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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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13:20, 18:10. 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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19:00 | Beat Film Festival. Mapplethorpe: Look at the pictures |
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Documentary. USA, Germany 2016, 108 min. Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato. Starring: Debbie Harry, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brooke Shields. The only thing more candid than legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s works was his life, pure obsession with magic of photography and of sex. The authors have unprecedented unlimited access to his archives and work, turning it into the most complete and profound documentary about the provocative and outstanding artist. Mapplethorpe is the narrator in the film, along with his family and collaborators: due to a few rediscovered interviews, he speaks about his life, loves, and works with shocking honesty. What we get is a portrait of an artist who contributed to making his medium, photography, valued and respected as a fine art. Even today, his Foundation gives generous gifts to most renowned museums to help them maintain photography collections.
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22:00 | Beat Film Festival: B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin |
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Documentary. Germany 2015, 92 min. Directed by Klaus Maeck, Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange. Starring: Blixa Bargeld, Gudrun Gut, Annette Humpe, Nick Cave, Tilda Swinton, Mark Reeder. Music, art, and chaos are intertwined in the documentary that features young Nick Cave, Tilda Swinton, Blixa Bargeld, and New Order. These are just a few among the now internationally-known musicians who came to Berlin in 1980s, when the city became a melting pot for both sub- and pop-culture. ‘B-movie’ is a fast-paced collage of mostly unreleased rare footage from a frenzied but highly charged creative decade, starting with punk and ending with the Love Parade, in a city where the days are short and the nights are endless. More info
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival: Free to Run |
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Documentary. Switzerland, France, Belgium 2016, 90 min. Directed by Pierre Morath. Starring: Bobbi Gibb, Kathrine Switzer, Noël Tamini. Only 50 years ago, distance running was a Puritan and elitist activity reserved for men. Those who went out running in nature in their free time were seen at best as eccentric and at worst as dangerous. But within the tumult of the 60s, the sport became an act of freedom and self-expression, gradually changing the face of the world. ‘Free to Run’ tells the amazing story of the running movement over the past 50 years, through first-hand accounts, as well as rich and rare historical footage. It is the story of the right to run, and an exciting exploration of the revolutionary social change that made that freedom possible.
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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. Public Talk with Grant Gee, Apollinaria Avrutina and Anna Narinskaya before the show (June 3, 20:00, Strelka Institute).
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival: Oleg and the Rare Arts |
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Documentary. Spain 2016, 70 min. Directed by Andres Duque. Starring: Oleg Karavaychuk. Oleg Karavaychuk is the living legend in Russia and beyond, and the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the Spanish director Andres Duque, the first ever foreigner to win the trust of the 88-year-old eccentric, and still very active, composer. In the film, the octogenerian is first seen in an opulent corridor of the Hermitage museum in Saint-Petersburg, delivering a trilling (and very Russian) rant, along the lines of ‘People have lost their soul!’ But it doesn’t take us long to see him play, showing the virtuoso and amazingly experimental piano skills, on none other instrument than the Czar Nicolas’s exquisitely gilded piano. A peek into the composer’s ethereal realm turning into a meditation on a Russian soul, ambigous, torn, and incredible at times.
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18:00 | Beat Film Festival: Vladivostok Vacation and the Great Russian Break |
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Documentary. USA, Russia 2016, 72 min. Directed by Danny Drysdale & Ilya Lagutenko. Starring: Ilya Lagutenko, Yuri Loghechnick, Oleg Pungin, Evgeniy Zhvidenniy, Yuri Tsaler, Grigoriy Romanov. The documentary is about a legendary Russian-based band ‘Mumiy Troll’, whose latest US show took place at the key film, music and innovation showcase, SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. ‘SOS to Sailor’ is a ‘documentary extravaganza’, a rock-and-roll madness along the lines of ‘Help!’, but most of all, it’s about dreams, ocean, and music. Combining rare archival footage and amazing animation, the band’s frontman – and the documentary’s co-director and producer – Ilya has called it ‘a realistic setting for the fantasies every rock group has’. It all begins at the Russian far eastern Vladivostok sea port. The band’s frontman is dreaming about worldwide fame, but ditches his Grammy ambitions… for a sailor’s job on board of a ship. So the entire band embarks on a journey across the globe to discover the places ‘where people love rock’n’roll’.
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival: We are X |
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Documentary. UK, Japan, USA 2016, 93 min. Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring: Yoshiki, Toshi, Pata. X Japan was formed by childhood friends, Yohiki and Toshi, who ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late 80s, created a famous Japanese cultural rock phenomenon called ‘Visual-Kei’, and were the biggest Japanese superstars in history: 18 sold out nights at the Tokyo Dome venue hosting 55,000 spectators, over 30 million albums sold worldwide. But their success never translated to the West, and the group eventually broke up in 1997, leaving millions of devastated fans and the frontmen battling with their physical and spiritual demons. Twenty years afterwards, renowned director Stephen Kijak traces their super-stardom and dissolution up to the present day, as X Japan prepare for a long-awaited reunion at the Madison Square Garden. Tune in for the story of the most influential band in the world that you haven’t heard of… yet.
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09:10, 16:00. 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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16:10, 19:40. 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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14:15, 21:55. 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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17:55 | 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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00:35 | 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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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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13:30, 20:00, 22:20. 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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