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Mystery. Iran 2016, 107 min. Directed by Mani Haghighi. Starring: Amir Jadidi, Ehsan Goodarzi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Nader Fallah. In Persian with Russian Subtitles. An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
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| Alice Through the Looking Glass |
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112:10, 16:15, 20:30. Fantasy. USA 2016, 108 min. Directed by James Bobin. Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen. In English with Russian subtitles. Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
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18:00 | Beat Film Festival 2017: All these Sleepless Nights |
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Drama. Poland, UK 2016, 100 min. Directed by Michal Marczak. Starring: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef. In Polish with Russian subtitles. A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep. The movie has already conquered the critics of the Sundance festival. Michal Marczak paints a picture of Warsaw powered by a new generation bursting with energy, and stakes out its own cinematic terrain. For that the director was already named the new Terrence Malick. Read more
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19:00 | Beat Film Festival: Heart of a Dog |
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Documantery. USA, France 2015, 75 min. Directed by Laurie Anderson. Starring: Lollabelle, Archie, Jason Berg, Heung-Heung Chin. A dreamy documentary that first seems to be world-known artist Laurie Andreson’s lament over her death of her beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, a dog whose boho West Village existence included painting lessons and a meditation teacher. However, there is something deeper than that in the movie, with Anderson narrating over a collage of 8mm home video, iPhone footage, canine-level camera, and animation. When Lou Reed’s resonant “Turning Time Around” comes on the soundtrack, it becomes clear that telling the story of her cherished dog has been a way of mourning the loss of someone else than her pet. A magical meditation on love and death, as well as a celebration of life to enjoy while we’re still here.
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19:00 | Beat Film Festival: Innocence of Memories |
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Documentary. UK 2015, 97 min. Directed by Grant Gee. Starring: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen. Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature, opens a museum dedicated to a fictional doomed love story in 70’s Istanbul, illustrating the fictional with real, tangible artifacts: from 4,213 cigarette butts in a glass case to a collection of salt shakers. Director Grant Gee interlaces the story of this unique institution’s genesis with that of the romantic encounter that inspired it, a meditation on the city itself, and Pamuk’s relationship to all three. Documentary and archive footage, interviews with the writer, enactments of the doomed love adventures of the couple, a poetic look at the objects in the museum: all that takes the viewers on an elegant and dreamily sensous tour of memory, longing, love and loss.
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival: LeF |
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Documentary. Ukraine 2016, 96 min. Directed by Dmitry Lavrinenko. Starring: Leonid Fyodorov. An amazing, deeply intimate collage about outstanding Russian musician Leonid Fedorov. Rare archival footage, profoundly personal stories: from the making of the first solo album at the freezing cold, unheated Leningrad Documentary Film Studio, and drinking vodka with his fans, to the death of Fedorov’s father. And above all this: the stern and dark Saint Petersburg’s water and fire, tracing a thorny way of an artist, his boldness to leave the comfort zone, his search for poetry of the soul.
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22:00 | Beat Film Festival: Meeting People is Easy |
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Documentary. UK 1998, 99 min. Directed by Grant Gee. Starring: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway. Meeting People Is Easy is a Grammy-nominated documentary following legendary British rock band Radiohead on their 104-concert world tour following the success of their 1997 album OK Computer. Unlike most music-focused documentaries, this film deals mostly with the downside of being on the road: director Grant Gee observes the band as they are booked into a long series of non-descript arenas, invited to perform on award shows where they clearly feel out of place, and repeatedly answer the same questions from an endless parade of journalists, with lead singer Thom Yorke often seeming to buckle under the strain. The film is an intimate exploration of the effects of super-stardom, and super-stress it entails.
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17:30 | Beat Film Festival: Requiem for the American Dream |
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Requiem for the American Dream. USA 2015, 73 min. Directed by Peter D. Hutchinson, Kelly Nicks, Jared P. Scott. Starring: Noam Chomsky. The film is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and the person widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the concentration of wealth and power at the hands of the selected few. Profoundly personal and thought-provoking, the documentary has at heart interviews with Chomsky filmed over four years, and combines his meditation on 50 years of policies designed to favor the richest at the expense of the majority, as well as a look at his own life of political activism. However, most of all, this film is a must-see for those who maintain hope in the democracy, and a potent reminder that the power is ultimately in the hands of the governed.
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21:00 | Beat Film Festival: Uncle Howard |
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Documentary. UK, USA 2016, 96 min. Directed by Aaron Brookner. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Ronald Reagan, Jim Jarmusch, Andy Warhol. Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in 1989, at the age of 35. He was gay; an Ivy League graduate; broke artist; rising Hollywood star; heroin user; jet-setter; bohemian; seedy nightlife lover; director of cult docs; an honest and devoted friend – he was many things to many people. To director Aaron Brookner, he was a loving and inspirational uncle. His body of work, which captured the late 70s and early 80s cultural revolution, was buried in William S. Burroughs’ bunker in New York for 30 years. Now in a deeply personal journey, his nephew Aaron unearths Howard’s filmmaking legacy and the memory of everything he was. Through conversations with family and close friends – including Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo – comes an exploration of the New York City in the 70s and 80s, the eruption of the AIDS plague, sex, drugs, politics, and the amazing artistic determination of a filmmaker whose life was cut short. Featuring rare archival footage of William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Madonna, and more, the film reveals a portrait of the tumultuous and mysterious life, struggles, and untimely death of Howard Brookner.
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11:10, 17:05. Documentary. USA 2016, 86 min. Directed by Matthew Miele. Starring: Fran Lebowitz, Baz Luhrmann, Jessica Biel, Katie Couric, Amy Fine-Collins, Rachel Zoe. In English with Russian subtitles. A past to present fully authorized documentary of Tiffany & Co.
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Drama. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Jodie Foster. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Giancarlo Esposito. In English with Russian subtitles. In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
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15:05, 18:30, 21:00, 22:40. Drama. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Jodie Foster. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Giancarlo Esposito. In English with Russian subtitles. In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
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Drama. Italy 2012, 122 min. Directed by Guendalina Zampagni. Starring: Michele Cesari, Diane Fleri, Alessandro Haber. In Italian with Russian subtitles.
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Comedy. France, Belgium 2016, 101 min. Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Gustave Kervern, Chiara Mastroianni, Ana Girardot. In French with Russian subtitles. Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
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Comedy. France, Belgium 2016, 101 min. Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Gustave Kervern, Chiara Mastroianni, Ana Girardot. In French with Russian subtitles. Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
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19:55 | The Legend of Barney Thomson |
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Comedy/Crime. UK, Canada 2015, 96 min. Directed by Robert Carlyle. Starring: Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, James Cosmo. In English with Russian subtitles. Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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09:20, 01:15. Comedy/Crime. UK, Canada 2015, 96 min. Directed by Robert Carlyle. Starring: Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, James Cosmo. In English with Russian subtitles. Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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15:30, 21:50. Fantasy. USA 2016, 130 min. Derected by Duncan Jones. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga. InEnglish with Russian subtitles. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.
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12:50, 18:45, 23:00. Fantasy. USA 2016, 130 min. Derected by Duncan Jones. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga. InEnglish with Russian subtitles. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.
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Fantasy. USA 2016, 136 min. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac. In English with Russian subtitles. With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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