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This controversial episodic Russian drama with political overtones drew the ire of censors in its native land and shared the to...

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Brighton 4th

Tribeca shorts alum Levan Koguashvili returns to the festival with this warm and sensitively rendered story of a Georgian wrest...

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Hermeneutics

Alexei Dmitriev creates a visual illustration of hermeneutics, the art of interpretation. With the cunning use of WWII footage,...

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In the Dark

An 80-year-old man who recently lost his sight wants to remain useful. He makes knitted shopping nets while fighting with his c...

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I Won't Come Back

Aloof graduate student Anya is on the run from the police when she encounters precocious and willful Kristina, an orphan determ...

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Newsmakers

In this fast-paced remake of Johnnie To's Breaking News, the public confidence of the police force is compromised after they bo...

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Night Watch

This Russian sword-and-sorcery cum horror film sets the the Warriors of Light against the Warriors of Darkness and is based on ...

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Phone Duty

A Donbass rebel fighter, whose nom de guerre is Cat, receives orders to sit on phone duty—which, he quickly learns, is not as e...

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Playing the Victim

In this black-humored Russian Hamlet by one of Moscow's top theater directors, a young slacker receives nocturnal visits from h...

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Simple Things

This artfully nuanced, occasionally playful story of an anesthetist, whose daughter runs away just as he hits a rough patch wit...

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Soup

Can a bowl of soup heal old wounds?

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The Cranes are Flying

At the outbreak of war, Veronica and Boris drift apart. When Boris is killed on the front lines, Veronica tries to find solace ...

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The Forty-First

One of the first major films of the post-Stalinist thaw and a 1957 Cannes award-winner, The Forty-First's remarkable power stem...

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The Fourth Dimension

A motivational speaker named Val Kilmer (played by Val Kilmer) delivers a sermon at a roller rink. A Russian scientist builds a...

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The Last Train

Lost in the snows of Russia during the final bitter winter of World War II, a German Army surgeon trudges from one surreal enco...

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The Offshore Reserves

American Hannah Marker is addicted to the American dollar. Desperate for a cure, she moves to Moscow, where she hopes to never ...

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The Russian Winter

Brooklyn-born John Forté was a Grammy-nominated musician in The Fugees at 21 and a federal prison inmate at 26. When his prison...

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Three Days in September

In September 2004, as a horrifying episode in an ongoing conflict, a group of Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Rus...

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Year Zero

Filmed by ten filmmakers in ten different countries, Year Zero weaves together some of the most profound and unexpected stories...

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