Vladimir Golovnev

Novice Fyodor accompanies father Pyotr on an official mission to the Polar Urals. Ahead of the missionaries is the farthest northern camp, which the locals cautiously call "the edge of the earth." And travelers are not at all welcome here.

Two village peasants compete for a girl who is no longer alive... According to their beliefs, the soul of the deceased is nearby for several days and sometimes returns.

In 2016, eSports games were declared the official sport in Russia. Letsplay is a multi-month observation of the life of world champions of eSports. This is a backstage of large-scale computer battles, victories and defeats of the heroes of the virtual world.

This film tells about people whose hands create the main components of life on the planet every day. And it’s not just the material basis of our world made of metal, concrete or wood, but it’s also something that gives meaning to our lives, inspires and gives hope. The film’s characters — a locksmith and a fisherman, a steelworker and a farmer, a furniture maker and an anesthesiologist — are followed by the film’s Director, who suddenly turns from an observer into a creator.

There are unique people in small towns and villages of Russia who, despite the circumstances, are trying to improve the life around them. They are arranged this way: someone fills a skating rink in the yard after work and teaches children to play hockey, someone does not let local crafts and cultural traditions die, someone brings up foster children, and someone saves lonely elders. The participants of the film project are different in age and nationality, they have different professions and life circumstances, they are surrounded by different environments – from the extreme tundra to a small town. But one thing unites them - they change the world around them.

Genuine creative passions boil in the drama theater of the Ural town of Irbit. And it's nothing that young talents have to play more and more "Aibolit" in the surrounding schools, and their viewers, for the most part, have not yet grown up to school.

Coffee machine repairman Roma decides to become a hospital clown at the age of 40. Now he has to joke about terrible diseases, look positively into the eyes of death and cheerfully amuse those who are not laughing at all. A few days in the life of hospital clowns.

Since 2015, modern 3D cinemas have been opened in small towns and villages of Russia. These are several stories from different regions of the country about how the cinema has come to save the inhabitants of the hinterland from loneliness, abandonment, alcoholism, isolation... Live observation of how cinema changes life, and life turns into a movie.

The Siberian village of Okunevo has been considered a sacred territory for many years. Recently, it has been a place of pilgrimage for representatives of various religious groups. Sergei and Valentin are permanent residents of Okunevo. Sergei has a mental retardation. Valentin lost the ability to walk.

The film tells about the Siberian penal servitude of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story of the difficult transformation of a young romantic into a great Russian writer. The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Ethnobloggers from the peoples of Russia - a Yakut hunter, a Khanty reindeer herder and a Dagestan shepherd - share their daily lives on camera. Their stories become known around the world, showing how new technologies are changing traditional ways of life.

They are called "loveaholics", "sozics", obsessed, "love addicts". These are people for whom love has become a disease. It makes them suffer and search, fantasize and act, idealize and avoid. Where does euphoria end and diagnosis begin? The film is a study of the phenomenon of love addiction

Alexander’s grandfather, Nikolay, was an acclaimed soviet inventor and often gave the boy lessons in radio engineering. Nikolay’s last wish was just as extraordinary as the life he led: he asked Alexander to create a digital copy of himself in a robotic body. And so the grandson’s quest began…

The film is an observation of the behavior of sports fans, a reflection on the place and role of the Game in human life.

In 1943, a village in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia was one of the centers of formation of the Ural volunteer tank corps. The school № 30 was named after this corps. In 2014, schoolchildren prepare for the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Following today’s youngsters in the village, the camera speaks volumes about the mentality that has been passing down from generation to generation for the last 70 years and about the dark side of patriotism.

There is an opinion that science is born within the walls of metropolitan universities. But there are other researchers as well. Their inventions appear in small villages and urban suburbs, in home workshops and garage boxes.