From August 21 to 26 in Orenburg there will pass XIII international film festival “East&West”. His program included about 60 paintings from 13 countries, including from Belarus.
the show will be attended by tapes from the Czech Republic, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, South Korea, Denmark, Bulgaria, Serbia, Belarus, USA, Iran and Russia. The opening film will be Korean Thriller “the Train to Busan 2: Peninsula”, included in the official selection of the Cannes film festival.
In the non-competitive sections of the audience will be retrospectives devoted to the past the anniversary of Ingmar Bergman and the 75th anniversary of the Victory. In honor of the 120th anniversary of Luis buñuel’s organizers included in the program’s animated film “buñuel in the maze of turtles”, and the 100th anniversary of Federico Fellini, the show will celebrate the show “8 1/2”.
In the competition of feature films involved the Russian-Belarusian drama “Kaddish,” directed by Konstantin FAM.
“Belarus has passed and most of the filming scenes at a defense plant, in the Brest Museum in the village of Dududki – told Pham.- Belarusians are very kind to the military theme. We needed an old steam locomotive and private way to shoot, bomb shelter, all this without question made Belarusians”.
the Director also admitted that it is very important the participation of the Belarusians in the film. “My grandfather on my mother from Belarus, from the Orsha province. Relatives on his mother died in the war,” he said.
In the animated program “0 to infinity” presents the work of “Belarusfilm” – “Dante. Beatrice” directed by Irina kodyukova were named winners, “beauty and the beast” Natalia Darwinii, “Legend of the harp” Tatiana Kublicki, “the Best place on earth” Irina Tarasova, “Master of liberal arts” Elena Petkevich, “Thistle” Eugene Nadtochey, which premiered at the last Minsk international film festival Listapad.
In retrospect, the 75th anniversary of the Victory will show the film of 1962 “Ivanovo the childhood” Andrey Tarkovsky and a picture of “the Ascension” Larissa Shepitko, filmed in 1976 on the novel of Belarusian classic Vasil Bykov “Sotnikov”. The music for the latter wrote to Alfred Schnittke. The film received several awards at the Berlinale in 1977, becoming the first Soviet film to be awarded the highest award of the festival – “Golden bear”. The film takes place during the great Patriotic war in German-occupied Belarus in the winter of 1942. Two guerrillas, military personnel Rybak and Sotnikov former teacher, sent from the forest to the village in search of food for his party, which there are women and children. Fisherman Sotnikov come to the house to the village chief, who is forced to work for the Germans.
“Climbing” was the last completed film in the directorial career of Larisa Shepitko. Three years after the release of the film on the screens she died in a car accident during the filming of the cardsins “Farewell to Matyora”.
the main competition jury of the festival includes Director, cameraman and scriptwriter Sergei Mokritsky (Chairman), honoured artist of Russia Eudoxia Germanova, doctor of arts, Professor of cinematography, cultural studies and program Director of MIFF Kirill Razlogov, producer Roman Borisevich, actor and laureate of the Union state prize in literature and art, people’s artist of Belarus Vladimir Gostyukhin.
Winners of international and Russian competitions traditionally awarded a prize “the Gold Sarmatian lion”. President of the festival is Director and producer Tatiana Voronetskaya.
