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Fantasy/Thriller. USA, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom 2017, 123 min. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Noomi Rapace, James Franco, Guy Pearce. In English with Russian subtitles. The crew of the spaceship Covenant, bound for a remote plane in a distant part of the galaxy, discover a dark and dangerous world instead of an untold paradise. This world’s only inhabitant is the synthetic android David, who remained alive after the doomed Prometheus mission. Ridley Scott’s fantasy thriller about what happened some time after the events of “Prometheus.” Michael Fassbender stars.
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Fantasy/Thriller. USA, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom 2017, 123 min. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Noomi Rapace, James Franco, Guy Pearce. In English with Russian subtitles. The crew of the spaceship Covenant, bound for a remote plane in a distant part of the galaxy, discover a dark and dangerous world instead of an untold paradise. This world’s only inhabitant is the synthetic android David, who remained alive after the doomed Prometheus mission. Ridley Scott’s fantasy thriller about what happened some time after the events of “Prometheus.” Michael Fassbender stars.
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20:00 | Beat Film Festival 2017. Give Me Future: Major Lazer in Cuba |
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Documentary. Cuba, USA 2017, 85 min. Directed by Austin Peters. In the spring of 2016, global music sensation Major Lazer performed a free concert in Havana, Cuba for an unexpected audience of almost half a million people. A concert documentary evolves into an exploration of youth culture in a country on the precipice of change. Read more
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival 2017: Shapeshifters |
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Documentary. Sweden 2017, 85 min. Directed by Sophie Vukovic. In Swedish with Russian subtitles. When filmmaker Sophie Vuković runs into a long-lost friend at a demonstration, it stirs up memories that take her on a trip through time and place on the path of her own experiences of migration. From former Yugoslavia via Australia to Sweden today, weaving personal documentary footage with the fiction of memories and dreams, Shapeshifters is poetic exploration of what it means to belong in a globalized world. A film about feeling nostalgic for a home you never experienced. About friendship, desire, and how you build new forms of belonging that are not defined by national borders. Read more
Documentary Film Center |
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20:30 | Beat Film Festival 2017: Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock |
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Documentary/Biography. USA, UK 2017, 95 min. Directed by Barney Clay. In English with Russian subtitles. The Mick Rock Documentary is an odyssey into the colorful and crazy recesses of rock 'n' roll's history. A reckless joyride that delves deep into the mind of rock's greatest living photographer: Mick Rock. Told through the distorted lens of rock 'n' roll mythology, icon-maker, psychedelic explorer, shambolic poet and custodian of dreams, Mick Rock navigates his story from the glam rock shimmer of London to the snarl of NYC punk, and deep into the new millennium. Awaiting heart surgery after after a series of heart attacks, Mick turns inward to face himself - his past, the present and the future that will be born from the ashes of his resurrection. He stretched his nervous system to the limit to bring us the iconic images of the likes of David Bowie, Syd Barrett, Blondie, Queen, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. He shot them all and imprinted them on our collective psyche forever. "I'm still in awe of the power of the camera and its magical reflections. In many ways I love it more than ever..." Read more
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21:00 | Beat Film Festival 2017: Somniloquies |
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Documentary. France 2017, 73 min. Directed by Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor. In English with Russian subtitles. Somniloquies is a radical experiment staged by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor in the field of visual anthropology and based on audio recordings of New York’s most famous “sleepwalker” of the 1970s, Dion McGregor. Read more
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18:00 | Beat Film Festival 2017: The City of Ghosts |
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Documentary. USA 2017, 90 min. Directed by Matthew Heineman. In English with Russian subtitles. A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today. Read more
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14:10, 18:15. Documentary. United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, USA 2016, 85 min. Directed by Steven Cantor. In English, Russian and Ukrainian with Russian subtitles. “Dancer” is an ambitious and detailed study of Polunin’s personal and creative life, collected from rare archive materials, family records, and interviews with Polunin, those close to him, and notable ballet professionals. Famous documentary director Steven Cantor focused on Polunin’s extraordinary physical profile and his unique emotional spectrum, which shows through both on stage and in life. A rebel, a genius, and a loner, Polunin created a stir in the ballet world when he became the youngest principal dancer of the London Royal Ballet in history – and then when, at the peak of his career, he unexpectedly left, citing his desire to be independent, free, and not to belong to anyone, even if such a decision would be accompanied by self-destruction. The film also tells about Polunin’s collaboration with famous photographer David LaChapelle, who shot his expressive dancing for the music video for Hozier’s “Take Me To Church,” which became a smash hit practically overnight.
