The Moscow Film GUP with the support of the Moscow City Department for Culture
presents the 4th Moscow Short Film Festival // Debutes
December 17-21, the Khudozhestvenny and Fakel Cinema Theatres
The idea of the festival is to become a creative platform for those who want to open new horizons of cinematography and by means of cinema tries to describe the present day using bright ideas and innovative approaches.
The festival’s jury consists of modern representatives of different areas of the contemporary art not involved in the film industry. The jury of this year is: the architects Alexander Tsimailo, Nikolai Lyashenko, the poet Vera Pavlova…
The best films will be awarded with official prizes (Gran-Prix, the Awards for the Best Fiction, Documentary and Animation Films), an Award of the Russian Guild of Film Critics, Distribution Award and the Audience Choice Award.
The main competition program includes the films by the Moscow debutants. Every year the level of the competition programs becomes higher: the selection criteria are stricter, more applications are sent and the geography of the participating films is wider. That’s why for the first time the festival holds a competition among the films sent from the non-cinematographic places – from the cities with no film schools (Saransk, Magadan, Cherkassy, Chelyabinsk…).
Besides the basic competition program of the Moscow debutants, the festival includes 12 international out-of-competition screenings.
The Crème de la crème program (winners and awardees of the main Russian and international film festivals) will screen the short films awarded with the Palm d’Ors of the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival, Silver Bear of the Berlinale, Oscar, etc.
The New York Focus is an exotic and diverse program representing the American intellectual capital. «From the History of the Soviet Satiric and Comedy Films Almanacs» program is presented by the State Film Fund, the Museum of Cinema and the Moscow Film Company.
The screening of the modern and young film festivals from Hungary – «Busho» and from Poland – «Quest-Europe» includes collections of their best films from around the world over the last two years. The festival will be closed with the screening of the MSFF-2010 awarded films.
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