Kino Art Festival

7:00 p.m.

Isabel Bader Theatre

Anna Karenina has two plots that run side by side throughout the novel: the story of Anna and the story of Levin. Levin’s story is an expression of Tolstoy’s pastoral nature and a reaffirmation of the novelist’s vision of the simple life. The beauty of the seasons and the pragmatic work of harvesting absorb Levin. Levin’s relationship to the land and life is contrasted with Anna’s enigmatic and destructive passions. Anna’s appearance in the novel represents a rift in the tranquil world, which allows physical passion and irrationality to prevail.

Directed by Sergey Solovyev
Starring Tatiana Drubich as Anna Karenina

4:30 p.m.

Munk Centre for International Studies

Thomas Lahusen, Professor of Eurasian Cultural History at the University of Toronto and documentary filmmaker, together with Sergei Kapterev, senior researcher at the Institute of Film Art in Moscow, will participate in a panel on the present, past, and future of Russian cinema. Some of the questions raised will be the politics of documentary film, the problem of film exhibition and preservation, and the relevance of the Soviet cinematic experience to contemporary Russian and world cinema.

6:30 p.m.

UofT, Slavic Dept.
(free admission to UofT students)

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine’s Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Directed by Vladimir Bortko
Cast: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Vladimir Ilyin

7:00 p.m.

Regent Theatre

The World Premier of the first Georgian documentary Their Kingdom (15 minutes), a film made in 1928 in Soviet Georgia by Mikhail Kalatozishvili, and had been considered lost until its first two reels were discovered at Russia’s State Film Archive and brought to Toronto by Sergei Kapterev. Sergei Kapterev holds a Doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University and has recently published a book entitled Post-Stalinist Cinema and the Russian Intelligentsia, 1953-1960. Sergei Kapterev will make a 10-minute presentation before the film and stay for a Q&A afterwards.

immediately after

Regent Theatre

History of the Moscow Subway System revealed through a combination of unique and never before seen archival footage as well as contemporary shots. The film recounts the role the Moscow subway played during World War II. It shows the subway’s evolution from a grand underground palace to a modern-day transport hub.

Directed by Elizaveta Listova

9:30 p.m.

Regent Theatre

A famous opera singer decides to bid farewell to her provincial hometown before she leaves for Western Europe. This nostalgic trip radically alters the life of her son as well as her own.

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Cast: Ksenia Rappoport, Roman Shmakov, Yevgeniya Kuznetsova, Sergey
Sosnovsky

12:30 p.m.

UofT, Slavic Dept.

“The Province of Lost Film”“Cinema Paradiso Soviet style.” Employees of the former distributionand exhibition network, projectionists, and viewers from centralRussia reflect upon the unique and already bygone experience of the Soviet experiment of “cinefication,” which sought to bring the screento every corner of the Soviet Union

“The Photographer”A film about Riazan photographer Evgeny Kashirin (1949-2007) and a triptych about a dying rural life, a train that crawls from town to town, and the story of a man who traded his wife for a marble statue of Judith.

Samovar Room

Special guest to KinoArt Festival and Russian
musician Alexander Lipnisky will present segments from his television program on key figures and bands of Russian rock-music, such as Alexandr Bashlachev, Sergei Kurekhin, Alexei Khvostenko, AUKTSYON band, Moo Sounds, KINO, AQUIARIUM and ZOOPARK.

Regent Theatre

The film’s screenplay was written by famous Russian director Sergei Bodrov, Jr. This joint effort recounts the events of the turbulent year of 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution. Directed by Alexei Balabanov

UofT, Slavic Dept.

The action takes place in sunny, groovy present day St.Petersburg and during the fierce defence of the city in 1942. Four friends, a student, a skinhead, a geeky gamer and a rapper make their cash looking for Nazi relics from WWII. Motivated by greed they are hip, cynical and have no respect for the past. During a dig they stumble upon a bombed out bunker full of valuable treasures but also something strange. Among the documents belonging to a Red Army officer they find a photograph of themselves. Trying to come to their senses they dive into a nearby lake and surface… to a spray of gunfire in 1942.

Directed by Andrei Malyukov
Cast: Boris Galkin, Yekaterina Klimova, Danila Kozlovsky, Sergei Makhovikov

Regent Theatre

An existential voyage to the heart of Russia’s capital city, Moscow, shown through the eyes of an ordinary Muscovite. The main character lives in an ordinary apartment building, somewhere on the outskirts of Moscow. He’s alone in this city, although he has a family. His only connection to reality is his notebook.

Directed by Bakur Bakuradze
Cast: Gela Chitava, Ruslan Grebyonkin, Lyubov Firsova

Regent Theatre

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine’s Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Directed by Vladimir Bortko
Cast: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Vladimir Ilyin

11:30 a.m.

UofT, Slavic Dept.

“Mother” “Face-to-face
confrontation” “Nine forgotten songs” “Salvation” “The Wall” “Polaroid
love” “The one who was different”

Regent Theatre

Lullabies of the world – a collection of animated films based on lullabies of different nations. Every lullaby is performed in its original language. The plot of the movie is based on the story told in the lullaby. Visual images reflect the lifestyle and traditions of each nation.

Regent Theatre

A documentary devoted to the execution
of the Jewish antifascist committee in the USSR.

Directed by Alexander Zeldovich

Regent Theatre

Q&A follows, director in attendance.

Assa is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician falls for mobster’s young mistress. The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.

Directed by Sergey Solovyev
Cast: Tatiana Drubich, Anatoli Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanovs

Regent Theatre

Q&A follows, director in attendance

A sequel for a cult film of the late 1980’s “Assa”. It focuses on the life of Alika, who served her time for killing Krymov and becomes a famous actress.

Directed by Sergey Solovyev
Cast: Tatiana Drubich, Alexander Bashirov, Segey Shnurov

Regent Theatre

Special guest to KinoArt Festival and Russian musician Alexander Lipnisky will present a documentary about Russian rock group Kino, who had a major role in the film ASSA.