http://www.artbereg.ru

1 hour 30 min.

KIMUAK is a distributing company, aimed to increase Basque short’s importance across the nation and abroad. Although KIMUAK is a consolidated program and a lot of festivals, TV channels, distributors and buyers are waiting for it. Every year the Cultural Department of the Basque Government and the Basque Film Archive (Filmoteca Vasca) bring the best harvest of Basque short film. Seven new “kimuak”, seven new shoots that start to flower here. Animated, dramatic, comic, experimental “kimuak” are produced in different languages or without words. Well-known directors and the new ones. Basque short films. No more, no less.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG»

1 hour

Vladimir Chaika – famous Russian graphic designer, national president of Alliance Graphique Internationale, winner of the numerous awards. He presents his subjective opinion on the defects of contemporary design education and shows his own movie “He-story”. 

http://www.cinedoc.ru  

1 hour 18 min.

India. Cambodia. Jerusalem. (Sergey Debijev, 2005, video, color, 3 films, 26 minutes each)

First film “India”. Film tells about everyday culture of those, who live according to the religious traditions of Hinduism

Second film “Cambodia”. Film tells about everyday culture of those, who live according to the religious traditions of Buddhism.

Third film Jerusalem. Film tells about the routine of the sacral city Jerusalem during the Easter week.

The movies are presented by St. Petersburg DFS PR-director Anastasia Lobanova

http://www.time-to-live.ru

1 hour 45 min.

Dir. Moshe Mizrahi, France, 1977.
Film is based on the novel of French writer Romain Gary, who got the Prix Goncourt for it. Stabbing story of a mature prostitute, founded the orphan house for the children, left by their mothers-prostitutes. Simona Signoret got an “Oscar” for the leading role in the film. 

The movie-show is presented by the program director of “Time to live” cinema forum  Igor Kholodov.

http://www.artbereg.ru

1 hour 30 min.

Independent film festival L’Alternativa in Barselona is founded by the “La Fabrica de Cinema Alternatiu” organization. This company was managed by directors, actors, producers, who tried to react on the tyranny of traditional cinema institutions. Films are shown in the original language with English subtitles.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG»

http://www.time-to-live.ru

1 hour 38 min.

Dir. Stefan Key, USA, 1998.

Film is based on the real facts, taking place in America in 90-s. About 20 of university students died because of the drug overdose. Authors of the film are reconstructing the consequences and try to answer the questions: What was the reason? Why did it happen?

MTV Award for the best movie. 

The movie-show is presented by the program director of “Time to live” cinema forum Igor Kholodov.

http://www.artbereg.ru

1 hour 30 min.

The festival of the best Brazilian animation Anima Mundi is held annually in Rio-de-Janeiro and Sao-Paulo starting from 1992. It attracts wide public from all over the country. During the festival cartoonists and artists give master-classes on creating the animation movies.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG»

http://festival.perspektiva-inva.ru

1 hour 30 min.

The most life-asserting film festival ever, devoted to the people with unlimited opportunities. The goal is to attract the attention of general public to the everyday problems of invalids, to show the huge potential of disabled people, the wideness of their interests.  Author’s and documental films from Germany, Denmark, Spain, Canada, USA, etc.  

Movies are presented by director of festival “Cinema without boundaries” Victoria Riskina

http://www.artbereg.ru

1 hour 30 min.

International film festival “Love and Anarchy” is held annually in Helsinki, starting from 1987. Cinema is regarded as an art in itself, so festival is demonstrating the most creative, visually striking, and ambiguous projects.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG»

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Due to the emergency in Loft Project ETAGI Cinema/Vine (April, 8th) and VIZHY! (April, 7th) are canceled

LoftWineBar will be opened from April, 14th

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Open Russian Festival of animation films in Suzdal – the only one Russian professional forum that is held annually, demonstrating the newest examples of Russian animation. It appeared in 1996 in Suzdal to support the endangered species – Russian animators. The program will present all the best, done by Russian animators during the latest year.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG».

Ilya Pavlov and Maria Norazyan (Harkov)

Web-site: http://www.grafprom.com.ua/

Saint-Petersburg artist Boris Koshelohov – guru of Leningrad Underground, had an idea to create an unprecedented in the history of art project with a total area of 5000 square meters. “Two highways” is an attempt to express all the historical and cultural layers existing in our mind with the methods of visual art. Koshelohov added color to Saint-Petersburg exsanguine pictorial art, liberated it from the unnecessary reflections, enforced the monumental simplicity oriented to the primitive art and expressionism of the beginning of XX century.

