economic change all over the world. the widow well former russian agent alexander litvinenko admits her husband worked for u.k. intelligence services revelation was made at a full inquest launched five years after living enco died of radiation poisoning in london. up next we discover whether people are happy with hollywood movies on the big screens or if they're hungry for something a little different that's coming up in the spotlight stay with us. yeah a little walk into spotlight to show on our team i'll bring our bank today my guest on the show. probably would movies are dominating big screen world what some make in comes to the budgets of small countries but the lasting success of

noncommercial movies at various tests shows that people are hungry for alternative cinema so can this provide an anti-dote to spectacular blockbusters the two one international contemporary film festival is ongoing in moscow and its program director public statement the. critics say cinema is going through a historic. the so-called independent previews top box offices while hollywood blockbusters become we know profound amateurs but on the whole critics complain cinema has become very predictable and it's hard to find a really a regional work that's why the two in one pastoral was created its organizers say they don't choose on directors names or a critic's opinion their pastoral only feature is music and surprised and impressed . with thank you very much for being with us thank you for inviting me welcome both into the show well first of

all to in one festival one is to me while actually it doesn't mean what you perhaps would have suggested it's not about how their shoulders from well definitely about. blurring the borders of all different genres of cinema different kinds of cinema about blurring the border between cinema and content. art documentary and fiction and. commercialized cinema so this about making cinema a unified space where we can explore when where we can find something interesting where we can showcase the best findings in all their areas of creative work in cinema well i know that you call your first of all a contemporary thought for us to bluebird are also first rules showing contemporary movies this is this idea of

a festival on well not necessarily minimal i mean there are wonderful film festivals that are that are concentrated on retrospective for example i don't know given some films that chalky is contemporary for which they are sometimes very attentive to retrospective part of the example berlin and san sebastian film festival well we are not the biggest film festival in the world so we we are trying to concentrate on what is important for in our days when our show casing we're not presenting retrospectives a lot of them are. we are sort of trying to focus our attention on the trends that are going to be particularly interesting in the nearest yes there is a were you can to improve your which i personally dislike the moments of this a format i don't really understand what form it means i think they think that

a piece of work including movies can be good or bad but well this is it you can also be forty three or sixteen when i know you will the world this is only seventy four met means but still they see professions like yourselves very that that every first of all today has its own format is there a format for your festival and what films what movies fit into the two in one form world personally we are together on this because i. i hate the word with their might as well i mean. this is not about four months this is about the selection while selection of course is has to be done according to some critique area but our main course to your ear and we've got the strictest selection i believe out of all the first film festivals in the world either we like or dislike the movie works either doesn't work so or we it's not about form art we can include. blockbuster movie in the competition if it if it's really a work of art for

a work of for personal expression but you know it is like vodka vodka can be out a form of it so the cold or or or warm i mean. well the are the water. makes you feel good or it makes you feel bad sometimes it doesn't the found upon the quality of vodka depends upon the atmosphere i don't want to. well not only quantity but i mean the selection selection also relates selection of companies who there's a logo and you know most of us have this feel for everything also to do a movie yeah exactly so ok let's let's drop for a minute so do you the atmosphere of your festival there's that does it suppose that you have to have some sort of some some special sort of movies because you said it could be anything including a blockbuster well it can be and if you only thing but in terms of guests first of

all i would like to say thirteen year only guests who are really interested in what is coming up for example for well i can name you some names the you'd like to because for as a president of the jury we've got for robert siegel a wonderful american filmmaker who was the scriptwriter of wrestler with me group. the. main end the year is to invite people who are really interested in what's going on we are not inviting people for money when not inviting people to stroll on a red carpet this is completely irrelevant for us if we're inviting someone this is going this is mean this means that we are going to have press conferences master classes meeting with the audience and we mean the art we hope to not only the audience but the people who are invited or guests will be satisfied with this experience because the first twelve is

a place for communication communication means communication between and the audience on the movies it means the communication between their audience and the filmmakers and between filmmakers themselves because this is the best place to make friends after all one of the papers quoted you as saying that that your first of all your festivals main feature is to surprise at least this year doesn't mean that you would show a movie that's all for aesthetically but sharky surprising. well shocking doesn't necessarily about we have to see some shocking scenes of violence from a person being somebody old in front of the camera now shocking only means start we need to change the culture of codes for our movies because predictability i would say is the worst enemy of art in contemporary film and not only film because

