"Podnieks on Podnieks" is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

Mosfilm film studio is celebrating its centenary Studio produced films such as Battleship Potemkin Director general says it is well set up for the future MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Mosfilm, the ...

Roland Sejko's doc "A State Film," culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman ...

When a young Viesturs Kairiss started to dream about becoming a filmmaker thirty-some-odd years ago, he knew his path wouldn’t be straightforward or easy. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, aspiring ...

In Vitaly Mansky ’s arresting portrait of life during wartime, “Time to the Target,” he allows audiences to breathe, to absorb the smallest details and even, somehow, to laugh as his camera focuses on ...

"Is it okay that we kidnapped a corpse?" Strand Releasing has unveiled an official US trailer for the Russian dark drama Petrov's Flu, described as a "deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia always seems to be on the brink of war and conditions there now are much like they were in the 1970s, when people worried that an international conflict would break out and ...

A few years ago, film producer Joan Borsten began assembling the players she wanted to take part in a documentary about the life of her late husband, Soviet film star and political refugee Oleg Vidov.

Andrei Tarkovsky always worked to set himself apart from his home country. During a 1972 conservation with Soviet film critic Leonid Kozlov, Tarkovsky wrote up a quick list of his ten favorite films.

The REEES Film Series is a popular bi-weekly event that engages students with contemporary REEES culture through films and discussions. Each screening includes a brief introductory lecture and a ...