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Background note on Russian filmmakers Sokurov and Kozintsev R ussian film director Aleksandr Sokurov (66) is famous for diverse reasons. Some recall his experimental feature film Russian Ark (2002) filmed in a single, unedited 90-minute shot with over 2000 actors in elaborate costumes and 3 live orchestras exploring several sections of the Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). Some recall his more recent feature film Faust (2011), honoured with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The late film critic Susan Sontag, while including two Sokurov feature films among her 10 favorite films of the 1990s, stated “ There is no director active today whose films I admire so much .” Musician Nick Cave, in an interview published in the British newspaper “ The Independent, ” revealed “ I wept and wept from start to finish ” on viewing Sokurov’s Mother and Son (1997), a poetic experimental feature film with minimal spoken lines. In 1998, Sokurov made a documentary called Saint P...

  "Early on, this film introduces us to many different facets of its main character's life that barely seem to relate. Gradually and powerfully, the script teases out the connections, all of which culminate in a haunting finale. This structure requires patience and discipline from its writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof. In a festival full of modern spins on film noir, he gives us one of the best, set in an unlikely place." ---Citation for the film’s Silver Hugo award for its screenplay at the Chicago Film Festival 2017 D irector Mohammad Rasoulof’s   A Man of Integrity   is a laudable film from Iran, describing corruption and religious intolerance in the Islamic Republic. It deservedly won the 2017 Cannes Film Festival’s   Un certain regard award. While both Rasoulof and his contemporary Jafar Panahi have been found guilty of anti-regime propaganda and jailed for 5 years in 2011, they continue to make films within Iran that end up as international award winning film...