Database
Optical Axis
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers and monks. Hundred years later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes.…
The Potato Eaters
A Russian family lives in extreme poverty. This is what Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters would look like if it came to life.
September 25
To return to the starting point, it takes only a few stations on the train. The worst childhood memories would show up if you cross the line. The main character of the film, 20-year-old Dima, who grew up in an orphanage…
Shrove Sunday
The Samodurovs family lives in the village of Uglyanets in Russia's Voronezh Region. Shura and her two brothers, Alyosha and Petya, are blind from birth. After the death of their parents, elder brother Shura refused to…
S.P.A.R.T.A. - The Territory of Happiness
This documentary focuses on S.P.A.R.T.A., a “poetic agricultural commune” dwelling in the East Ukrainian village of Caravan. In the early 1990s, the founder of the commune developed his own “theory of happiness,” which…
The Twin
This is the story of two twin brothers, a composer and a painter. Three years ago they quarreled and now can't reconcile with each other.
Winter Go Away
“Winter Go Away” was filmed by the graduates of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s Documentary Filmmaking and Theater School, on the initiative of Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper. Ten young…
Zviszhi
It takes 20 minutes on foot to get from the town of Nikola-Lenivets to the village of Zviszhi. Nikola-Lenivets is the site of Arkhstoyaniye, a most fashionable festival of landscape objects. Zviszhi is the place where…