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Moscow – 19 April 2024
1. Medium shot Moscow International Film Festival president Nikita Mikhalkov walking to table
2. Wide shot of conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikita Mikhalkov, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) president:
"There are 240 films from 56 countries in this year’s program. And you realize that in today’s situation such a number of films and such a number of countries is in itself an indication that the Moscow Film Festival is going through some turbulence after COVID and after all the circumstances that have happened in the world. The fact that it has not lost its interest and attention is a very good thing."
4. Wide shot of conference room
5. Close of microphones
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikita Mikhalkov, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) president:
"We ourselves understand and see how the criteria of festivals are changing. The very famous festivals that we were eager to attend and where we were happy to win prizes – we see how the ideology of these festivals are changing, how they are becoming censored with certain requirements. If (the requirements) are not fulfilled, a picture can’t only not get a prize, it can’t get into the festival. That’s right. The same thing happened with the Oscars, because what foreign film gets the prize as a foreign language picture? In general, the trend is absolutely clear."
7. Close of microphones
8. Mid of Mikhalkov speaking to reporters
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikita Mikhalkov, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) president:
"Behind the influence of Hollywood and European powerful cinema, we have neglected Iranian cinema, Korean cinema, Chinese cinema, Latin American cinema."
10. Wide of reporters
STORYLINE:
The director of the Moscow International Film Festival claimed similar movie events across the world have been "censored," at a press conference on Friday.
Speaking ahead of the opening of the 46th annual festival, Nikita Mikhalkov criticized the list of requirements needed to access other celebrations of film.
"We see how the ideology of these festivals are changing, how they are becoming censored with certain requirements. If (the requirements) are not fulfilled, a picture can’t only not get a prize, it can’t get into the festival," Mikhalov said to reporters.
Mikhalkov – a Russian film director – also spoke about the highlights of this year’s MIFF.
"There are 240 films from 56 countries in this year’s program. And you realize that in today’s situation such a number of films and such a number of countries is in itself an indication that the Moscow Film Festival is going through some turbulence after COVID and after all the circumstances that have happened in the world. The fact that it has not lost its interest and attention is a very good thing."
More than 70 movies will be shown at the festival, which runs until the 26th April. The festival jury is chaired by Icelandic film director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson.
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