Several minutes into Kantemir Balagov’s first feature ... but rather the impetus of an odd codependent relationship, born of immense suffering, that the filmmakers don’t exploit for cinematic ...

Up-and-coming Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will direct the pilot episodes of HBO’s adaptation of the survival horror video game ‘The Last of Us’. Craig Mazin, the creator of the ...

Kantemir Balagov is repping Russia for the International ... he realized that focusing on female protagonists was born out of having spent most of his childhood with his mother and sister ...

Kantemir Balagov comes from Kabardino-Balkaria, a region in the Russian Caucasus that is very poor and has a high level of youth unemployment. Balagov studied under Russian director Alexander ...

Kantemir Balagov, helmer of last year’s historical drama “Beanpole,” has been tapped to direct the series. He’ll join screenwriter Craig Mazin, of “Chernobyl” fame, and executive ...

Premiering in Un Certain Regard, Russian director Kantemir Balagov's 'Beanpole' revolves around two women ravaged by World War II. By Todd McCarthy Films don’t get much grimmer than Kantemir ...

directors Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko hit the streets to protest. “We really thought we could change something,” Balagov told IndieWire by phone this month from Los Angeles with ...

The first feature film from Kantemir Balagov arguably commits an egregious breach of cinematic ethics. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...

Photo: Kino Lorber How to rate “Beanpole,” a new Russian drama, with English subtitles, directed by the prodigiously gifted Kantemir Balagov? In motion-picture circles the term “masterpiece ...

Returning Russian director Kantemir Balagov, who won a FIPRESCI Prize with 2017’s Closeness, and served on Cannes’ Un Certain Regard jury last year, is back in that section with Beanpole.

Balagov made his feature directorial debut with Closeness in 2017. After premiering Beanpole at the Cannes Film Festival in late 2019, he won the Un Certain Regard Best Director Award. The film ...