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The Seventh Annual Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York
October 10-12, 2014 – Tribeca Cinemas, DCTV, Brooklyn Public Library, “Otrada” Cultural Centre
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
TRIBECA CINEMAS (54 Varick Steet)
7:00-11:00 Festival Opening Ceremony. Introduction of the festival’s participants: film-directors, partners, sponsors, festival’s guests. Special program dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the death of Vasily Grossman (1905-1964). buy tickets
«Vasily Grossman. I Knew That I Was Dead». Q&A with the film-director (Russia)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
TRIBECA CINEMAS (54 Varick Steet)
2:00 The General Headquarters. Special screening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of World War I. buy tickets
3:10 The Blockade. When Healed Only Compassion. Special program dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Siege of Leningrad. buy tickets
4:00 Alex’s Meadowland. Q&A with the film-director (Russia). buy tickets
4:45 Medem. Q&A with the film-director (Russia). buy tickets
5:50 Blood. buy tickets
7:00 Straightening Sigh. Q&A with the film-director (Russia). buy tickets
8:50-11:00 Special screenings “Children of Russia”: Everything That We Are Doing
/ Mamas, Kids and the Law. Q&A with the film-director (Russia) and with the heroine of the “Mamas, Kids and the Law” (USA). buy tickets
DCTV – DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTRE (87 Lafayette St)
2:30 Sonia. Q&A with the film-director (USA)
4:30 – 7:00 Special screenings of documentaries made by young Russian and American film-directors «The Open World»
4:30 The Subscriber is Temporary Unavailable
5:00 Katya
6:00 Russian Dream. Q&A with the heroine of the film (USA) and with the General Director of the Saint-Petersburg Studio of Documentary Films (Russia)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER, 12
DCTV – DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTRE (87 Lafayette St)
1:30 – 3:30 Special program «Remembering the Holocaust»: «The Holocaust – is It a Wallpaper Paste?» / «…with God against Man» Q&A with the film-director (USA
BROOKLYN CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY)
1:30 “Goodbye America!” or the Last Movie by Alexander Dovzhenko
2:10 From Russia with Math. Q&A with the film-team (USA)
“OTRADA” CULTURAL CENTRE (Russian American Aid Association Otrada Inc. 385 South Pascack Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY)
2:00 – 4:00 Medem / The General Headquarters.
TRIBECA CINEMAS (54 Varick Steet)
2:00 Emil Gorovets. I Was Your Son, Russia! Q&A with the producer of the film (USA). buy tickets
3:30 Non-Stop City. buy tickets
4:20 – 7:00 Festival Closing Screenings Special program «In the Beginning There Was a Word». in honor of Russian literature. buy tickets
Writer “Pi”. The Attempt of Identification Q&A with the film-director (Russia)
Russia’s Open Book. Writing in the Age of Putin. Q&&A with the film-team (USA)
The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club (283 Lexington Ave, New York)
8:00 Award Ceremony
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Vasily Grossman. “I Understood That I Had Died”
In Competition. The documentary is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Grossman’s death. Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate” was called “War and Peace of the XX century”. The manuscript was confiscated by the KGB and the writer’s life turned into tragedy. Grossman passed away before his novel was published. Finished in 1959 this anti-Stalin novel was published only in 1980 in Switzerland. |
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The Main Headquarter
In Competition This film is a story about the Main Headquarter of the Russian Army during the First World War. The Main Headquarter was the center of Russian supervision of all fronts of the Great War. The documentary is based on the unique chronicles of this period of time: the original shots of the Headquarter, war scenes from the Russian-German frontline, the Romanov family, Emperor of Russia Nicholas II, and the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich. Awards: “Gold Eagle”, the main prize of the Russian National Academy of Cinema (2014) |
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The Blockade. When He Healed Only Compassion
