The Seventh Annual Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York

The Seventh Annual Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York is proud to present a varied program of new documentaries – winners and participants of Russian or international film festivals in the 2013/2014 season made by directors from Russia, the United States, and the Russian-speaking Diaspora. Festival will be helding Friday, October 10 through Sunday, October 12, 2014 at Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick St., Manhattan), DCTV (87 Lafayette St., Manhattan), Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn), and Centre «Otrada» (Village of Chestnut Ridge, NY).

Over twenty documentaries will have their American premieres for the three days of the festival. The festival’s films delve into Russia's history and Russian contemporary society.  All documentaries will be screened with English subtitles.


Festival presents the following special programs:

Tribeca Cinemas:

• Special program «In the Beginning Was the Word» is devoted to Russian literature and contemporary writers and features two documentaries: «Russia’s Open Book. Writing in the Age of Putin» (USA) and “Writer ‘P’. The Attempt of Identification” (Russia). Q&A with the American film-team. An eminent writer as well as a great mystificateur, Victor Pelevin intrigues not only through his post-modern prose, but also through his anonymity. He is a writer-phantom who has never appeared in public, but has made a great impression on the minds of the Moscow intelligencia.
  “He doesn’t understand ‘truth’ and ‘lie’ as a simpler thinker might, and by grounding his ideas in fantasy, putting them in the words of his demonic muse… an introspective Russian trickster.” -- The New York Times Book Review
  

• Special program dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the death of Vasily Grossman, the author of the anti-Stalin novel “Life and Fate”. Q&A with the director of the documentary “I Knew That I Was Dead.” Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate” was called “War and Peace of the XX century”. Completed in 1959 this anti-Stalin novel was published only in 1980 in Switzerland. Sponsor of the screening -- The Russian Jewish Congress.
  “Grossman’s account of Soviet life – penal, military and civilian – is encyclopedic and unblinkered… enormously impressive…” - The New York Times Book Review
  

DCTV:

• Special program «Remembering the Holocaust in the Contemporary World» features two screenings: “The Holocaust – Is It a Wallpaper Paste?” (Russia) and «…With God Against Man» (USA).

• Special screenings «Open World» will include art-films, such as “Russian Dream” – the adventure of an American woman, full of illusions and fantasies about Russian people and the Russian winter. This story is about sympathy and misunderstanding between people belonging to different cultures and countries, about the dream of an open world without borders.

• Special presentation by the Russian National Guild of Documentary Films and Television. Q&A with the Guild’s representatives.

The 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival is organized by The New Review, Inc., the oldest intellectual literary journal of the Russian-speaking Diaspora based in New York since 1942, in partnership with the Diana Bagrationi Foundation (Organizing Partner & Supporter), the Causa Artium, Inc. (Partner in Creative Solutions), as well as the Russian National Guild of Documentary Films and Television (Media Associate, Russia).

COMPETITION PROGRAM:
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The Blockade. When Healed Only Compassion
Vasily Grossman. “I Knew That I Was Dead.’
Everything That We Are Doing
Straightening Sigh
The General Headquarters
Non-Stop City
Katya
Blood
Mamas, Kids and the Law
Medem
Writer “Pi”. The Attempt of Identification
“Goodbye America!” or the Last Movie by Alexander Dovzhenko
Russian Dream
“The Holocaust – Is It a Wallpaper Paste?”
“I Was Your Son, Russia!”
Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
From Russia with Math
“…with God against Man”

NONCOMPETITION PROGRAM
Sonia
Alex’s Meadowland

For additional information: www.rusdocfilmfest.org
Contacts: newreview@msn.com