The Moscow International Film Festival dates back to the days of the USSR - it has existed since 1935. The film festival is accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations. It usually takes place at the end of June and lasts ten days. After the Venice Film Festival, this is the second oldest film show in the world.
XXXIV Moscow International Film Festival will be held in Moscow from June 21 to 30, 2012. The opening and closing ceremony, as in all recent years, is planned to be held in the Pushkinsky Cinema and Concert Hall. The rest of the festival films will be shown in the Khudozhestvenny and Oktyabr cinemas.
As part of the Cannes Film Festival this year, on May 28, a press conference was held, which was dedicated to the Moscow Film Festival. Individual participants of the main competition were announced there: “Rita's Last Fairy Tale”, directed by Renata Litvinova; The Door, directed by Istvan Szabo; The Presence of Splendor, directed by Ferzan Ezpetek, as well as new films by Valdemar Krzystek and Aku Louhimies.
In total, the competition program will contain sixteen works from around the world. As mentioned above, Russia will be represented by Renata Litvinova, recently it became known that Andrei Proshkin will join her, who will demonstrate the epic picture "Horde".
Peter Shepotinnik's 8 ½ out-of-competition program will begin with a screening of Wes Anderson's comedy "Moonrise Kingdom", which recently opened the Cannes Film Festival. This program will also include other films shown in Cannes this year and selected films that have shown themselves at other international festivals.
In connection with the centenary of Universal, the retrospective will show the studio's most striking paintings, including "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. There will also be screenings of films by Ernst Lubitsch, a retrospective by director Yunfan from Hong Kong entitled Colors of the Soul; within the framework of the Year of Germany in Russia, ten Russian film critics selected ten representative German films from different decades.
The 49 Seats program will showcase “weird and unusual”, experimental films for movie connoisseurs.
