What is European cinema today? Where is it going? How viable is the protégé of the Tenth Muse in the modern world? Today these questions are more relevant than ever. Collective collection “At the turn of the century. Contemporary European cinema. Creativity, production, distribution”, consisting of reviews of cinematography from a number of European countries, gives an idea of the most important trends, facts, personalities and films of the Old World at the turn of the century. The authors not only analyze the most significant works, but convincingly explain what difficulties and problems (from financial to political) modern filmmakers have to overcome. In the process of working on the collection, the authors managed to collect extensive and unique material, which is of great value not only for specialists, but also for all those who are interested in screen art.