The battle for Donetsk Airport (May 2014 - January 2015) through the warriors's eyes of both sides. The humans behind the battle. The Donetsk Airport, Ukraine. Rebuilt in 2012, but now a scene of utter devastation - shortly after Russian-backed separatists have taken it over. Weaving together the voices of fighters on both sides supported by battle video, we tell an unvarnished story of war through the eyes of those who were there. The desperate fight for an airport whose capture seems more symbolic than strategic, they also show how human nature can adapt - in sometimes disturbing ways - when one's life is on the line.

This is a film about the Great Patriotic War, as the famous Russian writer Viktor Astafiev saw and knew it. A rare recording was made two years before his death. In it, he, not embarrassed in expressions, tells the whole bitter and terrible truth of the war that he went through as a simple soldier. The tape was awarded the Golden Eagle Prize of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia as the best documentary film and the Laurel Branch Award as the best feature film.

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.

The exchange of old Soviet passports for new Russian passports is a milestone in the life of the country. A provincial travel photographer wanders around remote Siberian villages and takes pictures of their inhabitants for new passports. But sometimes they will invite you to film the wedding. And somewhere you can buy a piglet. Following the village photographer and carefully observing everyday rural life, the filmmakers create a kind of poetic canvas that tells about the worldview of people living in the Russian outback at the junction of two cultures, Soviet and modern. The film won an award at the Russia Open Documentary Film Festival in Yekaterinburg.

According to a drunk, middle-aged woman who always wanted to be an actress, "Happiness is when someone understands you, when someone loves you." Her equally inebriated boyfriend is so jealous that he smacks her time and again. Director Alexander Rastorguev follows the tragicomic couple during their summer holiday by the sea. But he also directs his camera at other seaside visitors, like the man earning a living on the beach with a camel, a young womaniser, and a dwarf getting married to a young woman. They are all spending the summer on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Rastorguev observes man in all of his manifestations: fat, thin, young, old, drunk, dancing, singing, having sex and bathing in mud or in the sea. Even President Putin makes an appearance, clad in casual clothes. Quite a few fortune-seekers at the resort get caught up in a daily carrousel of sex, booze and aggression. When a corpse washes ashore, several people say they would also like to drown in the sea. It is no surprise that the soundtrack repeatedly plays a song of longing, about a small boat all alone at sea: "What is it looking for so far from home? Not happiness, but a typhoon."

Yulia is sixteen, she lives in a barracks. And Vanya is with his parents in a five-story building. Julia is expecting a baby, and Vanya's parents are against the misalliance and do not let the couple on the doorstep. "A monstrously real movie about love," as the director himself defines "Mommies." It can be said that this film inherits the Russian literary "natural school", the whole "physiology of Russian life" is presented in such detail in it. But you can also interpret it as a terrible fairy tale, because it is all a metaphor for Russian life.

The mother of nine children tells her story. Together with her children, she runs across a large country from poverty, disorder and her husband. Runs and cannot stop in any way, because it is not so easy to find a place where you can survive. The main character is torn between children and work; the school where the younger ones study, and the wedding of the eldest daughter; understanding that with her children she is not needed by the country and others, and the knowledge that she needs children, and they need her, and only for this you need to survive.

A film about the life, games and everyday life of a 7-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family living in a forest near a big city. And, as little Milana finds out, from a normal life.

This is a story about how to overcome fear, change your life forever. This is the love story of a man and a woman doomed to eternal separation. And children who will always bear the seal of what their parents did. The main action of the film takes place in Israel, from 1995 to the present day. Before us is a drama of life, death, hate and love. The film was awarded the National Lavr Prize - 2014 as the Best Film and the White Elephant Award of the Russian Guild of Film Critics and Critics - 2015 as the Best Non-Fiction Film. This tape was the last work of the great Hertz Frank. After his departure, the film was completed by Maria Kravchenko.

In this film, five great Russian actresses, stars of Soviet cinema. Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Samoilova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Lidia Smirnova, Vera Vasilyeva answer the questions of the film director Renata Litvinova.

The village of Good is located in the Siberian hinterland. The ambulance driver, Fedoseich, dreams of taking to the skies in a makeshift plane. The whole village is watching him. And here comes the cherished hour.

Imagine that everything you did before is no longer needed by anyone. Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Lyuda are top manager, shop manager, senior foreman, engineer, storekeeper and workers of the Moscow Automobile Plant. Likhachev. They hold on with all their might to routine and professional pride to endure in circumstances where everything around them is collapsing. And now, for the first time in 20 years, the plant receives an order from the Ministry of Defense to produce three classic ZIL convertibles for the Victory Parade on Red Square. Special Shop Director Mikhail and his team are excited to get down to business to prove their worth.

Two people who came to work in Moscow met on a gravel pass. Sanya and Sparrow. One thirty-seven, the other nineteen. The problems started when they stopped paying salaries. Two lost souls lost at the bottom of life and an unexpected happy ending.

A film about life, about death, about people who have come close to the border between the first and the second. And about love, the brightest manifestation of life.

Memories. Painful memories. The film is a journey. It is enclosed in three conditional spaces, namely, a hostel for internally displaced persons, abandoned in an empty field, who exist outside the present and future, with a torn, burned past. Twilight cold Moscow with a Chechen guy wandering through its streets, the vocalist of the Dead Dolphins group, Artur, who remembers his once beloved city, but does not want to return and see the place where his house used to be. Emaciated, abandoned by the souls that once inhabited it, the city of Grozny, in which, for the first time after the war, a Russian girl comes to see her home, return to her childhood and "die in it", saying goodbye to him forever for all those who have lost his home and country.

Chronicle of the casting for participation in the Israeli project "Cabaret". Russian repatriates, many of whom came to the capital from other cities, talk about themselves, then rehearsals and the only performance of the emerging theater follow. Dreaming of a theatrical career, people gradually transform and become real actors.

A documentary comedy about what is happening in the world outside the window of the author's apartment in a more or less historical district of St. Petersburg. The film was shot with an open camera from an open window in the year of preparation for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the city.

Mark is 18, Kirill is a little over 20. They have known each other for only a month, but it seems they are already best friends. Their interests are girls, dancing, cloud rap and skateboarding. An ordinary evening is dancing on the railing of the Crimean bridge, a fight with a taxi driver or someone in a club, riots in public places. Guys often find themselves in situations where they are in danger, although they usually do without problems. The real break begins when the guys go to the Crimea, but soon a fun vacation turns into a test of their friendship.

The film takes place during the Ukrainian events on the Maidan, in the Crimea and in the Donbass. The main character is a Chechen Ruslan, who once fought for the independence of Chechnya, who went through armed conflicts in Abkhazia and Tiraspol. He came to Ukraine to continue his confrontation with the Russian authorities.

A unique family lives in the town of Snezhnoye, Donetsk region. The grandson of the once powerful director Himmash, fifteen-year-old Yura Sikanov, extracts coal to feed not only his sisters, but also his mother and stepfather. A heartbreaking story about the survival of children in the conditions of complete indifference of the adult world.