Two days after the opening of Timur's grave, on the night of June 22, fascist Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. Many associated this with the discovery of the tomb of Tamerlane. Panic broke out in Samarkand. The expedition was urgently curtailed, the remains of Timur were sent for research to Moscow.

The most important ceremony in your life is your funeral. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to say goodbye to you? What will your coffin be like, what will you wear, will there be music, and who will accompany you on your last journey?

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?

The political and military successes of Hitler and his henchmen were so deafening, and these people themselves were so ordinary, often poorly educated inhabitants, that sometimes the question involuntarily arises, how could such people get power? Looks like it didn't go without a hitch! The documentary film by Gennady Gorodny does not claim to be a complete study of this problem. Many books have been written about the occult roots of Nazism, but, of course, their authors were not themselves present at the mystical ceremonies. Everything that is known on this topic remains more versions than facts. However, there is more than enough circumstantial evidence.

Nizhny Tagil resident Andrey Gagarin comes on vacation to his homeland in the Komi-Permyatsky district in the village of Bolshaya Kocha, where in the past he led the folklore group "Micha Asyv" ("Clear Morning"). He visits relatives and friends, together they perform folk songs and dances, talk about the national traditions of their small northern people. In addition, together with all his fellow villagers, Andrei takes part in "bull-killing", an ancient rite of sacrifice of a bull, unusual for modern times.

The story of a strange friendship between the Tuvan shaman Chochagar and the American psychologist Alex, who studies shamanic practices and wants to open his Third Eye. A joint journey through the Places of Power will forever change their lives.

Festivals:

- International festival of author's documentary films "ArtDocFest" (2017, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga)
- International Film Festival "Eurasia" (2018, Kazakhstan, Astana)
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2018, Russia, Vyborg)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flaertiana" (2018, Russia, Perm)
- International festival ""Days of ethnographic cinema"" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (2018, Georgia, Batumi)
- Sochi International Film Festival and Film Award (SIFFA), Special Prize (2018, Russia, Sochi)
- International Film Festival ""Ethnografilm Paris"" (2019, France, Paris)
- Documentary Film Festival "Novaya Gazeta" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Millennium Festival (2019, Belgium, Brussels)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York RusDocFilmFest-3W (2019, USA, New York)
- National telecinema forum "Native paths" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Special Prize in the nomination "Educational film" (2019, Russia, Orel)
- Kratovo Ethnological documentary Film Festival (2019, Macedonia, Skopje)
- International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- On The Road Film Festival (2020, Italy, Rome)
- International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology (2020, Russia, Moscow)

A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.

When we die, there are still some practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. In “Meanwhile on Earth” we take a look at the world around our end station, an industry of death. It is a place where the existential meets the mundane, the sacred meets the profane.

A documentary film about a man who solves the problem of individual immortality. He's not going to die. Various options are being considered from cryonics (freezing the brain and body) to digital immortality (digitization of consciousness). Note that the hero lives in Russia, where the topic of immortality is practically not explored. However, everything is ahead. Who knows, perhaps this person will succeed in becoming one of the first "immortals".

Everyone who is born must die, this is the law. And each of us has had an overwhelming experience of understanding, "I'm also going to die." What will happen when I am gone, each of us sooner or later asks himself this question. Russian scientists have recorded an energy of unknown origin that is released after the death of a person, which gave them reason to assume that bodily death is not the end, but rather a transition from one state to another. But what will that state be? What awaits us on the other side? Oblivion? Another life? Or something else? If this became known for certain, how would this knowledge affect our lives? Would our deeds, attitude towards people, actions change?

The legendary Aristotle Onassis, a billionaire, became the founder of the richest clan in the world. However, the colossal money did not bring happiness to anyone in this family. Maybe it's all about the curse pronounced in 1968 against the Onassis clan by the great opera singer Maria Callas, whom Aristotle cruelly betrayed?

A priest, a scientist and a witch are talking about god, life, death and technologies related to them. Are you ready to lend your consciousness to your phone so that it becomes immortal?

This is the story of a rational, skeptical woman, a mother and wife, who does not remember her dreams. Except once, when she dreamed her horse was dying. She woke so scared she went outside in the night. She found him dead. The next dream told her she would die herself, when she was 48.

A visual work at the intersection of cinema and performance, a playful and documentary approach. The project refers to the corporeality of human nature, the teachings of Mikhail Bakhtin about the carnival culture of the Middle Ages, quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Filming took place in the summer and autumn of 2015 on the wild beaches of Crimea, where the culture of seasonal nudist settlements has long existed. Residents of these settlements volunteered to participate in the project.

Brother Christopher lives in a small English monastery. Once he had a different name, lived in America and was engaged in cinema. He worked on the script based on the book by Carlos Castaneda and became his student. But one day he faced a terrible choice that dramatically changed his life.

The starting point for the formation of the scenario was the idea that a more or less objective idea of ​​the driving forces of history can be formed only by taking into account its metaphysical aspect. The direct material for writing the script and creating the film was the book of the Russian poet and thinker Daniil Andreev "The Rose of the World".

The film is for those who do not know what “holotropic breathing” is, because those who know will watch it by themselves. Holotropic Breathwork is a psychotherapy method developed by Stanislav Grof, an American psychologist of Czech origin, and his wife Kristina in the 1970s.

In this film, the path of Eduard Sagalaev lies in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi. To a city where people come from all over India specifically to die. It is believed that for everyone who dies in Varanasi, the god Shiva whispers a mantra that grants final liberation from the shackles of samsara.

Viktor Valerevich Mumikhotkak also known as „Mukha“, Yupik Eskimo from the hamlet New Chaplino (Chukotka, Russia), died tragically in 2012. Somebody stabbed him in his abdomen and cut off his fingers. In 2014, when young Alla Ukuma gave birth to her first son, her mother told her: „Last night I saw Mukha in my dream. He had come back in your boy. Let us name your baby Viktor.“ According to the local people, the dead can return to the realm of the living up to five times. This film essay on life, death and possible return poses the universal question: how do you confront your own end?

For half a century, house number 10 on Bolshaya Sadovaya has been full of fans from all over the world. But not everyone is happy with such a neighborhood. Is it possible that what Bulgakov wrote about will never cease to be relevant?