Kantemir Balagov’s second feature enters the arthouse canon of women on the verge, locked in a dangerous symbiosis in post-WWII Leningrad. This slow-motion twist of the gut features impressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barry Keoghan (“Saltburn”) and Riley Keough (“Mad Max: Fury Road”) are in talks to star in “Butterfly Jam,” the first English-language feature from Kantemir Balagov, the Russian ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pascal Caucheteux’s Why Not Productions is joining Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content to produce Beanpole helmer Kantemir Balagov’s first English-language film Butterfly Jam.

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 ...

Following up his intense second feature Beanpole, we’ve been waiting to see if Kantemir Balagov’s follow-up would finally come to fruition. After years of development, things are finally moving ...

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 ...