The film directors in this list have made films that were deemed to be notable art films by prominent critics, film festivals, and/or by authors of books on the history of film.
Dillon, Kimberley Alexandra. The Emerging Identity as Expressed Through Russian Art House Cinema (archived from the original). In: Verges: Germanic and Slavic Studies in Review, Victoria, British Columbia: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Victoria, Volume 2, Number 1, May 2013: Special Symposium Issue – Proceedings from "Walking the Wire:" The Third Germanic and Slavic Studies Graduate Student Symposium and an Undergraduate Student Article, pp. 1–9. Retrieved 23 February 2019.