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The North Wind
A mythical matriarchal clan gathers at New Year in Renata Litvinova’s festive fantasia.
Coupled
The spectacular Siberian taiga forms the backdrop for a tale of marital conflict and survival.
A Frenchman
A Parisian student grapples with young love and family history in 1950s Moscow.
The Game
Wealth, family, romance: Yury seems to have it all. But is his life too good to be true?
The Bonfire
A grieving father grapples with tragedy and redemption in a remote Sakha settlement.
Summer House
The worlds of the living and the dead meet in this rarely-seen gem of early Sakha cinema.
The Sun Above Me Never Sets
In this unlikely buddy movie, a young man learns the value of friendship.
Masha
A teenage girl raised by small-town gangsters dreams of becoming a jazz singer.
Falling
This tender and unsentimental romance is also a powerful portrait of post-Maidan Ukraine.
Russian Spleen
Three buddies take on the absurdity of modern Moscow in this caustic comedy.
Van Goghs
Painful secrets come to light in this touching drama of regret and forgiveness.
Man Follows Birds
Ali Khamraev’s dreamlike recreation of the life of a medieval Uzbek poet.
Piter FM
A lost phone triggers romantic and professional crisis in this hit comedy.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West…
An American’s escapades in early Soviet Russia fuel Kuleshov’s silent classic.
Dad
Valeria Gai Germanika explores her relationship with her father in this moving documentary.
Gorbachev. Heaven
Russia’s first president presents his testimony of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
The Earth is Blue as an Orange
Follow a family as they pursue their dreams in a war-zone in Ukraine.
Ivanov
Ivanov dives into the Kiev Goodlife, but his Moscow past catches up.
Welcome to the USA
Aliya can immigrate to the freedom of America but still she hesitates.
My Joy
Past ghosts clash with the present in this bitterly funny road movie.
A Room and a Half
A moving portrayal of Joseph Brodsky’s could-have-been return to Russia.
Yuri’s Day
An opera singer stays in her hometown to search for her missing son.
Why Don’t You Just Die!
When Matvei's girlfriend begs him to kill her father, carnage ensues.
The Fool
A nail-biting thriller about a plumber saving residents of a tower block.
Crystal Swan
A young DJ is determined to fake her way to the United States.
The Humorist
In the final years of the USSR a stand up comedian exacts his revenge.
How Viktor “The Garlic”…
In this Tarantinoesque Little Miss Sunshine, Viktor drives his invalid father across country.
Silent Souls
As a husband buries his wife, friendship and fidelity are tested.
The Bull
The 90s. The 'wild decade'. Meet gang leader Anton and his friends.
40 Days of Silence
In Ismailova's astonishing debut, a teenager takes a healing vow of silence.
Aelita
Romance and revolution break out on Mars in this hugely influential silent sci-fi.
Assa
The best of classic Russian rock combined with a riveting crime plot.
Asya’s Happiness
Rediscovered classic shelved for 20 years due to Soviet censorship.
The Battle of Kherzenets
A legend of an Atlantis-like city accompanied by the brilliant music of Rimsky-Korsakov.
Battleship Potemkin
A re-telling of a naval mutiny and the most quoted film in cinema history.
Beshkempir
A deeply personal coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of Kyrgyz village life.
Blue Mountains
A young novelist wades through bureaucracy to get his manuscript published.
Brief Encounters
A love triangle unravels in the striking debut feature from Kira Muratova.
Burnt by the Sun
The Oscar winning drama of a family haunted by the past.
Chapaev
An action packed biopic to a hero of the Red Army.
Commissar
In the midst of Civil War, a Jewish family takes in a pregnant Commissar.
Earth
Dovzhenko’s masterpiece about rural Ukraine is a highpoint of silent cinema.
Elena
Zvyagintsev’s stinging critique of inequality and greed in contemporary Moscow.
Everybody Dies But Me
Girls in a suburban Moscow school get ready for a school disco.
