Report on the 24th Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi Bashny.Net

On Sunday in Sochi started the 24 th Open Russian festival "Kinotavr", which will be held from 2 to June 9.

In the main competition of "Kinotavr" includes 12 paintings, the opening film of the festival was a new tape famous director, head of the Duma Committee on Culture, Stanislav Govorukhin Weekend. At present the main competition of "Kinotavr" - 12 tapes. Among competitive pictures - two films from the program of the Cannes Film Festival - "Cast off" Taisiya Igumentseva and "Mayor" Yuri Bykov. Also in the main competition will feature the films "Waiting for the sea» Bakhtiyar Khudoynazarova, "Geographer Globe propyl" Alexander Veledinsky, "Dialogues" Irina Volkova, "Thirst" Dmitry Tyurin, "Ivan's son, Amir," Maxim Panfilov, "private parts" Natasha Merkulova and Alexei Chupova, "Heavenly Meadow Mari wife" Alexey Fedorchenko, "Jagger" Andrew Stempkovsky, "Shame" Yusup Razykov, "Pipe" Vitaly Mana. Will host a special screening of the film "Novel with Cocaine", who died two years ago, the director Gennady Sidorov.
Besides the main competition program "Kinotavr" is traditionally a contest of short films. Chairman of the jury of the "Kinotavr. Shorties "- film director Boris Khlebnikov.

Saturday June 1 before the opening of the festival

View of the Winter Theatre from the 15th floor of the hotel "Pearl»

This year the two traditional jury of the main competition, and competition "Kinotavr". Short meter "at the festival added a third jury of film distributors. Headed by its Director General Film Company "Karo Premier" Alexei Ryazantsev. His colleagues on the jury will be the president of "Cinema without Borders", a film producer Sam Klebanov and director of film distribution network of cinemas "Kinomax" Gennady Hodos.

From left to right Gennady Hodos, Aleksei Ryazantsev, Sam Klebanov

Ksenia Sobchak and Maxim Vitorgan present films that have played a major role. Xenia - painting "Novel with Cocaine", which will be shown at the festival in the "Special Screenings", Maxim - the movie "Cast off", participating in competition "full meter»

Alexander Mitta was awarded first on this "Kinotavr" Award - for outstanding contribution to the national cinema award presented by the President of the festival Alexander Rodnyansky and chairman of the board of trustees of "Kinotavr" Fyodor Bondarchuk.

This year, the audience played a musical on the theme of the movie with the leader of the "accident" Alexei Kortnevym as a director, he became a leading evening.