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Outlook for Russian cinema is looking up, with three films in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section

Denis Ruzaev

EXCLUSIVE: Wide Management has acquired world sales rights to Russian crime drama Break Loose, directed and produced by Alexey Uchitel.

The film will have its world premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section.

Watch the exclusive debut of the thrilling trailer for "Break Loose," a muscular and violent Russian crime drama by Alexey Uchitel, director of Russia's 2010 entry for the foreign language Oscar "The Edge." Starring Alexey Mantsigyn, the film will make its world premiere at the Toronto Internatio

The Toronto International Film Festival has added additional 3 Galas and 19 Special Presentations as well as its Contemporary World Cinema offerings to its lineup, including an additional 12 World Premieres with new work from directors Fred Schepisi, Alberto Arvelo, Reha Erdem, Dexter Fletcher, R

Two Russian films are to be showed at the Toronto International Film Festival, which will be held in the Canadian city on September 5-20, 2013 – police drama ‘The Major’ by Yuri Bykov and Alexey Uchitel’s new film, ‘Eight’.

Playing out over the course of one day, The Major is a gripping drama that sees screenwriter-director Yuri Bykov deliver an indicting criticism of police corruption and the collateral damage it leaves behind.

Gifted Russian director Alexey Uchitel (The Edge) returns to the Festival with this explosive crime drama about the violent rivalry that erupts when an elite police operative falls for a gangster’s moll.

MOSCOW: Alexandra Strelyanaya’s feature follows two young people as they meet on the Kola Peninsula and fall in love in a perfect landscape that fits their ideal of love, surrounding beauty and cinema.

Russian policier and Swedish drama take three prizes apiece, while Hong Kong’s "Unbeatable" takes Best Actor and Actress gongs.

Russian policier and Swedish drama take three prizes apiece, while Hong Kong’s "Unbeatable" takes Best Actor and Actress gongs.