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Winner of a Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival "for its complex and poetic evocation of an ambiguous period in Soviet history," Marina Razbezhkina's debut film HARVEST TIME is a beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. More than a story of survival against ethics, or individuality against collectivity, HARVEST TIME is a piercing meditation on family unity.

Moscow. 1925. Professor Gradov, his wife Mary, their children - Nina, Nikita and Kirill - and long-term friends at home, relatives from Moscow and Tiflis, and those who have yet to enter this family and history are all young and full of hope. Many hopes will come true, but the history of the country in the 30-50s did not leave a chance for a cloudless life for anyone.

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.

Alexey Trantsev and Alexey Mutin lost their arms as a result of electrical injury. Years later, they have mastered bionic prostheses and currently handle the everyday tasks well. The only thing that is sorely lacking is the ability to feel with their hands - to feel warmth, cold, water, or to sense the beloved girl by touch. To address this need, scientists are developing a sensing system for prosthetic hands. Will they be able to create artificial sensations and what is behind the scientific discoveries?

The love story of Rachel and Yakov Ivanovsky and their family for more than thirty years (1909-1942) against the background of the events of this era - the First World War, the Revolution, the Russian Civil War, industrialization and the Second World War.

For more than a hundred years, scientists have been studying the physiology of sleep. Professor Ivan Nikolaevich Pigarev, having studied the works of his predecessors and conducted hundreds of experiments, put forward a new hypothesis about the purpose of sleep. They admire Pigarev, they argue with him, they sympathize with him, they take their example from him. And Ivan Nikolaevich is Tyutchev's great-great-grandson, and his childhood in Muranovo in the film is unexpectedly woven into the history of scientific research. This film is about the study of sleep and life in science.

Dramatic science documentary where scientists and 5 people who have implants tell about modern chip technologies.

Profile of Russian writer Andrei Belyi, who created significant poetry, novels and philosophical works - as well as a 3-volume memoir of 1900s Russia - before his death in a Stalinist purge in 1934.

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?