The DOCKER will pass the 5th International festival of documentary cinema in five cities of Russia

Audience will be able to see and discuss together with authors from around the world more than 50 new movies which will be shown in our country for the first time - it is the international and Russian prime ministers. At Opening of a festival the sign world premiere will be held: the grandiose German film "Russia from the Sky" will become for many domestic audience this revelation — within 9 months world-best aero-cameramen removed Russia from the most unexpected foreshortenings and geographical points. On scope the movie can be compared to Luc Besson and Ian Artyusa-Bertrán's epoch-making House. The uniqueness and unique intonation of "Russia from the sky" will be given by a voice of the actor Victor Sukhorukov.

In the program of a festival it will be possible to see movies of the most different directions: from the poetic film narration to social blockbusters, a newsreel and a mokyyumentara to an art house and popular scientific cinema, from classics to experimental non-standard forms, from intimate movies portraits to monumental pictures travel. These are prize-winners and participants of such most prestigious film festivals as the Cannes, Berlin and Venice Film Festivals, "Sandens", Locarno, IDFA (which is also called "documentary Cannes") and others.

Frame from the German film "Russia from the Sky". Photo: midff.ru

The documentary films became really noticeable. Sometimes it does not concede game neither on staginess, nor on language force. Began to reckon with it really. Surprises nobody any more that documentary and game cinema competes in the same tenders of prestigious film festivals. The audience sits down on dock because it bares feelings and thoughts, sometimes discourages, tells about something main in ours life about what venture to tell the few. For our festival it is in a sense a call. We understand that we are in epicenter of development of this most powerful direction of cinema and therefore should even more it correspond — Irina Shatalova, the director and the producer of the DOCKER festival said.

The festival consists of two main competitive programs — complete and short meter and also special sections: "Let IT Dok!" — the competitive program of movies, only on all world festival space, about IT, "DOKer Kids" — the film program for children and family viewing, "DOK Therapy" (a festival innovation) which all demonstrations will take place with the subsequent discussion with psychologists and psychotherapists. And, as usual, within the festival there will pass the Industrial program including master classes and debatable panels.

In the Let IT Dok program!, which in 2016 the organizing committee of a festival organized together with LANIT, the best documentaries about information technologies and their influence on modern society entered. Philosophical and ridiculous, cognitive and entertaining, they allow even to the people far from the IT field, to glance to the fascinating digital world.

During the program the documentary first in own way devoted to a blockchain, created on the money of a blockchain extended and focused on a blockchain "The trust machine will be submitted to the audience: passions on a blockchain". His author — Alex Uinter, the Hollywood actor, the director and the rapper.

The film by Dieter Farer Fourth estate scrupulously documents the changes which happened in the media sphere with the advent of the Internet and new digital methods of informing. Journalists should fight to find the place in the sun in the world in which news are available when necessary and anywhere.

"The Russian windows" of Olivia Ebertts is incredibly ironic and philosophical reflection about a kiberstalking and privacy in network. Carrying curiosity the girl wanders about network in information searches about the teacher of online courses and builds guesses about her private life.

Authors of the movie "Jane Uolk's Transaction" Leonard Myullner and Robin Klengel pereosmyslyat militaristic realities of the video game and turn bloody slaughter of the post-apocalyptic world into a walking tour across Manhattan.

The rare representative of a genre of comedy documentary – the film "Name of a Game" by Paul J. Vogel — the history of creation of the spiritual successor of one of the most popular games of the 80th years "Robotron".

To Gerry Rotvell and Rahn Gosch invite the audience to visit far Indian villages and to observe the pilot project of the scientist-educator Sugata Mitra. The movie "School in a Cloud" tells how life of the Indian children with emergence at school of computers and the Internet changed.

The film travel to the world of cyborgs, sex robots and androids of the Finnish director Iiris Harma under the name "Who Made You?" is not less tempting is a call to traditional values and ethics, an appeal to review our views of the future. Non-transferable feeling of the mixed feelings of alarm and delight from the fact that the artificial intelligence already reached our level of life.

Frame from the film "Who Made You?". Photo: midff.ru

The Chinese online drama "People's Republic of Desire" by the director Hao Wu of criticism is already called a documentary "Black mirror". The movie tells stories of two online stars which were born and grew in complete isolation in the Chinese solitude, but achieved glory and success in the country. The viewer will go to a travel through their real life and online air which became virtual places of collecting for hundreds of millions of admirers. At some point heroes of the movie find out that happiness in their virtual world can be same imperceptible, as well as in real.

The only Russian movie in the program — Vladimir Golovnev's Letsplya — narrates about life of professional cyberathletes. It is unique opportunity to see with own eyes who is behind nicknames and avatars and to understand that, in addition to a game, it is important for these children.

Movies will compete in the following nominations: The best movie (Gran Pri), the Best direction, the Best camerawork, the Best installation, the Best sound, the Best short film, the Prize of the audience, the Best movie in category "Let IT Dok!". The international professional jury and the audience who will be able to vote for favourite movies in special mobile application will estimate works. The vice president for social projects of LANIT Elena Gens, the head of department of Telecommunication in the joint edition RBC Anna Balashova, the Chief Editor of Rusbase Svetlana Zykova, the Chief Editor of analytical center TAdviser Alexander Levashov, the angel investor, the expert in promotion of hi-tech startups Liliana Partenawa entered into jury of IT tender.

In 5 years of the existence the International DOCKER Film Festival was attended by more than 40 thousand viewers. Over 250 best documentary pictures of the last of different parts of the world were shown. The festival was attended by more than 100 guests from around the world: these are directors of competitive movies, judges, experts.

"DOCKER" — completely independent festival which is not receiving the government financial aid. In 2019 some demonstrations of a festival take place with assistance of the Italian, French, Polish cultural centers, Goethe Institute in Moscow, Embassies of the USA, programs "KARO. Art". The main financial expenses on holding the Festival are undertaken by organizers.

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