Dir: Aleksei Vakhrushev | Doc | Russia, 2018 | 88' Seasoned filmmaker Aleksei Vakhrushev has made some of the best-known Russian documentaries of the past few years. His previous film The...

Dir: Anatoly Vasilyev | Doc | Russia | 167' "I am alone like a tree that grows inside another tree".  Celebrated theatre director Anatoly Vasilyev's sensitive but unsettling documentary really sums up...

Dir.: Aleksey Fedorchenko; Cast: Marta Kozlava; Russia 2018, 74 min. Marta Kozlava makes a stunning debut as a six-year old Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in Silent Souls director Aleksey...

Dir.: Ivan I. Tverdovsky; Cast: Denis Vlasenko, Anne Slyu, Daniil Steklov; Russia/ROI/France/ Lithuania 2018, 87 min. Ivan I. Tverdovsky follows up his zany Zoology with a darker feature, another harsh critique of...

Dir: Natalia Meshchaninova | Drama | Russia, Lithuania | 123' Best known for her debut The Hope Factory, Natalia Meshchaninova's award-winning sophomore feature is an acutely observed and thoughtfully performed story...

Dir: Rustam Khamdamov | Fantasy Drama | Russia, 2017 | 104' Akira Kurosawa was not the only auteur to be entranced by the Japanese classic story on which he based Rashomon. Filmmaker...

Dir: Elizaveta Stishova | Cast:Daniel Daiybekov, Turgunai Erkinbekova, Perizat Ermanbaeva | Drama | Kyrgyzstan | 101' Enlivened by offbeat humour and vibrant widescreen images reflecting the rugged beauty of this wild...

Russian Film Week is back for the third year running. From 25 November to 2 December the event will take place in London at BFI Southbank, Regent Street Cinema, Curzon...