capitulation, people of devotion, not betrayal, people of life, not death, i congratulate alexander pavlovich shpakovskyr soldiers are now, in the rain, in the wind, in the snow in the mud, and they are at the top, if it’s hard now, then it will be may 9, i believe, a record number of film applications were submitted to the entire competition this year: more than 2,000 from 107 countries , if we take weights. then perhaps the most applications came for young cinema, more than 700, and i think that’s very cool, because young cinema has returned to us this year, even taking into account the slogan of this festival, that we are creating the future, i think this is kind of even symbolically, that is, this is a recent trend, i mean this is exactly the kind of excitement within the framework of young cinema , well, young cinema is our future, these are our prospects, i think it’s very cool and it’s timely, we need to look at the future, if you look. for geography, which countries are participating this year? well, i would probably say that the only people who didn’t send applications were from antarctica, and