21.06 - 30.06.2012

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  • "Moving Pictures"

    16 May, 14:08
    The 34th Moscow International Film Festival invites you to the retrospective “Moving Pictures” According to Louis Delluc cinema is painting in motion. Alexandr Tarkovsky once put it in a slightly different way: come to think of it, live-action cinema is no more than a special case of animation, an image conceived by an artist and animated by technical means.
  • 34th MIFF Presents: "Universal pictures golden collection"

    14 May, 13:06
    34th Moscow International Film Festival presents a retrospective of Universal Pictures films.
  • Welcome to Moscow Business Square

    26 March, 14:21
    Moscow Business Square is a business platform of the 34rd Moscow International Film Festival which will take place in the period from 25 until 27 of June 2012.
  • Lubitsch' Touch

    13 March, 14:32
    34 MIFF presents a retrospective of the famous German and American director Ernst Lubitsch.
  • Colors of Soul

    05 March, 16:10
    34th Moscow International Film Festival presents a retrospective of the Hong Kong artist and film director Yonfan "Colors of Soul".
  • Theme and artists of the MIFF Media Forum are announced

    02 March, 15:08
    For more than ten years the Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival has successfully represented innovative and progressive experiments in visuality.
  • Czech Lions for Vaclav Havel

    01 March, 15:42
    Vaclav Havel’s Leaving has dominated the nominations for the annual Czech Lions awards
  • Queen

    02 July, 22:58
    Helen Mirren received the special prize for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting...
  • First winners of the 33rd MIFF

    02 July, 13:17
    First winners of the 33rd MIFF were announced on Saturday morning in "Khudozhestveny" cinema
  • Revenge: A Love Story / Fuk sau che chi sei

    02 July, 10:50
    “Revenge” is constructed in such a way that it is not possible to make it sound interesting without disclosing its plot twists...
  • American translation

    02 July, 10:43
    In the post-war French art the image of America as a road along which two young lovers are speeding, loving each other until the police do part them, is even more frequent than in America itself...
  • Anarchy in Zirmunai / Anarchija Zirmunuose

    02 July, 10:30
    The detective-like plot development is what fuels our interest in the movie, the title of which includes the word “anarchy”...
  • Undercurrent / Brim

    02 July, 10:22
    The best parts of the movie are the inspiring shots of the rusty boat swaying on the waves, the atmospheric scenes from the fishermen’s everyday life...
  • Snowchild

    02 July, 09:59
    It is only natural that the young German director Uta Arning decided to set her film about suicides in Japan...
  • My Sex Life / Viata mea sexuala

    02 July, 09:49
    A very tired woman strolls before the video camera in the Budapest park with the microphone attached to her skirt from behind...
  • Tabou - The Soul Is Stranger on Earth / Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden

    01 July, 19:46
    Relationships of the relatives, which were, probably, much more complicated, are melodramatized and scandalized...
  • In the Name of the Devil / W imieniu diabła

    01 July, 19:33
    Classical narration deceitfully prompts us that we wisely predict the finale...
  • The Other Family / La otra familia

    01 July, 19:23
    Where the quirkier the fantasies of the rich, the larger their hearts...
  • Leaving / Odcházení

    01 July, 18:37
    “Leaving” is the feature film version of the Vaclav Havel’s play, the draught of which he had written in the late ‘80s...
  • Chapiteau-show

    01 July, 18:24
    Not only this article should end right now, but to tell the truth, many it shouldn’t have been started at all...
  • The House under the Water / Khaneye zire ab

    01 July, 17:57
    Taking into account that the underwater death of relatives haunts the characters like a nightmare, in an hour the viewer is ready to face the mystic horror...
  • Tape End

    01 July, 17:47
    An actress come to the casting – the same one, the director has been working ten years ago. And something says that it wasn’t just plain work...
  • Heart's Boomerang / Serdtsa bumerang

    30 June, 17:48
    Once upon a time lived a young man named Kostya – employee of subway, with apartment, mother, girlfriend...
  • Postcard / Ichimai no hagaki

    30 June, 17:29
    Most surely, Shindo uses everything at the director’s disposal to support his actors...
  • Hora menos

    30 June, 17:22
    Unprecedented flood happened on the North cost of Venezuela in 1999...
  • The Steppes

    30 June, 17:14
    Image in “The Steppes” reminds of that shot by mobile phone. The sound is recorded by microphones hidden under the clothes...
  • The short film contest on 33 MIFF

    29 June, 20:11
    Shorts have always been the most flexible and fresh area of the cinema...
  • Huvelin street / Rue Huvelin

    29 June, 19:48
    The metaphor for the message of the movie could be the scene in which Joy, a dark-haired revolutionary, can barely drag the heavy suitcase...
  • Secrets, Objects / Samoolui bimil

    29 June, 19:34
    The traditional Confucian approach denies any erotic overtones in the lofty relations between the teacher and the disciple...
  • Montevideo, Taste of a Dream / Montevideo, Bog te video

    29 June, 18:50
    Dragan Bjelogrlić’s film is unique in its own way for contemporary cinema – it is optimistic all the way through...
  • I’ll Die Without You/ Ushenod mgoni movkvdebi

    29 June, 18:36
    You must be a football fan to understand how the protagonist, a 38-year-old writer Zaza, managed to make a large scoop...
  • Joanna

    29 June, 18:15
    Falk’s new film is conceived in such lofty traditions that even the almost total lack of originality can’t be called a drawback or a miscalculation
  • Foreigner / Lао wai

    28 June, 14:11
    This is a movie about the guy who went too far in the direct and (as many would say) indirect sense of the word...
  • Gakku

