The 35th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), one of Europe’s oldest film festivals, opened on June 20th and includes 16 movies in competiton from Russia and around the world. As a part of the 35th MIFF’s Grand Opening The World War Z, directed by Marc Forster will be shown, and star Brad Pitt will be in attendance.
The American actor will visit Russia for the first time ever, but the Moscow International Film Festival will host hundreds of international guests,including the actors Christian Slater and Gerard Depardieu, and the directors Costa Gavras and Gabriele Salvatores.
This year the festival schedule includes more than 350 movies in more than 15 strands, including the Main Competition, documentary Free Thought, Costa Gavras Retrospective, Minor Dutch Artists, Meet Ursula Meier, Almost All of Bertolucci and several others.
The Jury of MIFF Main Competition includes: Iranian fimmaker, producer, human rights activist Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Swiss director Ursula Meier, Russian actor Sergei Garmash, Georgian actor Zurab Kipshidze, founder of Busan Film Festival Kim Dong-Ho.
The Moscow International Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world – the first edition of the festival was held in 1935 when the chairman of the jury was Sergei Eisenstein, although it has only been a regular event since 1959.
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