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THAWED CARP
Drama, Comedy / 100 min / Russia / 2017
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Moscow International Film Festival - People's Choice Award
“Sputnik over Poland” Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
A film by Vladimir Kott ("Mukha", "Gromozeka")
Cast: Marina Neyolova ("Autumn Marathon" by Georgiy Daneliya - Berlinale & Venice Awards,"The Barber of Siberia" by Nikita Mikhalkov), Evgeny Mironov ("House of Fools" byAndrei Konchalovsky - Venice - Grand Juzy Prize, "Love", "Matilda"), Alisa Freindlikh ("Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky - Cannes - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, "Office Romance", "To Love...", ), Sergey Puskepalis ("How I Ended This Summer" by Alexey Popogrebskiy - Berlinale - Best Actor)
Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation and in order to simplify the procedure for her beloved, but always busy son, who is working as a business coach in the capital, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own funeral.
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MIDDLEGROUND
Drama, Romance / 73 min / Russia, USA / 2017
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From the producers of "LETO" (The 2018 Official Selection) and "The Student" by Kirill Serebrennikov (Un Certain Regard 2016)
A film by Alisa Khazanova (debut)
Cast: Noah Huntley ("28 Days Later...","Dracula Untold", "The Chronicles of Narnia"), Chris Beetem ("Black Hawk Down"), Alisa Khazanova ("Mrs. Drablow"), Rob Campell ("Boys Don't Cry", "Sex and the City")
Director of photography: Fedor Lyass ("Hardcore Henry")
Him and her. Their time is like a flat circle. He has his phone calls and business meetings. She is wrapped in her dreams and doubts. All reactions are predictable, all conversations are learnt by heart. But a few things can break this tune. Any moment something can go wrong, throw you off course and force you to make a choice.
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LIGHT UP
Drama / 104 min / Russia / 2017
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Best Actress Prize at the main Russian film festival - 28th KINOTAVR
A film by Kirill Pletnev (debut)
Cast: Inga Oboldina ("Everybody Dies But Me", "Sky. Plane. Girl"), Viktoria Isakova ("The Student"), Vladimir Ilyin ("Burnt By The Sun", "The Barber of Siberia"), Anna Ukolova ("Leviathan")
Director of photography: Sergey Mikhalchuk (Silver Berlin Bear for "Under Electric Clouds")
Alevtina Romanova is a penal officer in a women’s prison colony. Her image of a stern officer is betrayed only by her voice – a kind of voice to be envied by opera stars. She has been embarrassed of her gift since she was a child and now sings only when she stays alone, to herself. Once, her secret is revealed – an inmate records a video with her cell phone and uploads it in the internet. The video is a hit, and Alevtina is invited to Moscow to the country’s most popular song contest. The woman is eager not to miss her chance, and, finally, to change her life. But she is totally unprepared for the competition. The only person who can help her rehearse is the inmate – who is a former singer.
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WAKE ME UP
Thriller, Drama / 95 min / Russian / 2016
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A film by Guillaume Protsenko (producer of the multi award-winning project "Cinetrain": SUNDANCE, VISIONS DU REEL, FESTIVAL DEL FILM LOCARNO, etc.)
Cast: Irina Verbitskaya, Konstantin Lavronenko(Best Actor prize – Cannes Film Festival, "The Banishment" by Andrey Zvyagintsev), Kirill Pirogov ("Brother 2", "Sisters")
Director of photography: John Craine ("Cinetrain")
Moscow today, Zhenia works at the passport control department in an airport. A year ago her boyfriend had to leave Russia suddenly and vanished abroad. Zhenia remains stuck in her unhappy life, unable to move forward. In the menacing and distressing state, she starts developing a strange ability for dark and prophetic dreams that gradually take her deeper and deeper into a violent criminal world in which she seems to have a significant role to play. Moving between nightmares and reality, cruelty and her true love, Zhenia believes she can trick destiny and get her life back...
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LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN
Animation / 10 min / 2016
FESTIVAL DE CANNES - THE DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT 2016
A film by Garry Bardin (Palme d'Or for "Vykrutasy" short film at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival)
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LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN
Animation / 10 min / 2016
FESTIVAL DE CANNES - THE DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT
A film by Garry Bardin (Palme d'Or for "Vykrutasy" short film at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival)
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Main happiness in life is freedom. The film unfolds the story of the suppression of freedom. But all efforts are in vain, and in the end freedom triumphs.
Garry Bardin is the living legend of animation. All of Bardin's films are connected with the presence of one main theme - freedom, in various manifestations. Freedom, or the lack thereof.
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