In Competition The film is based on medical personnel’s war-diaries from the Military Medical Academy’s archive in Saint-Petersburg: notes by doctors and nurses, official reports from hospitals, records of blood tests, surgeries, and deaths. The contributors of the film are veterans of the Second World War – former doctors, nurses, and patients. Their stories are truthful accounts of one of the most dreadful tragedies in the history of the war. |
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Blood
In Competition This film is a sincere story about a day in the Hemotransfusion Station in a Russian province. Several women of different ages, with diverse characters and fortunes are driving from village to village collecting blood for hemotransfusion storage. Dozens of donors, dozens of destinies… This surrealistic bleeding picture moves us to the old, simple idea of the fragility of human beings. Awards: Grand-Prix at the IFF ArtDocFilm (2013). |
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Straightening Sigh
In Competition This story is a sliver of hope in the land where Osip Mandelstam was executed, where unemployment and corruption are growing – in the land of the Russian Far East. The film will be presented by Gildia of Documentary Film and Television (Russia). [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”WXWRCHuPNno&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] |
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Writer “Pi”. The Attempt of Identification
In Competition An eminent writer as well as a great mystificateur, Victor Pelevin intrigues not only through his post-modern prose, but also through his anonymity. He is a writer-phantom who has never appeared in public, but has made a great impression on the minds of the Moscow intelligencia. In the film, the most famous Russian novelists, critics, and publishers talk not about Pelevin’s prose but about the writer himself. Among the narrators are Natalya Ivanova, Vladimir Sorokin, Dmitry Bykov, and others. |
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Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
In Competition Who are the new Russian Tolstoys and Dostoevskys? American film-makers present the most popular Russian writers from the time of Perestroyka and “Putin’s era”. Stephen Fry, a famous American actor, reads excerpts from the texts of modern Russian literature – six new names: Bykov, Petrosyan, Prilepin, Starobinets, Sorokin, and Ulitskaya. This film will be presented by Yeltsin Centre (Moscow), The Intelligent Television, Inc., The Institute of Translation, and the film-directors. In English only |
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Medem
In Competition This film is dedicated to the Via Dolorosa of an ordinary Russian man in Saratov county – count Alexander Medem. Baptized during the First World War this descendent of an ancient Baltic family was executed for his faith during the communist terror in the Soviet Union. Count Alexander Medem is one of the New Martyrs, Confessors and Heroes of Faith of Russia in the XX century. |
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Non-Stop City
In Competition. This story is about the tragedies of the automobile industry monsters – Detroit and Tolyatti. So different in triumph, yet so similar in failure. |
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Mamas, Kids and the Law
In Competition This is a story about the adoption of a paralyzed Russian girl by an American married couple. This little girl was among the last 64 Russian orphans adopted by foreign parents before the law named after Dima Yakovlev prohibited any international adoption from Russia. The documentary will be presented by the film’s director. [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”DGnQJgK1s9Y&rel=0″ width=”560″ height=”315″ anchor=”watch trailer”] |
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Everything That We Are Doing
In Competition Two pedagogues, Anna and Jessie Mara, with the help of Russian artist Oleg Mityaev, created a chorus consisting of children from dysfunctional families. Under their supervision, children not only learn how to sing, but also gain an understanding of sympathy and compassion. The children help suffering people by rehearsing in the Children’s Cancer Hospital and in the women’s prison. |
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“I Was Your Son, Russia!”
