The section includes the avant-premieres of the most anticipated distribution titles, joint screenings with various Russian film festivals, as well as some current releases that will be presented in a special context and accompanied by lectures.
Garage Screen: Selected Releases
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Schedule
Summer (Leto)
Kirill Serebrennikov’s new black-and-white feature looks at the 1980s’ underground rock scene in Leningrad. The story of freedom, change, and the end of the era that nobody expected to end revolves around the young Viktor Tsoi, Mike Naumenko and his wife Natalia.
Director Kirill Serebrennikov. Russia, 2018, 120 minutes. 18+
Lady Bird
In her debut feature as a director, the face of new American cinema, Greta Gerwig, tells the story of a seventeen-year-old from a small-town family (Saoirse Ronan) trying to find her place in life. This truthful and witty picture has received five Oscar nominations.
Director: Greta Gerwig. USA, 2017, 94 minutes. 18+
Summer (Leto)
Kirill Serebrennikov’s new black-and-white feature looks at the 1980s’ underground rock scene in Leningrad. The story of freedom, change, and the end of the era that nobody expected to end revolves around the young Viktor Tsoi, Mike Naumenko and his wife Natalia.
Director Kirill Serebrennikov. Russia, 2018, 120 minutes. 16+
The Man Who Stole Banksy
A Palestinian named Walid steals a fragment of the Bethlehem wall with a work by Banksy on it and tries to sell it. This humorous and thought-provoking story about the clash of perspectives, cultures, and civilizations is narrated by Iggy Pop.
Director Marco Proserpio. Italy, 2018, 90 minutes. 16+
Unsane
A businesswoman who believes she is being stalked is confined in a psychiatric hospital only to discover her stalker among the orderlies. The maniac and the victim constantly switch places in Steven Soderbergh’s new psychological thriller.
Director Steven Soderbergh. USA, 2018, 98 minutes. 18+
Anna’s War (Voyna Anny)
Surviving a mass shooting in Ukraine occupied by the Nazis, six-year-old Anna hides at the German headquarters and creates a world of her own from found objects. In this dark war-drama imagining becomes the only way of coping with reality.
Director Alexey Fedorchenko. Russia, 2018, 75 minutes. 18+
Premiere. Burning
One of the most acclaimed films of 71st Cannes Festival—a loose screen adaptation of a story about a dangerous love triangle by Haruki Murakami.
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
South Korea, 2018, 148 minutes, 18+
Burning
One of the most acclaimed films of 71st Cannes Festival—a loose screen adaptation of a story about a dangerous love triangle by Haruki Murakami.
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
South Korea, 2018, 148 minutes, 18+
Tully
Funny and truthful tragicomedy about the first few months of motherhood and midlife crisis from the creators of Juno and Young Adult. With Charlize Theron as the lead.
Directed by Jason Reitman
USA, 2018, 94 minutes, 18+
Ants on a Shrimp
A journey film that follows a chef and the co-owner of the legendary restaurant Noma—René Redzepi, from Copenhagen to Tokyo. Redzepi opens a pop-up version of his restaurant in Japan and this five-week-long project turns into one of the most risky ventures of his career.
Directed by Maurice Dekkers
Netherlands, 2016, 88 minutes
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Summer (Leto)
Kirill Serebrennikov’s black-and-white feature looks at the 1980s’ underground rock scene in Leningrad. The story of freedom, change, and the end of the era that nobody expected to end revolves around the young Viktor Tsoi, Mike Naumenko and his wife Natalia.
Director Kirill Serebrennikov. Russia, 2018, 120 minutes. 16+
Theater of Life
A story about Modena’s “Osteria Francescana” chef Massimo Bottura, whose idea was to open a soup kitchen for the poor, homeless, and the migrants in Milan. They were to be accepted equally with the wealthy and the rest of the customers. A film about the kitchen as a social and political project.