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19:00 | In the Robot Skies feat. Forest Swords |
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 Audio-visual show. Directed by Liam Young. "In the Robot Skies" is the world's first narrative shot entirely through autonomous drones. In collaboration with the Embedded and Artificially intelligent Vision Lab in Belgium the film has evolved in relation to their experiments with specially developed camera drones each programmed with their own cinematic rules and behaviors. Above a council estate tower block in London a network of surveillance drones monitor the residents below. Through the eyes of the drones two teenagers are kept apart, each held by police order within the digital confines of their own tower. Jazmin is a drone hacker and has hijacked and decorated one of the aerial cameras, scrawling messages on it with her marker, passing notes to her boyfriend Tamir in the tower opposite. In this near future city drones form both agents of state surveillance but also become co-opted as the aerial vehicles through which two teens fall in love. "In The Robot Skies" was a collaboration between architect Liam Young and electronic producer Forest Swords, who performed the accompanying score live in London’s BFI IMAX Cinema. His music created a tense musical dialogue that provided the only constant in the film, which cuts suddenly between locations, camera angles, points of view and color contrasts with no clear and overt plotline. But while the film is focused on drones, human characters do feature; it traces the love story of two teenagers, Jazz and Tamir, who are separated by tall concrete buildings and communicate illegally via drone. "In The Robot Skies" isn’t Young’s first project to meld a relationship between live music and drones or to flirt with the boundary between nature and technology. His mechanical Beamer Bee used robots to pollinate flowers, and in 2014, he and prolific Welsh artist John Cale flew drones around London’s Barbican concert hall as part of a mechanical orchestra performance that provided a new context to machines designed for military functionality and surveillance. Young’s use of drones in "In The Robot Skies" both vilifies and humanizes the machines, which survey and observe but also express their own personality through unique decorations like spiraling white structures or colorful plastic toys. The overall effect is that the machines seem to play a bigger role in the film than its human characters. Tickets
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01:00 | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword |
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Drama/Adventure. USA, UK, Australia 2017, 126 min. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law. In English with Russian subtitles. Young Arthur gallivants about the backstreets of Londinium with his crew, unaware of his royal lineage. He continues to live this way until the day when fate brings him together with the magical sword Excalibur. After this, Arthur changes completely: he joins up with the resistance forces and a young girl named Guinivere, in order to overthrow the tyrant Vortigern, who murdered his parents and captured the throne. Guy Ritchie’s new film based on the legend of King Arthur, shot as a cross between adventure drama and a medieval crime comedy.
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13:30 | Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne) |
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Comedy/Romance. USA 2016, 92 min. Directed by Eleanor Coppola. Starring: Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin, Arnaud Viard. In English with Russian subtitles. Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance, reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
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20:50 | Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne) |
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Comedy/Romance. USA 2016, 92 min. Directed by Eleanor Coppola. Starring: Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin, Arnaud Viard. In English with Russian subtitles. Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance, reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
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| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales |
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11:40, 15:30, 18:00, 20:00, 20:30, 22:30. Adventure/Comedy. USA 2017, 129 min. Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg. Starring: Johnny Depp, Kaya Scodelario, Orlando Bloom, Brenton Thwaites, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush. In English with Russian subtitles. Captains Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) join forces against Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem). Salazar and his team have emerged from the Devil’s Triangle, and are determined to kill every pirate at sea, including Jack, who has already done a number on the attacking captain. In order to fight off Salazar, Jack decides to set off in search of the Trident of Poseidon – a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas. A new film in the famous franchise, with many well-known heroes – including Will Turner, played by Orlando Bloom.
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| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales |
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12:00, 22:40. Adventure/Comedy. USA 2017, 129 min. Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg. Starring: Johnny Depp, Kaya Scodelario, Orlando Bloom, Brenton Thwaites, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush. In English with Russian subtitles. Captains Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) join forces against Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem). Salazar and his team have emerged from the Devil’s Triangle, and are determined to kill every pirate at sea, including Jack, who has already done a number on the attacking captain. In order to fight off Salazar, Jack decides to set off in search of the Trident of Poseidon – a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas. A new film in the famous franchise, with many well-known heroes – including Will Turner, played by Orlando Bloom.
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10:00 | The Headhunter's Calling |
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Drama. Canada, USA 2016, 108 min. Directed by Mark Williams. Starring: Alison Brie, Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe. In English with Russian subtitles. After the boss (Willem Dafoe) of a Chicago-based headhunter, Dane Jensen (Gerard Butler), who works at the Blackrock Recruiting agency arranging jobs for engineers, retires, Jensen finally achieves his longtime goal of taking over the company after going head-to-head with his ambitious rival, Lynn Vogel (Alison Brie). However, upon taking over the company he worked so hard to be in control of, Dane's 10-year-old son, Ryan (Max Jenkins), is suddenly diagnosed with cancer and his professional priorities at work and personal priorities at home begin to clash with one another.
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01:15 | Voice from the Stone |
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Detective/Thriller/Drama. USA, Italy 2017, 94 min. Directed by Eric D. Howell. Starring: Emilia Clarke, Marton Csokas, Caterina Murino. In English with Russian subtitles. Tuscany, the 1950s. Verena, a nurse, is hired to take care of a boy who has stopped talking after his mother’s death. The girl arrives at an ancient mansion, where the 40-year-old widower Klaus lives alone with his son and several servants. Soon, Verena begins to suspect that the ghost of the departed is luring her into its grasp in order to inhabit her body. Eric D. Howell’s psychological thriller, based on Silvio Raffo’s novel by the same name. Emilia Clarke stars.
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09:30 | White Wine from Babbudoiu (Bianco di Babbudoiu) |
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Comedy. Italy 2016, 97 min. Directed by Igor Biddau. Starring: Marco Bazzoni, Carlotta Bazzu, Dario Cassini. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Michele, Roberto, and Stefano are heirs to the Babbudoiu estate and vineyard, founded by their father on Sardinia. The brothers should be happy for this stroke of good luck, but unexpectedly, they learn that they must find 300,000 euro to repay the bank in 15 days in order not to lose the family’s vineyard. Their desperate and comical attempts to scrape together the necessary sum play out in a series of misunderstandings.
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14:20 | White Wine from Babbudoiu (Bianco di Babbudoiu) |
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Comedy. Italy 2016, 97 min. Directed by Igor Biddau. Starring: Marco Bazzoni, Carlotta Bazzu, Dario Cassini. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Michele, Roberto, and Stefano are heirs to the Babbudoiu estate and vineyard, founded by their father on Sardinia. The brothers should be happy for this stroke of good luck, but unexpectedly, they learn that they must find 300,000 euro to repay the bank in 15 days in order not to lose the family’s vineyard. Their desperate and comical attempts to scrape together the necessary sum play out in a series of misunderstandings.
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