Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

2015年度诺贝尔文学奖得主阿列克谢耶维奇最具分量的作品 发表后荣获德国书业和平奖（2013）、法国美第契散文奖（2013）、俄罗斯「大书奖」读者票选最佳文学作品（2014）、波兰卡普钦斯基报告文学奖（2015） 本书是白俄罗斯著名作家阿列克谢耶维奇最新作品，通过口述采访的形式，展现身处关键历史时刻的普通人的生活。本书讲述了苏联解体后，1991年到2012年二十年间的痛苦的社会转型中，俄罗斯普通人的生活，为梦想破碎付出的代价。在书中，从学者到清洁工，每个人都在重新寻找生活的意义。他们的真实讲述同时从宏观和微观上呈现出一个重大的时代，一个社会的变动，为这一段影响深远的历史赋予了人性的面孔。苏联解体已逾二十年，俄罗斯人重新发现了世界，世界也重新认识了俄罗斯。新一代已经成长起来，他们的梦想已不再关乎梦想，不再像90年代他们的父辈，关心信仰。二十年来，人们看了崭新的俄罗斯，但她却早已不是任何人曾经梦想过的俄罗斯了。作者追溯了苏联和苏联解体之后的历史过程，让普通的小人物讲述他们自己的故事，从而展现出身处历史的转折，以及人们如何追寻信仰、梦想，如何诉说秘密和恐惧，让人们重新思考什么是“俄罗斯”和“俄罗斯人”，为什么他们无法适应急剧的现代化，为什么再近两百年之后，依然与欧洲相隔。本书分为上下两部分，采访了生长于理想之下的俄罗斯人和今天的俄罗斯人，以及阿塞拜疆等前苏联国家的普通人，呈现他们的生活细节，所感所想。德国媒体盛赞该书撷取的是最为细小的马赛克，却拼出了一幅完整的后苏联时代图景。“一部20世纪后半叶的微观俄国史，笔力直抵普京时代。”