The Pushkin Club invites you to join us on the evening of 13 December for the British premiere of The Dmitriev Affair (2023) – a new documentary by Jessica Gorter telling the story of historian Yuri Dmitriev who uncovered and documented mass graves in his home region of Karelia, containing the bodies of thousands of people secretly executed during Stalin’s 1936–1938 Great Purge. The screening will be followed by the Q&A with the director.

Pushkin House in collaboration with the 17th Native Spirit Film Festival presents a double bill dedicated to the Sakha, an indigenous people living in Siberia, in particular in the city of Yakutsk, which is considered the coldest city on the planet. Chris Marker made a trip there in the 1950s, which resulted in the travelog Letter from Siberia. In this film, his personal ethnographic observations combine with poetry and political analysis, and the heterogeneous image includes animation, adverts and archival materials in addition to documentary footage. At the same time, Marker made the film primarily about the construction and rapid development of Soviet Siberia from a Frenchman's point of view, and he leaves aside the problems of colonisation of this territory and does not give credit to the indigenous peoples living there. Interestingly, Letter from Siberia became one of the first films in which Svetlana Romanova saw her native region. 65 years later, she created a kind of response letter to Marker with the help of fellow filmmaker Chelsea Tuggle, speaking for and on behalf of the local community. Тарыҥ (Season of Dying Water) shows Yakutsk and its surroundings as a complex and unique space in which traditional customs coexist with youth subcultures against a backdrop of colonial and capitalist violence. 

Following the UK premiere of Eugene Birman's documentary opera Russia: Today at London's King's Place in February 2023, a new edition of the project is coming to Pushkin House. The evening features the film version of Russia: Today by Alexandra Karelina (2021), a world-premiere of two pieces by composer Martyn Harry performed live by EXAUDI, and a discussion with the Russia: Today creative team.

Join us for the opening of Ruth Maclennan’s A Forest Tale, premiering the artist’s latest film in the UK. Consisting of several different narratives, the film portrays the complex world of the sub-arctic boreal forests of Russia, which serves as both a habitat and a source of life for a large and diverse community of people.

Come and See is one of the most powerful and brutal Soviet films about the war that tells the story of the Nazi occupation of Belarus in 1943. The main protagonist is a 16-year-old boy, Flyora, who participates in the guerrilla movement and witnesses the horrors of an SS death squad in action. Within two days, he transforms from a cheerful teenager into a grey-haired old man. This film is the strongest anti-war statement, affecting the viewer almost on a physiological level. By means of its sharp and shocking forms it avoids romanticising the bloodshed, and questions the nature of violence in the world. In-person event.

This screening is a charity event in support of Ukrainian cultural workers and their families during the Russian military aggression in Ukraine.

The filmmakers participating in this programme explore the creative power of labour which allows people to transform the world. Whether it is Ukrainian miners or members of an independent art community in Kyiv, the people depicted in these films have the freedom to imagine their future and strive to build it.

Pushkin Club presents a screening of Something about Georgia (2009) and a Q&A with Its director, Nino Kirtadze.

“This film has a universal value for all wars with their fundamentally intolerable violence” - Jean Perret

Nino Kirtadze’s documentary Something About Georgia was made in 2009, soon after Russia’s war against Georgia in August 2008. The director has the clarity of vision to consider dramatic events in their complexity: the amazing beauty of her native land being destroyed by war; the incomprehension of ordinary men and women behind their ruined windows and in front of their destroyed houses; President Saakashvili, who tried to turn his country towards democracy, seen here both as a powerful leader and in moments of anxiety and dismay.

In Georgian with English subtitles.

Pushkin House continues our series of charity screenings aimed at raising funds for Ukrainian filmmakers who are now suffering from the military aggression of the Russian state. This programme is focused on female artists who work in a variety of genres, raising issues of gender, sexuality, violence and the impact of war on people's lives.

DISCLAIMER. The films in this programme are not recommended for audiences younger than 18 years old. TW: nudity, blood, combat footage.

Pushkin House continues our series of charity screenings aimed at raising funds for Ukrainian filmmakers who are now suffering from the military aggression of the Russian state. This programme is focused on female artists who work in a variety of genres, raising issues of gender, sexuality, violence and the impact of war on people's lives.

