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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • My Little Nighttime Secret

    Fourteen-year-old Mira spends the night away from her family, but holds a terrible secret inside.
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  • Medea

    A contemporary version of Euripides’s myth – this seemingly calm, yet explosive Russian Medea takes revenge when her man leaves her.
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  • The Execution

    Stylish, yet macabre neo-noir thriller. A detective finally manages to catch the ‘Russian Hannibal Lecter’. Or so he thought.
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  • What Beat You Nothing

    An essay on Soviet and Russian history in the guise of a portrait of actress Alla Demidova, icon of the Russian-language stage and screen.
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  • UNEARTH – In Between States of Matter

    Resource extraction, mining machines and material transformations, with conversations recorded in the Russian Ural region.
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  • Dear Comrades!

    A workers’ strike is violently put down by Soviet troops in this current, urgent historical drama by master director Konchalovsky.
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  • Scarecrow

    Raw drama from Sakha about an ostracised woman who pays a heavy toll for her healing talents.
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  • All Other Things Equal

    Can we find a different feminism in the images of state-sponsored Soviet documentaries about women and their role in socialism? Yes.
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  • The North Wind

    The matriarchal Margarita struggles to keep the power over her family’s future after her son is hit by a tragedy.
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  • What Beat You Nothing

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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