MMKF begins

Today, October 1, the 42nd Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) will open with the adventure melodrama “Silver skates” of Mikhail Lokshin.

This year, the MMKF was originally planned to be held in the spring, but due to the pandemic of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the festival organizers decided to transfer it to the fall.

According to TASS , citing the program director of the MMKF Kirill Razlogov, the organizers will strictly monitor compliance with safety measures prescribed by Rospotrebnadzor, and abandon solemn techniques and parties.

The main platform of the festival will be the Cinema Center “October”, MMKF films will also be shown in the cinemas of the Moskino network , the documentary cinema center, cinema halls of the State Tretyakov Gallery and in the Illusion Cinema. The opening ceremony will take place at the Russia Theater.

13 films from 10 countries have been selected into the competitive program . The holders of the main prizes of the MMKF will determine the jury led by the director, producer and screenwriter Timur Bekmambetov.

In addition, in the program of the festival contests of short films and documentary films, showing the film festival of the BRICS countries and Russian and foreign film festivals, retrospective Sergei Bondarchuk, dedicated to the age of director, and other events.

On the eve of the opening of the MMKF, it became known that the organizers excluded the Avetisyan sofa dedicated to the Nagorno -Karabakh from the out -of -competition program. “To show a picture that concerns this problem during the escalation of military operations seemed risky to us,” explained Kirill Razlogov.

The festival will last until October 8th. The closing film will be the sports drama of Eduard Bordukov “On the tip”.