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Alice Through the Looking Glass (Alisa v Zazerkalye, 2016): Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Directed by James Bobin, stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. IMDB

A Hologram for the King (Gologramma Dlya Korolya, 2016): Tom Hanks stars a washed-up corporate businessman who looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.

35MM June 3 at 9:45 p.m., June 4 at 10 a.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Zvezda June 2 at 9:45 a.m., June 4 at 1:15 p.m., June 6 at 10:30 a.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Alice Through the Looking Glass (Alisa v Zazerkalye, 2016): Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Directed by James Bobin, stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.

GUM Hall June 3, 7 and 8 at 10:30 a.m., June 4, 5 and 6 at 2:20 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pioner June 2 at 9:30 p.m., June 3 at 1:05 and 7:30 p.m., June 4 at 12:10, 4:15 and 8:30 p.m., June 5 at 1:20 and 6:10 p.m., June 6 at 11:05 a.m., June 7 at 11:30 a.m. and 7:10 p.m., June 8 at 3 and 7:10 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Australian Film: Charlie's Country?  (Strana Charlie, 2013): Rolf de Heer's award-winning drama focuses on an Aboriginal man (David Gulpilil) who lives in Arnhem Land paints tree barks and fishes barramundi fish, all the while feeling out of place in an Australia which is no longer his.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 9 at 8 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Australian Film: Girl Asleep (Devushka Probuzhdayetsya, 2015): Rosemary Myers' coming of age drama follows a shy and awkward teenager holding on to adolescence, who is propelled into a weird parallel place during her 15th birthday party where she is challenged to find herself.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 11 at 6 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Australian Film: Holding the Man (Derzhi Yego, 2015): Neil Armfield's romantic drama film adapted from Timothy Conigrave's 1995 memoir of the same name.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 10 at 8 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Australian Film: Last Cab to Darwin (Darwin — Konechnaya Ostanovka, 2015): When Rex, a taxi driver in Broken Hill, New South Wales, is told he doesn't have long to live, he decides to pursue euthanasia at a clinic in Darwin, Northern Territory. Along the way, he experiences various encounters which encourage him to re-evaluate his life. Stars Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford and Mark Coles Smith.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 12 at 8 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Australian Film: The Daughter (Doch, 2015): Simon Stone's drama The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before. Stars?  Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill and Anna Torv.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 8 at 8 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Australian Film: The Dressmaker (Mest Haute Couture, 2015): A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. Jocelyn Moorhouse's drama starring Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 7 and 11 at 8 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Fonko (2016): A feature length documentary about social and political changes in the new Africa as seen through an avalanche of striking, innovative and visual Music.

Center of Documentary Cinema June 3 at 9 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Hot Sugar's Cold World (2015): A documentary that follows electronic musician Hot Sugar in his quest to capture, transform and extract meaning from the sounds and silences of every day life.

Center of Documentary Cinema June 2 at 9 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Innocence of Memories (2015): Grant Gee's feature length documentary about the Istanbul Museum of Innocence which houses real objects that trace the fictional love affair described in the novel of the same name, both of which are the creations of writer Orhan Pamuk.

Oktyabr June 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015): Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.

Oktyabr June 3 at 9 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016): An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Center of Documentary Cinema June 5 at 7 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Requem for the American Dream (2015): In a series of interviews spanning four years, leftist social critic Noam Chomsky discusses how the concentration of wealth and power among a small elite has polarized American society and brought about the decline of the middle class.

Oktyabr June 4 at 5:30 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Uncle Howard (2016): Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William Burroughs' bunker until his nephew Aaron unearths his uncle's story and the memory of everything he was.

Center of Documentary Cinema June 4 at 9 p.m. In English.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: We Are X (2016): A documentary film about the legendary Japanese rock band X JAPAN.

Oktyabr June 3 at 7 p.m., June 5 at 5 p.m. In English and Japanese.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973): This concert film features David Bowie and his backing group The Spiders from Mars performing at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 3 July 1973.

Oktyabr June 3 at 7 p.m. In English.

Crazy About Tiffany's (2016): A past to present fully authorized documentary of Tiffany & Co. Directed by Matthew Miele.

