The Russians Are Gone

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when it was alleged that one of his victims had sexually harassed him, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Tenderly revealing two lives lived in limbo, this film bears witness to the first and final visit of his mother, Lubyov.

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.

The remote, abandoned, snow-swept Belarusian village of Lute. The last resident of this village, Valentina Kirillovna Shpakova, is celebrating the New Year.

Follows the lives of Boris and Masha Rak, Soviet Jews who in 1934 moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

At the cemetery of Armenian town Gjumry one can meet a teenage boy who works as a grave cleaner along with grownup colleagues.