Здесь был Юра (2023) is a Russian drama that blends elements of road movie and personal introspection. Directed by Kirill Sokolov, the film offers a contemplative look at friendship, memory, and the passage of time.
Здесь был Юра (2023) is a Russian drama that blends elements of road movie and personal introspection. Directed by Kirill Sokolov, the film offers a contemplative look at friendship, memory, and the passage of time.
Levsha (2026), directed by Vladimir Besedin, is a Russian genre‑blending film that combines elements of mystery, science fiction, and adventure. Set in the 19th century, the movie reimagines a classic Russian folk tale through a steampunk aesthetic, offering a fresh take on historical fiction.
Directed by Martin Bourboulon, 13 Jours, 13 Nuits (13 Days, 13 Nights) is a French political thriller based on Mohamed Bida’s memoir, recounting the harrowing 2021 evacuation of the French Embassy in Kabul during the Taliban’s takeover.
Russian directors Nikita Vysotsky and Ilya Lebedev take us to the summer of 1944, to the dense forests of western Belarus, where the Eastern Front is becoming a maze of fragile loyalties and hidden dangers. The film explores a territory recently liberated from Nazi occupation—a volatile border region where the lines between friend and foe […]
László Nemes, the Hungarian auteur renowned for his harrowing Holocaust drama Son of Saul (2015), returns with Orphan, a starkly intimate exploration of identity, memory, and national trauma set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Roman Karimov’s film, “The Lost” (Затерянные), is an atmospheric thriller with elements of mysticism and a philosophical parable about the search for self. Four Moscow colleagues travel to a provincial town to sign an important contract with Chinese partners. After successfully concluding the deal, they attempt to return home, but suddenly find themselves in a […]
Directed by Michael Locksin, the 2024 Russian adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novel Master and Margarita reimagines the 1930s Moscow literary scene as a battleground between creativity and oppression.
“Хитровка. Знак четырёх” is a 2023 Russian crime film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, which combines elements of Arthur Conan Doyle’s literature with the historical realities of Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century. Inspired by the novel The Sign of the Four and the writings of journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky, the film brings to the […]
The Chinese TV series directed by Yang Lei and Vincent Yang is based on the novel “Three Body | 三体 | sān tǐ” written by Liu Cixin | 刘慈欣 in 2006. The story is about the establishment of first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Unfortunately for humanity, the said civilization, the Trisolarians, want to colonize Earth (newly discovered as a result of the contact) because their home planet is in an unstable solar system. The series was produced by Tencent Video.
Карамора is a Russian alternative history thriller television series created by director Danila Kozlovsky. It premiered on January 20, 2022 on the video streaming service Start. The film takes place in an alternate history world in pre-revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.