everything is predictable you know what to expect out of the newest show out of menu's test submission out of the movie made by some well known filmmaker and what we really lack is a sense of surprise when you have something that delivers when you have something that really surprises you that can catch you unaware this is what we're searching for in the competition and not on the competition or you know our i os. i do think that predicts predictability is so bad i mean for example if when characterizing a person when characterizing somebody who what will people usually say is political i mean this is good it's very hard to deal with unpredictable people unpredictable countries and predictable situations in life so why do we want life to be predictable and films to be unpredictable does that mean that films should be

should be close to life. while it means that. you know you're saying well there's the point actually i mean you know we're really like a person lot of person's life for. everything that surrounds us to be reliable i've been so predictable but reliable when look we lie here on on a certain kind of reaction. well we still need to explore something new because this is where we are here for for well this is for me. this is this is their idea of life to explore their unpredictable areas of creativeness in life in. art in everything because otherwise it would be simply boring so you have a program this year. called bollywood strikes back and these are the indian remakes of the most successful hollywood blockbusters are you showing these

films just to satisfy the the the moscow public or. oh well. what do you loring where is out of the unpredictability well certainly certainly all the films a shilling to satisfy demand in moscow partly because of multiple audiences because there are very particular very specific audience with its very specific tastes bad . in terms of talking about this program hollywood's trying strikes back bollywood strides back i think it's very in cajun an interesting idea because. when i first heard of their remey of mantle mount is a cult movie by christopher on a famous hollywood director who took on the back and franchise was very famous in

hollywood and all over the world and i've heard they may be a remake of near mount hobart which is a very harsh and tough. bottom easier and it's kind of a thriller with very gripping one when i heard that they made it three hour long we make of the art with songs and dances in bollywood i couldn't believe my own ears when i saw it i couldn't believe my own heart it isn't. for all this is actually better than their original. now i mean what is important for this bollywood product program is in terms of imagination there are far beyond hollywood go. in that the program and not through projects and within the framework of your festivals called generation campaigns who are the teachers and who are the students while the teachers are all well. everyone who

wants to come you know i mean while. i i hope that the president of the jury robert siegel the scriptwriter offer a slow haul and i mentioned already he's going to be one hour lecture us and i'm sure that some people from new york film academy will show up and will there's. students all the students from the film schools around europe and around the world who are willing to comment who are willing to experience something you. not only experience something about to make a few. short movies which are going to prove to be presented at the closing ceremony says alex david verity programme director of the twenty one international contemporary film spotlight pulled about should we do we take a break so stay with us we'll be back with this interview in the.

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cut. cut. cut. welcome back to spotlight i'm al green arvin just a reminder that my guest on the show today is alex same with a visit program director of the two and one international contemporary film festival i would say we started talking about different features of your film festival well let's talk about another one big festivals have to face as well also two and one make memnon most of the festivals one is to promote non-conventional are most of the festivals one to promote not conditional on it and noncommercial art and on the other hand they advertise movies for the wide public that they they sort of are. show them to the to the press to the public what do you

see as the principal row for your first or all the other two are you know what well what you are saying i think it's really relevant only for one from first of all in the world which is the council on the cannes film festival because. really really really launching launch in a film all are still in film or as the competition and we are the count's film first of all the conserve european european distribution maybe venus benes but. otherwise no i don't believe so i mean film festivals always like to stress the fact that films wear shorts and for example for the competition they were later distributed in the country and we have such successful

examples for example we have like a film by my close friend posters alone co one of the best czech phone film makers who made a. very interesting contemporary version of current massively brodeur's by dostoyevsky and it was picked up by the destroyer russian distributors and it was released after we premiered at the film festival about a toll from first of all but i wouldn't overestimate this role mainly i would say the phone first of all is a noncommercial art launchpad for war firms that can gain some profit in small for girls but you know like like we don't need lots of footman's but without that amounts we can die you are told this is one of the this is the same thing girls who are so-called noncommercial movies. you know see well actually the worst ten. years have seen

