Jane was born in St. Petersburg, lives in Moscow, works as a model. Her father moved to Russia from Ghana when he was 20 years old. Listening to her father's stories, Jane always wanted to visit her homeland. She had never been to Africa, never seen her relatives, including her grandmother and aunt. Suddenly, Jane learns that her aunt will become the chief of a region in Ghana and decides to travel to Accra to attend the inauguration of the leader and meet her family.

Nicolae is a 9-year-old boy. He is a pupil at the Russian language school in Soroca. He really likes to go to school. He looks forward to going to the "last day of school" to find out if he is going to be accepted into the third grade. He knows all the streets of Soroca, because, together with his brother, Gena, they wander all day. Soroca - is a small town in the north of the Republic of Moldova. It is known thanks to the medieval fortress, the oldest on the territory of the country, but also thanks to the Roma community, that lives compactly in a neighborhood on a hill from Soroca. The Roma are eccentric here. They built big houses, some of them being replicas of known buildings in the world. Hence the name of the movie The Bolshoi Theatre, referring to the well-known building in Moscow, but also to the theatrical nature of the Roma people.

A girl cannot overcome the barrier associated with her bisexuality and give vent to feelings in relation to other girls. Then cinema comes to the rescue.

Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.

Set against the backdrop of one of Russia's most industrially brutal and polluted cities, Harmony explores social and gender dynamics of Russian youth through the paradigms and preconceptions of the country’s most prominent sports: ice hockey and rhythmic gymnastics. The two respectively embody Russia’s nationalistic interpretation of hyper-masculine and feminine ideals. Here, sport and everyday life gather broader meaning — reflecting the traits and obsessions of society as a whole.

Elena is going home, to a village located on the front line in the "gray zone" of the Donetsk region, where she spent her childhood. In the garden, to keep the weeds out of the neighboring plots, her brother planted mustard. The girl lies down in the thorny grass and remembers how big and tasty apricots, cherries, pears, sweet cherries used to be.
The film is only available for viewing in Russia.

"De facto" is devoted to the problem of appropriation and re-interpretation of history in a post-truth society. Filmed in Lviv in 2016-2017, it shows a complex picture of the coexistence of diametrically different communities in the same post-Soviet space. The annual rituals associated with the events of World War II, initiated by various political, social and ethnic groups, have the character of a performance and, despite the tragic historical context, often cause a comic effect. The film is a joint work of artist Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair and historian Alexandra Vakhter.

This is a movie about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teenagers take a Cossack upbringing.

Dina Loskutova, a person with a severe disability, is moving from a psycho-neurological boarding school to a House in the wild, where she can live with other people with special needs and developmental disabilities in the village of Razdolie among ordinary people. How their life develops, about the joys and trials of the first years of free life, this film tells.

Uncle Sasha is a dreamer who lives on an island in a "dead" village, surrounded on all sides by water. He dreams of the restoration of the monarchy and the revival of the wise Russian way of life, trampled by European influence. Every spring he builds a bridge, and every winter he breaks it with ice. Now Uncle Sasha has begun the construction of the thirtieth bridge.

In 1917, during the Bolshevik Revolution, hundreds of families, partisans of the tsar and fallen imperial Russia fled across Europe. One hundred years later, nostalgia for the motherland is still alive.

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has been conducting a peacekeeping operation in the conflict area between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova. Beginning with an observation of a tripartite "peacekeeping post" on the Dniester River, this documentary shows life in the region sluggishly watched by the mission's soldiers.

How many nuclear power plants do you know where pets roam? Inside the reactor, Olga set up a farm. Sergei is hiding in the labyrinths of the station from reality, and Vitaly, who for many years led the construction of a nuclear power plant, settled nearby on a makeshift ship. The Crimean nuclear power plant does not let go either those who built it or those who lived nearby. It was the most expensive project of the Soviet Union, but the nuclear power plant did not work for a single day. The empire collapsed, the annexation of the Crimea changed the fate of Russia. But which way? People live here as if in another dimension, hoping for something and expecting something. But what?

Rising star of Voronezh rock music Zakharova dreams of traveling with her band around the world, writing novels and always being in the spotlight. And even more, how to fall in love. Zakharova has two options.

The Kuril Islands still remain a mystery to the rest of the world to this day. The popular science film "Land of People" rediscovers the unique territory of the Kuril Islands, with their unique human and natural wealth. Repeating the route of the first colonists, the viewer will get acquainted not only with the extraordinary beauties of this distant land, but also with the modern inhabitants of the islands, people of outstanding professions, somewhere adventurers, somewhere simply strong and strong in spirit, who live in places far from modern civilization, where there is neither the Internet, nor cellular communication, nor other, the most familiar items of everyday life for a mainlander.

