Alexandr Dudarev

Just outside the city of Genoa, Italy, lies a vast, monumental cemetery. Alongside its graves, through the arcades and galleries, all kinds of people work and wander. For a place that’s all about death, the cemetery is curiously alive.

The film from a correctional colony explores the theme of self-awareness of a person in captivity. The director shows the prison from an unexpected angle. This is a hypnotizing, oneiric vision. There is no moralizing here. The author is interested in a person and the most precious thing he has - his dreams and his reality. The film contains documentary footage from a correctional colony (a plastic recycling workshop and a residential block), mounted with a monologue of a prisoner in order to understand what is happening with human reality on the other side of the fence.

A documentary melodrama about the birth of twins, conceived with the help of IVF. For several months, the film crew led the heroine to childbirth, facing the problems of late motherhood along the way. The film immerses us in the experiences of a woman and shows the true synergy of doctors and patients, united by a single goal – the birth of a new life.

The film "Rock Beyond" is dedicated to Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergei Kuryokhin, who became the Main Heroes of Russian rock in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors strive to show the atmosphere and energy of those years, as well as the opinion of modern young people about Rock culture before they were born.

Este documentário a preto e branco do russo Viktor Kossakovsky foca-se em Gunda, uma porca mãe de dois porquinhos, e no seu dia-a-dia, interagindo com os animais que a rodeiam, como duas vacas e uma galinha só com uma perna. Passou em 2020 no Festival de Berlim e teve em Joaquin Phoenix e Paul Thomas Anderson alguns dos seus fãs mais ferrenhos ainda antes da estreia. Phoenix, vegano e activista dos direitos dos animais, tornou-se inclusivamente produtor executivo.

Film-portrait of documentary filmmaker, photographer and screenwriter Sergei Skvortsov. Sergei Skvortsov was a filmmaker and cameraman at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Documentary Film Studio, who shot a number of iconic works that had a noticeable impact on documentary filmmakers in the late 80s - 90s.

AQUARELA leva o público em uma jornada profundamente cinematográfica através da beleza transformadora e do poder bruto da água.

A man, a dog, a cabin near the sea. Steinar, age 75, has chosen to live a life in communion with nature. He lives in an isolated, frozen universe at the outermost point of Europe, barely one kilometer from the Norwegian-Russian border. In this seemingly inhospitable landscape, Steinar not only finds peace, he feels free. This is where he belongs, it is his home, even if it at times it can be both lonely and overwhelming.

I often find photos of strangers… This film is a collage of frames shot on an old camera in different cities and countries over the last three years

Year 2017 would be the 100th Anniversary of the revolution in Russia. Film researches the reasons of the “Russian revolution”, First World War, external and internal conspiracies, which led to the collapse of the monarchy and traditional world order. Narration is build of quotes, memoirs and inferences of eyewitnesses. The facts are told based on the views of the authors of the film.

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.

Every year teams of seasonal workers come to Solovki islands to harvest sea kale. They go out to sea and mow it from car-basses. As the last of the teams go back to Arkhangelsk in October, only a watchman and his dog are left to pass the winter.

The film is a portrait of a young writer Alexander Sarapov (literary pseudonym of Bronsky) from a small closed city of Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsky kray. His work had a great influence on people close to him and aroused interest among the leading figures of cinema and literature.

There are places in which space is turned inside out, and time is flowing backwards.

The thirst for a miracle lives in every person. The hero of the film, Fedor, witnesses an accident, as a result of which people close to him die. He decides that he was not saved by chance and now must change his life. Fedor is trying to live the way Orthodox hermits lived, tormenting himself with prayers and fasts. In this new world, he finds a guide - Father Hilarion. The hermit finally has hope that he will soon become an eyewitness of Revelation. But Father Hilarion is being killed absurdly and senselessly. Having experienced deep despair, Fedor will return to the people, experience love and jealousy, hatred and fear. And only when he reaches the edge - having decided to kill - will he become a witness of a miracle...