reminiscence in russian cinema from the deep crisis spotlight in the mid to me there are reports on that issue. however you measure the success of the film industry box office or international awards contemporary russian cinema has a tall there are some successful attempts at emitted in hollywood like for derby wonder trucks epic historical dramas want to more become better of say five blockbusters big money better of commercial success have been paved his way to holywood however he's nightwatch grazed less money in europe than andris vogue in civs the return which received the golden lion in venice the slow moving psychological drama managed to commercially beat a dance narrative with multiple twists and turns while russian commercial movies are quite rarely released outside the country then noncommercial counterparts keep on conquering the world the last few years have seen not example grab ski's triumph

knowledge this pull through a shot at a real station in the arctic reap the harvest of international awards another russian film silent good a triumphant premier with a twenty minute long stand in the vacation in venice last year this year the cannes film festival awards vegan serves you lana and that success was followed by alexander sick more of snakes in the van this is a golden lion with his false impressionistic philosophical works by contemporary russian filmmakers appear to have greater appeal to viewers worldwide after all holywood produces enough blockbusters on its own so may be the right thing for russian filmmakers is to stick to what same should rely on tradition of raising serious issues and focusing on the character's thoughts and feelings rather than their actions. well our reporter mentioned back when back of

school in the films there's been lots of talk about on the on the one hand they really they really became popular he became popular in hollywood but on the other hand do you think that it makes sense for russian filmmakers to try to imitate blockbusters though there will never be better than that the how we would blockbusters because because the the history of russian cinema is like thought provoking like like very very meditative. films is that true. well i would say doesn't me colonel sounds to imitate anything on especially hollywood style bart if people are inclined to make kind of action movies like like they make it in hollywood well the best ways to just to spend your last money for a ticket to california to i don't know to find

a temporary job as a way turkey in mcdonald's. triton right on through the from just your scripts or projects or a few or an actor just go to. and screen to our soul whatever because hollywood is indeed the best place to to to to to action films well if you were inclined to do something out well i think russia is by far not the worst place in the world because we still have a significant state support for debut film four or tour filmmakers. i would say you can you can make a decent movie here still for. i don't know half a million dollars which would be impossible in america for a you were saying you know one of the interviews i quote the problem with contemporary art. these is that they are mostly about the personality of their

authors but it's almost impossible to say if the film is good or not what are the criteria for judges of such films when you what when you're in the jury. hell i used to be on the jury right now i'm not on the program director so i saw a film where we like and thought of my judgment of the movies in the composition of torn in one folder still are certainly of the best the best possible movies but. for the all for the jury members i would say. that the master important thing is to understand to feel if it's real or fake because it's very easy to make a fake or art movie not going to raise you just makes little

shorts for the moment no dialogue deliberative buildings around here you know like water dripping from it. one drop in five minutes here and that would probably create i'm. not sick when you really want cause we must look for can time of war for contents if there is none of the nothing can say let's talk about about multiplying your own thoughts and feelings should know it is today not only in movies and will not in general express anything else except his own feeling says their own personality well this is because his. we're coming back to your first question what does it actually to in one mean yeah in one hour for means like

a person. and the world around it. because without without your world making a cinema which is only a reflection of our own awards and ideas but wouldn't be interesting because they're so self is an art form that helps you to use them and of reality while expressing yourself but you cannot. you cannot are met are the eyes a part of the question you cannot meet yourself because you need something to express and you need something to talk about but you cannot tell me trail if you will because you have to use it if it's not there well it's a fable in the twentieth century the cinema was characterized i mean the cinema life was characterized by the existence of a number of living classics whose some of the made movies some of them quit making movies but they were around and they certainly reference as they set an example for

everybody else today twenty first century is a time of the authority and i mean i mean authorities overthrown with every new generation even with half a generation they overthrow their authority is is this do you have the same situation in cinema well i would say so because. because like all there are all that all thoughts whom we really like and to war from the second part of the twentieth century in there and not getting younger you know like if we talk about woody allen or last even last phone tree year or archita response or other famous european and american filmmakers they are already over fifty and we don't have an you well we have a new generation but it's not it's these names are not you know like brand names anymore if you just. between your film by new filmmaker well nobody

nobody would want to go and watch it to otherwise there was a special reason thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was alex same with visit program director of the two in one international contemporary film. that's it for now from all of us here at spotlight will be back to the until then stay on party and take care.

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