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The International Pacific Meridian Film Festival begins in the Far East. The capital of Primorye is hosting the screening of films shot in the Pacific Rim for the seventeenth time, the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper reports.
Delegations from Australia, Chile, Thailand, China, Japan brought their films to Vladivostok. Russia is represented by Alexander Lungin’s Great Poetry and A Russian Youth by Alexander Zolotukhin. The works from Vietnam, Canada, India, the USA and Bangladesh will compete for victory in the short motion pictures category. Mikhail Arkhipov’s Fuel is among them.
The international jury is headed by director Anna Melikyan.
Photo credit: a shot from Oksana Karas’s Above the Sky
A large-scale program of Russian cinema and animation has been prepared for the public. Oksana Karas’s drama has been chosen to open the festival; Victoria Tolstoganova, who plays the main part, will present it to the audience. Above the Sky will be joined by the Korean thriller The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil directed by Lee Won-tae.
The screenings are going to take place in the Ocean multiplex and Festival Village, where the open-air amphitheater is located. The meetings with with the head of the festival Konstantin Khabensky, directors Pavel Lungin and Vladimir Khotinenko and the honored guest of the event Christopher Lambert are also on the schedule.
The film forum will end on September 19.
Russkiy Mir
reported that last year almost one hundred ninety films were included in the forum program. The winner of the main award was the director from China Cai Chengjie. He was noted for his feature Widowed Witch.
