“I didn’t even think that they would give me 8 years for THIS.” More than half of all women in Russian colonies are imprisoned for drugs. Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation has become “female folk”, it is about easy money with serious consequences. The four protagonists of the film tell their stories about lost youth, feelings of shame, life behind bars and even a prison wedding.

Sasha, a 13-year-old boy, is fond of chemistry and fantasy books. However, my mother does not approve of this. For his birthday, she gives him a certificate for special military training "One Day in Special Forces". The boy finds himself among strong men right on the training ground.

Are you at home today? This is a chance to write (invent, shoot or create) something outstanding! Photographer Dmitry Zverev (four-time winner of the Silver Camera award), choreographer Vladimir Varnava (twice winner of the Golden Mask award), the authors of the #Isoisolation project and others talk about where to find inspiration during quarantine.

An unflinching portrayal of families divided by war. The film features seven different pairings, whose members speak periodically with Loshak, one-to-one, to explain their points of view. Their conversations extend over the war's first three months, during which time their opinions evidence no change. The director makes no attempt at establishing dialogue – on the contrary, it is a testimony to the absence of dialogue amidst an unfolding war, and an unsentimental diagnosis of the sickness of a society in which official propaganda proves stronger than even the most intimate family ties.

This is a story about how the Beautiful Russia of the Future happened in one Russian region in 2020. For several months, citizens became free and freely protested against the arrest of the people's governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal. The protests were covered by independent journalists and bloggers who fell into the millstones of the Khabarovsk Carousel.

The word "intersex" refers to people who are born with sexual characteristics that differ from the typical structure of the male or female body. Intersex variation may be noticeable at birth, or it may not become apparent until adolescence or even later. There are about 40 different intersex variations. About 120 million carriers of intersex variations now live in the world. How do intersex people live in Russia?

A film about two times refugees and their ability to maintain creativity in a time of political terror, repressed culture and fatal bombings. The experience of Belarusian creators who went through two catastrophic transformations in a short period of time. Their lives have been destroyed twice in two years, but they have the strength and energy to carry on. Create and inspire others. They establish Belarus outside the geographical borders of Belarus.

A lesbian couple living on the outskirts of St. Petersburg are looking for an opportunity to emigrate. That decision was made after the start of the war unleashed by the country in which they were born and raised. However, it is not so east to emigrate with four pets that they will never leave.

Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?

Rinat Sadykov lived all his life in the village of Oimur in Buryatia on the shores of Lake Baikal. He says that his wife wanted to move to the city, but he insisted on living in the village. Their children went to school in Oimura. After the divorce, the ex-wife moved to the city. Lately, Sadykov worked as a lumberjack, and went to work in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, because there was no work in the village. For the same reason, Sadykov advised his youngest son Vyacheslav, when he joined the army on conscription, to sign a contract and remain in military service. The last time the son came to the village to his father from the military unit for the new year 2022 to meet him together, and after that he went to the exercises in Belarus. After the start of the war on February 24, people from the military registration and enlistment office came to Sadykov's house and reported that Vyacheslav had died. They waited a month for a funeral, and then Sadykov signed a contract and volunteered to go to war.

On May 9, at the Immortal Regiment procession in the mountain village of Mizur in North Ossetia, local residents came out with portraits of their warring relatives. One of the posters featured a photograph of an officer who died in March in Ukraine. 33-year-old captain Aslan Dzantiev was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. On May 9, his family arranged a memorial ceremony, neighbors and relatives, according to the traditional Ossetian custom, prepared food and lit a candle on the grave of the deceased. In Caucasian families, men and women do not sit down together at the table and grieve differently, men make toasts and behave with restraint, and women cook food and do not hide their grief. Aslan Dzantiev grew up without a father and remained childless, his mother, grandmother and young widow mourn him at home.