The film is presented by both directors – Alexander Markov and Nik Teplov and the protagonist of the film Boris Koshelohov.

Emil Yakypov (Moscow)

Web-site: http://www.paratype.ru/

Boris Kazakov is an artist from Saint-Petersburg, the author of experimental animation films. He is doing the experimentation with different techniques while creating his animation. One of his films was a participant of Berlinale Festival. Besides animation, Kazakov produces music videos for Viktor Tsoi, “New composers’, “Pep-see”, “Dva Samoleta”.

The movies are presented by the “Projector Magazine” editor Mitya Kharshak and the films director Boris Kazakov.

Andrew Lovigin

Web-site: http://www.logvin.ru/

The short films and animation program of Madrid Festival of Short Films. Spanish cinema school is traditionally considered as a strong and respectful one. This program was demonstrated in the OPEN CINEMA Festival 2008 with the big success.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG».

ErkenKagarov (Moscow)

Web-site: http://www.imadesign.ru/

In 1760 the Academy of Arts in Edinburg has appeared. Now it is one of the most important and influential art schools in Great Britain. The second name of the colledge is “The Factory of Ideas”. The program of animation works of college graduates is compiled by the head of magister program in animation Donald Hallweal

The movie is presented by Saint-Petersburg Cinema Museum director Igor Kholodov<

Alexander Linetckiy (SPb)

Web-site: http://design-union.ru/

• Collection #1 (Mikhail Jeleznyakov, 2006, 35mm, 18 min)

  The story of a lyric persona, beginning from the day of birth till the graduation party at school, told with a simple and ironic language.

  Behind all those significant things like pioneers, Olympic bear, Lenin and the fear of Cold War, the picture of the passed epoch is overlooking.

• Children of Corn (Mikhail Jeleznyakov, 2004, 20 min)

  The story of Khrushchev’s “Corn Campaign” from the point of view of the audience of so-called soviet cinema-journals of the 50s – 90s. The author of the film tells with a slight irony about the events that had very serious economic circumstances, when the country had to export even the bread. The final cadres of the film are full of sadness and regret.

• Kiss me stronger (Besame Mucho) (Aline Rudnitskaya, 2006, 35 mm, 28 min)

  “Don’t be afraid of the end of your life. Be afraid if it never starts”. The amateur female chorus is rehearsing the Aida opera. During the day they are busy with their main work – cleaning the garbage, washing the dishes, freight the cargos. In the evening they move into another world, their life is filled out with wishes, dreams and beautiful music. Film is full of irony and sadness and shows all the facets of life in Russian countryside.

  The film is presented by PR-director of St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio Anastasia Lobanova and film directors Mikhail Jeleznyakov and Aline Rudnitskaya

Mikhail Karasik (SPb)

Web-site: http://www.gif.ru/afisha/2009-01-26-vz-nomi/, http://www.museum.ru/N14277

Movie Festival in Dresden was established in 1989, 6 months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today Dresden Short Movie Fest organizes the most big budget competitions of short films in Europe. In April 2008 festival is celebrating its’ 20^th anniversary. Besides this, festival administration organizes a number of seminars and workshops and realizing programs on young directors’ promotion.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG».

Ilya Ruderman (Moscow)

Web-site: http://www.dailytype.com/, http://ruderman.livejournal.com/

The collection of the best short movies of Lloyd Kaufman, the head of Troma Studio and the first international independent film festival Troma Dance Film Festival. Lloyd Kaufman – actor and director, the cult figure of trash movie-making, whose formula is “Film has to be cheap and bloody». Among big fans of Troma’s trash movies are Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Samuel Jackson and many others. “Good film has to contain torn parts of the bodies and broken heads. Otherwise, the audience is feeling bored. That’s a simple formula. You take the melon of a small size, make a small hole in it, put an amount of mincemeat and ketchup, you can even put a damn hamburger in it. Then put a wig on this head, take a baseball willow and heat for all one is worth. Posh bloody pieces elapse straight to the camera!; (Lloyd Kaufman). The best hand-made trash-movies of Lloyd Kaufman followers-participants of Troma Dance Film Festival will be presented on the movie show.

The movie is presented by Saint-Petersburg Cinema Museum director Igor Kholodov

Konstantin Startcev(SPb)

Web-site: http://www.russkialbum.ru/baraholka/99.shtml

Extra Small Film Festival (ESF) is held annually, starting from year 2000. It is the non-commercial organization from Novosibirsk, beginning from 2006 festival is held in Moscow. The main criteria of participation in ESF is the time limit - 60 seconds. However, all the films have to contain all the features of so-called “Big Cinema” – the name, the plot, the final.

