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NEW STRANGERS OF PATIENCE 3
THROUGH BLACK GLASS 4-5
CENSOR 6-7
WHATEVER WE WANT 8-9
MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL 10-11
BOYZHETKEN. SHE’S ALL THAT 12-13
THE WATER WITCH 14-15
ACUCAR 16-17
SULEIMAN MONTAIN 18-19
MAGIC KIMONO 20-21
THE MAN SLAYER /
THE VIRGIN /
THE SHADOW 22-23
EXCITING LIFE 24-25
2017 5 THERAPY 26-27
CAPS 28-29
KHARMS 30-31
WILD ROSES 32-33
2016 PARADISE 34-35
STRANGERS OF PATIENCE 3
directed by Vladimir Alenikov
NEW
STRNNIKI production2018, Russia, budget € 1 000 000
triller
TERPENIA Sputnik Film Company 103 min, Colour, DCP, Russian
screenplay cast
Vladimir Aleinikov Konstantin Lavronenko,
cinematographer Maja Justyna Szopa
Alisher Khamikhodzhayev
producer
Almagul Tleukhanova
synopsis
Andrei is a well-known artist photographer who lives alone
with his Labrador dog, Charley, in his own house with a swim-
ming pool in a big city. While preparing for an important inter-
national exhibition, he meets a charming young woman Marina
who turns out to be deaf-and-dumb. Andrei brings Marina to
his place, takes her photos and keeps her at his place for the
night. The same repeats on the second day. Neither does he let
her go away on the third day. Finally, the girl understands that
she is a prisoner and tries to escape.
The story that started as a prelude to a peculiar life story
gradually turns into a crazy nightmare.
Marina becomes incredibly inventive, making ever new at-
tempts at escape but fails every time, making her already bad
situation even worse because Andrei becomes ever harder on
tags her. The intricate psychological duel of these two uncommon
artist and Muse, Stockholm syndrome, people is the dramaturgic pivot of the film.
deaf-and-dumb, maniac
4
THROUGH BLACK GLASS
directed and written by Konstantin Lopushanskiy
NEW
budget € 900 000 5 SKVOZ CHERNOE STEKLO drama production 2018, Russia, Proline Film Colour, Russian cast Maxim Sukhanov, Vasilisa Denisova, Nadezhda Markina synopsis Nastya, an eighteen year old girl, lives in an institution for the blind and visually impaired. She is an orphan, She has been living there for a long time, almost ten years, so it has become her home. Although it has little money, the school gives the girls a sound education — foreign languages and theater clubs. There is another aspect of education — the institution is next to a convent, which, of course, took on some of the upbringing of these orphaned girls. The convent Abbess has paid particular attention to Nastya, and for good reason. She thinks that Nastya has a special destiny, like the spiritual destiny of the blessed St. Matrona of Moscow, who had also lost her sight in childhood but came to be revered in Russia. Nastya still has a chance to regain her eyesight, but she needs a very expensive operation in Germany. She is going enter the convent as a novice. But all of Nastya’s plans change completely... Mikhail Ostrovoi rich busi- nessman will pay for Nastya’s operation and treatment in Germany, but un- der one condition: that right now, before she is treated, she marries him — sight unseen, and without meeting him. tags blindness, oligarch, criminal business, monk, miracle, dazzle, wedding, misalliance, tragedy, melo
CENSOR
6 S UPER V IOL EN T
FAN TAS T I C T R IL LE R
directed by Konstantin Shelepov
NEW
budget € 50 753 7 ЦЕНЗОР sci-fi, triller, debut production 2018, Russia, UGC Pictures 100 min., Colour, Russian cast Stepan Beketov, Pavel Mihailov, Galina Sumina, Sergey Mardar synopsis In the not so distant future computer game industry reaches its full- est flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors delve into games to take sex and violence beyond the forbidden level. A game that would let them do that must be banned. But one of the Censors is a maniac who enjoys his bloody job. At some point the Censors lose their ability to tell the game from the real world. tags dystopia, future, historical reenactment, rivalry, secret service, suicide, violence, virtual reality, buddy movie
8
WHATEVER WE WANT
directed and written by Vladimir Kozlov
NEW
production 2018, Russia, budget € 3000 9
KAK MY ZAKHOTIM drama Platzkart Productions 83 min., Colour, Russian
cast synopsis
Yekaterina Obraztsova, Katya and Pasha are a Moscow student couple in their early twenties. They don’t
Alexei Kokorin, care about politics or authorities. They aren’t really rebellious, they just want to be
Grigory Suvorov, left alone and have fun.
