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13 films to compete for main prize of Moscow Film Festival

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13 films to compete for main prize of Moscow Film Festival


21.09.2020

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13 films will compete for the main prize of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), TASS reports. The competition program will include films from Russia, Israel, Turkey, Brazil and other countries.

Executive Order by Lazaro Ramos, who represents Brazil, Fate by Zhanna Isabayeva from Kazakhstan, In the Shadows by Erdem Tepegoz from Turkey, Hilda by British director Rishi Pelham, The Barren Bride by Jadab Mahanta from India are among the participants.

Russian cinema will be represented by Andrei Zaitsev's A Siege Diary, Irina Evteeva's The melody of String Tree, Maxim Dashkin's Far Frontiers. Mikhail Lokshin's debut film Silver Skates will open the forum.

The main competition also includes the Russian-Azerbaijani film "The Fisherman's Daughter" by Ismail Safarali, Peaches&Cream by Israeli director Gura Bentvich and the Romanian Election Campaign by Marian Krishan.

The world premiere of Dissolve by the famous South Korean director Kim Ki Duk, filmed in Russian, will also take place during the festival.

Film screenings and other events within the framework of the MIFF will last from 1 to 8 October.

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