Movies: Simone Baumann

  • 2015
    Under the Sun

    Under the Sun (2015)

    Under the Sun

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    Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, t...

    Under the Sun
  • 2017
    Plankton Salesmen

    Plankton Salesmen (2017)

    Plankton Salesmen

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    A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov....

    Plankton Salesmen
  • 2020
    Town of Glory

    Town of Glory (2020)

    Town of Glory

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    The memory of World War II is the only thing that makes a small Russian town alive. Like a great treasure this memory is preserved here in every home and is passed on from generation to generation. Yet exactly this memory prevents people from underst...

    Town of Glory
  • 2016
    Close Relations

    Close Relations (2016)

    Close Relations

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    Vitaly Mansky’s intimate and insightful new documentary finds him crisscrossing Ukraine in the wake of the Maidan uprising, which has left his relatives scattered on both sides of a highly charged and dizzyingly complex political situation....

    Close Relations
  • 2022
    Angels of Sinjar

    Angels of Sinjar (2022)

    Angels of Sinjar

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    Hanifa and Saeed barely survived the hell that ISIS inflicted on them and their people. Hanifa escaped kidnapping, but her younger sisters were enslaved by the Islamic State. Hanifa embarks on a mission to find them and bring them home....

    Angels of Sinjar
  • 2009
    Die russische Mafia

    Die russische Mafia (2009)

    Die russische Mafia

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    Die russische Mafia
  • 2018
    Electing Russia

    Electing Russia (2018)

    Electing Russia

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    Schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky, Vladivostok. Students Egor Chernyuk and Oleg Alexeev, Kaliningrad. Entrepreneur Viktor Barmin, Yekaterinburg. Activist Violetta Grudina, Murmansk. Minibus driver Vladimir Semenov, Astrakhan. What unites these people? All ...

    Electing Russia
  • 2019
    Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia

    Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia (2019)

    Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia

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    The film shows how the famous Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov reflects the events taking place in Russia in his works. We will see his whole career - from the first successes in the theater to feature films. We will see that the rise and fall o...

    Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia
  • 2017
    Operation

    Operation "Wedding" (2017)

    Operation "Wedding"

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    Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. ...

    Operation
  • 2015
    Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams

    Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams (2015)

    Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams

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    Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s brass band from Kherson. Through steady practice under the wildest of conditions, Roman (12, trumpet), Polina (10, tr...

    Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams
  • 2013
    Pipeline

    Pipeline (2013)

    Pipeline

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    Director Vitaly Manskiy sets off on the trail of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline to find out what it’s like for ordinary people living in its vicinity. This visually refined road movie, eloquently illustrating the absurd banality of modern Russia, is...

    Pipeline
  • 2016
    Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit

    Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit (2016)

    Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit

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    Released from prison, former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky expounds on his newfound freedom and complex relationship with Vladimir Putin....

    Chodorkowskis neue Freiheit
  • 2018
    Georg Cantor - Der Entdecker der Unendlichkeiten

    Georg Cantor - Der Entdecker der Unendlichkeiten (2018)

    Georg Cantor - Der Entdecker der Unendlichkeiten

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    Georg Cantor - Der Entdecker der Unendlichkeiten
  • 2015
    Odessa

    Odessa (2015)

    Odessa

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    What happens when a documentary film breaks out of its comfort zone and openly provokes the society? To what extent my compatriots are willing to reflect on one particular episode, the reprisals in Odessa from October 1941?...

    Odessa