History
9 MAY 2021
Screening are timed to
The Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War
POP
(On The Rivers of Babilon)
Year: 2009
Age limit: 16+
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: :Russia
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko
Screenplay: Vladimir Khotinenko, Alexander Segen
Producer: Vera Malysheva, Natalia Gostiushina, Sergey Kravets
Operator: Ilya Demin
Composer: Alexey Rybnikov
Editing: Maxim Polinsky
Starring: Sergei Makovetsky, Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnev, Yuri Tsurilo, Anatoly Lobotsky, Victoria Romanenko, Stepan Morozov, Gennady Garbuk, Alexander Doronin
The Pskov Orthodox Mission is one of the least studied pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War. From August 1941 to February 1944, missionary priests from the Baltic States revived church life in the German-occupied territories of northwestern Russia. After the occupation of these areas by Soviet troops, the members of the Pskov mission were sent to the camps.
12 april 2021
Screening are timed to
International Day of Huaman Space Flight
First on the Moon
Production year: 2005
Running time: 75 min
COUNTRY: Russia
Director: Alexey Fedorchenko
Screenplay: Aleksandr Gonorovskiy, Ramil Yamaleyev
Producers: Aleksey Fedorchenko, Dmitri Vorobyov
PRODUCTION: Kinokompaniya Strana
Cast: Aleksey Anisimov, Viktoriya Ilyinskaya, Viktor Kotov, Andrey Osipov, Anatoliy Otradnov, Igor Sannikov, Aleksei Slavnin, Boris Vlasov
The first Russian mockumentary is about a 1930s Soviet landing on the Moon. The film is not related to the actual Soviet Moonsoot program.
A group of journalists are investigating a highly secret document when they uncover a sensational story: that even before the Second World War, in 1938, the first rocket was made in the USSR and Soviet scientists were planning to send an orbiter to the moon and back. The evidence is convincing; it is clear that in this case, Soviet cosmonauts were first.
The cosmonaut space training was filmed in Chelyabinsk, at the Institute of Aviation, where there exists equipment from Star City which even Gagarin used for training. The actors worked without stunt doubles; they were really spinning in the centrifuge, despite the fact that this training is difficult even for professionals.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Venice Horizons Documentary Award 2005
February 2021
December 2020
Project "Week of Russian Ethnic Cinema"
Director: Olga Murzina, Alexey Artemiev
Russia, 2019, documentary
The plot is based on stories from the life of the composer Gottfried Hasanov. In the 1920s, he wrote down songs and melodies of the peoples of Dagestan. He wrote the first Dagestan opera “Khochbar”, became the first director of the Dagestan Song and Dance Ensemble. He opened of a music school in Makhachkala.
Director: Elena Demidova
Russia, 2018, documentary
This research documentary is about the life and work of one of the most famous lamas – XII Pandito Hambo Lama – Dasha Dorzho Etigelov. “His Precious Inexhaustible Body” is currently in the Ivolginsky Datsan. Buddhist monks regard him as a living person.
Director: Andrey Malashenko
Russia, 2018, documentary
The Magaev family lives in the village of Tebek. They sew and sell sheepskin hats. Viewers will learn about the difficult fate of this family, their everyday life and the happy birthday of their granddaughter.
Director: Mohy Kandour
Russia-Jordan, 2010, historical fiction
The arrival of Circassian (Adyghe) emigrants from southern Russia (via Ottoman Turkey) to what is later known as Jordan creates conflicts over water rights between local Bedouins and Circassian immigrants. The story is of forbidden love between a Bedouin girl and a young Circassian, which could lead to war and bloodshed. The plot of the film develops within the framework of the Adyghe Khabze tradition (the ethical and philosophical doctrine of the Circassians, a set of unwritten rules and laws), opening the unexplored pages of the culture of the ancient people.
Director: Ruslan Magomadov
Russia, fiction
Humanity can be saved, but does it want to be saved?
A man from Europe arrives in Chechnya. He must find something priceless on which his future depends. Will he be able to achieve his goal without losing something more important?
Director: Ekaterina Chernaya
Russia, 2019, animation
A girl follows her lover to war and even his death cannot separate them. The story of eternal love and fidelity. About the memory of relatives, friends, and loved ones.
Director: Artur Kencheshaov
Russia, 2019, documentary
Together with the participants of an international motor rally, which passed along the route Moscow – Berlin – Torgau, we will visit the monuments obelisks dedicated to Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War on the territory of Belarus, Poland and Germany. Historical places, fateful events, pride and grief, as well as the poems of the film director, written during this journey, make up the documentary project of Arthur Kencheshaov “Roads of Peace and War”2010.
October - november 2020
Main competition
Country: Russia
Director: Vadim Dubrovitsky
Cast: Anna Dubrovskaya, Fedor Lavrov, Vyacheslav Abashin, Veronika Povalyaeva, Elizaveta Zarubina, Yaroslava Bazaeva, Ilariya Grebennikova, Timur Visnyakin, Vasilisa Nestrueva
Alina is a five-year-old girl, whose mother has been stricken by a terrible illness. Alina’s father decides his little daughter should go to his sister in the countryside, to avoid exposing the girl to her mother’s illness. The sister, Irma, Alina’s aunt, has three children, two of them Alina’s age. Living in Aunt Irma’s house proves quite a challenge for Alina. A city child, she finds it hard to adapt to the freedoms and restrictions of countryside life. Even though she does eventually become accepted, her dreams of returning to her family home and seeing her mother get well never go away.
