Post: Festival Program

Festival Program

Due to COVID-19 this year Festival will be held online on our special festival platform “Online Theater”. To preserve the interactive format of our festival, we will have an online roundtable with participants of the festival on the subject of contemporary documentary filmmaking.

The festival program includes a selection of documentaries created in the last two years by filmmakers from (in alphabetical order): Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Israel, Russia, and Spain. All documentaries are American premieres, and all documentaries have English subtitles. Most of the films in the festival’s program are laureates of international film festivals.

Tickets are available for purchase between 10:00AM and 1:00AM (Eastern Time). Buy tickets and plan your viewing within that time frame on the date(s) scheduled for each movie. Please note that the passcode you receive is void after 1:00AM. Also, if you pause viewing, the screening will end, and you would have to buy a new ticket to start over.

OCTOBER 19

— Without a Halo. Lyudmila Alexeyeva (Russia)*
— About Kira Stealthily (Russia)*
— Theater Behind Barbed Wire (Russia)*
* Program to honor the memory of producer Alexander Radov (1940-2020). Studio “Fishka-Film” (Russia)

— 100 million views (Israel)

OCTOBER 20

— Baikal: Awareness of Beauty (Russia)
— Kounachir (France)
— Spitak. Thirty Years of Solitude (Armenia / Russia)
— Vertinsky. The Lone Wanderer (Russia)

OCTOBER 21

— Borovsk’s Effect (Russia)
— Free Flying (Spain)
— Zulmat. Mass Hunger in Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

OCTOBER 22

— The Sweetest Thing (Bulgaria)
— The Shaman (Russia)
— Kaliayevskaya 5 (Russia)

OCTOBER 23

— Vertinsky. The Lone Wanderer (Russia)
— Free Flying (Spain)
— Theater Behind Barbed Wire (Russia)
— Spitak. Thirty Years of Solitude (Armenia / Russia)

OCTOBER 24

— About Kira Stealthily (Russia)
— Borovsk’s Effect (Russia)
— Kaliayevskaya 5 (Russia)
— Kounachir (France)
— The Sweetest Thing (Bulgaria)

OCTOBER 25

— Baikal: Awareness of Beauty (Russia)
— The Shaman (Russia)
— Without a Halo. Lyudmila Alexeyeva (Russia)
— Zulmat. Mass Hunger in Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
— 100 million views (Israel)

A House Made of Splinters
2022  
•  Co-production: Denmark, Ukraine, Sweden, and Finland  
•  1:27h  
•  Ukrainian, Russian, with English subtitles
Author/Director(s): Simon Lereng Wilmont
Producer(s): Monica Hillström

This documentary had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was the Academy Award nominee for Best documentary film in 2023. The film is about children from a special orphanage in Eastern Ukraine. A small group of social workers is taking care of children who lost their parents in the war. They are trying to create a safe space for children near the front line. The filming of the documentary lasted for more than two years in the Donbas region.

Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “Distance Barking of Docs” received the Grand Prix at the 12th RUSDOCFILMFEST in 2019.

Fri, March 24