A film about life, about death, about people who have come close to the border between the first and the second. And about love, the brightest manifestation of life.

Wise men of different faiths called the same bird by different names, says Grigory Pomerants, a unique thinker of our era. This bird flew to him at the time of the death of his beloved woman.

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.

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.

Sasha Sokolov is a man of mystery. Even more is known about his father, a deeply classified GRU agent, than about his son, a famous Russian writer. Sasha Sokolov's main novel "School for Fools" was called the Russian "The Catcher in the Rye", and Sasha himself was exalted to the "Russian Joyce". In 1975, Sokolov disappeared from the Soviet Union, published three novels, and either disappeared or closed himself off from the world. Many of his fans are sure that he has long been dead. The authors of the film did not just find out that the great Russian writer is alive, they found out that he (like his father) has been leading an interesting double life all these years. They searched for it in different countries and found it. And the writer Sasha Sokolov agreed to speak for the first time. The conversation went on for ten days. The writer spoke about life, simultaneously revealing the secrets of his secret biography, his and his family.

About people on the side of the universe, people with mental disabilities. Mute, frightened, shaking, their whole life is a continuous torment. A film-study about the limits of humanity and humanity. Should we help them or should they help us?

How important it is to be able to see the beautiful in life, even if fate brought you to a remote Bamovsky village. The school librarian teaches children to dream, because this is what distinguishes a person from an animal. For the time being, children laugh at her quirks, but perhaps when they grow up, they will remember her lessons. Henryk contrasts dreams and romance with society's immersion in bestiality. It seems that nothing else can stop the moral decay.

Trains cut through the night. Together with the whistle of the locomotive, the roar of the wagons disappears in the distance. But the people who fell asleep at the station, as if waiting for the train, continue to sleep. What are they really waiting for?

The film was conceived for the anniversary of the great actress. For almost sixty years she has been serving the theater, cinema and poetry. An important part of it is the change of times and even eras: war (childhood), thaw (youth), sixties (youth), stagnation, perestroika, nineties and the millennium. In the finale of the film, her last main role to date is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Anatoly Vasiliev. The words "And who defeated you? No one. I just went too far into the sea" are a philosophical understanding of this long, long road of man to the realization of his destiny.

Film monologue of the philologist, translator Lilianna Lungina about the life of the soul and the world around. With ruthless vigilance, considering her own development from childhood to the last days, she makes internal events no less fascinating than external ones. Her story is a unique combination of confession and scale, large-scale and general plan: it is both a portrait and a fresco, because the heroine does not lose sight of the general, social life for a minute, trying to present to the audience the fate of Russia and, to some extent, Europe in the 20th century.

90s. Two homeless people live on the street. He is a former musician, she is a former journalist. They consider themselves happy because they love each other. The problem raised by the author touches upon the global themes of the meaning of human existence.

A young woman recounts her love story against the backdrop of Russia’s troubled first decade of the 21st century. A heartfelt chronicle of Marusya and Kimi’s 12-year-long relationship, wrought with addiction and mental health issues, paints a portrait of an entire generation struggling to find themselves and feeling extremely vulnerable.

Yoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky. This film combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people’s life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening.

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.

A carnival-esque portrayal of the Finnish landscape of the soul and abode. This short film is based on the iconic YLE programme People's Radio, and its visual material uses the road movie genre of driving across summery Finland. The film paints a panorama of what Finland looks like today. Its narration progresses through humour into civic anarchy and ultimately also towards a longing for human connection.

100 years of Russian history, 7 major wars. They claimed human lives, destroyed cities and even countries. Frames of a unique historical chronicle, return to the past to explain only one thing, more precisely, the weapon changes, the place changes, but the horror of death in war remains the same. And along with human life, unique worlds, unfulfilled ideas, unborn children are destroyed.

Somewhere far away, on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, one man dreamed of starting a family.

Grigory Pomerants and Zinaida Mirkina are wise men. The topics of their reflections are the need for loneliness, the fate of civilization, the meaning of suffering, and whether a clear conscience is possible.

A film about the life and work of the outstanding Russian literary critic, writer, screenwriter, leader of the Russian formal school Viktor Shklovsky. Tracing the brightest moments of this life, tightly intertwined with the life of the twentieth century, is the main task of the film. And, of course, the creators of the documentary could not ignore the writer's love interests, which he wrote about in the famous "letters not about love."

SPARTA. is the Agricultural Poeticized Association for the Development of Labor Activity. This is how the commune calls itself, which for more than 20 years has been developing the "Theory of Happiness" in a closed collective farm near Kharkov. Unable to come to terms with the collapse of the communist utopia, the "Spartans" created their own. But life develops, as you know, not according to the laws of utopia... International Documentary Film Festival Flahertiana - 2013, Best Non-Fiction Film of the National Competition.