A film about the relationship between humans and robots. Why do anthropomorphic robots cause fear? Can we live with them as full partners? Where is the line between robot and human?

An experimental musical film celebrating the art of blacksmithing.

A story about the unknown pages of the largest victories of Russian science and technology, about brilliant inventions and strong people.

Against the backdrop of the popular topic of "chipping" and people's fears of becoming controlled by artificial intelligence, the authors of the film find dramatic stories where the "chip in the head" is a vital necessity. What are the scientific discoveries of the last decades leading to, is it possible to control people with the help of such technologies, and what neuroethical questions arise in connection with their use?

Documentary verse. One day in the life of the last narrow-gauge railway passing through the mountains of the Caucasus. There are people of different ages and strata in the car, their conversations and a lone driver, who has been traveling on the replacement of his best friend for 20 years after his death.

Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.

The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.

For more than 35 years, the Soviets expand their geopolitical influence in Africa with humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology. Up until 1991, some of the country’s best filmmakers were sent along to document the ‘glorious advance’ of socialism on the African continent. The Soviet Union broke apart and “socialism” became a dirty word. Russia, struggling with an economic crisis, lost all political interest in Africa. Still, thousands of kilometers of film footage remain.

This film about the process of technical discovery, insight, the “theory of an internal explosion” of a person was based on real facts and events in 1988 in the USSR related to the implementation of an agreement with the Americans on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles.

For several years, scientists studying images of our planet from space have been talking about an unusual phenomenon that periodically appears on the surface of the deepest lake in the world, at Baikal. Every year, when the lake is covered with ice, huge concentric circles of regular shape appear on it. They are not visible from the earth, but from space these huge geometric figures are clearly visible.

At any time, socialist, perestroika, after the collapse of the Union, the "red director" Anatoly Kanashchenkov emerged victorious from the most difficult situations. However, now, in order to get out of the unfair game of circumstances with dignity, he needs to lose.

Siberia. The last four houses remained in the old village on the Angara River. Before the eyes of their inhabitants, they burned a large village and continue to burn. The hands of Siberian prisoners are cleaning up the bed of the new reservoir of the fourth hydroelectric power station on the river. Tractors work menacingly around the huts that have survived so far. The villagers meet every new day with fear that they will be burned down. But, despite this, they do not leave their home. This is the last year of the life of the Angarsk village.

A priest, a scientist and a witch are talking about god, life, death and technologies related to them. Are you ready to lend your consciousness to your phone so that it becomes immortal?

How many nuclear power plants do you know where pets roam? Inside the reactor, Olga set up a farm. Sergei is hiding in the labyrinths of the station from reality, and Vitaly, who for many years led the construction of a nuclear power plant, settled nearby on a makeshift ship. The Crimean nuclear power plant does not let go either those who built it or those who lived nearby. It was the most expensive project of the Soviet Union, but the nuclear power plant did not work for a single day. The empire collapsed, the annexation of the Crimea changed the fate of Russia. But which way? People live here as if in another dimension, hoping for something and expecting something. But what?

The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is the most powerful in Russia and the sixth largest in the world. It was built during the Soviet Union from 1963 to 1978 on the Yenisei River in Siberia. In 2009, one of the world's largest man-made disasters occurred at the hydroelectric power plant, which claimed the lives of 75 people. It took five years and 40 billion rubles to resume the operation of the station. And although the exact cause of the accident has not yet been established, the engineers accused of the accident have been imprisoned.

The plant manager gives an interview and he doesn't like it very much, but even from the extremely short answers "No" or "I don't know" one can understand his attitude towards work, peace and war.

The world of simultaneous interpreters looks absolutely hermetic, and they themselves are representatives of the “old” cultural elite. It began as almost secret knowledge, Soviet diplomatic staff and brilliantly educated Russian émigrés, forced to earn extra money as taxi drivers, largely created simultaneous translation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since the Nuremberg trials and the first UN meetings, simultaneous translation has been an important part of world diplomacy. But it won't always be like this. Perhaps, even during the lifetime of those who witnessed his birth, simultaneous translation will give way to machine translation.

Fear and Loathing in Saratov. Russian elections through the eyes of direct participants in the process. The story of what measures are being taken in a quite ordinary Volga region in order to "elect" a governor. Forgery of documents, deceit, fights and hostage-taking, this is not a complete list of what observers had to face at the elections in Saratov in 2017. The film restores the history of the voting day recorded in the general Telegram chat.

A film about the life and work of the famous television director Ildus Kurmaleev, the chief director of the Red Square television holding.

1968.DIGITAL is the first documentary series for smartphones. 40 episodes and 40 stories about the heroes of 1968, told in the most unusual format - through the screen of smartphones that these people could have.

Project website: http://1968.digital