DISCLAIMER. The films in this programme are not recommended for audiences younger than 18 years old. TW: nudity, blood, combat footage.

Pushkin House presents the next in our series of charity events helping Ukrainian artists and humanitarian organisations. The screening consists of three films, all united by the idea of movement. This theme manifests itself in a unique way in each work, while also serving as an important feature of Ukrainian society in the process of constant transformation and renewal.

All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to Ukrainian volunteer initiatives helping with the distribution of food and accommodation to displaced people.

This is an online event. The screening will go live at 6pm on Friday 1 April and will be available until 6pm Saturday 2 April. Ticket holders will receive the link to the screening by email in the morning of 1 April. If you wish to attend the screening in-person, please see the in-person screening on Thursday 31 March.

Pushkin House presents the next in our series of charity events helping Ukrainian artists and humanitarian organisations. The screening consists of three films, all united by the idea of movement. This theme manifests itself in a unique way in each work, while also serving as an important feature of Ukrainian society in the process of constant transformation and renewal.

All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to Ukrainian volunteer initiatives helping with the distribution of food and accommodation to displaced people.

Pushkin House continues a series of charity screenings aimed at raising funds for Ukrainian artists and filmmakers who are now suffering from the military aggression of the Russian state. This time we will show three films by Mykola Ridnyi dedicated to his native city of Kharkiv, its spaces and inhabitants. The first two videos are part of the installation Shelter that was made in 2012-2013. It explores public and private underground spaces that acquired new meaning after the start of the armed conflict in the Donbas region in 2014. The third video NO! NO! NO! addresses the everyday life of young residents of Kharkiv, of which the war has become an integral part.

The screening will be followed by the recording of the online Q&A with Mykola Ridnyi from Thursday’s screening. Mykola is currently in Ukraine.

All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to Ukrainian volunteer initiatives helping with the distribution of food and accommodation to displaced people.

The screening will be available from 6pm Friday 18 March until 6pm Saturday 19 March. The link to the films will be sent out to all ticket holders on Friday morning.

This screening is a charity event in support of Ukrainian artists, filmmakers, and their families during the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Several films by members of the Freefilmers collective will be shown, and all proceeds from ticket sales will be transferred to them directly.

For this online screening, you will be able to watch the films from 6pm on Friday 11 March until 6pm Saturday 12 March.

As part of the ongoing cultural season exploring various aspects of queer sensuality in Russia and beyond, Pushkin House presents a one-off screening of No Place For Fools, a radical work by artist and filmmaker Oleg Mavromatti that premiered in 2015 at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Russian Film Week and Pushkin House are proud to present a selection of short films, ranging from a young sailor writing unanswered letters for his estranged father, to a pair of interpreters navigating tense negotiations between world leaders, a young girl’s life-changing promise, and an escalating confrontation between a director and a censorship-committee-appointed group of producers. All films are in Russian with English subtitles.

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.

For three consecutive days in October 2021 Pushkin House is showcasing the best of recent Russian experimental cinema and artists' moving image, selected by the Moscow International Film Festival (MIEFF) and initially presented during one of its iterations since 2016. Each evening the curator of the festival Dmitry Frolov will present the programme, followed by a short conversation between him and a curator from Pushkin House. The showcase takes place on Wednesday 20 October, Thursday 21 October and Friday 22 October.

For three consecutive days in October 2021 Pushkin House is showcasing the best of recent Russian experimental cinema and artists' moving image, selected by the Moscow International Film Festival (MIEFF) and initially presented during one of its iterations since 2016. Each evening the curator of the festival Dmitry Frolov will present the programme, followed by a short conversation between him and a curator from Pushkin House. The showcase takes place on Wednesday 20 October, Thursday 21 October and Friday 22 October.

For three consecutive days in October 2021 Pushkin House is showcasing the best of recent Russian experimental cinema and artists' moving image, selected by the Moscow International Film Festival (MIEFF) and initially presented during one of its iterations since 2016. Each evening the curator of the festival Dmitry Frolov will present the programme, followed by a short conversation between him and a curator from Pushkin House. The showcase takes place on Wednesday 20 October, Thursday 21 October and Friday 22 October.

Join us for an evening with Bathsheba Demuth whose book ‘Floating Coast’ has been shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2020. Bathsheba will be in conversation with Richard Wright, one of the 2020 Prize judges.