Risk Film and Video Studio

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

"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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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?

The history of the creation and the present day of the carrier—based fighter aviation of Russia, told by one of its founders - the Hero of Russia, Major General Timur Apakidze, who died on 17.07.2001 during demonstrations at the celebration in honor of the 85th anniversary of naval Aviation at the Center for Combat Training and Retraining of Naval Aviation Personnel near Pskov.

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?

In 2001, near Pskov, at an air show, a disaster occurred in front of 10,000 spectators. The crash of the plane, which was controlled by Timur Apakidze, was filmed by dozens of cameras. The film also contains the voice of Apakidze himself, who, shortly before his death, as if anticipating it, managed to talk about how the pilot feels in an emergency flight, being on the verge of life and death. And how painful is the choice between ejection-life and the desire to save the plane.

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.

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.

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".

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?

What makes people so attractive? With its beauty, unknownness, immense distance from the earth? Some have made this interest their profession and have become scientists - astronomers and astrophysicists, others have turned it into a hobby and all the free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories watch the starry sky, opening new stars, giving them names. About astronomy, astronomers - professionals and amateurs, tells this film.

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.

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

We know that Kosovo is the "bleeding wound of the Balkans". There's fighting, death, barricades ... But there's life too. Barricades are built there, but they also learn, work, love, and dream about the future. Kosovo Serbs want to be happy on their land.

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 ...