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"Star genius", "new Gogol", "winged unearthly creature" and at the same time - "hysterical, clamorous", "vain poseur", "underincarnated phantom"... This is how contemporaries characterized one of the most striking figures of the Silver Age - the poet Andrei Bely. This film, consisting of eight parts, represents fragments of Andrei Bely's biography scattered over time. The main women in the poet's life were Asya Turgeneva, Lyubov Mendeleeva, Nina Petrovskaya, Claudia Vasilyeva - the film is also about them.

In the stands of stadiums during football matches the serious passions are boiling - so the fans support their teams. It is about them and the film - about what is happening around football, about football fans of one of the leading teams - CSKA. About the special, so-called "Russian style" of our "Tiffozy" tells the hero of the film, a fan with a long record and a nickname Yauza.

An artistic reconstruction of the life of one person, a poet. Although Marina Tsvetaeva is known not only for her work, but also for her difficult fate, the painting "Passion for Marina" deserves the interest of even those who believe that nothing new will be told about Tsvetaeva. The film uses memoir prose, letters and notebooks of M.I. Tsvetaeva, A.I. Tsvetaeva, A.S. Efron, G.S. Efron, diaries, memoirs and letters of their contemporaries; fragments of films from the collection of the Gosfilmofond of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents.

Valery Bryusov - a poet-symbolist, an unrestrained innovator of poetic form and content, an idol of women, a "demon of thought", a "genius of passion", an "angel of sadness", fanned by scandalous glory. How could it happen that he became the first Soviet censor, participant in the most initial oppression of Russian poets for ideological reasons? How and why did the brightest star of the unique Silver Age of our literature fade and die?

A beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. A piercing meditation on family unity.

This film was conceived as a continuation of the work of Igor Grigoriev "Holidays of the Revolution", filmed in 1972. The image of the future is the most important theme of the holidays a hundred years ago. Today, in the coming “future,” we are more likely to celebrate the events of the past or the present. Each other is followed by Lenin's birthday, a rock festival, a bow day, New Year, private celebrations. All these days merge into one - “red day”.

The film tells about the research of sleep physiology by Ivan Nikolaevich Pigarev, PhD, Professor of the IPPR RAS.

On New Year's Eve at the Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation for people with disabilities who suffer from cerebral palsy, doctors prepare a New Year performance and a concert for their patients. After all, many of them live here permanently, and for them this holiday became the only spectacle that they can see "live".

In the film, we look into the future. How does scientific knowledge change our worldview, culture and environment? On the one hand, the development of technology expands our boundaries of freedom - we live longer, learned to establish communication with paralyzed people, etc. But the more scientists learn about the brain, the more questions arise. Back in the 1980s, Benjamin Libet conducted experiments that, according to many scientists, proved that man does not have free will. Neuroscientists say that our behavior and decisions depend only on the activity of neurons.

How important it is to be able to see the beautiful in life, even if fate has brought into a remote village of Bamov ... A school librarian teaches children to dream, because that is what distinguishes a person from an animal. For the present, children chuckle at her quirks, but, perhaps, when they grow up, they will remember her lessons. Dreams and romance of Henrik opposes the immersion of society in bestiality. It seems that there is no other moral decay to stop ...

What is a human brain? Is it just a part of central nervous system, super computer or master who controls human's life? Modern neuroscience researches will help us answer this questions.

It is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkine does not speak so much of the artificial intelligence as the chapka (fur cap) he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a gay story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where artificial intelligence was used to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family dreaded the pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, we think in Russian.

The film is based on five cases of people with implants in the head. Against the backdrop of the growing popularity of the topic of “chipping” and fear of being controlled by artificial intelligence, filmmakers find five dramatic stories where the “chip in the head” is a vital necessity. With the help of implants, doctors cure deafness, remove tremor from patients with parkinsonism, stop epilepsy attacks and treat dystonia. Where can the scientific discoveries of the recent years lead us? Is it possible to control people with the help of technology and what neuroethical issues are encountered in its use?

Anthropomorphic robots are increasingly being introduced into our lives: they meet us at the reception, educate children and even live in families as partners. Scientists are trying to make robots as human-like as possible. In the late 80s, scientists studying the emotional reaction of people to robots discovered the "uncanny valley effect": the most humanoid robots caused dislike and even fear in people. But what will happen when they become indistinguishable from a person? And will they?

A documentary about the spread of AIDS in the Soviet Union. The film is based on the stories of people who contracted the disease and those whose children require treatment.

A film about love, about the relationship of a young couple living in a "civil marriage", and their opinion about marriage is official.

Three physicists in search of the grail, each - his own. One hopes to find gravitational waves, the other - axions, the third is looking for magnetic monopoles. Each of these waves and particles is predicted by theorists, but whether it exists in nature in reality, no one knows for sure.

Ten years ago, it was difficult to imagine that a blind person could regain his sight with the help of prostheses. Our heroes were able to. Grigory and Antonina underwent surgery to insert an implant into the retina of the eye. After a long rehabilitation, they successfully use the new "bionic" vision. Antonina can even read text written in large letters. Today, science is on the threshold of another amazing technology. An implant for the visual cortex is being tested before our eyes. So far, on monkeys. Dramatic stories in the film alternate with scientific conversations about the structure and meaning of vision.

In places remote from the capital, amateur art is the main center of beauty and culture. This is an attempt to understand what is "big" and "small" in relation to the soul and homeland.

At first glance, charity is easy: gather things, spend time, help with money. But it turns out, it's not easy when you are 17 and you are not ready to see lonely old age, poverty and disease. And when you realize that now you are there - in a nursing home - waiting, it becomes even more difficult.