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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • 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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  • The Severe Illness of Men

    A man, partly bandaged, wanders through an industrial landscape. His wandering is interwoven with excerpts from science films and from the film Chapae
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  • True Noon

    Slightly absurd love drama from Tadzjikistan. From one day to the next, a village is cut in two by barbed wire and landmines. Not only…
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  • Symbol

    Surrealist comedy by the director of the cult film Dainipponjin could only have been made in Japan. A sad comic wakes up in a closed…
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  • Assa

    Cult Russian underground music film. A gangster’s mistress befriends a free-spirited punk. Cameo by pop icon Viktor Tsoi.
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  • Chronika bes sensatij

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