The village teacher Pan Trzhiska found the diary of his grandfather, who almost a hundred years ago was taken prisoner in Russia and later fought there as part of the Czechoslovak Corps. Pan Trzhiska, a film enthusiast and musician, decided to go to his grandfather's "places of military glory" on the Trans-Siberian Express. His journey, his encounters with Russians, his reflections on democracy, the KGB, freedom and philosophy form the basis of this documentary comedy road movie.

This film has become a cult for a whole generation, and over the years its value has only increased. In the center of the story are the young Boris Grebenshchikov, Yuri Shevchuk, Viktor Tsoi, Oleg Garkusha and Anton Adasinsky, people whose work has shaped modern Russian rock culture.

For 20 years, the United States has invested almost 90 billion dollars in the development of the Afghan army, but left as losers - just as the USSR left. The civil war continues, "democracy" has not taken root, a peaceful life is a distant prospect. The new inhabitants of the presidential palace promise not to commit genocide and assure that they are not the same as in the 90s. But nobody believes their words. Why has Afghanistan turned into a Taliban republic again and how will the lives of ordinary Afghans now change? Why should we be worried about what is happening in this distant country?

There are six short stories in the film, named after their protagonists, four girls and six boys. Interviews with children were taken at intervals of four years, more precisely at six and ten years. They have grown up, their tastes, habits, opinions about others, about themselves have changed. They are not alike, live in different families, different social conditions, but they are concerned about the same questions, namely, “what are they?”, “Who do they want to be?”, “What is good and what is bad ?. ."

Lawyer Maria Eismont takes on the Russian judiciary by proving the innocence of her client, activist Konstantin Kotov, in one of the most high-profile political cases in recent years.

My sister passed away several years before I came into the world. I only know her from old family photos and from visits to her grave. Yet she was a present part of my growing up. I fantasized that I was her reincarnation, spent a lot of time thinking whether I would meet the same fate as her and die as a child from a brain tumor. What does my sister mean to my brothers and my parents? And what did her death trigger in them? My film is a search for my role in the family, as a late and a very planned daughter.

Gays from Belarus are trying to live in a country where their existence is denied. The main characters create their own parallel reality filled with alcohol and parties in an escape from loneliness and in search of love.

Nadia is 31 years old. She spent most of those years running away. From the village to the mainland, with a new name, history, and ultimately fate. Years later, she decides to return to the very place where her father still lives and her childhood memories are kept. This is a story about deciding to face your biggest fear and, by going through it, finding yourself.

An attempt to create a commune by the American communists in the 1920s. The history of the creation of the "Münzenberg Trust" in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. Activities of the film company "Mezhrabpom-Rus", propaganda film. The story of the seduction of the Western liberals by the communist idea, Isadora Duncan, Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Margaret Bourke-White. Visits to the country of councils by well-known commissioned European writers, Herbert Wells, Romain Rolland, André Gide, Henri Barbusse, Alberto Moravia. Their relationship with Stalin. Scientists Roberto Bartini, Umberto Nobile, Bruno Pontecorvo in the service of Soviet science. Seduction and disappointment.

Gora is a frail middle-aged woman who works as a janitor in one of the sleeping areas of Rostov-on-Don. She has neither a residence permit nor a medical policy, and in order to somehow save money, she lives with a friend in a barracks for 500 rubles. The two-storey densely populated hut survived only because it stood in the landfill for its entire history. People have been living here for more than forty years. They grow geese and goats in summer kitchens, boil themselves, drink, love, die. A nunnery is located a hundred meters from the barracks. There are 15 girls of all ages in it, in essence, this is the same barrack, only completely whitewashed and surrounded by a brick fence. They say the abbess is a former prison guard. Passion is no worse than in the cool Mexican series.

People in their eighties and nineties, and even some centenarians, talk candidly and eloquently about love, loneliness, grief, life and death. A poetic, tender group portrait of a Danish generation slowly saying goodbye.

In the heart of Russia, in a forest larger than Germany 7 hours from the nearest city, and where winter temperatures drop to -40 degrees, lies a prison like no other. Holding 260 men collectively responsible for nearly 800 murders, Penal Colony 56 is unique: a prison exclusively for killers.

This film covers 30 years from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture. Triumphs almost always followed by tragedy. Both are part of the history of Russia.

Since 2015 modern 3D cinemas have been opening in small towns and villages of Russia. The film contains several stories from different regions of the country about how the new cinema saves the inhabitants of the provinces from loneliness, abandonment, alcoholism, isolation. Live observation of how cinema changes life, and life turns into cinema.

Childbirth can be simultaneously a shattering yet magnificent experience. Two Finnish birth experts – midwife Kirsi and doula Anna-Riitta – work to improve birth practices and empower birth givers, believing that giving birth is an experience that affects a person’s entire life.

He happened to work with such directors as Larisa Shepitko, Dinara Asanova, Andron Konchalovsky, Vitaly Melnikov. Films based on his scripts entered the golden fund of Russian cinema. And he continues to look for reasons to live. An outstanding screenwriter of our time, Yuri Klepikov, who is celebrating his 75th birthday this year, talks about his profession, about cinema. And not only.

A documentary study of the circumstances and course of the drama that unfolded in the second half of the 1930s around the project to create in the USSR "Soviet Hollywood", the center of the film industry in the image and likeness of the American "dream factory". A drama in which human characters, ideological conflicts, and the spirit of the era were clearly manifested.

Aleksey, the lighthouse keeper, lived on the island of Zhuzhmuy for eleven years. Every morning he went into radio contact with Arkady, a lighthouse from Rombak Island. Lighthouses were lit every evening at the lighthouses. All these years they shone regularly, until one day one of them went out.

The once exemplary livestock and dairy farm in the Altai region are now declining. Milk cows live here. Their whole life passes between the barn and the "maternity ward". Everything here is subordinated to the task of obtaining a useful product. All days at the farm have the same schedule: morning milking, evening milking, “maternity ward”, dairy. The milkmaids arrive early, when it is still dark. People come into the space inhabited by cows, combining animals and mechanisms, creating hybrids — cows with mechanical udders. In the evening, the milkmaids come and milk the cows again. The milk is transported to the dairy section and from there, it leaves the farm. Calves are born in the “maternity ward”, where cows can temporarily return to their natural life. Several women perform these extremely hard and low-paid jobs to keep the barn alive. This is life on a farm.

In colorful, sunkissed postcards, this film invites you to join the wonderful and melancholic backstage world of a classic Charter holiday.