High Five
Katya lives in Rostov-on-Don, studies economics and works part-time at McDonald's. During the World Cup, she became a volunteer - she walks with a huge foam hand and offers fans to "give five".
Maxim Pakhomov
Also Directed by Maxim Pakhomov
Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, the founders of the Theater.Doc, died in 2018 with a difference of 45 days. Now their student Zarema Zaudinova puts on performances, comes up with new projects so that the theater, which has suffered so much persecution from the authorities, will survive and live a new life.
The violent actions of the authorities did not stop the protests. The film "War" by Daria Demur, Ekaterina Ignashevich, Daria Gerasimenko and Maksia Pakhomov is about the street confrontation between demonstrators and the police.
The life of the inhabitants of a shelter near Moscow for people in a crisis situation: women with young children, the homeless, victims of abuse.
Two days before the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, a protest action "Down with the tsar" took place in Moscow. The organizer of the rally, Alexei Navalny, was detained, the demonstrators were attacked by Cossacks, they were beaten by the police.
This movie is about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teens take Cossack education.
The Great Cross procession is considered the largest and most difficult pilgrimage route in Russia. Many participants in the course believe that if you go this way with pure thoughts and a specific request to God, then it will be fulfilled. The main character of the film Leonid also has a request - an intimate dream. And there is a feeling that for him this religious procession is the last.
The rally in support of Alexei Navalny was initially called for in the center of Moscow, on Lubyanskaya Square, but the authorities blocked all approaches to it. Then some of the demonstrators went to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, where Navalny was. The police hunted them, cutting off individual groups and using force. Over one and a half thousand people were detained. Two days later, on February 2, the court changed Navalny's suspended sentence to a real one - two years and eight months in prison. On the same evening new protests began.
After the start of mass protests in Belarus, demonstrators also appeared in Moscow - at the Belarusian embassy.