Today ends in Vyborg film festival “Window to Europe”: this year it takes place in the 24th time. We recall the interesting pattern for the festival. Following a Patriotic fashion this year in the main competition of the festival is dominated by openings: ten from their six. Half of the Directors of the contestants were women. Many pictures removed without state support: by private investments.
“The window to Europe”-2016: the Vyborg film festival coming to an end
All these developments of the 24th “Window to Europe” clearly reflects the “Touch of wind”. One of the most unusual films this show – the genre of mocumentary – ‘ve shown in the Russian pavilion in Cannes, and after the Vyborg luck in Montreal. Five million roubles the authors Veremeyeva Olga and Elena Demidova were able to collect through crowdfunding platform. The film itself – the story of a terminally ill actress, who in search of first love is sent to Buryatia. There, she falls in a Buddhist datsan, where the present meets the Lama-astrologer, fortune teller! All the rituals, national festivals, dialogues with local residents filmed in real time. In the starring Yuliya Aug, known throughout the country for the TV series “Ekaterina”.
So Yulia told about his work:Having done the way from Moscow to Ulan-Ude and on lake Baikal, of course, I’ve changed. For me it was an incredible discovery”.
“Touch the wind”. Fragment
The annual opening for the audience – “the Vyborg account”, they expose themselves: impartially, by secret ballot. In this program – one of the most anticipated releases in 2016, including “Good boy” Oksana Karas. The film won the Grand Prix of the Kinotavr film festival, will be released in November, and in Vyborg has already won the hearts of the audience. The story centers on six incredible days in the life of schoolboy Kolya Smirnov, requiring it to adult decisions. In the image of a “good boy” is a young star Semyon Treskunov. In their sixteen actor has already starred in three dozen works. This time his partners on the set became Mikhail Efremov and Konstantin Khabensky.
Simon says about his character:nick as a hero of the trombone in “Courier” – new a young man from a new generation who is looking for a foothold in a world that has gone to the dogs”.
“Good boy.” Semyon Treskunov talks about his role
With audience movies at the Vyborg film festival side by side more. It. “Zoology” by Ivan Tverdovsky, caused a stir at the festival in Sochi and awarded a special prize in Karlovy vary in Vyborg was full despite the late hour of the session. The history of the heroine Natalia Pavlenkova not to be envied. Her world is completely devoid of colors, on the job – at the zoo – mocked, personal life no. Only friends are animals. And once the woman grows the most tail. In order to make it look naturalistic, make-up artists used the silicone, but the engineers produced animatronik and ran it with the remote.
Trailer for “Zoology”
Another painting, which attracted a full house – “Ke-dy” by Sergei Solovyov. This black-and-white story about a young man Sasha, nicknamed Jagger, who is drafted into the army. A couple of days before the call, he manages to fall in love, make friends with the son of the beloved autistic Mitya and to dissuade her to give the boy to the orphanage. Against this background, the music of Basta – rapper Vasily Vakulenko so pleased the master that he first invited him on a short episode, and then gave the role of the Commissar.
Solovyov says about this unusual collaboration: “I told him, “Maybe you’ll have time, an hour to go to Sevastopol, I’ll take a picture for the beauty of a syllable, your big plan.” He – well, I’ll come back. And now half of the painting consists of Basta”.
About “Ke-Dah” Solovyov critics have already written one article, which called the picture who postmodernistskaya parable” who “Assay” of our time, and who is the “portrait of the eternal youth of the author.”
Fragment from the film “Ke-dy”
