Embracing her true self, Natasha forgoes her former life as a beloved husband and father, undergoing a transformative j…
In this Documentary, Ukrainian speed climber Danyl Boldyrev, displaced from his hometown Donetsk, perseveres through lo…
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
This documentary follows the members of Voina (War) an art group that became known for its controversial and anarchic f…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
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 …
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
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…
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
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…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
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 Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
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…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
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…
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…
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
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…
Best Documentary Films
