Photo credit: official website of the Venice Film Festival
Three features shot by contemporary Russian directors have been included in various programs of the international film festival, which will be held for the 76th time in Venice from August 27 to September 7. Vasily Shukshin’s Kalina Krasnaya (The Red Snowball Tree) will be screened in Venice Classics programme, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The fans of the director and writer celebrated his 90th birthday In July.
Dimitri Mamulia’s The Criminal Man will be presented at the Horizons programme, two other Russian film projects were selected for the Venice Gap-Financing Market business festival program. Program participants are given the opportunity to find an investor to implement their project and interest their colleagues in creative cooperation.
Among the 51 projects are Air by Alexey German Jr. and The Way of Love, the first feature by Tamara Dondurey, the daughter of cultural and film expert Daniil Dondurey. The feature tells about a young architect Kir, who survived the loss and learns to live on. According to the director, the story is largely autobiographical, it reveals the experiences of Tamara Dondurey after the loss of her father.
The film by German Jr. is dedicated to military pilots, participants in World War II. Roman Vasyanov, who is successful in the American cinema, was chosen as the cameraman for the feature. The film received the support of the Cinema Foundation.
Russkiy Mir
