What is the woman thinking? What does he discuss with his girlfriends? What worries her? How to meet true love? How to deal with the onset of old age? How to find the man of your dreams? Voice messages on these topics from different, unfamiliar women are collected in one monologue and superimposed on lyrical, eccentric, unexpected urban scenes.

A documentary-experimental film that tells about the life and culture of the Volga Germans, as well as about the heritage of this people. Eigengrau is an illusory dark gray color that people see in the absence of light.

The film “Belarus 23.34” is a story of Belarusians who were subjected to repressions. The film was made on the basis of 25 interviews with victims and chronicles. The film shows the path of a detainee at a protest in Belarus: march and detention, a ride in a prison truck, registration at a police station, trial, prison, release and reflection on the experience.

Platon spent the whole winter in an abandoned house. In the spring, he went outside with a small video camera in his hands.

Spring fires end, they are replaced by summer ones, after which autumn ones come, every year they rage stronger and stronger, not stopping even in winter. Four stories of volunteer forest firefighters about the desire to preserve the most valuable and help people overcome the delusions that lead to disaster every year. The film is about the changes that people driven by the love of nature can achieve, about their difficulties and victories.

What is stronger: the death of a loved one or a state propaganda? The war between Russia and Ukraine goes. Among the all Russian republics, Buryatia almost immediately found itself as a region with the highest number of dead military. Funerals and zinc coffins have been coming to Buryatia almost every day since February 24, 2022. The government of Buryatia is counting the heroes, posthumously. This is a reflection film from the stories and thoughts of loved ones of the new "war heroes", supplemented by the reality of their life in one of the most depressing regions of Russia. This is scary, but worth to know.

The Soviet atomic bomb had its own homeland, a closed military city in the Chelyabinsk region, which today is called Ozersk. In 1947, the first nuclear plant in the USSR, the Mayak Production Association, was built in Ozersk. However, the revolutionary nuclear industry had its own price, because since 1949 Mayak had been dumping tens of tons of liquid radioactive waste into the Techa River every day for ten years, on the banks of which at that time there were dozens of settlements. Later, the government began to resettle these settlements, but some villages were left in their original place. So, Brodokalmak, Russkaya Techa and Nizhnepetropavlovskoye are still located near the Techa River, the level of radiation in which is still extremely high. The film tells the stories of the inhabitants of these places, who are forced to survive in the presence of radiation and who inevitably consume small doses along with river water. How is the invisible danger perceived and perceived by the locals? How does the secrecy surrounding the nuclear project continue to affect the population of the Techa River? And why were these people left to survive alone with the atom?

Olga is a loving mother of two children. Children's father is a wealthy businessman who rarely took part in their lives. One "inconvenient" comment turns everything upside down... It is a story of several weeks of a single woman living in a continuous struggle for her children. And about children — victims of a situation in which no one gives them the right to choose.

What happens in an environment where a 12-year-old boy decides whether to go home to sleep or not.

A film about the events of 2019, when Russia still had a chance to go the other way. The destruction of the opposition and the actual ban on an alternative point of view from the pro-government led us to today's events.

The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.

After the death of her grandmother, Xenia is left alone in an old village house. All her life she dreamed of moving, but now the house does not let her go. Time has frozen and turned into a dream, and maybe there is no one left, and only the old house tells its stories.

Masha and Ilya were born around the time Vladimir Putin came to power. The girl and the boy, just like their friends, wanted to live in a free, democratic and open country. Fighting for freedom and their future, our heroes organize discussion clubs and protest actions, participate in pickets and give lectures, support their comrades who are behind bars, try to change the minds of their relatives, friends and ordinary passers-by in various Russian cities. “Moscow, come out!” shouts Masha at a rally. But Moscow does not come out, it is busy and in a hurry. The centuries-old machine of unfreedom sweeps the boys away. War breaks out. And we all find ourselves in another reality.