In Competition This film is a story of the glory and exile of Emil Gorovets, a famous Soviet singer in the 1960s. His voice – turning from tenor to baritone – was bright and full of tonal and emotional interpretations. He sang songs in Russian and Yiddish; he was the first who sang translated American and European chansons. He emigrated from the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1970s to continue his successful career in the US. This film is a dilogy. The first film will be presented at the festival by Mrs. Gorovets, Emil’s widow. |
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In Competition This film could be depicted as “a funny story about death” or, in contrast, “a sad story about a funny coffin-maker”. All his life the hero of this film has lived in his native small Armenian town; all his life he has made coffins for his neighbors. He could write a novel about what is a “good coffin”. But he understands that nobody should write a “coffin-novel” or make a documentary about a coffin-maker because a man must just live a good life and at the end of his life just lay to rest in a good coffin. |
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Katya
In Competition After the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Russian world dispersed throughout various countries and continents. With the hope of finding paradise, new Russians collapsed into new temptations. This film is about an adventure full of misery of a Russian girl who dreams of joy in India. Festivals & Awards: The Best Art-Movie award at IFF ArtDocFest, Russia. |
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Russian Dream
In Competition This film is about the adventure of an American woman — a Slavicist full of illusions and fantasies about Russian people and Russian winter. This story is about sympathy and misunderstanding between people belonging to different cultures and countries, about an open world without borders. This film will be presented by the heroine of the film and the Executive Director of the studio |
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Sonia
Not In Competition This is a story of the famous Russian avant-garde artist Sonya Dymshitz, the first wife of famous Soviet writer Alexey Tolstoy, and the remarkable story of surviving under the most oppressive circumstances in the Soviet Union. The film is created by American film-director Lucy Kostelanetz, former president of The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York). The film will be presented by the film-director. |
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The Holocaust – is It a Wallpaper Paste?
In Competition Two sisters are participants in a TV trivia show and answer: “The Holocaust is… is a wallpaper paste!” Whose fault is it that young Russians do not know anything about the Holocaust? Whose fault is it that they do not know the history of their own country and know nothing about the Second World War? The film-makers try to find the right answers to these questions. They take a trip with two naïve young women to Auschwitz, the WWII concentration camp in Poland, to discover the truth about the Holocaust. Festivals & Awards: Awards: The Union of Russian Journalists’ Award at XIX IFF “Stalker” (2013). |
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«…with God Against Man»
In Competition Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese General Consul in Paris during WWII, was a very successful diplomat. He was not Jewish, but could not close his eyes on the genocide of the Jews and devoted his life to helping these people survive. His career was destroyed and he died suffering. Today, few remember the heroic Portuguese consul. The story of consul Mendes was recreated by a Jewish film-director and Russian immigrant, Semyon Pinkasov. The film will be presented by the film-makers and the American Center named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes. In English only. |
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“Goodbye America!” or the Last Movie by Alexander Dovzhenko
In Competition This film is about the tragedy of a great artist under Soviet ideological pressure. Alexander Dovzhenko was a top Russian film producer and director during Stalin’s era. He was awarded two Stalin Prizes. His last movie “Goodbye America!” (1951) was based on the book by Annabelle Bucar, an American diplomat who decided to stay in the Soviet Union with her loved one. This movie was the last attempt of the great film-director to break up the Soviet ideological frames and create a true love story full of drama. The film was a complete fiasco for Dovzhenko. |
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From Russia with Math
In Competition Film-makers from Boston tell a story about a math-school for gifted children. The school was created by pedagogues-émigrés from Russia. Founded in 1987, the Russian School of Mathematics currently teaches over 11,000 elementary and secondary students throughout the US using Russian educational methods of study in mathematics. This film will be presented by the film-makers. |
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Alex’s Meadowland
Non-competition program This film-novel is about the Orlovsky family – one of the first farming families in post-Soviet Russia. Starting in the 1990s the director watches over all generations of the family – their struggle against the Soviet legacy in modern Russia and their effort to revive Russian agriculture. He creates an amazing film-poem about the man of the land. Q&A with the film-director. |
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For additional information about 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York please visit www.rusdocfilmfest.org or contact us at: newreview@msn.com
For press accreditation (until September 30th):
russianmoviefest@gmail.com & rusdocfilmfest@gmail.com
Tickets Information will be available after September 5, 2014:
For screening at Tribeca Cinemas:
www.tribecacinemas.com
Under Events, go to Russian Documentary Film Festival
Or contact Tribeca’s box office at (212) 941-2001
Tribeca Cinemas: 54 Varick Street, New York, NY (Varick at Laight Street, one block below Canal Street) Subway 1, A, C, E, trains to Canal Street)
For seats reservation at DCTV please go to:
rusdocfilmfest@gmail.com
For seats reservation at BPL please go to:
Central Library Administration – 718-230-2198 (Russian Film Series: Films from the VII Russian Documentary Film Festival at Central Library Dweck)
For seats reservation at American-Russian Aid Association “Otrada” please go to:
otrada385@gmail.com or call: 845-627-7119
October 13, 2014
The Seventh Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York has come to a close. The festival ran October 10-12 at Tribeca Cinemas and DCTV in Manhattan, at the Brooklyn Public Library, and at the Russian Cultural Centre “Otrada”. Twenty one documentaries were shown; among them nineteen films were screened in the competition program. Six Russian film-directors and several American film-makers took part in the festival.
