44th Moscow International Film Festival Announces Dates
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- Category: Russia A&E, Lifestyle, Culture
- Published on Friday, 01 July 2022 12:10
- Written by Euro Contributing Editor
The dates for the 44th Moscow International Film Festival have been announced, with films still being actively submitted throughout the world, the festival will be held in-person from August 26 to September 2, 2022.
Journalist and producer Ivan Kudryavtsev became the chairman of the selection committee including film experts and film critics Evgenia Tirdatova, Yegor Moskvitin, Nina Kochelyaeva, Grigory Libergal, Sergei Miroshnichenko, Nadezhda Koroleva, Vadim Rutkovsky, producers Katerina Mikhailova and Anna Shalashina.
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Other prominent experts will also be invited as consultants and curators of the author's programs.
The MIFF program is being actively developed: more than 200 applications have been submitted for the main competition alone, and they continue to come. The geography of countries whose filmmakers wish to present their premieres at the MIFF stretches from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, the USA, and other countries of the Western Hemisphere, to Great Britain, Serbia, Italy, France in the west of our continent and India, Iran, the countries of the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and even Oceania.
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"The super-task of the new edition of the MIFF we see is Openness and Openness, " says Ivan Kudryavtsev . - The discovery, first of all, of new names of world cinema, new countries and territories, little known to the audience of thousands of MIFF and poorly (yet) studied by the world festival community. In total, we see more than 60 countries in the applications, but the dynamics of their receipt is such that there will be significantly more of them. We, for example, it seems to us, have a good idea of what formats the cinema of India, Iran or, say, "Nollywood" offers the world today, but it only seems. The same Nigeria, whose population has exceeded 200 million people, and in a few years it will go over a quarter of a billion, has become the center of an ebullient cinematography, where rental fees amount to a billion dollars in less than a year. And there are many such examples of emerging new "points of growth".
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The openness of the MIFF venue, first of all, to them is our basic principle. At the same time, we, of course, set ourselves the goal of showing the entire palette of modern cinema, including from long-familiar territories, at this turning point in the development of our civilization. Cinema, due to its long production cycle, cannot afford to jump to conclusions, but this is where its most powerful ability to foresee, to anticipate. The picture of the world that the MIFF program will show us in its entirety is designed to formulate this presentiment - both for the current moment and for the foreseeable historical perspective.
Ivan Kudryavtsev is a well-known journalist and producer, a member of the Guild of Film Critics and Critics of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, an academician of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia.
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Ivan is one of the leading experts on the Russian film market and heads the Expert Council of the Golden Eagle National Film Award. Deputy General Director, Director for Film Channels at Digital Television JSC (VGTRK and Rostelecom), the largest holding in the Russian pay TV market. Since 2009, he has been the author and host of the weekly program Film Industry on Russia 24, the country's main news channel.
