Father's Letters

Laura and Daur live in an isolated village high in the mountains. Today, Laura will be travelling to the city to give birth.

“Everyone can accomplish a heroic act in their life” hammers home the instructor. But such a destiny is prepared for in the presidential school of cadets that trains volunteer teenagers to serve in the National Guard created by Putin in 2016. Alex Evstigneev photographs these future heroes, whose extreme fragility on the verge of an iron indoctrination he reveals with sound and images.

If architecture is "frozen music", then the façades of houses are its score. We explore the architecture of the post-Soviet space, from wooden architecture to Baroque and classicism, from Art Nouveau to Stalinist and Khrushchev architecture, traces of which are found in the modern panel buildings known as “human anthills”. By doing so, we are trying to understand how this centuries-old symphony could sound and look, and most importantly, we find that irreconcilable conflict of personality and mass, the unique and the typical, that is reflected even “in stone”.

A documentary-animated fairy tale about the painful relationship between a mother and daughter.

Documentary verse. One day from the life of the last narrow-gauge railway passing through the mountains of the Caucasus. In the car, people of different ages and layers, their conversations and a lonely driver, driving to replace his best friend for 20 years after his death.