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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.

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.

Defying his father's wish to pass on the family reindeer-herding business, a young Evenk decides to leave for the city to work—a choice that becomes a personal tragedy for the herder.

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 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.

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.

"Listen!" is a hunt for sounds and meanings. In four episodes from four different regions, we will see how modern ethnic music is born, from the concept to the final track, and try to understand why we listen with such awe to music that features the voices of our ancestors?

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

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.

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.

For more than ten years, high school students from the settlement of Gary in the Sverdlovsk Region have been traveling to the abandoned village of Pelym every summer. The only way to reach Pelym is by water, in a small motorboat. The journey takes ten hours. But what keeps bringing these students back year after year?

About people who have dedicated themselves to their favorite business. They have different ages, places of residence, and destinies, but each of them realized one day that environmental protection is his vocation.

Stories about extraordinary people from North Ossetia with different professions, views and culture, but they definitely agree on one thing - in the boundless love for the place where they grew up and live.

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?

Stepan is a folklorist, a graduate of the university. He is enthusiastically engaged in preserving the musical heritage of Udmurtia. In winter and summer, he travels to the villages and towns of the region, collects ancient songs and melodies, learns about forgotten rituals and traditions. Stepan goes hitchhiking deep into Udmurtia to sing a song recorded almost a century ago to those who might remember it. Otherwise, the song, as well as the memory of it, will disappear forever.

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.

Kestym is a 340-year-old Tatar village in Udmurtia, where most of the residents share the same surname. This is no coincidence: they are descendants of Prince Kasim, the founder of their lineage. Every year, the village hosts a festival that brings together his descendants and attracts visitors from across the region. How do the Kasimovs live in the 21st century? Does sharing the same surname shape their lives? And what lies ahead for this Tatar enclave in the heart of rural Udmurtia?

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…

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.