Rain does not caress the skin, the wind resists blowing, a soul is like a doll forgotten in the house of glass. Tikhon Pendurin’s piece “Death of Cinema” is a dream of a film, the process of falling asleep, a frozen cosmos, the liturgy of a sigh. Fotogénie, a return to the forgotten magic of magician Segundo de Chomon, the mystery of Val del Omar, Alain Resnais surreal theatricality “Death of Cinema” seems to absorb all the magic of cinema and confesses its own forgetfulness. The characters of “Death of Cinema” stand before the justice of truth, naive children turned with pride away from the audience. Here, the main thing is the hallucination of light, a whisper, a prayer, the bewildered physiognomy of cinema, which allowed itself to laugh at its own seriousness. (by Karina Karaeva)

The group studies and performs karachay-balkarian folklore. Gollu is a traditional dance for vernal equinox. The band's name is a metaphor because just like spring is the time for revival, Gollu revive, reinterpret and develop traditional culture of their nation. The connecting thread of this film is legend about debate of person and devil. Fragments of the legend are followed by live performances and footages from archive shooting and all of that create a difficult metaphorical drama about journey from darkness to the light.

Ragon bal remake traditional ossetian music, they structure national identity in a new way. The band has no need in national clothes for their performances, because traditions already live inside the musicians. Ragon bal present the subculture of caucasian post-folk. This music exists in conditions of global world and is not mainstream, but it's difficult to imagine cultural context of the region without it.

Ethnofuturist Artists from finno-ugric shaman orchestra UMPU make absolutely unique instruments by themselves. Their concerts are more than performance. It's ritual. Finno-ugric shaman orchestra UMPU work with mythology and symbols of their native culture. They are inventing new folklore.

Meeting with the buryat rapper Bair Tarbaev and his project LUTAAR. Bair takes the host of the episode to his native ulus Sanaga, tells her all about nearby mountains' names and shows a religious service in datsan.We will see not only beautiful buryat nature but Bair's parents house and his apartmen-music studio as well.

kuturar will guide the host of the episode Serafima through the overgrown after the fire forest and tell her about art inspiration and shamanism energy that invisibly appear in their music. Serafima will hang out at the kuturar concert on the rock festival "Kholbon" and travel on a boat to a scenic island on the river Lena, where a live performance of kuturar will be held and only crows will see it.

The host of the episode Serafima together with the Y EN will visit the repetition of their band in the studio located in Yoshkar-Ola then drive on a Zhiguli to the village Oshlamuchash, meditate during the boat trip and improvise on a birch bark with the guys. Also she will record new sounds and get familiar with ancient culture of mari nation, that always imperceptibly appears in ensemble's music.

Meeting ethno-electropunk band HAGRIN from Kalmykia and going on a journey in Dark Steppe. But also it's a rave at the dawn, singing sands, burning water, kamlanie, mantras and beats. Journey begins with Kalmyk tale about wise Kooky, who wished to receive as a gift khan's left eye and instead gained everybody's recognition of her wisdom and married khan's son. Continue in the steppe, which is full of spirits. Here myths and legends become reality and something strange imagining in dawn's mist.

This is meeting with vainakh underground from probably one of the most conservative region of North Caucasus. This is a story about young people for whom it's important not to loose connection with their culture and nation. This is a story about desire to change your region in a better way, however it's also about vacuum in Ingush community, understatement and feeling of the looking glass.

Thanks to the leader of qaynar Radif Kashapov the host of the film Lera will open Kazan from a new side. They will take a walk along the embankment of river Kazanka, visit the national library of the republic of Tatarstan, go deep into the history of old tatar sloboda, rehearse in studio and more.

After getting into a hidden from tourists village Kyus Lera will be charmed by the powerful stream of the river Katun', endless green mountains and of course fascinating types of throat signing, which is practised by Kezer Danzheev and Ezendey Balbin: karkyra, koomey, sybysky. It feels like the sound takes listener from our middle world to the upper or lower worlds and brings to the condition of the original rhythmic dance.