Moscow International Film Festival

THE 43RD MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. IN SPITE OF THE LOCKDOWN

Jury

I BELIEVE

There is no need to go into detail while describing the importance of the Konstantin Stanislavsky Award “I Believe” at the Moscow International Film Festival. It is sufficient to give the names of the recipients

14 FILMS OF THE 43 RD MOSCOW FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION PROGRAM BECAME KNOWN

The opening and closing films

Special Screenings

KIRILL RAZLOGOV. MOVIES OF MY LIFE.

For many years I’ve cherished the idea of making a series of TV talks and comments under the title Films of my Life

EIGHT AND A HALF FILMS

Almost all the movies with the exception of Miss Marx, exuding the half-forgotten leftist spirit, and Parquet by the Russian classic Alexandr Mindadze, were made in the close to combat environment

IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL APTED

KIM KI DUK. AFTERWORD

Kim Ki Duk made his first movie Crocodile in 1996 when he was already 35

MISSING PICTURES

It is hard to imagine that the title of the program could refer to the future. We still don’t know if it might turn into Missing Pictures that We Will Never See.

YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL

The youngest heroes of our small program are the Iranian kids with their childishly desperate belief in the miracle

INVERTED PERSPECTIVE

Remember all the names of filmmakers of these short movies from 10 to 20-odd minutes long. These gifted debutants are the future of Russian cinema

EUPHORIA OF ISOLATION

Films for the traditional Euphoria program were selected according to traditional criteria. These guidelines have always included emotional allure and artistic originality

CHINESE CINEMA. FEMALE LOOK

In contemporary China the work of women directors (and scriptwriters) is becoming more and more prominent

SIMONE SIGNORET. YVES MONTAND.THE DUO

Simone Signoret was born exactly a hundred years ago in Wiesbaden, Germany. Yves Montand was born nine months later in Tuscany, Italy. They met in August 1949 on Cote d’Azure, in Saint Paul de Vence and fell in love

WOMEN’S CINEMA OF ISRAEL

Women’s cinema of Israel is vibrant, passionate, sometimes shocking, filled with sunshine and music, transmitting joy and pain, charged with positive at times excessive emotions which are always sincere

EPISODE ONE. TAKE TWO

Two years ago at the 41st MIFF the program of series included the first episodes of Identification by Vladlena Sandu, Tolia the Robot by Alexei Nuzhny and Trigger by Dmitry Tyurin. The program was warmly received by the festival audience and has since proved it right to exist

ITALIAN FILM. THE RETURN OF THE CLASSICS

FEMALE DIRECTORS OF THE PRESENT

This year the MIFF presents a new program Female directors of the Present