Eurasian
see all genres ›At the intersection of Europe and Asia (but neither fully one nor the other), the vast range of cultures and landscapes once primarily encompassed by the western part of the Soviet Union and parts south now boasts its own distinctive array of wholly separate film industries.
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Alexandra
In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life before making a sudden trip into the outlying countryside....Start your free trial to watch -
Angel on the Right
Hamro, an unrepentant prodigal son straight out of a Russian jail, returns to his hometown to help his mother die with dignity. But his debts are many and long overdue, the townspeople are tough as nails and he gets more than he expected from the quiet village. In this dark dramedy, writer/director...Start your free trial to watch
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Angel's Fall
A critically acclaimed, contemporary tale from picturesque Istanbul, a city bordering the West and the Arab world, comes a timely tale about love and hope. Zeynep, a beautiful, young woman, dreams of a better life. Her days are spent cleaning hotel rooms and her nights are like hell because of her abusive father. The only...Start your free trial to watch -
Antisex
This is not a boring story about sexual dysfunction, or a cool erotic movie. This is the funniest fairy tale about love! It's a love story between an ordinary man and a not so ordinary woman and she's not sexless, she's just asexual. It is ASEXUALITY! It's just a movement and you probably heard about it before, but never like...Start your free trial to watch -
Attention! Wolves!
With shades of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER, this unusual Soviet animation blends symbolic allegory and documentary photographs to warn against the persistent threat of fascism. A feral boy is found in the woods the same day that the Nuremberg Trials’ death sentences are carried out....Start your free trial to watch
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Ave Maria
Ivan Ivanov-Vano’s condemnation of the American war in Vietnam trades in some of the crude images one associates with Soviet propaganda: a soldier gunning down a child; clamoring capitalists superimposed over the killing fields. And yet its animation style is surprisingly subtle and its tone more elegiac than one might...Start your free trial to watch -
Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained one of the most influential silent films of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious...Start your free trial to watch -
Beat the Fascist Pirates
This animated "political poster" grants "no mercy for Hitler's bloodthirsty sharks," which are depicted prowling international waters to sneakily "bite" Allied ships from beneath. Calling for patriots to “"Smash the fascist rats relentlessly! In the air, on land and at sea," it's a striking piece of...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White
This early effort by master Soviet animators Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Leonid Amalrik offers a devastating and concise picture of racism in America. The film’s moral outrage is inseparable from its graphic precision. BLACK AND WHITE makes especially forceful use of symbols: the minister’s cross and foreman’s whip are pictured as...Start your free trial to watch -
By the Law
BY THE LAW breaks down into several stylistically different parts, only one of which resembles the grotesque extravaganza of MR. WEST. Gone is Kuleshov's insistence on the straight-forward, plot-advancing shot. Gone is the idea of montage as a step-by-step elaboration of some process. Rather, the opening sequence slowly...Start your free trial to watch -
The Cameraman's Revenge
After filming several live-action documentaries for the Natural History Museum in Kono, Lithuania, Ladislas Starewicz started a film about fighting stag beetles but was frustrated when the insects refused to perform under lights. Starewicz decided to recreate the fight by articulating dead beetles in...Start your free trial to watch
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China in Flames
CHINA IN FLAMES rallies popular support for the Soviet Union’s alliance with China using an eclectic array of animation techniques and rhetorical strategies. Bold cut-out caricatures of greedy imperialists give way to an allegorical story about rice farmers done in the style of Chinese watercolors. A heroic depiction of a...Start your free trial to watch -
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Exploding the myth that the Soviet silent cinema was limited to political propaganda, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky’s THE CIGARETTE GIRL OF MOSSELPROM is a playful romantic comedy set on the streets of 1924 Moscow, occasionally peeking behind the scenes of the Mezhrabpom-Rus Studios. Yuliya Solntseva stars as a...Start your free trial to watch
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Climates
Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo...Start your free trial to watch -
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Filmmaker Michal Leszcylowski was editor for Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, THE SACRIFICE. During the time they spent together, their relationship grew into an enduring friendship. DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY is an homage, a fluid and captivating documentary that presents the brooding as well as the more...Start your free trial to watch -
Durakovo: Village of Fools
Durakovo, the ironically named Village of Fools, is a secluded town 90 miles outside Moscow whose leader brews old ideals in hopes of a revitalized regime. Mikhail Morozov rules this small community with concepts of God, Tsar and Fatherland. Happiness only comes from God, the Tsar does God's bidding and...Start your free trial to watch




