Filmmaker Katja Fedulova left Russia when she was 18, over 20 years ago. But the homeland for which her grandmother fought continues to haunt her. She returns home with one big question: Are there still modern heroines in Putin’s Russia? She finds three young, beautiful women, each fighting for their own vision of what their country should be. Their struggle offers a complex picture of modern Russia - full of dramatic, desperate, absurd and funny moments. Sometimes heartbreaking and always full of open ambivalence, this film is a beguiling glimpse at modern Russia.

Otherness in otherness. What does it mean to be different in a community that is excluded from the society? The film follows the fate of Romani, who have become a minority within a minority. Queer Romas search for their living space and dream of working abroad. A legless father of five children longs for a wheelchair. A Romani grandmother sacrifices her life for the health of her beloved grandson. Will Emil, a Romani man who found faith in God, be able to save his son from alcohol? Four stories from the poorest Roma settlements in Slovakia aim to break down prejudices between the Roma community and the white majority.

For the past three years, Ukraine has been fighting for its independence against Russian aggression. What does a "peaceful life" look like far from the front lines, in the rear? For a year and a half, film director Vitaly Mansky has been documenting life in his hometown of Lviv, where people’s daily existence is affected by the constant threat of enemy missiles. The time it takes for these missiles to reach their targets now shapes the life of every Ukrainian.

The protagonist of the film is an elevator operator named Jesus who lives in Bilbao, Spain. Day after day, he spends most of his life in 2.5 square meters. meters. There he observes someone else's grief, someone else's happiness, the growing up of someone else's children, someone else's meetings, someone else's love, someone else's death.

When the residents of a remote Siberian city discover an old Soviet mine has caught fire beneath their neighborhood, they turn to Natalia Zubkova, a local homemaker-turned-journalist, for help. But after her news videos go viral, she suddenly finds herself the target of a massive government disinformation campaign.

Life in the provinces is a special world, a special way of life, a special relationship that is different from that in the big cities. Everyone here knows each other, and almost everything about each other. Everything here is like under a magnifying glass. The patriarchal way of life has changed little in recent years with technical progress. The old and the new. Everything here that is ugly bulges out with a vengeance, but the good things also do not go unnoticed. This film is a parable: a story about Russia, about the customs that prevail in the modern village.

The film is available only on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. Only a few people held on to their home. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa strives for her present - and is threatened by the future.

Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. The Russian Old Believers who inhabited the island appeared here 300 years ago, during the Great Northern War, fleeing from the religious reforms in the Orthodox Church and to avoid being mobilized in the Russian army. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. However, the local culture and sense of life that developed in isolation from the rest of the "Russian world" has not yet completely disappeared from Piirissaar.

Three Muscovite women taxi-drivers laugh, swear and talk their way through everyday life after Perestroika - life's full of dreams and contradictions.

The success story of the loser Katya Golubeva. Films with the participation of Katya Golubeva, a Russian actress little known in her country, but famous in Europe, were presented four times at the Cannes Film Festival.

Un réalisateur arrive dans une colonie pénitentiaire de haute sécurité pour tourner un documentaire sur un chef d'équipe qui travaille avec les prisonniers. Ce dernier estime cependant qu'il n'est pas utile de montrer la vie quotidienne de la colonie telle qu'elle est réellement. Il procède alors à des mises en scène qu'il dirige lui-même. Mais la réalité parvient tout de même à s'immiscer dans la production.

La projection sera suivie d’un débat avec le réalisateur !

A film director arrives at a maximum-security penal colony to shoot a documentary about a squad leader who works with prisoners. The manager however, believes that it is not worth showing the daily life of the colony as it actually is and proceeds to shoot staged scenes, which he directs himself. The author of the film patiently records how this movie is shot, but real life still manages to break into the production.

His dream of becoming a professional pianist is bigger than borders: four years in the life of Muhammad "Misha" Alsheikh, a talented teenage pianist from Ramallah, son of a Palestinian father and a Russian mother.

Krystyna is 72 years old, but she has never known true love. In order to change something, she signs up with a matrimonial agency. Newcomming dates bring nothing than disappointments. Meeting elderly men let her realize, relationship may not be a lack in her life.

The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.

At the peak of perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction period, the last and most grandiose museum of the Leader was opened. Soon after the opening, there was a change in ideology, and the flow of pilgrims gradually dried up. Despite this, the museum is still in operation and management is looking for ways to attract visitors. The curators of the museum, loyal to Lenin, are doing their best to resist the advance of commercialization. The film "Leninland" tells about the modern life of this amazing museum-reserve and its employees.

Three years before the start of the «special operation» the orthodox priests were focused on the servicemen. In the sermons they were glorifying the President and so-called traditional values, talking about immortality of the soul and Kingdom of Heaven. What actually was an aim of that powerful campaign – to prepare Russian soldiers for sacrifice or… contingent for slaughter? It seems the third option was not considered.

In autumn, one hears a lot in the deserted village. Something you can't express with a regular documentary. But with a mixture of feature films, old newsreels and "visual anthropology" with the restoration of the old rite, you can try.

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.

Zimnik is a temporary road formed when the river freezes. But for the heroes of the film, the local residents, strong and stubborn men, this is a life-long road.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014 decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-community in Estonia. They scrape together their savings and buy an old manor lot with 33 hectares of agricultural land and 3750 square meters of old houses in very bad condition. There are 5 families together – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment has been inspired by the growing global movement of eco-villages. They step out of society as we know it, reconstructing the basic pillars of life, starting from the model of the family, to education, relationships and consumption. Their goal is to build non-violent co-operative relations among themselves, harmonious connections, and sustainable lifestyle with a small environmental footprint. The film follows the dramatic events in the community for 5 years, from their blissful idealistic beginnings in 2014 until their dramatic collapse in 2019.