Russia
Eastern Front
Latvia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, United States | 2023 | 98minDefending their homeland from Russian aggression, the protagonists, along with the whole country, went to the Eastern Front. In 2022 all of Ukraine, from the Donbas to the Carpathians, became the Eastern Front for Europe. Read More
Gorbachev. Heaven
Latvia, Czech Republic | 2020 | 57/100minThe 90-year old Gorbachev currently lives in a modest house outside Moscow, awaiting the moment when he will be called to join the list of the 20th century’s most consequential figures. History will judge Gorbachev, but Gorbachev presents his own, final testimony - captured by Vitaly Mansky. Read More
Space Dogs
Austria, Germany | 2019 | 91minLaika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. Following her trace, and filmed from a dog’s perspective, SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter accompanies the adventures of her descendants: two street dogs living in today’s Moscow. Read More
Putin's Witnesses
Latvia, Switzerland, Czech Republik | 2018 | 95/102minWith this film, Vitaly Mansky gives a strictly documentary testimony of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the President who still rules the country today: Vladimir Putin. Read More
The Strange Sound Of Happiness
Italy, Germany | 2017 | 90minDiego Pascal Panarello’s personal journey from the torrid coasts of Sicily to the frozen flatlands of Yakutia in Siberia reveals the use, myths and legends of the mouth harp, spread throughout the world as a symbolic key that can open our mind and soul. Read More
The Red Soul
The Netherlands | 2017 | 58/90minWhy is it that still so many Russians defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? The film by Jessica Gorter lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions.Read More
Tarzan’s Testicles
Romania, France | 2017 | 107minThe film by Alexandru Solomon looks at a monkey research institute in Sukhumi, the capital of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia. Men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments. Read More
Rodnye (Close Relations)
Latvia, Germany, Estonia, Ukraine | 2016 | 60/90/112minVitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan Revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. Not only they live scattered all across the country, but also represent opposite sides of the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Read More
Pavlensky – Man and Might
Germany | 2016 | 58/99minIn the course of his performances, the Russian political artist Pyotr Pavlensky has sewn up his mouth, nailed his scrotum to Red Square, and severed an earlobe. This is how a courageous freethinker is challenging the power of the Russian state. Read More