The first interactive web series about love and protests in Russia #who_y can be watched by changing the story on the website of the new newspaper

And on May 14, at 19:00, Stream on the Novaya Gazeta YouTube channel and on our website you can ask questions to the authors of the series and offer topics and turns for the development of history.

Interactive projects - a black mirror of a modern film world: attracts, repels, bites. This direction, wandering between cinema, series and video games, is just starting to achieve, although there are already more than half a century.

In the feature cinema, the spectator of the “Night Game” of Tobias Weber (2016) in cinemas using the Ctrlmovie mobile application decided to run away for a hero or take a fight. The picture had seven options for the final. The reviews on her were ambiguous.

In the Mosaic, Stephen Sodelberg (2018) was very difficult. Using the application for mobile and tablets, the viewer got into the “Map of History”: he chose a series from 8 to 38 minutes, then decided: from the point of view of which of the heroes he wants to follow the development of the plot.

Large streaming continue to invest in multivariate cinema. After the success of the full-length episode of the “black mirror” “Brandashmyg”, playing with variability and ridicuating it (the viewer is invited not only to change the plot fundamentally, but also to choose breakfast to the hero: “Airy corn or flakes?”), And at some point even a conflict with the audience arises: the hero simply refuses to fulfill its leadership and appeals for help to the spirit.

In the recent series Netflix “You vs. The Wild ”(“ You are against wildlife ”) on the fashionable topic of survival with the eminent traveler Bear Grillce The viewer, to the best of his own quick wits, helps (or prevents) Grills to avoid death.

And Netflix has already taken up the smallest Battle Kitty - interactive series for children.

Act!

🕹 Manage the plot of the series "#KI_TA" on the website of "Novaya Gazeta"

About how to live without fear

#Who_tes - a series based on real events, offers a dialogue with the audience.

The young idealist Nina (Vera Kolesnikova), the daughter of a high -ranking official, throws a bureal London, rushes into the crazy in Moscow to help a familiar blogger convicted of participating in the next feminist action.

And then - "Welcome to Russia." Protests, arrests, grated police, "bourgeois courts", domestic violence, love with the smell of coffee.

And the girl sitting in a pre -trial detention center for throwing an inflatable ball at the police.

An abnormal and abnormal cycle of life, in which it is difficult to preserve yourself, relationships, your sense of justice.

The viewer has 10 seconds to choose: participate in the picket, contact the police, stay away, pile up to the abuser, run away ... The viewer can solve something himself. Or ... stop the viewing.

The further plot depends on the choice of action, including the romantic story of Nina and the beginner blogger Roma. But “#KI_TA” is also an educational series. On each fork there are cards with an explanation of human rights problems in Russia. With answers to not at all abstract questions.

• What to do in situations of domestic violence?

• What to do if they are faced with the police?

• How to help friends detainees on a picket?

• What can we do here and now in Russia that we are taken away from us?

The authors Anton Utkin and Nat Pokrovskaya came up with the plot the year before the protest summer -2019 began. In the course of filming, the script was overgrown with stories from the news of the Moscow summer, quotes from court hearings. This is the second interactive film of this team.

The first is “#The Monastery” - an educational project about the life of a girl with HIV with Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Mukhametov, Chulpan Khamatova, Alena Babenko.

The script of the new series is based on the stories of real people: human rights activists, activists, bloggers, musicians.

The directors of the Lateral Summer studio Anton Utkin and Nat Pokrovskaya invite the viewer to watch and make their choice, determine the vector of the path in the confused maze of Russian reality.

There is no, as in examination tests, an exact answer. Each choice is the path to the unknown. In general, everything is like in life.

It is only a pity that today, at the peak of the problems of the pandemic, it seems that the protest problems and the confrontation of the punitive system are like posters and T -shirts in the defense of Golunov, who flicker in the series - yesterday.

Today we are changing freedom for safety.

Human rights in quarantine conditions are represented by empty words. But, as after a prolonged illness, one must recover, getting rid of fear, take responsibility for those who are very bad for those deprived of the opportunity to defend themselves. Restore what philosophers call "the heat of mutual human heating." Otherwise, to the question "Who are you?" We'll have to answer: "Everything is complicated."