As a result of a trauma received at birth, Vera Kazakova became disabled from childhood and, having lost the opportunity to move freely, it seemed that she was doomed to lead a reclusive life. But she managed to change the destined course of events. Vera found the strength not only to get a decent education, to give birth to a son, but also to actively fight for the revival of her small homeland.

Anton Kharitonov, an autistic boy, lives with his mother in a terrible apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. The author meets his future hero shortly before his mother falls seriously ill. Now Anton himself is threatened by a boarding school for the mentally ill, where he will inevitably die, because people with such a diagnosis do not live there for a long time. The struggle for Anton every minute shortens the distance between the author and the hero. And there comes a moment when the author is forced to enter the frame ... The film was awarded the Golden Eagle Prize of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia - 2012 in the nomination of the Best Non-Fiction Film and the National Cinema Award "Nika" - 2012 in the nomination of the Best Non-Fiction Film.

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?

The heroes of the film, young Caucasians, are the children of the war that destroyed their childhood and youth. What do they remember about the past other than suffering? And what about their present?

The film is almost speechless. Because it's about the value of sound. And about the deaf. These people differ from those who hear only in that they live in absolute silence, but this does not mean at all that they are flawed or unhappy. The world of silence is just as interesting and significant for them as for those who hear it is the world of sounds.

A young soldier returns from the front line with a serious wound. How will he build his new life?

“Kapustin Yar, the place where Alyosha lives, an autistic boy, is a rocket testing ground. I don’t believe that there are places forgotten by God. And I’m trying to guess the plan that combines human strength and apparent weakness at the same time in one place,” says directed by Arkady Kogan.

Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world are fighting for a chance to get to Sochi.

The film tells about the tour of the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Others" of the Tinsky psycho-neurological boarding school (Krasnoyarsk Territory) around their native land. The closed world of the boarding school, it turns out, is full of joy, creativity and love.

After the birth of the sixth child, the father left for another woman. The core of the family was the elder sister Natasha, herself a person of dramatic fate.

"Shell" is the common name for a dismantling garage. But more than a third of the shells are used for other purposes. Pensioners Karasevs lived in a shell for 79 days, and almost died. What happened in Moscow in 2006?

Sasha lost his sight at the age of 12. Now he is teaching his 3-year-old sighted son to see the world. And this process is mutual.

On New Year's Eve, at the Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation for Disabled People with Cerebral Palsy, doctors are preparing a New Year's performance and a concert for their patients. After all, many of them live here permanently, and for them this holiday has become the only spectacle that they can see "live".

The film is about a day in the life of a colony of mentally ill people. On the one hand, there is a feeling of the purest idyll, the joy of joint work and harmony, on the other hand, a growing sense of anxiety and doom.

On the eve of demobilization, 13 years ago, during the Second Chechen War, 19-year-old Roman was seriously wounded in the head. He miraculously survived, and spent all these years in a continuous struggle with a physical illness, with his own weakness and despair, trying to learn how to live again.

The Samodurov family lives in the village of Uglyanets, Voronezh Region. Shura and her brothers Alyosha and Petya are blind from birth. After the death of her parents and older brother, Shura refused to take her sick brothers to a psychiatric clinic. For the last 10 years they have been living together.

The "otherwise gifted" son of a village priest really wants to look at the world from the bell tower of his father's church. But he cannot overcome the fear of the unknown on his own, and then his mother comes to the rescue. For whom will this rise be a feat? And what is the feat of life "cross" or "blessing"?

The protagonists of the film are orphans since childhood. They have been living in closed psycho-neurological boarding schools for many years, Natasha in the women's one, Hera and Kolya in the men's one. But now they have a chance to become independent. Thanks to this, they met and love appeared in their lives.

Winner of the national competition of the Flahertiana IFF, the international festivals Eight Women, Let's Live, Pokrov, twice winner of the Stalker film festival, Laurel Branch nominee, participant of the ARTDOСFEST film festival, "Window to Europe”, Canberra Mental Health Film Festival 2019 in Australia, independent documentary film festival RUSDOCFILMFEST-3W in New York.

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

They are called invalids, and they dance the rumba. Is it possible? Definitely "YES!". Competitive struggle, professional disagreements and, of course, love. That's what really matters to true creatives.