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Seven cities in Australia, New Zealand Auckland and Chinese Hong Kong will host the Russian Revival Film Festival, which runs from October 25 to November 20. Viewers will see sixteen Russian features released in recent years, and a retrospective of the world-famous Russian director Pavel Lungin, the Edinenie newspaper reports.
The festival program is diverse and includes art-house and adventure features, comedies and melodrama, as well as animated films. This will provide an opportunity to acquaint Russian compatriots living abroad with new features in Russian and present a wide range of contemporary Russian cinema to foreign viewers. Features will be screened in Russian with English subtitles.
Valery Todorovsky’s new work Odessa will open the program of the festival in Sydney. The program also included Kantemir Balagov's Beanpole, the film is set in post-war Leningrad. The feature is nominated for Oscar as the best film in a foreign language. An important part of the festival, according to tradition, will be meetings with the stars of Russian cinema. The guests of the shows will be actress Yulia Alexandrova, director Oleg Stepchenko and others.
Russkiy Mir
