Russian New Wave

By: Alexey Bezhuma​nov

Films mentioned in this list are not my favorites. I haven’t even seen all of them. And yes, I know that putting Aleksey Balabanov, Andrei Zvyagintsev and Vassily Sigarev together in the same list may look ridiculous, especially for Russian film critics, but who cares about Russian film critics? The fact is that we do have New Russian Cinema and thankfully it is not this year’s Cannes’s nominee Nikita Mikhalkov.

• 01
  Cargo 200
  Aleksey Balabanov
• 02
  How I Ended This Summer
  Alexei Popogrebsky
• 03
  The Return
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 04
  Wolfy
  Vasili Sigarev
• 05
  Tale in the Darkness
  Nikolay Khomeriki
• 06
  Paper Soldier
  Aleksei German Ml.
• 07
  Crush
  Pyotr Buslov
• 08
  Help Gone Mad
  Boris Khlebnikov
• 09
  Everybody Dies But Me
  Valeriya Gai Germanika
• 10
  Tambourine, Drum
  Aleksei Mizgiryov
• 11
  Roads to Koktebel
  Boris Khlebnikov
• 12
  Free Floating
  Boris Khlebnikov
• 13
  977
  Nikolay Khomeriki
• 14
  Morphia
  Aleksey Balabanov
• 15
  The Banishment
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 16
  My Joy
  Sergei Loznitsa
• 17
  4
  Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
• 18
  Wild Field
  Mikheil Kalatozishvili
• 19
  Mermaid
  Anna Melikyan
• 20
  Brother
  Aleksey Balabanov
• 21
  Brother 2
  Aleksey Balabanov
• 22
  Silent Souls
  Aleksei Fedorchenko
• 23
  The Mother
  Antoine Cattin
• 24
  Together
  Pavel Kostomarov
• 25
  Gromozeka
  Vladimir Kott
• 26
  Garpastum
  Aleksei German Ml.
• 27
  I Love You
  Aleksandr Rastorguev
• 28
  Elena
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 29
  The Hunter
  Bakur Bakuradze
• 30
  Shultes
  Bakur Bakuradze
• 31
  Twilight Portrait
  Angelina Nikonova
• 32
  I Am
  Igor Voloshin
• 33
  Nirvana
  Igor Voloshin
• 34
  The Bedouin
  Igor Voloshin
• 35
  Chapiteau-show
  Sergei Loban
• 36
  Dust
  Sergei Loban
• 37
  Heart's Boomerang
  Nikolay Khomeriki
• 38
  Living
  Vasili Sigarev
• 39
  A Long and Happy Life
  Boris Khlebnikov
• 40
  The Major
  Yury Bykov
• 41
  Bite the Dust
  Taisia Igumentseva
• 42
  Soaring
  Aleksandr Mindadze