Georgia, Kutaisi. The war had just ended, there were few joys. Everyone's nerves were on edge, the homeless went in flocks. I lived as a partisan in my hometown, and the only island where I felt good was Library No. 6, this is how the amazing childhood story of the artist, writer and director Rezo Gabriadze begins, in which real facts are mixed with the fantasies and dreams of a 10-year-old boy. In simple words of a little boy, Rezo Gabriadze talks about love, respect, repentance, forgiveness, growing up, interspersing funny and sad in equal proportions. He tells charming and touching stories about how to pass the test of humanity, comprehend compassion and find beauty in the little things in life. A feature-length animated film based on the stories and drawings of Rezo himself is a warm and touching declaration of love to the artist from the people closest to him.

For the last few years, Matvey and Katya have been living in the countryside. An event occurs in their life that leads to a radical revision of the relationship. The past and the present are intertwined in one confused narrative in which the characters lose sleep, kick each other out of the house, throw themselves into their arms, starting a new circle. And it was at this time that friends from Berlin came to visit them.

The life of a musician and artist in Transnistria is not easy, you cannot find a normal job, and as soon as you think about the meaning of life, your hand reaches for the bottle.

Life consists of worries, household chores, dinner conversations, study, fatigue and the desire to sleep. But you are still happy if your family is strong, and there are thousands of favorite things around you that you have surrounded yourself with. Katya is in her final months of pregnancy and is making a children's book. Fairy tale. About Ersh Ershovich. Stefania will be born soon, this fairy tale and this film are the first gifts to her from her parents.

The young man plans to lead his own political party and find the love of his life, but for now he randomly moves from one end of Moscow to the other, starting conversations with random passers-by. One of them will call him a “smeared contradiction”, seeing in Kolya not just a strange guy, but almost a whole generation.

At the cemetery near Moscow for thirty years, shovel to shovel, gravedigger friends Sasha and Yura have been working. The first is a former athlete who undermined his health at the beginning of his career. The second is a graduate physicist in the past, a failed scientist who left science in the 90s for the sake of a quick and solid income. They feel free, provide for their families, and in this they see the meaning of their existence. Yura helps her divorced daughter raise her child alone. Sasha's daughter is already an adult, and the former athlete finds an outlet in coaching, teaching teenagers martial arts. The bogatyr Yura, who even in winter digs naked to the waist, hopes that he will have enough health for another ten years, just in time to put his granddaughter on his feet. Although the former physicist is already 63 years old. Sasha is younger than his partner, but it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to combine the work of a gravedigger and a coach. Friends have a new partner, 40-year-old bankrupt businessman Alexei. He hopes to make ends meet and leave the cemetery quickly, but, as you know, "nothing is more permanent than temporary." Under the bottomless sky over eternal peace. Are the earthly dreams and hopes of our heroes destined to come true? After all, as Brodsky wrote, "each grave is the end of the earth."

In a nursing home for the elderly, the old woman Raya walks through the endless corridors. While the rest of the residents are preparing for the dance, she stubbornly searches for her home and cannot find it.

Luda has not spoken with her daughter Masha for 30 years. They live in different countries, speak different languages. Accidently recorded first conversation between them has inspired the director to produce this film. Is there any family connection left between them? Is it possible to recover it with a call or a meeting? This film is the personal story of the director`s family. It has never been discussed before. Director`s grandmother and aunt are the main characters of the film who are talking about their past for the first time in public.

The main character of the film is a tenth-grader who is fond of tattoos, a typical representative of a certain stratum of modern youth, a representative of the younger generation of the millennium. Not a street boy, but completely homely, he is not going to give up his comfort, but he does not particularly strive for more than he has.

Filled and inspired by the idea of selfless service to people, despite the incredible everyday difficulties and the almost daily threat to health, Volodya and his family live on the lands of the primitive Turkana tribe, trying to make the lives of these people a little easier. The hardships of serving in Africa are shared by many of our heroes' compatriots. By helping financially and regularly making short visits, benefactors feel spiritual belonging, while treating the life of the local people as an unprecedented attraction.

Self-harm is a growing term for non-suicidal self-harm, a symptom of many mental personality disorders. This film is an attempt to remove the stigma of taboo and public condemnation of such behavior.

Story of Gulnara, mother of 142 children, who is being sued by union officials' for child trafficking, sexual and labour exploitation. The object of the claim(charges) is the Issyk-Ata resort property, famous for its healing mineral geothermal hot springs, which was donated to Gulnara's orphanage by businessman Afanasy in the 90s, who then renounced the world to enter a convent for personal reasons.

The hypnotic everyday life of the artist Artur Isachenkov, the one hundred and second history of Zen, or the unbearable burden of quoting in the exterior.