Center of Documentary Cinema June 2 at 1, 5 and 7 p.m., June 3 at 3, 5 and 7 p.m., June 4 at 3 and 7:15 p.m., June 5 at 1 and 9:15 p.m., June 6 at 5:15 and 7 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pioner June 2 at 5:40 p.m., June 3 at 5:30 p.m., June 4 at 11:10 a.m. and 5:05 p.m., June 5 at 4 p.m., June 6 at 7:40 p.m., June 7 at 11:15 a.m. and 11:45 p.m., June 8 at 5:35 and 11:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya June 2 to 8 at 3 and 11:15 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Hamlet: Cumberbatch (2015): Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Lyndsey Turner's staging of Shakespeare at the Barbican Center.

Formula Kino Na Lubyanke June 4 at 3 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Money Monster (Finansovy Monstr, 2016): Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio. Directed by Jodie Foster, stars George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O'Connell.

35MM June 2 at 4:20 and 8:10 p.m., June 3 at 11:55 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., June 4 at 1:35 p.m., June 5 at 4:10 p.m., June 6 at 4 and 10:15 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

RSC: Hamlet: (Chastniye Zhizni): Paapa Essiedu stars as Hamlet in Simon Godwin's 2016 staging of Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Theater. Live transmission.

Formula Kino Europe June 8 at 9 p.m. In English.

Shakespeare Live!: A stellar cast, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Joseph Fiennes, David Tennant, the Royal Ballet, English National Opera, the Orchestra of the Swan, and Birmingham Royal Ballet in a unique tribute to the genius.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 7 at 7:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Cherepashki-Ninja 2, 2016): The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat. Directed by Dave Green.

GUM Hall June 2, 3, 7 and 8 at 12:35 p.m., June 4, 5 and 6 at 12:20 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

The Beaux' Stratagem (Khitroumny Plan Shchyogolei): Two charming, dissolute young men, who blew their fortunes in London, flee to the provinces to marry for money. Simon Godwin's 2015 staging of George Farquhar's comedy of love and cash for the National Theater.

Formula Kino Gorizont June 4 at 3 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

The Importance of Being Earnest (Kak Vazhno Byt Seryoznym): Oscar Wilde's satire about two young men who try winning their ladies by pretending to be named Ernest. Vadeville Theater 2015 production directed by Adrian Noble stars David Suchet as Lady Bracknell.

Cinema Park Riviera June 7 at 7:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

The Legend of Barney Thomson (Uboinaya Strizhka, 2015): British crime comedy directed by and starring Robert Carlyle is based on the novel "The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson" by Douglas Lindsay. Co-stars Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Ashley Jensen and Brian Pettifer.

35MM June 2 at 6:15 p.m., June 3 at 1:50 p.m., June 4 at 7:55 p.m., June 5 at 12:25 p.m., June 6 at 5:55 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pioner June 2 at 11:40 p.m., June 3 at 11 a.m., June 4 at 9:20 and 1:15 a.m., June 5 at 12:35 a.m., June 6 at 1:25 p.m., June 7 at 3:15 p.m., June 8 at 1:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya June 2 to 8 at 1:10 and 6:40 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Warcraft (2016): Duncan Jones's fantasy film, based on the Warcraft video game series and novels set in the world of Azeroth, portrays the initial encounters between the humans and the orcs.

35MM June 2 at 11:40 a.m.June 3 at 3:45 p.m., June 4 at 3:30 and 9:50 p.m., June 5 at 10 a.m., June 6 at 11:55 a.m. and 7:50 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pioner June 2 at 11:10 a.m. and 7:20 p.m., June 3 at 1 and 9:20 p.m., June 4 at 12:50, 6:45 and 11 p.m., June 5 at 1:30, 8 and 10:20 p.m., June 6 at 3:15 and 9:20 p.m., June 7 at 1, 5:05 and 9:30 p.m., June 8 at 3:20 and 9:15 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016): Ancient mutant Apocalypse awakens and plans to take over the world, so the X-Men need to stop him and defeat his team, the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. The ninth installment in the X-Men series, directed by Bryan Singer, features an ensemble cast starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn and Lucas Till.

