The feature-length art documentary “Countryless and Queer ” captures traces of queer existence and intimate arrangements lived by non-privileged queers who navigate their experiences of migration in the city of Vienna. The film unfolds narratives of five queer migrants from contexts outside of the Global North which have been marked by gender violence, homophobia, economic instability, and social misbalance. Beyond narratives of damage, marginality is lived through and treated in the film as a space for emancipation and resistance – full of humor and joy, dignity and erotic, emancipation and struggle.

The film is dedicated to the most urgent problems of life in Russia. The picture perfectly hits the point of history, creating a special unique resonance.

May one compare Putin to Hitler? Or Russia’s modern regime to Nazi Germany? How did Germans, who destroyed millions of lives and unleashed World War II, manage to turn their country into a thriving democracy? And, most importantly, does the future hold something similar for Russians after Putin and what will they go through on that path? Psychology has the five stages of grief model. A patient, who has just found out their fatal diagnosis, at first denies the inevitable. Then they go through the stages of anger, bargaining, depression, and only then they accept their fate. In the case of Germany, an entire nation is such a patient. It took decades for German society to heal. In search of a recipe for Russia, we went to Germany to talk to people who witnessed the changes and those who still feel their responsibility for their ancestors’ crimes.

In a world where printing machines spit out books relentlessly, a contrasting reality exists – amidst the noise of the city, a writer battles with despair. She is searching for the first sentence to put on the blank page in front of her. These reflections intensify a sense of isolation, familiar to all of us.

Philosophy of music in the everyday life of the mountain population of Tajikistan. Music from birth to death.

Kyokushin means "highest truth" in Japanese. A study about the life of a man who has been practicing Kyokushin for 25 years.

The story of this adventure drama is about Nazar and Max - two guys from Ukraine and an old soviet bike - and the ambitious goal they set themselves to beat the world speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. This dry salt desert is the meeting point for hundreds of people from all over the world, who spend millions of dollars on their quest to become the next speed racing champion. Nazar and Max spend all their time assembling their bike in a small garage on the outskirts of Kyiv, traveling hundreds of miles and overcoming countless obstacles to make their dreams come true. And then, on the other side of the world, they both come to realize why there are there.

An experimental non-fiction film about the Udmurt artist Envil Kasimov, who became an influential politician in the Republic.

When Lyon was occupied by German troops during the Second World War, Klaus Barbie was appointed head of the Gestapo secret police in the city. He would become feared for his brutality, responsible for the murder of hundreds of people in France – torturing many himself, and sending countless others to concentration camps. After the war Barbie returned to Germany and lived under an assumed name. Three years later – amidst growing tensions between the western Allies and the Soviet Union – he was recruited by the USA’s Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). When France demanded his extradition, however, the Americans could no longer afford to retain Barbie’s services as an agent. But instead of handing him over, they gave him a new identity and allowed him to move to South America, where he could start a new life in anonymity. Barbie went to Bolivia, and subsequently built up a network of contacts to influential politicians and military leaders. He provided assistance for a series of bloody coups, and was also involved in numerous violent suppressions of trade unions and left-wing groups. West German intelligence then recruited him as an informant and an organizer of illegal arms exports. It was not until the early 1970s that Klaus Barbie was exposed as a war criminal by Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld. Even then it would take over another decade for the "Butcher of Lyon" to be extradited to France and put on trial.

There are officially 2 million drug users in Russia. Unofficially, there are more than 6 million of them. The death rate from drug overdose in the country in the pandemic 2020 increased by 60%. Talk about fighting this evil is usually reduced to police action against the drug trade, with very little said about the rehabilitation of the addicts themselves. Can you help them overcome the disease? How to make it more efficient? Is it true that there are no former drug addicts? Andrei Lobanov visited three rehabilitation centers (state, church and private) and talked with doctors and their wards to understand whether drug addicts have a real chance to return to normal life.

In the early 90’s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became a ritual among thousands of families. Video cameras and presents allowed these mothers and children to share glimpses of their realities while being apart. Through these intimate private archives, Otilia Babara depicts the fragility of family bonds through the eyes of a generation of mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart in order to survive. While doing so, she portrays a post-soviet country caught in a crossroads of history. A country whose women were unwittingly put in charge of making the transition from communism to capitalism.

An educational film addressing the pressing social issue of ludomania—gambling addiction. With the rise of the Internet and mobile devices, online casinos and gambling platforms have become increasingly accessible to people of all ages, amplified by aggressive advertising and manipulative marketing tactics. This has resulted in a staggering 500% increase in those affected by ludomania over the past decade. Created as a film-revelation, it features firsthand accounts from players and was shot using an iPhone 11.

Globalization and politico-religious pressure are ruthlessly stamping out the last remnants of traditional culture. In Tajikistan, most of which is mountainous, music and dancing still accompany people in joy and sorrow - as they did a thousand years ago.

After the birth of a child, two-time Olympic champion, world athletics legend Yelena Isinbayeva decides to return to big sport to win her third Olympic gold medal.

Sergei has been living in the countryside for 18 years now, and in his opinion life was better under Soviet rule. Realizing that the country's government will not wait for improvements, he intends to restore the economy, plow the field, plant potatoes.

Not a single film has yet shown how significant a component of the war is the evacuation of the wounded. Who created this system? How? Why exactly like this? How does it happen in a matter of hours? People who can provide answers to these questions live among us and continue to be engaged in fighters. They talk about the wounded at the front from the TV screens with regular statistics. But behind each such case is a whole system of people who are doing everything to save lives.

After 1945 the former allies of the Second World War, the western powers and the Soviet Union, fought to impose their political systems and ideologies on Germany. In a divided Berlin, thousands of agents and spies from East and West fought the information war as closely and intensely as nowhere else. Former CIA agent Peter Sichel reports on the role of the intelligence agencies during the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the airlift by the western Allies. Sichel was also involved in planning the spectacular tunnel built by the CIA to spy on the Soviet administration in East Berlin. A Russian intelligence expert reveals how the newly founded KGB tricked the Americans with the help of British double agent George Blake. The KGB also benefited from the cooperation provided by the powerful spy network of the East German state security, the Stasi. As a "man without a face", the head of Stasi foreign intelligence became a legendary figure. It took western intelligence decades to find out his name and identity: Markus Wolf. He helped the most famous East German spy, Günter Guillaume, to work his way up to the echelons of the West German government. Because the CIA was less efficient in classic espionage, the largest US intelligence agency, the NSA, installed a gigantic surveillance facility on West Berlin's Teufelsberg hill, in the process possibly gaining a decisive advantage in the Cold War, which came to an end with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

"Twilight" is a film about Russia and was filmed for 20 years. The film consists of three short stories. Without political propaganda, the film tells about the life of ordinary people. Novels correspond to a certain time (2000, 2010, 2022). This is a film about Putin's Russia. Each of the short stories is a complete story, but put together they give a three-dimensional impression of the real life of people in modern Russia.

A documentary film about the main character's attempt to win female happiness. Olesya teaches the science of love to her friends, but she cannot become loved, getting lost in her permanent dreams of men.

Having lost his family at one moment, he lost the meaning of life. When the laws of a secular state do not give satisfaction, people turn to others. For some, blood feud is the path to the triumph of justice. For others, it is the first link in a chain of senseless killings.