Eight North Korean at Moscow film school defected to the Soviet Union denouncing the great leader KIM, Il-sung in 1958. The aftermaths as artists working in Central Asia for 50 years more.

A documentary film about the football club "Totem", consisting of young pupils of the Krasnoyarsk orphanage No. 1. The guys with a difficult fate have achieved great sports success at the world level and were able to successfully socialize in society. Stories of young football players, their coaches and educators of the orphanage. The team goes to the World Cup among children from orphanages in Poland 2018.

On July 25, 1980, the great Russian poet Vladimir Vysotsky passed away. He was 42 years old. He did not die in a duel like Pushkin and Lermontov, did not fall from a bullet and noose like Mayakovsky and Yesenin. The cause of his death was no less dramatic. Vysotsky struggled with death for a long time. But by the beginning of 1980, this duel turned into a fierce fight. After 25 years, we present the first documentary evidence of this struggle. Everyone has the right to their own judgment about the death of a great poet, but no one's judgment can claim absolute truth. According to eyewitnesses, after meeting the new year 1980, Vysotsky's illness began to progress and turned into real agony. We will reconstruct the events with chronological accuracy from January 1st up to July 25th, 1980. The film is told by people who knew Vysotsky closely in the last year of his life.

What do we know about that other life outside the walls of the boarding school? About loneliness and acceptance, friendship and respect in a closed society, betrayal and forgiveness. Smart, honest, strong people, they are not broken and they want to shake hands. Four heroes, four stories worth seeing.

Grandpa Vitya has been involved in pigeons since childhood. This hobby was passed down to him from his father. Victor and his pigeons to this day do not stop attending various exhibitions, as well as orphanages and schools, travel all over Russia and communicate with fellow souls. For grandfather Vitya, there is nothing offensive in the fact that someone considers his hobby as naive childishness, because it is so.

Cancer is still a terrible disease, but not a verdict. The film contains stories of people who were able to defeat him.

A documentary cross-section of the era, the phenomenon of Russian rock and its influence on the minds and souls of people during the period of stagnation and collapse of the USSR. The central characters of Debizhev's documentary research are the main figures of Russian rock, to whom maximum attention was riveted in the 80-90s of the last century, Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergey Kuryokhin.

What would the faces of cities be like if they were embodied in real characters? What stories would they tell us? What is the power and purpose of each of them? Once you have looked into the soul of cities, you will never be able to confuse one with the other. The film is a unique genre of mythological documentary, based on real urban legends, stories, images, it paints a unique image of each city.

A documentary legal drama about Human Rights violations in Soviet Ukraine and modern Russia based on archival chronicles. Heimrad Backer, in some of his projects, used the text of Nazi propaganda in such a way that it became self-evident, commenting on itself. For the same purpose, I use excerpts from a soviet propaganda newspaper. I title parts of the film - scenes in order to emphasize the absurdity, theatricality and cruelty of the trial, as well as the propaganda chronicle.

Festivals:
4x3 Ivano-Frankivsk ISFF
International Ethnographic Film Festival OKO
25e Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris

This film tells the stories of those who understand that a cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. Through their examples, the heroines inspire others with the diagnosis not to give up and remind those without it to cherish every moment. Tatyana shares how she fights for her life, the profound rethinking she has undergone, and how she found solace in writing songs. Yana’s story is a testament to true love: after her diagnosis, her first husband left her, but during treatment, she found real love. Irina, now in remission, thought the worst was behind her—until she learned of her eldest daughter’s illness. She channels all her strength into supporting her daughter, fighting alongside her until the very end.

The artistic documentary "Otets" is based on the life of the remarkable man Sergei Ovsiannikov (1952 Leningrad – 2018 Amsterdam). He is known far beyond the borders of the Netherlands for his courageous resistance against Russia’s military interventions in Ukraine and the militant policies of the powerful Russian Church. In line with Sergei's legacy, the Amsterdam church distanced itself from the Russian Church in 2022, due to its support for Putin’s war. This was hailed as a heroic act throughout Ukraine. Sergei was a father and a priest, but Otets is not about religion. In the film, we follow his lifelong quest for freedom. This same search for freedom brought the filmmaker to the Netherlands in the 1990s. In Otets she engages in a conversation with the deceased Father. Did he manage to find freedom in the free West? Is it even possible for them born and raised under a dictatorship to achieve freedom? The film begins in the Soviet past, during Sergei's youth in an exemplary communist family. However, as he grows up, he becomes a free thinker, which leads to his imprisonment in a Soviet prison. In solitary confinement, he discovers the greatest enemy of freedom - the ‘inner sniper guard’ (fear and self-censorship), planted by the regime in the heads of Soviet citizens. The ‘inner guard’ also determines his relationship with his father. When Sergei gives up his physics studies at the university to pursue priesthood, his communist father renounces his son. Eventually, Father Sergei finds himself in Amsterdam, where he transforms a small immigrant church into a large multicultural community—a place where Eastern Europeans and Westerners, believers and non-believers, find their safe home. Like Tarkovsky's Stalker, he leads hundreds of people to the secret room of desire, to freedom. But he himself never enters the room. His quest for freedom proves to be a lifelong battle with the macabre inheritance of his homeland – the ‘inner sniper guard’. While hundreds of people adore him, honour him as an ideal father, almost a holy person, his biological children reveal a different dark side of their father. A strict, punishing, and demanding father who burdened them with fear instead of freedom. He physically left his dictatorial homeland, but dictatorship continues to ‘fester’ in his mind, as his oldest daughter puts it. It doesn't stop there. They pass on father's inner sniper guard to their own children.

A film about the ascent to the summit of Latok-1 along the northern ridge in the summer of 2018. Dedicated to the memory of Sergei Glazunov, who went missing while descending from the summit.

A picture about how and why in peacetime people go to war and why they often cannot return from it to the end. There are a lot of such men around us who have returned, but not completely. Much more than you can imagine.

Dasha is a native nine-year-old Lapp girl. She is an inmate of a Russian orphanage, even when she is not an orphan. Tasha believes that her mother is dead and that her father is in jail for life. To survive she has found a Russian stepmother at the orphanage. One day her biological mother suddenly calls her. In the background of Tasha’s fate lurks the greater global narrative about the “stolen generations”. Children belonging to different indigenous peoples all over the world were “stolen” and placed in orphanages hoping that they might be assimilated into the majority population

The story of 36-year-old Albert, an experienced tire fitter who sang on camera in a dusty hangar and suddenly became famous on TikTok.

In Spain, he is known as El Ruso. In Russia, he is considered to be a man of his time. A boy who fled the civil war and grew up in an orphanage became a friend and ally of the great Russian actors and directors: Lyubimov, Panfilov, Vysotsky, Tarkovsky. The main character in this film is Angel Gutierros. His life and reflections on the past and present, destiny and vocation.

A series of letters from a man embarking on a new life, confined to the format of video messages.

The guy builds his life so that nothing could separate him from his hobby.

The director, Ekaterina Diakova, documents her father who abandoned her. What starts as her indictments, continues as a rediscovery of her father's hidden story. One which reflects the degradation of Soviet men.

Does your life and destiny depend on the place of birth? Someone is destined to be born in the city, and someone is born and lives all his life in the village. Different destinies and stories, joys and sorrows. A film about what it is to live in a Russian village. This is a story about people. About what happened and is happening in the depths of Russia.