Film Movement Plus - January 2022 Streaming Premieres

By Film Movement | January 1, 2022

JANUARY 7


Nina Wu


After years of toiling in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu finally gets her break as the female lead in a big-budget espionage thriller. Hovering on the brink of stardom, Nina clings to her sanity as her psychological resolve begins to crack under the pressure.


JANUARY 14


Mug
After fun-loving Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant, which leads to his status as a national hero and martyr.


MyFrenchFilmFestival
Returning for a fourth year on Film Movement Plus, MyFrenchFilmFestival brings the best of a new generation of French films to cineastes the world over! This year's selections will include nine features and fourteen short films.



JANUARY 21


Conference
Years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theater, one of the survivors returns to the crime scene for a memorial evening, finally able to confront her guilt along with her estranged daughter and husband.


October
Sergei Eisenstein commemorates the Russian Revolution with one of his greatest cinematic achievements, utilizing non-actors and striking montage imagery to recount history from a political perspective.


Alexander Nevsky
Ten years after his landmark epic OCTOBER, Sergei Eisenstein's epic retelling of Russia's battle against German invasion in the 13th century is a triumph of the legendary filmmaker's talent and vision.


JANUARY 28


Bad Roads
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of what is going on, but in this world where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless. Ukraine's 2022 official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film.


Falling
While the world around them is crashing down, an unexpected encounter between two Ukrainians who are at a crossroads in their lives changes everything.