Ilya, a blind pensioner, plans to complete the marathon in the average time of sighted athletes. His journey intertwines with his guide, turning the athletic challenge into an emotional race from mutual dislike to unexpected support. A short film that combines surrealism and documentary.

Friday evening. Coney Island, New York. Russian-American drag artist Maxim and his mom Ilona separately tell us the history of their family back in Russia and during their immigration to the US while getting ready for the Maxim's performance. Soon they will reunite, just like it should be.

A Nanai man living in difficult conditions in a remote village on the banks of the Amur River must support his small family by fishing. He, his wife and child have been living for many years according to the long-established way of life in these places. There are few residents left in this remote village and there are no prospects for settlement. Recently, by the decision of the authorities, fishing in these places has become controlled, which further complicates the life of the family. However, he is not going to leave here, despite constant calls to leave his native land.

Anastasia, a 19-year-old escort, finds herself falling in love when a new man enters her life, prompting her to quit her job. However, she isn't certain she can stay away from the work she both enjoys and is well-paid for.

Nikita works as an archaeologist in St. Petersburg, where he meets a fellow excavator, Eva. Suddenly, he drops everything and heads to Moscow to unearth a forgotten part of his life.

A portrait film about the outstanding Russian architect Andrei Sumatokhin. Sumatokhin is one of the few contemporary architects working in the style of post-constructivism. In addition to architecture and related things, Andrei Sumatokhin developed a whole philosophy of life, which he called "Near-knowledge". The film tells not only about the art of architecture but also about the very concept of "Home" as both material and spiritual, about building one's "near space", which includes almost all elements of a person's life and helps a person not to lose himself in the frantic pace of modern life.

A documentary musical fairy tale in the Altai Mountains.

Denis Alekseev is the unwavering driver of the "Gazelle of Death," navigating steppes, plains, deserts, mountains, rivers, and seas to forge horizontal connections between people and showcase the work of contemporary underground music groups. The Gazelle’s journey has long since transcended Russia, becoming a global phenomenon. On this tour, Denis takes the Siberian black metal band "Beskonechnaya Zima" from Moscow to Tbilisi, with concerts in 11 cities along the way. This three-hour road movie, infused with elements of gonzo documentary, captures the endless road, the raw energy of underground music, and constant reflections on the modern individual’s place in a world where borders persist.

The film explores the experiences of a child of a man who fought in Chechnya and returned home with a range of challenging emotions and experiences. It offers a glimpse into a complex and challenging situation from a personal perspective, attempting to understand and engage with it in a constructive manner. The author delves into the impact of callousness and dryness on the youth and fatherhood of an individual who did not choose to be in a place where people die en masse, yet still survived and returned to his homeland to raise his children and prevent another military conflict from occurring in their lifetime.

This film tells the story of philologist and literary scholar Alexander Parnis, a legendary researcher of the life and work of Velimir Khlebnikov, and an expert on the Silver Age and Russian avant-garde. Thanks to Parnis, interest in Khlebnikov and the Futurists—who returned to Russian literary history after a long period of neglect—was revived in Russia. Our protagonist sought out people, recorded their memories, and spent countless hours in archives and libraries. He unearthed and introduced into academic circulation numerous texts published under pseudonyms and anonymously. Living an ascetic, nomadic lifestyle similar to Khlebnikov’s, Parnis was driven by his tireless, passionate, and charismatic nature, which fueled his devotion to his work.

A documentary film based on an essay by Joseph Brodsky. Beautiful Venice with musical accompaniment, excerpts from Brodsky’s essay Watermark. Brodsky’s poems performed by the author - Joseph Brodsky.

A first-person chronicle spanning fourteen years, capturing a journey from school years to adulthood. The film features a video archive recorded from 2010 to 2024, offering a glimpse into the changes within Russian society.

An intimate autobiographical tale exploring emotions, anxieties, fears, and hopes in the days leading up to marriage.

Amadou, a young Black man from Guinea, is seeking to build a new life in Moscow, searching for the 'European dream' and a place to call home. After leaving his girlfriend behind, he moves to Germany, only to find that life there is just as challenging. Will Amadou find his true home, or will his journey continue?

The film explores how Russia's unexamined Stalinist past continues to shape the present, leading to its war against Ukraine. It reveals the atmosphere of a society where human life was worthless, and power over people was seen as an unquestionable right. Those who arrested, guarded, and executed never doubted their righteousness. Today, the legacy of the Gulag remains a lingering shadow, shaping public consciousness and the political reality of our time.

The film features Alexey Serebryakov, Yuri Felshtinsky, Elena Ressina, Jack Neuhausen, Marat Modelevsky, Ida Shchupak, Nestor Mykhailichko, and others.