Free Floating
Small town drifter Lenya goes on a whacky odyssey to find work.
The Girl with a Hatbox
A milliner and a student agree to marry for a room.
Great Poetry
Kinotavr 2019 winning drama about cash collectors, poetry, war and rooster fights.
Hammer and Sickle
A Stalinist worker has her gender swapped in this dark satire.
Happy Go Lucky
Longing for home, a rural couple encounter urban types on a trip.
Hedgehog in the Fog
Fog turns a hedgehog’s journey from the familiar to the unnerving and sublime.
Hello, it’s Me!
The ghosts of war haunt this biography of Artem Alikhanian, a Soviet-Armenian physicist.
The Heron and the Crane
A stop-motion treasure following a cycle of proposal and rejection.
I Am Twenty
The pinnacle of the Soviet New Wave, this film captures the anxiety of Khrushchev’s Thaw.
I Remember You
In Khamraev's masterpiece a train ride across Russia becomes a journey into cultural memory.
I Walk Around Moscow
An aspiring Siberian writer arrives in Moscow to discuss his work.
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Ambition, madness, and death collide in this masterpiece of post-Soviet historical horror.
Let’s Get Divorced
Career crazy Masha attempts to win back her husband from his younger girlfriend.
Life for a Life
A year before the revolution, a love story at the precipice of a changing world.
The Little Mermaid
This captivating Soviet animation is an unforgettable adaptation of a fairy tale classic.
Little Vera
Provincial teenager Little Vera embodies the concerns of a generation of little faith.
The Long Farewell
Muratova’s classic about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Look at These Young People!
In the summer of 1941, a group of Tbilisi students are sent to war.
The Lord Eagle
An elderly couple are visited by a sacred bird in this award-winning fable.
Love’s Berries
A barber attempts to get rid of his illegitimate daughter, a ‘love berry’.
Mother Got Married
Boris’ relationship with his mother changes when she announces her plans to marry.
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
A man recalls his childhood in a pre-war communal apartment.
My Grandmother
Hapless Georgiy fights bureaucracy in this explosive masterpiece.
The Needle
Enigmatic drifter Moro attempts to get his ex-girlfriend off heroin.
No Path Through Fire
A nurse discovers her artistic talent amid the chaos of war in this haunting drama.
Office Romance
A shy statistical bureau employee falls in love with his formidable female boss.
Once Upon A Time
Two villagers compete for a widow’s love in this enchanting crowdpleaser.
Outskirts
This lyrical war drama is a gem of early Russian sound cinema.
A Piece Of Sky
Torik finds the most unsuitable woman possible to marry.
Repentance
A dead Mayor keeps being dug up, until a woman confesses.
The Scarlet Flower
Lev Atamanov’s spellbinding animated adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
A tale of lost love told through Hutsul culture.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: Acquaintance
An unlikely friendship forms between super-sleuth Sherlock and decent-minded Watson.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Bloody Inscription
Holmes and Watson face a new challenge: two murders linked by a macabre message.
Tale of Tales
Memories of childhood and war are revisited by a little grey wolf.
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
A young orchestra percussionist is always late.
The Thief
Young Sanya struggles to adapt to his mother’s new lover in this award-winning drama.
Three Poplars in Plyushchikha
A farmhand and a taxidriver strike up an unlikely relationship.
Three Stories
Three unrelated stories explore the dark side of contemporary society.
Tough Kids
In Asanova's improvised classic, at summer camp, a former athlete help troubled kids.
Triptych
Three womens’ lives intersect in an Uzbek village after the war.
Twenty Days Without War
A war correspondent visits a film based on his work.
Twilight Portrait
Marina redefines herself while trying to come to terms with an assault.
White Sun of the Desert
Classic Red Western in which a soldier is ordered to guard a harem.
The Wishing Tree
A tragic and richly woven love story set in pre-revolutionary Georgia.
Sakha Film: On Nature’s Edge Round Table
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