ABASTAN MOVIE NIGHTS

India - without om and shanti. Only the harsh everyday life of a poor metropolis, only hardcore. And also trash metal, punk rock - and protest.

We go to visit Indian metalheads and hardcore kids. We attend rehearsals, concerts and favorite locations of the guys in their hometown - beautiful and dreadful Kolkata, West Bengal. In a Bollywood's Nightmare, documentary film by Vasily Kondrashov.

Screening of a short film by visiting artists and directors Emily Newman and Vlada Milovskaia. These are short films about the project of raising children in the shadow of Soviet and Cold War ideologies.

In 1933, a Soviet expedition of experienced Arctic explorers and unseasoned enthusiasts set off to traverse the Northern Maritime Route, not in an icebreaker but in a conventional ship—to see if it could be done. The explorers succeeded in answering the question unequivocally: it could not. However, the story of the expedition’s unexpected survival captivated the world for a time, before sinking beneath the escalating drama of the Soviet experiment.

4 musicians from Norway and Finland presented a musical performance at the coastal fortress of Grönsvik on 27 July. At this performance, the audience could hear the sound of many famous paintings and join them on a musical journey. Maria and Stepan Frolov, Ksenia Matsegora and Viktor Pella in the new program "Sounds of the Dance of Life".

Have you ever wondered what music they dance to in Munch's famous painting "Dance of Life"? Or what does "Scream" sound like? "Sounds of the Dance of Life" is a performance in which the musicians create the third dimension of the famous images of Edvard Munch and Marc Chagall. Both artists are modernists who lived and worked in the 1930s, a very turbulent time in Europe. Just like today. The art of these two artists is both similar and different at the same time. And characterized by the countries they come from and the stories of their lives.

Lecture: What is Interesting and Urgent in the Opera Prince Igor by Borodin? Basic Music Theory

Directed by Bi Gan
Genre: Drama, mystery, romance
Short plot: A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.

On the night of autumn to winter 2023, the Tumanyan premiere of Vasily Kondrashov's documentary about the culture and philosophy of Bauls, singing wandering mystics from India took place in the cinema-living room of Abastan. It was the first film in a retrospective series of screenings of Vasily Kondrashov's films, which will take place in our cozy cinema hall in the coming days.