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- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsDarya ZhovnerAtrem CipinNazir ZhukovIn the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
- DirectorHussein ErkenovStarsShamkhan MitraevKheda AkhmadovaTimur BazinskiyAs the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
- DirectorAlex KvatashidzeStarsBrice FleutiauxGiorgio FornoniRenzo MartensAfter falling in love with a photographer, a young man follows her to war and puts himself into the shoes of a war reporter.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloStarsPirkko SaisioA searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
- DirectorKira KovalenkoStarsLana BasariyaTsiala InapshbaSaid KamkiyaThe story based on the novel of Fazil Iskander - classic of Soviet literature he lived in Abkhazia and has Persian origin: his father was from Iran. Sofichka is the name of the heroine whose life from 1938 till 1960 is the subject of the film. Exile, love, murder of her husband by her own brother.
- DirectorJean-Charles DeniauCharles GazelleAbout the explosions of residential buildings in Russia in the fall of 1999. The film analyzes the incident in Ryazan on September 22, 1999, which, according to the filmmakers, was an attempt by the FSB to organize a terrorist attack. Representatives of the FSB themselves say that these were anti-terrorist exercises.
- DirectorElla ManzheevaStarsEvgeniya MandzhievaSergey AdianovLyubov Ubushieva"Only the wind, the sand, the reed and a desire to live not worse than the others..." - these words served as a base for the atmosphere of this story, and they are incredibly precise as a definition of the real world in these places. The Seagulls are a parable on the background of modern Kalmykia. It is about love, with the characters intuitively fulfilling forgotten traditions. Their love is silent and their sorrow is without tears - The seagulls are souls of dead fishermen, broken boats - a hope. Elza the fisherman's wife lives in a seaside town in Kalmykia. She wants to leave her husband but cannot take this step because she is afraid of uncertainty. Suddenly her husband dies. Because of his death, Elza has to think everything over and reconsider her views on life, on happiness, on liberty.
- StarsLevison WoodReza PakravanLevison Wood undertakes an epic, 2600-mile journey across the mighty Caucasus mountain range on the tense frontier between Europe and Asia.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsSergey MakovetskiySergey GarmashApti MagamaevTwelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoNatalya VarleyVladimir EtushA young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaSultan IslamovBryan AdamsIn the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAleksey ChadovIan KellyIngeborga DapkunaiteDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsOleg MenshikovSergey BodrovSusanna MekhraliyevaTwo Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsGalina VishnevskayaVasily ShevtsovRaisa GichaevaAn elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsBérénice BejoAnnette BeningMaksim EmelyanovA French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.
- DirectorAleksey UchitelStarsVyacheslav KrikunovPyotr LogachevIrakli MskhalaiaThe story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war.
- DirectorYilmaz AtadenizStarsFikret HakanFatma GirikEsen PüsküllüThe struggle of the Caucasian Turks against the Tsar. The Caucasian Turks had to fight with the Tsar army to protect their land. Commander Boris tortures the people by burning Turkish villages. Sheikh Shamil, who leads the Turkish army, has to surrender to protect the Caucasian Turks.
- DirectorAleksandr AmirovStarsKakhi KavsadzeDagun OmaevAnatoliy DzivaevThis down-to-earth story that takes place in the mountains of North Caucasus, between two adjacent villages - Ossetian Toli and Georgian Teli - tells us about simple and naive people that governments try to divide today by an official state border. These people wish to live in peace and harmony, in spite of ethnic differences, as their ancestors lived for hundreds of years. They are accustomed to solve all the conflicts peacefully, following Caucasian customs - around a great table, with wine and songs.
- DirectorMantas KvedaraviciusStarsAhmed GisaevToita LomaevasiAlaudi SadykovIn a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. As daily life goes on, those in search are drawn into a world where encounters with diviners and legal advisors, with the torturers and the tortured, with secret prisons and mythical lakes all become commonplace. Consolation and help only come from neighbours and relatives or accidentally met strangers people who themselves live with the loss or who are ones that have returned from where no one returns. The neighbour waits for her son and sees him in dreams almost every night even though more than five years have passed since the son was kidnapped. She does not have her son alive and she does not have him dead. The gray-haired man without an ear and with a burned hand still cannot think of life outside the prison cell. The adult son plays with the cloth rope and is dependent on his mother and sisters for most of his daily needs. What is then to live in a city where grand mosques lie next to torture prisons, where official statements are less valid than those heard at divination sessions, where pronouncements of death are occasions of joy, where streets are full of the ghostly presences of the dead and the missing; where the laughter of pain, a prayer, and a dream are the only solace? Barzakh, - a land between the living and the dead?
- DirectorAleksandr NevzorovStarsAleksandr BaranovSergey BogdanovZed KorshoonoffA military drama based on true events - a battle on the First Chechen War during the winter of 1994-1995. A story covers attacking a local hospital where Russian military forces placed. The film is full of violence scenes.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanRachel McAdamsDaniel BrühlA Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsIlyas SalmanMariam ButurishviliIrakli SamushiaThe river creates and the river destroys in an eternal cycle that even man can't escape.
- DirectorGeorge OvashviliStarsTedo BekhauriTamar MeskhiArchil TabukashviliA young refugee and his mother flee war and ethnic cleansing in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, leaving his father behind. After arriving in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, the young boy encounters difficulties with his mother, and begins a lonely journey back to Abkhazia to find his father.
- DirectorHannu SalonenStarsMehmet KurtulusMart MüüriseppTim SeyfiTom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur - a Chechen man, hell bent on revenging the torture and murder of his family - on the streets of Tallinn.