    28 June, 13:59
    Time here is really the protagonist of the film, that submits the whole aesthetics of it – starting from specific, slate-grey colors of the film and ending with the voice-over...
  • The perfect life / La vita facile

    28 June, 13:21
    Should someone ask the question what is such a comedy, light as the life mentioned in the title, doing in the competition of the A-class international film festival, the answer will be simple: its recipe has long been lost...
  • The waves / Las olas

    28 June, 13:12
    It is a journey where at first you feel bored of everything from the peeling bridges and impersonal agglomerations of new houses to the news over the car radio. But once you buy a “Lucky Strike” pack in a café at the gas station...
  • Escalation / Escalade

    28 June, 12:56
    They have at their disposal the latest gadgets, the super-phones which will let them, in case of a refusal – which they get, – instantly simulate an orgy with the participation of the teacher and circulate it over the Internet.
  • Sneakers / Kecove

    27 June, 13:37
    The 50-year-old drunkard slaps his woman across the face. The next moment a girl in working clothes runs into the café...
  • RETRACE/ VISSZATÉRÉS

    27 June, 13:26
    All happy families are happy in the same way, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. That is the case in Judit Elek’s movie...
  • BUGgY

    27 June, 13:09
    The 26-year-old director Andrey Bogatyryov (this is his live-action debut) makes a graceful experiment on the audience...
  • The full retrospective of Béla Tarr

    26 June, 16:01
    For the first time in Russia, a retrospective of Béla Tarr’s full body of work will take part at Pioneer and October venues as part of the 33rd MIFF.
  • 33 MIFF premiers

    25 June, 15:58
    Today will take place international premier of "Montevideo, Taste of a Dream" and "In the name of the devil"
  • John Malkovich received a world cinema contribution award

    24 June, 11:10
    ‘Being John Malkovich’ – what does it mean? Who knows. Anyhow the actor himself affirms that in the noted Spike Jonze’s picture, where his head was being turned into a virtual portal...
  • Moscow will host International Film Finence Forum

    16 June, 14:27
    For the first time Moscow will host one of the most reputable events of world cinema industry - the International Film Finance Forum Moscow 2011
  • «Perspectives» competition: two additional films

    15 June, 20:29
    The final list of «Perspectives» competition includes, along 11 previously announced, two new titles: Buggy and The Steppes
  • Socialis Avan-gardizm. Part 4

    13 June, 15:22
    One of the most popular MIFF programs called Socialist Avant-gardizm will continue at 33 MIFF with its fouth edition
  • 33 MIFF presents: Russian premiere of Target

    09 June, 02:21
    One of the most desired Russian films of the year, Aleksandr Zeldovich & Vladimir Sorokin's Mishen / Target will take part in Gala-screenings program of 33 MIFF.
  • 33 Moscow International Film Festival announces A Tribute To Rob Nilsson

    04 June, 13:41
    The Moscow International Film Festival presents A Tribute to Rob Nilsson, a Retrospective of films by San Francisco director Rob Nilsson to be held during 33rd annual festival June 23-July 2, 2011.
  • 33rd Moscow Festival announced this year’s competition program.

    02 June, 14:06
    33rd Moscow Festival announced this year’s competition program.
  • Michael Apted announced as the chairman of the Documentary competition jury

    27 May, 18:56
    The list of the documentary competition jury has been confirmed. The winner in the nomination “Best documentary film” will be named by the Russian documentary director
  • First competition films and Jury members of the 33 MIFF are announced

    18 May, 13:38
    On the first 33 MIFF presentation which took place today in Cannes first competition films and Jury members were announced. The 33 MIFF will be opened with the World Premiere of Hollywood blockbuster
  • 33 MIFF presentation at the Cannes FF

    11 May, 17:44
    During the presentation which will take place at the “Russian Pavilion” on May 18th at 11:00 the organizers of the MIFF will give the names of some of the participants, members of the Jury and some films in competition
  • Theme and artists of the MIFF Media Forum are announced

    15 April, 21:45
    For twelve years Media Forum has brought new media art to the Russian audience. It presented an avant-garde trend in the works of artists experimenting with language, context and techniques of electronic and digital mass media.
  • A Stoker by Balabanov won the first prize and FIPRESCI award of the 11 goEast film festival

    14 April, 14:22
    MIFF congratulates Aleksey Balabanov on the first prize and FIPRESCI award for his Stoker on 11 goEast film festival, Wiesbaden, Germany.
  • 33 MIFF presents: Werner Herzog retrospective

    09 April, 03:01
    His name is usually associated with New German Cinema, a group of such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta and Wim Wenders
  • 33 MIFF presents: Sam Peckinpah

    04 April, 01:19
    Kathryn Bigelow and Michael Mann, Takeshi Kitano and Park Chan-wook acknowledge his influence, though he stays one of the most disputable filmmakers in history.
  • Bondarchuk, Zviagintsev, Veledinsky, Litvinova will screen movies at the 33MIFF

    25 March, 07:46
    One of the highlights of the 32 MIFF was the program “Millennium Choice”, in which the leading young Russian filmmakers spoke about their favorite movies
  • An additional “Saint George” statuette

    17 March, 20:06
    The statuette will be awarded for best documentary film
  • The 33rd Moscow International Film Festival presents retrospective Journey to Italia

    17 March, 10:34
    Already in recent years, in the late 40s early 50s of the 20thcentury, there were a number of (quite successful) cinematic attempts to traverse the Apennines with a camera...
  • THE 33 MIFF

    04 March, 16:50
    The festival has always mirrored the socio-political changes taking place in our country
  • The 32 Moscow International Film Festival awards

    26 June, 19:42