The uncompromising world of independent Russian Cinema – Russian Turn Kino
Categories: Cinema
Date: 17/12/2018 to 19/12/2018
Time: 19 h 00
Location: Center for Fine Arts - BOZAR
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In recent years, Russian cinema has overwhelmed the international film scene. But despite of its regular presence in the European film festivals, contemporary Russian cinema is not reaching our screens enough. Russian Turn Kino sessions propose to explore rich and uncompromising world of independent Russian cinema with its paradoxes and contradictions.
Program:
17.12 – SERDTSE MIRA (CORE OF THE WORLD) – NATALIYA MESCHANINOVA
Russia, nowadays. Egor, 25, is a veterinarian on a rural farm that also trains hunting dogs using domesticated foxes. Although an adult, a child is still sleeping deep inside him and he gets along better with animals than with men. After a violent relationship with his mother, he is desperate for a controlled environment. All he wants is to take care of the animals and be part of the close family he works for. When animal rights activists invade this fragile microcosm, disrupting its precarious balance, the world of Egor begins to collapse …
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Tickets: 6-8 Euros and may be purchased here.
18.12 – DOVLATOV – ALEXEY GERMAN JR
Dovlatov traces six days of the life of Sergei Dovlatov, brilliant and caustic author who was able to think beyond the limits imposed by the Soviet regime of the 1970s. With his friend poet Joseph, he fought to continue writing with talent and integrity while his artist friends, persecuted by the overwhelming political machine, would emigrate to New York leaving everything they had in their country.
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Tickets: 6-8 Euros and may be purchased here.
19.12 – TESNOTA (CLOSENESS) – KANTEMIR BALAGOV
The film tells the story of Illana, a young woman of Jewish origin. A real tomboy, she repairs cars in her father’s garage and mocks the traditions and religious rules her parents are so attached to. She even has a secret relationship with a goy. One night, his brother and his fiancée are kidnapped. Illana’s parents see only one solution to save them: to offer their youngest daughter in marriage to a timid Jewish young man whose family will pay in return the ransom demanded by the kidnappers. Illana is far from being enchanted, which is not surprising.
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Tickets: 6-8 Euros and may be purchased here.
