The 34th Moscow International Film Festival ended on June 30. This year it took place in several places: the Khudozhestvenny and Pioneer cinemas in Gorky Park. On the third site, in the Oktyabr cinema, the participants and guests summed up the results, and also discussed how the MIFF was held and which films were recognized as the best this year.
16 films of Russian and foreign directors took part in the main competition program. Our country at the 34th Moscow International Film Festival was represented by directors Evgeny Pashkevich ("The Gulf Stream under the Iceberg"), Evgeny Proshkin ("Horde") and Renata Litvinova ("Rita's Last Tale"). In addition to the main competition, the film festival presented programs consisting of documentaries, debutant films (the Perspectives competition) and a short film competition.
MIFF was supervised by a very serious jury of the main competition. It includes director from Bulgaria Yavor Gyrdev, Italian producer Adriana Chiesa di Palma, winner of last year's film festival Sergei Loban, actor and director from France Jean-Marc Barr and director from Brazil Hector Babenko.
The main prize of the competition went to the British director Tinge Krishnan for the low-budget film "Dregs". Accepting the Golden George statuette, the author of the best film of the Moscow International Film Festival was very moved and said that this award was very important for her and the whole team.
The film "Horde" was recognized as the best director's work, the prize was awarded to director Andrei Proshkin. Kenya Marquez (Mexico) received a special jury award for her painting “Expiry Date”. The 34th Moscow International Film Festival was also honored by foreign stars. Catherine Deneuve was awarded a statuette for her loyalty to the Stanislavsky school and her long-term contribution to the world film culture. The special prize was presented by the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.
American director Tim Burton also did not stay away from an important event in the world of cinema. His collaboration with Timur Bekmambetov, the fantasy film President Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter, became a high-profile premiere of the festival's out-of-competition program.
The festival was opened by a film of the same name based on the book by Sergei Minaev "Duhless" (directed by Roman Prygunov). The closing film was Christophe Honore's Beloved.
The 34th Moscow International Film Festival took place on time, providing viewers with the most interesting films of world cinema to date.
