Kinotavr Russian Film Fest to feature Anna Melikyan's "About Love"May 13, 2015 - 15:27 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The jury and line up of Kinotavr Sochi Open Russian Film Festival has been unveiled, with Anna Melikyan's "About Love" among 14 competition films. In 2014, Anna Melikyan won the best director prize at Kinotavr. The main competition jury will be headed by Director Alexey Uchitel to be joined by operator Yury Klimenko, writer Nikolai Kulikov, producer Natalia Mokritskaya, actors Andrey Smolyakov and Olesya Sudzilovskaya. Short films jury will be chaired by producer Igor Tolstunov. Film critic Ivan Kudryavtsev, actress Agnia Kuznetsova and director Ivan Tverdovsky are among the jury members. The competition lineup includes Andrey Zaytsev's "14+", Artem Temnikov's "No Comment", Alexey Fedorchenko's "Angels of the Revolution", Denis Rodimin's "Guest". Stanislav Govorukhin's "The End of the Belle Epoque" will open the festival. Sochi will host Kinotavr from June 7-14. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. |