On November 27, the ECOCUP will open in Moscow - the annual international festival "Green" Documentary Cinema, which is supported by the EU representative office in Russia , the Henry Bealle Foundation , the US Embassy in Russia and the Switzerland embassy in Russia. Kolta talked with Natalya Paramonova, director of the festival, and Anastasia Laukkanen, his program director, about the most interesting events and films this year.

The exhibition "English-Russian Dictionary" will open in London © Pushkin House Annie Rotenstein. Gentleman. 2018 (fragment) From December 6 to February 23, at two London venues-in the Pushkin house and cafe London Review of Books-a joint exhibition of artists Irina Zatulovskaya (Russia) and Annie Rotenstein (Great Britain) The Anglo-Russian Dictionary will be held.

Winners of the Bookscript Award © Bookscriptor The jury of the Bookscript literary award for novice authors declared winners in three competitive nominations - “New Reality”, “Fiction” and “Young Adult”. The Bookscriptor Award was created in 2018 for the purpose of searching, promoting and supporting novice writers. More than two thousand applications were received for the award, 11 works were selected in the short list .

Yesterday, the rapper Husky received 12 days of administrative arrest for petty hooliganism in Krasnodar. It all started with the fact that the owners of the Arena Hall Krasnodar Club, where the rapper concert was supposed to take place, canceled it on the same day after the warning of the regional prosecutor's office.

The series of Sergei Ursulyak “Bad”, taken based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Ivanov, once again demonstrates how important the punctuation marks in sentences are - even when it comes not about specific people, but about time and space, an era and country. The nineties, a black hole in the recent history of Russia, a failure in memory. Who and for what “you can not have mercy”? Who is the criminal and who is the victim?

“The other side of the wind” / “I will love me after my death” (“They'll Love Me When I'M Dead”) director Orson Wells / director Morgan Neville Perhaps the most important film of this year is Orson Wells that rebelled from the production hell, with whom he tried (unsuccessfully) to return to Hollywood. The protagonist of the other side of the wind is director Jake Hannaford (John Houston), an elderly mastodon who tried (unsuccessfully) to return to Hollywood.

This year, the International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fiction will open on November 29-almost accurately on the day of the 130th anniversary of Nikolai Punin, the theorist of the Russian avant-garde, critic, art critic, teacher and innovator of museum affairs. Two books will reach the date at once: these are Punin’s memoirs “in the struggle for the latest art” and his first modern biography “The unprepared hero of the Russian avant -garde” unpublished in 1931 .