Traditionally, a few minutes before the New Year, the President of Russia delivers New Year's greetings on the main TV channels, which is filmed against the backdrop of the Kremlin. For the first time in history, a record-long speech of Vladimir Putin was filmed against the backdrop of the military personnel.

The unseen damage inflicted by war on personal relationships pushes war veteran Serhiy away from his family. Haunted by loss and war, he battles to reconnect with his wife, Nadiia, and their three sons, Sasha (11), Artem (8) and Nikita (3). The film takes an unexpected turn when Serhiy turns the camera on the director herself. This role reversal creates a space for vulnerable dialogue about love and human relationships as the filmmaker shares her own experiences of a breakup with another Ukrainian war veteran. The trust and empathy built between the protagonist and the filmmaker not only convey war’s lasting emotional toll but also showcase the healing potential of storytelling and documentary filmmaking.

Every May teams of seasonal workers come to Solovki to harvest seaweed. They go out to sea and mow it down with karbas. In October, the remnants of the brigade returned to Arkhangelsk. In the deserted village, there remains a watchman, wintering with a dog.

Their houses will soon go under water, and the officials do not care! How does Siberia turn into a new Atlantis? Quiet whirlpools of loud construction projects and extra people of a big country.

Young pupils of the Kovalevsky Orthodox Orphanage must fulfill the mission, on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, serve the Divine Liturgy on Mount Elbrus. The chronicle of the ascent unfolds against the backdrop of the lives of boys in an Orthodox orphanage.

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.

When we die, there are still some practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. In “Meanwhile on Earth” we take a look at the world around our end station, an industry of death. It is a place where the existential meets the mundane, the sacred meets the profane.

Shot over a single day — after learning of the death of her grandfather, documentary director Katrina Lehismäe and her family take a road trip across a frozen Estonia in the middle of winter to the small town where he lived to take care of his affairs and start to come to terms with their own grief. An intimate portrait of bereavement, life and what is left after it has departed.

I was 22. I worked in the news. The task to shoot Boris Nemtsov was perceived as a challenge: the old narcissistic bourgeois, well, what is interesting about him? He was 53. He was already a graduate student in physics, and vice-premier, and "Boris Yeltsin's heir". And he turned out to be cool, kind and sincere. And we became friends. And then they killed him. This film is about how a big historical context is narrowed down to a small personal story. How acquaintance develops into friendship. Filming news reports for several years in a row, the camera snatched out a little more than it was supposed to, examined it more closely than usual, turning it into a movie. This is a portrait film. Accidental, passing, tragicomic. A look at a living person who plays the role of a big politician all his life. However, he enjoyed this role. Joke after joke, and now you are Nemtsov's bosom friend. I thought Nemtsov was eternal, I thought I could always shoot him. But life decided otherwise. Leaving me with only 70 minutes of a film about a man who is no more. The work was awarded at the International Film Festival of Documentary, Short Feature and Animated Films "Message to Man" - 2016: "Centaur" Prize for the best full-length non-fiction film of the national competition.

In Soviet times, in the 50s, 60s and 70s, film magazines Our Land, Time Forward and others were regularly created and released on screens. Film magazines consisted of a set of stories about the life of the country and were built on the principle of a newspaper, which begins with big politics and ends with news of culture and sports. These magazines were created mainly to promote the Soviet way of life and only occasionally did something neutral and human appear in them. Film magazine plots are used as archival material in the film.

Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. Since 2012, a series of repressive laws were passed by the Government labelling everyone who publicly disagreed with the official narrative as "foreign agent", a traitor of Russia. In these circumstances, a group of independent Russian media and activists with two Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitriy Muratov of "Novaya gazeta", and NGO "Memorial" among them are trying to resist and continue their work. Right after the invasion, another series of repressive laws is passed and overnight their work becomes virtually impossible. The journalists and activists are threatened with long prison sentences and forced to make difficult moral choices in the midst of total war censorship: should they stay or leave the country, should they go to jail or save their team, should they adapt to the new reality or stay true to their principals and close their media? Shot during one decisive year, before and after the invasion, the film portrays the last defenders of democracy in Russia and gives a glimpse of hope for another future.

Поэт читает стихи через зарешеченное окно, монгольская девочка зажигает огонь в печи, с силой дует на пламя, создавая звук, подобный волчьему вою в степи. Как и огонь, фильм вырастает из самого себя, из особого ритма монтажа.

"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?

Nizhny Tagil resident Andrey Gagarin comes on vacation to his homeland in the Komi-Permyatsky district in the village of Bolshaya Kocha, where in the past he led the folklore group "Micha Asyv" ("Clear Morning"). He visits relatives and friends, together they perform folk songs and dances, talk about the national traditions of their small northern people. In addition, together with all his fellow villagers, Andrei takes part in "bull-killing", an ancient rite of sacrifice of a bull, unusual for modern times.

Sockeye salmon is a type of wild salmon. She is born in the waters of Kamchatka, and then goes to the Pacific Ocean, where she spends her whole life. Only once does the sockeye salmon return to fresh water to give birth, start the wheel of life and die. This is an inexhaustible resource that feeds millions of people on the planet, reborn every year. But we may face the terrible fact that an inexhaustible resource will be exhausted through the fault of man.

The protagonist, betrayed by relatives many years ago, now himself, after adultery, turns out to be a traitor in the eyes of his wife and children. Betrayal has its evolution.

The main character is 96. She has not left the house for many years, does not know exactly what day it is, and does not always remember which of her relatives is no longer around. Such a life is called existence. In fact, everything in this life is filled with meaning and emotion, or rather, the changing nature outside the window, anxiety and concern for relatives, even if they have long gone, and enduring tenderness for those around her. It becomes more important than the details of place and time, the details of everyday life and the accuracy of memories.

The film is dedicated to the outstanding works of Russian painting and icon painting collected in the Tretyakov Gallery, the artists who created these masterpieces, as well as the great Russian philanthropist and collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who took on the burden of moral and material responsibility, namely the collection of the national art gallery by means of one person.

The city of Karabash is one of the most polluted points on the world map. The copper smelter, whose work has led to such a deplorable ecological state, has existed for more than 100 years. The author asks a question, is a worker a slave who does not care what will happen to his house and the land on which he lives, or can a worker be a free person?

Antarctica. What is it, where is it? When life presents photographer Grigory Yaroshenko with a chance to get there and get acquainted with the life of polar explorers, he has no choice. It's like going to the moon. Would anyone refuse? No, no one would refuse... but his wife is expecting a second child, and then his life turns completely upside down. The film is about male self-identification in modern society, about the ability of men and women to accept new challenges, maintain and change their gender roles in the family.