Pioner June 2 at 1 p.m., June 3 at 3:15 p.m., June 4 at 9:30 a.m., June 5 at 10:30 p.m., June 6 at 1:15 p.m., June 7 at 4 p.m., June 8 at 11:20 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

A Dragon Arrives! (Prikhodit Drakon, 2016): Iranin director Mani Haghighi's meta-cinematic detective story set in 1960s Iran, shot through with counter-culture references and magical realism, channelling both the Westernised cool of the country's pre-Revolution intelligentsia and the climate of fear and paranoia engendered by the Shah's repressive regime.

Pioner June 2 at 5:30 and 11:50 p.m., June 3 at 11:05 a.m. and 11:45 p.m., June 4 at 12:40 a.m., June 6 at 5:30 and 11:45 p.m., June 7 at 1:50 p.m., June 8 at 5:10 p.m. In Persian; Russian subtitles.

Zvezda June 2 at 6:45 p.m., June 3 at 1:05 p.m., June 4 at 9:50 a.m., June 5 at 4:30 p.m. In Persian; Russian subtitles.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: LEF (2015): a documentary about leader of rock band AuktsYon Leonid Fyodorov.

Oktyabr June 4 at 5 p.m. In Russian.

FESTIVAL Beat Film: Oleg and the Rare Arts (2016): A documentary about 89-year-old legendary St. Petersburg composer and improviser Oleg Karavaichuk.

Center of Documentary Cinema June 5 at 5 p.m. In Russian.

Chocolat (2015): The real-life story of France's first famous black performer, directed by actor Roschdy Zem, stars Omar Sy, James Thierree and Clotilde Hesme.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya June 2 to 8 at 1:25 and 10:35 p.m. In French; Russian subtitles.

Equipage (Flight Crew, 2016): Nikolai Lebedev's disaster film starring Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov, Sergei Shakurov and Yelena Yakovleva.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya June 2 to 8 at 4:15 and 11:05 p.m. In Russian.

Future Shorts: Spring 2016: a program of shorts from 2014 to 2015.

GUM Hall June 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 at 5:45 p.m. In various languages.

La Loi du Marche (The Measure of a Man; Zakon Rynka, 2015): Stephane Brizewon's drama about a 51-year-old unemployed factory worker (Vincent Lindon) who is trying to make ends meet in working-class France, won the Best Actor award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya June 2 to 8 at 11:20 a.m. In French; Russian subtitles.

Marguerite (2015): Xavier Giannoli's drama, set in the Golden Twenties in Paris, stars Catherine Frot as a socialite and aspiring opera singer who believes she has a beautiful voice.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya June 2 to 8 at 3:05 p.m. In French; Russian subtitles.

Saint Amour (2016): Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern's road-trip comedy stariing Gerard Depardieu, Benoit Poelvoorde and Vincent Lacoste.

35MM June 2 at 10 p.m., June 3 and 6 at 10 a.m., June 4 at 5:55 p.m., June 5 at 2:15 and 9:55 p.m. In French; Russian subtitles.

Pioner June 2 at 3:35 p.m., June 4 at 2:20 p.m., June 7 at 9:20 p.m., June 8 at 11:20 a.m. In French; Russian subtitles.

Zvezda June 2 at 4:50 p.m., June 3 at 4:55 p.m., June 5 at 6:30 p.m., June 6 at 3:35 p.m. In French; Russian subtitles.

Cinema Addresses

Aktovy Zal
18 Perevedenovsky Pereulok, entrance 1. M. Baumanskaya, Elektrozavodskaya. 495-221-0757

Barvikha Luxury Village
114 Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Shosse, Posyolok Barvikha. M. Molodyozhnaya. 495-933-7363, barvikhaconcerthall.ru

Beat Film Festival
en.2014.beatfilmfestival.ru

35MM
47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. M. Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142

Cinema Club at Winzavod
14th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Green Hangar. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. 495-664-3980

Cinema Park Metropolis
16A Leningradskoye Shosse, Bldg. 4. M. Voikovskaya. 495-644-4111, cinemapark.ru