The annual program is characterized by the amount of different technique and a wide specter of genres and styles. The geography of the participants is from Argentina to Sri-Lanka and backward.

For our movie show the best 80 short films are chosen from the competitions of previous years.

The movie show is presented by the festival director Dmitry Bylnigin.

Vladimir Chaika (Moscow)

Web-site: http://www.sostav.ru/columns/efir/2004/stst16/

CYLAND – the artistic laboratory of Saint-Petersburg Department of State Contemporary Art Centre, created in cooperation with «St. Petersburg Arts Project» fund, New-York. At the same time, it is the hospitable residence for the artists from all over the world, ready to work with the new technologies. The project curators Anna Franz and Marina Koldobskaya. Among the most significant projects – International Audio and Video Festival “Interconnection” (July, 2005), International Festival of Contemporary Art and Experimental Music Кronstadt Forever (September, 2005). Program “Russian Video on-line” includes the videos of artists, whose works were given to the State Contemporary Art Centre archive and were chosen by the program curators for the presentation on www.cyland.ru website.

Movies are presented by CYLAND video-archive curator Anna Kolosova.

Jury Gulitov (Moscow)

Web-site: http://www.almamater.su/gulitov.html

Paris Film Company Sacrebleu Productions started from the short dramatic film production; in 2003 they added the animation. In 2006 the French cinematographers awarded Sacrebleu Productions with “The Best Company-moviemaker” prize. It produced more then 500 film programs to be demonstrated in the numerous festivals like Cannes Film Festival, Brest Film Festival, Clermont Film Festival, etc. Beginning from 2006 the main purpose of Sacrebleu Productions is to produce the hi-quality documentary films.

The movies are presented by Art-centre «BEREG».

Alexander Faldin (SPb)

Web-site: http://www.faldin.ru/

For the 100^th anniversary of Daniil Harms. Tragicomedy of absurd after Harms’ works (1905-1942). Trying to reconstruct the realities of the 30^th, the years of height of Harms’ genius, director is copying the manner of filming and staring of that time, uses artificially worn out sound. These things help the audience to lose oneself in the atmosphere of the period, when the genius of absurd created his masterpieces. This is the world of illusions, reflecting the free associations of the master, living in the era of silence.

The f style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aleksey Bazhin and film director Dmitry Frolov.

PProfessors — Andrew Lublinsky and Maria Zaborovskaya (SPb)

Web-site:http://pprofessors.livejournal.com/

Director: Goran Dukic. Staring: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits. USA, UK, 2006.

The guy Zia after committing the suicide finds himself in a sick mad sepulchral world. The world of derogatory work, dirty bars and old jukeboxes. Getting the job in a pizzeria, Zia realizes, that his life is not better, then the previous one… just a little bit worse. Everything changes, when he finds out, that his girlfriend has committed suicide, as well. He is starting the journey to find his carnal love. The price for “The most talented appeasement of exploitive topic” of XI Festival «Deboshirfilm».

The movie is presented by «Deboshirfilm» program director Igor Kholodov.

Loft Project ETAGI launches the new program called “VIZHY!” on March. During the weekly meetings stars of Russian graphic design will be the guests of LoftWineBar. As usual, it takes a respectful Russian or international exhibition to compile the entry list like this. There was no such an integrated program like this in Saint-Petersburg. Many participants will demonstrate their works for the first time in Saint-Petersburg.

The participants are the designers, who form the elite of Russian and international graphic design. All the guests of “VIZHY!” project are the admitted authorities in their profession. They won numerous important international awards, their works are demonstrated in the world leading museums, the books are written about their life and art. Furthermore, they are not the mummified personas of dark past, but active participants of today’s design scene. Meet in spring in Loft Project ETAGI.

Stefano Mirti achieves a degree in architecture and a PhD at Torino’s politechnic. After which he moves to Japan for his post-doctorate (Tokyo University, Tadao Ando Lab) with a subsequent teaching assignment at the Tama Fine Art Academy (Tokyo). From 2001 to 2005 he is an associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, where he is also in charge of e1 (exhibition unit). As an architect he is one of Cliostraat founders. From January 2006 he is in charge of the design school at NABA.
www.interactiondesign-lab.com
Participation in the seminar: 1000 rub. - for adults, 500 rub. – for students and persons entitled to benefits.

www.artbereg.ru
2 hours

Portobello Film Festival is the UK’s biggest independent film competition. The Film Festival was created in 1996 as a reaction to the moribund state of the British film industry, to provide a forum for new film-makers and give exposure to movies of different formats. Many of the British previously out-on-a-limb directors have since been recognized by the big fish in the industry.

www.inoekino.ru
1 h 30 min

A collection of works by the famous French choreographer and director Philippe Decoufle (1961). The program includes both short films and video sketches made by Decoufle since 1984. Each piece is a whimsical mixture of dance, circus and pantomime.
The collection is presented by the INOEKINO`s PR-director Aleksey Bazhin.

