Russian Film Week and Pushkin House are proud to present the documentary film A Boy. Twenty-three-year-old Vitaly Akimov portrays his family in the shrinking Russian provincial town of Arsenyev. In Russian with English subtitles.
Russian Film Week and Pushkin House are proud to present the documentary film Sockeye. Red Fish. Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is spawned in the Kamchatkan waters and then spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters - to breed, start the circle of life, and die. An inexhaustible resource which feeds billions of people on the planet and is replenished every year! But soon, we may find ourselves facing the unimaginable: humans will exhaust the inexhaustible! In Russian with English subtitles.
In the beginning of the documentary, Ksenia describes the film as an attempt to reconstruct the events of the last 10 years of her father’s life when she was just a kid. Ksenia tries to answer the questions why pro-democracy activist Sobchak brought Vladimir Putin, a KGB officer, into power and why Boris Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor. We uncover the events of the power succession, untold special agent Putin's operation and Sobchak’s pivotal role in it and the effect of the criminal case against him.
The goal of The Best Film on Ecology award is to increase awareness about various ecological issues by bringing them to the attention of the foreign audience. This year selection covers various topics starting from tackling the ecological catastrophe of Baikal lake to cleaning Arctic islands from waste and observing the water contamination in Indonesia.
Хотиненко Владимир Иванович, режиссер, сценарист, продюсер. Народный артист РФ, член Европейской Киноакадемии. С 1995 года ведет мастерскую и возглавляет кафедру режиссуры игрового кино во ВГИКе. Многие годы преподает на Высших курсах сценаристов и режиссеров. С 2015 года - в Академии Н. Михалкова.
A selection of short films of Russian Film Week in the UK - mostly by young filmmakers, winners and participants of international film festivals .
Evgeniy is a specialised locksmith. For the past 10 years he has been trying to open one stubborn lock in his free time, the only lock that hasn’t give in to him yet.
