Special Presentations
Minotaur
The Cannes Grand Prix winner Minotaur is a twist-laden parable for our times. Amidst the comfortable trappings of affluence and domesticity, corporate executive Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) finds himself under siege on all fronts. At home, he is haunted by suspicions that his increasingly distant wife Galina (Iris Lebedeva) is unfaithful. At work, he contends with a demand from local authorities to draft a quota of employees for the war in Ukraine. Desperate to keep his hands clean, Gleb struggles to reassert control, even as the collapse of his carefully ordered life seems fated to accelerate toward violence. A Mubi release.
Southeast premiere
Official Academy Award Selection — France
Presented in Russian with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
Andrey Zvyagintsev
PRODUCERS
Nathanaël Karmitz
Charles Gillibert
Marco Perego
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Julia Zaytseva
Svetlana Punte
Max Pavlov
Roman Paul
Gerhard Meixner
Christiane Sommer
Yusuf Aslanyürek
WRITERS
Simon Lyashenko
Andrey Zvyagintsev
CAST
Dmitriy Mazurov
Iris Lebedeva
Boris Kudrin
Yuriy Zavalnyouk
Varvara Zmykova
Vladimir Friedman
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Russian-born filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s directorial debut The Return won the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. His films The Banishment, Leviathan, and Loveless have all screened at the Cannes Film Festival, winning Best Actor, the Special Jury Prize, and Best Screenplay, respectively; Leviathan also became the first Russian film since 1969 to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2026, Zvyagintsev returned to Cannes competition with Minotaur, which won the Grand Prix and the Cannes Soundtrack Award.