MIFF will be held from August 26 to September 2, 2022
New dates for the 44th Moscow International Film Festival have been announced - it will be held in 2022 from August 26 to September 2.
The chairman of the festival’s selection committee was journalist and producer Ivan Kudryavtsev. The Selection Committee included film experts and film critics Evgenia Tirdatova, Egor Moskvitin, Nina Kochelyaeva, Grigory Libergal, Sergei Miroshnichenko, Nadezhda Koroleva, Vadim Rutkovsky, producers Katerina Mikhailova and Anna Shalashina. Other prominent experts will also be invited as consultants and curators of the author's programs.
The MIFF program is being actively developed: over 200 applications have been submitted for the main competition alone, and they continue to arrive. The geography of countries whose filmmakers wish to present their premieres at the Moscow International Film Festival extends from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, the USA and other countries of the Western Hemisphere, to Great Britain, Serbia, Italy, France in the west of our continent and India, Iran, the countries of the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and even Oceania.
“We see the main task of the new edition of the MIFF as Discovery and Openness,” says Ivan Kudryavtsev. — Discovery, first of all, of new names in world cinema, new countries and territories that are little known to the many thousands of MIFF audiences and poorly (so far) studied by the global festival community. In total, we see more than 60 countries in applications, but the dynamics of their receipt is such that there will be significantly more of them. For example, it seems to us that we have a good idea of what formats the cinema of India, Iran or, say, Nollywood offers the world today, but it only seems so. The same Nigeria, whose population has exceeded 200 million people, and in a few years will go beyond a quarter of a billion, has become a center of vibrant cinematography, where box office receipts amount to a billion dollars in less than a year. And there are many such examples of emerging new “growth points”. The openness of the MIFF site, first of all, to them is our basic principle. At the same time, of course, our goal is to show the entire palette of modern cinema, including from long-familiar territories, at this turning point in the development of our civilization. Cinema, due to its long production cycle, cannot afford to draw hasty conclusions, but this is where its most powerful ability for premonition and anticipation stems. The picture of the world that the MIFF program will show us in its entirety is intended to formulate this premonition - both of the current moment and for the foreseeable historical future.”
Ivan Kudryavtsev is a famous journalist and producer, member of the Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, academician of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia. Ivan is one of the leading experts on the Russian film market and heads the Expert Council of the Golden Eagle National Film Award. Deputy General Director, Director of Film Channels at Digital Television JSC (VGTRK and Rostelecom), the largest holding company in the Russian pay TV market. Since 2009, he has been the author and presenter of the weekly program “Cinema Industry” on the country’s main news channel “Russia 24”.