The festival guests included:
Ari Kagan, the Democratic District leader in 45 Assembly District, Community Liaison for New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer;
Film-director Jonathan Alpert, Emmy Award laureate, Oscar nominee;
Anna Kanner-Danchak, Representative of the Russian Jewish Congress;
Peter Kaufman, President of the Intelligent Television, Inc.;
The Representatives of the Aristides Sousa Mendes Foundation;
Paul Marszalek, Senior Strategist, the Voice of America;
Mikhail Fishgoyt, the Russian famous film-maker in 1970s.
The following special programs and screenings were presented:
«In the Beginning Was the Word», devoted to Russian literature and contemporary writers;
«Remembering the Holocaust in the Contemporary World»;
“Wars of the XX century”;
“Open World”;
“Children of Russia”.
The winners of the festival are:
Grand Рrix: “Blood” by Alina Rudnitskaya (Russia);
Special Jury Prize: “Katia” by Anna Shishova (Russia);
Special Award “Images of Russia”: “Vasily Grossman: I Knew That I Was Dead” by Elena Yakovich (Russia);
Special Jury Diplomas:
– “The Holocaust – Is It a Wallpaper Paste?” by Mumin Shakirov (Russia) – for reflection of the theme “Remembering the greatest humanitarian catastrophes of the XX century”
– “I Was Your Son, Russia!” by V. Shatin (USA-Russia) – for reflection of the theme of emigration.
Special Diplomas of The New Review, Inc., the organizer of the festival:
– “Russian Dream” by S. Debizhev (Russia) – for reflection of the theme “Ironic Pilgrimage Culture in the Modern World”;
To producer Peter Kaufman, President of Intelligent Television, Inc., for his project“Russia’s Open Book in the Age of Putin” (USA);
Special Diplomas and Awards of VK-Studios, sponsors of the festival:
– “Straightening Sigh”by N. Tikhonov-Rau and Olga Arlauskaite (Russia);
– “Medem” by A. Naumov (Russia);
Commemorative Medal of the Pushkin Society in America: “Sonia” by Lucy Kostelianets (USA)
The 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival is organized by The New Review, Inc., the oldest intellectual literary journal of the Russian-speaking Diaspora based in New York since 1942, in partnership with the Diana Bagrationi Foundation (Organizing Partner & Supporter), the CausaArtium, Inc. (Partner in Creative Solutions), as well as the Russian National Guild of Documentary Films and Television (Media Associate, Russia). The sponsors of the festival were: “Russian Mir” Foundation, Rossotrudnichestvo, Centre of Boris Yeltsin, Russian Jewish Congress, RMHS, as well as American organizations: Russian Nobility Association in America, Inc., The Tcherepninе Society, Charitable Fund of Diana Bagrationi; VK Studios; Mrs. Tatiana Bobrinskoy, Capital Builders Group, Inc., Alex Soldier, Inc., Anna Richi, Inc., and others. The Informational Sponsor: NTV-America, ITAR-TASS, RBTH / New York Times; RTN, RUNYweb, Elegant New York, web portal YCROP (Young Creative Russians Online), and others.