Oleg Taller One day they come to a punk concert at a small club, but two rogue policemen
stop the show in the middle of it – there are no formal grounds to do that, but the
policemen just enjoy their power. Katya tries to reason with one of the officers, but
he reacts in a brutal way, and Pasha has to defend her. Katya and Pasha escape and
they hope they’re safe.
But in Russia, you shouldn’t mess with the police, and next morning, the young
people learn that they are in trouble. Their only way out is to pay the policemen
off, and they embark on a mission of getting the cash – borrowing, begging, doing
whatever they can. And they only have several hours to come up with the cash…
tags
club, corruption, crime, cruelty, debt, love, minimalism, police, punk, rap, students, violence
10
MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL
directed and written by Ewa Banaszkiewicz & Mateusz Dymek
NEWMY FRIEND documentary feature production 2018, Poland, Great Britain, 87 min., Colour, English 11 THE POLISH GIRL Warsaw Pact Films cast Aneta Piotrowska, Emma Friedman-Cohen synopsis From Cannes and Telluride nominee Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek comes a fiction film that takes the form of a first-time filmmaker’s documentary. My Friend The Polish Girl borrows from cinema verite and video blog- gers to create a rare naturalism in style and performance. The fiction film watches as an experimental documentary told through the eyes (and lens) of amateur filmmaker Katie: an American rich kidfollowing Alicja, an er- ratic unemployed Polish actress. Set in a post-Brexit-vote London, Katie’s colonising, disruptive presence in Alicja’s life mirrors the treatment of mi- grants in the UK: Welcomed, used, then discarded. A raw, sexual, and visu- ally brash film exploring the abusive power and control over someone’s intimacy. tags buddy-movie, film on film, immigrants, love, melo, postdoc provocation, suicide, visual anthropology
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BOYZHETKEN. SHE’S ALL THAT
directed and written by Abdel Fiftybayev
NEWteen comedy 2018, Kazakhstan, Alma Pictures budget € 230 000 13
BOYZHETKEN production
94 min., Colour, DCP, Russian
cast
Yerbolat Yerzhanov, Aliya Nauryzbayeva,
Kuanysh Zhylzhaksynov, Alexander Galayev,
Nail Galiyev, Gosha Mayorskih
synopsis
Anelya lives and studies abroad. She only comes to her native town dur-
ing the summer holidays. Everything she sees around seems to her dull
and uninteresting. She does not really wish to come back here. However,
her vision changes when she meets and, without realising it herself, falls
in love with Dan, a simple guy, a street musician who creates a musical
group to attract attention. He would have to overcome various challenges
when moving towards his goal. The young woman starts to see everything
around with the eyes of this guy, changing her values and ideas about life.
Dan dreams never to part with his loved one. But to reach this dream, they
would have to overcome many doubts, both their own and other people’s,
and make a right choice. How will the life of these characters work out?
Will the history of their life continue in Anelya’s native town or will the fate
throw them to the faraway corners of the planet?
tags
First love, music, love triangle, rock band,
daughter-father, city, competition14
THE WATER WITCH
directed and written by Alexey Barykin
NEWtale production 2018, Russia, budget € 440 000 15 VODYANAYA Alexey Barykin’s film company and Nika Foundations 85 min., Colour, DCP, Russian cast Nikolai Nevzorov, Ekaterina Barykina, Nafisa Khairullina, Guzel Shakirzyanova, Ildus Gabdrahmanov, Fanis Ziganshin, Yulia Zakharova synopsis Two children, a brother and a sister, come to visit their relatives in a far- away village inhabited by Muslim Tatars. One dark night, their mother is taken away by a demon, a terrible witch living in the lake. Now, with the help of the local mullah, the kids have to figure out how to save their mother from the clutches of the evil spirits. Soon it becomes clear that the woman was not kidnapped by chance, and there are real humans behind the demon’s attacks… tags Islam, tradition, witch, myth, ritual, Mullah, family, miracle, folklore
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ACUCAR
directed and written by Renata Pinheiro & Sergio Oliveira
NEWbudget € 125 000 17
AÇÚCAR drama, thriller, fantasy production 2017, Brazil, Aroma Filmes 90 min., Colour, Portuguese
cast synopsis
Maeve Jinkings Açúcar brings to the surface a lifelong Brazilian malady: Slavery. The film is set in
Magali Biff a universe of magic realism that crosses the personal story of Bethania with the
Dandara de Morais identity formation of a country that is modern and archaic, contemporary and an-
Zé Maria cestral, white and much, much more black.
