the popularity and competition program of the iiff is confirmed by the full halls at the screenings, long discussions and impressed viewers. all this documentary competition of our festival this year, the malaysian director and screenwriter u weibing became the chairman of the jury. hadji shari is a film, uh, reality, and the closest to how it is, the closest to the truth, the screening of the documentary competition has been going on since the first days of the festival with a real full house, the screening of sergei dembezhev's painting, the holy archipelago, a large-scale story about the life of the solovetsky. the film touches upon the deepest meanings of life, faith, hope and love. the music for the film was written by the honored artist of russia for this composer vyacheslav butusov. i would like to congratulate all of us who will watch this film today with such an uplifting project. yesterday the festival was watched by the

quartet of nikita stashkevich, a young director in his film tells about a violin teacher from a blackboard, a terrible destructive atmosphere. she brings up a children's quartet, inspiring the children with her example of fortitude and courage, and again the hall was full of how the selection of the program for directors deputies took place, and why it is important to watch documentaries on the big screen, said the curator of the documentary film program at the moscow international film festival, sergey valentinovich miroshnichenko documentary competition at the moscow international film festival has always been a very strong position and winners. the winner of it was considered by the american film academy for investigation, then the oscar award. that is, it was in the stop. went. yes, yes, and now, well, it's clear now the situation is different. in any case, as a competition. it didn't affect. what outstanding things we managed to collect

in the competitive part of the program, we expanded the competitive program, and this time we have more than usual, we did 8-9 there now 11 films, but. almost all countries of the world are all represented by everything and i bow to all these people, well, i bow low, they are brave, honest and real documentaries, as they should be, but i can’t single out, because there is a competition. i can just say what people shoot about and what we chose we chose pictures, which, uh, some of them are, uh, post-war syndrome. uh, what is in different parts of uh ours. well , the world where the wars were affected is in syria, it is , and in south korea, and here are the consequences also, we,

this time, decided to make more debuts. invite young guys and we have in my opinion, three debtors is enough. well, our bold decision, we don’t know how it will respond later, how the jury will say what they will say, well, besides this, there are people who are high-level masters. there's one of the directors, uh, who made the movie hong kong for him. just two oscars. he is just a master of the highest level and i don’t know how it is hard for them to compete with such a strong person. thankful. artov for something else, he is his last masterpiece, just a real masterpiece. uh, here's his retrospective. now venice is running parallel. and this last nature gave us. and i am very

grateful to him. this is the first, maybe even the only show, because it was difficult to agree, there are also germany and france producers, therefore. along with armenia, therefore, it was difficult to negotiate. i am grateful to him, for example, film, uh holy uh, archipelago, uh, i don't want her. how , uh, how's the best job there? i can not have the right to allocate. but if you watch it on a laptop or on a phone, then you won’t understand its charm when you enter the hall and you see how the image is made, how the sound is made, and you are present, it’s just that nothing can replace it during the action. it 's a feeling. you know, even the style of our russian cinema is being developed. she's a bit of a phone shot already, when you look at

the screen, many are not focal. many are out there, well here is a dirty color correction is weak. we need to watch foreign films in order to walk a little and not stay in the house. we are all the time some kind of late post dogma. she's already finished. it has already died out in europe. it has died out in the world, and we continue to remove the russian dogma in full. dagma is a manifesto. uh, he is a trier and a winterberg who decided that they need to make a movie where there will be no cheap ones, there will be no special effects, where there is music. if it sounds, then it sounds, there will be no light right in the frame. this. they have already left. all the group is gone. they shoot with light. let's go further.