodka. Then they got hooked on the needle. Now we all walk badly and hardly talk. We are sick bitch people. And you?" Film-immersion. For several months, the filmmakers lived with a pack of homeless human children and observed different aspects of their lives.

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.

The sin of murder that cannot be washed away, the mark of Cain, a personal catastrophe. This happened to Vyacheslav Sharayevski 25 years before, when he was a district prosecutor. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when a moratorium was placed on capital punishment, but some thirty men sat together in a single room for six months, expecting to die on the 3rd, 13th, and 23rd. A change happened then, like being born anew. This man who was once an atheist, rationalist, and skeptic now became like a babe, a child of God. He owes his new life to an amazing priest, Alexander Borisov. Between the saint and the sinner is an eternal link. How they need one another.

On August 31, 1997, 48-year-old Vice President of LUKOIL Vitaly Schmidt died in his Moscow apartment. The cause of death is a heart attack. But this is a medical term. According to the investigation, the reason is the redistribution of property.

The documentary looks into the fate of the girls trapped in sexual slavery. The film unfolds in India, a country that occupies an unhappy first place among countries with the highest volumes of human trafficking. Several prostitutes who became heroines of this film are living in the Red Light district of Mumbai – some time ago they were sold to this district by their own parents. The other plot line of the documentary is the story of a little girl living in one of Northern India’s poorest villages. In a couple of years she too can follow the Mumbai ladies’ path.

In the remote Siberian taiga lives the religious leader Christ Vissarion, who proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Thousands of followers gathered around him, among them the ringer Dmitry and his wife Sveta, who several years ago moved to live in the taiga with her three children from distant St. Petersburg. However, the father of the children does not agree with this state of affairs. He decides to write a letter to the presidential administration, demanding that the children be returned to him.

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.

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".

In the heart of Russia, in a forest larger than Germany 7 hours from the nearest city, and where winter temperatures drop to -40 degrees, lies a prison like no other. Holding 260 men collectively responsible for nearly 800 murders, Penal Colony 56 is unique: a prison exclusively for killers.