Andrey Sakharov. On the Other Side of the Window...

Abyss. Robotic Debt Collector

New technologies come into our lives sometimes in the most unexpected way. A group of developers of intelligent machines led by the hero of the film Sergey Markov creates robots for calling debtors on bank loans. One day they come up with the idea to teach a robot to speak in the voice of a famous artist who died several decades ago...

Shulgan-Tach

In the 60s of the last century, Soviet archaeologists opened a center of Paleolithic culture in the Southern Urals. Rock paintings of the Kapova Cave became a sensation in the world of science. There are not many places like Kapova Cave on Earth, where the evidence of the life and work of ancient people has been preserved.

In Search of Rural Utopias

Inspired by the ideas of the outstanding Russian thinker of the beginning of the last century Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov the film crew sets off in search of new "rural utopias", modern models of rural development. Alexander Mikhailovich Nikulin, a social anthropologist, head of the Chayanov Center for Agrarian Research, acts as a guide in this fascinating journey through modern rural Russia. In the film the viewer will visit different parts of Russia and get acquainted not only with traditional farmers and peasants, but also see crocodile and snail farms unusual for a Russian person, as well as new forms of rural development.

The Luck Meter

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.

Waiting for Waves and Particles

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.