poisoning in london. toilets are some of the headlines for the saturday here on r t but now we discover whether people are happy with hollywood movies dominating big screens or if they're hungry for something else that's a spotlight right now. and then the welcome to spotlight. on our team i'll bring our panel today my guest on the show is. hollywood movies are dominating big screen. some make in comes to the budgets of small countries but the lasting success of noncommercial movies at various trustable shows that people are hungry for alternative cinema so can this provide an anti-dote to spectacular blockbuster

the two one international contemporary film festival is ongoing you must go and this program director. knows the. critics a cinema is going through his story. the so-called independent parodies top box offices while hollywood blockbusters become we know profound amateurs take it 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 directors names or a critic's opinion their cholesterol only features movies that can surprise and perhaps. thank you very much for being with us thank you for inviting me welcome welcome to the show well first of all the two in one festival one is to me all while actually it doesn't mean what you. perhaps would have suggested it's not about how their child is from

well this is definitely about merging and blurring the borders of all different strands of cinema different kinds of cinema about blurring the border between cinema and contemporary art and documentary and fiction and. commercialized cinema so all this about making cinema a unified space where we can explore when can well 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 thing for us to bluebird are all food first was showing contemporary movies this is this idea of a festival on well not necessarily meal 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 ali 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 it which i personally dislike the wounds of this a format i don't really understand what form it means i think they're thinking 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 well 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 first of all tell you what films what movies fit into the tune wonderful world personally we are together on this because i hate the word might as well i mean. this is not of art form and this is about the selection while selection of course is has to be done according to some critique rear guard our main criteria 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 either works either doesn't work so or we it's not about form art we can include. blockbuster movie in the competition if it. 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 or warm i mean. well the are the

water. makes you feel good or it makes you feel bad sometimes it doesn't the pound upon the quality of vodka depends upon the atmosphere i don't want to. well not only quantity but i mean the selection selection of fairly selection of companies there's a lot of. this field for everything also true movie yeah exactly so ok let's let's drop format so do you the atmosphere of your festival there's that does it suppose that you have to have some 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 gas first of all i would like to say a certain year only five hundred guests who are really interested in what is going on 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 india used to invite people who are really interested in what's going on we're not inviting people for money where not inviting people to stroll on a red carpet this is completely relevant for us if we're inviting someone this is going to be says mean this means that we are going to have press conferences master classes meeting with the audience and we mean dart 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 the audience and that will be is it means of 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 earth see some shocking scenes of violence for the person being dissembled 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 being used to exhibition out of the movie made by some well

known filmmaker and what we really lap 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 for 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 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 this is the point actually i mean you know we really like a person lot of person's life and for. everything that surrounds us to be reliable

i don't say predictable but reliable when we can rely on on a certain kind of re-action. well we still need to explore something new because this is where we are here. for i mean that well this is for me. this is this is their idea of life to explore their unpredictable areas of creative enough 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 moscow audience because there are very particular very specific audience with very specific tastes bart 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 my mantle and my mountain is a cult movie by christopher nolan 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 that they may be a remake of near mount hobart which is a very harsh and tough crime are. easier and it's kind of

a thriller with a 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 is even. so all this is actually better than their original are bits. now i mean what and some porn for this bollywood product program is in terms of imagination there are far beyond hollywood go. in there the owner of the program another project and within the framework of your festival is called generation campaigns who are the teachers and who are the students well the teachers are all well. everyone home home wants to come you know i mean while. i i hope that the president of the jury robert siegel the scriptwriter of rustler home i mentioned already he's going to be one of

our life for us and i'm sure that some people from new york film academy will show up and would there's. the students all the students from some schools around europe and around the world who are willing to come and who are willing to experience something you. haven't not only experience something you're about to make a few. short movies which are going to prove to be presented at the closing ceremony says alex if there is a program director of the twenty one international contemporary from spotlight who demand should we are there we take a break so stay with us we'll be back with this interview in the.

