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2010 Moscow International Film Festival
Long before YouTube, there were the brilliantly insane, no-budget movies of underground, filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. Creating stars out of their friends and family with just consumer-grade cameras, the teenage Kuchar brothers went from the 1960's New York City underground film scene of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger to become&hellip…
2007 Moscow International Film Festival
The Unknown Woman is a modern-day film noir, with clues slowly being revealed until it all comes together in the end, with plenty of surprises. From Giuseppe Tornatore, who has made such international hits as MALENA, THE LEGEND OF 1900, and CINEMA PARADISO--which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film&hellip…
Audience award
Silver St. George(Best Actor - Fabrice Luchini)
Golden St. George (Nominated)
Moliere, the French 17th century playwright behind THE MISANTHROPE and TARTUFFE, gets his SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE treatment in this entertaining romantic comedy-drama. Director Laurent Tirard paints a romantic portrait of the artist&hellip…
2006 Moscow International Film Festival
Nomination - Golden St. george
Director Raul Ruiz transports us to 1918 where Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich) lies on his deathbed.
We follow Klimt's feverish visions back to the Austrian pavilion at the World Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, where he is awarded the gold medal for his work entitled "Philosophy". We witness his encounters&hellip…
2005 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Silver St. George, Best Director
Dogme '95 cofounders Thomas Vinterberg (CELEBRATION) and Lars Von Trier (DANCER IN THE DARK, DOGVILLE) team up in DEAR WENDY, an unusual but entertaining drama set in an unnamed American small town. Jamie Bell, the award-winning actor who played the title role in&hellip…
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2004 Moscow International Film Festival
Jim Jarmusch has consistently wowed audiences with his truly distinctive cinematic vision. Shot over the course of a 17-year-period, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES proves once again that Jarmusch is a true original. This time around, the director tries his hand at the short film genre, delivering 11 shorts that are all based around the seemingly&hellip&hellip…
A genre-bending update of the Hansel and Gretel story, GRIMM is a Dutch film directed by Alex van Warmerdam. Young adults Jacob and Marie are abandoned in the woods by their father, with only a note in Jacob's pocket to guide them: advice from their mother to travel to Spain and see their wealthy uncle. When they reach the warm and sunny&hellip&hellip…
FIPRESCI Prize
Russian Film Critics Award %u2013 Special Mention
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Set in rural Russia, Marina Rasbezhkina's feature film received the Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival for its artful portrayal of Soviet history. The film follows a woman living in a small Russian village&hellip…
2003 Moscow International Film Festival
An expertly crafted film that allows the daily activities of a pizza delivery man to depict the complicated social structure of modern-day Iran, CRIMSON GOLD is directed by Jafar Panahi (THE CIRCLE) from a screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY). Following Hussein (Hussein Emadeddin) through late nights riding his motor scooter&hellip&hellip…
Director-writer-producer-star Chen Kaige, well known for his visually sumptuous tales of historical China (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) directs this sweet-natured coming of age tale set in modern day Beijing. An impoverished cook, Liu Chen (Liu Peiqui), gives up his provincial life to move his 13-year-old violin virtuoso son, Xiaochun (Tang&hellip…
Filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore asks some serious questions as he probes the depths of America's trigger-happy gun culture in the insightful and amusing documentary, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Guns in America are used to kill an average of more than 11,000 people per year. This death toll is obscenely out of balance with other&hellip&hellip…
This harrowing family tale about illness and grief is directed by the commanding Patrice Chereau (QUEEN MARGOT, INTIMACY). Captivating at every moment, the film thrives on the emotional intensity of its characters. Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) has been diagnosed with a strange blood disease, and he calls on his brother Luc (Eric Caravaca)&hellip&hellip…
Jean-Claude Brisseau's film is a heady melange of old-fashioned office seduction and Sadean orgy-mongering done up with Gallic flair. Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) and Nathalie (Coralie Revel) meet while being fired from a strip club and soon they dare each other into a lesbian affair and masturbate publicly. They decide to make their new&hellip&hellip…