Two boys are alone on the farm. At first glance, it seems that they are fooling around, the afternoon rest is adolescent. But these are young farmers, and the welfare of a large flock of sheep is in their hands. Between friendly, harmless jokes and jostling, between grazing and feeding animals, eternal biblical truths appear by themselves in a boyish voice-over: "Would you like to separate everyone, yes, the little ones from the big ones?"

Before each concert, orchestra members tune their instruments and souls using a common tuning fork - the note “A”. Everyone is a musician or poet at heart. This is a story about an amateur orchestra in which people from different professions are united by music.

A poetic film essay about a female meteorologist living alone on a small island in Lake Baikal. It offers a detached observation and reflection on a person who has become one with nature.

Priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, Sergiy and Roman, are the heads of church parishes. Sergiy serves in Russia. Roman serves in Thailand. Despite their common faith and the same order, their mindsets are fundamentally different. The war which has pitted the Orthodox nations against each other is a real test for both of them. Film Duality - Independent Russian production.

The documentary, edited from children's archives, covers an entire decade: from the age of 4 to 14 of the main character. The director explores the theme of memory, the problem of the passage of time and the transience of life. As is often the case with family chronicles, this film records significant events or holidays. However, it also presents the life of one family in a way that is perhaps unexpected: from comical feasts to traumatic children's tantrums.

A film about the great-granddaughter of writer Nikolai Leskov. She never lived in Russia. It is a film about destiny at the intersection of three cultures, about life unthinkable without ballet.

The chief engineer, along with specialists in structure-borne noise, investigates the source of a low-frequency hum in the applicant's apartment.

Evgeniy Ivanov, who built his own airplane, can no longer fly. He has to come to terms with the end of his dreams being true.

"Lullaby" is a documentary about family, memory, and the deep bonds between generations of women in my family. Set in my grandparents' house in a village in Eastern Belarus, it focuses on my mother, who now lives there, and her sisters, who often visit. After moving to Germany in 2021, this film has become my way of staying connected to my childhood and my homeland. The film captures quiet moments and meaningful conversations, showing the strength and connection between these women. The house itself reflects our family's history, standing as a symbol of the love passed down through generations. Through the film, I rediscover the lullabies of my youth and reflect on the emotions and memories shaped by the women in my life. "Lullaby" is a gentle look at family, memory, and the lasting power of love in the place we call home.

Social uncertainty and chaos form the backdrop for a unique dual reality in Abkhazia: on one side, the beauty of its natural landscapes; on the other, the rise of mining machines as the global cryptocurrency industry takes hold. The strain on the power grid from extensive cryptocurrency mining has led to frequent blackouts. But are the miners truly as greedy and selfish as they seem?

The story of Roman, a young man trapped in the relentless cycle of repaying debts to microcredit organizations. His life is consumed by pressure from collectors, constant anxiety, and fear for his and his family’s future. Desperately trying to earn enough to escape his predicament, Roman comes to realize the impossibility of his task. As he struggles, his life spirals irreversibly downward, caught in a race with no end in sight.

Bright, mundane, and half-asleep—St. Petersburg reveals its quiet rhythm. One of those moments when the "last drop" falls, tipping the scale. A realization forms, clear and unyielding: it’s time to make a change, to take decisive steps. This is when I decide—to leave Russia.

There is a dairy farm in one of the remote villages of Russia. It employs mainly women. Every day on the farm is subject to an inevitable cycle. Birth and death, violence and tenderness, beauty and ugliness — all these make up everyday life.

War is possible in a society to which it seems acceptable or natural. War monuments play am enormous role in people's desensitizing to war or open militarization: they give shape and direction to collective memory, influencing collective identity and in many ways determining the values of societies. Today, state monumental policies around the world glorify war, portraying it as an inevitable and natural part of life; instead of commemorating the victims and depicting the grief of war, monuments glorify organized violence. This is a film about how monuments shape places of memory and tell people how and what to remember, what example to follow; how power derives legitimacy from monuments and what the cult of glory has to do with it; how monuments influence our emotions and values; how monumentality compromised itself in the 20th century and what is replacing it; and whether monuments can do the work of memory for us.

Ded Moroz in exile wishes a Happy New Year to the adults and children who had to leave their homes in 2022 to understand what has happened to all of us.

He is a soldier who was injured in a combat zone. His medical leave is coming to an end, but the wound has not yet healed.

At the heart of happiness lies the desire for love. Each hero, a resident of the village of Nedelnoye, seeks a specific form of this feeling: romantic love, love for a neighbor, a mother, a homeland, or their village. Will they find happiness?

