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SPIRIT IN MOTION [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”Ls7uXQwM1WI&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] Competition program. The film is produced at the request of the International Paralympic Committee and is dedicated to the XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. Spirit in Motion is the official motto of the Paralympic movement. Each of the film’s heroes – athletes from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Russia, and USA — represents one of six Paralympic sports. The film shows the courage of people with disabilities in their fight for a normal life, love, and success. Language: Brazilian, Chinese, English, German, Russian; with English subtitles. |
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WHEN PEOPLE DIE THEY SING SONGS [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”VyXyMdkhf8k&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] Competition program This film is a flashback to the life of a Holocaust survivor, a Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia Regina, who immigrated to the US after WWII. Yet it is also the story of Regina’s daughter, Sofia, and her love for her slowly fading 93-year-old mother. It is a touching story of a relationship between a mother and a daughter, two tender souls supporting each other. Q&A with Director Language: English, French, Yiddish; with English subtitles Awards: 2014 Student Academy Award nominee (Oscar nomination); 2014 CINE Golden Eagle Award, Bronze Winner at 2014 International Independent Film Award; Official selection of DOC NYC. |
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ON THE WAY TO THE QUAY. PAKELIUI Į PRIEPLAUKĄ
Competition program The film is dedicated to the famous Lithuanian stage director Rimas Tuminas, the head of the Moscow Vakhtangov drama theater in Russia. With his creativity and artistic energy, he reminds the world of one simple thing: culture knows no boundaries. Language: Lithuanian, Russian; with English subtitles |
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VOICES [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”h9trDvqOEs4&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] Competition program Established right after World War II, the museum of the Leningrad Blockade was closed and its collections were destroyed by the Soviet government. Bit by bit, the film-makers recreate an original picture of the courage and tragedy of the Blockade. The whole, uncovered truth of these 872 frightful days is revealed. Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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THE LOST CAUSE. RETURN TO BISCHOFSWERDA [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”P5dYBVpuiA&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] Competition program This film is about the resistance at the end of the 1980s involving two political systems—and two military missile units: the Soviet missile brigade, hidden in the GDR, and the American missile brigade in the FRG. The film’s characters are former Soviet and American officers, as well as residents of the German towns – victims of whose days. Language: English, German, Russian; with English subtitles |
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I WILL BE THE LEADER!
Competition program This film is devoted to the poet, novelist, playwright, and literary critic Valery Bryusov. His shocking appearance at the Russian literary horizon at the beginning of the XX century opened the Russian Symbolism epoch. His life included many scandals — literary provocations, infidelities, and political intrigue with the Bolsheviks… yet he was determined to be a leader. The film is based on the chronicles from the early XX century. Language: Russian; with English subtitles
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PUSHKIN IS OUR EVERYTHING
Competition program Generations pass, cultures, political regimes, and social problems come and go, but Pushkin remains the same for Russia — “Our Everything.” Why does the poet’s name bring together and reconcile even the most different of people? And if it’s not possible to understand Russia with the mind, as the Russian poet once said, — is it possible to understand Russia through Pushkin? Language: English, Russian; with English subtitles |
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THE SAINT. PATRIARCH TIKHON
Competition program During the Russian Revolution and the Civil War — after a two-century-long interruption, the Russian Patriarchy was restored. The Russian Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin) started his sacred mission as a head of the Russian Orthodox Church and his tragic struggle against the Communists… He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as a saint only in 1989. |
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MERRY OUTSKIRTS
Competition program All Russians are familiar with Leskov’s Levsha. Does Levsha still exist in modern Russia? The film is a cheerful story about folksy craftsmen from a Russian province: singers, carvers, antique collectors. This is a naïve and very touching yet fading Russian folk world – the merry outskirts of modern Russia. Language: Russian |
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GRUMANT. ISLAND OF COMMUNISM
Competition program. In recent years, world powers have held a sharp debate over the North, which is a storehouse of natural resources, in particular — oil and gas. Who possesses this wealth? Discovered in 1596 by the captain Willem Barentsz, the archipelago Svalbard (Spitsbergen, also known on old maps as the “Holy Russian Islands”) was controlled by Norway. According to an agreement, 46 governments have the right to conduct business and academic research-related activities on the islands. Back in Soviet times, the Russian settlement Barentszburg was built on the island and was unofficially called the “Island of Communism.” What is “northern communism” in Russia? Language: Russian; with English subtitles
