International Film Festival Comes to Moscow

The 29th Moscow International Film Festival opened on June 22nd and will run through June 30th and offers many opportunities to see some international film fare.

There are 20 films in the main competition program, two which have already been viewed in the international circuit. One of those is German Dani Levy’s film about Hitler controversial “My Führer — Truly the Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler”, the other is a French historical drama by Laurent Tirard “Moliere”.

There are also new films including three Russian films and a good number of films with a Russian or Soviet flair. Larisa Sadilova’s “Nothing Personal” is in the main competition as is “Traveling with Pets” by filmmaker Vera Storozheva – both Russian women filmmakers. The third Russian film in the competition is “Putina” by the late Valery Ogorodnikov. Although he did not live to completely finish the film it was completed on a technical level by producer Vladlen Arsenyev.

The competition also features a film from Georgia, “Russian Triangle” by Aleko Tsabadze which is about lives broken by the war in Chechnya and stars Konstantin Khabensky. There is also some Ukrainian flavor in the mix with “At the River” by Eva Neymann as well as a Ukrainian theme in the Italian film “The Unknown Woman.”

There’s still time to catch the festival before it ends!

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