CrimeaPRESS reports:
As part of the Yalta show, fiction and documentary programs will be presented, as well as special screenings. Anyone can attend the screenings; admission to the screenings during the festival is free.
The Eurasian Bridge festival retains its international status and remains an important platform for cultural interaction between Russia and Eurasian countries. This year the review will be held for the seventh time and, according to tradition, will present a fiction and documentary competition. The works will be assessed by an international jury, which includes filmmakers from different countries.
The chairman of the jury of the gaming competition was the director, screenwriter and producer Ivan Bolotnikov (Russia), and also included the French director, screenwriter and producer of Romanian origin Cornel Georgitsa (Romania-France) and the producer, director and actress Elena Cosson (Russia-France).
The documentary film competition will be judged by director Vladimir Tyulkin (chairman of the jury, Kazakhstan), director, screenwriter and producer of non-fiction films Mariam Ohanyan (Armenia), director, producer of feature and documentary films Nikolay Bem (Russia).
The festival will open on October 2 with Muhyiddin Muzaffar’s film «Fortune», which will tell about the ordeal that befalls two old friends when one of them receives a lucky lottery ticket instead of a salary.
The feature film competition consists of 8 films, among them the touching film “Ada” (Russia, director Stanislav Svetlov) about the life of a twelve-year-old girl and her mother in a small town on the river bank; drama “Second” (Sri Lanka, France, director Channa Deshapriya Wickramathantry) about the inhabitants of remote agricultural villages in Sri Lanka; social film “Our House” (India, directed by Mayanglambam Romi Meitei) about a schoolboy whose dreams of a bright future collapse after his family loses first their boat and then their home; the story “Trace of the Beast” (Serbia, director Nenad Pavlovic), in which violence, self-destruction and terror are hidden behind the protest events of 1968 in Yugoslavia, a political assassination and the drama of one family.
In addition, the program includes the film “Suna” (Turkey, Spain, Bulgaria, director Chidem Sezgin) about a fifty-year-old lonely unemployed woman who was able to find housing only by marrying an old man, but life with him does not give her happiness; the film “Trail” (Russia, director Mikhail Kulunakov) about the history of the relationship between a family living in a valley, where the husband is obsessed with the idea of cutting a path through the mountains; thriller “Fog” (Russia, director Natalia Gugueva) about how a cameraman and meteorologist go to a remote northern weather station to understand the mysterious disappearance of people from there, as well as drama “Flag” (France, Palestine, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, directed by Firas Khoury) about a Palestinian high school student in love who agrees to take part in a secret flag-raising ceremony on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, which is a day of mourning for Palestinians.
The documentary section presents 8 films by both Russian and foreign directors. Among them are the Israeli drama “Anna and the Egyptian Doctor,” directed by Talia Finkel, the Chinese documentary about the Shaolin monks “In the Shaolin Temple,” directed by Sun Hongyun, a dramatic story about a Buddhist monk from Russia, who became one of the first scholars and preachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the USA – “Geshe Wangyal, With the Blessing of the Three Jewels”, director Ella Manzheeva, Irina Muromtseva’s directorial debut “Women of Altai”, Andrey Istratov’s documentary about Marlen Khutsiev, dedicated to his upcoming centenary “The Film Language of the Epoch: Marlen Khutsiev”, as well as the Iranian film “Mother” Makhmal”, Amirhussein Khalilzadeh, “The Rock” — a documentary film from Thailand directed by Anant Titanat, as well as a Russian film about the experimental theater in Arkhangelsk “Efir”, directed by Nikolai Flotsky.
All competitive screenings of the festival will be held at the Saturn cinema in Yalta. Free admission. At the closing of the festival, the film “Two Captains” by Buryat director Bair Uladaev will be shown.
In addition, the festival program will include a retrospective for the 100th anniversary of Leonid Gaidai, during which you will be able to see on the big screen the cult films “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, “Long Journey”, “Business People”, “Groom from the Other World”, and others .
Viewers will also be able to see a non-competitive program of short animation made by VGIK students.
Admission to all festival screenings is free, the schedule is available on the festival website https://yaltakinofest.ru/
The Eurasian Bridge festival has been taking place since 2016 with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Republic of Crimea, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea.
source: Information Policy Department of the Yalta City Administration
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