This fictionalized biopic chronicles the final years of opera meta-diva Maria Callas (Fanny Ardant), filling in the blank spots with a "what if" scenario. It's the late 1970s and Callas, once the greatest singer in opera, has lost her voice, been thrown over by Aristotle Onassis in favor of Jackie Kennedy, and now stomps around her apartment&hellip&hellip…
In a tiny village located in the remote West Fjords of Iceland, Noi lives a strangely quiet life with his grandmother. A 17-year-old afflicted by the typical symptoms of teenage angst, who longs for freedom and independence, Noi makes for an excellent character study. His existence is anything but typical given the challenges that the&hellip&hellip…
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Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington&hellip&hellip…
Danish director Lone Scherfig presents her second Dogme-style film, following her sweet and subtly brilliant ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS, with this English-language drama set in Glasgow, Scotland. The charmingly dilapidated used bookstore where most of the film takes place creates an atmosphere of comforting humility. However, the plot stands&hellip…
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Golden St. George(Nominee)
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between&hellip…
Golden St. George
Silver St. George, Best Director
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced&hellip…
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This Iranian film from director Ebrahim Hatamikia is a dark look at the actions of a desperate man. Trying to escape from his native Iran, Ghassem (Hamid Farrokhnezhad) concocts a hairbrained scheme to get him and his family out of the country. Hijacking a plane with his pregnant wife, Ghassem runs into trouble with the undercover officers&hellip&hellip…
THE EMBALMER, directed by Matteo Garrone, is the story of unrequited love and repressed homosexuality gone awry. Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) is a diminutive taxidermist who secretly courts an unsuspecting Greek god named Valerio (Valerio Foglia Manzillo) by grossly overpaying him to work as his assistant. Hungry for direction and purpose&hellip&hellip…
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A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from&hellip&hellip…
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2002 Moscow International Film Festival
Jacqueline Bisset gives a glorious performance in Christopher Mnch's third film, THE SLEEPY TIME GAL. She stars as Frances, a twice-divorced former radio deejay trying to pass on her knowledge, including her fascination with Revolutionary War-era New York, to her 20-year-old son, Morgan (Nick Stahl), but he's too concerned with photography&hellip…
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND NOT AVAILABLE. In this biographical interpretation of the life of Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the most influential performers of the early 20th Century, Australian director Paul Cox enlists the dramatic voice narration of Shakespearean actor Sir Derek Jacobi to read&hellip&hellip…
German director Gabriel Baur (QUEEN OF BED) explores the world of drag kings, inter-sexed persons, and transgendered women in her documentary, VENUS BOYZ. Through in-depth interviews and clips of performances, the film focuses on biological women who push the boundaries of gender norms. Featuring drag kings Mo B. Dick, DRED Gerestant&hellip&hellip…
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The first Inuit language movie, based on an ancient legend, ATANARJUAT (THE FAST RUNNER) is the story of two generations of igloo-dwelling Inuit whose harmonious existence is disrupted by the presence of an evil spirit. Atanarjuat (Natar Ungalaaq) falls in love with Atuat (Sylvia Ivalu) who has been promised to the chief's evil-afflicted&hellip&hellip…
In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest by British troops. Hiding amid the&hellip&hellip…
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Japanese director Hideo Nakata (THE RING, JU-ON) adapts another story by RING novelist Koji Suzuki for a supremely creepy tale of atmospheric horror. Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is a soon-to-be single mother going through a rather nasty divorce and struggling for custody of her adorable five-year-old daughter Ikuko (Rio Kanno). Forced to&hellip&hellip…
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A harrowing portrait of love and desire, BAD GUY is situated deep in Seoul's seedy nightlife. Differing strains of the story follow various people inexorably caught up in an underground existence that exercises a vice-like grip over their every action; a pimp forces a prostitute to live in her booth, then falls in love with her by watching&hellip&hellip…
