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This controversial episodic Russian drama with political overtones drew the ire of censors in its native land and shared the top prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival. In the script by taboo challenger Vladimir Sorokin, three characters meet in a b...

Tribeca shorts alum Levan Koguashvili returns to the festival with this warm and sensitively rendered story of a Georgian wrestler, Kakhi, en route to Brooklyn to help his son out of a gambling debt.

Alexei Dmitriev creates a visual illustration of hermeneutics, the art of interpretation. With the cunning use of WWII footage, he creates what appears to be a typical war film, until everything changes.

An 80-year-old man who recently lost his sight wants to remain useful. He makes knitted shopping nets while fighting with his cat -- a friend and enemy. He ventures outside, trying to give away the bags -- for free -- to people who only want to u...

Aloof graduate student Anya is on the run from the police when she encounters precocious and willful Kristina, an orphan determined to find her grandmother in Kazakhstan. The unlikely pair begin a harrowing and unpredictable odyssey, hitchhiking a...

In this fast-paced remake of Johnnie To's Breaking News, the public confidence of the police force is compromised after they botch catching a gang of robbers and it gets captured on camera. In retaliation, the police chief and PR director decide t...

This Russian sword-and-sorcery cum horror film sets the the Warriors of Light against the Warriors of Darkness and is based on a trilogy of novels by Sergei Lukyanenko. At home, the film smashed Russian box-office records, and its U.S. distributor...

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

In this black-humored Russian Hamlet by one of Moscow's top theater directors, a young slacker receives nocturnal visits from his father's ghost and literally "plays the victim" in crime reconstruction videos. Observing a farcical justice system w...

This artfully nuanced, occasionally playful story of an anesthetist, whose daughter runs away just as he hits a rough patch with his mistress and his wife announces that she's unexpectedly pregnant, has been widely regarded as one of the best Russ...

Can a bowl of soup heal old wounds?

At the outbreak of war, Veronica and Boris drift apart. When Boris is killed on the front lines, Veronica tries to find solace by marrying his cousin -- a mistake that will haunt her until she rediscovers life in a single act of human kindness. U...

One of the first major films of the post-Stalinist thaw and a 1957 Cannes award-winner, The Forty-First's remarkable power stems largely from the stunning camerawork of Sergei Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying, I Am Cuba), who creates a timeless la...

A motivational speaker named Val Kilmer (played by Val Kilmer) delivers a sermon at a roller rink. A Russian scientist builds a time machine in his apartment. Four friends stumble upon an abandoned village in the Polish countryside. All are in sea...

Lost in the snows of Russia during the final bitter winter of World War II, a German Army surgeon trudges from one surreal encounter to another. Oleg Lukichev's stark black-and-white cinematography captures all the misery and brutality of Eastern ...

American Hannah Marker is addicted to the American dollar. Desperate for a cure, she moves to Moscow, where she hopes to never see American dollars again. Her plan is going well until her Russian boyfriend begins to get her involved with corruptio...

Brooklyn-born John Forté was a Grammy-nominated musician in The Fugees at 21 and a federal prison inmate at 26. When his prison sentence was remarkably commuted in 2008, Forté was given a second chance to share his talents with the world. Chronicl...

In September 2004, as a horrifying episode in an ongoing conflict, a group of Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dea...

Filmed by ten filmmakers in ten different countries, Year Zero weaves together some of the most profound and unexpected stories from a moment when our world suddenly changed.