Schedule 2015

Daytime panels/screenings will be in Wesley W. Posvar Hall 1500
Evening screenings at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room

Monday 4 May
10 am: Aleksandr Rogozhkin: Cuckoo, 2002 (99 min)
Introduction: Anton Dolin.
Response: Kelly Trimble.
2 pm: Aleksei Fedorchenko: First on the Moon, 2005 (75 min)
Introduction: Drew Chapman.
Response: Olga Kim.

Tuesday  5 May
10 am: Nikolai Lebedev: Star, 2002 (93 min)
Introduction: Svetlana Ishevskaia.
Response: Ekaterina Turta.
2 pm:  Marina Razbezhkina: Harvest Time, 2003 (67 min)
Introduction: Katie Bird.
Response: Irina Anisimova.

Wednesday 6 May
10 am: Mikhail Segal: Franz + Polina, 2006 (119 min)
Introduction: James Steffen.
Response: Olga Klimova.
2:30 pm: Roundtable 1 Nancy Condee and Anton Dolin.
7:30 pm:  Fridrikh Ermler: Fragment of an Empire, 1929 (111 min). Live musical accompaniment.
Introduction: Valeriia Gorelova.

Thursday 7 May
10 am: Fedor Bondarchuk: Stalingrad, 2013 (121 min)
Introduction: Mark Best.
Response: Trevor Wilson.
7:30 pm:  Aleksandr Kott: The Test, 2014 (95 min)
Introduction: Anton Dolin.

Friday 8 May
10 am: Timur Bekmambetov and Gennadii Kaiumov: Escape from Afghanistan, 1994 (87 min)
Introduction: Beach Gray.
Response: Gerald McCausland.
2 pm: Pavel Chukhrai: The Thief, 1997 (100 min)
Introduction: Valeriia Gorelova.
Response: Tetyana Shlikhar.
7:30 pm: Khusein Erkenov: Ordered to Forget, 2014 (87 min)
Introduction: Khusein Erkenov.

Saturday 9 May
11am: Roundtable 2 Vladimir Padunov and Valeriia Gorelova.
7:30 pm: Nataliia Meshchaninova: The Hope Factory, 2013/2014 (95 min)
Introduction: Svetlana Ishevskaia.