Yelena Severina: Costume Dramas of the Silent Era: Repurposing Tableaux Vivants
Festival Reports
Birgit Beumers: Documents and Debuts: goEast 2019 (Wiesbaden 10-16 April 2019)
Alyssa DeBlasio: Women Filmmakers Dominate the National Competition at the XV Sevastopol International Documentary Film Festival (12-18 May 2019)
Daria V. Ezerova: Kinotavr Turns Thirty: Surprises, Growing Pains, and Adulteries
Andrei Airapetov: The Critic (doc.) by Andrei Rogatchevski
Ruslan Akun: Finding Mother 2 (KYR/KAZ) by Gulbara Tolomushova
Emir Baigazin: River (KAZ) by Birgit Beumers
T.Bekmambetov, E.Baranov, A.Parmas, A.Kott, N.Bulygin, M.Polinskii: Yolki 7 by Olga Mesropova
Iurii Bykov: The Factory by Daria V. Ezerova
Sergei Dvortsevoi: Ayka by Lilya Kaganovsky
Aleksandr Gorchilin: Acid by Dane Reighard
Mikhail Idov: The Humorist by Tatiana Efremova
Sergei Livnev: Van Goghs by Ellina Sattarova
Sergei Loznitsa: The Trial (doc.) by Oksana Sarkisova
Vitalii Manskii: Putin’s Witnesses (doc.) by Christine Engel
Natal’ia Meshchaninova: Core of the World by Robyn Jensen
Natal’ia Pershina: Dead Swallows by Zhanna Budenkova
Kirill Pletnev: Without Me by Otto Boele
Mikhail Raskhodnikov: Temporary Difficulties by Irina Anisimova
Aleksandr Rastorguev: Electing Russia (doc.) by Jeremy Hicks
Kirill Serebrennikov: After Summer (doc.) by Laura Todd
Igor’ Stam: Casting by Anthony Anemone
Dunya Smirnova: The Story of an Appointment by Stephen M. Norris
Stanislav Sokolov: Hoffmaniada (anim.) by Mihaela Mihailova
Ermek Tursunov: The Projectionist (KAZ) by Elena Monastireva-Ansdell
Marianna Yarovskaya. Women of the Gulag (doc.) by Judith Pallot
Roman Zhigalov: The Forest by Lars Kristensen
Aleksandr Zolotukhin: A Russian Youth by Birgit Beumers
Ol’ga Zueva: In the Hood by Raymond de Luca