Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner “simply Volodya” drop into an all-night bar in Moscow Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
The Hamburg Cell (2004) Antonia Bird, Karim Saleh, Maral Kamel, Agni Scott
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Read More »
Epicentro (2020) Hubert Sauper, Oona Chaplin
Waves crashing over a breakwater at the edge of the sea—this dramatic opening image conveys the vital spirit Read More »
La León (2007) Santiago Otheguy, Jorge Román, Daniel Valenzuela, José Muñoz
This visually stunning directorial debut is set in a place lost in time in northern Argentina. Read More »
Kings and Queen AKA Rois et reine (2004) Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed Read More »
The Postman’s White Nights AKA Belye nochi pochtalyona Alekseya Tryapitsyna (2014) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat Read More »
Morphine AKA Morfiy (2008) Aleksey Balabanov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. Read More »
It Doesn’t Hurt Me AKA Mne ne bolno (2006) Aleksey Balabanov, Renata Litvinova, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. Read More »
Games of Clouds and Rain AKA Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie (2013) Benjamin de Lajarte, Simon Yam, Heling Li, Audrey Dana
Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. Read More »
The Mountain AKA Dag (2012) Alper Caglar, Caglar Ertugrul, Ufuk Bayraktar, Firat Dogruloglu
A four man team sent from headquarters to repair a comm station suddenly falls into a terrorist ambush on the peaks of a mountain. Read More »