This is the second time that Serebrennikov is absent from Cannes, as he was still under house arrest in Moscow when Leto was nominated for the Palme d’Or in 2018. During the production of the ...

Serebrennikov is perhaps Russia's most successful contemporary director, celebrated with awards internationally and in Russia. He was arrested in 2017 and his case became seen as one of the ...

Prosecutors alleged that Serebrennikov had misappropriated over €9 million in funding in a case that some critics say was politically motivated. Kirill Serebrennikov, the acclaimed Russian film ...

Serebrennikov's ballet production about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who defected during the Cold War, was cancelled in 2017.

Kirill Serebrennikov, wearing a protective face mask, was greeted by supporters outside the court in Moscow Prominent Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has received a three-year suspended ...

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov is banned from leaving his home country and thus cannot legally attend the Cannes Film Festival this summer, where his film “Petrov’s Flu” will debut in ...

Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov has premiered three films in Cannes competition, but walked the red carpet at the festival for the first time this week. In 2017, Serebrennikov was convicted ...

Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia's most celebrated theater director and the director of several films, was found guilty of embezzlement, due in part to the testimony of Nina Maslyayava, a former ...

Serebrennikov came to court wearing sunglasses and dressed in black and did not speak to journalists. He has been held under a repeatedly extended house arrest since August 2017.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, says Serebrennikov, brought about “the collapse of all normal life,” and a sense of powerlessness among the many Russians who oppose Putin’s folly.

Kirill Serebrennikov, the director of Moscow’s Gogol Center, is widely known in Russia for his avant-garde plays, movies, operas and ballets, which frequently comment critically on modern Russia ...