FOCUS ON NEW RUSSIAN CINEMA
Sponsored by Syracuse University

EUGENE ZYKOV, from Moscow presents 5 extraordinary new Russian films. Eugene is the founder, publisher, and chief editor of All The Showcase, a Russian/English magazine whose mission is to advance international awareness of Russian cinema.

Slave Ross, director of Fat Stupid Rabbit, one of the films in this series will also be with us.

In recent years the Russian cinema has had a creative rebirth. The Syracuse International Film Festival has been witness to this since Stroll won the Best Feature award in our first festival in 2004. The very next year, Our Own won the same award. This year’s Russian films continue to build on the long list of new Russian cinema brought to our audience.

TUESDAY, APRIL 29
PALACE THEATER
7:00pm
Fat Stupid Rabbit by Slava Ross (Russia) 93 minutes, fiction
One of the miserable alcoholic actors from an unsuccessful repertory children's theater starts to insert Shakespeare into his lines in hopes of reviving his career. A sure fire hit.

9:15pm
Goodbye Southern City by Oleg Safaraliyev (Azerbaijan) 90 minutes, fiction
Political changes disrupt the peaceful lives of ordinary people in Baku, Azerbaijan, as new characters storm into the routine of a household, bringing new rules and demands.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30
PALACE THEATER
7:00pm
The Father by Ivan Solokov (Russia) 82 minutes, fiction
With mixed emotions, a Russian soldier returns from WWII to an awaiting family he no longer knows, taking a detour along the way, only to ultimately face the person changed most by the war: himself.

EVERSON MUSEUM
9:15pm
Black Prince by Aratoli Ivanov (Russia) 100 minutes, fiction
An African American director (Ray Charles Jr.) tries to unravel the mysteries of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's death, and finds a connection to a distant past. Very creative.

SATURDAY, MAY 3
BRISTOL IMAX OMNITHEATER at the MOST
4:15pm
Gagarin’s Grandson by Andrey Panin (Russia), 100 minutes, fiction EAST COAST PREMIERE
A talented middle age artist learns he has a long lost brother living in an orphanage; to complicate matters, his brother turns out to be pre-adolescent and black, making for a complex and powerful exploration of racism in Russia.