Documentary master Sergei Loznitsa makes an observational exploration of a fishing community in the White Sea, where vi…
This documentary follows the members of Voina (War) an art group that became known for its controversial and anarchic f…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
This documentary follows the hectic daily life of a pediatric physiatrist responsible for the air medical urgency on wh…
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
Balcon De Europa is a tourist place in the coastal town of Nerja, Spain. This documentary is a discreet gaze at this vi…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
This mid-length documentary shows us how a Mixed Martial Arts ring is seen from the eyes of Anna Azovskaya, a mother an…
Using black and white film footage of the time, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs the siege of the Nazi army in Le…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
This documentary follows the renowned clown Robert Gorodetsky around the city of St. Petersburg, a portrait of the less…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This documentary tells the compelling story of a mother and daughter who resolve to uncover their wartime past buried h…
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
50 years after the death of poet Roald Mandelshtam, director Maxim Yakubson unearths the life of the artists a document…
Shot during the dusk for two months in a row, in this film a disciple documents the daily life of his irreverent film p…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
The film takes us into the third class wagons of the Moscow-Vladivostok train, which crosses Russia on the most extensi…
On the eve of the 2012 presidential election in Russia, a cavalry battalion in Moscow prepares to carry out its duties …
The film documents the life aboard the ship Nicolai Pirogov, a floating hospital with the mission to bring medical atte…
Lithuanian photographer, the legend of Soviet Sixties' generation Vitas Luckus tragically passed away in 1987. Yet the …
Struggling along an unforgiving dirt path, drivers Yura and Vitalik haul supplies to waiting villagers in an aging tank…
For the past 3 decades, Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre has traveled - by dogsled, skis and kayak - more than 15,000 miles…
The camera is the silent witness to the last weeks before Svetlana Donskova succumbs to her illness. We follow her slow…
Two people are on the road. Everyday life, business calls, games, a curve of the highway, a swing and again business ca…
Yulia is a young mother of three girls, yet she always dreamed about a son. After her son’s death in childbirth, Yulia …
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century he photographed bums, worker…
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