Traditional Russian Art Film Festival organized by Russian-American Cultural Foundation has started in New York, according to TASS. The main topic of the Festival is a woman and her role in society and history. The organizers have reminded that this year is a hundred’s anniversary of vindication of women’s rights. Women got equal rights with men after the February Revolution in Russia.
Movies directed by female filmmakers are on the Festival billboard, including the documentary Russian Avant-garde – A Century of Revolution. New Art for a New World by Margy Kinmonth (Great Britain). This story, devoted to one hundred’s anniversary of the Great October Revolution, narrates about male and female painters of that period. U.S. Premiere, Mirrors directed by Marina Migunova is the first historical-biographical feature film that focuses on the tragic fate of the well-known poetess Marina Tsvetaeva.
Feature Miss Bluwstein by American film director Sivan Arbel is about Russian emigrant who worked in Palestine over reviving hebrew, the ancient Jewish language spoken in Israel.
The documentary The Grannies of Chernobyl by American filmmaker Holly Morris is devoted to three elderly women who spent the whole lives in Chernobyl, the most toxic place on earth, and refused to leave the native land after the accident.
The aim of the Festival is to show beauty and scope of Russian culture to young generation in order to help young people discover a new Russia.
Russkiy Mir
