Nikita Aniskin

National Hero

Ethnobloggers from the peoples of Russia - a Yakut hunter, a Khanty reindeer herder and a Dagestan shepherd - share their daily lives on camera. Their stories become known around the world, showing how new technologies are changing traditional ways of life.

Against The Wind

The Nogai people are descendants of the Golden Horde who are living in the Southern Caucasus of Russia. They experience issues of language loss, identity loss, and lately, an ecological disaster. Formerly lush and green, today the Nogai steppe is turning into a desert. In the autumn, the team led by a simple woman named Gulfira goes deep into the new desert for several months. Every day they walk for many kilometres under the icy, sandy wind and plant branches of Juzgun – a shrub with long roots that can stop the sand. Will Gulfira survive in this battle for the homeland, or will the Nogai land disappear along with its people?

Digital Immortality

Alexander’s grandfather, Nikolay, was an acclaimed soviet inventor and often gave the boy lessons in radio engineering. Nikolay’s last wish was just as extraordinary as the life he led: he asked Alexander to create a digital copy of himself in a robotic body. And so the grandson’s quest began…

Experimentally

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.

The Russian Way

After twenty years abroad, Natalya returns to her homeland and tries to change life in her native village - to repair roads, remove garbage and build a first-aid post. Will the Western experience take root in its native soil?

Long Shot

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.

Glad to See You

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.

Letsplay

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.

Two childhoods

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.

Sisters

A story of two sisters (one of them is a wheelchair person) living in a village in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia.

Sisters

A story of two sisters (one of them is a wheelchair person) living in a village in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia.

Sisters

A story of two sisters (one of them is a wheelchair person) living in a village in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia.