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21:30 | AmFest 2017: Basmati Blues |
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Comedy/Drama/Musical. USA 2017, 106 min. Directed by Dan Baron. Starring: Brie Larson, Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula. A brilliant scientist is plucked out of the company lab and sent to India to sell the genetically modified rice she created - which she doesn't realize will destroy the farmers she thinks she's helping. Read more
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19:30 | AmFest 2017: Person to Person |
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Drama. USA 2017, 84 min. Directed by Dustin Guy Defa. Starring: Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson. Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day. Awards & Festivals: Sundance Film Festival - participation; Locarno International Film Festival - participation; Montclair International Film Festival - participation; Sarasota International Film Festival - participation. Read more
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13:30, 21:20, 21:40, 00:20. Fanatasy/Thriller. USA, Canada, United Kingdom 2017, 163 min. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Ana de Arms, Dave Bautista. In English with Russian subtitles. Officer K works in a special division of the LAPD, specializing in trapping runaway androids – a blade runner. One day, he is granted access to an ancient secret which, as far as he understands, puts the entirety of human existence in jeopardy. Wishing to find the key to the mystery, K decides to track down Rick Deckard, a former blade runner, who disappeared without a trace many years ago. A sequel to the 1982 masterpiece, filmed by Denis Villeneuve and produced by Ridley Scott. The soundtrack was created by some of the greatest contemporary film composers: Hans Zimmer and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
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Drama. USA 2017, 101 min. Directed by Benny Sadie, Josh Sadie. Starring: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh. In English with Russian subtitles. Desperate to find work and get money to pay his debts, Connie plans a bank robbery. Connie’s partner in this heist is his mentally-challenged brother, Nick. The robbery is a failure, Nick ends up behind bars, and the bag with the money explodes, covering Connie in dye from head to toe. Feeling guilty for what she’s done to her brother, he decides to do whatever it takes to get him away from the police. A drama by Benny Safdie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The director himself played the role of Nick, with Robert Pattinson playing opposite as Connie.
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Thriller/Drama. Georgia, Russia, Poland 2017, 104 min. Directed by Rezo Gigineishvili. Starring: Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze. In Georgian with Russian subtitles. Movie describes real events that took place in 1983 when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attampted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.
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16:30 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle |
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Action/Comedy. Great Britsain, USA 2017, 135 min. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring: Taron Egerton, Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Colin Firth, Mark Strong. In English with Russian subtitles. A new challenge for the Kingsman secret service: their headquarters has been destroyed, and the whole world is being held hostage by unknown criminals. The super-agents discover that on the very same day that their organization was founded, the Americans founded their secret counterpart: “Statesman.” Now these two elite services must join forces and challenge their common enemy. The second part of Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller, with Julianne Moore as the lead villain.
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19:10 | Manhattan Short Film Festival |
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Short films. New Zealand, Spain, USA, United Kingdom, Syria, Italy, Switzerland, Georgia 2017, 115 min. Directed by Rosanne Liang, Ángel Gómez Hernández, Stephen Ward, Ben Price, Ignacio Redondo, Pavel Gumennikov, Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf, Marta Savina, Fabio Friedli, Gega Khmaladze. In the original with Russian subtitles. The famous festival celebrates its 20th birthday this year. In the programme are two “Sundance” nominees, an experimental animated film from Switzerland, and a Spanish thriller, as well as the first short films in the festival’s history from Georgia and Latvia, among others. Per tradition, the festival screenings will start simultaneously in Moscow and New York, Saint Petersburg and Madrid, Yaroslavl and Prague, Los Angeles and Ekaterinburg, and many other cities.
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Drama. France 2017, 84 min. Directed by Christian Carion. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist. In French with Russian subtitles. Julien is so obsessed with his work that he has no time left for his family. His constant business trips have ruined his marriage, and raising his seven-year-old boy, Mathys, has fallen on his ex-wife and her new lover. One day, he learns that the boy has been kidnapped, and he throws himself into the search. The further he goes into his investigation, the more desperately he wishes for revenge. An experimental film by Oscar and BAFTA nominee (for “Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël”) Christian Carion. The film was shot in only six days, and Canet was entirely unfamiliar with the screenplay – he relied on nothing but personal experience and the experience of Mélanie Laurent, who followed her own script to the letter.
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Drama. France 2017, 84 min. Directed by Christian Carion. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist. In French with Russian subtitles. Julien is so obsessed with his work that he has no time left for his family. His constant business trips have ruined his marriage, and raising his seven-year-old boy, Mathys, has fallen on his ex-wife and her new lover. One day, he learns that the boy has been kidnapped, and he throws himself into the search. The further he goes into his investigation, the more desperately he wishes for revenge. An experimental film by Oscar and BAFTA nominee (for “Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël”) Christian Carion. The film was shot in only six days, and Canet was entirely unfamiliar with the screenplay – he relied on nothing but personal experience and the experience of Mélanie Laurent, who followed her own script to the letter.
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Comedy. Italy 2017, 106 min. Directed by Simone Godano. Starring: Kasia Smutniak, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marta Gastini, Andrea Bruschi. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Sofia is a talented and ambitious TV anchor, prepared to achieve her goals by any means necessary. Andrea is a successful neurosurgeon. They’ve been together for ten years, and in order to return their prior love and mutual understanding, the couple undertakes an experiment which ends completely differently than expected. Now Andrea is Sofia, and Sofia is Andrea. As they find themselves in their spouse’s bodies, they must first learn a new (to them) profession, and then understand a great deal about each other.
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Biography. France, Belgium 2017, 119 min. Directed by Jacques Doillon. Starring: Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin, Séverine Caneele, Edward Akrout. In French with Russian subtitles. A story of the brilliant sculptor’s ascent to the top of the art world. This is the story of Auguste Rodin’s work, his countless love affairs, and his complex relationships with the women in his life – his talented student Camille Claudel and Rose Beuret, the mother of his only child.
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