Noughties. The True Story of Russian Cinema

Film critic Maria Kuvshinova recalls Russian cinema of the 2000s, which, after years, has found new life and become sought after by subsequent generations of viewers. From «Piter FM» and «Dozory» to the films of Valeria Gay Germanika, Anna Melikyan, and Alexei Balabanov — it narrates how the perspective on familiar films changes and what meanings emerge in them today. Relying on archival materials and interviews with the creators, the text captures the moment when forgotten or ambiguously received films become a portal to the recent past.