The truth about infinity

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Classics and beginners

First International Festival Kinotavr. Special Edition will be held from January 30 to February 2. On the film, organized by Alexander Rodnyansky, are Russian premieres of hits of the largest international film festivals.

"1917" Sam Mendes
At the opening, they will show a nominee for Oscar in the category of "Best Film". About two young soldiers of the First World War, on whom the lives of their associates depend. Critics praised the picture immediately after its release. In cinemas, the film will appear immediately after the Russian premiere at the festival.

"Pravda" to the Hirocase Craed
The first French film of the eminent Japanese master (its "store thieves" were awarded the gold palm branch of Cannes in 2018). Star casting: Juliet Binosh, Ethan Hawk and Catherine Denyov. The picture was opened by the Venice Film Festival. Another story of another family, happy and unhappy in its own way.

"Hidden Life " Terrence Malika
The film Poem of a three -time Oscar nominee and the owner of the golden palm branch (“Tree of Life”) - dedication to the spiritual feat of Franz Jaherstetter. The Austrian farmer during the Second World War refused to take the oath to Hitler. He did not serve the Wehrmacht, even when he was called up. In 1943 he was executed. The poetic view of the author prevails over the facts. His movie is a song about the power of inner strength and love.

"On Infinity" Roy Andersson
The Swedish film artist in his distinguished detached and absurd manner reflects on human fate, issues of life and death, love and sin. It seems to be scattered by self -scattered by the voice of the storyteller Shaherezada and a through character - a priest who has lost faith.

"Cherry Lane, 7" Yonfan
The story seems to be the simplest: the brilliant student of the Hong Kong University Philologist Qi Min is confused in love networks, choosing between the forty-year-old Ms. Yu and her eighteen-year-old daughter. But it turned out one of the most extraordinary films. The love message of Hong Kong, glued from scraps of memoirs, drawn by sensual remarks. The first full-length cartoon of the famous Hong Kong director is one of the brightest art events of the year.

“We always look at Kinotavr as a tool for advancing the most interesting thing to the viewer that is in the cinema,” says the President of the festival Alexander Rodnyansky. - The film critic Stas Tyrkin made the program, selecting films of authors who did not lose the ability to surprise the world and themselves. Both classics (Corrida, Mendes, Andersson), as well as ultra -talent, superfluous newcomers (Alaeddin Slim and Amjad Abu Alala).

Many of our headliners, such as Malik and Yonfan, shot their best films in many years, and we are very proud of the opportunity to present them for the first time as a demanding Russian public. ”

Tickets are available from December 28.

Free and uncompromising

From January 24 to 30, the second international audience festival of author's cinema will be held. He is satisfied with the magazine "The Art of Cinema" and "Moskino".

"Little Women" Greta Gerwig
The fifth full -length film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Louise May Olcott. Circular Kinoroman, in the center of which the family is march. The plexus of the stories of the four sisters who live in the soul grow up. And all this British idyll warmed up at the threshold of a civil war that has unfolded in the United States.

"Invisible life of Eurydice" Karim Ainuz
Another "nursing" epic filmuroman. The young Eurydice and her older sister of the guide, tired of family despotism, dream of moving from Rio de Janeiro to Europe. They are separated by a series of life troubles. And then for decades, each of the “two halves” does not lose hope of one day to connect. Mix of the feminist manifesto and Brazilian soap opera. The film was awarded the prize "Special Gazing" of the Cannes Film Festival.

"Pain and Glory" Pedro Almodovara
Director Salvador Malo is experiencing a creative and age crisis. A painful pause, when neither write nor live, is a point of reference a new path to yourself. Thus begins a secret journey with all the zigzags of the discovery of the world: awakening desire, self -awareness. For a role in this film, Antonio Banderas received a prize in Cannes as the best actor.

"The Environment of the Revolution" of Dzigi Vertov
Real rarity. The world's first full -length documentary from the classic of Jigi Vertov was considered lost. It was restored in 2018 by film expert Nikolai Povolov. The picture on the change of construction in Russia from February 1917 to November 1918. Rare chronic materials by the first anniversary of the October Revolution explain a lot about the course of Russian history.

"Fidelity" by Nigina Saifullaeva
One of the best Russian films of the year. Reflections on sensuality, the sphere of hidden, the voice of the body. About how much the crisis of relations is related to sex. Deciding to betray her husband for treason, the heroine plunges into the world of irrational. Erotica fused with drama about self -identification. On the Kinotavr, the picture was awarded with a special jury diploma.

"Whistles" to Corneliu
A corrupt policeman from Bucharest goes to Canaries to learn the ancient language of the whistle, which the bandits from Bucharest are used to communicate at a distance. With the help of this encoded alphabet, he intends to rescue a accomplice named Zholt from prison, who somewhere hid the Mafia's money. The premiere of "Svistunov" took place as part of the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival. A spectator film from the director of the author's cinema.

"Cemetery shine" of Apitchatpong Virasetakun
The local clinic is filled with patients-soldiers who fell ill with sleepy illness during excavations during construction. Another esoteric journey from the creator of amazing film. The past, otherworldly do not go anywhere, stand lumpy in the throat of the present (as it was in the kinns saked by "Uncle Bunmi, who remembers his past lives"). The task of the living in the "cemetery of the brilliance" is to help wake up sleeping. But the hypnotic movie itself resembles a dream. At the same time, in the film, many will accept modern Thai life. The action charged with pacifism explores national identity, impossible without history - long -standing and yesterday.

The initiator of the festival, the editor -in -chief of the magazine of Cinema magazine Anton Dolin comments: “We are happy that our festival is returning - and it will be free again. Partnership with Moskino allowed us to combine the democracy of the approach - art should belong to the people! “With the uncompromising selection of the best films: premiere, classic and brightest over the past year.”

The entrance to the shows will be free, but you should register in advance.