hello again the welcome to spotlight to show on our t.v. i'm going to day my guest on the show. probably would movies are dominating big screen world what some make in terms of 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 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 his story. the so-called independent previews top box offices while hollywood blockbusters become we know profound an artistic

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 first of all was created its organizers say they don't choose on directors names or a critic's opinion their cholesterol only features music and surprised and perhaps . thank you very much for being with us thank you for inviting me welcome both into the show well first of all two in one festival one is to me while actually it doesn't mean what you perhaps would have suggested it's not about how the shoulders from well definitely about. blurring the border it's about different genres of cinema different kinds of cinema about blurring the border between cinema and contemporary art. documentary and. commercial. live 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 their areas of creative work in cinema well i don't know that you call your first of all a contemporary thought first of all birds are all food first of all so 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 or chalk is contemporary they are sometimes very attentive to retrospective part of the example berlin ali and san sebastian film festival while 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. 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 contemporary art which i personally dislike the woman scorned 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 for grown personally we are together on this because i hate the word with their mouth as well i mean. this is not about for months. this is about the selection while

selection of course is has to be done according to some critique rear guard 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 either works either doesn't work so or. it's not about format we can include. blockbuster movie in the competition if it's really a work of art for a world call for personal expression but you know it's like vodka vodka can be out a form of it so the cold or or or warm i mean. well the other 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 of the latest selection of

companies is there's a lot of you know most of us through this field 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 first among those 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 guests first of all i would like to say only 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 cause 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 when not inviting people to stroll on

a red carpet this is completely irrelevant for us if we are inviting someone this is going this is me 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 our guests will be satisfied with this experience because the first twelve is a place for communication the communication means communication between of the audience and 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's your first of all your first of all the 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 of a person being dissembled in front of the camera now shocking only mean start we need to change the cultural 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 menus 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 only competition for you know our i os. i do think that pretty. 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 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 that's the point actually i mean you know we really like person and person's life for. everything that surrounds us to be reliable i don't say predictable but reliable when little we rely on on a certain kind of reaction. well we still need to explore something new because this is why we're here. for i mean well this is for me this is this

is the idea of life to explore the unpredictable areas of creative enough in life. 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 moscow public or why. or well. loring whereas out of the unpredictability well certainly certainly all the films the shilling to satisfy the demand in moscow partly because of moscow audience because they're a very particular very specific audience with its very specific tastes bart into. talking about this program hollywood's trying strives bad bollywood strides

back i think it's very in cages in an interesting idea because. when i first heard of a remake of mantle amount is a cult movie by christopher nolan a famous hollywood director who took on the back when franchise was very famous in hollywood and all over the world and out of her and out they made me a remake of me a man told bart which is a very harsh and tough. bottom 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 heart 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. so all this is a true battle them their original but. now i mean what is important

for this bollywood product program is in terms of imagination they are far beyond hollywood go. in there the program and know the project there within the framework of your first of all 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 their script try to offer a slow horrible home 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 would deter others wouldn't they yeah. the students all the students from some schools around europe and around the world who are willing to comment who are willing to experience something you. not only experience something new about to make

a few. short movies which are going to prove to be presented at the closing ceremony says alex executive programme director of the twenty one international contemporary film fest spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll be back with this interview can you tell. i.

was inspired to return. so. far.

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 in one international contemporary film festival i would say we we started talking about different features of your film festival well let's talk about another one big festivals have to face as well well also to win one most memory most of the festivals one is to promote non-conventional are 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 that they they sort of are show them to the to the press to the public what role do you see

as the principal role for your first. 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 come from first of all because. really really really launching launching a firm all are still in film war as the competition and we 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 film 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 potence

a land car one of the best track film filmmakers who made a. very interesting contemporary version of car a massively problems but offer your ski and he was picked up by the district russian distributors and he was released after we premiered at the film festival about the toll from first fall but i wouldn't overestimate this role mainly i would say the film festival is a noncommercial our launchpad for war. films that can gain some profit in small circles but you know like like we don't need lots of foot amounts 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 so you have their say well actually the last ten years have seen reminiscence in russian cinema from the deep crisis

spotlight in the media reports on that issue. how were you measure the success of the film industry walks office or international awards contemporary russian cinema. there are some successful attempts to meet it in hollywood like for derby wonder chooks epic historical dramas would do more bergman believes so i fibro buster is it one bit of commercial success even believe he's way to holyrood however he's night to watch grey's do less money in europe then andries of the return true c. of the golden lion in venice the slow moving psychological drama managed to commercially lead a dance narrative rude. multiple twists and turns while russian commercial movies are quite rarely released outside the country then noncommercial counterparts keep on quantock around the world the last few years have tsunami example grab ski's triumph knowledge disposal 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 council film festival awards again 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 impression they stick 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 which same cure a 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 spawn there are 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 history of russian cinema is like thought provoking like like very very meditative. films is the true. well received doesn't make sense to imitate anything 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 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 owls 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 in one of the interviews i quote the problem with contemporary art movies 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 say that the fair we like and thought of my judgment is that all the movies in the country torn one for the first of all are certainly the best the best possible movies but. for the for the jury members i would say if it's 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 you know i'm going to raise you just makes little shorts i'm almost no dialogue deliberated buildings around here you know

like water dripping from it. one drop in five minutes here and that would probably create i'm. fresh and rational enough to not to think and it's really a lot of calls we must look for can time of war for confidence if there is none of them nothing can say let's talk about about multiplying your own thoughts and feelings should know it is today not only in movies and whatnot in general express anything else except his own feelings is their own personality well this is. his. we're coming back to your first question what does it actually to in one mean yeah when one of for means like a person and the world around it. because without regard to

your world bank mr newman which is only a reflection of our own towards and ideas that wouldn't be interesting because that sentiment in a self is an art form that helps you to use our myths of reality while expressing yourself but you cannot. you cannot are met are the eyes a part of the equation you cannot meet yourself because you need something to express now 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 fable in the twentieth century the sooner was characterizing 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 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 all thoughts of home were really in line to war from the second part of the twentieth century of their own not getting younger you know like if we talk about woody allen or lost even lost from tree air or article recently or other famous european and american filmmakers they already for 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're distributing 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 and just a reminder that my guest today was like same with this 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. libyans

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