The document provides information on Russian documentary films that will be screened at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2015. It lists over 50 Russian documentary films, including titles, directors, producers, and brief synopses. It also provides contact information for the Russian Documentary Guild, which supports Russian documentary filmmakers and helped organize the screening of these films.

1. RUSSIAN FILMS (DOCUMENTARIES)
in Jihlava IDFF 2015
Latvia | Israel | Russia| 2014
Director: Herz Frank, Maria Kravchenko,
Producer: GuntisTrekteris,Vitaliy Maskiy, Ego Media,Vertov, Real Cinema
Section: Special Event
Synopsis: He is serving a life sentence for the murder ofYitzhak Rabin. She is a divorced
mother of four children, originally from the Soviet Union. Together they are looking for
a path open to love and life in a country divided by religion and violence. This heartfelt
portrait of a separated family provides indirect testimony about the elusive political and
cultural situation in Israel.
Russia | France | Germany | 2015
Director:AlexeySukhovey;Producer:AnastasiaAleksandrova,Marie-OdileGazin
Section: Between The Seas, First Lights
Synopsis:SetinaremoteRussianvillagelocatedabouthunderedandsixtykilometresfrom
Moscow, this observational documentary is focused on a group of loggers – illegal mi-
grants from Tajikistan who came to Russia in the hope of finding work. Hired by Russian
businesses, they live thousands of kilometres away from their families to whom they
send their earnings. The uncompromising endless shots capture the simplicity of the
lives of these seasonal workers, and the overall undisciplined style of the filming corre-
sponds well to the unfriendly environment in which they must survive from day to day.
Russia | United States | Bulgaria | 2014
Director: Oleg Mavromati; Producer: Boryana Rossa, Andrei Silvestrov
Section: Between The Seas
Synopsis:Theinternet,madness,andoldandnewRussia-thesearethetouchpointsofthisfilm
standing at the fine line between performance and raw documentary. Sergei Astahov
is a mentally disabled man who spends most of his time closed up in his Moscow flat,
sending his messages out into the world in the form of videoblogs. For a single man,
the camera becomes his sole partner and repetitive speaking a demonstration of life.
In his missives, he confesses his homosexuality, his admiration for President Putin, and
his belief in the Orthodox faith. Paradoxically, his mind is the meeting point for all the
extremes of the Russian world, which has no place for the mentally ill.
France | Russia | 2015
Director: Alexandr Zarchikov; Producer: Nikolay Bem, Jérémie Jorrand
Section: Between The Seas
Synopsis: Thefilm’smainprotagonist,AlexandrZarchikov,worksonacargo ship transporting
Japanese cars that have been cut in half to the Russian port city Vladivostok. There,
the cars are reassembled and transporters take them away to their final destinations.
Zarchikov decides to try working on the mainland, and joins one car on its journey
through Siberia. His experience morphs into a meditative film essay, symbolically divid-
ed into two halves (sea and land), where he ponders his relationship with his mother-
land, religion, and nature, and tries to overcome his feelings of rootlessness.
Czech Republic | Russia | Germany | North Korea | Latvia | 2015
Director:VitalyMansky;Producer:NataliaManska,FilipRemunda,Vít Klusák,
Simone Baumann, Petr Kubica
Section: Between The Seas
Synopsis:Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang
familywhosedaughterwaschosentotakepartinoneofthefamousKorean“Spartakiads”.Theritu-
alisedexplosionsofcolourandjoycontrastsharplywithpaleeverydayreality,whichisnotparticu-
larlyterrible,butratherquitesurreal,likeatypicallifeasseen“throughthelookingglass”.Thefilm
portraysNorthKoreainprobablytheonlypossibleway:asanunintentionalsituationaltragicomedy.
Preciselystagedfilmscenesduplicateprinciplescommonforlifein“themostbeautifulcountryon
theeasternsideoftheglobe”:virtuallyhorrifyingselfstagingoftheresidents’ownlives.
BeyondtheFearGuestsNoPlaceforFoolsTheHalvesUndertheSun
PUBLISHEDWITH SUPPORT OFTHE RUSSIAN
DOCUMENTARY GUILD ANDTHE MINISTRY OF
CULTURE OFTHE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russian Documentary Guild is the only professional organization in Russia,
which unites filmmakers and television workers (more than 250 people and
production studios from all over Russia) specializing in documentary and
popular-science films, documentaryTV programs and news coverage.
Vlad Ketkovich, InternationalRelations
Contact phone: +7 916 674-06-54,
Contact e-mail: international@rgdoc.ru
www.rgdoc.ru

2. RUSSIAN FILMS
3 Seconds of Darkness,
9 Seconds of Light
Director and producer: Ponomaryova Mariya
Russia, 2015
Arctic Alchemy
Director: NastiaTarasova; Producer: Irina Shata-
lova, Albatross Film Studio
2015, Russia, USA
Beyond the Fear
Director: Herz Frank, Maria Kravchenko; Pro-
ducer: GuntisTrekteris,Vitaliy Maskiy, Ego Media,
Vertov, Real Cinema.2014, Latvia, Israel, Russia
Bukovsky. Zero Probability
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Producer: Max-
im Valetsky. 2015, Russia
Citizen Khodorkovsky
Director: and; Producer: Eric Bergkraut, Eric
Bergkaut. Germany, Israel, Russia, Switzerland,
2015
City of the Sun
Director: and; Producer: Daria Orkhan, BroccoliF-
ilm. 2014, Russia
Conversation with Ulysses
Director: Inna Kokorina; Producer: Alexander
Radov,“Fishka Film”. 2015, Russia
Dancer
Director: and; Producer: Salomeya Bauer,VGIK
(All-Russian State Institute of Cinemathography).
