PIFF 2018
Films in the Spotlight
I May Regret
Directed by Graham Streeter
Country: USA
Starring: Denise Dorado, Lisa Goodman
An older woman suffering from dementia is convinced that her young live-in nurse out to kill her and take her life's fortune. But people are not always who we think they are. And dementia has a strange way of unraveling the truth. It's all coming back. And, yes, it's killing her.
Ivanov
Directed by Dmitry Falkovich
Country: Russia
Starring: Dmitry Falkovich
Escaping from Moscow, a successful businessman tries to make his way in an uncharted Kiev. Inspired by the director’s actual experience, Ivanov is a strange and fascinating picture of corruption, infidelity and alienation.
Rosemarie
Directed by Adonis Florides
Country: Cyprus
Starring: Yiannis Kokkinos
A burned out soap opera writer, under pressure to deliver new episodes, turns his gaze upon his dysfunctional neighbours. Transforming their tragic everyday encounters into a light hearted serial, he gets more than the inspiration he bargained for.
Octav
Directed by Serge Ioan Celebidachi
Country: Romania
Starring: Marcel Iures, Victor Rebengiuc, Lia Bugnar
When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.
Filmmakers and Actors in the Spotlight
Diana Arbenina
Country: Russia
Diana Arbenina is a singer, musician, poet, leader of the popular Russian rock group Night Snipers. She is also known as an author of fiction and journalistic prose. Winner of the "Triumph Award" in the field of literature in 2014. As of today, more than ten albums, hundreds of songs and poems, several books, were written and published. For 25 years "Night Snipers" performances are popular with fans of different countries all over the world. Music video #INSTAGRAM of Night Snipers will be screened at PIFF 2018.
Valerya Gay Germanika
Country: Russia
Valerya Gay Germanika was born on March 1, 1984 in Moscow, USSR. She is a director and actress, known for Everybody Dies but Me (2008), Yes and Yes (2014) and The Birthday of Infanta (2007). Winner of the Cannes Film Festival (2008), the Moscow International Film Festival (2014), the Munich Film Festival (2008), the Nika Awards (2009). Music video #INSTAGRAM of the band Night Snipers directed by her will be screened at PIFF 2018.
Dmitry Falkovich
Country: Russia
Dmitry Falkovich is the Founder of Phenomen Ventures. His feature film debut Ivanov will be presented at PIFF 2018. He wrote, directed and played the lead role in Ivanov.
Graham Streeter
Country: USA
Graham Streeter is an American filmmaker, best known for his award winning feature films Imperfect Sky (2016), Blind Malice (2013), academically acclaimed documentary, Boys in Peril (2013), and Cages (2006) featuring Zelda Rubinstein and Oscar Nominee Mako Iwamatsu. His film I May Regret will be presented at PIFF 2018.
Herbert Golder
Country: USA
A conversation with Werner Herzog about Greek drama, more than 25 years ago, led Herzog to ask Golder, then a young classics professor, to work with him in films. Since then he has worked with Herzog in different capacities on ten films, features and documentaries. Himself the author of a number of works on classical and related subjects and a translator of Greek drama for the page and stage, Golder is currently Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University as well as Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning publication, Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. His directorial debut, Ballad of a Righteous Merchant which will be screened at PIFF 2018, is the fruit of that collaboration with Herzog and was inspired by those preoccupations that have been the basis of their relationship.