A group of Russian journalists at the Berlinale have published an open letter to festival leadership, questioning their selection of controversial Russian film “Dau. Natasha” during a period “marked ...

llya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau was originally set to film for seven weeks back in 2006. The cinematic behemoth was meant to unfold in a living, breathing three-acre recreation of postwar Moscow, built in the ...

Director-artist Ilya Khrzhanovsky, best known for the controversial “DAU” project, will be the subject of the “Tribute To” program at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, with a curated retrospective of ...

As Russian journalists protest the film's psychological and sexual torture, director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy said he plans to fight the charges against him. One of this year’s Berlinale selections has ...

Restored versions of Chinese language cinema classics Wong Kar-wai’s “Days of Being Wild” (1990) and Jia Zhangke’s first full-length feature “Pickpocket” (“Xiao Wu”) 1998) will lead the inaugural ...

A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and people, aiming at creating an “ideal human being”. A KGB general and his aides prefer to turn a blind eye to the ...