What is it like to be HIV positive in Russia? The authors of the film spent several days with HIV-infected heroes Alexandra and Oles and made a film about how they live. This is a kind of chronicle. The heroes in the frame live their lives. Minutes of sadness, moments of joy. They live the way they can and how they really live.

The film tells what protocols are being treated in Russia and abroad, how the P53 cancer gene was found, what a cancer cell is and whether it is possible to “capture it”, are there killer cells in our body and why they sometimes fall asleep, who and when the disease overtakes. After all, when you know, it's not so scary. After cancer, life goes on.

In March 2018, oncologist surgeon Andrei Pavlenko found out that he had stomach cancer. For almost two years, Andrey fought the disease and simultaneously performed operations, created his own department in the clinic, and launched his own charitable foundation. All this time it was filmed by a team of special projects of the portal "Takie Dela". Andrey's chances of recovery were about 50/50. Eight cycles of chemotherapy, gastric removal, recovery, community service and depression is what he went through during treatment. On January 5, 2020, Andrei died. Before his death, realizing that there was not much time left, he gave his last interview. It became the basis of the film.

Forty years ago, a documentary film about Soviet cardiac surgeons was released. Perhaps, for the first time on our screen, doctors reflected on the value of human life, talked about their experiences caused by the death of a patient, about the imperfection of Soviet medicine, the lack of knowledge and responsibility of doctors. For forty years, medicine has made an incredible breakthrough, but the moral problems that plague doctors have remained the same. “You can’t get used to death” is the leitmotif of the paintings, old and new. The film was awarded as the Best Non-Fiction Film at the Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" - 2016.

The heroes of the film are the pathologist and his work. This is a favorite job, where everything is arranged for life. Bookshelves, selection of music gourmet CDs: Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, etc. On the walls are oil paintings with views of the morgue. No cynicism, only professionalism, humor and a dream come true of a person who, from childhood, dreamed of understanding why a person actually dies.

You can forget. You must forget. But it's impossible to forget. What does a woman think and feel 5 minutes before an abortion? The tape was awarded the prizes of the festivals "Window to Europe" (Vyborg) and "Message to Man" (St. Petersburg) as the best short film.

The heroes of this picture are the winners. They were able to cope with a deadly disease, and it seems that they came out of this fight changed. They, their relatives, their doctors and their donors talk about what and who helped them recover, about what it is like to endure cancer, about how their attitude towards life is changing. These stories, which happened almost simultaneously, are somewhat similar and at the same time very different, because each person took something of his own from the battlefield.

What is real life? This is when even death you can turn a part of life. That is exactly what Igor Alekseev, a doctor and writer from Saratov, did. In the face of imminent death from cancer, he began to keep an online diary and share with readers the experience of struggling and dying.

More than twenty years ago, the war ended in Abkhazia. But the shadows wandering in the corridors of the republican psycho-neurological hospital still remind of its consequences. Sometimes it begins to seem that the shadows are us. The monochrome picture of their world sometimes conveys much more meaning than we can perceive.

For more than 35 years, the Soviets expand their geopolitical influence in Africa with humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology. Up until 1991, some of the country’s best filmmakers were sent along to document the ‘glorious advance’ of socialism on the African continent. The Soviet Union broke apart and “socialism” became a dirty word. Russia, struggling with an economic crisis, lost all political interest in Africa. Still, thousands of kilometers of film footage remain.

A film about a doctor, about Dr. Lisa Glinka. About a woman who feeds and heals outcasts and the homeless, regardless of their nationality and citizenship. She alone does not receive a salary in the Fair Aid Foundation organized by her. There is nothing in her behavior from a dull worker of the state "mercy service". Dr. Lisa is an energetic, cheerful and charming person who just loves her job very much.

St. Petersburg, Russia Killing Girls brings us into the world of an abortion clinic that specializes in late term teenage abortions. Here, abortions are sometimes performed even after 6 months of pregnancy. Killing girls is a story made for women with a women’s point of view. Russian writer Anna Sirota shares her own personal story with the audience, comparing the sad experience’s of her own, with Russia's new generation of teenagers. Killing Girls tells the truth about abortion - this film is neither Pro Life nor Pro Choice. Filmmakers follow the main characters when they enter the clinic and stay with them when they leave. But it is not just a documentary about girls who have had to make a tough decisions and only focusing on the medical procedures. Killing Girls is a story about moral and economic choices in today’s Russian society. It is the story about girls that at one point in their life decided to end a late term pregnancy. It is the story of the doctors who performs these late term abortions. Who are these people and what makes them do what they do? Killing girls takes the audience through the history of abortion in Russia, through the Stalin time to Perestroika, and ending up today. It is story about choices and decisions, about morals and consequences, about sin and salvation and finally about the eternal battle between life and death. This battle is happening today. This film is the 3rd part of the trilogy by David Kinsella and Anna Sirota called “The Children of Perestroika”. Other films - „Love Letters from a Children's Prison“ and „Beautiful Tragedy“ are also available for viewing on our site. The 3 films compare the Russian youth of before the revolution and after.

A collective image of one day of life in the "red zone" of a covid hospital, where doctors and patients are fighting COVID-19.

The film tells about the fate of Professor Felix Beloyartsev, who worked together with colleagues on the creation of the drug Perftoran, which was called "blue blood" by journalists. Work on Perftoran was accompanied by intrigues in the scientific community, interest in "blue blood" by Western experts, and, finally, attention to the scientific development of the all-powerful KGB. As a result of the information war, the work of Beloyartsev's laboratory was suspended. In 1985, the 44-year-old professor hanged himself, leaving a suicide note "I can no longer live in conditions of slander and betrayal."

Every Wednesday, Dr. Liza and her friend Petrovich arrive at the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow, where the homeless are waiting for them. Bandaging, treatment of wounds, feeding, distribution of medicines and things, but just human participation. It seems to us that all homeless people look the same. If we look at them through the eyes of Dr. Lisa, we can see how different they are.

About the cardiac surgeon and the largest collector of contemporary art Mikhail Alshibay.

Perm cardiac surgeon Sergey Sukhanov, who has performed more than 15,000 open heart surgeries in his career, has always considered human life and health to be the most important values ​​on earth. He managed to prove that the Perm Territory needed its own cardio industry, and in the mid-2000s a modern Cardio Center was to appear there. The state allocated significant funds for its construction, but the commissioning of the Center was constantly delayed. Tired of fighting with regional officials, Professor Sukhanov continued to work in a two-hundred-year-old mansion that housed an old hospital. At the end of 2011, Sukhanov unexpectedly received an offer from the Kremlin to head Vladimir Putin's campaign headquarters.

Uncle Vova is something like a crowd entertainer. For example, he plays various musical instruments for sick children in the hospital. But not only that. He has time And to look into the bar, and go to the church, and visit the old mother, and quarrel, and then reconcile with his wife. From the cancer center to the tavern, from the tavern to the kliros. What usually evokes sympathy for human weakness is here a friendly smile. Uncle Vova. It is impossible not to love him. Better have a drink with him.

Vika and Karina are building a charity clinic in Guatemala. Tropical diseases, drug smuggling, search for sponsorship and true love. Two crazy adventurers change the world for the better and just enjoy the life.

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.