According to the investigation, the head doctor of the maternity hospital, Elena Belaya, forced neonatologist Elina Sushkevich to administer a lethal dose of magnesium sulfate to a premature baby in order to keep hospital statistics favorable. They are accused of murder. Meanwhile, doctors are fighting to save tiny Andrey, who was born too early and weighs only 640 grams. Anya and Dilya have been challenging the system for years: their children were born prematurely, and now they must fight for their right to be included in normal life. Worldwide, families can refuse resuscitation for a premature baby, but only in Russia and Turkey do neither parents nor doctors have this option. Does saving such a child always lead to happiness?

The film is dedicated to the life of the Christian home of diligence “Noah” for homeless people.

Every summer, photographer Lyudmila Tabolina returns to the village where she spent her childhood. She lives in the house her grandfather built a hundred years ago. Silence, the slow flow of time, listening to the surrounding space, and unexpected discoveries – these are the themes of this film.

On the vastness of the St. Petersburg variety stages, for 20 years now, a certain Alla Brown has been performing, who is extremely reminiscent of another famous Singer. This artist is an image created by showman and parodist Boris Shishkarev. Shishkarev, not immediately understood by the Russian public, has been working for many years in a kind of mask. Boris began his career with covers of Pugacheva's songs, but now he has his own repertoire. Boris (Alla Brown), an ardent patriot of his homeland, and apparently not fully aware of his not very safe position in modern Russian reality. After all, in fact, Alla Brown is a drag artist, and the current policy of Russia is aimed at preserving ""traditional values"", and recognizes the LGBT community as a terrorist organization. The film "She Saw Stars" is a slice of life film, in which, using the method of direct observation of the hero, two parts of Boris's life are demonstrated - the stage and life outside it.

A businessman from Kuban decides to start growing cannabis for industrial use, but he faces a number of bureaucracy problems as well as some production challenges.

Perevoz is a dying island village on the border of Belarus and Russia. On a neighboring island lies a cemetery, where the boatman Tolik ferries people across.

Doulan left Yakutia for Georgia. He turned his apartment into a small kitchen to make a living selling sushi. In Batumi, where little reminds him of home, Doulan searches for something that might bring back the feeling of his homeland - in the local landscapes, people, signs, and even animals. Sometimes, he sings Yakut songs, hoping to at least mentally transport himself back to the place he left behind.

Festivals:
- Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival
- Hamburger Kinoforum KinoHafen

Konstantin is a hereditary herbalist, carrying on a family tradition that dates back to 1890. For over a century, his family has passed down knowledge of the healing properties of plants from generation to generation. Today, Konstantin continues to practice phytotherapy, preserving this invaluable legacy. However, he faces a troubling question: who will inherit his accumulated wisdom and unique skills? With no children of his own, the future of this tradition hangs in the balance.

What is the first day of freedom like for someone who spent seven years in prison for a serious crime? The film was shot in a single day, the exact amount of time it took to meet the protagonist at the gates of the prison and accompany him to his front door."

An old man lived in a hut by the seashore with his family: his wife and three sons. The eldest son loved the sea, but it punished him for his audacity. The middle son communicated with the sea, but it stopped answering him. The youngest son was swallowed by the sea and taken away entirely. After many years of wandering, the three brothers reunite on their native island of Sakhalin to restore their lost connections and finally bid farewell to their sea.

The film tells about brave people who, despite being intimidated, dared pay their last respects to the perished Aleksei Navalny, a true patriot of their country.

The film comprises a chronicle of three events from 2023 and 2024, along with a photograph of a letter. Each event serves as a guide for reflections on life and death, on the duality of the world and society. Yet all are united by one tragedy – death. Some approach it without realizing its consequences for others, some with full awareness, and others become hostages of this death, which they never chose.

Someone, with their camera, finds themselves in the small town of Polevskoy on the eastern side of Ural mountains not far from Yekaterinburg. Meets inhabitants of the place that was central in the tales of, once popular, soviet writer P.Bazhov. The stories they share on camera create a miniature image of the big country.

The film tells about the Nazino tragedy — the events of 1933 in the north of Tomsk Oblast, during which about 6,000 people were exiled to an uninhabited island, most of whom died within a few days. The incident was the result of an inhumane policy of "cleansing large cities of so-called declassed elements", people were deported without any charges. There have been many documented cases of cannibalism among prisoners and abuse of power among executive branch representatives.

Olya is an ambulance paramedic who urgently needs to secure a large sum of money.

Life in the Sloboda of the Sterligov brothers follows a traditional peasant way of life. As he goes about his daily tasks, German Lvovich reflects on the frailty of life and the emptiness of a godless existence. The sons, Sergiy and Mikhey, are preparing for the opening of the Craft Yard, dedicated to reviving and preserving ancient manual crafts and skills.

Vasily Slonov is a contemporary Krasnoyarsk artist who has made a huge contribution to the development of art in Siberia. In the movie “SLON. Save me, the sinner, from the order of this world”, directed by Anastasia Petrenko, tells about the true Russian soul, which the artist expresses in his works. Who is a Russian? What is behind the works “Total Nevalashka”, “Watted Bear”, “Welcome Sochi 2014”? And why is he now under house arrest? All this and much more awaits you in our movie!

