The guide for the film festival, which will be held in Moscow from April 18 to 25

Last year, the transfer of MMKF was associated with the holding of the World Cup in Russia. In this - they decided to leave everything as it is. FIAPF (the International Federation of Associations of Film Producers) approved this decision only in January. Therefore, there is very little time left for preparation. But the organizer of the MMKF is almost used to the Abrala.

For moviegoers in this transfer are obvious disadvantages. Passing immediately after the Cannes - the Moscow film show demonstrated the most interesting films of the world's main festival. For selectors on the eve of Cannes, it has become even more difficult to assemble the program. It is no accident that in the main competition of 13 paintings - three Russian.

Contest

"SUNDAY"

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"Sunday" Svetlana Proskurina is an amazingly subtle, psychedelic, professionally sophisticated movie. The atmosphere of a provincial city with its charm and soul. The complex ligature of the relationship of loved ones who feel like strangers. Transparent partitions between life and death. Brave immersion in the well of the Russian mentality.

Monologue No. 1

"Epidemic"

Pavel Kostomarov’s “Epidemic” is a film version of the series, which has just been successfully shown in Cannes, based on the book of Yana Wagner Wongozero. The acute -social drama unfolds against the backdrop of apocalyptic events. An unknown virus gradually captivates the population. Money is not worth anything else, the authorities do not matter. Food and gasoline are the only resources for which everyone is fighting.

“It is necessary for me to sit down” Lyubov Borisova - another happy news of the Yakut movie book. The young man Altan finds himself on a farm where they grow foxes. Farm - on the stone island of the Far North. The loneliness of the young man is brightened only by the old Baibal, who prepared for death. Altan is trying to do everything possible and impossible so that the old man wants to live at least another day.

"Saturday Day"

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"Subboty Day" Mostafa Sarvar Faruki - co -products of Russia, Bangladesh and Germany. Saturday evening in the center of the capital Bangladesh is heard an explosion. Visitors to the cafe in which the attack occurred are hostage. Radical terrorists justify violence with religion. But hostages - also faithful Muslims - protect human values. On the clash and deep contradictions of religion, ideology, morality.

The competition has a lot of debut work. Among them, the Kazakh social drama “Personal growth”, the Latvian historical fresco “Father Night” , the watercolor Chinese “The Life of Marine inhabitants”.

Next to them, the film of an experienced Iranian director Rasul Sadrameli “My life in my second year” is the poetry of “Alienation” in the spirit of Antonioni. The "improvisers" of the Japanese adherent of Cyberpan Saba - passion, black humor, chase, fights and dominant scarlet color.

The program of Peter Shepotinnik "8 ½ films"

"Little Red Dress"

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"Little Red Dress" by Peter Stickland. The dress can make you desired. The main thing is not to think about the price that you have to pay for it. An extravagant aesthetic film with vinegar of irony is about feelings and sensuality.

"Non-fiction"

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"Non-fiction" Olivier Assayasas. The author wonders: will literature survive during technological paper? The director-intellectual, the classic combines a tradition with classics and rock and roll. Sinefils revise his “demon-lover”, “Zils-Maria”, “personal buyer”. In the new film with Guillaume Kane and Juliet Binosh, a confusing relationship between the publisher and the novelist is told.

"Work without an author"

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“A work without an author” is a new film from the creator of the famous “Life of others” by Florian Henkel von Donnersmark. Real events are based. History begins like vaudeville. The young artist Kurt is in love with the fellow camp of Ellie. Her father, Dr. Zeeband, alarmed by the choice of her daughter, swears to destroy their relationship. Lovers do not know that they are associated with each other a terrible crime, which Zeeband committed many years ago.

The program "Euphoria of the obsession" Andrei Plakhov

"Piranha Naples"

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“Piranha Naples” Claudio Giovannesi (prize for the Berlinale script). The drama of a gang consisting of boys is not without a romantic Flera. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Roberto Saviano. In many ways, the story is intertwined with some plot lines of Gomorrah Matteo Garron, also shot according to the Saviano novel. According to rumors, the Naples Camorra to the writer sentenced a death sentence for such an open description of the life of the criminal world. In any case, now he does not appear anywhere without protection.

"I was at home, but ..."

