Vestnik VGIK I Journal of Film Arts and Film StudiesVestnik VGIK I Journal of Film Arts and Film Studies2074-08322713-2471Eco-vector3481010.17816/VGIK121(43)21-32Research ArticleStopover? Non-fiction movies in the first decade after the millenniumProzhikoGalina S.<p>Doctor of Arts, Professor</p>vestnik-vgik@vgik.infoS.A.Gerasimov Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)2106202012121322106202021062020Copyright © 2020, Prozhiko G.S.2020<p style="text-align: justify;">The article presents new conditions for the production of national documentary movies at the beginning of 21st century, as well as the creative atmosphere and style searches of filmmakers in the field of studying the inner world of our contemporary. The traditional film portrait of a documentary hero used to present them as part of a holistic public space and therefore the relationship between an individual and the society was the key issue in the documentary of previous decades. New times have primarily focused on the private space of a particular person, distanced from the help of or confrontation with the society. The conflict between good and evil unfolds on the material of the individuals independent choice. The form of relations between the filmmaker and the hero changes, instead of the traditional observation, a dialogue of peers appears, giving rise to new forms of stylistic and genre solutions. The article offers a wide panorama of thematic searches for a documentary portrait, as well as a study of style innovations: manifestation, construction, composition, docudrama. Among the movies revealing the new artistic moves of documentary filmmakers of the first decade of the 21st century: Mother by P.Kostomarov and A.Katten, Last Bow. Victor Astafiev by M. Litvyakov, Sister and Lisa by P.Fattakhutdinov, G.Zhzhenov. Russian Cross by S.Miroshnichenko, War and Peace of Colonel Kersky by M.Rezvushkina and others.</p>documentary film portrait, filmmaker's design, artistic composition in documentary filmmaking, dialogic character of the method of portraying a heroдокументальный кинопортрет, авторская конструкция, художественное сочинение в кинодокументалистике, диалогичность метода запечатления героя[Abdullaeva Z. (2011) Postdok [Postdoc]. Moscow: NLO, 2011. 477 p. (In Russ.).][Prozhiko G. (2004) Koncepciya realnosti v ehkrannom dokumente. [The concept of reality in a screen document]. Moscow: VGIK, 2004. 453 p. (In Russ.).][Prozhiko G. (2019) Otechestvennaya kinodokumentalistika na rubezhe vekov [Russian Documentary at the Turn of the 21st Century]. Vestnik VGIK, 2019, № 2, pp. 21–34.][Seans [Séance]. St. Petersburg, 2010–2019.]