Near Past and Near Present
Overview of films
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Oda
Choreography of apparently conformist, uniformed bodies. With a beautiful, classical art direction.
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Bed Stories
Seven intimate scenes from the bed. Stories about love and hate, funny and occasionally painful dialogues and much very familiar human behaviour.
You I Love
The only romantic comedy so far from Russian independent cinema about a three-cornered relationship. Clever newsreader becomes involved with a smoo
Deadline
A Russian scriptwriter is threatened by various powers when he doesn’t finish his work in time. A parody on the situation in which many Russi
The Head
A socially critical story about a surrealist object: a head without body that fights with his master. A film with references to the Russian avant-g
Ivan the Idiot
In his home village, Ivan meets a girl who seems to be the victim of a crazy scientist. Russian avant-garde comedy bursting with references to film
Silent Man
A web designer is threatened by unknown forces. He has to stop his work, otherwise something terrible will happen to him. Horror production with a
Green Elephant
Banned Russian film about two soldiers who have to solve the world’s problems in a jail cell.
The Rock Music
Colourful music video that breathes the atmosphere of the 1960s. Made with today’s technology.
Apiary
Fairy-tale thriller, from the ‘parallel cinema’. Real characters from Russian folklore come to life in the half-fantastic, half-idiotic
The Offshore Reserves
An American woman travels to Russia to heal her avarice. She undergoes a miraculous metamorphosis.
