The widely announced death of cinema did not take place. A new century has arrived, and people continue to buy movie tickets. The crisis continues, but collections are growing; festivals groan under the pressure of currents, movements and “waves”. What happened to the most important of the arts in the 21st century? Has it ceased to be the most important? An attempt at an answer is in the book by Anton Dolin. Its heroes are the most important directors and actors of the “zero”: from the patriarch Manuel de Oliveira, who was over a hundred years old, to avant-garde artists from Romania and Malaysia, from yesterday’s trendsetters to Hollywood animators, from adherents of Italian political cinema to the heirs of the Russian metaphysical tradition.