"Artdokfest" under the shelling

In the Moscow cinema "October" for a show under the "Artdokfest" film "Flight of the bullets" about the war in the Donbass came supporters of the separatists and said that the organizers will have "serious problems" in the next show. The video recording of their conversation with the president of the festival Vitaly Mansky was published by the director of the film by Beat Bubenets.

Two men and the woman said that the heroes of the film, fighters of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion "Aidar", "killed and raped" innocent people. “The same can be said about the militias,” the Buban answered. “To whom do you tell this, you are a fool?” Said one of the men. “I’ve been there for three years, since the 14th year.”

The separatists said they learned about the show "at the last moment", so "not everyone drove up yet." “We wouldn’t let you just show it now. And tomorrow ... Sorry, you will have problems,” said one of the men and promised that the next show of the film, which is scheduled for Sunday, “500 people will fit.”

After the show, supporters of the separatists began to scream in the hall "Shame!", But at the request of the protection, they left.

Within the framework of the 11th International Festival of Documentary Cinema "Artdokfest", the film "Flight of the bullet" on Wednesday was shown in Yekaterinburg, and on Thursday - St. Petersburg. No incidents were reported.

On Thursday , a film about the leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev was shot with a show in the out -of -end program "Artdokfest". According to Mansky, the organizers were not provided with any documents and justification of this decision. The president of the festival called what was happening. At the same time, Mansky did not specify who exactly received an indication of making the film from the show.

The film of Ukrainian director Ernes Sarykhalilov tells "Dzhemilev for returning to Crimea from exile during the USSR, and about judicial persecution, and about 15 years spent by Dzhemilev in Soviet camps as a political prisoner."

Later, a statement was published on the festival’s website that the Mustafa film was shot from the show by the Karo October 11 movie therapy after a call of unknown persons. On Friday, the Directorate of the Artdokfest festival came an official request from the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. "In connection with the official necessity, in accordance with Article 6.7 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation" On operational -search activities "No. 144 of the Federal Law of 12.08.1995 I ask you to provide a video of the film" Mustafa, "the document said

"We apologize to the audience who did not get to the show, as well as the authors of the film. They are also forced to report that the film in Moscow will not be shown during the festival," said the organizers of Artdokfest.

On November 21, the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma, a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia, Peter Tolstoy submitted to General Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky denunciations at Artdokfest , which takes place in Moscow on December 6-12.

The reason for the denunciations was the presence in the out -of -competition program of the festival of the tape of Ukrainian director Yevgeny Titarenko "War for the Peace" (2015), which is dedicated to the war with Russia and pro -Russian militants in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The annotation of the film says that he says "about ordinary people who became volunteers to protect the integrity of his country."

As explained by Tolstoy, in 2014-2015, Titarenko himself was a participant in the ATO - he served in the medical team "Hospitallers", which is part of the Volunteer Corps of the "Right Sector". Based on this, Uneneros did not exclude that the demonstration of the picture could fall under Article 205.2 (public calls for terrorism), 280 (public calls for extremism) and 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of national hatred or enmity).

According to Tolstoy, it is unacceptable “a show in the network of Russian cinemas of the film, in which Russia is represented by an aggressor country, and not a guarantor of the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and the ATO fighters in the southeast of Ukraine-heroes and benefactors.”

“It can be argued for a long time that this film is the subjective opinion of its author, which has the right to life,” said Uneneros. “But, in my opinion, does not have it - especially if it violates the legislation of the Russian Federation. But let the competent authorities understand this.”

The authorities have repeatedly made claims to Artdokfest. In 2015, the Ministry of Culturedemanded to exclude the film "Chaika" from the festival program about the business of the sons of the prosecutor general, prepared by the Corruption Fund. A year earlier, Medinsky refused Artdokfest in financing , explaining that the President of the Mansky festival - "spoke so many anti -state things that let the festival at his own expense."