On September 11, the 31st Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival began its work in Sochi.

The opening film of "Kinotavr" this year was the animated film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky "The Nose, or the Conspiracy" Not Like That ".

The film about innovators in art - Bulgakov, Meyerhold and others - was based on the story of N.V.

Gogol's "The Nose" and the opera of the same name by Dmitry Shostakovich.

The cartoon was awarded by the jury of the festival in Annecy. 

Khrzhanovsky also received the honorary prize of the show with the wording "For outstanding contribution to cinema and overcoming the boundaries between different types of cinema art."

Thirteen works were submitted for the competition - about the same as in previous years.

Among the prime ministers under discussion is Philip Yuriev's Kitboy, filmed in a joint production between Russia, Poland and Belgium.

Among the producers of the film is Alexei Uchitel, and one of the roles in it was played by Christina Asmus.

The film became the winner of the parallel program of auteur films “Venetian Days” (Giornate degli autori).

For the main prize of "Kinotavr" will compete the drama "Conference" by Ivan I. Tverdovsky, which touches upon the theme of the terrorist attack in the Theater Center on Dubrovka during the screening of the musical "Nord-Ost".

This tape was also shown at a show in Venice.

The festival will host the premiere of the films "Has anyone seen my girl?", "Blues", "Intervention" and "Masha" with the participation of Anna Chipovskaya.

Kinotavr-2016 laureate Oksana Karas will present a biographical film "Doctor Lisa" with Chulpan Khamatova in the title role.

  • Shot from the movie "Blues"

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In addition, the competition involves Alexander Molochnikov's Tell Her, Deeper!

Mikhail Segal, "The City Has Slept" by Maria Ignatenko, "Scarecrow" by Dmitry Davydov, "Three" by Anna Melikyan and "The Man from Podolsk" - the debut of Semyon Serzin.

For the prize of the Kinotavr.

Short film "claims Rezo Gigineishvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Dmitry Endaltsev, Natalia Konchalovskaya and others.

The jury of the main competition included director Boris Khlebnikov ("Arrhythmia", "Storm"), actor Vladimir Vdovichenkov, TV presenter Daria Zlatopolskaya, cameraman Fedor Lyass ("Thaw", "Duhless"), director and screenwriter Nigina Sayfullaeva ("About love. Only for adults ”), actress Oksana Fandera and producer Ekaterina Filippova.

For creators of feature films, nine awards are provided, including awards for cameramen, screenwriters, composers and the Daniil Dondurei Prize from the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics of Russia.

The jury of the short film competition is headed by Klim Shipenko.

Together with him, the films will be judged by actors Irina Gorbacheva and Alexander Robak, producer Sergei Kornikhin ("I'm losing weight", "Tolya-robot") and film critic Alexei Artamonov.

The non-competitive program "Cinema on the Square" included the films "Union of Salvation", "One Breath", "Ice 2", "Outpost", "Invasion", as well as the blockbuster "Kholop" and the classic melodrama "You never dreamed of ... ”, Which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year.

  • Andrey Khrzhanovsky

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As part of the business program of the festival, this year the pitching of serial projects will take place for the first time.

The event is scheduled for September 12th.

The Kinotavr festival will end on Friday, 18 September.

The show will be closed by the historical drama by Andrei Konchalovsky "Dear Comrades!", Which this year participates in the competition of the Venice Film Festival.

Like many other events, Kinotavr was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The festival traditionally takes place in June - thus, its dates have shifted by about three months.

In May, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the program director of the event, Sitora Aliyeva, emphasized that the festival should be kept in its traditional form - not canceled or transferred to the Internet.

“Our mission is to give the right to life to the films completed today, not to postpone their showing for an indefinite time”, - quotes “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” as quoted by the president of the festival, Alexander Rodnyansky.

At the same time, Aliyeva did not rule out that the festival site - the Winter Theater - might be busy.

Nevertheless, within the walls of the theater there will be screenings of competitive films and the program “Kinotavr.

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Spectators will watch genre films in an open-air cinema on Teatralnaya Square.

In connection with the coronavirus pandemic, the red carpet and a number of other public events were canceled.

Social distance is maintained at the sites, so the number of visitors is limited.