The short film “Etude” tells the story of a decisive episode in the life of a boy named Zafar. Coming from a family of hereditary musicians, Zafar resists studying music, preferring street football with his peers. The conflict centers on the problem of fathers and children who do not want to live in accordance with the profession passed down from generation to generation. Zafar strives to gain the freedom to make his own choices.

Horses are part of the identity and culture of the Turkmens. This film tells the story of an old muezzin in a village on the border between Iran and Turkmenistan, who is the only one in the village who owns a horse named Karlavash.

Karlygash, whose name means "swallow" in Kazakh, lives with her husband and father-in-law on a horse farm lost in the Kazakh steppe.
She is an outsider here, while Ilyas has never forgotten his first love, a girl named Aina. Everything changes when a French photographer named Louis arrives in their village after separating from his wife.

The film is about 83‑year‑old grandmother Vahandukht, who lives in the village of Kharkov in the Shirak region (which is under the control of Russian border troops and is located in the vicinity of the city of Ani). She has been living here alone for 12 years. Her relatives have left the village, but she has no intention of leaving it, because her husband’s cemetery is located there, and she also promised her mother‑in‑law that as long as she lives in this village, the bakery’s chimney must always be smoking — so the Turks won’t be happy about the idea that there are no more residents in the village.

The main "character" of the film is the Church of the Nativity in the village of Krohino. Built at the end of the 18th century at the source of the Sheksna River flowing from White Lake, it is the only surviving building of a village submerged by the waters of a reservoir.
The church was not dismantled because it was decided to use it as a lighthouse in the flooded area. Over time, however, water and the elements began to destroy the building.

The White Sea coast has been home to the Pomors since ancient times. Their entire lives were inseparably connected with the sea: they gratefully accepted its gifts and, when necessary, paid a painful price for them.
The film portrays the lives of the last zhonki, the indigenous women of the Onega coast.

"The Point is my life," says shepherd Arslan in the film's only line.
Every day for him is a meditation in the middle of the endless steppe. He and his family live without restless doubts or false desires, and yet possess a richness greater than that of many city dwellers.

Meeraman apa is the only hope for the residents of Toktobek-Say, a settlement surrounded by water.
Forty families live on a peninsula that has never officially been granted village status. Meeraman apa has no medical education, yet she treats the villagers with medicinal herbs. Over the course of 30 years, she has helped deliver 137 babies and now passes her knowledge on to others.
At the same time, she is a gentle, kind, and devoted mother.

One day in the life of Elena Radovanović from Veles, Western Serbia. An essay about loneliness and longing, expressed through reflections on the dreams she had.

The village of Aagaswadi lies in the Satara district, in the hills of Maharashtra, at the heart of a region suffering from severe drought.
The continuing lack of water and economic opportunities forces young villagers to leave their homes for the cities, leaving the elderly and children behind.
With neither enough drinking water nor irrigation facilities, Bhimrao desperately begins digging a well, hoping to provide water for both himself and his farm.

Jasper and Rashmita are education activists and filmmakers from Kathmandu, Nepal. They grew up in poverty, and their commitment to education comes directly from their own childhood experiences.
Their passion for filmmaking grew out of their journeys through rural villages across Nepal.

The children of poor farmers carry burdens that bend their backs just as they do those of adults.
It is difficult to grow up too quickly, but what choice do they have when nobody has ever allowed them to be children?
When they return to school after being sick, children from wealthier farming families whisper that they have seen them crawling on all fours through the potato fields. It is not true. They could never have seen them, because whenever they approach, the children hide.
Their hands are never clean after the autumn harvest. They do not know why they are always ill. They do not play with the other children because they do not know how to play their games. They stumble when jumping rope and throw marbles too hard. Soon nobody invites them to play anymore, and they begin to believe what they are told: that they are clumsy and stupid.

This documentary focuses on the life, struggles, and dreams of a 12-year-old girl living in a highland town and the people around her.

During a hunt, a young man was accidentally killed. Hunter Semyon Teterin knows which of the two suspects killed the young man, but will he be able to defend the truth before the investigation?

The young doctor Mikhail lives and works in a small village. His life seems quite ordinary, except for one strange circumstance — a real mermaid lives in the bathtub in his house. Everything is going well until one day Mikhail’s parents come to visit him.

“Nina” is a story about a girl who decides to leave the “Island” where she was born and lived her whole life, for the “City,” which is radically different from everything she is used to.
The film is based on memories of experiences from an internal family chronicle. It captures the moment of growing up and moving to another city. It explores nostalgia for one’s home. It shows the lack of understanding in the dialogues between family members, yet the presence of love, the essence of which is sometimes hard to explain.

Fatima raises her children on her own and earns a living by selling firewood. Her pet helps her with the work, but due to the drought, the pet falls ill, and Fatima has to get into the cart herself.

Water comes at a great cost to the people who need it. A boy returns it to nature.

Despite her young age, Bambo understands everything happening around her.
"Dad, shall we sing something?" is a story about the complicated relationship between little Bambo, her sisters, and their father.

Twelve-year-old Antay watches his home in the middle of the Atacama Desert disappear as a result of drought.
Together with his friends and their football team, he tries to hold on to the last rays of sunlight, the fragments of his childhood, and the bonds between those who are still resisting.