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Ice + Q&A BFI Southbank, 1 Dec, 8.10 pm Blockbuster fans 1h 53min Drama, Musical, Romance Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again. Oleg Trofim Mariya Aronova, Alexander Petrov, Milos Bikovic The Coach + Q&A Closing premiere BFI Southbank, 2 Dec, 8.30 pm 2h 18min Drama, Sport Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team. Danila Kozlovsky Danila Kozlovsky, Irina Gorbacheva, Olga Zueva The Last Warrior + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 2 Dec, 1.30 pm 1h 50min Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy When Ivan meets his new friends in another place called Belogorie, his quest on the new country begins with sparkling immortals effect within love in the pass from his childhood up on his time. Dmitriy Dyachenko Viktor Khorinyak, Mila Sivatskaya, Ekaterina Vilkova
Temporary difficulties + Q&A BFI Southbank, 29 Nov, 6.10 pm 1h 26min Drama Sasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy s father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person. Mikhail Raskhodnikov Rinal Mukhametov, Ivan Okhlobystin, Irina Pegova Salyut-7 + Q&A Curzon Mayfair, 27 Nov, 6.10 pm 1h 51min Action, Drama, History USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Klim Shipenko Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko I am losing weight + Q&A Curzon Mayfair, 30 Nov, 6.20 pm 1h 42min ComedyAnya only loves food and her boyfriend - athlete Zhenya. But Zhenya is not pleased with Anya because she has put on a lot of weight and he decides to leave her. But Anya does not give up and sets a goal to get rid of excess weight. Aleksey Nuzhnyy Aleksandra Bortich, Evgeniy Kulik, Irina Gorbacheva
Summer + Q&A BFI Soutbank, 28 Nov, 8.30 pm and 30 Nov, 8.20 pm Arthouse lovers 2h 6min Biography Music, Romance A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege, and his wife in 1980s Russia. Kirill Serebrennikov Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk Core of the world + Q&A Curzon Mayfair, 1 Dec, 6 pm 2h 4min Drama Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region. He lives in a small building next to the house of the facility s master. It s easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility s master and become a member of that family. Natalya Meshchaninova Stepan Devonin, Dmitriy Podnozov, Yana Sekste Anna s war + Q&A Regent street cinema, 28 Nov, 8.30 pm 1h 14min Drama The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant s office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazi. In these inhuman conditions Anna not only survives but keeps her humanity. Aleksey Fedorchenko
Elephants can play football + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 26 Nov, 8.30 pm 1h 45min Drama Dmitry is a strong-willed, solid guy. He could easily quit the game, if only he knew that he was playing. Mikhail Segal Jumpman + Q&A BFI Southbank, 27 Nov, 8.20 pm 1h 35min Crime, Drama Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children s home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system. Ivan I. Tverdovskiy Vilma Kutaviciute, Anna Slyu, Daniil Steklov Coupled + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 8 pm 1h 34min Drama A young couple, Andrey and Nadya, are lost in the remote Siberian taiga. It seems that the only way left for them to stay together as a couple is to put themselves in the way of peril. From this very moment begins their difficult path in the fight against personal fears and mistakes of the past Timofey Zhalnin
Piter by Kasta + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 1 Dec, 8 pm 1h 2 min Drama A film inspired by the beautiful city of St. Petersburg and the tracks from the new album by the well-known Russian rap group Kasta. It is a fantasy on how the group members lives could have turned out - should Vladi, Zmey, Khamil and Shym have been born not in Rostovon-Don, but in St. Petersburg. Drama, thriller, comedy and mystery - four short films, united by one theme and one city. Aleksey Sobolev Peter s Odyssey + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 6 pm 1h 25 min Drama Peter is a 12-year-old boy, whose blissful summer of 1996 comes to an abrupt end when his parents decide to еmigrate to Germany. Unwilling to adapt to the new reality Peter embarks on a fantasy journey back home. Based on a true story. Anna Kolchina, Alexey Kuzmin-Tarasov Deep Rivers + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 30 Nov, 6 pm 1h 15 min Drama An Old Man, his two sons, Bes and Mukha, and Bes s wife, Zaira live on the bank of a mountain river. The men earn their living by falling trees. One day the Old Man gets incapacitated in an accident. The family asks the youngest brother, who lives in the city, to come and help. But it is not easy for the family to overcome their old feuds and reconcile their differences. Vladimir Bitokov
