MIFF 2011: Star studded closing for Moscow International Film Festival
MIFF 2011: Moscow Film Festival Prize Winners
MIFF 2011: Moscow Business Square focuses on Baltics, Georgia and CIS countries
MIFF 2011: Russian programme director Irina Pavlova, New Directions of Russian Cinema
MIFF 2011: Moscow’s Programme Director, Kirill Razlogov: Big Programme, Big Ambitions
MIFF 2011: Moscow Film Festival opens with star studded gala
MOSCOW: The 33 Moscow International Film Festival (http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/) got off to a star studded start with the world premier of Hollywood blockbuster Transformers: Dark of the Moon on 23 June 2011.
Moscow IFF Competition: I'll Die Without You
I'll Die Without You (Ushenod mgoni movkvdebi) is a crime melodrama of two young people living in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place in the course of one day.
Moscow IFF Competition: Postcard
Kaneto Shindô, age 99 and a Moscow IFF veteran, returns to the festival where he first presented his films 50 years ago, and where he received a Lifetime Achievement award (at the 25th Moscow IFF).
Moscow IFF Competition: Serdtsa Bumerang
Serdtsa Bumerang is the third feature film by Nikolay Khomeriki.
Moscow IFF: Chapiteau-show
The young Russian director of Chapiteau-show Sergei Loban has developed something of a cult following.
Moscow IFF Competition: The Other Family / La Otra Familia
The notable Mexican director Gustavo Loza screens his dramatic film The Other Family, for which he also wrote the screenplay, in the Moscow International Film Festival.
Moscow IFF Competition: The Waves/Las Olas
The Waves is the first feature fiction film of Alberto Morais, whose credits include several short films and the documentary Un lugar en el cine.
Moscow IFF Competition: Montevideo
Montevideo, Taste of a Dream, the first feature directed by the popular actor Dragan Bjelogrlić, has been a big hit in Serbia: 515,000 viewers, (twice as many as Avatar) since its national premiere on December 20, 2010.
Moscow IFF Competition: Revenge: A Love Story/Fuk Sau Che Chi Sei
Wong Ching Po, known for his thriller Jiang Hu (aka Gong Wu, Blood Brothers, 2004) about Hong Kong gangs with Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung, screens his fifth feature film Revenge: A Love Story in competition at the Moscow IFF.
Moscow IFF Competition: American Translation
With their Moscow competition entry American Translation, Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr create a thriller genre film about two young people, Chris (Pierre Perrier) and Aurora (Lizzie Brocheré), who meet by chance in Parisian café.
Moscow IFF Competition: The Perfect Life/La Vita Facile
The Italian comedy The Perfect Life was made in the spirit of classic Italian comedies of the 1970's, as a commentary on the national way of life.
MIFF 2011: Moscow to Host International Film Finance Forum
MOSCOW: For the first time Moscow will host the International Film Finance Forum Moscow 2011, sponsored by Corporate Finance Bank, to be held at Radisson Royal Hotel on 24 June 2011 within the framework of the (http://www.miff.ru/).
Moscow IFF Competition: Escalation/Escalade
French director, scriptwriter and producer Charlotte Silvera turned to the Russian play Dear Elena Sergeevna by Lyudmila Razumovskaya as the source material for her film Escalation.
FNE at MIFF: Taboo - The Soul Is Stranger on Earth
Christoph Stark is in competition at Moscow IFF with Taboo - The Soul Is Stranger on Earth/Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden, the haunted love story between the Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister Margarete (Grete).
Moscow IFF Competition: In the Name of the Devil
Inspired by true events, Polish director and screenwriter Barbara Sass creates a film about crossing the limits of faith and madness behind the walls of a nunnery, In the Name of the Devil. The film had its world premiere in competition at the 36th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, with the domestic premier planned for September 2011.READ MORE >>>
Moscow IFF Competition: Sneakers
Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, screens in the main competition at the Moscow IFF, before heading to Karlovy Vary IFF in July.
READ MORE >>>Moscow IFF Competition: Joanna
Feliks Falk, one of the masters of Polish cinema, returns with Joanna, a moving story of love and courage set during WWII.
Moscow IFF Competition: Retrace/Visszatérés
In Retrace/ Visszatérés, directed by Hungary's Judit Elek, a woman from a Transylvanian village travels to Ceauşescu's Romania for the first time since finding refuge in Sweden as a child escaping the Holocaust.
MIFF 2011 Competition: Leaving
Leaving (Odcházení), the highly anticipated film directing debut by former Czech president and world-wide respected playwright/philosopher Václav Havel, premiered on 9 March 2011. Although it received mixed reviews, mostly due to its excessive references to absurd drama, Leaving is still one of the most important film newsmakers of the year in the Czech Republic.
