This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.

Sokurov directed and filmed Mozart’s Requiem for the Rossica Choir in the wonderful hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.

A documentary portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of renowned Japanese writer Toshio Shimao.

The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.

A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.

Who are we? What do we know about ourselves? How do we differ from animals? Creativity! That's the only thing that makes us human. Only creativity is a sign of human nature.