Butterflies from a private farm are participating in a classical music concert. The story about their birth, the journey to the music hall and the bright but short performance is a reminder of our struggles and shortness of our life. The goal of the movie is not to save the world. It will not make the life of the butterfly longer, not even for a second, but will provide an opportunity to contemplate the beauty of life and inevitability of its end.

About 3 thousand years ago, apparently due to climate change, musk oxen in Eurasia became completely extinct. They remained only in hard-to-reach places in North America and Greenland. To return the musk oxen to their historical homeland, scientists decided to conduct an experiment and brought 30 musk oxen to Taimyr. To find out how the experiment went, 35 years later we set off on a long trip to Taimyr and there we try to meet musk oxen.

Four chapters about the children of the night, about owls. From these series we will find out who we call owls, which of them live in Russia, which in Africa, we will get acquainted with the habits of these birds and how they raise their chicks. And also find out if owls are smart. In the film, a scientific experiment is conducted on the presence of cognitive abilities in owl birds.

The Nenets live in three worlds. The lower world is where the north is, the upper world is where the south is, the middle world is the road. Yaptik-Khese is the spirit of the Yaptik family. He is carried on sacred sledges and is not shown to anyone. His home is the road. While Yaptik-Khese roams, there will always be deer, dogs, Nenets on the ground.

Members of the Society of Amateur Canary Breeders are all male. On Sunday afternoon, they come to Moscow from different parts of the country, united by a single desire to win a canary singing competition.

It is a film about pigs, cows and chicken. Black and white. Without words. Without music. Victor Kossakovsky is offering not just a mesmerizing poetic work of art but also a wonderful life experience. We get to know Gunda the sow, her family and neighbors, and it gives us the reason to think about the secret of consciousness and the value of life of those with whom we share this planet.

The once exemplary livestock and dairy farm in the Altai region are now declining. Milk cows live here. Their whole life passes between the barn and the "maternity ward". Everything here is subordinated to the task of obtaining a useful product. All days at the farm have the same schedule: morning milking, evening milking, “maternity ward”, dairy. The milkmaids arrive early, when it is still dark. People come into the space inhabited by cows, combining animals and mechanisms, creating hybrids — cows with mechanical udders. In the evening, the milkmaids come and milk the cows again. The milk is transported to the dairy section and from there, it leaves the farm. Calves are born in the “maternity ward”, where cows can temporarily return to their natural life. Several women perform these extremely hard and low-paid jobs to keep the barn alive. This is life on a farm.

A man in the twilight is planting a tree, looking for the horses of smiling Galina in the fog, stroking the dog, lying on the warm autumn ground, pulling black clay from the bottom of the river, eating hot white bread. And all this is permeated with the expectation of great love. The expectation is so quiet that sometimes it seems to Yura himself that he is "like a tree waiting for nothing or waiting, like a tree waiting winter."

20 years ago, a young specialist veterinarian Oksana Zhuchkova ended up in the village of Nakhabino near Moscow. There she became the indispensable Doctor Aibolit. Over time, cows, chickens, pigs, horses were replaced by other patients, dogs, cats, guinea pigs.

The exhibition decides the fate of the dogs and their offspring. This is also an important moment in the life of dog owners. A kind of parable about human dignity.

Shikotan Island is located in the South Kuril Ridge, and crows are permanent residents here. Unlike seagulls, crows cannot get their own food in the sea, therefore they steal everything that lies badly and are not at all afraid of humans.

The film tells about a simple resident of the village of Palauz, Sysolsky district of the Republic of Komi, Leonid Turyshev. For him, a horse named Sailor and a pig named Paul are best friends. And the life of these friends is organically woven into his life. He perceives the death of a pig as a great personal tragedy.

Kolya and Sasha live in a small whale hunter community by the Bering Strait in Chukotka, Russia. While their father reminisces the good old days, the two brothers try to find their own paths in a world where the traditional way of life is being challenged by poverty, alcoholism and globalization. There are only dreams of something better. Without using many words, this film raises some difficult questions concerning the young generation of First Nations of the Arctic.

Sukhum is the capital of Abkhazia, a tiny, unrecognized republic on the shores of the Black Sea. On its highest hill lies a medical institute of research on monkeys, established by the Soviets in the 1920’s. The legend states it was meant to create a hybrid between man and ape. This creature never came to life, neither the communist New Man did. Today, men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments.

Sockeye salmon is a type of wild salmon. She is born in the waters of Kamchatka, and then goes to the Pacific Ocean, where she spends her whole life. Only once does the sockeye salmon return to fresh water to give birth, start the wheel of life and die. This is an inexhaustible resource that feeds millions of people on the planet, reborn every year. But we may face the terrible fact that an inexhaustible resource will be exhausted through the fault of man.

Located in the heart of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, the Hippodrome used to be the centre of entertainment for all its neighbouring countries. For nearly 100 years, it has lured visitors with bets and races, and the chance to try their luck with the totalizator. All that remains today of this majestic racecourse is a lonely horse stable. Now it is more of a social club than a prestigious racetrack. Animal lovers and sports fans still meet here despite the poor conditions. Bizarre parties and engagement photo sessions are held at the Hippodrome, and this is where the best Swedish racehorses are still trained. This hypnotic black and white film is an ode to a disappearing era and a unique subculture in a place soon to be demolished to make way for yet another brand new office building complex in the city’s never-ending triumphal march of business-oriented real estate development.

In 1992, during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, the famous Sukhumi monkey nursery was at the epicenter of military events. The fighting took place not only on the neighboring streets of Sukhumi, but also directly on the territory of the nursery. Some of the monkeys were transported by the staff to Russia, to a branch of the institute in Adler. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save all primates. Hundreds of monkeys died, unable to endure the cold, hunger, stress. The history of the monkey nursery from Sukhumi is not only another drama of the collision of the world of people and the world of nature. This is a fairly accurate reflection of what happens to the human community itself in the so-called "hot spots".

Northwestern Siberia, Russia. The little Khanty girl Katerina observes and tries to understand the world around her. She studies the voices of people, animals and all things. Gradually, she comes to know the unknown, and the unknown comes, not far from the camp where Katerina lives, an oil field appears.

The film is a portrait of the cameraman, screenwriter, director, legendary man Yuri Yanovich Ledin, who spent more than 30 years shooting popular science films about wild animals of the North. Each of his films is months spent in the Arctic, on islands in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.

The story of everyday survival of traditional Arctic sea hunters of the Bering Strait in the Far East of Russia is enriched with incredible and heartwarming animated Inuit myths, that, at times, prevail reality. "The Book of the Sea" is a dramatic parable about the vitality of the ancient Arctic culture.