Far beyond the Arctic Circle, Taimyr froze in the snow. The northernmost peninsula of Russia, where the ancient shamans, the ancestors of the Nganasans, found their home. The Nganasans have always been a small people. In the 19th century, only about a thousand people called themselves Nganasans, and this figure did not change for many years. But over the past 30 years, their number has decreased by a third.

With the assassination in 1948 by state security officers of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and Jews. The liquidation of the JAC, the execution of its activists, and the campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitans" form a new state anti-Semitism. The death of Stalin will cancel the massacre, but the former official Russian-Jewish harmony under socialism will no longer be restored. Popularly known superstars have not diminished: Botvinnik is the main chess player, Raikin is the main comedian, Plisetskaya is the main ballerina, Galich and Vysotsky are the main bards, many famous names in various fields, from nuclear physics to light music. But Jews have ceased to be co-authors of Russian communism. And they are no longer allowed into politics, and they themselves are especially actively engaged in "anti-Soviet activities." Without the Jews, the shadow economy is unimaginable, or rather “illegal business”, for which death sentences have been handed down since the early 1960s. And from the middle of the decade, the dissident movement begins to shake the system; the grandchildren of Jewish revolutionaries bring into it the same ardor and fearlessness that their grandfathers did in the overthrow of tsarism. Allowing Jewish emigration in the 1970s makes nationality a means of rejecting socialism and will prove to be a more frequent reason for leaving than the opportunity to reverse one's Russian assimilation. Finally, the collapse of the USSR will put an end to the "Jewish question" in the form in which the last Soviet generations found it.

The ancient city of Soligalich, an open-air city-museum, seems to have frozen in space and time. . In the workshop, which stands on the site of a former church, women make felt boots by hand. The heroines of the film, imbued with powerful energy and natural artistry, are bright, strong and vital. As guardians of this ancient craft, they are the spirit and the backbone of the country and worthy of the brush of the best artists.

The film is available only on the territory of the Russian Federation.

A story of environmental disaster, a disappearing people, and one strong-willed woman. The once lush Nogai steppe in northern Dagestan is rapidly turning into an endless desert. Gulfira, a humble village woman, is leading the fight against the environmental catastrophe threatening her homeland. Each autumn, the team she leads ventures deep into the new desert for months at a time. Walking kilometers each day, they plant thin rods in the dry sand, hoping the bushes will take root and halt the spread of the dunes. Will Gulfira prevail in this battle against the elements? Can the Nogai people and their land survive?

The film tells about one of the most mysterious peoples of the planet, the Dogon. The Dogon live in southeastern Mali in villages scattered over the rocks of Bandiagara like bird nests. They consider themselves aliens from the planet Sirius B and have knowledge in the field of the structure of the solar system, which scientists became aware of only at the end of the 19th century. Together with the hunter Assama and his family, the author gradually comprehends the multifaceted palette of Dogon life.

What would be the shortest route between the Mesopotamia in Argentina and China's Shanghai? Since these two places are antipodes in relation to each other, then they would be the most common straight line drawn through the center of the Earth. Viktor Kosakovsky had to circumnavigate the globe three times to make the film Long Live the Antipodes, a look at a world in which people live at opposite ends. Kosakovsky visited four such diametrically opposed points, and everywhere he searched for deep connections between such different worlds. The vertical axes are drawn between Argentina and China, New Zealand and Spain, Siberia and Chile, Hawaii and Botswana. Like a kaleidoscope of bright pictures of our planet, the film was the answer to the main question, so who are they, our antipodes? And are we that different? The author's conceptual point of view reveals deep connections between people and landscapes located as far as possible from each other.

Wukwukai is 72 years. For 72 years he has been living in the depths of Chukotka. This is a powerful and wise old man, a man of the Tundra, his life is inseparable from a deer. The Wukvukai clan herds a huge herd, more than 14 thousand heads. The life of the clan is a constant struggle for survival and well-being in the most difficult conditions of Chaun-Chukotka. These people deeply believe in the power of tradition and therefore are successful in their struggle. They are kept by the ancient culture of the Chukchi reindeer herders, they live by it and preserve it. As long as this is so, their world is unshakable. This is the truth of old Wukwukai.

