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Publisher
Caipirinha Productions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Multiple
Description
"In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. From Burma, where non-violent monks take on a dictatorship, to Brazil, where musicians transform guns into guitars, and myriad places in between, Cultures of Resistance...
3) Thin ice
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Climate science has been coming under increasing attack. In response, geologist Simon Lamb took his camera to his climate science colleagues around the world to find out what's really going on. Thin Ice reveals the human face of climate science. It also provides an accessible introduction to the latest Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Thin Ice is a joint initiative between Oxford University (United Kingdom) Victoria...
Publisher
Unitel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
Renata is obsessed with the love for the 3fiery angel4. Ruprecht, in love with Renata, wants to free her from the madness, but all his efforts are in vain. She goes to the monastery, but here too she is being haunted by the image of the fiery angel. The Inquisition accuses Renata of witchcraft and sentences her to death.
Series
Publisher
Global Film Initiative
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Persian
Description
When an Iranian widow takes over her husband's truck stop restaurant after his death, she must hide in the kitchen so she doesn't cause a scandal. Now her brother-in-law wants to be with her for the cafe, while a customer just wants to be with her.
6) ROBO
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mitya is an imaginative twelve-year-old boy, who loves to draw comics of superheroes and dreams of becoming an artist. His parents have built and programmed a Universal Rescue Robot, aka ROBO, to rescue people from dangerous situations. Due to ROBO's alleged malfunction, the director of the research facility deems the fled robot as a menace to society. In his search for a family, ROBO meets Mitya, and the two form a true friendship while on the run....
7) Coma
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Russian
Description
After a tragic accident, a young architect wakes up in a dystopian world. Here, the reality is made from the memories of people who have fallen into a comatose state. Cities, rivers, and the sky all flow in and out of each other fragmented and unstable just like our memories. The common laws of physics don't exist and nightmarish reapers roam the land spreading death.
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Russian
Description
Leningrad, one summer in the early '80s. The underground rock scene is boiling. Among the followers of Zeppelin and Bowie, young Viktor Tsoi is eager to make a name for himself. An encounter with his idol Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha will change his life forever. Together they will build Viktor's legend and make him immortal.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features former 'Economic Hitman' and New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, along with the Venus Project, an organization for social redesign created by industrial designer Jacque Fresco. Broken into four chapters, the first explains 'Fractional reserve banking' and how debt and bankruptcy are inevitable realities. The second exposes various levels of international corruption via the financial/corporate system.
10) Russian ark
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
11) Petrov's flu
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a goose-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where, beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Part Science-fiction, mystery, and dark comedy, this Cannes Film Festival entry is a unique hybrid of genres.
13) Celestial camel
Publisher
House of Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Russian
Description
This mesmerizing adventure of magic, love, and loyalty begins with the auspicious birth of a tiny white camel under a sky with a lucky camel-shaped cloud. The blessed but financially strapped family who owns this camel must sell him in order to raise money for their newborn baby. When the baby camel is sold, its mother seizes the first opportunity to run away to find her baby. The family's twelve-year-old son, Bayir sets out on a mission to bring...
14) Polina
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina is a promising classical ballet dancer. She is about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she discovers contemporary dance, a profound revelation that throws everything into question. Diverting from her plan, she leaves all her exacting preparation behind and moves to France to work with famous choreographer Liria Elsaj. But once there she is quickly forced to grapple...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Russian
Description
It is 1942 and the western edge of the USSR is under German occupation. In the region, local partisans are waging a brutal battle against their foreign enemies. Sushenya, an innocent rail worker, is arrested with a band of saboteurs when a train is derailed not far from his village. The German officer decides to set him free rather than hang him with the others, but rumors of Sushenya's treason spread quickly and partisans Burov and Voitik seek revenge....
16) Putin's kiss
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Russian
Description
Portrays contemporary life in Russia through the story of Masha, a 19 year-old girl who is a member of Nashi, a political youth organization connected with the Kremlin. Extremely ambitious, the young Masha quickly rises to the top of Nashi, but begins to question her involvement when a dissident journalist whom she has befriended is savagely attacked.
17) Red ghost
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
Vyazma USSR. WWII, 1941. A mythical lone-wolf fighter, known as The Red Ghost, roams the Russian forests sniping and killing Nazis one by one. He2s so destructive that a special unit of the Nazis2 Wehrmacht is ordered to search for and kill him. Simultaneously, a band of Soviet soldiers behind enemy lines trudges through the snow, hopeful to find safety, warmth, and vodka. Instead, they find themselves trapped at a farm and surrounded by the Wehrmacht...
18) Prince Igor
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Description
For the first time in nearly 100 years Borodin's defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the MET for the first time with a Slavic, Russophone cast. Sung in Russian.
Publisher
C Major Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Beethoven's Ninth - 'Freude schoner Gotterfunken.' A power outage strikes just a few bars before the last movement. Problems like this are the least of the worries facing the only symphony orchestra in the Congo. In the 15 years of its existence, the musicians have survived two putsches, various crises and a war. But concentration on the music and hopes for a better future keep them going.
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