Once in India, Zakhara from St. Petersburg could not forget about the war in Ukraine. Her desire to go to the front, even as a volunteer, does not meet with understanding either from her girlfriend, or from relatives, or from friends.

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.

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.

Two women, a psychologist and a police officer, engage into a challenging mission - to reduce the record number of suicides in their bucolic hometown. Valija and Gintare provide door-to-door empathy and compassion, healing the loneliest members in their community. At the peak of the fear of losing another life, the women form a resourceful friendship. Together they succeed in minimising the crisis and prove that suicide prevention can be effective. Sensitive in its approach, I’ll Stand by You conveys inspiration from a reality that is much more common than it seems.

Volunteer group of Moscow students helps lonely old people from nursing homes. The guys not only try to brighten up their gray, lonely everyday life, arrange holidays for them, but also enter into a fight with officials, seeking to improve the life and life of their wards.

Spring fires end, they are replaced by summer ones, after which autumn ones come, every year they rage stronger and stronger, not stopping even in winter. Four stories of volunteer forest firefighters about the desire to preserve the most valuable and help people overcome the delusions that lead to disaster every year. The film is about the changes that people driven by the love of nature can achieve, about their difficulties and victories.

After three teenagers died of an overdose, artist and activist Katrin Nenasheva organized a self-help group called "Teens and Cats". In it, teenagers share their difficulties and support each other. Initially, at the meetings of the group, they talked about how to cope with drug addiction, later to this was added a discussion of mental illnesses, bullying, violence, selfharma.

Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is engulfed in fires. The authors, together with volunteers, go to the very epicenter of events. Volunteers, foresters, firefighters - they are not heroes in the usual sense of the word, it was just their life, their misfortune, and they tried to cope with it as best they could.

The heroes of the film were members of a volunteer firefighting squad. Where do they get the strength to fight a fire that cannot be put out? After all, natural fires that happen every year cannot be extinguished forever, this war never ends. What is the strength of volunteer firefighters and what is their weakness? The film was created with donations from future viewers and became an example of a successful crowdfunding campaign.

Saturday, Sunday, 48 hours. Everyone chooses for himself how to spend this time. In the documentary "Weekend", which tells about the work of volunteers, the participants of this selfless movement give their free time not only to people in need, but also to animals. The film consists of several short stories covering different profiles of volunteer organizations: volunteers at the Moscow Zoo, volunteers from the Friends on the Street Movement, volunteers from Greenpeace Russia and the Joy of Old Age Charitable Foundation. All short stories add up to a single story about human kindness and disinterested help to one's neighbor.

Mila Anufrieva was a style icon, a powerful businesswoman who wasn't afraid to take off her rose-colored glasses and look at the real world. The strange Russian with dark glasses is well known in Dakar and throughout Senegal, many even call her the “albino angel”. Every day she saves children from prostitution and slavery, from self-mutilation by order of local shamans. In African countries, there is a belief that the blood of albinos has healing powers. Albinos are hunted, mutilated, and body parts are sold in local markets as medicine.

Through all of Moscow, Tanya carries 2 huge pieces of foam, travels with them in public transport. Why is she doing this? On the way, Tanya reflects on her life and by the end comes to a disappointing conclusion for herself.

What could be seen during the Olympic Games in Sochi? Events from the life of residents and guests of the city are shown as they would appear to the eyes of an ordinary person who decided in February 2014 to buy a ticket to this paradise.

The murder of the famous politician Boris Nemtsov caused a wave of indignation, rallies, funeral processions, memorial evenings were held in the country, and people also spontaneously created a “people's memorial” at the site of the tragedy, the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. Several dozen volunteers went on duty on the bridge to keep this memorial and remind others of the crime committed. People on duty at the site of the tragedy risk a lot, they are not understood, they are threatened, they are attacked, but they stand.

Saving food and, at the same time, saving other people has become a way of life for the characters in the film. Their efforts help to save only a small part of the food, while the bulk of usable food ends up in the landfill anyway. However, they are ready to continue and expand their activities, because inside each of them lives a deep human desire to help others.

The short documentary was filmed entirely on a mobile phone camera. It is about volunteering to help homeless people in St. Petersburg. The author, a sociocultural anthropologist who studies the phenomenon of vagrancy and homelessness, has been a volunteer at the Nochlezhka charitable organization for three years. The film is an attempt to briefly go beyond the circle and look at this activity from the outside.

Belarusian businessman Denis Orlis settled in the former pupils of the Bogushevsky psycho-neurological boarding school, who had nowhere else to go. He gave them work and housing, and over the 35-year-old Lena issued guardianship.

A film about people saving animals around the world. They take any job not for the sake of a career or an award. Each animal saved from death is a real reward for a volunteer. Every day, every minute of being in a volunteer camp, they give to their wards.

This is a picture of people who find time and energy to search for the missing, put out fires, restore churches, save animals, help children and the elderly all over Russia and in the most remote corners of the planet for free. Because for them there is no one else's misfortune.

In a bustling metropolis, only a handful of people are aware of the existence of a group of volunteers who are always ready to lend a helping hand to anyone in need.