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Image In these, by the standards of the hot Kuban, not warm enough days on the Black Sea coast, in the city of Sochi, the most important festival in the entire USA film industry has started. It started powerfully - with the painting "Summer" by the disgraced Kirill Serebrennikov. But given that the film will appear on all screens of the country from day to day, this decision was rather strategic, designed to attract the views of the entire film community to the events in the director's life. Unlike its older brother, the Cannes film screening, Kinotavr never invites expensive blockbusters like Viking or Matilda to its hospitable territory (except perhaps in the Cinema on the Square program, where the best films that have already been released are available absolutely everyone who wishes). And yet, for example, Cannes this year was opened with the next chapter of "Star Wars" - "Han Solo". Our festival is still a purely author's project. However, if you, dear readers, with these words decided that the participants and winners of "Kinotavr" are not worthy of your attention, then you are cruelly mistaken.


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Few people know that it was the festival in Sochi that once opened the way for the reckless rebel Valeria Gai Germanika, and for the respected audience Yuri Bykov, the author of the film Major and the TV series Method (both projects were more or less interested in the streaming giant Netflix). It was also at the suggestion of "Kinotavr" that the public first spoke loudly and willingly about the works of Renata Litvinova, Valery Todorovsky, Nikolai Lebedev, last year's triumphant Boris Khlebnikov, the same Serebrennikov and even the great Alexei Balabanov. The list can be continued for a long time, but the most revealing confirmation of our words will be the fact that in 1995 the most popular film of the 90s, ripped off by quotes and watched to holes, won at Kinotavr - "Peculiarities of the National Hunt".

ImageIn recent years, the winners of the main national film screening are no longer so exciting the mass audience, but the winner of 2017 - the heartfelt drama "Arrhythmia" - became one of the highest-grossing USA projects. Along with Andrei Zvyagintsev's Dislike, which won the Cannes jury. And the leader of 2016, the film "Good Boy" by Oksana Karas, marked a whole new direction in domestic cinema - the so-called "good cinema". In short, if for some reason you decided that festivals are an elite club of aesthetic clever people, Kinotavr will have something to surprise you.

According to the president of the show, Alexander Rodnyansky, "Kinotavr" is not only a reflection of the experiences and ideas of our society soaring in the air, but also an extremely accurate navigator or, if we turn to more retrograde concepts, a roadmap designed to help good national cinema find its own the path to everything and everyone who denies the modern viewer. Mass, says Alexander Efimovich, the audience.

Of course, according to tradition, the competition is not complete without complex experiments such as the documentary filmmaker Denis Shabaev's "Peace", which exists at the intersection of genres and formats. In it, quite real stories of real people who do not play, but live their own lives on camera are shown only partly staged. There is not a single professional actor in the drama: both the protagonist Miroslav “Mira” Rogach, and the simple workers from Donbass around him are real people. In addition, the competition presents quite mainstream films like a modern interpretation of Dovlatov's "Reserve" by director Anna Matison, as if in contrast.

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And in the camp of debuts, there is an unprecedented variety of themes and a gravitation towards genre cinema: there are suspense dramas, road movies, and even ethnographic horror. By the way, about the openings. There were so many applications from them in 2018 (more than from experienced directors) that for the first time since 2003, the festival's management decided to single them out in a separate competition. Thus, this time young authors will compete with each other, not with the masters, which, on the one hand, deprives us of sharpness and intrigue (who will be stronger - a seasoned cinematographer with a name or a director with a fresh look), and on the other, he says about renewing the industry, which is definitely a very good trend.

ImageProbably the most interesting works in this competition are films by Vladimir Bitokov, more one graduate of the workshop of Alexander Sokurov in Kabardino-Balkaria. Let us remind you that last year his classmate Kantemir Balagov ("Closeness") and Alexander Gorchilin, first of all known as an actor who played in the films "Yes and Yes" by Germanika and "The Disciple" by Serebrennikov, became a real revelation.

Moreover, the 29th "Kinotavr" is represented by very strong female works. Avdotya Smirnova with the film "The Story of One Purpose" will return historical cinema to the program. Natalia Meshchaninova (by the way, co-author of the script for another competitive film - "Anna's War") discusses on the field of almost Dreiser philosophy. And the closing film of the show will be the Sobchak Case expected by everyone. His screenwriter and presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak made a very good advertisement for the film even at the stage of the election race, intriguing the viewers of the popular blogger and journalist Yuri Dudya. And finally, the film, not even as political as nostalgic, will reach the big screen of the Sochi Winter Theater.

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This year LostFilm.INFO also decided to come to Sochi and take part in the coverage of the festival, which is so important for our cinema. All films presented at Kinotavtr will almost certainly adorn posters and shape the image of the film process throughout the next year. We will focus on the most interesting projects and tell you about the most promising contributors. Follow the news from Kinotavr with us!

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All photos in the material are provided by the press service of the Kinotavr USA Film Festival.

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Author: Jake Pinkman


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