Russia

  • Renata Litvinova – Severnyy veter AKA The North Wind (2021)

    Renata Litvinova2021-2030DramaFantasyRussia

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    The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita (Renata Litvinova) enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita’s extraordinary family in their mansion on New Year’s Eve. Margarita believes in the magical 13th hour that can break the eternal circle of repetition, defeat death and bring her much-awaited love.Read More »

  • Vladimir Bortko – Idiot (2003)

    Vladimir Bortko2001-2010DramaRussiaTV

    Idiot (2003)

    The thrilling drama based on the world’s greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money and extortion rule. Myshkin finds himself in the whirlpool of intrigue. He inherits an enormous fortune, acquires affections of the vicious Nastassya Filippovna and the beautiful young Aglaya. Scandal, murder and incredible love affair follow. Plunge into the atmosphere of the 19th century St Petersburg created by the impressive authentic costumes and sceneries in the most expensive TV-project in RussiaRead More »

  • Andrey Khrzhanovskiy – Nos, ili zagovor netakikh AKA The Nose or The Conspiracy of Mavericks (2020)

    2011-2020Andrey KhrzhanovskiyAnimationMusicalRussia

    A cheerful grim look at the follies of the twentieth century, anchored in Gogol’s proto-surrealist novella ‘The Nose’ and Shostakovich’s opera of the same name.Read More »

  • Nikita Mikhalkov – 12 aka 12 razgnevannyh muzhchin (2007)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaNikita MikhalkovRussia

    Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.Read More »

  • Anton Vidokle – The Communist Revolution Was Caused by the Sun (2015)

    2011-2020Anton VidokleExperimentalRussiaVideo Art

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    The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun is the second film of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, a metaphysical philosophy and cultural movement that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among Russian scientists, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries, which speculated on the possibilities of space travel; the use of electromagnetic energies to enhance health, healing, and vitality; and prolonged human lifespan, immortality, and even resurrection. This film focuses specifically on the poetic dimension of the theories of Soviet biophysicist, Alexander Chizhevsky (1897-1964), whose lifework involved the study of the effects of aero-ionization and cosmological fluctuations such as sunspots and solar flares on human health and behaviour.Read More »

  • Anton Vidokle – This Is Cosmos (2014)

    2011-2020Anton VidokleExperimentalRussiaVideo Art

    This is Cosmos is the first film in a trilogy inspired by the ideas of Russian cosmism, which is a unique phenomenon that emerged in the late 19th century, bringing together religious, philosophical, scientific and aesthetic theories united by a common idea of cosmos as a universal order.

    Drawing widely on poems, philosophical texts, scientific writings, academic papers, and historical studies from followers of Cosmism, Anton Vidokle has focused on the writings of philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov, the founder of the movement. In creating his theories of the “Common Cause,” Fyodorov advocated for the development of scientific methods for the radical extension of life and the resurrection of the dead, believing that death was a mistake, “because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is a cult of ancestors, because true social equality is immortality for all.”Read More »

  • Levan Gabriadze – Rezo (2018)

    2011-2020AnimationDocumentaryLevan GabriadzeRussia

    The rich inner world of the renowned Georgian screenwriter, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze is as fantastic as the animation into which he has poured this story of his life. Rezo’s director son, Leo Gabriadze, who previously made the hit horror film Unfriended (2014), leaves it to his father to talk about a life suffused with magical thinking.

    The movie is an autobiographical animated documentary questioning ideas of deep humanity, kindness and survival during the uneasy times after the 2nd World War.

    Winner of Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.Read More »

  • Yuriy Bykov – Nachalnik AKA The Boss (2009)

    2001-2010RussiaShort FilmThrillerYuriy Bykov

    Two burglars enter a summer house.Read More »

  • Aleksandr Gordon – Ogni pritona AKA Brothel Lights (2011)

    2011-2020Aleksandr GordonComedyDramaRussia

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    A richly outfitted journey backwards to daily life in small “family-run” brothel, the film is reminiscent of Federico Fellini’s 1973 Amarcord, set in a small Italian town along the coast in the 1930s.Read More »

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