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LOCALS [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”qz7JOTKYaGY&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] Competition program To visit the ground of Tarkovsky’s “Mirror,” to plunge into Norshtein’s “Tale of Tales,” to walk on Shpalikov’s poetic roads…What Russian intellectual hasn’t dreamt of this? Pavel Mirzoev and his film group go on a journey to these treasured places to meet the fellow countrymen of these three well-known artists — and see just how the “fairy tale” is reflected in reality. Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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THE KEY TO THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Competition program What is modern fascism? What is “Russian fascism”? This film tells the story of a street war between Russian anti-fascists and nationalists of the 2000’s. This movie is about young nonconformists in modern Russia. The anti-fascist opposition became a reaction to the emergence of skinhead groups in Russia, the apologists of the Third Reich. Thus appeared the compulsive anti-fascistic movement FA-ANTIFA; its form not much different from those of the skinheads. The decade of street war has killed dozens, injured hundreds. But most importantly, it’s an attempt to give an answer to Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick’s question: who holds the key to “clockwork orange”? Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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BLOOD
Competition program Vendetta. In 2002, 45 Russian children died in a plane crash over Germany. Vitaly Kaloyev lost his entire family: a wife and two children. Unsatisfied with the verdict of the international court, Kaloyev made his own decision, killing the dispatcher who was responsible for the crash. Bloody revenge is not an attribute of the past; bloody revenge is a reality in the Caucus region of Russia, in Italy, Serbia, Albania, Palestine… Vendetta — what is it? A thirst for revenge, the defense of a family’s lost honor, or the result of a lawless and indifferent government? This is what the creators of film reflect upon. Their characters live in different countries and belong to different cultures and faiths; yet all of them are obsessed with the lust of a bloody vendetta. How do we stop this? Language: Albanian, Serbian, Italian, Ingush, Arabic, Russian; with English subtitles |
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AT THE TIPS OF THE FINGERS
Competition program The film’s heroine lives in a Russian province; she’s 28 years old, a journalist, and she dreams of… bringing her fingers back. Nadya has a rare genetic disorder called the “butterfly syndrome:” At any touch, her skin peels off like pollen from a butterfly’s wings. Nadya knows that she is incurably ill, but she continues to fight for her right to live — and live like a normal person. This is a story of spirit, resistance, and faith. Language: Russian; with English subtitles. This screening is supported by The Capital Builders Group, LLC (New York). |
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ON THE EDGE
Competition program One winter at the edge of a village, a man was found in an abandoned car. He had nothing on him other than a packet of old photographs. He was housed in the village church and was assigned to take care of an old nun. He vaguely remembered his previous life — but what he remembered was best forgotten. Before his death he confessed that… he was happy. However, are the ones abandoned in this desolate territory, on the edge of civilization, indeed happy? Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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VICISSITUDES OF TRANSLATION
Competition program The film’s main character, Viktor Golyshev, is a translator. He gave the Russian reader access to masterpieces of English literature such as George Orwell’s 1984, William Faulkner’s Light in August, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Robert P. Warren’s All the King’s Men… All of Russia knows these novels. Yet, few know about Golishev. He is an “inner man”. His philosophy is simple and Tolstoy-like: the Small Deeds Theory. He believes man is an interpreter from God, and the result of such a viewpoint is the creation of a high culture. Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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TOLYA JAKOBSON FROM KLYNOVSKY LANE [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”9tYc-tMsBa8&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] Competition program Here they are in the frame: students of Moscow’s Second Mathematics School, along with friends and colleagues — Vyacheslav Ivanov, Pavel Litvinov, Sergei Kovalev, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Yuliy Kim, Igor Guberman… all remembering Anatoliy Jakobson (1935-1978). A teacher of literature, Jakobson proved to his students with mathematical precision that art — like people — can only exist “in light of conscience.” Dissident — published in the Soviet “samizdat” Chronicle of Current Events. Man — delicate, intelligent, courageous, independent, a real Russian intellectual. Regardless of nationality, ethnicity or profession. Q&A with film-director Language: English, Russian; with English subtitles |
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AFTER THE WAR
Non-Competition program Young, beautiful, healthy — they were sent to the Chechen war. This film is about those who returned. All the heroes of this film were left handicapped by the war. Their stories are not about pain, not about fear, blood or death. They tell stories of hope: a hope to correct their hearing, to partially restore their memory, to learn to work without their legs… This story is about a brave courageous soldier who dreams about there never having been a war. Because in war there are no victors. Language: Russian; with English subtitles
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KOKTEBEL’S PEBBLES
Non-Competition program This is a story of the poet and philosopher Maximilian Voloshin and his wonderful home in Koktebel; a story about the end of the Russian Silver Age that was shattered into small pebbles by the Soviet hammer. Koktebel gems. The film is based on interviews in 1996 with Maria Izorgina, a friend of Voloshin’s family. Her stories are about Maximilian Voloshin, Osip Mandelstam, Andrei Bely, Alexander Green and others. Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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ARCADIA
Non-Competition program Our travels in Arcadia — the mythical seat of heaven — are led by the great Russian Poet Vladimir Gandelsman. Wherever he takes us, be it the smoking ruins of the Twin Towers or the streets of his Bronx neighborhood, Arcadia shimmers through. Gandelsman banished death from his poetry book “Arcadia”; in the film, however, she reclaims her spot as a fellow traveler. Language: Russian; with English subtitles |
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NEW PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION Competition program The many dramatic events of the last century – wars, revolutions, and terrorism – along with contradictory prognoses of the development of our civilization, don’t arouse optimism. The film’s protagonists – Israeli economists, writers, scientists, and school teachers, discuss the different scenarios of our future. Language: Russian, Yiddish, with English subtitles. |
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