Not just a music film. Not just a ballet film. Not just a political film essay. Here, an antique Greek tragedy serves as an astute metaphor for the country's current tragedy. Medea kills her own children. Society has turned against its offspring and thus kills their future. The balletic retelling of a mother murdering her two kids, choreographed by Renato Zanello, is based on E...
The Greek political refugees from the civil war (1946-1949) in the village Beloiannisz, which they built on their own, close to Budapest in Hungary, in the early 1950s. Their lives under forced exile and their unending desire to return home.
Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deterioratin...
A mother loses her daughter to femicide. In stead of reacting with rage against the world, she mourns in her own different way: by going out, speaking publicly, and fighting to trade love for patriarchy for the sake of our society. By interweaving every-day moments with the story of our protagonist, the film tries to describe the banality of this evil. Mothers of Daughters pus...
参加戛纳国际电影节官方节目的侦探惊悚片，法国著名报纸《世界报》称这部电影是学生电影节目中最好的。它在德国、法国、俄罗斯和希腊电视台播出。
这部电影反映了90年代俄罗斯人民自由接触西方文化/文明的生活。在拍摄的高峰期发生了8月份的违约事件，众所周知，这是亲西方情绪在社会中逐渐消退的一个象征性开始。当时，“西方”这个词仍然与美好生活的梦想联系在一起，突然违约结束了这一梦想。