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"I was at home, but ...". Angel Chanelek for this film received a prize for the best directing at the Berlin festival. The bizarre picture corresponds to the aesthetics of the direction of the “Berlin school”: contemplation, nonlinearity of history, minimum of dialogs, allegorical. The heroine rushes around the city, suddenly falling into a hysteria, buys and tries to sell a bicycle back. And only after a while it becomes clear that its nervousness is caused by the inexplicable disappearance of the 13-year-old son. The scenes that are as if alienated from each other are glued only in the final in an inextricable stream.

"Alpha: the right to kill"

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Alpha: The right to kill ” Briyant Mendos. Another hard opus from the favorite of the Cannes festival. In the center of the plot, a large -scale operation of the Philippine police against Abel, the main drug lord of Manila. The policeman Espino and Informant Elijah, a former small Pusher, are responsible for the intelligence part. The operation ends with a shootout between the special forces and the Abel gang. But before the investigators arrive at the place of the battle, Espino and Elijah disappear with Abel's backpack, to the eyeballs full of money and methamphetamine.

“God exists, and her name is Petrunia” Theon Strugar-Mitevsk. In one shit of the Macedonian town every year in January, young men dive behind the holy cross, which the priest throws into the ice river. The caught cross is promised well -being and luck. This time the local girl Petrunia, who mines the trophy, turns out to be the fastest. Men are outraged: how dare she brazenly climb into the ritual, break traditions? The scandal, flared up with a giant bonfire, gradually devours the whole city.

The program "Films that were not here" Stas Tyrkin

" *K *OKO-Di K *Eye *- Yes"

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Koko-Dikokoko-da Johannes Nyukholm. A married couple goes on a trip in the hope of restoring their destroyed relations. Instead of pleasant time in nature, the couple finds himself in an endless, like a children's halter, a nightmare in which their fears and pain have hung up. “Coco-di, Coco-da” is a psychological drama about a pair that fell into a fixed nightmare of its own fears that gained physical embodiment. The structure of the film is not permissible. Some critics do not even recommend the film for a regular audience. Similar opuses are intended for fans of triple, mosaic cinema.

"Migratory birds"

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"Migratory Birds" Chiro Herra, Christina Galego. The times of the “golden years” of marijuana and drug trafficking in Colombia, local residents of Rapayet and his family are drawn into the war for monitoring business, which will ultimately destroy their life, their culture. In the film, the echoes of the "godfather" are obvious. Drug trading, earnings at all costs - a catastrophe of personality destruction, tearing bonds of still close people yesterday.

"Hard paint"

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"Hard paint" by Martosio Reolona, ​​Filire Masbacher. About an attempt by a virtual escape. Pedro in front of the webcam turns into a mysterious neon boy, earning money in video chats. But once someone begins to imitate his ideas. And then the young man appoints the date of the meeting with his mysterious competitor, who will have far -reaching consequences. About human ties in the era of "remote access."

New Russian programs. Curator Irina Pavlova

"Suleiman Gora"

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"Suleiman-Gora" Elizabeth Stishova. The heroes of the tragicomic Road Muy are forced scammers who are unbearably sympathetic. Suleiman Gora is a place of power. Father Karabas is breaking happiness for his difficult family from Mountain, rushing between the first wife Zhipara and the second - pregnant from him. Women are fighting for a man’s love in constant crossings in the country on an antediluvian truck. And the boy Uluk, rescued by scammers from the orphanage, has his own cherished desire. The film is a record holder for participation in foreign filmmakers, awarded the prize of the festival in Karlovy Vary.

"In the Cape Town Port"

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"In the Cape Town Port" of Alexander Veledinsky. Somewhere on the tracks, on the edge of a large country and a large war, there are a young sailor with two former urks: a plowman and a Salage. Shootout. Everyone is sure that the other two were killed. Then, along the rails of destinies, their paths spread on the map of the Great Country, they throw someone into the Fire Black Cape Town. “In the Cape Town Port” is a multi -figure puzzle from scraps of related lives. With the 20th century and the USSR, Veledinsky says goodbye to the spiritual chanson "... But the dispute in Cape Town decides browning." It seems that in the film conceived 20 years ago, the director tried to include everything that he remembers the past in one single Cape Town USSR.

"Emperor of Paris": Discovery Film

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The opening film of the MMKF- “Emperor of Paris” by Jean-Franesu Riche (“attack on the 13th section”). It was based on the story of the legendary French criminal of the 19th century Eugene Francois Vidok, who went from prison to prison and changed the profession, trying to forget about the past. But the past overtakes. And then Vidok finds the only possible way out - in the police service subordinate to the Napoleonic government, he will become a thunderstorm of the criminal world of Paris.