Two film festivals are planned for August 2012 in Russia, one of which began in Vyborg on the 12th. The festival is called "Window to Europe", but the viewer is invited to look through this window to the interior of the country, and not to Europe - the program of the film forum includes only the works of domestic filmmakers.
For the opening of the screening program at the jubilee forum with the XX serial number, the organizers chose Andrei Proshkin's film Horde, which this summer has already brought the creators three prizes at the Moscow International Film Festival. And the closing tape should be the ironic comedy "Love with an Accent" by Rezo Gigineishvili. Between these two screenings, there will be a program divided into 11 sections and containing 76 films.
There are three main competitions at the Vyborg Festival - fiction, animation and documentary films. There are 10 fiction films in the program, 21 animated films, and 32 documentaries. The organizers tried to pay more attention to novice directors, therefore, for example, Timur Shin's thesis with the laconic title “6” was included in the fiction film program. However, not only beginners, but also people who have already gained fame will be presented with their first works. Thus, the theater director and head of the SounDrama studio Vladimir Pankov will show his first work as a filmmaker - a feature film "Doctor" based on the play "Dos.tor", which received several theatrical prizes.
The main competition will also feature a painting by Mikhail Brashinsky "Shopping Tour", the plot of which is based on the legend that on the day of the summer solstice every real Finn should eat a foreigner. The story is told on behalf of a Russian teenager filming the adventures of a group of domestic tourists on a mobile phone. Another competitive picture - "Fan" - arouses interest by the list of actors involved in it - Vitaly Melnikov managed to attract Oleg Tabakov, Kirill Pirogov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Alexei Devotchenko to the shooting. And in the film by Maria Sahakyan "Entropy (House-2012)", those who wish can see Valeria Gai Germanicus, Ksenia Sobchak, Diana Delle, Danil Polyakov, who, according to the script of the film, gathered in an empty house to shoot a movie about the end of the world.
The "Window to Europe" festival ends on 19 August this year. Its winner, according to the tradition of the forum, receives the main prize - the Golden Rook.