Georgia, Russia, 2014
The Darlings
Director: and; Producer: Andrey Fenochka,VGIK
(All-Russian State Institute of Cinemathography).
Russia 2015
Finding Babel
Director: and; Producer: David Novack.
Canada, France, Russia, Ukraine, USA, 2015
God’sWill
Directorandproducer:BeataBubenec.Russia,2014
Guests
Director:AlexeySukhovey;Producer:Marie-Odile
Gazin,TheKingdomStudio.Russia,2014
In Search of Happiness
Director:DmitriySidorov,SvetlanaDemidova;Pro-
ducer:ViktorSkubey,NordWestFilm.Russia,2015
Independent
Director: Julia Kiseleva; Producer: Olga Shaposh-
nikova, Risk Film andVideo Studio. Russia, 2015
Katia
Director: and; Producer: Anna Shishova.
Russia, 2014
Kiev/Moscow. Part 1
Director: Elena Khoreva; Producer: Alexander
Rastorguev, Pavel Kostomarov,“Realnost”and Marx
Film. Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, 2015
Kiev/Moscow. Part 2
Director: Elena Khoreva; Producer: Alexander
Rastorguev, Pavel Kostomarov,“Realnost”and Marx
Film. Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, 2015
Land of Udehe
Director: Ivan Golovnev; Producer:Vladimir
Golovnev. Russia, 2015
Larisa’s Crew
Director: Elena Laskari; Producer: Ekaterina
Meliksetova, Alexey Khanyutin, Art-Project Foun-
dation. Russia, 2015
Lighthouse
Director: Olga Maurina; Producer: Alina Deniso-
va, IQ Marketing. Russia, 2015
The Little Prince,
Director: Olga Privolnova; Producer: Ksenia Gap-
chenko, Marina Razbezhkina Studio. Russia, 2015
Long.Black.Cloud Is Coming Down.
Director: Alexandra Likhacheva; Producer: Ivan
Tverdovskiy,Tochka zreniya, Russia. 2014
Love for Sale
Director:Taisia Reshetnikova; Producer:Taisia
Reshetnikova and IvanTverdovskiy,Tochka zreniya.
Russia, 2015
Men’s Choice
Director: Elena Demidova; Producer:Vlad Ket-
kovich, Ethnofund, Illume OY, Relation 04 Media.
Russia, Finland, Norway, 2014
Mother – It’s Me
Director: Evgenija Marchenko; Producer: Ivan
Tverdovskiy,Tochka zreniya. Russia, 2014
Museum“Revolution”
Director: Natalia Babintseva; Producer: Anatoliy
Golubovskiy, KinoKi Studio. Russia, 2015
No Place for Fools
Director: Oleg Mavromatti, ; Producer: Boryana
Rossa, Andrei Silvestrov Supernova, Cine Fantom.
Bulgaria, Russia, USA, 2014
Ok Good
Director:Yulia Kurmangalina, Anna Kornienko;
Producer: Alexandra Kulak. Russia, 2015
Olya’s Love
Director:KirillSakharnov;Producer:Ksenia
Sakharnova,FilipMalinovskiy,JurgenKarasek,Vlad
Ketkovich,SugarDocs,Ethnofund,SoleilFilmGMBH.
Austria,Russia,2014
On the Edge
Director: Anna Shishova; Producer:Vladimir
Bazhin, National Film Center. Russia, 2014
Parable of the Lame Sheep
Director: IrinaVasilieva; Producer: Alexander
Radov, Studio Fishka Film. Russia, 2014
A Passenger Stream,
Director: Anna Dranitsyna; Producer: Alexey
Tel’nov, Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio,
Russia. 2014
The Reindeer People,
Director: OlgaVershinina; Producer: Sergey
Yastrzhembskiy,Yastreb Film. Russia, 2014
Seek the Light
Director:ArnoldGiskin;Producer:XeniaKuleshova.
Russia, 2015
Spirit in Motion
Director:Yulia Bivsheva, Sofia Geveyler, Sofia
Kucher; Producer: Sergey Miroshnichenko, Studio
Ostrov Producing Center,VGIK-Debut. Russia, 2015
Swimmers
Director and Producer: Kristina Paustian.
Germany, Hungary, Russia, 2015
Ten Centimeters of Life
Director: AnnaYanovskaya; Producer: Mikhail
Zil’berman, Studio 217 Ltd. Russia, 2014
Traces In the Snow
Director and Producer:Vladimir Kozlov.
Russia, 2014
TheTranslator,
Director: Grigory Manyuk, ManfredWiesner;
Producer: ManfredWiesner.
France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, 2014
TheTwin
Director:ValentinTkach; Producer: Marina Raz-
bezkina, Marina Razbezhkina Studio. Russia, 2015
Varya
Director: Aliona Polunina; Producer: NastyaVel-
skaya,WellSky Production. Russia, Ukraine, 2014
Victory Day
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya; Producer: Sergey
Vinokurov, 317 Film. Russia, 2014
WhileYou Are Here,
Director and Producer: Kirill. Russia, 2015
Yankovsky
Director and Producer: Arkadiy Kogan, Studio
217 Ltd. Russia, 2014
in East Silver 2015
Contact Person (Russian Documentary Guild): Vlad Ketkovich
+7 916 674 0654, international@rgdoc.ru