The Closing Film of the 30 Moscow International Film Festival.
The Opening Film of the 30 Moscow International Film Festival.
The competition program of the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
This program consists of the debut works of the perspective directors from different countries.
The premier screenings of the new films, such as "Don’t think about white monkeys" by Yuri Mamin, "Ghost" by Karen Oganesyan, "Black sun" by Krzysztof Zanussi etc.
In 2008 at the MIFF the program 8 ½ films is held for the 9th time. Or one can just as well say for eight and a half’s time, because in 2006 it was released without its author’s participation and had little to do with the original concept. And the concept is still the same as before: in the boundless sea of festival premiers to pick out those movies that demonstrate how cinema is being born... more
At first sight the movies of Moscow Euphoria have nothing in common, but still they have one typical quality – they are all marked by the unquestionable artistic magic... more
Takeshi Kitano. Glory to Filmmaker
Takeshi Kitano began his career as a lift boy, did odd jobs at third-rate Tokyo clubs and could hardly talk the boss into allowing him to entertain the public with his sketches between acts. Today he is the most popular comedian in Japan, who appears on stage and on TV several times a week. His shows have been rated among the highest for the last two decades... more
Asian Extreme: Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng
Tsai Ming-liang was the first far-eastern director to deeply understand the stylistics of Western cinema and the problems in the focus of its attention – from Antonioni to Truffaut, whose Les Quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows still remain Tsai’s favorite movie. The Western world returned his affection... more
Adama Meshuga'at / Crazy Mud by Dror Shaul – Grand Prix of the Sundance Festival; Beaufort by Josef Cedar – Silver Berlin Bear; Hofshat Kaits / My Father My Lord by David Volach – Tribeña’s best movie (New York); Meduzot / Jellyfish by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen – Camera d’Or at Cannes; Bikur Ha-Tizmoret / The Band's Visit by Eran Kolirin – Best European movie of the year. These are just a few Israeli movies and only of the past year... more
The 29th Moscow Film Festival had an interesting experience of a highly acclaimed program called “Mikhalkov’s List” which included movies selected by the outstanding filmmaker and Festival President. Those films had a great influence on the tastes and artistic credo of the director at the outset of his artistic career. This year a similar selection is prepared by the prominent Russian director Gleb Panfilov... more
The youngest of five children in the family. She spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray . Studied at Saint Claud school, later at the acting department of the Conservatory of Versailles, where she won a prize for the part in the play “Caprice” (after Alfred de Musset)... more
Was born in Tokyo in the family of a Norwegian engineer, who often worked abroad. Studied at the theatrical school in London. In the mid-50s made her debut on the theatrical scene and in 1957 in cinema - Fjols til fjells... more
John Cassavetes. The Great Unknown
“Movies about real people”. That is the simple definition that the 28-year-old actor John Cassavetes chose to describe what he wanted to do, when he was speaking in a night radio show, where he was supposed to talk about anything but his directorial ambitions... more
More than a century ago Alexandr Herzen expressed a remarkable idea: the Russian people does not believe in its present. If the famous revolutionary and writer was not mistaken, then Russia has every right to be considered the birthplace of avant-garde. Not to mention the Soviet Union. The art of avant-garde first and foremost means the denial of the existing reality in the name of a different invented one... more
Happy Dozen. To the 30th MIFF anniversary
Next year it will be exactly 50 years since the renewal of the Moscow International Film Festival (unfortunately few people know that the first competitive screening of films was held in Moscow back in 1935.) The present Festival is an anniversary event, the 30th festival... more
Age-olds and centennial. To the 100th anniversary of the first film screening in Russia
The centenary of Russian cinema has finally sneaked up on us almost imperceptibly. Some scholars believe that this holiday is related not so much to cinema itself as to the emergence of movie production in Russia, to the first steps of film industry, which is not quite accurate, since it originated earlier... more
Free Thought. Documentary cinema program
The program "Free Thought" is screened at the Moscow Festival for the third time. We continue to present contemporary masterpieces of documentary cinema. Among the movies included in the program there are many winners and award recipients.
The ninth Media Forum opens this year as part of the Moscow International Film Festival official program. The audience is each time introduced to actual tendencies in new media art, experimental film and shown retrospectives of XX century video art classics. more...
CINE FANTOM is a Moscow based film club, functioning weekly since 1995. CINE FANTOM is about screenings of films, video and media works. It is also about their discussions held among viewers, authors, filmmakers, producers, curators and film critics. more...
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