Several dozen soldiers in a military train are transporting an exhibition of captured weapons from Syria across Russia. Artists of military ensembles accompany this holiday. In each city, they are met by thousands of spectators who dance and take pictures with them, and their children swear allegiance to their homeland.

The film reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily turn themselves into submissive, faceless creatures. Thus, they become a resource to be used by the state – a grey lump of ore oblivious to the innate value of their individual life. The town of Apatity first came into being as a concentration camp. Today, 50 years is considered a ripe old age in the industrial town of Apatity, while the environment is at the brink of an ecological disaster. The adults while away their lives at the factory bus stop whilst the children – the token of their immortality – miss out on family life and warmth. Instead, they are left in the care of state structures that inculcate in them the traits of prisoners, making use of celebration-like dancing and marching trainings. Neither the children nor their educators are aware of this. They are convinced that they are bringing up a generation of patriotic heroes, fated to become legionnaires of the Earth and the adjacent cosmic expanses. The only way out of this system is death. However, if you die for the state you become an immortal hero. The dancing and marching fall into the conveyor-belt rhythm of the moving trains, full of grey lumps of ore that are also destined for immortality: they will become phosphorus fertiliser on which new life will grow. Film website: https://immortal.ee

A woman’s biggest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

Natasha lives in the small village of Shelemishevo with her grandmother and sister. The mother of the girls died, the father had a different family. Very soon Natasha will be 18 years old. "I've been waiting for this for so long!" she says on the eve of her birthday.

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

The film DAYMOHK tells the story of Chechen dance star and choreographer Ramzan Ahmadov, whose dance group Daymohk has found refuge with Chechnya’s current president Kadyrov. Momentarily postponing the extinction of this age-old folk dance. But the sacrifice this move takes, is great: in an attempt to save his country’s tradition, Ramzan collaborates with the authorities and sacrifices what he loves the most.

In the Siberian countryside, marriage is traditionally seen as the greatest achievable happiness for a woman. But the 90-year-old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka, has always remained alone. At the kitchen table, she contemplates life, love, regret and loneliness—has she maybe brought this fate upon herself? The film is a spinoff of a film that screened at IDFA 2016 any many other international film festivals, Siberian Love, in which filmmaker Olga Delane explored the same views on love and marriage.

Documentary essay about the Ural monotown Karabash. It is often referred to by the media as "the dirtiest city on the planet". This title has not been officially confirmed, but two centuries of copper production have really left a tangible imprint on the local nature, putting the city on the brink of an ecological disaster. The main force in the city is the copper smelter, the main source of both jobs and pollution. Young worker Volodya tells how life works in the city, where nothing ever changes.

SPACE DOGS embarks on a quest after the street dog Laika who was the first living being sent into space, where she burned out. A legend says that today her ghost is wandering through the Russian capital. SPACE DOGS is a magical journey across our earthly borders and tells a so far unknown story of Moscow stray dogs – from ascent into space to the life on the surface of the Earth.

Yulia was born in prison, and three women at different times were her mothers. Now that Yulia is seven years old, each of them claims to keep the girl for herself. They all want to do the best, but their actions threaten their daughter's future.

My granny Zina had lived in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and, after retirement she moved to Crimea. Cheerful and bossy, she has always been uniting our big family. After the Ukrainian revolution and the annexation of Crimea by Russia, visiting her became an endless hustle. The family was separated, Crimea turned into 'a distant planet’, like Mars, and its’ environment became unfriendly towards grandmother. The same old place... with a new culture, symbols of state, music and propaganda. What a time to be an old lady! Trying to fit into a new environment she ends up feeling mixed-up and lonely. The entire family manages to come for the celebration of granny's 80th anniversary and help her to make a crucial decision.

Julia Polniuk (10) trains figure skating - and there is not much time left for her to succeed in sports and to meet her family’s expectations... After the Euromaidan Revolution, the Polniuk family moved from Ukraine to Poland. Now they begin a brand new life in Warsaw without good jobs or money. Julia‘s mother Marina (37) has only one goal in mind: to offer her children a better life. This year, Julia has the opportunity to take part in the Polish Figure Skating Championships. This could bring her fame and success, and maybe even help the whole family to obtain Polish citizenship. But can a child spread its wings and fly with such a burden on its shoulders?

Valentin is a projectionist who worked for 44 years in one of the oldest Kiev cinemas. One day on the day of his 60th birthday, there was a fire in the cinema, and the man was forced to quit. Since then, he has struggled to find a new meaning to life in a rapidly changing country.

Shot on 16mm, Transnistra follows a group of young people as they move from a carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria. At the forefront is Tanya, a headstrong young woman who spends her time with young men who all seem to be in love with her.

In the industrial town of Nizhny Tagil, behind the Ural mountains, the pursuit of an impossible love story between the narrator and Ekaterina, a young woman descendant of noble family of Russian aristocracy - the Orlovs. Navigating between poetic illustrations of the passion that blossoms under our eyes, and schizophrenic wanderings in a hostile environment, the film opens in its second part to some characters linked to Ekaterina's world, offering an intimate and heart-breaking portrait of Russia.

Some time ago they would come here to walk their dogs, play with their kids or jog. Today they are two hostile parties fighting over a patch of ground in a park. Every Sunday half of them come to pray by a wooden cross, and another half is there to defend a small spot of land, which they want to stay public. Who could have imagined such a confrontation in a country which had been fully secular, even atheistic for decades? Still, a collision between orthodox believers and local dwellers, who don’t want to have a new church instead of a park or a public garden is quite common in the Russian capital these days. “200 Churches” development project started by Russian Orthodox Church in cooperation with Moscow government provoked several severe conflicts in the city. The film focuses on a story of Torfyanka, a small park where contention between the believers and park defenders has turned into a severe struggle with night watches, physical fights and mutual offence.

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.

The film tells the story of a small family, consisting of a grandfather retired from the army, and his stripper grandson. It is not just a story of a relationship, but rather a reflection of entire Belarus and the post-Soviet. Moreover, it’s a universally-recognized reflection of a generation gap.

The memory of the Great Patriotic War is the only thing that this small Russian town lives on. As a great treasure, this memory is preserved here in every home and passed down from generation to generation. And it is precisely this that prevents people from realizing that, against their own will, they are involved in a new war.

A giant white canvas travels through the streets of Minsk. Inspired by the multi-colored rectangles on the walls of the city, the abstract artist Zakhar Kudin copies them onto the canvas and thus tries to fit into the landscape of his native country. He argues that the purpose of true art is to ask questions, not seek answers. However, such statements do not quite suit the authorities, who, among other curious people, are trying to interpret the work of a street artist. Watching the birth of an artistic phenomenon, the film shows modern Belarus with irony and love and through the mouth of passers-by asks questions that are relevant not only for this country.

Three Russian women in their 30s who all seek the same: security, a higher social status and eternal happiness. Not an easy wish to fulfill in today's Russia, where the patriarchy dominates. So our heroines take matters into their own hands and join a course in the art of seducing a man - preferably a rich one. Seven years of recordings paint a sometimes tragicomic picture of gender roles and femininity in Putin's Russia.