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The story of Alina Chistyakova, founder of a brand of pearl crowns and necklaces crafted using the ancient technique of pearl planting. Alina travels to the village where she spent her childhood to show off her pearl necklaces to her fellow villagers—tractor drivers resting after work, women gathered at a food truck. After all, their great-grandmothers made such necklaces, and not long ago, their grandmothers wore them when they got married… Will the sight of beauty awaken the people's memory? And what will this village comedy of two worlds colliding lead to?

Children from Chukotka tell us about their world, where whales swim right past their windows, dog teams pull ATVs, and, according to local rumors, a mischievous little devil has taken up residence in the boiler house. A cinematic postcard from the edge of the world, capturing a childhood that is honest, funny, and magical.

Without education or experience, acting intuitively, local residents in Yakutia are beginning to develop beekeeping. They are the world's northernmost beekeepers, cautiously checking their apiaries all summer long, delighted by the buzzing of bees. By autumn, these people have formed a beekeepers' association and are beginning to extract their first honey.

The small village of Khatystyr in the forests of southern Yakutia has long been considered the land of the Evenki. Recently, popular ethnobloggers have emerged here, sharing stories of Tungus culture with hundreds of thousands of followers online. Timofey Ivanovich is over sixty. He is a wolf hunter, and so he adopted the online pseudonym Berke (Evenk for "wolf"). Berke is an old-timer, a keeper of traditions, respected and called upon at crucial moments. Now such a moment has arrived: the wolves have returned. Hungry packs are crushing reindeer and moving toward the village. Berke ventures alone into the taiga to drive off the predators. In his real world, he has only a rifle and a video camera. And in his virtual world, there are millions of views and thousands of comments. This is the story of how a keeper of national myths saves his small people from the scourge of wolves, and ultimately becomes a new folk legend himself.

Eduard is a lonely, terminally ill man in the final stages of cirrhosis. His life changes dramatically when he meets a delivery robot named Aloha. This chance night, full of sadness and unexpected friendship, becomes Eduard's final journey into himself, toward forgiveness and reconciliation with those he lost.

Vova and Misha are participants in a charity project where any adult can become a mentor for a child from an orphanage. They've been friends for over six months and have a great time together. Vova teaches Misha to drive and is concerned about his college admissions. Everything changes when Misha gets another mentor – Irina, a woman who wants to adopt him.

The Kuban choir "Elizavetintsy" consists entirely of amateurs—ordinary villagers. Teachers, doctors, farmers, and entrepreneurs—50 people in all. The choir is led by Alexander and Anna Kosaty. Their task is to prepare the ensemble to compete in an all-Russian contest in Moscow.

Just as a tree cannot grow without roots, so a person cannot exist without traditions. "Guardians of Tradition" is a kaleidoscope of films woven from the unique customs of the peoples of Dagestan, who lovingly preserve the cultural and spiritual heritage of their ancestors and pass this knowledge on to the next generation.

A funeral bus gets stuck in the snow-covered vast expanses on the way to the cemetery. Instead of solving the problem, family members sort things out with each other. The family is falling apart before our eyes, and only the deceased grandfather will help save it.

Ten-year-old Tyoma befriends a fallen meteorite that wanders the streets, wreaking havoc on the locals. Only Tyoma knows the true reason for this behavior—the meteorite is searching for its fragments. Trying to save his friend from destruction, he must convince his father to believe in miracles.

A film-portrait of a sacred place for Yakutia — Kharama Khayata — and its residents who are trying to preserve the heritage of their ancestors, through legends and oral folk art to instill a love and respect for the unique Yakut culture. Will they manage to keep their sacred mountain and own history?

In the mountains of the Eastern Sayan range, in the south-west of the Republic of Buryatia, lies the ulus of Myla. Life here is a constant struggle. From something as basic as heating one's home, the struggle extends to every aspect of life in this small Khamnigan settlement. How do Darkhan's creativity, inquisitive mind, and gifted hands help the entire ulus survive in the harsh conditions of Zakamna? And what philosophy allows Dondok Dorzhiyevich to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable - being both a darkhan and a shaman who creates Buddhist ritual objects?

For the first time, we decided to turn the camera around and make a film about filmmaking – to experience for ourselves what the subjects of our documentaries go through. For documentary filmmakers, who are usually more comfortable behind the camera, this is quite a challenge. The film follows our bumpy journey from setbacks on location to the final result – a screening in a cinema.

Anastasia Rubleva has chosen a rare profession: she is an ethnographer. She is about to embark on an important expedition to the village where her great-grandmother once lived. The journey will not only provide valuable material for her research but also reconnect her with the folk culture of her Siberian ancestors. Through Anastasia's reflections, the film invites us to consider our own relationship with the culture we call our own.

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

Today he's happy. He always is when he works in the fields. "Why do Mom and Dad make me go to this school, and not just go, but learn these unnecessary skills for him, a machine operator? It would be better if he threshed the grain quietly, and it would be easier for Mom, too. And let my younger sisters go to school, even though they're already grown up..." Eleven-year-old Bogdan carefully lifts the harvester and stops it at the edge of the field.

Denis Bokuradze, director of the Gran chamber theatre from the provincial Volga city of Novokuibyshevsk, is eagerly awaiting the opening of the new stage. For the city of chemists and oil workers, this will be the first real city theatre in its history – Novokuibyshevsk has never had its own theatre building before. Construction takes up all the director’s free time from work on performances, distracting him from rehearsals, taking away his health and attention. Not everything is going smoothly: the builders are missing deadlines and at some point it seems that the construction may stop altogether. The director is trying with all his might to prevent this. At the same time, he is releasing a premiere, preparing for new productions and solving a host of everyday, organizational and creative problems that arise daily in the team and make up the life of a chamber theatre…

Military pilot Oleg Vyugov returns to his hometown to carry on his father's life's work: reviving a children's glider school that was once renowned throughout the Soviet Union and where his own passion for flying began. 40 years after his first flight, he and a new generation of students set out to build a glider that will carry future pilots, engineers, and aircraft designers into the sky. For Oleg, it becomes both a new mission and a new challenge.

A unique and natural close-up of the case of Murmansk judge Yulia Grin. The first case in Russia to rule in favor of a victim of telephone fraud, paving the way for further judicial practice.

Valentina knows all too well what it means to be responsible for those we have tamed. She runs the Time of Cats shelter while also working as a lawyer and raising two children. The shelter began as a cat café in the city center, where 250 cats found new homes over five years. But after a disagreement with the landlord, it had to move to the outskirts and become a shelter, making it less convenient for visitors. Today, Time of Cats is home to more than 90 cats, and despite the help of volunteers, the responsibility for them rests largely on Valentina. Finding funding and dealing with the cats’ daily needs take up much of her life. Now another problem has emerged: the owner plans to sell the building. Once again, the shelter must find a new home.