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

A film journey into the life of nomads in the epoch of globalization.

This documentary is a collage of stories about the challenges of life at the crossroads of eras, where the traditional nomadic culture of Mongolia meets the all-pervasive globalization of the 21st century. Through a close up on the daily life of several characters, both in provinces of Mongolia and its capital city Ulan Bator, we can see through their eyes how the centuries-old traditions of the former empire, the memory of the great ancestors, and modern social transformations are trying to co-exist in the globalized world of today.

Old age awaits us all. But if some survive, others live without noticing the years. Our hero is an artist-painter, a person who is not discouraged. He is 79 years old and is still a romantic. He had four wives and countless "muses". And he dreams of falling in love again and then only dying. The main thing for him is the love of painting and, of course, the love of life.

Film-portrait of artist Latif Kazbekov. Meetings in the workshop, where the boundaries between the outside world, accessible to the viewer, and the inner one, where the resulting picture is only an excuse for the process, are blurred. Paper reliefs, thoughtful painting, author's paper casting and endless questions. An attempt to look at the nature of creativity and understand how paper worlds are born?

First part of a diptych dedicated to Karelia, a border region between Finland and Russia, and the homeland of the Karelians. Duque‘s essayist narrative portrays moments where the real and the fantastic of a culture come into conflict, “a hallucinated history of Karelia where different layers of time converge”. Karelia - which has belonged to Sweden, the Republic of Novgorod, Finland and Russia - is a region of contrasts due to its border dimension, cradle of Finnish literature and memory space of the wars and repressive policies of the last century. A family from a remote village preserves the vestiges of their ancestral and shamanic-culture; on the other side, the testimony of the daughter of a historian currently in prison. Both stories reflect and criticises Putin’s current actions to rewrite the history of Russia.

They sing about love, war and forgiveness. The voices pertain to drug dealers, thieves or murderers jailed in one of the about thousand Russian prisons or penal camps. They all dream about becoming part of the song contest “Kalina Krasnaya“. Each of the approximately 700,000 Russian prisoners has the opportunity to participate. Natalia Abashkina, director of the show, travels tirelessly through the country looking for talents and caring about her fosterlings. The film explores the world behind bars, reflects the social reality of a state still characterized by arbitrariness and brutality – and encounters people who, in the penal camps, discover their artistic soul.

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?

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.

Aleksey Didurov is a great poet, a wonderful prose writer, who created the Rock Cabaret back in the late 70s, thanks to which, without exaggeration, the whole country recognized him. He left us in 2007, and in 2018 he would have turned 70 years old. We want to present his fate against a broad historical, cultural, and especially musical and poetic background. We hope that Alexey Didurov and his pets will return us to the conversation about the 60s - 90s in full.

Film diary dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the White Guard uprising in Yaroslavl on July 6-21, 1918. In the entire history of the city there is no event more important and sadder. The film recreates each of those terrible, brutal 16 days.