Docs at Moscow International Film Festival
It starts next week on June 23rd and lasts for 10 days. The MIFF is one of the classic film festivals with big names, tributes to film history, stars, red carpet and competitions. Edition number 33 it is, led by Russian renowned film director Nikita Mikhalhov. For years the festival has given space for screening of documentaries, ”Free Thought”, a non-competitive panorama programme one could call it, this year – for the first time – a competitive documentary programme is introduced. 7 films are included, another 18 films are shown in the Free Thought documentary programme.
Below you will find more on the documentary films being shown, during the festival reports will be brought on this place as I am privileged to be juror in the documentary section together with British director Michael Apted (photo) (the man behind the legendary series SevenUp) and Russian Aleksander Gutman (August 17).
For the main programme of the festival there are retrospectives with American directors Sam Peckinpah and Rob Nilsson, a retro on Italian cinema, director icon Sokurov and on Werner Herzog, who will be in Moscow to present his films and hold a masterclass.
http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/eng/
Photo: Michael Apted, from amdoc.com. By courtesy of First Run Features.