ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

The Fly / Mukha Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Vladimir Kott, Country: Russia, Release: 2008, Runtime: 107 Writing in the filmlinc blog, Wayne Titus: "In this quirky Russian family drama, director Vladimir Kott captures the dank, inhospitable corners where life sometimes abandons us." Read the whole review>> Fedor Mukhin (the excellent Aleksei Kravchenko) is a macho trucker with scant interest in anything but casual sex, vodka, and a life on the road. When he gets a letter from a woman with whom he had a brief fling many years ago, he discovers that he may have a 16-year-old daughter who is living on her own in a dismal Russian town and being threatened with jail. As he tries to win her love — or at least her respect — the girl, Vera (the brilliant Alexandra Tyuftey), turns out to be every father’s nightmare, an incorrigible delinquent given to burning down houses when riled. Yet she takes responsibility for a younger boy she protects from schoolyard bullies and spends her spare time in a boxing gym. Vladimir Kott’s marvelous post-perestroika drama explores its two main characters with sympathy, delicious humor, and a total absence of sentimentality.

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