Directed by Peter Svatek
Canada, 2016, 93 minutes, 16+
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Super blockbuster about the adventures of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the sixth instalment in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
USA, 2018, 177 minutes, 16+
Call Me By Your Name
A warm and sunny melodrama by the director of A Bigger Splash and I am Love. During a summer vacation in Italy a young man falls in love with his professor father’s graduate-student assistant. In the film–one of the most praised by critics and audiences alike during the past year—there are long summer walks, the first aching feeling of love, and rapture from the revealing of feelings. The film won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Italy, France, Brazil, USA, 2017, 132 minutes, 18+
In the Aisles
The joys and sorrows of human life unfold against the backdrop of a giant supermarket. Award winner of the Ecumenic (Christian) Jury and German Art House Guild at Berlinale 2018.
Director Thomas Stuber
Germany, 2018, 125 minutes, 16+
Christopher Robin
Marc Foster, director of Finding Neverland and The Kite Runner, returns to Alan Alexander Milne to tell the story of an ordinary man whose power of imagination helps him to bring his childhood friends—Winnie the Pooh and company—to life. It is a sophisticated film about childhood, fantasy, and the ability to accept the world as it is.
Director Marc Foster
USA, 2018, 104 minutes, 6+
Boy Meets Girl
Magic black and white film about a couple of dreamers from Paris. It was the first film in the career of Leos Carax who later presented such masterpieces as The Lovers on the Bridge and Holy Motors.
Director Leos Carax
France, 1984, 100 minutes, 16+
Shoplifters
The winner of the 71st Cannes Film Festival is a deceptively simple drama about crisis of the traditional family and blood ties as a relative concept which has nothing to do with authentic intimacy, love and care.
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Japan, 2018, 120 minutes, 16+
Happy as Lazzaro
One of the triumphs of the 71st Cannes Film Festival is a mythological drama by Alice Rohrwacher about the friendship between a farmer from rural Italy and a poseur from a rich family. It reflects the irreversible changes in the country, the world, and people over the last few decades.
Director Alice Rohrwacher
Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, 2018, 125 min, 18+
Sofichka
Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village after a twenty-year exile. Existing in the gap between the lost past and the destroyed present, she tries to learn to live anew and to find harmony with her destiny. The screen version of the lyrical novel by Fazil Iskander, shot by debutante Kira Kovalenko, a student of Alexander Sokurov Kabardino-Balkarian film school.
Director Kira Kovalenko
Russia, 2016, 78 minutes. 18+
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The tragicomedy by Gus Van Sant, icon of American filmmaking, about the famous artist and author of caustic cartoons John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), a rowdy cynical, talented and very sarcastic man, confined to a wheelchair.
Director Gus Van Sant
USA, 2018, 113 minutes, 18+
Wonderstruck
The latest movie by Todd Haynes, director of Carol and Far from Heaven, is a magical story about fathers and sons, which takes place in the two parallel worlds—the era of silent movies and New York of the 1970s, with its liberalization and counter-culture.
Director Todd Haynes
USA, 2017, 116 minutes. 16+
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The tragicomedy by Gus Van Sant, icon of American filmmaking, about the famous artist and author of caustic cartoons John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), a rowdy cynical, talented and very sarcastic man, confined to a wheelchair.
Director Gus Van Sant
USA, 2018, 113 minutes, 18+
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The tragicomedy by Gus Van Sant, icon of American filmmaking, about the famous artist and author of caustic cartoons John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), a rowdy cynical, talented and very sarcastic man, confined to a wheelchair.
Director Gus Van Sant
USA, 2018, 113 minutes, 18+
Boy Meets Girl
Magic black and white film about a couple of dreamers from Paris. It was the first film in the career of Leos Carax who later presented such masterpieces as The Lovers on the Bridge and Holy Motors.
Director Leos Carax
France, 1984, 100 minutes, 16+
Ash Is Purest White
Chronicle of the relationship between a gangster and his girlfriend, which covers twenty years and traces the changing world during this period. One of the main competition films of the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
Director Jia Zhangke
China, France, Japan, 2018, 150 min, 18+