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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

But she’s coming home soon. The war’s over. But is it ever really over? Set in 1945 Leningrad, Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary “Beanpole” is a film about life amid the ruins.

Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: After winning the FIPRESCI prize for Tesnota (Closeness) two years ago at Cannes, Russian director Kantemir Balagov returns with Beanpole a story about the ...

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 ...

the new drama marking the English-language debut of Cannes prize-winner Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole), sources tell Deadline. Character details are under wraps. Set against the backdrop of New ...