The massive programme which includes 25 programmes sections also includes competitive documentary and short film sections as well as a chance to see the latest new Russian films in the Russian programme.
The festival will close with newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu playing mad monk Rasputin in a new film titled Rasputin directed by Irakli Kvirikadze that also features Fanny Ardant, Valdimir Mashkov, Kseniya Rapport and Anna Mikhalkova.
The passing of two giants of Central and Eastern European cinema over the past year brings tributes of two different kinds of In Memoriam programmes. Alexei Balabanov will screen films from the work of the iconic Russian director of the past two deciade.
A programme titles Prague Summer: Galina Kopaneva will screen classics of the Czech New Wave as a tribute to the Czech film scholar and film critic Galina Kopaneva. The programme will give a new generation a chance to see the early films of Jiri Menzel, Karel Kachyna, Vera Chytilová, Milos Forman and others.
Main Competition:
Back in Crime/ L'Autre vie de Richard Kemp (France)
Director: Germinal Alvarez
Delight (UK)
Director: Gareth Jones
Disorder/ Koma (Georgia)
Director: Archil Kavtaradze
Produtcion: Windfilms
World Sales: Windfilms
Iuda/ Judas (Russia)
Director: Andrey Bogatyryov
Lebanon Emotion/ Le-ba-non Kam-jeong (South Korea)
Director: Jung Young-heon
Mamarosh/ Mamaroš (Serbia, Germany, Hungary)
Director: Momčilo Mrdaković
Matterhorn (Netherlands)
Director: Diederik Ebbinge
Memories they told me/ A Memória que me Contam (Brazil)
Director: Lúcia Murat
Particle/ Zerre (Turkey)
Director: Erdem Tepegöz
Rosie (Switzerland)
Director: Marcel Gisler
Slide/ Skolzhenie (Russia)
Director: Anton Rozenberg
Spaghetti story (Italy)
Director: Ciro De Caro
The Kids From the Port/ Los chicos del puerto (Spain)
Director: Alberto Morais
The Ravine of Goodbye/Sayonara keikoku (Japan)
Director: Tatsushi Ômori
The Role/ Rol' (Russia)
Director: Konstantin Lopushansky
Traffic Department/ Drogówka (Poland)
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
Prod co: Film It
Prague Summer: Galina Kopaneva
Czech New Wave Classics
A Blonde in Love/ Lásky jedné plavovlásky
Director: Milos Forman
Courage for Every Day/ Kazdy den odvahu
Director: Evald Schorm
Daisies/ Sedmikrasky
Director: Vera Chytilová
Ostře sledované vlaky/ Closely Watched Trains
Director: Jirí Menzel
The Ear/ Ucho
Director: Karel Kachyna
The Pipes/ Dýmky
Director: Vojtech Jasny