Country: Russia | Azerbaijan
Director: Ksenija Lagutina
Cast: Mariam Ibragimova, Abdukarim Nasirov, Dilya Ulasheva, Asema Karabaeva
Farida, a hard of hearing girl from an Azerbaijani village, arrives in St. Petersburg in search of Murad’s husband. At home, she has a little son. Farida gets two jobs at once – at a gas station and in a fast-food cafe and in parallel is looking for her missing husband. In a series of failures, layoffs and fruitless searches, she unexpectedly notices that she has tender feelings for her workmate at a fast-food cafe.
Country: Kazakhstan
Director: Sharipa Urazbaeva
Cast: Meruert Sabbusinova, Almas Bektibaev, Khamza Koksebek
The film is based on real events, the actress plays herself. The film tells the story of Mariam, the mother of four children. After her husband mysteriously disappears, she has to deal with life’s hardships on her own, forcing her to make life changing decisions and understand herself better.
Documentary Film Competition
Country: Russia
Director: Alexandra Pustynnova
Why do grown men and women love cartoons about ponies? Why do they learn to fight the Jedi and Siths with lightsabers? Why do they make animal costumes and then transform into animals? Why do they replace the real world with a fictional one? This film will tell you about the Russian geek community which reflects – in a clear yet sometimes exaggerated way – new interests, social developments and issues our society faces.
Short Film Competition - Prospectives
Country: Russia
Director: Vladimir Parkhomenko
The film is built on visual images and reflections on age. The main character is a boy in a baby stroller. As he rolls down a hill, the boy begins to grow, and the stroller changes with him, turning into an age-appropriate vehicle. A bicycle appears underneath him when he is presented as a 5-7-year-old, a motorcycle – as 12-17-year-old and so on. The lower down the hill the character finds himself, the faster he ages, the faster his life accelerates, the more serious the obstacles that confront him. Ultimately, the boy, having gone all the way through life, finds himself at an old age above the cliff between life and death. This is a visual metaphor for the different phases of growing up, for the transformation from a boy to a man, and from a man to an old man.
Country: Russia
Director: Veronika Peat
“Tandem” is a film about love and the interconnections between the filmmaker and her ‘non-heroic’ characters. During lockdown an English poet invents a poetry machine, Humbaba that is capable of infusing algorithm poetry with human feelings. His retelling of the stories from the Epic of Gilgamesh echoes the stories of the filmmaker’s mother about a shaman and Putin. As the filmmaker’s son is growing up, he shares his feelings about his first love over the phone and reflects on telepathy.
Country: Russia
Director: Akim Salbiev
Goa is a state in India where composer Anatoly Zubkov lives and feels inspired to create. He holds Russia in his heart. His freedom is the inspiration he feels in Goa.
Country: Russia
Director: Valentin Tyuterev
A sparrow’s odyssey around the underground world.
Country: Russia
Director: Olessya Aleynikova
A talented asocial young violinist is dreaming of simply playing his violin but his domineering parents and his teacher who dreams of fame force him to enter an important competition. Will he acquiesce to his parents or stay true to himself and his dreams no matter what?
Music festival "IRIDA"
RECORD ONLINE BROADCAST OF THE OPENING GALA CEREMONY
Record ONLINE BROADCAST OF THE GALA CLOSING CEREMONY
Maxim Vengerov's address to the participants and guests of the IRIDA Music Festival
Evening with Lyubov Balagova and Musical and Poetic Concert "Courage to Live"
CREATIVE EVENING AND CONCERT OF EKATERINA SEMENOVA
Meeting with People's Artist of Russia Larisa Luzhina
Film screening with musical accompaniment. Film "Circassian"
Film screening accompanied by a symphony orchestra
Video composition for the Chamber Symphony by D. Shostakovich “In memory of the victims of fascism and war” op.110a. Accompanied by the Sochi Symphony Orchestra conducted by maestro Oleg Soldatov.
Music in cinema: principles of interaction between composer, director and producer
The master class is devoted to the principles of interaction between a director, composer and producer and reveals the features of the creative and legal aspects of cooperation in this area, as well as the specifics of the composer’s work in cinema, including the specifics of writing music for the frame.
CONCERT OF CLASSIC MUSIC OF THE SOCHINSK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNDER THE CONTROL OF MAESTRO OLEG SOLDATOV (PART 1)
Conductor and soloist, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Valery Vorona (violin), People’s Artist of Russia Mikhail Utkin (cello), guest soloist of the Bolshoi Academic Theater and the Rome Opera Sergei Radchenko (tenor). The concert featured works by D. Shostakovich, A. Raskatov, P. Tchaikovsky, A. Piazzolla, E. Capua, L. Denz.
CONCERT OF CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE SOCHINSK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNDER THE CONTROL OF MAESTRO OLEG SOLDATOV (PART 2)
Conductor and soloist, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Valery Vorona (violin), People’s Artist of Russia Mikhail Utkin (cello), guest soloist of the Bolshoi Academic Theater and the Rome Opera Sergei Radchenko (tenor). The concert featured works by D. Shostakovich, A. Raskatov, P. Tchaikovsky, A. Piazzolla, E. Capua, L. Denz.