1 h 30 min

The artists Olga & Alexander Florensky work in the field of animation, as well. Their longest animated movie «Mit`kimayer, Or Mit`ki Do Not Want To Conquer Anybody» (1992) is based upon the V. Shinkarev`s book «Mit`ki» and tells the reader about how the American millionaire mister Mayer learns about the philosophy of Mit`ki and breaks off with his bourgeois past. «The Story Of The Wonder Of All Wonders» (1994) is a director’s debut of Olga Florensky. Finally «The Trophy Movies» are a part of the big art project of Florensky called «Russian Trophy» (2003).
The movies are presented by the editor of «Projector» magazine Mitya Kharshak and both authors.

Giulio Iachetti has been an industrial designer since 1992. He also carries out an intense didactic work for several universities and design schools, in Italy and abroad. He was awarded a number of international prizes. In 2001 his project for a disposable fork «Moscardino» (designed with Matteo Ragni) won the Compasso d'Oro ADI and is now part of the permanent design exhibition at MOMA, New York. For the Italian chain of supermarkets COOP he created the project «Design for COOP». He has been working for: Ferrero, Mandarina Duck, Sambonet, Pandora Design, etc.
www.giulioiacchetti.com
Participation in the seminar: 1000 rub. - for adults, 500 rub. – for students and persons entitled to benefits.

www.artbereg.ru
1 h 24 min

KIMUAK is a distributing company, aimed to increase Basque short’s importance across the nation and abroad. Although KIMUAK is a consolidated program and a lot of festivals, TV channels, distributors and buyers are waiting for it. Every year the Cultural Department of the Basque Government and the Basque Film Archive (Filmoteca Vasca) bring the best harvest of Basque short film. Seven new “kimuak”, seven new shoots that start to flower here. Animated, dramatic, comic, experimental “kimuak” are produced in different languages or without words. Well-known directors and the new ones. Basque short films. No more, no less.

www.cinedoc.ru
1 h 34 min

What? How? Why? What makes us ask all those questions? What makes us dream?

Vixen academy: how to be a bitch? (Alina Rudnitskaya, 2007)
There was a time when the word “a bitch” was perceived as a negative one. But today it has become a bestseller. A bitch has become a kind of an ideal to a modern woman, a real hero of our days. Who is a vixen, modern bitch? How to become a successful woman? What does it mean to be a woman? The main shooting technique is a method of observation. This film pretends to be called “the best documentary comedy” about women.

When I win a million… (Anna Dranitsina, 2008) Dimon, the character of the film, finds out that "a Russian Las-Vegas" is going to be opened in Altai soon and decides to start up his own business. He buys a slot machine and brings it to Altai region. On his way he stops by in villages and tries to make the locals get used to gambling. The villagers tell what they would do if they won a million.

Game is over (Anna Dranitsina, 2006)
The film tells about the lives of heroes of the very first Russian reality show “Behind the glass”. Young people went to a movie casting but got locked in a glass house for 6 weeks. According to a contract they had to pay 5000$ penalty to get out of show. An exiting adventure turned out to be a psychological shock for the heroes.

The movies are presented by St. Petersburg DFS PR-chief Anastasia Lobanova and by both directors.

Michele Zini – Italian designer, carries out professional architectural work and research in Milan and Modena. He teaches the degree course in design at the Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano. His architectural work primarily involves designing public and community service spaces, including urban planning projects, interior design, general architecture plans and works direction. His work as a designer focuses on furnishing systems for schools, residential communities, public spaces and the home. Michele has worked in close collaboration with Reggio Children on design aspects of the preschools and infant toddler centres in Italy.
Participation in the seminar: 1000 rub. - for adults, 500 rub. – for students and persons entitled to benefits.

www.artbereg.ru
2 hours

The program consists of the best Russian and world-wide animation and music videos from the OPEN CINEMA 2008 Festival Competition. OPEN CINEMA is the biggest and most ambitious cinema forum of short films in Russia as well as the only Russian open-air film festival.

www.kinoteatrdoc.ru, www.museikino.spb.ru
1 h 45 min

KINOTEATR.DOC project unites young generation of Russian filmmakers and presents cinema that truly expresses today’s life, opens new heroes and new topics. KINOTEATR.DOC is one of the largest independent documentary and feature film festivals in Russia and the only one in Moscow. It is held annually in February. Festival includes three programs: Competition, International and Special. The main slogan of the Festival is: «We are interested in real life and cinema that interacts with it».

www.artbereg.ru
2 hours

The European Spiritual Film Festival showcases films that explore spiritual traditions from around the world and their different practices. It gives the public a platform for vast discovery, understanding, and respect. The European Spiritual Film Festival encourages an emerging generation of filmmakers whose films treat different aspects of spirituality and human experience.

