The Russian Film Week NYC is November 13th through 22nd. Highlights include: gulag town fool with a wooden gun, a disillusioned TV star, modern domestic and adolescent horrors, Anna Karenina, Ivan the Terrible, funny drunks, miracles, sailors, suicides, spiritual journeys and Somalian pirates.

The ninth annual Russian Film Week will feature fourteen new, award-winning Russian films and US silver screen debuts from major Russian directors and producers. Screenings and events will be hosted at venues all over New York, including Tribeca Performing Art Center, Lighthouse International Theater, School of Visual Arts, and Columbia University. In addition to festivities and screenings, there will be a series of open panel and round table discussions with some of the leading Russian and American cinematographers along with professors and students from top US film schools. 

The Russian Film Week will heftily cater to Russophile and movie lover alike. Along with the freshest, epic takes on the heros and villains of classic Russian literature (Anna Karenina) and history (Tsar), RFW brings varied, contemporary reality to the screen with the tragic teen bildungsroman Everyone Dies But Me revolving around a school dance and the self-aware perils of early youth and the exclusive documentary Black Spot, exploring modern piracy in the Indian Ocean. So, as the temperatures drop and drive New Yorkers anywhere cozy and the blockbuster-wary and retrospective-weary start to itch for something new, these freshly imported film screenings should do just the trick.

Official Site: Russian Film Week NYC