Intellectual Author’s Cinema is in the USSR — art film, independent film, auteur films, experimental films, art house cinemas, american art film, mainstream film, realism film, violent films, controversial film, short film: Nobody limits the scope of fantasy, so that, «from the pen», or rather with the help of a movie camera, there are revived dreams, landscapes of dreams and incomparable worlds. Our new mini-encyclopedia contains an analysis of the most important and significant arthouse cinema, a rating of the best films of this unusual genre.