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The Berlevag Male Choir are a group of men who sing songs of spirituality in and around their home country of Norway. This documentary introduces audiences to this unique singing group. It also follows the singers as they prepare for a Russian tour. This portrait of the choir highlights both the talent on display as well as the deep bond&hellip&hellip…
Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Babak Payami (ONE MORE DAY) looks at the problems of bringing democracy to Iran in this political and cultural satire, which could almost be called "neo-surrealist" in tone. The film begins with a ballot box being dropped from an airplane onto a desert island off the coast of Iran, terrifying a soldier stationed&hellip&hellip…
To call a French filmmaker a provocateur may seem redundant, but feminist auteur Catherine Breillat has managed to shock even her most liberated compatriots. The bad girl of Gallic cinema, Breillat has become known for her graphic and cynical takes on male-female sexual relationships and has faced accusations of onset cruelty. SEX IS&hellip&hellip…
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Jacob and Jorgen are a gay couple who have been living together for several years. One night, Jacob decides to finally propose to his boyfriend, and Jorgen gleefully accepts. But then something unexpected happens--while at a party, Jorgen shares a kiss with a woman. The kiss arouses new feelings in him&hellip…
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This sizzling French drama follows a short-lived encounter between a reserved, mature, Englishwoman, Alice (Sarah Pratt), and Thomas (Gilles Guillain), a much younger man. Continuing her exploration of human sexuality, director Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL) provides a compelling examination of sexual attraction that violates societal&hellip&hellip…
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Macabea is an impoverished young woman who moves to the city of Sao Paolo from the northeast countryside of Brazil. With no chance for success, she finds moments of happiness through hope and fantasy&hellip&hellip…
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Senegalese director Joseph Gai Ramaka re-imagines Georges Bizet's oft-filmed opera CARMEN--from Preminger's CARMEN JONES to MTV's CARMEN: A HIP-HOPERA--in a joyously sensual, colorful musical set in modern-day Dakar. Karmen Gei (Ramaka's wife, Djeinaba Diop Gai), a stately beauty in tribal robes, leaps and shakes to primal drummers in&hellip&hellip…
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2001 Moscow International Film Festival
An Englishwoman living in France with her husband and baby daughter is abruptly confronted by a backpacker, who demands to be allowed to pitch her tent nearby. The two women grow closer and share a series of potentially dangerous encounters, culminating in disaster. Also includes a short film, A SUMMER DRESS, in which a young man on a&hellip&hellip…
Russian Film Clubs Federation Award
Golden St. George
Raised Jewish, Danny (Ryan Gosling) now runs with an anti-Semitic skinhead gang in Queens. Attending a meeting held by prominent self-proclaimed fascist Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), Danny is noticed when he proposes killing Jews as a solution to society's problems. Danny's&hellip…
In the second installment of the DEAD OR ALIVE trilogy, Takashi Miike references the namesake film, but presents a very different film. While still loaded with indiscriminate violence and black comedy, DEAD OR ALIVE 2 becomes a bit more sentimental. Sho Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi return to play the main characters, but this time with a&hellip&hellip…
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After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters, one Japanese, the other ethnic Chinese, killing each other and everybody else on screen, DEAD OR ALIVE's story begins when a police officer announces, "Round up everybody who looks (suspicious), even if they aren't Chinese." The Chinese have been living in Japan for centuries, but&hellip&hellip…
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Golden St. George(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize
From Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, the prolific Iranian filmmaker who makes her U.S. debut with this film, UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY is a stirring drama that puts contemporary Tehran in sharp focus. A family of five lives in close quarters in the inner city. Tuba, the head of the family&hellip…
2000 Moscow International Film Festival
A beautiful, but emotionally turbulent woman, known only as S. (Natali Broods) has a grim life in New York, with a cruel, unfaithful boyfriend. With a prostitute mother she can't communicate with and an abusive father who was executed for murder, S. has never had a truly healthy relationship. When she finds her boyfriend sleeping with&hellip&hellip…
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Golden St. George(Nominee)
Russian Film Critics Award
