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"Film" is in our opinion
Shadow above the festival
“Film” is our way. In Anapa, the annual open festival of the CIS countries and Baltic Cinema 2012 ended. He went through the 21st time and forced the participants and all the filmmakers living in the space of the former USSR to worry: clouds are thickened over the festival 
This festival is a model of little cinema, where there is no enmity and a subcutaneous struggle, but there is a pure love of cinema and a disinterested interest in those who make films in the countries of the Commonwealth. The idyll was disturbed by a sudden rumor that the current review might be the last. Therefore, on the round table “Kinoshok as a multicultural project”, filmmakers formulated the need for a festival for their countries. This was said by the directors Mikhail Ilyenko and Irakli Kvirikadze, jury chairman Vladimir Voinovich. Director Ali Khamraev said that the “Kinooshka” is a kitchen where sincere conversations are being held, where there is an opportunity to discuss the internal problems of the filmmakers of each country and find a general solution. “Only now, living in the consequences of the collapse of the empire, we begin to understand where we are and who we are,” the writer Andrei Bitov supported him. - We used to think that at the cost of falling the regime was the collapse of a large country. Now it is obvious: the empire has disappeared, but the regime remained. It is important to preserve the fragments of the empire, and this is the "movie".
Why, in the 21st year of the life of the festival, which enjoyed the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, there were fears about his future fate?
To begin with, the Ministry of Culture this year is not financed, we were thrown into the Film Foundation. This is nonsense. After all, the fund is obliged to support only those films that have a certificate of the national film, and, accordingly, those festivals where these paintings participate. And we have an international festival. Why is it put in such conditions when real content conflicts with regulatory financial documents? Either we maintain the relationship between the cinematics of the post -Soviet countries, or we are driven into frames convenient to financiers.
Is it necessary for someone to explain to someone what a “movie” is?
It turns out that it is necessary. The new leadership of our Ministry of Culture in a blue eye asked which line we were developing-tourist, political, some other. For tourist - no, we are not developing. We were asked to write a concept, which is strange: as if the festival had just arisen. But we made this document, emphasizing that the concept is no different from what all the country's presidents said about the need to preserve the general cultural space. “Kinooshok” just holds this space and develops for more than two decades.
Were there any other alarming symptoms?
Suddenly there was a conversation that each post -Soviet state should allocate money for our festival. At the same time, they forget one thing: we do not have an economic forum where such financing is appropriate, the film festival is arranged differently. It would not occur to anyone that, say, the Cannes festival is made with the money of the participating countries: after all, then they themselves will begin to choose films for the competition and there will be no independent selection according to art criteria. Either we say to each country: such and such an amount is from you-and then they dictate to us what to take for the show, or we are doing the real international CIS festival and the Baltic countries. Beautiful, smart. Moreover, he is really smart, diverse, which Viktor Merezhko and I, the President of Kinoshok, are sometimes surprised ourselves. We make a festival necessary for filmmakers of all territories that have once been a single country. We have plans and dreams of film markets, where there would be television and cinema, we want to voice Russian films on the languages of the CIS and Baltic countries, to expand our competition of scenarios of joint projects. It exists for the fourth year, and three joint films by the scenarios that won have already been made from our filing. One of them-the “empty house” of Nurbek Egen-opened the 21st “Film”. And what is still important: many joint projects have appeared in the Kinoshoka contest. People began to understand that if, for example, the Kyrgyz film is made in co -products with Russia or Belarus, then the rental space is actually expanding. If the overall space of post -Soviet cinema was seriously supported by Russia, I am sure we would have a lot of very good films necessary for the audience.