This year, nine and a half South Korean films will be shown at the MMKF - an unprecedented attention to the Russian festival to the main Asian cinematography now. In the special program “Korean Cinema Today”-almost the entire range of modern Korean cinema, from blockbusters to indie marginalia; A great opportunity to learn several new Korean names except the hackneyed “Kim Ki Doc”.

Ksenia Leonova spent almost a month in Grozny, collecting material there for several publications. Her tasks included finding people who were ready to tell her about the most taboo in the country of Ramzan the theme (the monologue of Chechen gay written by her will appear on Colta . Ru next week). But there was something that was not placed in any materials: the experience of the republic, seen by the eyes of a visitor.

Since childhood, I have been interested in the Caucasus. When I still did not know anything about him-because of the intriguing name, some kind of scraps of stories heard, a dark brown mountain chain on the satin, which runs between the two blue seas, and its location between Europe and Asia. Now, having matured, having traveled most of Europe, Asia and the former Soviet Union, I know more.