Anatoly Grebnev is one of the iconic screenwriters of our cinema. In 2023 he would have turned one hundred years old. He died before reaching eighty. His screenwriting works include “July Rain” by Marlen Khutsiev and “St. Petersburg Secrets,” one of the first Russian television series; “Success” with Leonid Filatov, “Prokhindiada, or Running in Place” with Alexander Kalyagin, “Diary of a School Principal” with Oleg Borisov. He worked with Yuliy Raizman and Anatoly Efros, and left our time with a living and relevant “Diary of the Last Screenwriter.” The peculiarity of Grebnev’s fate is that he came to cinema only in the middle of his life - as an adult, mature person. His childhood, youth and youth were full of hopes and failures, love and loss. The film will tell not only about Grebnev’s film biography, but also about that first life that he left for the sake of cinema.
A film about the life and work of cinematographer Sergei Astakhov, who has directed more than seventy full-length films, including the cult films “Brother” and “Brother-2”, the public’s favorite film “In Love of His Own Will”, and the most complex films of recent times – “Salute” -7”, “Heart of Parma” and many others. The secret of Astakhov’s success is a unique combination of artistic intuition with the talent of an engineer-inventor. The film shows Astakhov in a variety of manifestations: on the set, and during the construction of his house, and during the construction of a chapel, and at a children's Christmas party. And everywhere he is invariably charming with his energy and love of life!
A cinematographer is a person who is most often not particularly visible, but what he is doing is always visible. The Director of Photography is a rare opportunity to talk to filmmakers about filmmakers. This is not a conversation about their life, but about the profession that is the meaning of their life, an attempt, through their personal statements, to form an understanding of what is the modern concept of camera art, what is the literacy of the craft and what is the real content of camera work in practical concepts and categories. This is a mention of several main names in the profession of cinematographer, who today are associated with the most important events in national and world cinema.
The film is a reflection on the nature of the charm inherent in St. Petersburg, which never ceases to affect residents and visitors. The city forces those who find themselves in it to rise in their thoughts about it and about life to a philosophical level. St. Petersburg still remains mysterious, undeciphered and therefore endlessly attractive.
Mongun-Taiga is the highest peak of Tyva and all of Eastern Siberia. In the harsh climate of the Mongun-Taiga ridge, only yaks... and people survive. Rare travelers get here, and those who do find themselves on another planet, where shamans, yaks, people, spirits of ancestors, mountains and taiga live in amazing harmony and unity... How to protect this fragile world from destruction?
Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.
1993. Emmanuel is a young village boy in Eastern France. He believes he's found a friend in Hubert, the local priest. One rainy afternoon, Emmanuel leaves the presbytery after promising Hubert not to tell anyone what had just happened. Thirty years later, Emmanuel remembers that day. At the police station, he discretely switches his phone recorder on and starts his deposition.
You say my poems are poetry? They're not. Yet if you understand they're not, - Then you see the poetry of them! Radu Jude’s desktop film, in which director considers Andy Warhol’s celebrity immortality with live footage of the artist’s grave in Pittsburgh.
A found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements, this brings together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism.
Lara, a German au pair, recently arrived in Marseille, where a new life is beginning for her. Being an introverted young girl, she nevertheless throws herself into the unknown, into the twists and turns of a city whose codes she still does not know.
Hilda and Cristina have been told that a settlement will begin near the cementery. Hilton, an illegal gravedigger, watches with concern. If they invade, he won’t have space to digging graves. The settlement and the cemetery are very close, and the dead seem to have achieved what they desire: a home.
Jermaine Greaves is an inspiring individual who has defied the odds despite being wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy. A college graduate, he has garnered widespread attention and admiration for his dynamic dancing videos, including a notable performance set to Beyoncé’s music. His impactful work with the Black Disabled Lives Matter movement earned him a place in a museum exhibit, highlighted with the amazing eye of Director Gil Rios. Greaves’s journey, marked by his resilience and talent, has been widely covered in the media, showcasing his extraordinary ability to express.
In 1800, France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic. But Napoleon will not wither in the face of such a crisis. Instead, he embarks on one of the most famous and daring strategic manoeuvres in history - a march across the Alps - to turn the tables on France's enemies