This dark drama explores a true tale set in 1850 on the isolated French-Canadian island of St. Pierre. Yugoslav director Emir Kustirica makes a fabulous acting debut as Neele August, an illiterate fisherman who brutally murders his ex-fishing captain in a night of drunken&hellip…
1999 Moscow International Film Festival
Miranda (Victoria Abril) is married to Felix, a cop, but uses her nightly dog walks to pick up strange men for illicit encounters. Javier (Javier Bardem) is a successful writer and producer who has a serious phone sex habit. They meet after checking themselves in a therapy group for sex addicts, and promptly embark on an affair. Their&hellip&hellip…
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1995 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach's hilarious and touching directorial debut was one of the highlights of&hellip…
1991 Moscow International Film Festival
Silver St. George, Best Actress
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Claude Chabrol's lifelong interest in the psychological lives of women finds a perfect vehicle in Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, MADAME BOVARY. Isabelle Hupert, Chabrol's frequent collaborator and muse, brings a detached and icy intensity to her portrayal of Emma&hellip…
1987 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize
This mock-documentary provides a multi-layered look at Fellini by Fellini in which he's interviewed by Japanese journalists while filming an adaptation of Kafka's "Amerika" on the legendary stages of Rome's Cinecitta. A personal look at moviemaking from a very personal filmmaker&hellip…
Golden Prize(Nominee)
Bernarda Alba (Irene Gutirrez Caba) is a widower with five fully-grown female children. Deciding that her offspring should suffer alongside her when the crestfallen Bernada's husband dies, she locks them in the family home for eight years, forbidding them to leave. Finally allowing her eldest daughter, Angustias&hellip…
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1985 Moscow International Film Festival
Best Actor
Golden Prize(Nominee)
This release contains two coming-of-age films from Danish director Bille August, set in 1960s Denmark. See individual titles for detailed information&hellip&hellip…
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1979 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize
Set in the mid-1930s, CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI is the story of a political activist who is exiled to a small Italian village. There he learns much from the simple villagers whose character and noble values are quite new to him&hellip&hellip…
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Prize
Krzysztof Kieslowski presents this initially comic yet ultimately moving drama about finding one's calling in life. Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr), a Polish factory worker, purchases an eight-millimeter movie camera to record his baby daughter's first few years of life. Looking for other things to do&hellip…
Honorary Golden Prize
A legendary production plagued by problems almost from the outset, the making of QUE VIVA MEXICO cured Sergei Eisenstein of the desire ever to work in North America again. On the verge of leaving Hollywood in disgust in 1930, Eisenstein accepted financing from a group of investors, led by writer Upton Sinclair&hellip…
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1975 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced&hellip…
Golden Prize(Nominee)
This biting satire uses African independence as a backdrop to an amusing story about a black businessman who catches a disease called "xala," which renders him impotent. His search for a cure leads him into all kinds of comedic misadventures as he frantically peruses the African landscape for a mythical witch&hellip…
1973 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize(Nominee)
FIPRESCI Prize
Diploma
A legend in new African cinema, this Senegalese film tells the story of a rebellious young Dakar couple whose vision of perfection lies in the Western consumer culture of France. It uses flashbacks and heavy symbolism to study the effects of modernism in contemporary Africa&hellip&hellip…
1971 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize(Nominee)
Young Benoit learns about life very quickly from his uncle Antoine who serves as everything from notary and shopkeeper to undertaker in this depressed region of Canada's backwoods&hellip&hellip…
1969 Moscow International Film Festival
Golden Prize, Best Actor
Golden Prize(Nominee)
Nobel recipient Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote the trilogy on which this film was based. Set in 1668 Poland during the Turkish invasion, the film pays tribute to the noble efforts of Colonel Michal Wolodyjowski (Tadeusz Lomnicki), who organized a brave last defense against the charging&hellip…
1963 Moscow International Film Festival
Grand Prix
Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave director. Beautifully choreographed&hellip&hellip…