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Giving Joy Away. Olya 2020
The phrase "Children's hospice" causes many to be taken aback. People try to isolate themselves from extraneous problems, to close themselves off from someone else's grief. One day, fate brought Olga, a successful actress in the past, a mother with many children and a happy wife, to one of these hospices. What could have prompted her to give up her career and start giving all her warmth to other people's children? What inner spiritual motives make people become volunteers and is it so easy to take on someone else's pain?

Where is Matryona? 2019
Shelemishevo, a small village in the Ryazan Oblast. Two girls live together with their grandmother as they have lost their parents – the mother is dead, the father has a new family. One of the sisters is very sick, the other, Natasha, will turn 18 soon. She revisits her old diary and comments on the journaled stories with ease.

The Town Festival 2019
The small town of Kalyazin on the banks of the Volga is famous for its bell tower rising right out of the water. More than half a century ago, during the construction of the Uglich hydroelectric power station, half of the city was flooded. Quiet sleepy streets that go straight into the river make this place really special. Like a mermaid who has climbed ashore, Kalyazin anxiously breathes the half-heartedness of his earthly fate. But every day bread is baked, children are born, women bend over sewing machines, men work behind the machines, asserting the desperate struggle of life where it seems that everything is meaningless and fleeting. Like a river along which large elegant steamboats sail past the bell tower, saying that somewhere there is a completely different life.

Lord's Summer 2019
Peasant summer from early spring to late autumn. Today there are no peasant farms in the Voronezh steppes for a long time, the collective farms are a thing of the past, and the various firms created in their place, the land was bought up by huge holdings. Others today are tractor drivers, those who are lucky with work. Other news on the radios, the Donbass is very close, and in that summer of 2015 there were battles going on there. But summer is still a whole life that still needs to be lived.

Tatiana and her Children 2016
Tatyana came from Moldova to the Ryazan region in search of a better life. She has four sons whom she raises without a husband. And somewhere in the world live a few dozen more of her children. “God forbid that everything is fine with them!” reflects the heroine, who is again in position.

Ceremony 2015
The most important ceremony in your life is your funeral. Have you ever thought about how will farewell to you? What will be your coffin, what will you be wearing, will the music sound, and who will accompany you to the final journey? In Novosibirsk crematorium you can already make such a contract.

Space dog 2012
The hero of the film is an ordinary Moscow teenager. And he lives a completely normal life. With one exception: he is a fan of the game "Dogy kayf", although for a long time it has not played. But today he will try to play again ...

Felt Boots 2012
Once a large bootlegger factory went bankrupt and turned into a small artel. But people did not become smaller. Valenki for them - not just shoes, it's the meaning and way of life. They understand their need. And they work in difficult physical conditions of work in a collapsing building on old equipment. And they do not regret their life, they rejoice to it ...