Water is the main protagonist, seen in all its great and terrible beauty. Mountains of ice move and break apart as if they had a life of their own. Kossakovsky's film travels the world, from the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal and Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma, to Venezuela's mighty Angel Falls in order to paint a portrait of this fluid life force in all its glorious forms. Fragile humans experience life and death, joy and despair in the face of its power.

Such children in Ukraine are born 5-6 per year. Nobody knows the exact numbers. Every second person dies as a baby. Their skin is as fragile as butterfly wings. This disease is incurable. But with proper care, they can live. The most important thing for a child is a stable, reliable mother. A child can have any state of pain, wounds, and the mother should be there, like a rock. And then the child feels the strength that his mother loves him, and in any sick state, with cries, or more calm, mother is always there.

Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany. The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.

According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."

How Lusya Stein, a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow, went to work in the campaign headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak.

Novaya Gazeta was founded in 1993. This is one of the first independent publications in post-Soviet Russia. And one of the last. Novaya constantly publishes high-profile investigations. He has more than 60 prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the UNESCO Prize, three nominations for the Nobel Prize. The film "Novaya" tells about the life of the editorial office in difficult times.

Editing director - Kirill Sakharnov

A portrait of the artist Oscar Rabin against the backdrop of three decades of Soviet history, a story about confronting an authoritarian regime with paint and a brush, about the limits of compromise, about freedom in an unfree country.

The history of the struggle of the "refuseniks" Jews in the USSR for freedom, told through the "love story" of Natan and Avital Scharansky.

On April 23, after 11 days of mass protests, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. A film about how the opposition led by Nikol Pashinyan won.

Seven people left the small village of Kedrovoe in the Sverdlovsk region for Syria to fight as part of the Wagner PMC. After the battle near Deir ez-Zor on February 7, where the PMC suffered heavy losses, news is expected in Kedrovo.