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RUSSIAN FOCUS AT
THE EAST END FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday 22 April – Friday 30 April 2010
Dear Friends,
We are as disappointed as you
are that the ash cloud stopped our Russian authors from making it to
the UK
for our SLOVO festival. However, the festival has not been cancelled,
merely postponed. We are working hard to bring the events to London at a later
date, so keep a close eye on our website!
In the meantime, Academia
Rossica is delighted to support The
East End Film Festival (22 April – Friday 30) in their focus on new
Russian cinema.
In recent years the East End
Film Festival has looked to Eastern Europe
for inspirational and experimental new films. After young Russian
filmmaker Valeriya Gai Germanika won East End Film Festival’s “Best
International First Feature” award in 2009 for coming-of-age drama
EVERYBODY DIES BUT ME, the East End Film Festival decided to focus much
of its 2010 programme on the emerging trends in Russian cutting-edge
cinema.
Director Igor Voloshin comes
to East London to present the UK
Premiere of his gritty new film I AM (YA).
Described as a ‘psychedelic drama’, it’s a hallucinogenic story of sex,
drugs and rock ’n’ roll set in a Russian psychiatric unit that centres
on the generation destroyed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The festival also welcomes
uncompromising Russian director Aleksey Balabanov. Best known
internationally for his hit Brothers films in the nineties, he comes to
East End Film Festival to present his two most recent films. Using the
code-word for the boxes which bring dead soldiers back from Afghanistan,
CARGO
200 (GRUZ 200) is a dark, absurdist comedy
that focuses on the kidnapping of the daughter of a local Communist
Party official in rural Soviet Russia in 1984. Based on the book by
Mikhail Bulgakov, MORPHIA (MORFIY) is a powerful and
bizarre tale that takes us back to 19th century Siberia,
where a young doctor descends into drug addiction. Both screenings will
be followed by a director Q&A.
The festival’s exploration of new Russian cinema continues with the UK
Premiere of CRUSH (KOROTKOYE ZAMYKANIYE), a
unique collaboration of five innovative ‘New Wave’ Russian directors
(Petr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill
Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev) making cinematic statements about love; RUSSIA 88 (ROSSIYA 88),
Pavel Bardin’s highly polemic mocumentary about Moscow’s neo-Nazis; the
UK Premiere of BUBEN, BARABAN, Alexei Mizgirey’s intense, Locarno
Silver Leopard-winning drama about a librarian forced to steal and sell
books from the library to make ends meet; and a late night UK Premiere
screening of Alexander Strizhenov’s creepy school horror JULIA (JULENKA).
For further details, please go to www.eastendfilmfestival.com.
We hope you enjoy the new
Russian films! Let us know what you think of them on our facebook page!
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