Kantemir Balagov

Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer

July 28, 1991 (35 years old)

in theaters on my screens

Butterfly Jam

Fr. 2026. Drama by Kantemir Balagov with Talha Akdogan, Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough. The daily life of a 16-year-old wrestler living in New Jersey is turned upside down when his father dies.

Runtime: 102 min.

in theaters on my screens

Beanpole

V.O.: Dylda

Rus. 2019. Drama by Kantemir Balagov with Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Timofey Glazkov. In 1945 Leningrad, the reunion between a very tall nurse and a friend who has returned from the front brings their respective war traumas to the surface.

Runtime: 130 min.

in theaters on my screens

Closeness

V.O.: Tesnota

Rus. 2017. Drama by Kantemir Balagov with Darya Zhovner, Olga Dragunova, Veniamin Kac. In a working-class Russian town in the late 1990s, two members of a small Jewish community are kidnapped and their lives turned upside down.

Runtime: 118 min.