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A portrait of Richard Semashkov, a rapper famous for anti-liberal songs and friendship with Prilepin and other "patriotic" artists.
Jan 2017
The tape is dedicated to writer, publicist, long-term employee and editor-in-chief of the Russian service of Radio Liberty Peter Vail. Filming took place in New York, Prague and Venice. The film uses rare archive photo, video and audio materials. Vail's texts are read by Alexander Filippenko. Peter Weil died in December 2009. In 2014 he would have turned 65.
Dec 2015
How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters.
Dec 2018
A 12-year-old girl, Tasia, from the village of Tomsino in the Pskov Region wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking her to help her mother, a nurse in a local hospital. The villagers didn’t like this, where Tasya and her mother had moved shortly before that - they say, you need to "work, not ask." Tasha began to be poisoned, and an ex-girlfriend met her online under the guise of a young man and lured naked photographs.
Dec 2019
A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"
Aug 2019
On April 23, after 11 days of mass protests, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. About how the opposition led by Nikol Pashinyan won - the film “Last Day”.
Among those who took to the streets of Russian cities in recent months are people of various political views. This is the story of a young Russian nationalist.
Mar 2018
Seven people left the small village of Kedrovoye in the Sverdlovsk Region to fight in Syria with the composition of the PMCs Wagner. After the battle near Deir ez-Zor on February 7, where PMC suffered heavy losses, news is expected in Cedar.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is going to be elected to this post for the sixth time in a row at the August 9 elections.
Aug 2020
Mother of a girl who committed suicide due to bullying at school; yesterday's teens who have experienced bullying; a girl who herself was involved in bullying. All the characters in this film have something in common: pain, complexes, self-doubt, indifference of adults. But the problem can be solved, and the heroes of the film talk about what to do in such situations.
Dec 2020
Ufa tattoo artist covers traces of violence with flowers.
Apr 2017
March of mothers on rainy Moscow in defense of girls from the "New Greatness" Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik and their transfer from a pre-trial detention center under house arrest.
Aug 2018
This movie is about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teens take Cossack education.
Zakhar is 7 years old, and his brother Procopius is 9. Each of the brothers already has its own deer and its own tundra for wandering. Previously, children born into a nomad family at this age were almost forcibly taken away to study in a boarding school on the mainland. And they rarely returned to the parental home. Trying to preserve the traditions of the nomadic peoples in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the authorities decided to revive the practice of "nomadic schools" that disappeared in Russia in the 30s. That’s how the 23-year-old Nelli Andreevna falls into the Zharkov family in order to explain to Zakhar and Prokopy what a mathematician is needed in life and who Vladimir Putin is.
Dec 2016
The tale of how in St. Petersburg watched the match "Russia-Croatia".
Jul 2018
After three teenagers died of an overdose, artist and activist Katrin Nenasheva organized a self-help group called "Teens and Cats". In it, teenagers share their difficulties and support each other. Initially, at the meetings of the group, they talked about how to cope with drug addiction, later to this was added a discussion of mental illnesses, bullying, violence, selfharma.
Jul 2021
Sex guru, feminist, an adherent of polyamoric relations and one of the organizers of the Kinki Academy Elena Rydkina is engaged in education in the field of sex culture - she lectures, conducts master classes and trainings.
Feb 2018
In the summer of 2018, Olya Misik became known in the protest circles of Moscow as a “girl with the Constitution” - cadres as a young courageous girl read articles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation to riot policemen in all mass media. Not only journalists and students, but also policemen began to recognize the participant of the "Unlimited" street traffic. In September, Olya entered Zhurfak Moscow State University, and now she can be called a prominent Moscow activist.
The rally in support of Alexei Navalny was initially called for in the center of Moscow, on Lubyanskaya Square, but the authorities blocked all approaches to it. Then some of the demonstrators went to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, where Navalny was. The police hunted them, cutting off individual groups and using force. Over one and a half thousand people were detained. Two days later, on February 2, the court changed Navalny's suspended sentence to a real one - two years and eight months in prison. On the same evening new protests began.
Feb 2021
About young workers and why they joined the protests - the film by Sasha Kulak, Yulia Vishnevetskaya and Andrei Kiselev "Strike. Minsk Tractor Plant".
Sep 2020