This film is about young woman from a small Ukrainian town who was forced to flee the conflict to Russia. She was just 17 years of age when the Russo-Ukrainian conflict erupted. She is in a state of confusion about the future. She does not have money to leave Russia, her ukrainian pasport is expiered. She doesn't fit into the world that surrounds her. Her only dream is come back to homeland and everything to be the same as before.

I meet 9-year-old Russian Tima on the Atlantic coast. His mother took him to France due to the war in Ukraine. The child is going through a transitional period, searching for a new himself in exile. His fights, loneliness and a plastic bottle "Kalashnikov" remind me of my own childhood filled with dreams of war and sacrifice for the homeland. The filming is an attempt to understand how to be Russian today, outside the country and against the war.

Marina, a cameraman, is the daughter of a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war - a war that first stole her father's soul, then his mind and finally his life. The war in Ukraine has opened Marina's childhood wounds, and she sees her father's shadow in the faces of Russian soldiers. Seeking to free herself from these ghosts, Marina points the camera at those who, like her father, were complicit in the crimes of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. But as she peers into the abyss, she encounters ordinary people.

Moscow’s nightlife amidst war and new restrictions—how does it function, and what is happening there now?

The protagonist is an openly gay man searching for love and his place in this world.

Plasterer Kostyuchenko, a convict on the Moscow-Volga canal, walled up a note with his name and address in the wall of one of the locks, Kursk region, Glushkovsky district - "for a long time." It was in 1936. The note fell out of the plaster and fell into good hands, Lena Kotova, during the repair work in 2022. She comes from Kursk, a countryman of a poor plasterer, and she is from the group "Those who have Hope". These young, educated, thinking Muscovites are engaged in the difficult memory of the twentieth century. Their hope lies in Russia's repentance. The Moscow-Volga Canal is the largest GULAG construction site. Hundreds of thousands of people died here namelessly. And every new name discovered is an event for "Those who have Hope." Lena Kotova decides to look for relatives of her countryman, she walks through the courtyards with the surname Kostyuchenko in Glushkovo. This is a border area with Ukraine. There's a war here. Kostyuchenko's letter to the future is a test. The bridge from 1936 to 2024 - from Stalin to Putin. The price of human life is still low.

Zaira and Murtaza live in a grand mansion surrounded by fruit trees and forests. Every summer, they fill their pool with pure mineral water, and the whole town of Tskaltubo (Georgia) comes to swim. This has been the tradition for over 30 years, as the film’s protagonists are idp's from Abkhazia, living in what was once a luxurious, but now ruined, sanatorium built for the Soviet elite. Soon, they will leave this place forever.

For three years we have been observing people in the streets of Moscow. And not only on the streets. During holidays and weekdays.
What has changed? It should be perceived. We are searching for a reflection of the catastrophe in the faces of the people. We also hear the voiced of people, mostly young ones. We cannot show those who are talking, but we must hear them.

In the depths of Siberia, there is a village where, on a single street, Jews, Shaivites, Krishna devotees, neo-pagans, Orthodox Christians, energy believers, and witches live side by side. In the 1990s, a legend emerged that this was the very place where the Earth was created. And for the past 30 years, people from big cities have been moving here, embracing a rural life—herding goats and cows—while once a year, at the summer solstice, visitors from all over the world arrive in search of a quick miracle.

The idyll of this blissful place begins to unravel, and the enchanted forest fills with the smoke of bonfires. Along with the guests, the village is engulfed by the realities of the summer of 2022. And while lost adults search for meaning, a little sage grows up in their midst. It seems she alone, among all the film’s characters, has a true connection to God.

"My brother and I grew up in a small town in the Russian provinces, where the memory of World War II is significant, painful, and permeates everything around us. At 21, my brother was conscripted into the army. He returned, and a few years later, the War began. We tried to escape together, but he was not allowed to leave the country because of his military specialty. Now, we both still live in Russia."

A personal story about family bonds. About the loss of a sense of home and the search for new anchors. About how a loved one’s tragedy becomes a turning point in the director’s life. About war—and how it silently seeps into what is familiar and cherished, poisoning everything in its path.

It is a conversation about losing one’s voice and the impossible urge to scream.

A year of separation and just five days together — a filmmaker, her mother, and her brother, on leave from the frontlines, reunite in Ukraine to preserve their bond and acknowledge that the war has shattered not only their world but also themselves. They must rebuild their relationships and find their way back to one another.

Shies is an uprising of Russians against the Kremlin, ending in victory. In 2019, authorities began constructing Europe's largest landfill at Shies, threatening northern Russia's ecology. Ordinary Pomors and Komi led a guerrilla resistance for three years. The Kremlin responded with violence, sending OMON and National Guard. Footage for the film was shot from 2019 to 2021, and the rough cut will be ready by March 2025.