Scurvy

This film tells about people whose hands create the main components of life on the planet every day. And it’s not just the material basis of our world made of metal, concrete or wood, but it’s also something that gives meaning to our lives, inspires and gives hope. The film’s characters — a locksmith and a fisherman, a steelworker and a farmer, a furniture maker and an anesthesiologist — are followed by the film’s Director, who suddenly turns from an observer into a creator.

In 2016, eSports games were declared the official sport in Russia. Letsplay is a multi-month observation of the life of world champions of eSports. This is a backstage of large-scale computer battles, victories and defeats of the heroes of the virtual world.

In 1943, a village in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia was one of the centers of formation of the Ural volunteer tank corps. The school № 30 was named after this corps. In 2014, schoolchildren prepare for the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Following today’s youngsters in the village, the camera speaks volumes about the mentality that has been passing down from generation to generation for the last 70 years and about the dark side of patriotism.

They are called "loveaholics", "sozics", obsessed, "love addicts". These are people for whom love has become a disease. It makes them suffer and search, fantasize and act, idealize and avoid. Where does euphoria end and diagnosis begin? The film is a study of the phenomenon of love addiction

Since 2015, modern 3D cinemas have been opened in small towns and villages of Russia. These are several stories from different regions of the country about how the cinema has come to save the inhabitants of the hinterland from loneliness, abandonment, alcoholism, isolation... Live observation of how cinema changes life, and life turns into a movie.

There is an opinion that science is born within the walls of metropolitan universities. But there are other researchers as well. Their inventions appear in small villages and urban suburbs, in home workshops and garage boxes.

Two village peasants compete for a girl who is no longer alive... According to their beliefs, the soul of the deceased is nearby for several days and sometimes returns.

The small village of Khatystyr in the forests of southern Yakutia has long been considered the land of the Evenki. Recently, popular ethnobloggers have emerged here, sharing stories of Tungus culture with hundreds of thousands of followers online. Timofey Ivanovich is over sixty. He is a wolf hunter, and so he adopted the online pseudonym Berke (Evenk for "wolf"). Berke is an old-timer, a keeper of traditions, respected and called upon at crucial moments. Now such a moment has arrived: the wolves have returned. Hungry packs are crushing reindeer and moving toward the village. Berke ventures alone into the taiga to drive off the predators. In his real world, he has only a rifle and a video camera. And in his virtual world, there are millions of views and thousands of comments. This is the story of how a keeper of national myths saves his small people from the scourge of wolves, and ultimately becomes a new folk legend himself.