The Artdokfest begins

From December 8 to 16 in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Artdokfest documentary film festival will be held. At the opening of the festival, the film of Sergei Loznitsa “Event”, dedicated to the August coup of 1991 in Leningrad, will be shown.

Also, among the most interesting films “Artdokfest-2015”-“Speech and Punishment” by Evgeny Mitta, “Chechen” Beaty Bubenets, “Dybbuk: the Tale of the Wandering Soul” Krzyshtof Kopchinsky, “Located in the canton” of Manson Manson, “Anthill” Vladimir Loginov.

In the competitive program "Artdokfest" there are 20 works by directors from Russia, Estonia, France, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Austria, USA, Ukraine and Israel.

Initially, the competition had 21 film, but at the last moment one of them, Grozny-Blue, was removed from the festival by decision of his director Nikola Belluchi and producer Frank Matter, who considered the current situation in Russia that are not favorable to the shows of the film. "

The films of the competitive program will be judged by the director of Harry Bardin (chairman of the jury), the loophole and theater producer Pavel Kaplevich and publicist, the head of the Economic Program of the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Foundation Andrei Movchan.

The main events of the Artdokfest Extracurricular program are promised to be the shows of the film by Zosi Radkevich “My Friend Boris Nemtsov” and the film “Chaika” of the Foundation for the fight against corruption about the family business of the sons of the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.

In addition, from December 12 to 16, Artdokfest, in cooperation with the International Academy of Documentary Arts (Warsaw), conducts a pitching, whose work will be aimed at studying the possibilities of implementing independent projects outside of traditional financing in Russia and the countries of the former USSR, with a special accent for co -products with Poland and other European countries. Pitching sessions will consist of lectures, thematic research, consultations with international experts, individual meetings with investors.

You can find out more about the ArtdoxFest program on his website .