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Russian Film Week starts in UK

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Russian Film Week starts in UK


07.12.2020

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Week of Russian Cinema started in Great Britain the day before, on December 6, RIA Novosti reports. According to the organizers, they planned to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the festival but the difficult epidemiological situation forced to abandon the celebration. There will be no Golden Unicorn awards as well. All films nominated for the award will be considered by the jury next year.

According to the founder of the festival Philip Perkon, the program includes eight full-length fiction films, two documentaries and 17 short films. He promised that the festival program would unite all the genre diversity of Russian cinema. Perkon also expressed the hope that it would be possible to return to the usual format as early as next year.

In addition to the film program, spectators will have master classes from Danila Kozlovsky, Dmitry Glukhovsky and others, creative meetings with directors and actors and other events.

The Kitoboy by the young Russian director Philip Yuriev was chosen as the opening film. The shooting of the film took place in Chukotka, its main character is a hunter who decides to change his life after the Internet comes tothe land. The creation process took 7 years, the leading roles are played by non-professional actors. The film has been successfully shown at several international and leading Russian film festivals.

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