Chulpan Khamatova

A human story of the reunification not only of an entire nation, but of a family living in East Berlin. (Sony Pictures Classics)

An experimental movie from Germany. The style evokes early 20th Century Silent movies and motifs commonly found in German expressionism. The sparse dialog is presented in a mix of European languages. The film focuses on Anton as he tries to win the heart of Eva and save his family's bath house from the wrecking ball. (Wikipedia)

Mamlakat (Khamatova) is 17, she is beautiful and vivacious and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress... (imdb)

At the age of three, Ozren only has to watch his mother while she's sleeping to know that she's the most beautiful woman in the world. At the age of nine, he doesn't understand why people swear at him on the street, calling him a whore's son: his mother works as a waitress and that's the only reason she's hardly ever at home in the evening. At the age of 16 Ozren knows. He's learned a lot... (Picture This! Entertainment)

Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor. (imdb)

Granddad Giorgi never tires of telling his two young grandchildren fantastic stories about their father; the super hero Dato who is on a highly dangerous and secret mission. Truth is, though, that their father is a meteorologist who has spent the last couple of years behind bars. When he eventually returns he has a hard time living up to the image that has been created of him. (Kosmorama.no)

Rita's boyfriend has lost someone else's money, and now Rita must hide. Yaya, a night club dancer, who is deaf, befriends Rita, and hides her at her place. Yaya's only dream - to save enough money and to escape to some mistical 'land of the Deaf' - place where everybody is deaf, and therefore everybody is kind and honest. Suddenly girls find themselves in the middle of two fighting mafia gangs - the deaf ones and the 'regular' ones... (amazon.com)

Kazakhstan, early 1961. Daniel Pokrovsky, a medical officer, currently works for the first Soviet cosmonauts' troop. (Venice Film Festival)

St. Petersburg, 1914. Brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about football. With their friends Shoust and Fatso, they hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. In order to finance it, they start playing for money with workmen, seminarians and anyone else they encounter. However, World War I and the October Revolution will intervene. (imdb)

A novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder. (imdb)

A would-be ad man starts talking his way to the top, only to discover he has a shortage of usable ideas in this satiric German comedy. (rottentomatoes.com)

Every second is precious for a Russian submarine crew, as they are stranded 72 meters below the ocean's surface. (imdb)

A bizarre riverbank in fog and snow. Bits of steel and concrete are strewn all around. The skeleton of a skyscraper. Unfinished motorway bridges in a flat landscape. The giant figure of a metal horse. And a statue of Lenin whose outstretched right arm points into nothingness. A cold, ossified no man's land where the washed-up past meets an imagined future. People drift aimlessly through this surreal world... (berlinale.de)

The life of a young doctor is intertwined with the fate of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. (imdb)

Tortured by his childhood memories, Sasha returns to his town of birth to rid himself of his nightmares and break the shackles of the past. What they don't know is that Sasha possesses a supernatural ability that enables him to destroy anything in his path. (Fantastic Fest)

Martin, a nu-jazz trumpet player with a unique style, is fighting against convention and mediocrity. He will not accept any compromise, neither in his music, nor in love. When he gets the feeling that Kristina, the love of his life, only loves him for his musical talents, he is deeply hurt. Disappointed, he bids farewell to both her and his previous life. On the edge of society, he meets an old woman, Hanna, who bequeaths him her pain in the form of poems. (imdb)

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality. (imdb)

This is the story of one day in the life of Elizabeth Glinka, the head of "Fair Care" foundation, a philanthropist, a doctor and a human rights activist. As the day starts, Elizaveta and her husband Gleb are going to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Liza is planning to spend some time with her family, waiting for her sons and close friends to arrive. (imdb)

The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. (imdb)