Balagov is making his English-language debut feature for the producers of 'Midsommar' and 'Leviathan.' By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Beanpole director Kantemir Balagov is set to make his ...

Up-and-coming Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov will direct the pilot episodes of HBO’s adaptation of the survival horror video game ‘The Last of Us’. Craig Mazin, the creator of the ...

Kantemir Balagov comes from Kabardino-Balkaria, a region in the Russian Caucasus that is very poor and has a high level of youth unemployment. Balagov studied under Russian director Alexander ...

Several minutes into Kantemir Balagov’s first feature, Closeness (2017), the young director makes himself known. “My name is Kantemir Balagov,” reads an onscreen text. “I am a Kabardian.” ...

Kantemir Balagov is repping Russia for the International Feature Film Oscar for the first time, with his second film, Beanpole.The story of the plight of two women in a devastated post-WWII ...

directors Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko hit the streets to protest. “We really thought we could change something,” Balagov told IndieWire by phone this month from Los Angeles with ...

Kantemir Balagov, helmer of last year’s historical drama “Beanpole,” has been tapped to direct the series. He’ll join screenwriter Craig Mazin, of “Chernobyl” fame, and executive ...

Returning Russian director Kantemir Balagov, who won a FIPRESCI Prize with 2017’s Closeness, and served on Cannes’ Un Certain Regard jury last year, is back in that section with Beanpole.

But Kantemir Balagov’s debut feature, which played in the Cannes Un Certain Regard sidebar and is, even without its most controversial segment, a demanding, difficult watch, presents an ...

Balagov made his feature directorial debut with Closeness in 2017. After premiering Beanpole at the Cannes Film Festival in late 2019, he won the Un Certain Regard Best Director Award. The film ...