The earthquake began on December 7, 1988. No one could yet understand what had happened, but suddenly, at one moment, the telephone connection of the Armenian capital with Leninakan, Spitak and a number of other small towns and villages was interrupted. The entire north of Armenia has practically fallen silent, and this is 40 percent of the entire territory of the republic with a population of one million people. This film is about the life of ordinary people 13 years after a terrible disaster.

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.

The traditional way of hunting and fishing of the people living on the Yenisei, namely, Russians, Keto (Yenisei Ostyaks), herrings. Their history and present. The inseparable connection of man with the river and taiga as a model of traditional nature management. Four series, each of which reflects the life of the Yenisei in one of the seasons.

Ivanna, jeune femme nénètse et mère de cinq enfants, vit dans les plaines de l’Arctique russe. Comme toute sa famille, depuis des siècles, elle mène une vie nomade dans la toundra et veille sur son troupeau de rennes. Livrée à elle-même, elle lutte pour la survie de sa famille. Mais bientôt, Ivanna sera forcée de retrouver son mari, en ville. Une vie meilleure l’y attend-elle ? Le réalisateur Renato Borrayo Serrano a suivi pendant quatre ans la dure réalité d’une nomade de la toundra – une femme coriace qui regarde la vie en face, ne perd jamais le sens de l’humour et rêve, au plus profond d’elle-même, de sécurité et de liberté.

La projection sera suivie d’un débat avec le réalisateur !

Ivanna is a young Nenets woman and mother of five, living in the Russian Arctic. Like her family for centuries before, she has led a traditional nomadic life in the tundra, driving a herd of reindeer. Most of them die, and she knows she will soon be left without a livelihood and be forced to make a dramatic decision. The film is about four years of a Nenets family from the harsh life in the tundra to modern everyday life in the Siberian city of Dudinka. It is both a liberating drama and a melancholy requiem for a lost way of life.

“All Udege are animists. They see life all around. And there is no death." V. Arseniev. From the manuscript "Country of Udehe".

Lolita has inherited two cultures, as her mother is Russian and her father is Azerbaijani. A lyrical and breathtaking story about a girl, who goes to Azerbaijan for the very first time to meet her father’s parents. She wants to know as much as she can about traditions, culture and mores of her Azerbaijan relatives. Her first acquaintance with Azerbaijan is the main plot of this documental movie.

The heroes of this story are the inhabitants of the village of Purnema, located on the shores of the White Sea. The events of their lives take place by the rhythm of the sea: the tide comes in, and the tide goes out, and nothing can change this order of things.

The film is available only on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The last wedding of an Udmurt. A year after his death, his soul says goodbye to the world of the living and becomes engaged to another, unknown world.

A film journey into the life of nomads in the epoch of globalization.

This documentary is a collage of stories about the challenges of life at the crossroads of eras, where the traditional nomadic culture of Mongolia meets the all-pervasive globalization of the 21st century. Through a close up on the daily life of several characters, both in provinces of Mongolia and its capital city Ulan Bator, we can see through their eyes how the centuries-old traditions of the former empire, the memory of the great ancestors, and modern social transformations are trying to co-exist in the globalized world of today.

Krilli makes the lobster soup at Bryggjan Cafe. His brother Alli sits with the old fishermen, the last boxer of the island and the translator of Don Quixote into Icelandic. Every day they find a new solution to the world's problems. Bryggjan Cafe is the home to old fishermen, where the stories about the dead neighbors are told, and crazy musicians perform their shows. It's the soul of Iceland's most sparsely populated village. Some tourists who accidentally arrive here are mesmerized: finally, a real authentic place on their journey. But the success of the café can become the cause of its extinction. The tourists are attracted by the authenticity. Some investors have also discovered it. They want to buy it, enlarge it and hang a large whale skeleton on the wall.

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.

Ten-year-old Masha went to school alone, there were no more children in the distant northern village. The girl loved her village unspoiled by civilization and dreamed of opening a hospital. Now she is 17, she lives in a boarding school in a neighboring village and understands that she needs to leave.

The Central African Republic. Here in the shade of sub-panel rainforests lives a tribe of the shortest people on Earth - the Baka pigmies. As it was hundreds years ago they hunt for meat and gather gifts of big trees. They pray to the spirits of the forest and teach their children to respect the forest, to take from it only what is of great need. But little by little their traditional mode is changing under the pressure of the "Big World" culture.