Participants: Andrew (11 years old, violin), Anton Adasinsky, Aleksey Rakhov (saxophone) , Elena Shtik, Igor Rocker (percussion, guitar), Faina (11 years old). + video clips «THIN ICE»
Entrance free

Italian curator and art-critic Marisa Veskovo is giving the free lecture «Poor Art» (Arte Povera). Arte Povera – a term, introduced by critic and curator Germano Celant in 1967 to define new art-movement, united artists from Pome and Nothern Italy in the second part of 1960-s and 70-s. Typical works, representing Arte Povera, are 3 dimensional installations, made of simple, «routine» materials (ground, glass, wood, string)
Entrance free

45 min

Michael Karasik about his movies: «They are united by ideological contents, but divided by times. «The Story About Two Squares» is drawn and abstract. It is made for children. And the «RKKA» is made for adults. Its means are concrete and documental – these are photos of the best photographers of 1930`s. After the release of «The Story About Two Squares» in Berlin in 1922, Lisitsky wanted to make an animated movie out of 16 paged book. Our movie is limited by that material, which determined its length of 4 minutes. «RKKA» is relatively long – 30 minutes, because it is based upon a volume of photographs, resembling a documentary.
Both movies are presented by the authors – Michael Karasik and Irina Karpova.

www.mm007.ru, www.deboshirfilm.ru
1 h 34 min

Janu Nakts (St. John's Night) is a traditional Latvian celebration during which family and friends gather to build bonfires, barbecue, drink and generally have a good time. According to legend, lovers and those who would like to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern" on this night. This magic fern serves as the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in "Midsummer Madness" It is also a metaphor for the film's underlying theme - finding love. Starring: Chulpan Khamatova, Maria de Medeiros, Dominique Pinon, Tobias Moretti, Orlando Wells, etc. Director: Alexander Hann.
The movie is presented by «Deboshirfilm» program director Igor Kholodov.

www.artbereg.ru
2 hours

The Roma Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is Rome ’s first independent and international film festival. It aims to unite enthusiasm for films and filmmaking among young filmmakers with the realities of film production and distribution.

95 min

Alexey Fedorchenko about his movie: «Two friends steal a wagon load of coal, an old engine and go ahead on a deserted railway stub end to sell what`s stolen. It is a movie about searching for happiness, about living passionately, a movie about wishes and jealosy and forgiveness. Put it otherwhise about love. The movie genre is hard to define. It is a road-movie, and a comedy, and a drama. By the way it is full of fantasy, thriller, fairytales and erotic».

The movie is presented by Petersburg museum of cinema director Igor Kholodov.

110 min

Psycodelic flash-cartoons by Andrew Bakhurin (including his last work «The tree»), and also works by other authors of project KOMS (literally: Conceptually Different Cartoon System).

«Welcome to our Bloody Circus!» - greets us Bakhurin`s site scary.ru – «Our puppets want you to like them. They will smash their heads and sculls for it. It is not only their life, everytime they die and kill for real».

KOMS.ru – is a non-commercial union of flash-animators, who make an intellectual «new wave» animation. One of the main and most interesting participants of the project is Andrey Bakhurin.

The author is presented by PR-director of INOEKINO Alexey Bazhin.

90 min

A director, an artist and a script writer Irina Evteeva works in a field where cinematography meets animation. Real actors are starring in her «cartoons» and real people recognize themselves in animated characters.

Her first animated movie «A horse, a violin and a little bit clutchy» (1991) is dedicated to Vladimir Mayakovsky. It is not a screen adaptation of the favourite poems or an anthology. Most likely a door in poet`s world.

«Clown» is based upon the real show: «Snow show» by Slava Polunin. It is an animated fantasy about human loneliness, mysterious and sorrowful deepness of a Clown.

The third part of a program – «Elixir» (1995) – a philosophic proverb based on Hoffmann`s tales. It tells us about world of illusion, filled with flamy salamanders and black dragons.

The author is presented by PR-coordinator of OPEN CINEMA Club Alexandra Dunaeva.