Directed by Kira Muratova

Few filmmakers have forged a voice as singular and uncategorizable as that of Ukrainian iconoclast Kira Muratova. Working on the margins of Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, she withstood decades of censorship to realize her uncompromising vision in fascinatingly fragmented, expressionistically heightened works that employ melodrama, satire, and absurdism to explore the psychic toll of life under oppressive political, social, and domestic systems. Her films—including the impressionistic family portrait THE LONG FAREWELL, her radical glasnost-era masterpiece THE ASTHENIC SYNDROME, and the dark con-artist comedy THE TUNER—delight in disorder and contradiction as they deconstruct the very language of cinema itself.