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Art and Oligarchs

Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes

Blue Helmet

François Crémieux served as a French UN peacekeeper near the Bosnian town of Bihać. He never saw combat, but he was left deeply shaken by the experience.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 25 minutes

Calling the Ghosts

CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 63 minutes

Disco and Atomic War

The Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 80 minutes

Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR

Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes

Gorbachev. Heaven

Director Vitaly Mansky's portrait of the storied Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev wherein he presents his final testimony.

Icarus Films | 2021 | 100 minutes

The Hermitage Dwellers

This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the 'dwellers' intimate relationship with the art.

Icarus Films | 2003 | 73 minutes

How Putin Came to Power

A detailed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoral aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in only eight years.

Icarus Films | 2005 | 52 minutes

How to Save a Dead Friend

Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.

Lightdox | 2023 | 103 minutes

Kapr Code

Traces of controversial composer Jan Kapr meet with memory of film in new opera songs featuring turbulent political, personal and creative transformation.

Lightdox | 2022 | 91 minutes