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Scary Mother
Ana Urushadze’s portrait of a middle-aged woman on the edge of creative breakthrough and nervous breakdown.
Some Interviews on Personal Matters
A pioneering feminist film from Soviet Georgia about a journalist torn between work and family.
Should the Wind Drop
A French auditor in the remote Republic of Artsakh faces professional and personal crises in this austere Armenian drama.
Bedridden
A young writer takes to his bed in protest against the world in this absurdist parable from Mongolia.
My Thoughts Are Silent
A sound recordist hunts for an elusive rare bird in this off-kilter Ukrainian dramedy
Atlantis
Valentyn Vasyanovich’s prophetic vision of a devastated post-war Ukraine offers hope amidst the ruins.
Homeward
The struggles of Ukraine’s Crimean Tatars are explored in this father-and-son road movie.
Milk
An infertile woman gains miraculous healing powers in this absurdist modern-day fairy tale.
In Between Dying
Hilal Baydarov’s haunting, surreal road movie follows a man on the run through rural Azerbaijan.
Stop-Zemlia
Documentary meets fiction in this tender and authentic portrait of teenagers in Ukraine.
Mariam
When her husband vanishes, a mother must struggle for survival in remote Kazakhstan.
Doctor
A neurosurgeon questions whether his work is a force for good in this moving drama.
The North Wind
A mythical matriarchal clan gathers at New Year in Renata Litvinova’s festive fantasia.
Elephants Can Play Football
This modern-day take on Lolita sees a lonely businessman collide with a series of spirited schoolgirls.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Assa
A perestroika gem combining classic Russian rock and a riveting crime plot.
Asya’s Happiness
An austere but beautiful study of personal and political crisis on a collective farm.
Autumn Sun
A village woman struggles against her family and neighbours in this portrait of Armenian resilience.
Battleship Potemkin
Eisenstein’s recounting of a naval mutiny is one of the most influential films of all time.
Beshkempir
A deeply personal coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of Kyrgyz village life.
Brief Encounters
A love triangle unravels in the striking debut feature from Ukrainian auteur Kira Muratova.
Burnt by the Sun
Mikhalkov’s Oscar-winning drama explores a tragic family undone by secrets from their past.
Chapaev
This biopic of a Red Army hero is a classic of the Socialist Realist canon.
Commissar
This long-banned parable about intolerance and idealism is a jewel of ’60s cinema.
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.
Getting to Know the Big, Wide World
A love triangle blooms on a construction site in Muratova’s entrancing workplace drama.
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, a 90s cult classic.
Hello, It’s Me!
The ghosts of war haunt this biography of Soviet-Armenian physicist Artem Alikhanian.
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.
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Ambition, madness, and death collide in this masterpiece of post-Soviet historical horror.
Life for a Life
A love story at the precipice of a changing world from pre-revolutionary master Yevgeni Bauer.
Little Vera
A cult classic about late Soviet youth in revolt, charged with angry cynicism and punk energy.
The Long Farewell
Muratova’s classic about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Look at These Young People!
A group of Georgian students are sent to war in this beautifully composed coming-of-age tale.
The Lord Eagle
An elderly couple are visited by a sacred bird in this award-winning Sakha fable.
Mother Got Married
This moving portrait of family aspirations follows a single mother learning to love again.
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Aleksei German’s recreation of a Soviet childhood was voted the greatest Russian film of all time.
The Needle
A punk drifter fights to free his ex-girlfriend from a drug addiction in this Kazakh New Wave hit.
No Path Through Fire
A nurse discovers her artistic talent amid the chaos of war in this haunting drama.
Outskirts
This lyrical war drama is a gem of early Russian sound cinema.
A Piece of Sky
A touching Armenian tragicomedy about one young man’s fight for the right to happiness.
The Plea
A Christian soldier is shunned by villagers when he refuses to cut off his enemy’s hand.
Repentance
The first Soviet film to tackle Stalin’s purges: a powerful and poetic act of cinematic testimony.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Sergei Parajanov’s first masterpiece is a mesmerising reimagining of Ukrainian folklore.
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
A young musician struggles to hold his life together in this celebrated Georgian dramedy.
The Thief
Young Sanya struggles to adapt to his mother’s criminal new lover in this award-winning drama.
Three Poplars in Plyushchikha
A farmhand and a taxi driver strike up an unlikely relationship in Tatyana Lioznova’s delicate drama.
Tough Kids
In Dinara Asanova’s improvised classic, a former athlete help troubled kids at a summer camp.
Triptych
Three women’s lives intersect in an Uzbek village after the war in Ali Khamraev’s austere tale.
Twenty Days Without War
A war correspondent on leave confronts his demons in Aleksei German’s sophomore film.
Twilight Portrait
Marina redefines herself while trying to come to terms with an assault.
The Wishing Tree
A tragic and richly-woven love story set in pre-revolutionary Georgia from Tengiz Abuladze.
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