Directed by Ilya Belov and written by Anton Zhelnov, Sorokin Trip is the first feature-length documentary dedicated to the life, legacy, and philosophy of Vladimir Sorokin, one of the most provocative and influential figures in modern Russian postmodern literature. Shot on location in Moscow and ...

Born in 1917, the year Russia was transformed by revolution, the remarkable men and women of Resilience have lived through a century of upheaval—famine, war, political turmoil and extraordinary change. Now 100 years old, they share their memories, experiences and hard-won perspectives on lives th...

Director Leo Gabriadze brings the extraordinary inner world of his father, legendary Georgian artist, writer and filmmaker Rezo Gabriadze, to the screen. Blending animation with Rezo’s own memories and artwork, this deeply personal film journeys through childhood, war, Soviet Georgia and a life s...

Kirill Serebrennikov’s companion documentary to his acclaimed film Leto revisits the people, places and memories that inspired the story. Through conversations with Natalia Naumenko, Artemy Troitsky, Seva Novgorodtsev and others, After Leto explores Leningrad’s underground rock scene of the 1980s...

In the basement of their Ann Arbor home, literary scholars Carl and Ellendea Proffer founded Ardis Publishers—and helped change the course of modern Russian literature. Rock, Paper, Scissors tells the remarkable story of the couple who published Russian writers suppressed in the Soviet Union and ...

Based on Yuri Olesha’s 1928 short story, Liompa explores our relationship with the objects we own and the world we try to control, seen through three people at different stages of life: a dying man, a teenage boy and a young child. Directed by Elizabeth Lazebnik and starring acclaimed Russian act...

An illuminating portrait of Konstantin Stanislavski, the visionary director, actor and teacher whose ideas transformed modern theatre. Featuring leading contemporary directors including Yury Butusov, Lev Dodin, Katie Mitchell and Kirill Serebrennikov, Stanislavski: Lust for Life explores the man ...

For more than four decades, legendary animator Yuriy Norshteyn, creator of Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales, has been working on his adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat. This intimate documentary enters Norshteyn’s studio to explore the painstaking creative process, passion and perfec...