Director: Vladimir Beck Watch Little Bird on FilmDoo The sometimes blurry line between the barely-teens and almost-adults of Little Bird, the mesmerising new feature from Vladimir Beck, is established in the film’s first two minutes via two […]
Russian films
In 1917, a bloody revolution led by the Russian political party of the working class overthrew the long-standing Tsarist monarchy and created the Soviet Union, several combined Eurasian republics with a highly centralized government. The […]
Directors: Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer Watch Electro Moscow on FilmDoo Under the backdrop of Soviet Communism during the late 1970s and early 1980s, this documentary studies the ideology of electricity and its connection with music. […]
FilmDoo has teamed up with international distributor Ruscico (Russian Cinema Council) to give international releases to classic and overlooked cinema from Russia and Eastern Europe. The decades-spanning thirty features FilmDoo is making available from Friday 15th April range from landmark films of Russia’s silent […]
By David Pountain Directed by Ella Manzheeva Warsaw Film Festival review Ella Manzheeva’s The Gulls is a directorial debut of unusual stylistic confidence. With sparing use of dialogue and low-key performances, the film expresses itself largely through […]
By Jamieson Pearce Directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev You hear the crow before you see it. Bare tree branches criss-cross the foreground. The crow’s dry moan rings out. It feels cold. The frame does not move, but very slowly, […]