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welcome back to spotlight i'm al green arbonne just a reminder that my guest on the show today is i'll examine the video program director of the two in 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 two faces well to win one most of the festivals one is to promote non-conventional most of the festivals want to promote now conditional on it and noncommercial and on the other hand they advertise movies for the wide public their they sort of a show them to the to the press to the public what do you see as the principal row for your festival for all the other two are in one while 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 come from first of all because. really really really launching launching a. all are still in film more competition on three counts film first of all that conserve european european distribution maybe even yes. but. otherwise no i don't believe so i mean film festivals always like to. stress the fog of film but where colson for example for the competition they were later distributed in the country and we have such successful examples for example we have michael a film. by my close friend potence a land co one of the best czech film filmmakers who made a. very interesting contemporary version of car

a massively problems but after you have ski and he was picked up by the destroyer russian distributors and he was released after we premiered at a film festival about a toll from first fall but i wouldn't overestimate this role mainly i would say the film festival is a noncommercial our launch pad for war. films that can gain some profit in small for all but you know like like we don't need lot of for two months but without that amount we can die you are told this is why this is the same thing goes for a so-called noncommercial movie if. they are say well actually the worst ten years have seen since in russian cinema from the deep crisis spotlight. reports on that issue. how were you measure the success of the film industry

works office or international awards can turn crew russian cinema. there are some successful attempts to meet it in hollywood like for derby wonder trucks epic historical dramas would do more bergman better so i fibro buster is the number of commercial success have been paved he's way too rude however he's night to watch grey's do less money in europe then andries vogue incentives the return we true see the golden lion in venice the slow moving psychological drama managed to commercially lead a dance narrative. multiple twists and turns while russian commercial movies are quite rarely released outside the country then noncommercial counterparts keep on quon poor in the world the last few years have tsunami example gretzky's triumph in all of this but with three were shot at a real station in the arctic reap the harvest of international awards another russian film silence the triumph and premier with

a twenty minute long standing ovation in venice last year this year the council film festival awards vegan civs you lana and that success was followed by alexander sick more of snatching the venice 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 a russian filmmakers is to stick to which same children long 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 have 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 the history of russian cinema is like thought provoking like like a very very meditative. films is the true. well see doesn't make sounds to imitate anything known 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 for projects or if you're 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 of 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 two or filmmakers. i would say you can you can make into some 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.

well i used to the on the jury right now i'm not on the jury and the program director so i select the films where we like and thought of my judgment of. movies in the competition of torn one from first of all are certainly of the best the best possible movies but. for the all for the jury members i would say first that the mask 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 you know i'm going to raise you just to make slow shorts and i'm almost no dialogue deliberative buildings around here you know like water dripping from went up one drop in five minutes here and that would

probably create i'm. pressuring the russians on something artistic when it's really a lot of calls we must look for can time of war for continents if there is none of that nothing can say let's talk about about multiplying your own thoughts and feelings should know it is today not only in movies and went 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 when one also means like a person and the world around it. because without without it to go will make mr newman which is only a reflection of our own awards and ideas but wouldn't be interesting because that

sentiment in itself is an art form that helps you to use that elements of reality while expressing yourself but you cannot for you cannot are met are the eyes a part of the question you cannot to meet yourself because you need something to express and you need something to talk about but you cannot only trail it because you have to use it if it's not there well it's a failure in the twentieth century the sooner was characterized i mean the cinema life was characterized by the existence of a number of living classics who. 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 are 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 all that also. really in line 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 lost even lost phone tree or or article recently or other famous european and american filmmakers there are already over fifty and we don haven't you know what we have a new generation but it's not it's these names are not you know like brand names anymore if you want distributed your film by new filmmaker well nobody nobody would want to go and watch it otherwise there is a special reason thank you thank you very much for being with us in just a reminder that my guest today was alex same with 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 when they have a party and take care. in

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