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Friends and relatives call Lydia a woman with an impeccable image. She visits salons, lectures on fashion, carefully selects outfits, and is proud of her pedigree. In public, the woman is smiling and friendly, she reads poetry with her poet husband, talks about high things, but if you look closely, it turns out that everything is far from being so attractive. What kind of person is really under bright hats and what does the approval of the society in which she is worth to a woman?

A film about difficult trials for dogs and people in the conditions of the Arctic during the traditional national dog sled race in Chukotka.

Fences are an integral part of Russian culture. They love 3-meter fences in dachas and private homes. City streets are dotted with fences, which often only interfere with normal movement around the city. They like to isolate themselves from the world with an iron curtain. The film is a visual reflection and an attempt to answer the question why life in Russia is surrounded by a fence.

In 2014, after Crimea was annexed into the Russian Federation, the country authorities began a genocide against the peninsula’s indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars. Many men were arrested and convicted in trumped-up terrorism cases. Women whose husbands and sons were imprisoned fight for justice, and their children have to become adults ahead of time. Grief unites the entire nation, but every year the authorities arrest more and more Crimean Tatars.

After a nuclear war, a small group of people survives in a bomb shelter. They fight for limited resources and struggle with radiation and monsters. This is the plot of a role-playing game organized in Crimean bomb shelters in 2019. The film follows a group of enthusiasts, who explored different versions of the future designed as a post-apocalyptic world. The role-playing game was a way of processing the memory of previous wars and reflecting on the possibility of coming wars — a reflection that today seems uncanny in light of Russia’s invasion to Ukraine in 2022 and the role of Crimean annexation in the current war.

A variation on the theme of the relationship between a man and a woman in modern society.

The director of the film with three children moves to work in Germany. Lost and disoriented in the alien environment, the children start attending a circus school run by 60-year-old Hanspeter Kurtzhals. This helps them learn German and make friends in Germany. And the story of Hanspeter himself plunges the director into the past and forces him to go in search of circus actress Carmen, from whom only a few photographs of 30 years ago remain. In search of Carmen, who spends the night in a new place every week, cannot read or write, does not have an account in social networks and a permanent phone number, the director traveled 500 kilometers, visited four cities and five federal states of Germany, at a fair, in a stable, in in a beer tent, in a gypsy camp, I heard a dozen incredible stories and drew a large family tree.

People live on the edge of the earth, trying to make money by poaching. Children do not notice the humility of their parents and the chaos around them. Chaos is not so much in the surrounding world as in the people themselves. Time has stopped, the days repeat each other, and the children gradually become like their fathers.

This film follows Ukrainian soldiers and civilians from the perspective of a photographer who decided to document modern war with the first photographic technique. Using the technique that dates back to the 19th century poses a question of the absurdity and the timelessness of war.

An elderly person does not want to fit into generally accepted social roles. Not wanting to deceive himself, defending his beliefs, he refuses to share the values of society.

A week in the life of Mishka, a 7-year-old boy from Kiev, who fled the war with his mother in early March 2022. After traveling all over Europe, they came to Madrid.

Albert is haunted by the dreams of his childhood, reminding him of a world within he lost.

Alexander Grigorievich is a lonely man. Both sons emigrated abroad many years ago, each arranged his own personal life and no one remembers his father. Relations with the ex-wife are spoiled, they are not interested in each other's lives. Collecting scrap metal from garbage dumps and handing it over to collection points, only a cat meets him at home.

It happens that the suspicion of stealing a broom and a ring entails the use of a gun and a knife. It happens that someone, trying to fulfill a childhood dream, is caught driving drunk and without a license for the third time. The women who work in the court of a small town know that a lot happens outside the walls of the court, but inside these walls they are trying to create their own pocket world. Judge's assistant Zhenya and secretary of the court session Ksyusha are going to make a film for the anniversary of the court, and meanwhile life goes on as usual with court sessions, birthdays, tea parties and mobilization.

