KLASSIKI has now moved to its new home, Klassiki.online, the world’s first VOD platform dedicated to cinema from Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Please come and check out this curated selection of great films available to watch from your tablet, computer and mobile phone.
About the Season:
KLASSIKI is an opportunity to enjoy an online weekly curated selection of Soviet, Russian, Caucasian and East European cinema.
Director led, each week’s film introduces audiences to an important filmmaker’s work. KLASSIKI ranges from early silent cinema, to masterpieces of animation, from post-war classics to contemporary Cannes winners. To supplement the film experience, KLASSIKI offer’s specially commissioned and downloadable programme notes which give biographical, social and political context to each film.
This is the birth of KLASSIKI (the Russian word for Hopscotch), our planned free streaming platform, which will allow you to stream great cinema, anywhere, on the hop! If you would like to support our endeavour to showcase the best of East European, Russian and Soviet cinema, please share our work on your social media channels or consider supporting us with a donation.

Twelve Months (1956)
by Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Tues 26.01.2021
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Kharms (2017)
by Ivan Bolotnikov
Tues 26.01.2021
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Carnival Night! (1956)
by Eldar Ryazanov
Tues 12.01.2021
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The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)
by Sergei Parajanov
Tues 05.01.2021
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Falling Leaves (1966)
by Otar Iosseliani
Tues 01.12.2020
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White Bird Marked Black (1970)
by Yuri Ilyenko
Tues 24.11.2020
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
by Sergei Parajanov
Tues 17.11.2020
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Running to the Sky (2019)
by Mirlan Abdykalykov
Tues 10.11.2020
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Beshkempir (1998)
by Aktan Abdykalykov
Tues 27.09.2020
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The Postman’s White Nights (2014)
by Andrei Konchalovsky
Tues 27.09.2020
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Slave of Love (1976)
by Nikita Mikhalkov
Tues 20.09.2020
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Life For A Life (1916)
by Yevgeni Baur
Tues 13.09.2020
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Masters of Animation: Andrei Khrzhanovsky
Tues 06.10.2020
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The Beginning (1970)
by Gleb Panfilov
Tues 22.09.2020
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The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away (2013)
by Alexander Veledinsky
Tues 22.09.2020
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Mermaid (2007)
by Anna Melikyan
Tues 15.09.2020
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We’ll Live ‘Til Monday (1968)
by Stanislav Rostotsky
Tues 08.09.2020
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The Heron and the Crane (1974)
by Yuri Norstein
Tues 14.07.2020
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Man With a Movie Camera
(1929)
by Dziga Vertov
Sat 16.05.2020
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Uncle Vanya (1970)
by Andrei Konchalovsky
Tues 30.06.2020
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How I Ended This Summer (2010)
by Alexei Popogrebsky
Tues 23.06.2020
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Elena (2011)
by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tues 05.05.2020
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Courier (1986)
by Karen Shakhnazarov
Tues 28.04.2020
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Hamlet
(1964)
by Grigori Kozintsev
Tues 21.04.2020
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Masters of Animation: Starevich and Norstein
Tues 14.04.2020
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The Diamond Arm (1969)
by Leonid Gaidai
Tues 07.04.2020
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Klassiki programming is supported by funds from the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) which is made possible by the National Lottery. Klassiki screenings are also part of Film FeelsConnected, a UK-wide cinema season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. You can explore all films and events at filmfeels.co.uk #BFIFAN #ThanksToYou #TNLUK #FilmFeels #FilmFeelsConnected
