Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. She starts teaching art in a local school, but she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
Written by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee from an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach and directed by Bill Duke, THE KILLING FLOOR tells the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards, tracing the racial and class conflicts in the city’s giant slaughterhouses, which...
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of what is going on, but in this world where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless. Ukraine's 2022 official Oscar entry.
Sergei Eisenstein commemorates the Russian Revolution with one of his greatest cinematic achievements, utilizing non-actors and striking montage imagery to recount history from a political perspective.