On the very edge of the village of Ponazyrevo, in a wooden house with the loud name "Rehabilitation Center", people who have nowhere to go live. The center was organized and sheltered by the rector of the prison church, the priest Father Evgeny. There are strict rules in the house, no alcohol, but from time to time, someone breaks down, starts drinking, leaves. Then he returns. Miron wandered after his release from prison, he did not have a home. He was found dying in an abandoned car and given shelter. He is crippled, half of his body is paralyzed. Outside the taiga window, the family broke up, past ties were broken. How do such people live, what do they think, what do they feel, what can they hope for, what helps them survive?

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the Tu-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

Evi, Finland’s most experienced karaoke hostess, wants to hug her customers’ pain away. She packs her equipment and starts a car engine yet again to travel through the northern landscapes of Finland. Her journey interconnects with the stories of “KARAOKE PARADISE”. Toni, the shyest guy in the world, catches everyone’s eyes when on stage. Kari is searching for love and sings karaoke in his empty car repair shop. Elina can hardly walk because of Parkinson’s, but punk songs make her dance. Laura sings because talking is too painful. Finns have found a unique way out of loneliness: they sing.

Yoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky. This film combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people’s life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening.

"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the strange daily life of Lydia, born Sergei, a queer ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. She lives with her wife Vasilisa, working for a company that prevents bird strikes in airports. Vasilisa trains horses for the police of Moscow. In a wooden house that she built on her own Lydia tries to recreate the atmosphere of Twin Peaks, the famous David Lynch series she loves, and tries to make her own version. Sasha Kulak, the film's director, faces a question that will upset her concept of a of documentary: how can one extract reality from a dream? Sasha's voice draws us in until she becomes a character in a rare cinematic experience.

This is the story of a man who made the history of Mankind, being "on the other side of the window" from those in power. The film was based on Boris Altshuler's book "Sakharov and Power. On the other side of the window"; drawings by Andrey Sakharov animated by Dmitry Geller; memories of friends; rare archival footage and previously unpublished declassified documents.

Ivan Komendantov is only 16 years old. But he is already the ideology secretary of the Stalingrad District Komsomol Committee of Moscow. Vanya wants to quickly become an adult, so he enthusiastically takes on any business, whether it is the rise of the world economy or a special task to seduce a girl.

War correspondent and writer Vyacheslav Nemyshev is a typical representative of the generation of people affected by the Chechen war. Having visited the war 27 times, he was no longer able to adapt to normal life and "escaped" to Kamchatka. Vyacheslav filmed this experiment on himself with a video camera for two years in the hope of finding an answer to the question of how to get rid of the nightmare that the war gave?

The exchange of old Soviet passports for new Russian passports is a milestone in the life of the country. A provincial travel photographer wanders around remote Siberian villages and takes pictures of their inhabitants for new passports. But sometimes they will invite you to film the wedding. And somewhere you can buy a piglet. Following the village photographer and carefully observing everyday rural life, the filmmakers create a kind of poetic canvas that tells about the worldview of people living in the Russian outback at the junction of two cultures, Soviet and modern. The film won an award at the Russia Open Documentary Film Festival in Yekaterinburg.

In 2016, esports games were recognized as an official sport in Russia. The film is a months-long observation of the life of world eSports champions. The AG team consists of students from St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Vladimir and Kazan. They met in the online shooter Warface. Together they won the championships of Russia and the world. And together they change their attitude to gaming, for them computer games are a profession. The first author's documentary film about Russian eSports.

Wise men of different faiths called the same bird by different names, says Grigory Pomerants, a unique thinker of our era. This bird flew to him at the time of the death of his beloved woman.

Film monologue of the philologist, translator Lilianna Lungina about the life of the soul and the world around. With ruthless vigilance, considering her own development from childhood to the last days, she makes internal events no less fascinating than external ones. Her story is a unique combination of confession and scale, large-scale and general plan: it is both a portrait and a fresco, because the heroine does not lose sight of the general, social life for a minute, trying to present to the audience the fate of Russia and, to some extent, Europe in the 20th century.

A film about the creation of the Moscow Metro, which has become a symbol of the whole country. The narrative covers the period from the first pre-revolutionary projects to the Khrushchev era.

A story about a family that lives in a ghost town. 15 years ago there was a job and a happy life. After the closure of the mine, only old barracks, mountains of processed earth and unnecessary people who have lost the meaning of life remained. Is it possible to survive in such conditions and not sink even lower when all moral boundaries are erased? Have these people's hopes for happiness been shattered? And is there a place for a holiday, a dream, love in a hopeless reality?

Madina Mustafina again takes root in the forbidden, taboo territory. The heroine of the picture is a modern 18-year-old girl Zhenya, not burdened with social obligations. As a typical bearer of youth subculture, she is not endowed with special talents and lives an ordinary life of a growing up provincial girl, loves to dance, meets guys, teaches her friends how to kiss. In general, neither the norms of behavior, nor the manner of speech, nor the desire to please, in any other way, does she differ from thousands of other girls. Except for one thing: the girl Zhenya is actually a boy.

This is a film about the Great Patriotic War, as the famous Russian writer Viktor Astafiev saw and knew it. A rare recording was made two years before his death. In it, he, not embarrassed in expressions, tells the whole bitter and terrible truth of the war that he went through as a simple soldier. The tape was awarded the Golden Eagle Prize of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia as the best documentary film and the Laurel Branch Award as the best feature film.

Ust-Tsilma is only seven hills and the coast. On the one hand, there is the mighty Pechora, on the other, there are impenetrable forests and swamps. Everything in this distant land breathes death. The Old Believers honor and respect her, because the path to the grave is nothing more than a test, preparation for the eternal. By accepting death, one can learn to understand life.

For several years, the author has been making film observations of his heroes, peasants from two neighboring villages in the Lipetsk region. One of them, Uncle Vanya, is a poet, a local Kulibin, who builds a starship. The second, Uncle Kolya, wandered through life in an alcoholic stupor, but one day, having experienced a severe shock, he got out onto the “sober” highway. The most remarkable thing about the film is the author's point of view.

The heroes of the film are the pathologist and his work. This is a favorite job, where everything is arranged for life. Bookshelves, selection of music gourmet CDs: Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, etc. On the walls are oil paintings with views of the morgue. No cynicism, only professionalism, humor and a dream come true of a person who, from childhood, dreamed of understanding why a person actually dies.

Imagine that everything you did before is no longer needed by anyone. Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Lyuda are top manager, shop manager, senior foreman, engineer, storekeeper and workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant. Likhachev. They hold on with all their might to routine and professional pride to endure in circumstances where everything around them is collapsing. And now, for the first time in 20 years, the plant receives an order from the Ministry of Defense to produce three classic ZIL convertibles for the Victory Parade on Red Square. Special Shop Director Mikhail and his team are excited to get down to business to prove their worth.