History lovers The Story of an appointment Opening Empire IMAX Leicester sq., Nov 25, 5.30 pm 1h 52min Drama The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Dunya Smirnova Irina Gorbacheva, Yevgeniy Kharitonov, Aleksey Smirnov Sobibor Curzon Mayfair, 29 Nov, 6.20 pm 1h 50min Drama, History, War «Sobibor» is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Script based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: «Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality. Konstantin Khabenskiy Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova
Genesis 2.0 BFI Southbank, 1 Dec, 1.30 pm Documentary lovers 1h 52min Documentary On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air.the tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. For the high-tech genetic scientists resurrecting a mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero. Christian Frei Asino + Q&A BFI Southbank, 2 Dec, 2 pm 2h 47 min Documentary The celebrated Russian theatre director Anatoly Vasilyev s Asino (Italian for donkey) is an epic ode to this beast of burden. The donkey has a long cultural history dating back to Greek mythology and the Bible. Asino consists of eight novellas, approximately 20 minutes long. Shot in Italy, the film teeters between reality and allegory, asking the viewers to reflect on what they see. Anatoly Vasilyev Hostages: It was important to understand + Q&A 30 Nov, Regent Street Cinema, 3 pm 1h 33min Documentary A documentary about the shooting of the film Hostages (participant of RFW-2017) and the tragedy in Georgia in November 1983, when a group of youngsters from elite Georgian families tried to hijack an aircraft in order to escape from the USSR. The film involves live witnesses and participants of those events, as well as the creators of the film Hostages, who are trying to comprehend and get through the national tragedy of their people 35 years after what had happened. Elena Slatina
Women In Film The core of the world + Q&A Curzon Mayfair, 1 Dec, 6 pm 2h 4min Drama Natalya Meshchaninova Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2qs3jzf Anna s war + Q&A Regent street cinema, 28 Nov, 8.30 pm Screenwriter: Natalya Meshchaninova Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2sqnpes The Story of an appointment Opening Empire IMAX Leicester sq., 25 Nov, 5.30 pm Dunya Smirnova Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2aq4qjr
Clay Pit + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 29 Nov, 8.30 pm Vera Glagoleva (1956-2017) Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2ytdgdr Hostages: It was important to understand + Q&A 1h 33min Documentary 30 Nov, Regent Street Cinema, 3 pm Elena Slatina Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2rcvsk6 Peter s Odyssey + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 6 pm Anna Kolchina Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2qwfjpr
Suleiman Mountain (Debut) + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 30 Nov, 8.30 pm Elizaveta Stishova Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2qutivr Uncle Sasha, or one flew over Russia Pushkin House, 27 Nov, 7 pm Tatyana Soboleva Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2reiyqt In the Hood + Q&A VIP Screening Bulgari Hotel, 30 Nov, 8 pm Olga Zueva Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2ywi1yn
Victim Status Pushkin House, 26 Nov, 7 pm Yulia Bobkova Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2pilaoe Short Film Selection #1 + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 26 Nov, 6.30 pm Directors: Anna Kuznetsova, Yana Gladkikh, Svetlana Samoshina, Tatyana Polosina Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2ywz900 Short Film Selection #2 + Q&A Regent Street Cinema, 1 Dec, 3 pm Directors: Ksenia Rappoport, Ksenia Zueva, Hava Mukhiyeva Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2ret0n0
Celebrity spotting list Who? Konstantin Khabensky When? 29 Nov, 6.20 pm Where? Curzon Mayfair At «The Sobibor» screening Who? Danila Kozlovsky When? 2 Dec, 8.30 pm Where? BFI Southbank At «The Coach» screening, Closing Who? Vladimir Mashkov When? 2 Dec, 6.10 pm Where? BFI Southbank At The «Oleg Tabakov - Life Celebration» event
Who? Ivan Okhlobystin When? 29 Nov, 6.10 pm Where? BFI Southbank At the «Temporary Difficulties» screening Who? Irina Gorbacheva When? 30 Nov, 6.20 pm Where? Curzon Mayfair at the «I am losing weight» screening Who? Irina Starshenbaum When? 28 Nov, 8.30 pm Where? BFI Southbank at the «Summer» screening