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18:00 - 21:00 Captain Volkonogov Escaped / Капитан Волконогов бежал (OPENING) 18.00-19.00 – Arrivals; photos and red carpet 19.00-21.15 – Opening Ceremony and Film Screening 21.15-00.00 – RFW Kaspersky Opening Party at the W Hotel  Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 126 min
19:30 - 20:21 Sockeye Salmon. Red fish / Нерка. Рыба красная (UK Premiere) Sockeye, a species of wild salmon, is spawned in the Kamchatkan waters and then spends its entire life in the Pacific Ocean. Only once does it return to fresh waters - to breed, start the circle of life, and die. An inexhaustible resource which feeds…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 51 min
20:15 - 22:29 Tygyn Darhan / Тыгын Дархан (International Premiere) Tygyn Darkhan, the leader of a prominent clan, follows the will of his father and aims to assemble the scattered clans and create a great union. But opposing leaders are not ready to share their power. When betrayal strikes, the spirit of war rises above…
  • Language Yakut
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 144 min
20:35 - 22:10 Jetlag / Джетлаг + Q&A (International Premiere) A frank, uncompromising, erotic, and humourous look at modern relationships, creative class, and women’s role in Russian society. The protagonists’ stories are tales of modern relationships, in which feelings are integral to actions, and actions, too,…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 107 min
  • Q&A director Michael Idov and writer Lily Idova
20:15 - 21:40 Far Eastern Golgotha / Амурская голгофа A taxi driver Viktor Toroptsev from an endangered city in the Far East of Russia, decides that a critical moment has just arrived in his life. He starts a You-tube channel, where he begins publishing evidence of the abject poverty and lack of rights of…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 85 min
20:15 - 22:46 Sin / Грех (UK Premiere) Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and…
  • Language Italian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 136 min
16:00 - 17:28 The Little Warrior / Маленький воин (Debut, UK Premiere, Charity Screening) Family programme with Art Social Charity x Gazprom MT - Vitya Kasatkin has an unusual hobby, Japanese sumo wrestling. The love of sumo was instilled in him by his father who left Vitya and his mother eight years previously and moved to Japan. That love…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 88 min
18:00 - 20:03 The Dorm / Общага (Debut) In the USSR in 1984, in the middle of nowhere, a group of friends try to live their lives and maintain their dignity despite the corrupt system and the people running their student dorm. They share their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all, until…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 123 min
19:30 - 21:32 The Three / Трое (UK Premiere) What is one to do when one has a wife, with whom life and coexistence are so well settled that even quarrels no longer arise? There are memories, a common past, a lot of good things and lots of nothings, all in all it’s just life, like everyone else’s.…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 122 min
20:35 - 21:40 Russian Spleen / Хандра (UK Premiere) A poetic and satiric comedy about modern Moscow and its inhabitants. A truthful story about three friends renting a flat together. During the course of a day, they live through a number of both strange and funny adventures with one outcome looming ahead…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 100 min
15:40 - 17:02 The North Wind / Северный ветер (UK Premiere) It was a magical time when the great matriarchy reigned: women of an influential clan ruled the territory of the Northern Fields and lived in anticipation of love ... They were all strong, and their every wish was fulfilled, but in the blink of an eye…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 122 min
18:30 - 20:06 Shorts Program #1 After us by Inna Tsgoeva, 2021 (15 min) Giuseppe is an old fisherman. He spends every single day of his lonely life at sea. Nothing ever changes or will ever change. His granddaughter Sofia comes to visit just for a few days. And after their short life…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 96 min
20:30 - 21:25 Palmyra / Пальмира (European Premiere) The film is based on a true story. Artur, a former military doctor, leads the quiet life of a widower in a mountain village in Dagestan. Artur learns that his only daughter Maryam, having been recruited by a terrorist organisation, has run away to Syria.…
  • Language Russian and Arabic
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 85 min
15:00 - 18:00 Doctor Liza / Доктор Лиза A day in the life of Doctor Elizaveta Glinka. The events of this day reveal the character, lifestyle, and destiny of one of Russia's most beloved palliative care specialists. The film is based on Doctor Glinka's diaries, interviews, and the recollection…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 120 min
18:00 - 19:38 Elsa’s Land / Земля Эльзы (Debut, International Premiere) Two people meet and fall in love. Seemingly, it's just an ordinary event. But everyone around the couple declared war against their love. Elsa and Leonid are over 70. Elsa was recently widowed and should have been in mourning, for the husband she didn't…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 98 min
19:30 - 21:45 Secret Film (Secret Screening) The Golden Unicorn Awards and the Russian Film Week team are excited to bring you the first ever secret screening at our festival. The movie will be revealed to ticket holders 5 min before the start of the movie, but we can say that it is very unlikely…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 135 min
20:15 - 22:55 Petrov’s Flu / Петровы в гриппе + Q&A Based on the novel “The Petrovs In and Around the Flu” by Alexey Salnikov, PETROV’S FLU is a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 146 min
  • Q&A Producer Iliya Stewart
15:00 - 16:21 Next Station: Russia / Иваново счастье (UK Premiere) Ivan, a janitor, is returning home by train. During the 9,000 km journey fellow passengers, landscapes and time zones change so during the journey he meets many interesting people with their stories about life, love, hope and faith.
