East End Film Festival is proud to welcome two of Russia's hottest film properties to visit East London and present their work alongside Q&As.



Russia's most famous young actress Oksana Okinshina, best known in the West for her lead role in Lukaas Moodysson's masterpiece LILYA 4 EVER and for her support in Paul Greengrass's BOURNE SUPREMACY, comes to the East End Film Festival to present her gritty new film I AM, described as a 'psychedelic drama'.



We also welcome another different giant of Russian cinema, a director who has also emerged since 1989, the uncompromising Aleksey Balabanov, here at the Festival to present his two last films CARGO 200 and MORPHIA. Both films pull no punches whatsoever in their depiction of violence and human nature, and are not for the faint hearted, but anyone with an interest in powerful contemporary European cinema without compromise, should be queuing up to buy their tickets as soon as possible...