"Why, say, there are so many people here? -And why, to fill the centuries ..." (Lemonov) An essayistic architecture documentary dwelling on modern day Ukraine, Constructivism and the Soviet revolution.

Last trip in an ambulance. The driver, a cheerful Armenian, comes to those who can no longer be helped and becomes their guide between life and death. The road, meanwhile, shines with bright lanterns, blurs into an abstract pattern, screams with sirens. There is an inexorable countdown.

Ruslana is a Ukrainian teenager waiting for the desired and unattainable growing up. She explores the outside world with infectious energy. The world of a military town in eastern Ukraine, where there are so many interesting and unfamiliar things, where there is so much danger. Parents do not support her dream to study in Kyiv as a cameraman. But she takes the camera and shoots.

In the Apsheronsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, among the majestic Caucasus Mountains and impenetrable forests, small villages were lost. They are connected to the rest of the world only by a thin thread of narrow-gauge railway winding through the gorges, and this is the only way back and forth. A small old trolley railcar, nicknamed by the locals "Matrix", every day delivers food, fuel and other benefits of civilization. People who, for one reason or another, prefer loneliness and unity with nature to noisy city life make their journey on it.

A representative of the Nivkh people lives in a small village on the seashore on Sakhalin Island. Every day he fishes and gets food for himself and his animals. After work, he takes out an accordion and sings in Ukrainian.

Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But it boils in the House of Culture, where local residents are rehearsing a play based on a play by a Spanish playwright. The main characters poison each other with poison, try to shoot their relatives, die, writhing from convulsions, and at some point it is no longer clear where life is and where the theater is.

An audiovisual immersion in the inner world of people with developmental disabilities living in Psychoneurological Institution No. 3 near Peterhof, the documentary short, Mind’s the Limit, tells the story of a place that may look like a treatment facility but is in actuality a place of social adaptation and a space for creative experimentation. Many live under the care of its staff until their final days, while exploring new worlds through abstract painting and electronic music. Creativity is their only way to connect with the outside world. What path do they have to travel for their work to become contemporary art?

Russian traveler-photographer, after serving 3 years in captivity in Syria, returns to his homeland.

Memories of childhood keep indescribable feelings of freedom, amazing experiments, carefree happiness and eternal love. The past tends to be forgotten, and only the destroyed walls of the pioneer camp remain, keeping the secrets of the past Soviet era.

In 2012, in the very heart of the Yamal Peninsula, the Bovanenkovo oil and gas industrial complex started operating. Indigenous tribes of reindeer herders pass through this industrial area, because this is the only way to summer pastures, to the Kara Sea. This is the story of people whose destinies are closely connected with the lands on which they live and with the traditions of their ancestors, but their future and even the present becomes more and more fragile and unreliable with the advent of civilization.

The story of the transformation of a homeless man who went through a nine-month rehabilitation in a Christian center and, after its completion, tries to start life anew.

Every day, Alena walks kilometers through snowdrifts and railway tracks to get to training. Fencing is all she has in life. The tough and demanding coach sees her talent and wants to make her a champion. What does Elena want?

They say that if a daughter looks like her father, she will definitely be happy. What if you look like someone you've never seen in your life? And all you know about him is speculation, fantasies and a small bronze figurine.

Dina, who alternates between India, Moscow and Odessa, travels to Naberezhnye Chelny, where she grew up, to visit relatives. And especially a distant relative, the girl Ramina.

Veronica and Alexander, the young family of Ukrainian artists, trapped in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, decided to escape to Vancouver, Canada. This film follows them while they wait for visa in the Fall of 2013.

Brest. Small town on the border between East and West. History of the town is full of events that played crucial role not only in lives of its residents but in live of a big part of Europe. Urban legends, memories of past generations, collected in a family album of Brest photographer Evgeniy Bgantsev (Stoker). The artist with great desire and passion talks about his hometown. Model Luba who is not from Brest, during photo sessions, not only poses, but listens to Evgeniy’s lectures about the history of the town in which she lives now. They look like in 1990’s when post-soviet people finally obtained freedom of speech. Stoker’s story is the story of an artist who has consciously chosen to live in a parallel reality at the same time does not lose contact with the real world. Conscious internal emigration. Surreal everyday life. Black and white photography. Fatherland. Brest. Women. Unicorns.

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see a familiar city in this film, this is a reflection, partly mockumentary, about emigration. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small town, from which both left. Geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the invented are blurring while the characters are looking for the answer to the question “why leave or why stay”, if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.

On the eve of the World Cup in Russian football, there is one more club. Newcomers immediately want to become champions of the last division.

A portrait of a Suzdal lively masseur named Boris, who listens attentively to patients, but also speaks no less himself. For women over fifty, Boris puts on “sexual music”, for girls he sings chorales of his own composition with “hallelujah” in the final, the visitor with the Bible in mind asks why Boris was not among the apostles. It seems that the hero does not waste a minute, as well as the film, which squeezed into a short footage the story of Boris's life, told by himself in his marvelous way and with a desire.

Left without a job, thirty-two-year-old Dmitry decides to make repairs in the apartment inherited from his father in order to start a new life. Freeing the house from family heirlooms, he will discover an amazing similarity between his own and his father's fate.

Marina has been doing gymnastics for over 15 years. She is the oldest gymnast of the Zhemchuzhina Olympic Reserve School. She would be happy to end her career and live normally, study, have a hobby, love. But at the behest of the coach, she did not go to the competitions that she had been striving for her entire career. Therefore, at the age of 20, she is forced to stay in the sport for another two years in order to wait for the next chance, and her coach is forced to undergo endless trials, because that very prison of Marina is the life of Elena Anatolyevna.

A few weeks in the life of a young Paralympic athlete Andrei Filippov (19 years old), a master of sports in swimming for the blind. Having met Andrey in his small homeland, together with him we will make a short but important journey from home training in Volgograd to a performance in Moscow at the Russian Cup. On this journey, we will try to get to know Andrei a little better and understand how he lives. Every day he has to overcome a variety of difficulties: moral, financial, health problems. Andrei was born an albino with 5 percent vision in a city where, according to him, being special is almost a crime. And from early childhood, he got used to mockery and misunderstanding of peers. All these years, Andrey has been opposing himself to the world around him, and swimming has become a way for him to fight for a "place in the sun." In his case, this expression takes on an additional color, because direct contact with sunlight is contraindicated for albinos.

After a ten-year absence, Victoria comes to her native Budenovsk. There, her relatives and the fresh grave of her recently deceased sister are waiting for her.

The once populous Russian-Tatar village of Tankaevka is gradually falling into disrepair. Abandoned wooden houses gape with gaping windows, overgrown with quinoa and bird cherry orchards. Nevertheless, the life of the remaining twelve inhabitants continues, they slowly repair a rusty tractor, knit birch brooms, mold dumplings and, remembering the past, sing old forgotten songs.

One of the most colorful and mysterious people in Russian MMA is Anna Azovskaya. At home, she is a gentle mother, but in the ring, she is a tough, uncompromising coach of her sons. She prepares for the battle as for a social event, namely, she chooses a dress, does her hair. Before the son enters the ring, the mother enters the ring, she dances a frightening Cossack dance with sabers. The whole course of the fight is written on her face, Anna is doubly worried as a mother and as a coach.

There are three eras for memories.