Sergei Litvyakov

The time of action is the beginning of perestroika. A young girl, an employee of the LOMO association, an incorrigible idealist, endures a serious unequal struggle with the plant management for the ideals in which she recklessly believes. She is sent to a psychiatric hospital, they say that her “straightforward character” is a disease, that she has “truth-seeking syndrome.”

Based around the testimonies of four German women, this documentary details the abuse women suffered during after WWII at the hands of the Soviet forces, particularly during their forced labour.

Revolt in Sobibor is a beautifully filmed portrait of four survivors of the uprising in the Sobibór extermination camp in Eastern Poland, close to the Russian border.

The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a musical prophecy of a talented artist about his own life.

Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.

That provincial time flows differently and allows you to see differently, to look at the world more closely.

A male academic choir of drivers from Pskov. What unites these people is love of their local area, their craft and song. As it watches them, the film gradually becomes a reflection on a person’s bond with the place they live.

Everyday life at a sweets factory: a grey, grinding existence. An invited lecturer speaks of fine feelings, of love and courtship, but he does not know what it takes to produce a box of chocolates that someone would bring to a beloved woman on International Women’s Day. Falling snow covers the streets. Then spring comes, followed by summer, but in the smoking room, in rare minutes of rest, the factory workers will keep talking about a life that is passing.