According to the chairman of the selection committee Ivan Kudryavtsev, the trend of the festival will be the appeal of world cinema to the problems of youth, the relationship of generations. It’s time to build bridges between them.
More than 30 world premieres will be presented at the film festival.
Special accreditation will appear at the Moscow International Film Festival, which will allow students of VGIK, Film Institute, Moscow Film School, Arka Higher Film School, where future students study Belarusian filmmakers, to attend conferences.
A representative delegation of Belarusian filmmakers and Belarusian media is visiting the ongoing film festival. They will participate in a co-production at Business Square. There is already a successful experience in this field: recently, Belarusian masters, together with Russians, shot the comedy Olivier with the participation of Irina Pegova, Sergei Shakurov, students of the Belarusian Academy of Arts. The film was successfully sold on three platforms.
Belarusian animation, which is 50 years old, was preserved in its birthplace – in “Belarusfilm”, where 236 cartoons were shot. Galina Adamovich’s new film “Anima” tells the story of the studio.
In addition to well-known Belarusian animators, the authors managed to shoot Russian classics: Yuri Norshtein (who taught Volchek and Tumel) and Alexander Petrov (who received an Oscar for the film The Old Man and the Sea, and started as artist with Belarusian Vladimir Petkevich).
As part of the Moscow International Film Festival, viewers will be able to watch the TV movie “Half an Hour Before Spring” about the life and work of Vladimir Moulyavine.
Read the latest news about science, technology, and innovations on The Eastern Herald .
