Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up...

In the Russian hinterland, 1000 kilometers from Moscow, at a vodka factory in Zhigulevsk, women work, who are united by one concern, namely, to work a shift at the assembly line, then return home, where children, female loneliness and dreams of happiness are waiting. But twenty-two-year-old Valentina is struggling to change the current vicious circle, she wants to go to Moscow and become a TV star there. Valentina's mother also dreams of finally finding a mate. However, one of the two women will have to sacrifice their dream for the sake of the only main man so far in their life, Danila, Valya's little son.

Ulyana's mother is a drug addict, and her grandmother is an alcoholic. And that is why the holy sisters from the Community of New Holy Martyrs, where they sheltered and educate Ulyana, consider her to be genetically corrupted and spiritually deceived. But thanks to the film, we will be able to get to know this unique 9-year-old personality, before whom all pedagogical laws fade and even Benjamin's mother herself, a former teacher, and now an Orthodox orphan educator, is lost.

A beauty pageant in a nursing home? "Horror!" you say. “They can hardly breathe there!” But no! Who said that femininity, beauty and gambling sparkle in the eyes die before their owners? Everyone thinks their only consolation is the medicine shelves! But it turns out that on these shelves, among the pills, there is a female weapon that has remained unchanged for all ages. And the old women successfully use this weapon.

Two young Muscovites, yesterday's students, work "on the Internet", do not really know what they live for, do not really understand their country, and do not really see prospects in life. The TV was buzzing all ears about the Great Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi, so they rent a car, buy tickets and drive across the country to see the competitions, the sea and Russia beyond the Moscow Ring Road.

Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It's been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one's hands is illegal.

Anton is 12 years old. He lives with his grandmother in a little house outside Moscow. He spends his holidays with his pals or just plays around with his babushka, who lovingly teases him back. Those carefree days of summer vanish when he goes off to a military training camp, like most Russian children do, where we find him armed and in uniform…

Chronicle of one day in the life of a provincial town. A gallery of characters, veterans, human rights activists, "ours" and many others, united by one theme of the war in Chechnya.

A pensioner from Mailuu-Suu, a city in southern Kyrgyzstan, was laid off in 2005 at a famous electric lamp factory and is now forced to find alternative ways to survive.