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Great Rivers of Siberia.... About the life of fishermen on the banks of the great river.

To Leave or not to Leave In one of the most beautiful places in the Urals on the banks of the river Rezh stands the village of Mironovo. Every year graduates of the local school go to the city to study and earn money, with the hope that they will be able to settle there. But in recent years, the mood of the village youth has begun to change.

Maria Leonor An open letter to the beleaguered Vice President of the Philippines and leader of the opposition, Maria Leonor “Leni” Gerona Robredo

Dreams About Russia Isn't the history of our Fatherland a dream? Does it have anything to do with the life of the inhabitants of the village of Novikovo? Here is the ancestral tomb of the once famous Novikov-Kireevs. But on closer examination, it suddenly turns out that everything the Novikov-Kireevs lived by is still relevant today. Not only for the village, but for the whole of Russia.

Toute l'Algrie du monde... The largest country in the Arab world and a producer of hydrocarbons, Algeria has everything it needs to weigh on the international scene. But Africa's second military power seems undermined by its internal problems. While the Bouteflika regime has fallen and the popular “hirak” movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more democratic era, the country appears as a colossus with feet of clay, which has failed enhance their independence. How did this isolation come about? From the “dark decade” of terrorism to the fall of Bouteflika, via 9/11 or the Arab revolutions, this documentary sheds light on Algerian foreign policy in recent decades, while deciphering the strategy of Western powers towards it.

The Key to the Clockwork... The film "The Key to a clockwork Orange" is dedicated to the street war of anti-fascists and nationalists of the 2000s. The focus is on the musical preferences and political ideas of the conflict participants who lost their health and lives in the bloody FA-ANTIFA confrontation. It was a subcultural war, the main front of which was music. It was conducted by very similar young people who did not fit into the social structure of modern Russian society. Now they have matured, and the activity of street confrontation has decreased. The main feeling that the heroes of the film, named after the cult novel by Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick's tape, indulge in is nostalgia, and after it comes a new understanding of the years experienced and an understanding of the enduring value of the main motor of conflict activity – youth.

November 16, 1581 - Nove... Ilya Repin's painting "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581" (another name "Ivan the Terrible kills his Son"), the most famous to us from school textbooks, was banned by Emperor Alexander III in 1885, and thus became the first picture to be censored in the Russian Empire. 130 years later, already in modern Russia, a group of historians and activists appealed to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation with a request to remove the canvas from the Tretyakov Gallery. Is there a causal relationship between the past and the present?

Kiev/Moscow. Part 1 Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, is the central square of Kiev, which gave its name to the large-scale anti-government movement that unfolded in Ukraine in the winter of 2013-2014. A movement that led to the overthrow of the existing regime. However, the happiness of the newfound freedom was overshadowed by the ensuing Russian annexation of Crimea and bloodshed in Eastern Ukraine, inflamed, controlled from Russia. This film is a kind of selection of people's documentary news made on the Maidan in Kiev, in the Crimea and Moscow. The authors shoot their "news" without looking back at ideology, censorship and the logic of war.

Kiev/Moscow. Part 2 Recent historical events in Ukraine - through the eyes of ordinary Ukrainians and Russians. Simple heroes - against the background of dramatic collisions. The second part of the documentary dilogy.

Origami Origami plays with perspectives and dimensions. Fractals and luminous geometry are here liquefied by the cathode-ray tube of a hacked television set.