Organizing committee 7th RDFF
The Seventh Annual Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York
From Friday, October 10, through Sunday, October 12, 2014
At Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, Manhattan), DCTV (Downtown Community Television Centre – 87 Lafayette St., Manhattan), Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) and Russian Centre «Otrada» (Village of Chestnut Ridge, NYS).
The Seventh Annual Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York is proud to present a varied program of new documentaries – winners of Russian and international film festivals in 2013 and 2014. The films were made by Russian, American, and the Russian-speaking Diaspora’s directors.
Twenty documentaries will have their American premieres over the three days of the Festival. The Festival films are delving into Russia’s history and Russian contemporary society, showing orphanages, famous artists, writers, etc.
The hosts of the Seventh Festival will be announced.
The festival is organized by The New Review, Inc., the oldest intellectual literary journal of the Russian-speaking Diaspora based in New York since 1942. We present the following special programs:
Special program dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the death of Vasily Grossman, the author of “Life and Fate”. Q&A with the director of the documentary “I Knew That I Was Dead”;
Special program «Remembering the Holocaust». There will be two screenings: “The Holocaust – is It a Wallpaper Paste?” (Russia) and «…with God Against Man» (USA). Q&A with the American film-team;
Special program «In the Beginning Was the Word» in honor of Russian literature. This program consists of two documentaries: «Russia’s Open Book» (USA) and “Writer ‘Pi’. The Attempt of Identification” (Russia). Q&A with the American film-team.
Special screening devoted to the 100th anniversary of World War I – documentary “The General Headquarters”;
Special program dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Leningrad Blockade – The Siege of Leningrad – and to the release of the Russian fascist-occupied territories during WWII.
Special screenings of documentaries made by young Russian and American film-directors – «The Open World».
Special presentation of the Russian National Guild of Documentary Films and Television. Q&A with the Guild’s representatives.
The festival has competition and non-competition programs. There are three festival awards – Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize, and Special Prize “Faces of Russia”. Among the jury members are world-known artist Vitaly Komar, film-director Lucy Kostelanetz, and others.
All documentaries will be screened with English subtitles.
The 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival is organized by The New Review, Inc. (USA) in partnership with the Diana Bagrationi Foundation and VK-Studios (USA), and creative collaboration with Causa Artium, Inc. (USA) and the Russian National Guild of Documentary Films and Television (Russia).
IN THE COMPETITION PROGRAM:
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The Blockade. When Healed Only Compassion
Vasily Grossman. “I Knew That I Was Dead.’
Everything That We Are Doing
“Straightening Sigh”
The General Headquarters
Non-Stop City
Katya
Blood
Mamas, Kids and the Law
Medem
Writer “Pi”. The Attempt of Identification
“Goodbye America!” or the Last Movie by Alexander Dovzhenko
Russian Dream
“The Holocaust – Is It a Wallpaper Paste?”
“I Was Your Son, Russia!”
Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
From Russia with Math
“…with God against Man”
NONCOMPETITION PROGRAM
Sonia
Alex’s Meadowland
For additional information:
www.rusdocfilmfest.org
Please contact us: newreview@msn.com
For press accreditation (until September 30th):
russianmoviefest@gmail.com & rusdocfilmfest@gmail.com
Information about tickets:
For screening at Tribeca Cinemas:
For tickets: www.tribecacinemas.com
Under Events, go to Russian Documentary Film Festival
Or, alternatively, contact Tribeca’s box office at (212) 941-2001
Tribeca Cinemas: 54 Varick Street, New York, NY (Varick at Laight Street, one block below Canal Street) Subway 1, A, C, E, trains to Canal Street)
For seats’ reservation at DCTV please contact:
rusdocfilmfest@gmail.com
For seats’ reservation at BPL please go to:
Central Library Administration – 718-230-2198 (Russian Film Series: Films from the VII Russian Documentary Film Festival at Central Library Dweck)
For seats reservation at American-Russian Aid Association “Otrada” please contact:
otrada385@gmail.com or call 845.627.7119
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