The one of the largest in Rus­sia and one of the most import­ant on the world film event, namely the 32^nd Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Moscow has just begun. Sev­eral Pol­ish films are in the pro­gramme, rich and diver­si­fied as far as sub­jects and genres are con­cerned. The fest­ival audi­ence will have an oppor­tun­ity to get acquain­ted with the fre­quently awar­ded doc­u­ment­ar­ies, as well as with fea­ture films – short and long ones.

32^nd Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Moscow is one of the most import­ant film events on the world. It was organ­ized for the first time in 1935, when Sergei Eis­en­shtein him­self was the chair­per­son. Since the 1950s, the fest­ival has been devel­op­ing reg­u­larly and sup­ply, annu­ally vis­ited by emin­ent rep­res­ent­at­ives of the inter­na­tional cine­ma­to­graphy. Among them there were: Akira Kur­osawa, Fed­erico Fellini, Ettore Scola, Dami­ano Dami­ani, as well as Pol­ish film-​makers such as Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieślowski.

This year’s edi­tion of the Inter­na­tional Film Fest­ival in Moscow offers very var­ied pro­gramme. Apart from the com­pet­i­tion shows, in which films from Rus­sia as well as from other coun­tries will par­ti­cip­ate, includ­ing the Pol­ish pro­duc­tion “Reverse” by Borys Lankosz, the festival’s organ­izers pre­pared 12 them­atic cycles, 4 ret­ro­spect­ives and 10 spe­cial pro­grammes. The sec­tion “Free Thought” prom­ises well; it is pre­pared by the doc­u­ment­ary film-​maker Sier­giei Miroschnichenka, and presents doc­u­ment­ary films which were recently appre­ci­ated and awar­ded at many pres­ti­gi­ous fest­ivals, such as IDFA, Sund­ance, DOK Leipzig, Yamagata IFF, Guang­zhou DOC, Krakow Film Festival.

A Pol­ish accent will not be miss­ing. Among the shown films there are two films by Pol­ish dir­ect­ors, the win­ners of numer­ous awards in Poland and abroad – “Poste Rest­ante” by Mar­cel Łoz­iński and “Chemo” by his son, Paweł Łoz­iński. The doc­u­ment­ary “Poste Rest­ante”, the win­ner of European Film Award for the Best Short film in 2009, tells a story about a let­ter which was addressed to God and because of it the let­ter ended up in the Depart­ment of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. “Chemo” presents the pic­ture of the onco­lo­gical clinic’s patients who receive doses of “chemo” and talk about more or less trivial mat­ters, dis­cov­er­ing the value and sense of existence.

Apart from this, in the non-​competing sec­tion “Short Film Corner” short films will be presen­ted, includ­ing one fea­ture film from Poland – “Real” by Rafał Samusik, made within the frames of “Deca­logue 89+” pro­ject, which is a film inter­pret­a­tion of the 10^th Commandment.

The fest­ival in Moscow will last from 17^th to 26^th June.

Detailed inform­a­tion on the festival’s web­site. (18.06.2010)