London Russian Film Festival
The London Russian Film Festival is an annual film festival, launched by
History
1st London Russian Film Festival (2007)
The 1st London Russian Film Festival was opened on 27 September with the objective to make
2nd London Russian Film Festival (2008)
At the 2nd Russian Film Festival 10 theatrical premiers of award-winning Russian films produced in 2007-2008 were presented, among them Nirvana by Ivan Voloshin and Nikita Mikhalkov's film 12, that had previously been shown with great success at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Awards.[6] In 2008 the festival was aimed to gain a strengthened position as a platform for inter-cultural dialogue between Russian and UK audiences and filmmakers. Leading directors and actors were encouraged to introduce their films personally, and to participate in Q&A sessions.[7]
3rd London Russian Film Festival (2009)
The 3rd London Russian Film Festival opened on 30 October with the showing of Sergei Soliviev's adaptation of Anna Karenina. The director and the main actress Tatiana Drubich were present at the opening night and discussed the film with the audience in a Q&A session after the screening.[8] Generally speaking, films based on works of literature - The Event by Andrey Eshpay, Way to Heaven by Nikolay Dostal, and Ward No 6 by Karen Shakhnazarov - were among the most popular entries, probably also supported by the fact, that Ward No 6 had appeared on the longlist for the Academy Awards in the same year.[9] Other films were also well received at the London Russian Film Festival, in particular Pavel Bardin's mockumentary Russia 88, and Paper Soldier by Alexei German Jr., a drama set on the background of the first crewed Soviet aerospace project.[10]
4th London Russian Film Festival (2010)
The main programme of the 4th London Russian Film Festival included the controversial One War by Vera Glagoleva, a moving relook at crime and punishment during the Second World War, and Svetlana Proscurina's latest thought provoking film The Truce, an unsettling portrayal of provincial Russia laced with humour and lyricism which won Russia's Kinotavr’s main prize. Also amongst the main programme's feature films were the applauded Gastarbeiter by Yusup Razykov and Reverse Motion by Andrey Stempkovsky. The documentary programme looked back at last decade in Russia, offering a window into the real Russia, with screenings of the ten finest Russian documentary films, one for each year. Garri Bardin’s The Ugly Duckling, a children's stop-motion animated film with Orwellian overtones deemed so politically subversive it was banned from showing on Russian television, was the opening night film. The festival also included a retrospective of the great actor and director Sergei Bondarchuk's films and the works of Leo Tolstoy on film, as well as a retrospective of masters of Soviet and Russian animation.
5th London Russian Film Festival (2011)
The 5th Russian Film Festival opened on 4 November with the UK premiere of
6th London Russian Film Festival (2012)
The 6th Russian Film Festival opened in London on 2 November with Boris Khlebnikov's Till Night Do Us Part (2012) - a comedy based on real conversations overheard by the journalist Natalia Utkin in one of Moscow's most expensive restaurants. The main programme included several films receiving their UK premiere, among them the awarding-winning films, Aleksei Balabanov's 2012 darkly humorous "Me Too", which won the Best Director Prize at St. Petersburg Film Festival 2012[11] and Alexander Proshkin's 2012 poetic eulogy to post-Soviet Russia, "Redemption", which received Best Artistic Contribution Prize at the 2012 Montreal World Film Festival.[12] The Festival Documentary Programme, curated by Vitaly Mansky - president of Artdocfest - included Valery Shevchenko's 2011 "Inside a Square Circle", which examines notions of parental love, state authority and chaos. The programme also included the usual Animation category, screening such films as "Berry Pie" and "Green Teeth". For the second year in a row, the Russian Film Festival also hosted the 2nd Russo-British Co-Production Forum Alongside this, the Russian Film Festival also celebrated the work of the acclaimed director Andrei Konchalovsky, screening a selection of the films which span his prolific six-decade career, including "House of Fools" (2002), awarded the Grand jury prize and the UNICEF Award at the Venice Film Festival 2012,[13] and "Runaway Train", winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1986.[14]
Films
2007
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Feature films
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2008
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Feature films
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Documentaries
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Animation
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2009
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Feature films
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Documentaries
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Short films
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Animation
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2010
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Feature films
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Documentaries
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Animation
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2011
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Feature films
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Documentaries
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Short Films
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Animation
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2012
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Feature Films
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Documentaries
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Animation
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External links
References
- ^ "kamera.co.uk - - Russian Film Festival in London - Antonio Pasolini". Archived from the original on 8 October 2007.
- ^ "2nd Russian Film Festival". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
- ^ "Russian film festival london 2009 - Your Visa To Russia". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Russian Film Festival - Sept 2007". www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "TLS - Times Literary Supplement".
- TheGuardian.com. 19 September 2008.
- ^ "2nd Russian Film Festival Day 1, London 18-29 Sept 2008, Video". Archived from the original on 4 June 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ "Sergei Solovyov's Anna Karenina shown at Russian Film Festival in London - Telegraph". 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010.
- ^ "Shakhnazarov's Ward No.6 to represent Russia at the Oscars".
- ^ "Window on Russia". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
- ^ Saint Petersburg International Film Festival
- ^ "Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival - 2012 | World Film Festival". Archived from the original on 5 October 2013.
- ^ "Dom durakov - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ "Runaway Train - IMDb". IMDb.