In Yalta, opens today at the film forum “Eurasian bridge”.

Olesya Sudzilovskaya

Photo: Yury Feklistov

From 15 to 19 September in Yalta will host the II
International film festival “Eurasian bridge”.

The jury of the festival this year entered the British
Director Gareth Jones (Chairman of the jury), curator
international projects of Russia with the countries of the Balkan Peninsula Vladimir Hawk
Russian actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya, French Director Patrick Casal,
Russian film Director and producer Andrei Osipov.

The jury will determine the Grand Prix. Also
the awards will be presented in the categories “Special award” and “Best Director
work.”

In the competition program of feature films includes 8 pictures
“White nights” (Russia), “Burn!” (Russia), “the Little Prince of our city”
(Kazakhstan), “the Death of Louis XIV” (of France), “the Son of Sofia”
(Greece/Bulgaria/France) “Turkish saddle” (Russia), “the Street of last resort”
(Italy/Switzerland/France), “What hides darkness” (China).

In the documentary competition, 8 films — “Two generations at home” (Russia), “Reserved seat” (Russia), “Cars”
(India/Germany/Finland), “new York times 21” (Poland), “the Postman”
(Finland/Bulgaria), “Pushkinskaya, Italy. To See Brent!” (Russia),
“Exorcism” (Italy/France), “PRO Shamiram” (Armenia).

In addition, the festival offers visitors
Russian premieres and panorama of world cinema, a retrospective dedicated to
The 100th anniversary of the revolution, and the press conference.

Also at the opening ceremony will be awarded
The open prize of the Russian film “Resonance” in two
categories — “debut of the year” and “Best film of the year”.

The presidents of the festival – people’s artist of Russia
Viktor Merezhko and the Minister of culture of the Republic of Crimea Arina Novoselskaya.
The program Director is a film critic, President of the Guild
of film critics of Russia, Kirill Razlogov.

Festival “Eurasian bridge” was first held in
2016. The idea of its creation belongs to Director Nikita Mikhalkov. In 2014
year at the presentation of the picture “sunstroke”, he proposed to establish an annual
the festival, which was held in Crimea for the revival and promotion
Crimean cinema in the Eurasian space and would give an impetus to
strengthening of international cultural relations.

According to him, Yalta is the Alma mater
cinema, because here is the first Studio Khanzhonkov,
there were filmed many famous movies.