Minotaur
- France, Latvia, Germany
- 2026
- 135'
- Special screenings
Russia, 2022. Gleb, a successful president of a company, faces growing corporate pressures and the world that is becoming more and more unstable. The life he has so meticulously built for himself starts to fall apart, and the chain of events that follows will inevitably end in violence.
- Directed by: Andriej Zwiagincew
- Screenplay: Simon Laszenko, Andriej Zwiagincew
- Photography: Michaił Krichman
- Music: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
- Cast: Iris Lebedeva, Dmitriy Mazurov, Varvara Shmykova, Juris Zagars, Anatoliy Beliy
A film director and screenwriter from Russia, considered to be one of the most important filmmakers of the contemporary auteur cinema. He gained international recognition with the film ‘The Return’ (2003), winning the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. He is the author of such films as ‘The Banishment,’ ‘Elena,’ ‘Leviathan,’ or ‘Loveless.’ His film work focuses on family relations, moral dilemmas, and the social and political tensions in contemporary Russia. His films won numerous awards at the most prestigious film festivals, and were nominated for Academy Awards.