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 81 min
15:15 - 17:41 Petrov’s Flu / Петровы в гриппе Based on the novel “The Petrovs In and Around the Flu” by Alexey Salnikov, PETROV’S FLU is a deadpan, hallucinatory romp through post-Soviet Russia. With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 146 min
16:00 - 16:52 A Boy / Мальчик (UK Premiere) Twenty-three-year-old Vitaly Akimov portrays his family in the shrinking Russian provincial town of Arsenyev. Ten-year-old Stepan, his brother’s stepson, acts as a guide to this grim environment, appropriately filmed in black and white. He strums his…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 52 min
18:00 - 19:47 Portrait of a Stranger / Портрет незнакомца + Q&A INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Moscow, 1974. Oleg is almost forty. He is an actor with a charming smile, tired look, and a rich mellow voice. His artistic life is no success, he is neither in much demand in the theatre nor in the movies. Oleg has to work at…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 107 min
  • Q&A with Director Sergey Osipyan
19:30 - 21:45 The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks / Нос, или заговор “не таких” (UK Premiere) + Q&A The film is based on two of Russia’s greatest creations. The short story “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol and the 1930 Opera “The Nose” by composer Dmitri Shostakovich based on Gogol’s aforementioned novel of the same name. The film is dedicated to pioneers,…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 89 min
  • Q&A with director Andrei Khrzhanovsky
20:30 - 22:23 Sputnik / Спутник + Q&A The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.  
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 113 min
  • Q&A with Producer Iliya Stewart and actress Oksana Akinshina
11:00 - 12:50 A Dog Named Palma / Пальма (UK Premiere) The film is inspired by the incredible true story of a shepherd dog named Palma who was inadvertently left at the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother died leaving him with a father he barely knew – a pilot who finds…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 110 min
15:00 - 16:15 Shorts Program #2 Russian Film Week and Pushkin House are proud to present a selection of short films, with plots ranging from a young sailor writing unanswered letters for his estranged father, to a pair of interpreters navigating tense negotiations between world leaders,…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 75 min
17:45 - 19:01 Pops / Батя (UK Premiere) The film Pops tells the story of Max going with his family to the birthday celebration of his old dad. During this journey there arise unsolved family problems, concerning personal relationships and upbringing. Max recalls memories from his childhood,…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 76 min
19:45 - 21:43 V2: Escape from Hell / Девятаев (International Premiere) A captured Soviet pilot, Mikhail Devyataev, faithful to his childhood friends, leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers imprisonment.   
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 118 min
20:00 - 22:05 The Oath / Клятва (UK Premiere) An impressive war drama, the story of the life and heroism of Naum Balapan – an academic psychiatrist, Doctor of Medicine and a chief doctor of the Sevastopol psychiatric hospital since 1922. With the help of his wife he saved innocent people during the…
  • Language Russian
  • Subtitles English
  • Duration 125 min

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