The Triumphs of Maryna Ajaja
by ratcityfilmsociety | created - 26 Jun 2022 | updated - 26 Jun 2022 | PublicFilms that the late great programmer Maryna Ajaja brought to the Seattle International Film Festival.
- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. The High Sun (2015)
123 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
Director: Dalibor Matanic | Stars: Tihana Lazovic, Goran Markovic, Nives Ivankovic, Dado Cosic
Votes: 3,737
2. Death in Sarajevo (2016)
85 min | Drama
The major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of ... See full summary »
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Snezana Vidovic, Izudin Bajrovic, Vedrana Bozinovic, Muhamed Hadzovic
Votes: 1,378
3. Klondike (2022)
100 min | Drama, War
After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach | Stars: Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shcherbina, Oleg Shevchuk
Votes: 1,882
4. My Happy Family (2017)
120 min | Drama
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out of her parents' home and live ... See full summary »
Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Kumsishvili
Votes: 4,221
5. Ne gledaj mi u pijat (2016)
105 min | Drama
When Marijana's dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over the role as head of the family. The new power constellation also gives her new freedom that she has to find out a way to deal with.
Director: Hana Jusic | Stars: Mia Petricevic, Niksa Butijer, Arijana Culina, Zlatko Buric
Votes: 1,269
6. Glory (2016)
101 min | Drama
A reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry's head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use ... See full summary »
Directors: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov | Stars: Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Alexandra Angelova, Poli Angelova
Votes: 2,518 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Ivan (2016)
94 min | Drama
An ambulance driver in a small Russian town becomes inspired to make some life changes after he unexpectedly becomes the temporary guardian of a 7-year- old girl.
Director: Alyona Davydova | Stars: Polina Gukhman, Anastasiya Melnikova, Kirill Polukhin
Votes: 48
8. Stranger (2015)
105 min | Drama
Yermek Tursunov (Kelin, The Old Man) completes his trilogy about Kazakh identity, in which an orphaned young boy takes to the mountains and lives among a pack of wolves in the days before WWII.
Director: Ermek Tursynov | Stars: Mikhail Karpov, Roza Khayrullina, Erzhan Nurymbet
Votes: 40
9. The Wounded Angel (2016)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Omar Adilov, Timur Aidarbekov, Madiyar Aripbay, Anzara Barlykova
Votes: 291
10. Ausma (2015)
96 min | Drama
Propaganda story about a 'Young Pioneer' Pavel Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin's secret police and was in turn killed by his own family.
Director: Laila Pakalnina | Stars: Antons Grauds, Vilis Daudzins, Wiktor Zborowski, Aris Rozentals
Votes: 159
11. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,612 | Gross: $1.06M
12. Pustoy dom (2012)
98 min | Drama
Kyrgyzstan. Ascel is engaged to Sultan, the local Mr Big with the grandest house. This looks like a palace to Ascel, who lives in a hovel with her drunkard father. She doesn't love Sultan, ... See full summary »
Director: Nurbek Egen | Stars: Maral Koichukaraeva, Cecile Plage, Atai Omurbekov, Asan Amanov
Votes: 65
13. The House (I) (2011)
97 min | Drama
Director: Zuzana Liová | Stars: Judit Bárdos, Miroslav Krobot, Marian Mitas, Tatjana Medvecká
Votes: 264
14. A Trip to Karabakh (2005)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of teenage boys from Tbilisi take a trip to Azerbaijan to buy drugs, and end up fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, when they are captured by Azerbaijani militants, with one ... See full summary »
Director: Levan Tutberidze | Stars: Levan Doborjginidze, Misha Meskhi, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Dasha Drozdovskaja
Votes: 978
15. Okhotnik (2004)
93 min | Drama
Director: Serik Aprimov | Stars: Kidiraliev Dogdurbek, Erke Dzhumakmatova, Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Gulnazid Omarova
Votes: 114
16. Khadak (2006)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Stars: Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Banzar Damchaa, Tserendarizav Dashnyam
Votes: 967 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Day Watch (2006)
R | 132 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
When Anton, a Warrior of Light, is falsely accused of murdering some vampires, he embarks on a journey to find the real killer and search for an ancient object that has the power to alter destiny.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina
Votes: 35,399 | Gross: $0.45M
18. Iska's Journey (2007)
92 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Csaba Bollók | Stars: Mária Varga, Rózsika Varga, Marian Rusache, Csilla Ababi
Votes: 262
19. Time to Die (2007)
104 min | Drama
When the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it's finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Marta Waldera, Patrycja Szewczyk
Votes: 1,161
20. Vice (2007)
124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Young and talented man has a dream - to become a successful DJ. But on his way to fame he takes the wrong step, that may be fatal...
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Maksim Matveev, Fedor Bondarchuk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Evgenia Brik
Votes: 422
21. Katyn (2007)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 17,417 | Gross: $0.12M
22. The Poll Diaries (2010)
129 min | Drama
In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Kraus | Stars: Paula Beer, Edgar Selge, Tambet Tuisk, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 1,064
23. As If I Am Not There (2010)
109 min | Drama
A young female teacher from Sarajevo who travels to a remote village. Soon after arriving, the village is attacked by a group of soldiers. The men are killed, the women separated from the children, and placed in a makeshift brothel.
Director: Juanita Wilson | Stars: Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova, Sanja Buric
Votes: 1,326
Tell Your Friends