In August 2020, people gathered on the steps of the Belarusian State Philharmonic in Minsk to protest against electoral fraud. They held a poster “They stole our voice from us” and could only oppose the violence with Belarusian songs sung together. The Belarusian security forces drove them off the steps, but soon the choir began to unexpectedly appear at protest marches, in shopping centers and the subway, inspiring people with songs about the dignity, courage, fate and faith of Belarusians. Thus, one of the symbols of the Belarusian resistance “Free Choir” was born. During actions and concerts, the singers observed security measures and hid their faces. Hoping to intimidate the activists, the police detained the alleged conductors and band members several times. But the "guerrilla" choir continued their brave flash mobs. This greatly angered the authorities, they began a real hunt for the "Free Choir". People were fired from their jobs and put in jail for a day. Avoiding persecution, many of the participants were forced to leave Belarus. The history of the birth and activities of the "Free Choir" will be told by the family of musicians Alexander and Sasha Serdyukov, former employees of the Belarusian State Philharmonic. Seeking asylum abroad, they, along with thousands of Belarusians who have left, are asking the question, "Where is my homeland?"

A film about the city that has been lost forever. Originally from Mariupol, the film director Svitlana Lischynska shares her reminiscences and tells a story of her relations with the city. Svitlana meets refugees who fled Mariupol in order to recall together what the city had been like before it was destroyed by Russian troops.

In the most terrible and dark times a journalist has one simple job to record what is happening. The stories of eyewitnesses in order not to allow new history books to lie about what people saw with their own eyes. The people we met had very different life histories and political views. But the war did not make any of them happy. The war brought them trouble, destruction and death. The authors began to shoot this film almost immediately after the start of the war. Filming was long and difficult - thousands of kilometers, more than a hundred hours of recorded interviews, several dozen protagonists. But the main thing is grief, which cannot be measured in any quantities. This film is about the grief brought by the war and about people who are trying to survive.

Evfrosinia Kersnovskaya, who challenged the Stalinist repressive machine, not only left us her memories, she created a unique archive of drawings, which can best be defined as a Gulag comic. In addition to horror, there is a lot of sarcastic, funny and, oddly enough, life-affirming in it.

Yuri Shalaev was born in 1998 in Murmansk. Graduated from the Moscow Higher Command School. With the rank of lieutenant, he was assigned to the 70th Guards Regiment in the city of Shali, the Chechen Republic. In early March, he entered the war in Ukraine with his military unit. A month later he was taken prisoner. Records from Shalaev's phone turned out to be at the disposal of the journalist of "Ukrainska Pravda" Mikhail Tkach. He edited the 24-minute film "Occupier" on their basis. The story of Shalaev can be traced from 10 months before the start of the war and graduation from the school up to the last shots in Ukraine, where the lieutenant arrived as part of the Russian troops.

"Money was given only for the coffin and the monument." How does a Russian family get compensation for the death of a soldier in Ukraine? And why do mothers in Russia consider their sons the property of the state?

The authors began to shoot this film even before Russia started the war against Ukraine. They wanted to talk about people who, in the situation of “freedom shutdown” in Russia, continue to do their good and decent work. However, life (and Vladimir Putin) made serious adjustments to the script. Russia sent troops to Ukraine, journalism was actually banned in the country, human rights protection was destroyed. Many of the protagonists of the film faced a terrible choice, how to continue to live and work when your life and your work in Russia are now criminal by definition? The authors continued to shoot the end of the broadcast of "Echo" and the defeat of "Dozhd", searches in the "Memorial" and the termination of the release of "Novaya". Birth of "Novaya Gazeta. Europe”, the renewed first broadcasts of “Dozhd”, the honest and dangerous work of many colleagues from abroad. This film is a unique historical document, a cast of tragedy. This film is about the trouble that happened to Russia and was filmed in real time. Chronicle of a diving country.

In the film, experts from different countries not only explain the causes of the famine, they talk about humanity, which erased the boundaries between states and peoples. The Nansen Mission, the American ARA, the English Quakers, and several dozen other organizations, which worked in Soviet Russia at the time, helped people survive, and the Soviet government was grateful for the help. The famine of the 1920s became one of the first symbols of the international struggle for life. Therefore, the film is not only the story of political decisions, it is, first and foremost, the story of humanism, which should not be forgotten.

Kursk railway station, cold train. Night road to the city of Pokrov. Colony N2 is located there, where another trial against Navalny is underway. Ilya Yashin goes to see him as a defense witness, who communicates with fellow travelers and talks about prison, about life and about the war.

After leaving Russia in 2003, I return with my mother to Volgograd. Between an idealized childhood that I carry in my memories, and her painful reality of these harsh time we once lived together, we reminisce about the decade following the 1991 Moscow putsch.

The film is only available for watching in Latvia and Russia.