Julia, a Doula, she helps women get to know the most private places of their own nature.

The ordinary life of an ordinary person, condensed into seven days and two quatrains.
What happens if you go with the flow until the very end? Maybe not much, but it could make for an interesting film obituary.
The text is based on an old English nursery rhyme. The image is taken from Soviet and Russian film footage.

Gelya is savoring the carefree moments of her youth. Her 17-year-old sister, already a mother, is expecting her second child, and it seems that Gelya’s future is expected to follow the same path. As she walks with a boy who is in love with her, she chooses to trap herself in an elevator with her past, present, and future—her ex, her current companion, and the possibilities that lie ahead. She gets tipsy on strawberry beer and, overcome by unrequited love, sheds tears while sitting on the lap of someone who adores her. Eventually, Gelya heads home, just as her sister returns from the maternity hospital.

The documentary film tells the story of Alisa, a girl born with HIV to parents struggling with drug addiction. After their deaths, when Alisa was a teenager, she herself was drawn into the world of drugs, trying to cope with the pain of loss and feelings of loneliness. However, at some point, Alisa found the strength to change her life. The film shows how HIV/AIDS activism became her salvation: by helping others, she found support, healing, and a new purpose in life. This is an inspiring story about how, even in the most challenging circumstances, it is possible to find light and start anew.

A portrait essay about a farm managed by Darya Fedotova, whose husband volunteered for the front. This resilient woman raises two children, oversees a demanding household, and waits with hope for her husband’s safe return.

Cave paintings and our photo albums have the same source: death. But when does a memory become an image? How does memory work and what is more real: fact or our perception?

On Samostroy Street in the town of Podporozhye a few years ago there was a kindergarten. Now there is a kindergarten for adults there. There are 18 people living in this institution. Elderly people, like children, need care. The caregiver Lyubov communicates with the old people and promises that "everything will be fine", despite the news that is heard here every day from the TV and reminds of the outside world.

A young guy wastes his life with his friends. This is the only way he can survive what happened to his family a few years ago.

Georgy Fedorovsky has a rather unusual hobby—he hunts ghosts. Despite criticism from others, he remains dedicated to his passion.

As five-year-old Stesha learns about colors and shapes, she begins to create, inventing her own ideal fairytale reality. Her drawings and stories are a beautiful reflection of children's boundless imagination, offering a glimpse into her first ethical judgments about the world.

In the village of Ilkino near Murom, local residents report that there are almost no men of draft age left—they have all been mobilized. The men have been at the front for a year and a half, with no plans for their return. Now, all aspects of daily life depend on the women.

What's going on? Dozens of directors are trying to answer this question through film.

Authors: Efim Aksenov, Alisa Andreicheva, Galina Bakinova, Anastasia Batalova, Daniil Bugrov, Polina Volkova, Natalya Gondaleva, Ekaterina Gorbacheva, Eva Dobrovolskaya, Sofya Dorofeeva, Olga Dudina, Kristina Ivanitsa, Yaroslava Komissarova, Anastasia Konyukhova, Svetlana Korotkova, Inna Kosulnikova, Ksyusha Krasheninnikova, Philip Krikunov, Varya Lipskaya, Lyuba Lomachenko, Grisha Muzurov, Veronica Neputina, Zina Nikolaeva, Tatyana Pristalova, Amalia Prtavyan, Vlada Raeva, Semyon Reshetov, Lydia Rikker, Andrey Ryzhkov, Oksana Sazonova, Roman Sinitsyn, Zlata Smolyaninova, Anna Sokolkova, Vlada Stoyakina, Ksenia Tkacheva, Tsvet, Dmitry Fetisov, Sergey Khorin, Maria Tagro, Zhenya Tsvetnaya, Maxim Chaika, Anna-Maria Chernigovskaya, Kristina Chekhomova, Nadya Shcherbakova

The film is a mosaic of real life in Turkmenistan, intertwining the fates of numerous characters. Director Erkin Yazov embarks on a journey through the unexplored corners of the country to show the everyday life of "ordinary people" through the lens of his camera. Despite the hardships and trials faced by the characters, they retain an unbending spirit and ability to be grateful. This film is an immersion into an authentic lifestyle, reflecting the indomitable will and optimism of people living far from the city bustle. "Shukur" is a documentary testament to the unwavering belief in a better future, even when circumstances seem unbearable.

A wordless exploration of nostalgia during a painful return to one’s homeland. The feeling of nostalgia for childhood from an early age is inherent to my generation, and I felt it was important to represent this—without imposing the personal, but rather creating a space for the viewer’s own memories.