Bethania returns to her fields where once was a sugar mill named after her
family, Wanderley’s Mill. Between photos, fantastic creatures, bills to pay, workers
claiming their rights over the land, sounds and memories of the old manor house,
Bethania faces herself in a present where past and future are both threatening.
Açúcar is set in a universe of magic realism that crosses the personal story of
Bethania with the identity formation of a country that is modern and archaic, con-
temporary and ancestral, white and much, much more black.
tags
land, property, inheritance, slavery, master and worker, servants, struggle, relatives18
SULEIMAN MONTAIN
directed by Elizaveta Stishova
2017production 2017, Russia, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, budget € 3 600 000 19 SULEIMAN GORA drama, debut Virtual Kick Studio 102 min., Colour, Kyrgyz cast Daniel Daiyerbekov (as Uluk), Perizat Ermanbetova (as Zhypara), Asset Imangaliev (as Karabas), Turgunay Erkinbekova (as Turganbyubyu) synopsis Karabas is a difficult man: a hard-gambling, hard-drinking, child-in-a- man’s body who puts only himself first in his family. When his wife #1, Zhipara, calls to tell him she has found their long-lost son, Uluk, Karabas rushes to her, much to the dismay of his much younger, pregnant wife #2, Turganbyubyu. Soon the new family dynamics are stretched past their limits, and Kara- bas is caught between his old ways and the two women bearing his sons: one re-born and one yet to come. Now this unusual family must decide if they are to co-exist or tear each other apart as old wounds are ripped open and deception becomes the rule of the day. Shot on location in and around the mystic World Heritage Site of the Suleiman Mountain in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Suleiman Mountain tells the com- ing of age story of a grown man who must first lose love in order to find it. awards • Public Award, Roberto Rossellini Award for Best Film – PYIFF, 2017 • East of the West Award – Karlovy Vary IFF, 2018 • FEDEORA award – Karlovy Vary IFF, 2018 • FIPRESCI Choice – Eurasia IFF, 2018 • NETPAC Choice – Eurasia IFF, 2018 tags adoption, Asia, father-son, healer, love triangle, melo, mother-son, mountain, orphanage, ritual, road movie, tradition
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MAGIC KIMONO
directed and written by Maris Martinsons
2017production 2017, Latvia, Japan, budget € 1 095 000 21
MAĢISKAIS KIMONO drama,fantasy Krukfilms, Loaded Films 96 min., Colour, Latvian-Japanese
cast synopsis
Issei Ogata A fantastical story about a second chance in love and life.
(Silence by Martin Scorsese, Sixty-something Keiko (Kaori Momoi) has been living in a shell since losing her daugh-
The Sun by Alexander Sokurov) ter, and then her husband, decades ago. Unable to move on from the past, the modest act
of eating, and the sensations it provides, are the only lifeline Keiko has. She reluctantly
Kaori Momoi joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono
(Ghost in the Shell, 2017 show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During the show, Keiko is suddenly
Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa, confronted by a man who seems to be her long lost husband (Issei Ogata), who went
The Yellow Handkerchief by Yoji Yamada missing in the Kobe earthquake of 1995. Gripped by confusion and despair, Keiko walks
Swallowtail Butterfly by Shunji Iwai, through the city and has chance meetings with people who seem drawn to this curious,
Tokyo Yakyoku by Jun Ichikawa kimono-clad woman and her culinary sensibility. Food bridges the language and culture
IZO, Sukiyaki Western Django by Takashi Miike gap, and with her husband at her side once again, Keiko gradually realizes how to have
The Sun by Alexander Sokurov a future with the past.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Rob Marshall)
tags
absurd, cooking, irony, love,
middle-aged, Mitau, palace,
post-Soviet space, Rastrelli,
small talk22
THE MAN SLAYER / THE VIRGIN / THE SHADOW
directed by Sulev Keedus