The main character was a successful lawyer in Moscow, but at one point she realized that she was not living her own life. She decided to go to the forest and create a new life there. Did she manage to implement her ideas and find herself?

This is a story about a hunter Valerik who lives in a small Siberian village 700 km from Krasnoyarsk. He spends the whole winter in the forest with his dog Skif, extracting furs to feed his family. Valerik takes pictures of himself with a small digital pocket camera in order to later share his hunting adventures with his beloved wife Zina. He feels himself the master of nature, but the forest in the form of a bear follows in the footsteps of Valerik.

Ukrainian-born jazz pianist, who then lived in Moscow, moves to New York and takes a piano tuning as his day-time job. For 20 years now, his day begins with tuning the note A at 440 Hertz. But can one stop being a musician though?

Film about my son.

A hunter is often branded as a "murderer", "moral monster", etc. Who is a hunter in the modern world?

Two are locked in an apartment on the eve of Victory Day. Where others see fireworks, they hear explosions and air raid alerts.

While the father is trying to get through to his son, he remembers his whole life.

How far do you have to be from the crime scene to avoid being tortured? What can you do to avoid suffering? Will living in a mountain village save you? Are you at risk, helping your father with housework? It is a story of two families who should not have encountered police violence.

A young artist Gleb gets a job in a mental hospital, where he teaches painting to mentally ill people with neuroses, depression and other disorders. He is glad that he finally has the opportunity to do his favorite thing, while benefiting people. However, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Gleb has been losing faith in the future . Constantly listening to the news, losing close friends who have left the country, watching the horrific actions of the Russian authorities and the general mood around him, he increasingly doubts the adequacy of this world. As a result, Gleb comes to the conclusion that the mental hospital is now, oddly enough, the only normal place and decides to stay there.

An extravagant singer and showman is trying to become a star, create a show on a federal channel and avoid a divorce from his wife. But something always goes wrong.

The main character overcomes the loss of his spouse trying to maintain the usual way of life. Is it possible?

The documentary Carriers is a joint journalistic project of the Samizdat My friend, you’re a transformer and Citymobil. This is a story of five taxi drivers from five Russian cities: Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Perm and Moscow. Our heroes are a Russian rapper, a former thief who has become an exemplary family man, a soldier of two armies, who worked as a security guard of the Israeli mayor, a faithful waiting wife of a convict, and a search activist, who jogs every morning in a gas mask. For centuries Russia has been exporting fur, timber, gas and the mystery of the Russian soul, but in what units can this mystery be measured? We tried to measure it in kilometers. The average taxi driver drives a million kilometers in eight years. It's like to the moon and back, and then once again – back to the endless road.

Darina is a twelve-year-old girl whose life has recently changed dramatically. After a difficult divorce, the mother moves to her hometown with her daughter. Darina has to start a new life in a new place.

Three protagonists, three native Petersburgers who have stepped over the age of 80. Their childhood and youth fell on the pre-war and post-war times of the then Leningrad, and people became parents, mentors and educators, surviving fragments of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia and high nobility. What do these women have to say to us young people today? What to share? Will we be able to carry on without loss, to the next generation, what was called the great Russian culture? Perhaps, sincere and subtle communication through the screen with the outstanding protagonists of the film will inspire us in the desire to grow above ourselves? Will those moral principles and commandments that the great mentors in turn shared with our protagonists help us? Every sympathetic viewer will try to find this answer within himself after watching this film.

The love story of Igor, a young man diagnosed with autism. Igor loves Katya. He wants to see her every day, but Katya lives on the other side of the city and their meetings are extremely rare.

The film is about a premonition of an impending war and an attempt to change the situation in the characters' separate small space, whereas globally everything is already predetermined. The protagonist of the film, Liliya, who resides in Moscow, a mother of three children, shortly before the war organizes celebration for her children along with other children in her native village near the border with Ukraine. The celebration's events takes place as if in the USA.

