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Showing 23 Films from Russia
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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...
Brighton 4th
Brighton 4th
Tribeca shorts alum Levan Koguashvili returns to the festival with this warm and sensitively rendered story of a Georgian wrest...
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics
Alexei Dmitriev creates a visual illustration of hermeneutics, the art of interpretation. With the cunning use of WWII footage,...
In the Dark
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...
I Won't Come Back
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...
Natasha
Natasha
This is the story of Natalia Estemirova, the most extraordinary human rights investigator in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. It is the...
Newsmakers
Newsmakers
In this fast-paced remake of Johnnie To's Breaking News, the public confidence of the police force is compromised after they bo...
Night Watch
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 ...
Phone Duty
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...
Playing the Victim
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...
Simple Things
Simple Things
This artfully nuanced, occasionally playful story of an anesthetist, whose daughter runs away just as he hits a rough patch wit...
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Battling a global pandemic and a fraying relationship, rooftopping sensations Angela Nikolau and Vanya Beerkus face the ultimat...
Soup
Soup
Can a bowl of soup heal old wounds?
Soup
Soup
Can a bowl of soup heal old wounds?
Sputnik
Sputnik
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone—hiding inside his body is a dangerous crea...
The Cranes are Flying
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 ...
The Forty-First
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...
The Fourth Dimension
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...
The Last Train
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...
The Offshore Reserves
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 ...
The Russian Winter
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...
Three Days in September
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...
Year Zero
Year Zero
Filmed by ten filmmakers in ten different countries, Year Zero weaves together some of the most profound and unexpected stories...