Valery Solomin

Shot on film between 1988 and 1993 and re-edited by the filmmaker in 2015, Days of Future Buddhas had also been banned… so has now returned to us from afar. Moreover, its subject is persistence – that of Buddhism in Russia during the Soviet era. The khambo-lama Mungko, whose burning funeral pyre is seen at the beginning of the film, will, according to belief, be reborn many times.

After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life, Nataliya and Yuri Usovy settled on Olkhon island, on a remote weather station. They thought to find happiness here.

A film about a simple village woman Zinaida Zvereva who married a disabled frontline soldier and lay all the hardships of living together onto herself

First film released on central television where were showed problems of USSR indigenous people, who are suffering from confrontation of traditional culture and oil rigs civilisation.

Siberia. The sparsely populated village of Krotov. The farmer Vasily Dmitrievich Abramov lives in the village completely alone, since in 2005 his sons were convicted of murder and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment ... The film, shot for 10 years, is the last work of the classic of the national documentary film Valery Solomin. It was completed by his sons Eugene and Viktor Solomin.