The Souvenir

Year: 2019

Director: Joanna Hogg

Country: United Kingdom, USA

Duration: 119 minutes

EXTRA SCREENING A young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man (Tom Burke). She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as she surrenders to the relationship, a relationship which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. Free admission, advance registration required. The film is screened in the original language with Russian subtitles. 18+

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Joanna Hogg

Film director

Joanna Hogg is a British filmmaker known for Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010) and Exhibition (2013). The screenwriter and director made her feature film debut in 2008 with Unrelated. Starring Tom Hiddleston, the film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Guardian First Film award. She followed it with Archipelago and Exhibition. The British Film Institute has identified her as ‘one of the foremost directors working in Britain today’.