Dutch director Heddy Honigmann’s beautiful documentary follows Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to Russia, Argentina and Soweto, subtly exploring the depth of feeling music stirs in both players and listeners.
Films — by Language
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Catalan
- Cubeo
- Danish
- Dari
- Dutch
- English
- Farsi
- French
- Gaam
- German
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Huitoto
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kaqchikel
- Korean
- Latin
- Mandarin
- Marathi
- Moro
- Nepali
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Shona
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Te reo Māori
- Thai
- Tikuna
- Turkish
- Uduk
- Ukrainian Sign Language without subtitles
- Wanano
Russian
The Fool
Durak
Writer-director-editor-composer Yury Bykov’s electrically paced, flawlessly performed suspense drama is both a brutal metaphor for the corruption of post-Soviet Russia and a furiously entertaining thriller.
Iraqi Odyssey 3D
Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, expatriate Iraqi Samir pays homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by dictatorship, war and foreign occupation.
The Postman’s White Nights
Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna
Russian director Konchalovsky follows a rural postman on rounds that cover tiny lakeside villages in the Arkhangelsk region of northern Russia in this affectionate, unvarnished, ravishingly shot portrait of a vanishing culture.
Red Army
“Gabe Polsky’s electrifying look at a once-unbeatable Soviet hockey team and the link between sports and politics… deserves a big boo-yah from audiences for being illuminating and hugely entertaining.” — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Russian Woodpecker
The Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner for World Cinema Documentary is a scarier-than-fiction investigation of the Chernobyl disaster, headed up by an eccentric young artist, and abetted by the fearless filmmakers.
Under Electric Clouds
Pod elektricheskimi oblakami
In the near future a cast of unrelated characters come together in the ghostly shadow of an unfinished skyscraper on a desolate Russian plain. “A ravishingly shot, thought-provoking triumph.” —Screendaily