MY PERESTROIKA documentary at the Royal Theatre - Dec 2, 4, 5, 6, 8

MY PERESTROIKA

The Royal

608 College Street
Toronto, ON M6G 1B4
(416) 466-4400 

Ticket information: here! http://www.theroyal.to/films/my-perestroika/

Tickets available at the box office.
Film is in Russian with English subtitles.
 
This critically-acclaimed documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 and went on to many prestigious film festivals including New Directors/New Films at MOMA and Lincoln Center in NY, the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, HotDocs, Full Frame, (where it received the Filmmaker Award), Silverdocs, (where it was awarded a Special Jury Prize) and London International Documentary Festival (Special Audience Award.)

Having premiered in 80 cities across the US and 28 countries around the globe to rave reviews and sold-out screenings, My Perestroika is now opening theatrically in Toronto at The Royal!

To view the movie trailer and learn more information visit http://myperestroika.com/

When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, MY PERESTROIKA tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country. Engaging, funny, and positively inspiring, in MY PERESTROIKA politics is personal, honesty overshadows ideology, and history progresses one day, one life at a time.

• “Enthralling …'My Perestroika' gives you a privileged sense of learning the history of a place not from a book but from the people who lived it. Astoundingly timely.”                
  - Stephen Holden, New York Times (“NYT Critics’ Pick”)
  
• “Tender, engrossing and utterly brilliant. Thanks to Hessman’s archival research, you see the change in astonishing period images, including a lifetime of Borya’s home movies. The experience of change makes My Perestroika a film that shouldn’t be missed. The lifetime part makes it indispensible.”                                                                   
  - Stuart Klawans, The Nation
  
• Named FILM OF THE WEEK and #1 in CRITICS’ PICKS in Time Out NY  “Filled with lovely, unlikely idea. My Perestroika wastes no time confounding expectations. DON’T MISS THIS!” 
  - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY
  
• “A terrifically engaging picture of life beyond the headlines, My Perestroika lifts the veil of cold war mystery. My Perestroika is as attuned to the absurdities of politics  and the sustaining value of culture as it is to a pure nostalgia of childhood.” - Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter