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Artdocfest
Artdocfest
August 03, 2020
The best 10 films opened for watching in July.
Alina Makarova is a mother of six children, five of her own and one adopted. Her ex-husband is from Ethiopia, which is why all her own children are of mixed origin. Only her adopted son is white, but he is psychologically unstable. Alina's older children realise what complications the adoption might bring, and are afraid that there won't be enough room, time and love for everyone. But she convinces them that it's the right thing. The new boy really turns their life into trouble. Alina shows miraculous patience and pedagogical talents. Her children become her allies in raising the new son. This film is an epic panorama of a fight for love, an ode to motherhood.
White Mama
9
Zosya Rodkevich, Evgeniya Ostanina
Russia, 2018
97 min
Russian
English
He went through the war from Leningrad to Germany. For exploits he was awarded two medals "For Courage" and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. Vladimir Alekseevich lives in a small village in the Irkutsk region. Sometimes he gets on a train and goes to the city to visit his son, grandson, great-grandchildren. But there are moments of silence when “you sit and remember everyone, both the living and the dead.” And the more silence, the more memories, the ghosts of war.
Bakurov
4
Yuliya Kiseleva
Russia, 2017
55 min
Russian
English
The viewer is given a chance to immerse himself in the atmosphere of the most famous psychiatric hospital in Russia. Real patients of the psychiatric hospital No. N.A. Alekseeva (popularly “Kashchenko”), real doctors, real orderlies and even the camera is almost unbiased. Because it is a very hidden camera.
Kashchenko. Examination
7
Aleksandr Mironov
Russia, 2011
68 min
Russian
We find the hereditary Tuvan shaman Chochagar at the most difficult moment of his life, he passes on his knowledge to a student, and he himself moves to a higher level of knowledge of the world and becomes a “white” shaman. Maybe it's just a game, or maybe an unknown, hidden from us reality. Who knows?
Julia and shamans
7
Svetlana Stasenko
Russia, 2014
35 min
Russian
English
Neo-Buddhist Dmitry Enteo, who became an ardent defender of Orthodox values, riveted the public's attention to himself after several eccentric actions. He calls himself an Orthodox actionist and contrasts his activities with the work of the art group "Voina" (War) and "Pussy Riot". He is considered another Surkov project, he claims that God is behind him. Gathering a movement of Orthodox activists around him and calling it "God's will," Dmitry announced his intention to lead Russia, and then the whole world, to the Eucharistic revolution. What comes out of this, and who is Enteo really?
God's will
7
Beata Bubenec
Russia, 2013
60 min
Russian
The film was shot by students of the 2nd TV-directing course of the Kyiv National University of Theater, Film and Television for four months that changed the country. These are stories about people for whom Maidan has become an integral part of their lives, from dancing to shooting. These are eyewitness accounts in which emotions are sometimes more important than words.
Black book of Maidan
7
Anastasia Lysenko, Asya Khmeleva, Yuri Katynsky, Anna Goltzberg, Anna Korzh, Anton Semin, Anna Lysun, Victoria Zhukova, Alena Kosinova, Anastasiya Krys'ko, Vladislav Rogalevsky, Anna Borisova, Alina Chernobay
Ukraine, 2014
75 min
Ukrainian, Russian
The protagonists of the film are orphans since childhood. They have been living in closed psycho-neurological boarding schools for many years, Natasha in the women's one, Hera and Kolya in the men's one. But now they have a chance to become independent. Thanks to this, they met and love appeared in their lives.

Winner of the national competition of the Flahertiana IFF, the international festivals Eight Women, Let's Live, Pokrov, twice winner of the Stalker film festival, Laurel Branch nominee, participant of the ARTDOСFEST film festival, "Window to Europe”, Canberra Mental Health Film Festival 2019 in Australia, independent documentary film festival RUSDOCFILMFEST-3W in New York.
Let Me Live My Life
8
Olga Averkieva
Russia, 2018
44 min
Russian
English
A documentary about military pilots who had to make a difficult choice. With the collapse of the USSR, their regiment, along with the Crimea, went to Ukraine. Take an oath to a new country for the second time or leave your native airfield to the north, leave your apartments and even your family? But what if the plane of the former Soviet republic is in the sight? How to fight against former fellow soldiers? The recent tragic events and air raids in the Donbass, as well as the annexation of Crimea to Russia, again forced the pilots to think about these issues. The film received the Grand Prix at the Open Documentary Film Festival "Russia" - 2016.
Afterburner. Retrieval
9
Nataliya Gugueva
Russia, 2016
93 min
Russian
The Russian actor is going to America for the first time to fulfill his cherished dream, to act in a Hollywood movie.
Road to Hollywood
3
Oleg Blinov
USA, 2019
36 min
Russian, English
Russian
There are many legends associated with the voodoo religion. Her rituals are surrounded by an aura of mystery. The small West African state of Benin is considered the cradle of this religion. In the holds of slave ships, the voodoo religion crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and now there are over 50 million of its adherents in the world. The protagonist of the film, a teenager Pascal, will have to undergo initiation into the most mysterious cult on earth.
Obsessed with voodoo
6
Sergey Yastrzhembsky
Russia, 2012
44 min
Russian

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