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Drama. Iran 2018, 101 min. Directed by Jafar Panahi. Starring: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedez Erteghaei, Narges Delaram. In Farsi with Russian subtitles. A famous actress gets a desperate message from a provincial girl, asking for help because her conservative parents are keeping her from applying to the conservatory. Together with the director, who plays himself, the film star sets out in search of the girl. They travel by car through the villages, meeting a wide spectrum of different people, listening to their stories and growing sadly and ironically certain that the people are holding onto their old traditions, while only the rarest brave ones decide to even dream about change.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky  |
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18:30 | Chihayafuru: Musubi |
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52nd Japanese Film Festival. Comedy, drama, romance. Japan 2018, 128 min. Directed by Norihiro Koizumi. Starring: Suzu Hirose, Shûhei Nomura, Mackenyu, Mone Kamishiraishi, Kento Kaku, Kaya Kiyohara, Mayu Matsuoka. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. Taking place two years after the showdown between Chihaya and Shinobu at the National Karuta Competion, Chihaya is a high school girl who, alongside her friends, enters another national competition against Shinobu. Hideo Harada has, in the meantime, been crushed by losing to a master player. The high school friends must also restore their master's honour.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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Documentary. Spain 2017, 95 min. Directed by Rafel Duran Torrent. In English with Russian subtitles. Cyborgs are human beings who have implanted electronic devices in their bodies in order to extend their senses and/or enhance their capabilities or action. Technology with the potential for human enhancement is already available, but its use is strictly restricted to medical applications. However, the first cyborgs are already crossing the boundaries of their human limits starting a debate on human enhancement and touching the basic idea of what we are. This film will confront the viewer with the implications of going beyond human by letting machines become part of us.
Multimedia Art Museum |
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19:00 | Do You Trust This Computer? |
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The 9th ECOCUP International Green Documentary Film Festival. Documentary. USA 2018, 90 min. Directed by Chris Paine. In English with Russian subtitles. Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Incomprehensible amounts of data are being created, interpreted, and fed back to us in a tsunami of apps, personal assistants, smart devices, and targeted advertisements. Virtually every industry on earth is experiencing this transformation, from job automation, to medical diagnostics, even military operations. "Do You Trust This Computer?" explores the promises and perils of our new era. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?
Illuzion |
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16:00 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Crimes of Grindelwald |
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Fantasy, adventure. UK, USA 2018, 134 min. Directed by David Yates. Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Katherine Waterstone, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller. In English with Russian subtitles. At one point, he helped put the powerful dark wizard Grindelwald behind bars. But the evildoer escaped from prison, and now he is collecting his henchmen to take over the entire Muggle world. Albus Dumbledore asks his former student, Newt, to foil Grindelwald’s evil plans, and he agrees not quite knowing the extent of the terror to which he will subject himself and everyone he loves. The magic world is split in two, and no one will be able to remain neutral. Two years later, we delve into JK Rowling’s magical world once again and will see the new adventures of the magician zoologist, Newt Salamander.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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15:20 | Laughing Under the Clouds (Donten ni warau) |
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52nd Japanese Film Festival. Action, drama, horror. Japan 2018, 94 min. Directed by atsuyuki Motohiro. Starring: Sôta Fukushi, Yûma Nakayama, Kirato Wakayama, Yûta Koseki, Yûki Furukawa, Tomohiro Ichikawa. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. In the years after the imperial restoration in central Japan a forceful snake, which rears its head once every 300 years, is about to rise again. The snake shall herald calamity and catastrophe. The three successors to the local shrine ally with other forces to block the serpentine. The snake has its own deadly and swift allies however who will do its bidding abetting its rise.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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The 9th ECOCUP International Green Documentary Film Festival. Documentary. Canada, France 2017, 80 min. Directed by Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko. In English with Russian subtitles. Let There Be Light follows the story of dedicated scientists working to build a small sun on Earth, which would unleash perpetual, cheap, clean energy for mankind. After decades of failed attempts, a massive push is now underway to crack the holy grail of energy.
Illuzion |
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17:00 | Link + Three Peaks (Drei Zinnen) |
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17th German Film Festival. 100 min. The screening of a 7-minute "Link" (2017) short film will be followed by "Drei Zinnen". Italy, Germany 2017, 93 min. Directed by Jan Zabeil. Starring: Alexander Fehling, Bérénice Bejo, Arian Montgomery. In German with Russian subtitles. Aaron wants to become a family with his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, but high up in the Italian Dolomites, his attempts to win the boy's acceptance turn into a dangerous power game.
Formula Kino Horizon |
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13:00 | Mountain Miracle – An Unexpected Friendship (Amelie rennt) |
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17th German Film Festival. Adventure, drama. Germany, Italy 2017, 97 min. Directed by Tobias Wiemann. Starring: Mia Kasalo, Samuel Girardi, Susanne Bormann, Denis Moschitto, Jasmin Tabatabai. In German with Russian subtitles. A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a mountain where, according to an old custom, she can be healed.
Formula Kino Horizon |
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17th German Film Festival. Tragicomedy. Germany, Azerbaijan 2018, 90 min. Directed by Veit Helmer. Starring: Predrag Manojlovic, Denis Lavant, Paz Vega, Chulpan Khamatova, Maia Morgenstern. In German with Russian subtitles. Train driver Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. On its way round the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest.
Formula Kino Horizon |
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Drama. UK, Sweden, USA 2017, 100 min. Directed by Bjorn Runge. Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke, Elizabeth McGovern. In English with Russian subtitles. Having spent 40 years in a happy marriage, Joe and Joan Castleman complete each other perfectly. He’s easy-going and she’s elegant. He’s vain and she’s modest. He enjoys the life of a great writer, and she puts all her intellect, charm, and diplomacy into the society of genius’ wives. After all, behind every great man stands a great woman. But what are their actual roles? When news breaks about Joe’s Nobel Prize, this whole modest construction is ruined in order to reveal a carefully guarded secret, on which both his literary fame and their long shared life were built.
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15:00 | THF: Central Airport (Zentralflughafen THF) |
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17th German Film Festival. Documentary. Germany 2018, 97 min. Directed by Karim Aïnouz. In German with Russian subtitles. Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was opened in 1923 and, under Adolf Hitler, extended to become the world's largest airport which was finally closed in 2008. But even today Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures being used simultaneously as a refugee shelter and a leisure park for the inhabitants of Berlin. A historically unique moment for a portrait of this city within a city, but also of a European society in a state of emergency, caught between crisis and utopia.
Formula Kino Horizon |
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Crime, drama, thriller. UK, USA 2018, 129 min. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, Alejandro Verdin, Jon Bernthal. In English with Russian subtitles. "Widows" is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
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