Sean Baker’s Anora (2024)

Vol. 149 (November 2024) by Moritz Pfeifer
The traditional economy of domination gives way to a new economy of moral exhibitionism.

The Ideological Fashioning of Femininity in Soviet-Era Cinema

Vol. 146 (Summer 2024) by Nora Furlong
Nora Furlong revisits Grigori Aleksandrov’s 1936 Circus and Ernst Lubitsch’s 1939 Ninotchka as well as two competing visions of femininity.

Daniil Lebedev’s Heaven and Home (2023)

Vol. 142 (February 2024) by Zoe Aiano
A playful but poignant essay film on being displaced and out of place.

Malika Musaeva’s The Cage Is Looking for a Bird (Kletka ishet ptitsu, 2023)

Vol. 141 (January 2024) by Margarita Kirilkina
Malika Musaeva follows the fate of young women living in a small, Caucasian village.

The “Female Boom” in Russian Documentary Film (2012-2023)

Vol. 138 (October 2023) by Anzhelika Artyukh
Anzhelyka Artyukh offers a close-up survey of recent trends in Russian Documentary Film.

Alexander Sokurov’s Fairytale (Skazka, 2022)

Vol. 133 (March 2023) by Antonis Lagarias
Four protagonists of WWII convene at the gate to heaven.

Anna Shishova’s The New Greatness Case (Ansa Moskovassa, 2022)

Vol. 131 (January 2023) by Colette de Castro
A rare Russian film not shunned by the international film community.

Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov’s Captain Volkonogov Escaped (Kapitan Volkonogov bezhal, 2021)

Vol. 129 (November 2022) by Colette de Castro
An aestheticized take on the Soviet Great Terror (1936-1938).

Ruslan Fedotov’s Where Are We Headed? (2021)

Vol. 128 (October 2022) by Antonis Lagarias
The weird and the wicked in Moscow's metro system.

Michael Borodin’s Convenience Store (Produkty 24, 2022)

Vol. 124 (April 2022) by Antonis Lagarias
A story of false promises in modern-day Russia.
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