Documentary verse. One day in the life of the last narrow-gauge railway passing through the mountains of the Caucasus. There are people of different ages and strata in the car, their conversations and a lone driver, who has been traveling on the replacement of his best friend for 20 years after his death.

Thirty-year-old Tanya really wants to get married. However, her fiance is not as perfect as it might seem at first glance. Therefore, the girl decides to find a replacement for him.

The two men cross paths at work. One opens any locks, the other works for a bank and takes away living space for debts.

Film-essay about the city and its inhabitants. Three stories fall into the camera lens, but all of them, one way or another, are united by a through motif of nostalgia for youth, its virtues and injuries. The reverse movement of time becomes a form for poetic conversation about changeable space.

For the past twenty-two years, the hermit has been living in a dense forest five kilometers from the nearest village. His house is a canopy made of dense fabric in several layers, an iron stove and an earthen floor. In winter, you have to stay cut off from civilization for a long time because of the fast, half-frozen river. The hermit believes that after nine months of living in the forest, you remain as if naked alone with yourself.

A wide variety of people are invited to experience all the stages of death from dying to existence "on the other side" in order to understand how we imagine and depict death. Death is collective (what will happen to everyone) and individual (what will happen to you).

A man who was lost in the war and found himself in Venice. A sniper who became a photographer because the optics of a rifle are similar to those of a camera. Roman Cherpak fled the Ukrainian SSR at the age of 14, grew up in Israel and is now raising two sons in Venice and Moscow. He has his own gallery-studio in the center of Venice, where he exhibits his work and teaches.

The grandson finds the grave of his grandfather, who went to the front in 1941 and died in a fascist prisoner of war camp.

Four guys from Russia set out on a 30 day bike ride from Liverpool to London in search of future world music stars. Concert halls and recording studios, rehearsal bases and transitions, festivals and clubs and, as a result, unique stories of talented musicians and their lives.

The Northerners is a cycle of film essays with a focus on Northern individualism. Each one of the three parts plays out in different places around the Kola Peninsula over one day. The story evolves around the everyday life of three people that share no formal ties. Igor, who belongs to a dynasty of pilots, is a polar aviation squad commander; Vassily is a Murmansk merchant port tug master; Volodya is a woodcutter, leader of a wood harvesting guild. As most of those living in the North, they came here for work, and though they weren’t initially planning on staying on, they ended up staying forever. They share this peculiar perception of reality, a special rhythm of life and the way they see themselves and others. They have taught themselves not to fear to surrender their lives to natural cycles, to be proactive, to count on no one but themselves yet to always help everyone, even strangers, not to make plans and not to get down.

Roller derby is a sport that was born from dance marathons, which has passed in almost a hundred years from demonstrative female fights and tracks with alligators to a space where everyone is welcome and everyone is equal. Where is your derby name, the password that opens the door wherever there is a roller derby: all over the world you will find like-minded people, you will be sheltered, fed and warmed. The film tells the story of the first Russian roller derby team White Night Furies from St. Petersburg.

An archive photo from 1940 of a murdered woman trying to save her son with her body becomes an inspiration for contemplating over film´s boundaries - geographical as well as metaphorical ones. People on different sides of the Latvian – Russian border sense the import of historical realities in a completely different way. One side associates it with liberation, for the other side it means the loss of freedom. A well-known Latvian author, Davis Simanis, produces an explosive testament about the tension on EU´s eastern borders.

Alena and Alexey love each other. But due to the fact that they have to live in the same apartment with relatives, or maybe for some other reason, their life together threatens to turn into a living hell.

Belarus, Winter 2015. The omnipotent president Loukachenko is starting his campaign looking for a 5th mandate. As Kostia celebrates his18th birthday and gets ready to vote for the first time, he takes us around in his village and among his relatives as they all try to understand and conceive their country and their future.

A series of video observations in the spirit of "visual anthropology", filmed by the author in the period 2008-2016 in Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland and Russia. Life as it is, strange, incomprehensible, clumsy and beautiful.

Once upon a time a small tribe of men went to battle an invincible tower.

In the Ukrainian South a bunch of men wanders in search of scrap metal. This time they found an exceptionally large prey. Armed with a rope, a ladder and a torch-cutter they dive into the fight.

Festivals:
Artdocfest 2018, Environment
Jihlava IDFF 2018, Special mention of the jury, Between the Seas Student Competition

Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the extravagant nightclub life of St. Petersburg, in the society of drug addicts, outcasts and sex fetishists.

Perestroika's contemporaries recall the hopes, expectations, and disappointments associated with it. Turning to emotional memory, they realize themselves not just as witnesses and eyewitnesses, but as real participants in history.