2017production 2017, Estonia, Lithuania, budget € 835 000 23 MEHETAPJA / SÜÜTU / VARI drama ERA FILM, F-SEITSE 140 min., Colour, Estonian-Spanish cast Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Toomas Suuman, Üllar Saaremäe, Priit Pedajas, Katariina Unt, Peeter Volkonski, Juhan Ulfsak, Ain Lutsepp, Mari Lill, Helena Merzin synopsis The Man Slayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wed- ding day until the early morning of the following day. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia. In fear of being deported to Siberia, she enters into a fictitious marriage with an Es- tonian man named Heino. Someone informs the “the organs” (NKVD, the Soviet law enforcement agency) of the fictitious marriage and the couple are called in for interrogation. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border areas between reality and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there something else besides emptiness somewhere? Pastor Theophilus of St. Peter’s congregation offers Luna Lee a contract with God... The common link between the three short stories is the leading charac- ter: Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress. awards • Best Cinematography, Best Music — Tallinn Black Nights FF, 2017 tags beginning of the 20th century, family history, fate of a woman, love, Middle Ages, repressions, trilogy
24
EXCITING LIFE
directed by Anna Yanovskaya
NEWcomedy, production 2018, Russia, budget € 50 000 25
INTERESNAYA ZHIZN Andrei Shemyakin Studio, SahaFilm Studio 87 min., Colour, DCP, Russian, Yakut
mockumentary
cast synopsis
Alexei Yudnikov, The story is based on real events, a travel of a failed Moscow actor to the shooting that takes
Prokopy Nogovitsyn, place in the Autonomous Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Looking with his eyes, we find ourselves
Andrei Borisov, in an absolutely mysterious world of the Olonho culture, the Republic of Sakha and the pres-
Sergey Potapov, ent-day Yakutian cinema with all its ethnic peculiarities. The long voyage of our hero is a kind
Anissa Naouai of road movie, full of meetings with very different people – old wise men, shamans and even
magic deers. We will find many adventures, discoveries, love, findings and losses.
tags It is here, in Yakutia, with its majestic nature, that we manage to create an islet of creation
film on film, that would help interaction and merger of various cultures and bring attention to the pecu-
tranny show, loser, liarities of development of the local, ethnic-based cinema. Lots of films are being made here.
one man band, Approximately as many as in the rest of Russia. But we do not know almost anything about
meditation, the Yakutian cinema. Its phenomenon is its incredible popularity among the local population.
the Far North, deer, Neither American blockbusters nor Russian comedies are as popular here as the local Yaku-
miracle, theatre, tian films. Local films, it should be remarked, are made very quickly and have very low budget.
stand up comedy26
5 THERAPY
directed and written by Alisa Pavlovskaya
2017budget € 7800 27 5 THERAPIA drama production 2017, Ukraine, TrueMan Production 74 min., Colour, Russian cast Stas Dombrovskiy Victor Brevis Alona Putyshina Elena Dashevskaya synopsis based on a true story all the characters are NOT fictional The film is based on a series of novels by Stas Dombrowski, a former drug addict and criminal who learned that he was HIV positive in 17 years, and plunged into absolute self-destruction for next two decades. Only on his deathbed in prison therapy, knowing that he would die in two weeks, Stas understood that he wants to live more than anything in this world. awards • Special Mention by the Wold Catholic Association for Communication — Mar del Plata IFF, 2017 tags adaptation of, asylum, diary, human rights, insane, jail, junkie, Odessa, vicious circle
28
CAPS
directed and written by Sorin Marin
2017budget € 900 000 29 CAPACE drama, debut production 2017, Romania, Saga Film Colour, Romanian cast Vlad Ivanov (Toni Erdmann 2016, Graduation 2016, Snowpiercer 2013, In the Fog 2012, My Joy 2010, Police, Adjective 2009, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007) Adrian Titieni (Graduation 2016, Child’s Pose 2013, Domestic 2012, Hooked 2008) synopsis Radu, 45, rich and single, manages his business with a strong, unwaver- ing hand and no scruples. His competition is now leading a charge against him on the stock market, which prompts Radu to remember a childhood game of beer bottle caps, a game that required risk-taking, effort and skill. A heart attack and the news that he might need a heart transplant deter- mines him to head to a remote place, where the Danube river meets the sea, a place of simple people and age-old customs. tags 1990th, businessman, mal, meaning of life, meditation, romanian new wave DIRECTOR’S COMMENTS 16 years ago I reached Sfantu Gheorghe, a magical place, where the Danube River meets the Black Sea. There I understood that my adult life was a comprised of a series of games, that I was fighting to win every day. I remembered those games of my childhood, when I was happy. A short while after my visit in Sfantu Gheorghe, I retired from business and began writing the screenplay and, in 2015, after many searches and hesitations, we started filming.
