Reviewed by Kate Marsden. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2020. The Pencil follows a passionate art schoolteacher Antonina (Nadezhda Gorelova) as she moves from St. Petersburg to a small rural town that is ridden with gang violence so she can be close to her husband, a prominent outspoken artist who is now a … Continue reading The Pencil (Natalya Nazarova, 2019): Russia