The 8th International Festival of Independent Films 2morrow/Zavtra is being held at the Museum of Moscow from January 20 to 25. The festival opens with A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence from Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, which won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 2014, the Calvert journal reports. The lineup also includes Miracles, the second picture from Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, which won a number of awards at international film festivals including the Grand Prix at Cannes.
“Over the past seven years the International Festival of Independent Films 2morrow/Zavtra has established itself as one of the most outstanding events on Russia’s cultural scene,” the festival’s website notes. “Currently in its eighth year, the 2015 edition of the 2morrow/Zavtra festival will provide metropolitan audiences with a unique opportunity to see some of the rare films that will not reach movie theaters in the country since they are not the blockbusters aimed at mass audiences favored by most film distributors.”
The festival’s program features critically acclaimed titles celebrated by the European Film Academy as the best debuts of the year alongside the works that were ranked among the best films of 2014 and some of the Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.
2morrow/Zavtra is a brain child of the late film director Ivan Dykhovichny. In no small measure owing to Dykhovichny’s efforts the first edition of the festival that was launched in 2007 established the key principles of the festival, as well as its basic aesthetic and ethical values. It was a conscious decision on the part of the ideologues and organizers of the festival to eschew the usual “glamorous” attributes of film festivals, such as red carpets, in favor of a radically different approach to cultural events of that kind.
Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service
