Telluride: Director Kira Kovalenko contorts the rigors of austere Russian filmmaking into an often-visionary metaphor for women shaking out of male (and national) codependence. Savvy viewers of bleak ...

Kira Kovalenko’s feature Unclenching the Fists was initially inspired by a line in William Faulkner’s novel Intruder in the Dust. Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season ...

“Unclenching The Fists,” a Russian drama directed by Kira Kovalenko, won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar competition at Cannes. And shortly after the awards were announced, the UK ...

Kira Kovalenko’s Russian drama Unclenching The Fists won the Grand Prize in Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar this year. The film is produced by Ukranian-Russian super-producer ...

Kira Kovalenko’s Un Certain Regard winner is a drama about a woman struggling to escape the stifling hold of her family. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Directed by Kira Kovalenko (Sofichka), ...

The filming location – the North Ossetian former mining town of Mizur, with a population of about 3000 people – is literally squeezed between cliffs and consists of a few prefabricated, communist ...

Ada (Milana Aguzarova), the fragile heroine of writer/director Kira Kovalenko’s shattering “Unclenching the Fists,” screening Oct. 5-6 at the New York Film Festival, is first seen coyly hiding from ...

A young woman works to escape her father's clutches — but can't quite shake the patriarchy — in Kira Kovalenko's formidable Cannes Un Certain Regard winner. Across cinema’s long lineage of stories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Savvy viewers of bleak Eastern European festival fare will get a sense early on in “Unclenching the Fists” why “Beanpole” director ...

Andrea Arnold headed up the 2021 jury for the official film festival sidebar competition. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Unclenching the Fists, Kira Kovalenko’s Russian drama about a young woman ...