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Feature film projects from Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, Neasa Ní Chianáin, Albert Serra and Kantemir Balagov are among 23 titles that have received a combined €7.1m in the latest ...
Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”) and Riley Keough (“Mad Max: Fury Road”) are in talks to star in “Butterfly Jam,” the first English-language feature from Kantemir Balagov, the Russian director behind the ...
Following up his intense second feature Beanpole, we’ve been waiting to see if Kantemir Balagov’s follow-up would finally come to fruition. After years of development, things are finally moving ...
This 2022 drama, written and directed by Davy Chou (Diamond Island), follows Korean-born Freddie (the utterly ... Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the ...
Ever since he was forced to flee his Moscow home in 2022 after rousing suspicion within Russia’s government for speaking out about his opposition to the war in Ukraine, Kyiv-born producer ...
It is, in significant ways, reminiscent of compatriot Kantemir Balagov's 2017 powerful debut ... and daughter from place to place. Barcelona-born actress Elena Martin Gimeno's second directorial ...
Two promising young talents, Kira Kovalenko and Kantemir Balagov, have chosen Los Angeles. Balagov had planned to set his next film in his native Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkarian.
Born in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s ... “Faust,” whose graduates include Cannes prize-winning directors Kantemir Balagov (“Beanpole”) and Kira Kovalenko (“Unclenching the Fists”).
Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu declared Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky a persona non grata and asked for his work to be excluded ...
Joel, a hardened smuggler who has lived through the apocalypse since its inception, is tasked with escorting Ellie, a 14-year-old girl who was born into the pandemic, across the country.