30
KHARMS
directed by Ivan Bolotnikov
2017production 2017, Russia, Lithuania, Macedonia, budget € 1 000 000 31 KHARMS drama Proline Film, Tremora, Manufaktura 95 min., Colour, DCP, Russian cast Wojciech Urbanski, Aistė Diržiūtė, Darius Gumauskas, Artyom Semakin, Tatyana Shapovalova, Nikita Kukushkin synopsis Music and silence. Creativity and impotence. Contemplation and buffoon- ery.He considers himself a genius but the publishers refuse to print his works. He loves women but they don’t always understand him. Constantly with- out money and out of touch with reality. The elegant fop Daniil Yuvachov names himself Kharms- a name just as effective as his appearance. An ha- bitué of unending literary get-togethers and a lover of scandal. Living in society he is completely separate from it. Kharms throws down a gauntlet to his time, audaciously hurling himself into the vortex of reality, just as vague and arbitrary, with the same contradictions, as represented by his spirit. In the atmosphere of his ramshackle flat and in the editorial office of the children’s magazines «Chizh» & «Yozh», the streets of Leningrad, the embankments and rooftops, there unfolds an amazing battle between the man and himself, with his defects, his passions and with the whole world in which he lives as though he were locked in a cage. Will he manage to cope with societal pressure, love’s mismatches, the impossibility of creation? awards • 2 Golden Goblet Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay — SIFF, 2016 tags 1930th, absurd, biopic, freaks, Gulag, Leningrad blockade, literary avant-garde, poetry, repressions, St. Petersburg
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WILD ROSES
directed and written by Anna Jadowska
2017budget € 809 000 33 DZIKIE RÓŻE drama production 2017, Poland, Alter Ego Pictures 89 min., Colour, DCP, Polish cast Marta Nieradkiwicz, Michał Żurawski, Halina Rasiakowna, Konard Skolimowski synopsis Ewa returns to her village after a hospital stay. She works on a plantation that grows wild roses. While Ewa was away her mother has been taking care of her children Marysia and Jas. Ewa’s husband Andrzej also returns home after working for months in Norway. The time apart has created distance between them. During Mary- sia’s first communion, Ewa starts feel ill to. Her friend Basia drives her home. Basia admits that she leaked the gossip to Andrzej about Ewa’s affair with Marcel, a local high school boy. Ewa meets Marcel on the rose plantation. She says that their relationship is over. After Marcel leaves Marta realizes that Jas, her 2 year-old son, has disap- peared. The search begins. After hours a policeman appears and says that Jas has been found. Marta and Andrzej go to the next village and pick up Jas. Ewa returns to the hospital she left a few days before. We discover that Ewa had given birth to a child and put it up for adoption. Ewa wants her child back. awards • Ecumenical Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, LUBINA Award for an Outstanding Actress, Main Prize for the Best Film, – Cottbus FF, 2017 • Stockholm Impact Award, 2017 tags motherhood, abortion, family, betrayal, misalliance, the loss of the child
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PARADISE
directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy
20162016, Russia-Germany, budget € 4 500 000 sales France, Canada (French-speaking),
RAI drama production
131 min., B&W, 4:3, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland (French-speaking), 35
DRIFE Filmproduktion,The Andrei Konchalovsky Studios Russian-German-French Baltic countries, CIS (except Russia)
cast
Julia Vysotskaya (The Lion in Winter, House of Fools, Gloss),
Christian Clauss (Reckless), Philippe Duquesne (Babysitting),
Jakob Diehl (My Good Hans), Victor Sukhorukov (Expiation, Silent Souls, The Island),
Peter Kurth, Isabelle Habiague, Pyotr Mikhalkov, Valérie Zaccomer,
Pierre Nisse, Natalya Kurdyubova, Larisa Kuznetsova
synopsis
PARADISE tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and
Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war.
Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Re-
sistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a
surprise raid. As her punishment, she is sent to jail where meets Jules,
a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case. Jules
grows fond of Olga and offers to go light on her punishment in exchange
for sexual favours. Although Olga agrees, and will do whatever it takes to
avoid harsh persecution, her hope for freedom quickly fades when events
take an unexpected turn.
Shipped to a concentration camp, Olga is forced into a life of hell. To her
surprise, she crosses paths with high-ranking German SS officer Helmut,
who once fell madly in love with her and still harbours feelings.
awards
• Silver Lion — Venice Film Festival, 2016
tags
concentration camp, emigration, French Riviera,
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