Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, which motivates them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question about the kind of power the magical world of cinema can have during times of disaster. How to visualize an act of war with imagination? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.

Zhzhenov's activities in the cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps. The artist talks about his life in Russian prisons and those places where he was imprisoned, in Crosses, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.

In this film, five great Russian actresses, stars of Soviet cinema. Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Samoilova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Lidia Smirnova, Vera Vasilyeva answer the questions of the film director Renata Litvinova.

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.

At the end of the 80s of the last century, Alexey Yuryevich German created a film school based on the studio of the First and Experimental Film. Sergey Karandashov, a graduate of the workshop, talks about the process of recruiting students, their training, interaction with the master and teachers, their first steps in the profession.

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Emir Kusturica calls himself a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous director by chance, and shoots films only in between tours with the No Tuxedo Orchestra. In the same intervals, he receives honorary prizes in Cannes and Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant, a ski slope and yearns that he did not become a professional football player. The life of Emir Kusturica is similar to his own films, in which cats clean shoes, death is treated like tabloid stories, and life is treated like a miracle.

Cinematographers of the silent film period were the first to figure out how to shoot a moving image. In the early years of cinema, the reputation of such people, both inside the industry and outside it, was curious, paradoxical. On the one hand, as masters of the mysterious mechanisms of cinema, they enjoyed a reputation as wizards. But more often they were perceived as adventurers. However, the first generation of Russian cameramen made many artistic discoveries.

The success story of the loser Katya Golubeva. Films with the participation of Katya Golubeva, a Russian actress little known in her country, but famous in Europe, were presented four times at the Cannes Film Festival.

A series of programs describing the stages of the life path of famous personalities of similar professions in Russia and abroad.

This film is not about Yankovsky, in the usual sense. Not a biography of a great actor. Not an overview of roles. And not scandalous facts from his personal life. This is a film about love for Yankovsky. The son of Oleg Ivanovich, Philip, agreed to act only because he believed in the idea of this movie.

Since 2015 modern 3D cinemas have been opening in small towns and villages of Russia. The film contains several stories from different regions of the country about how the new cinema saves the inhabitants of the provinces from loneliness, abandonment, alcoholism, isolation. Live observation of how cinema changes life, and life turns into cinema.

Berlin, 1920-1930s. A colony of Russian cinematographers is creating film production on a truly Hollywood scale. Hundreds of studios, dozens of "stars", European blockbusters.

The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.

The film covers the period of the history of Russian cinema from 1918 to 1925. Until 1921, private firms remained in Russia, which continued to make films. But in parallel, in 1917, state film production began, which was organized by the Moscow and Petrograd photo film committees.

Director Semyon Aranovich was a military pilot in his youth, and the facts of his biography were reflected in his documentary, feature films. Aranovich's films about Gorky, Akhmatova, Shostakovich, as well as television series are widely known. Among his brightest films are "Summer Journey to the Sea" and "Torpedo Bombers". He died in Hamburg full of ideas. In the final we will see the last frame of his latest film "Agnus Dei", which remained unfinished.

What is the marriage of two independent creative personalities? What is a marriage made in heaven” and the cooperation of two completely self-sufficient creators? This film, filmed from inside the living environment of the characters, is trying to answer such questions.

The history of the creation of the film "Stalker" for a long time remained one of the white spots in the history of cinema. The bitter truth about what happened in connection with this film in the relationship between two major artists in all its authenticity was first told by witnesses and participants in the filming.

The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.

The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of his film career, arrest, investigation, detention in Shpalerki and Kresty prisons. The protagonist, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. The audience together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he once knew, long-forgotten names, surnames, lines of poetry come to mind.

No more or less big film is made without extras. People involved in mass filming are not artists. Who are they, practicing scenes for many hours in a row, and for a penny reward? Some dream of becoming movie stars, others just make a living. Many of them are simultaneously engaged in other work, have "normal" ordinary professions, but appear on the set regularly, from year to year, because they can no longer live without this process, laborious, hectic, but giving life a certain courage.