A never before told story about a group of Russian skaters that found themselves stranded in the state of Oklahoma in September of 1994. What was supposed to be a tour of a lifetime quickly turned into one man’s fight to save his lifelong dream. Mikhail Belousov and members of the Russian Ballet on Ice recount the events that unfolded and share their story of community and what it means to be touched by the hand of God.

A picture of anti-war resistance against the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022. Young people are desperate and oppressed, speaking quietly in their kitchen and loud on the streets. A very unpleasant journey through the dictatorship, jail and repressions.

Shaman, Priest, Driver of the "loaf" and Grandmother Valya are residents of the village of Khuzhir, the only settlement on the island of Olkhon in the middle of Lake Baikal. The characters of the film talk about their lives and the problems they face while living in a special place. The main character becomes Lake Baikal, which gives people the strength and faith to cope with all difficulties.

A documentary about people isolated from the outside world. Their adaptation to life is possible only with the help of professional rehabilitation.

Suburban guy, just out of his teenage years, is trying to find his identity though processing divorce of his parents that happened when he was a kid. He immerses himself in memories of the past, fantasies of what could have been and open talks with his mom and dad. He grows to find the strength to heal and forgive.

20-year-old Sasha lives an ordinary life in a million-plus city in southern Russia. In the space of her memory, images from childhood and life with her father and a wild wolf arise. Once upon a time, the father took little Sasha away from her drinking mother, and soon a wild little wolf settled in their apartment.

Tishina remained a homeless child from the age of nine. Her mother moved to Moscow and got in touch with a drug addict. Her drinking father, a truck driver, remained in the village. From the age of eleven, Tisha began to wander around friends in search of new parents.

Putin's decision to attack Ukraine on February 24 set fire to Ukraine. The flame of battles in the hottest spots of the east of the country, and the flame in the souls of people who are ready to sacrifice their lives and everything they suffered for the sake of victory. Moldovan journalists Viorica Tataru and Andrei Kaptarenko were in Ukraine during the first attack, walked along the road of war and documented the life of Ukrainians, what keeps the flame of hope burning, how they hide from the bombing and how they help the men who fight at the front.

Yena lives with her three children in a hastily built house in the mountains of Adygea. Perhaps the decision to move away from her husband was too hasty. But the way back seems longer than it really is.

The young acting troupe is at the peak of its fame and success. Under the guidance of the famous theater director Yuri Butusov, they create acutely relevant performances and bathe in the love of their audience. It seems that it will always be so, and they will forever remain young and popular. But there happens a moment when everything starts to collapse...

This film tells about Ruslan Nikolaevich Stupnikov, the head of the Kalinka children's film studio, which existed in the city of Kashin from 1982 to 2011. The studio was founded in 1982, where more than three thousand children studied at different times. Being the permanent head of the studio, he made films together with children and youth, which reflected various events in the city and the region.

An artistic study of why people make moonshine and how this hobby is built into their everyday life. Sergey is not so much an outstanding bootlegger as a collective portrait of the generation that went through Perestroika and Chechnya.

This is a story of six large billboards from the small village Russko-Vysotskoye.

Fear is something that is difficult to explain and difficult to cope with. Every person is afraid of something. I'm afraid of mice. But what is behind the uncontrollable fear of a tiny ball of wool? Maybe the very essence of fear is much more than what one person can describe?

How to find a right way out of a difficult situation, when you’re a lonely teenager? Ksyusha lives in her closed off world, and the only person she’s had a trusting relationship with is now serving time in a prison. In 2017 her boyfriend went to a school with a weapon, for which he was given a sentence of 7 years and 3 months. Soon he’s going to be released, so the heroine of the movie has to reflect on this relationship and decide, whether she really wants to be with this person.

I walk around the city, in my ordinary places and not only. I watch crowds and individuals. I go up to them and talk about their loneliness, ask for recipes for this feeling and save their portraits on my Polaroid photographs.

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