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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Mother and Son

    Carefully composed, poetic and sensitive masterpiece by ‘film-maker infocus’ Sokurov about the last days a mother and her son spend together.
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  • Oriental Elegy

    What a strange dream… a stork… a river… an old park… a voice… through the mist, the outline of a house becomes visible. The houses…
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  • Sonny

    In this psychological drama from Russia, a father takes care of his only teenage son with unusual intensity and passion, which results in the son…
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  • Spiritual Voices, Part 3

    See Spiritual Voices Part I.
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  • Ecologia

    Beautifully shot and well acted story about the young Russian Masha, who after a stay in the United States realizes she no longer fits in.
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  • Russian Lessons

    Personal investigation into the war between Russia and Georgia in 2008 by film makers Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya. They filmed at the front line
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  • Birmingham Ornament

    As with the Russian avant-garde of the twenties, this Russian ‘parallel cinema’ short film deals with symbols and metaphors.
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  • Reading Book of Blockade

    The lengthy siege of Leningrad during World War II cost a million civilian lives. In Alexander Sokurov’s documentary, various people – actors, journal
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  • Happiness the Movie

    Why do we have to be happy? Happiness the Movie takes us through the secrets of psycho programming and human behaviour management.
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  • Mama

    The story of a complex relationship between an overbearing mother and her obese, forty-year-old son who still lives at home. Yelena and Nikolay Renard
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