Center of Documentary Cinema
2 Zubovsky Bulvar, Bldg. 7. M. Park Kultury. 495-637-7919, cdkino.ru

Central House of Artists
10 Krymsky Val. M. Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya. 499-238-9634/9843, cha.ru

Cervantes Institute
20A Novinsky Bulvar, Bldg. 1-2. M. Krasnopresnenskaya. 495-609-9022/9422, moscu.cervantes.es/ru/default.shtm

Dom Kino
13 Vasilyevskaua Ul. M. Belorusskaya, unikino.ru

Domzhur
8A Nikitsky Bulvar. M. Arbatskaya. 495-691-5698, 222-1060, 697-20-86, domjour.ru

Eldar
105 Leninsky Prospekt. Metro Yugo-Zapadnaya, Prospekt Vernadskogo. 495-735-9944, 735-9968.

Formula Kino City
2 Presnenskaya Naberezhnaya, AfiMall City. M. Vystavochnaya. 800-250-8025

Formula Kino Europe
Ploshchad Kievskogo Vokzala. M. Kievskaya. 800-250-8025

Formula Kino Gorizont
21/10 Komsomolsky Prospekt. M. Frunzenskaya. 800-250-8025

Formula Kino Na Rublyovke
62 Rublyovskoye Shosse, EvroPark Mall. 800-250-8025

Formula Kino Praga
10 Nizhnyaya Maslovka, M. Savyolovskaya, 800-250-8025

Formula Kino Strela
23/25 Smolenskaya-Sennaya Ploshchad. M. Smolenskaya. 800-250-8025

Gogol Theater
8A Ulitsa Kazakova. M. Kurskaya. 499-262-9214, 499-261-5528, (website currently being reconstructed)

GUM Hall Na Krasnoi Ploshchadi
3 Red Square, line 3, floor 3. 495-620-3062

Hermitage Garden
3 Ul. Karetny Ryad. M. Pushkinskaya. 495-699-0432, mosgorsad.ru

Illyuzion
1/15 Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya. M. Taganskaya, Kitai-Gorod. 495-915-4339, 915-4353, illuzion-cinema.ru

Karo Film
In the Atrium shopping mall, 33 Zemlyanoi Val. M. Kurskaya. 495-545-0505

Khudozhestvenny
14 Arbatskaya Ploshchad (at the intersection of Nikitsky Bulvar and Novy Arbat). M. Arbatskaya. 495-691-9624/5598/0247

MIFF Moscow International Film Festival

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka
25 Petrovka. M. Chekhovskaya. 495-231-3660, mmoma.ru

Moskva
2 Okhotny Ryad, at the Moskva Hotel, 4th floor. M. Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya. 495-730-1031, cinema.moscow

Multimedia Art Museum
16 Ul. Ostozhenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 495-637-1100, mamm-mdf.ru/en

Museum of Moscow
2 Zubovsky Bulvar. M. Park Kultury. 499-766-4196, mosmuseum.ru

Muzeon Park of Arts
2 Krymsky Val. M. Oktyabrskaya, Park Kultury. 499-238-3396, muzeon.ru

Oktyabr
24 Novy Arbat. M. Arbatskaya. 495-545-0505

Pioner
21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. M. Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240

Platforma at Winzavod Center
14th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. platformaproject.ru, 495-917-1799, bigbilet.ru, winzavod.ru)

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya
In the Arkadia mall, 8 Sredny Ovchinnikovsky Pereulok. M. Novokuznetskaya. 495-916-9169

Pyat Zvyozd-Paveletskaya
25 Ulitsa Bakhrushina. M. Paveletskaya. 495-916-9169

Rolan
12 Chistoprudny Bulvar. M. Chistiye Prudy. 495-916-9169

Strelka Institute
14 Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 5A. Across from Christ the Savior Cathedral over the Patriarchy Bridge. M. Kropotkinskaya. 495-771-7437, strelka.com

Zvezda
18/22 Zemlyanoi Val. M. Kurskaya. 495- 917-8301, 495-916-2805, star-moskino.ru

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