G U I D E

Ice + Q&APremiereBFI Southbank, 1 Dec, 8.10 pm

1h 53min | Drama , Musical , RomanceNadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again.Director:Oleg TrofimStars:Mariya Aronova, Alexander Petrov, Milos BikovicTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

The Coach + Q&AClosing premiere

BFI Southbank, 2 Dec, 8.30 pm

2h 18min | Drama , SportContemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town,

where he decides to coach their local team.Director:

Danila KozlovskyStars:

Danila Kozlovsky, Irina Gorbacheva, Olga ZuevaTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

The Last Warrior + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 2 Dec, 1.30 pm

1h 50min | Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy When Ivan meets his new friends in another place called Belogorie, his quest on the new country begins with sparkling immortals effect within love in the pass from his childhood up on his time .Director:Dmitriy DyachenkoStars:Viktor Khorinyak, Mila Sivatskaya, Ekaterina VilkovaTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Blockbuster fans

Temporary difficulties + Q&APremiereBFI Southbank, 29 Nov, 6.10 pm

1h 26min | Drama Sasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy’s father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person.Director:Mikhail RaskhodnikovStars:Rinal Mukhametov, Ivan Okhlobystin, Irina PegovaTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Salyut-7 + Q&APremiere

Curzon Mayfair, 27 Nov, 6.10 pm

1h 51min | Action , Drama , HistoryUSSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the

Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back

to life.Director:

Klim ShipenkoStars:

Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr SamoylenkoTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

I am losing weight + Q&APremiereCurzon Mayfair, 30 Nov, 6.20 pm

1h 42min | ComedyAnya only loves food and her boyfriend - athlete Zhenya. But Zhenya is not pleased with Anya because she has put on a lot of weight and he decides to leave her. But Anya does not give up and sets a goal to get rid of excess weight. Director:Aleksey NuzhnyyStars:Aleksandra Bortich, Evgeniy Kulik, Irina GorbachevaTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Summer + Q&ABFI Soutbank, 28 Nov, 8.30 pm and 30 Nov, 8.20 pm

2h 6min | Biography  Music , RomanceA love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege, and his wife in 1980s Russia.Director:Kirill SerebrennikovStars:Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Core of the world + Q&APremiere

Curzon Mayfair, 1 Dec, 6 pm

2h 4min | DramaEgor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region. He lives in a small building next to the house of the facility’s master.

It’s easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility’s master and

become a member of that family.Director:

Natalya MeshchaninovaStars:

Stepan Devonin, Dmitriy Podnozov, Yana SeksteTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Anna’s war + Q&APremiereRegent street cinema, 28 Nov, 8.30 pm

1h 14min | Drama The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant’s office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazi. In these inhuman conditions Anna not only survives but keeps her humanity. Director:Aleksey FedorchenkoTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Arthouselovers

Elephants can play football + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 26 Nov, 8.30 pm

1h 45min|Drama Dmitry is a strong-willed, solid guy. He could easily quit the game, if only he knew that he was playing.Director:Mikhail SegalTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Jumpman + Q&APremiere

BFI Southbank, 27 Nov, 8.20 pm

1h 35min | Crime , Drama Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children’s home, intent on

making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.

Director:Ivan I. Tverdovskiy

Stars:Vilma Kutaviciute, Anna Slyu, Daniil Steklov

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Coupled + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 8 pm

1h 34min | DramaA young couple, Andrey and Nadya, are lost in the remote Siberian taiga. It seems that the only way left for them to stay together as a couple is to put themselves in the way of peril. From this very moment begins their difficult path in the fight against personal fears and mistakes of the past…Director:Timofey ZhalninTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Piter by Kasta + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 1 Dec, 8 pm

1h 2 min | DramaA film inspired by the beautiful city of St. Petersburg and the tracks from the new album by the well-known Russian rap group Kasta. It is a fantasy on how the group members’ lives could have turned out - should Vladi, Zmey, Khamil and Shym have been born not in Rostov-on-Don, but in St. Petersburg. Drama, thriller, comedy and mystery - four short films, united by one theme and one city.Director:Aleksey SobolevTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Peter’s Odyssey + Q&APremiere

Regent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 6 pm

1h 25 min | DramaPeter is a 12-year-old boy, whose blissful summer of 1996 comes

to an abrupt end when his parents decide to еmigrate to Germany. Unwilling to adapt to the new reality Peter embarks on a fantasy

journey back home. Based on a true story.Director:

Anna Kolchina, Alexey Kuzmin-Tarasov

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Deep Rivers + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 30 Nov, 6 pm

1h 15 min | DramaAn Old Man, his two sons, Bes and Mukha, and Bes’s wife, Zaira live on the bank of a mountain river. The men earn their living by falling trees. One day the Old Man gets incapacitated in an accident. The family asks the youngest brother, who lives in the city, to come and help. But it is not easy for the family to overcome their old feuds and reconcile their differences.Director:Vladimir BitokovTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

The Story of an appointmentOpening PremiereEmpire IMAX Leicester sq., Nov 25, 5.30 pm

1h 52min | Drama The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.Director:Dunya SmirnovaStars:Irina Gorbacheva, Yevgeniy Kharitonov, Aleksey SmirnovTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Sobibor Curzon Mayfair, 29 Nov, 6.20 pm

1h 50min | Drama , History , War«Sobibor» is based on the history of the Sobibór

extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW

in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners.

Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the

partisans. Script based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: «Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality“.

Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy

Stars:Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya

KozhevnikovaTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Historylovers

Genesis 2.0BFI Southbank, 1 Dec, 1.30 pm

1h 52min | DocumentaryOn the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air.The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. For the high-tech genetic scientists resurrecting a mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero.Director:Christian FreiTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Asino + Q&ABFI Southbank, 2 Dec, 2 pm

2h 47 min | DocumentaryThe celebrated Russian theatre director Anatoly Vasilyev’s Asino

(Italian for donkey) is an epic ode to this beast of burden. The donkey has a long cultural history dating back to Greek mythology

and the Bible. Asino consists of eight novellas, approximately 20 minutes long. Shot in Italy, the film teeters between reality and

allegory, asking the viewers to reflect on what they see.Director:

Anatoly VasilyevTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Hostages: It was important to understand + Q&A30 Nov, Regent Street Cinema, 3 pm

1h 33min | DocumentaryA documentary about the shooting of the film Hostages (participant of RFW-2017) and the tragedy in Georgia in November 1983, when a group of youngsters from elite Georgian families tried to hijack an aircraft in order to escape from the USSR. The film involves live witnesses and participants of those events, as well as the creators of the film Hostages, who are trying to comprehend and get through the national tragedy of their people 35 years after what had happened.Director:Elena SlatinaTicket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Historylovers Documentary

lovers

The core of the world + Q&APremiereCurzon Mayfair, 1 Dec, 6 pm

2h 4min | DramaDirector:Natalya Meshchaninova

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2Qs3jzf

The Story of an appointmentOpening PremiereEmpire IMAX Leicester sq., 25 Nov, 5.30 pm

Director:Dunya Smirnova

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2AQ4QJR

Anna’s war + Q&APremiere

Regent street cinema, 28 Nov, 8.30 pm

Screenwriter:Natalya Meshchaninova

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2SQnPes

Women In Film

Clay Pit + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 29 Nov, 8.30 pm

Director:Vera Glagoleva (1956-2017)

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2yTDgdr

Peter’s Odyssey + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 6 pm

Director:Anna Kolchina

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2qwFjPR

Hostages: It was important

to understand + Q&A1h 33min | Documentary

30 Nov, Regent Street Cinema, 3 pm

Director:Elena Slatina

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2RCvSK6

Women In Film

Suleiman Mountain (Debut) + Q&APremiereRegent Street Cinema, 30 Nov, 8.30 pm

Director:Elizaveta Stishova

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2quTIvR

In the Hood + Q&AVIP ScreeningBulgari Hotel, 30 Nov, 8 pm

Director:Olga Zueva

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2yWi1Yn

Uncle Sasha, or one flew over Russia

PremierePushkin House, 27 Nov, 7 pm

Director:Tatyana Soboleva

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2REIYqt

Victim StatusPremierePushkin House, 26 Nov, 7 pm

Director:Yulia Bobkova

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2PIlaoe

Short Film Selection #2 + Q&ARegent Street Cinema, 1 Dec, 3 pm

Directors:Ksenia Rappoport, Ksenia Zueva, Hava Mukhiyeva

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2REt0N0

Short Film Selection #1 + Q&A

Regent Street Cinema, 26 Nov, 6.30 pm

Directors:Anna Kuznetsova, Yana Gladkikh, Svetlana

Samoshina,Tatyana Polosina

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2yWz900

Celebrity spotting list

Who?Konstantin KhabenskyWhen?29 Nov, 6.20 pmWhere?Curzon Mayfair

At «The Sobibor» screening

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Who?Vladimir MashkovWhen?2 Dec, 6.10 pmWhere?BFI SouthbankAt The «Oleg Tabakov - Life Celebration» event

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Who?Danila Kozlovsky

When?2 Dec, 8.30 pm

Where?BFI Southbank

At «The Coach» screening, Closing Premiere

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Who?Ivan OkhlobystinWhen?29 Nov, 6.10 pmWhere?BFI SouthbankAt the «Temporary Difficulties» screening

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Who?Irina StarshenbaumWhen?28 Nov, 8.30 pm Where?BFI Southbank at the «Summer» screening

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz

Who?Irina Gorbacheva

When?30 Nov, 6.20 pm

Where?Curzon Mayfair at the «I am

losing weight» screening

Ticket link: http://bit.ly/rfwatoz