The Antares International Film Festival has completed accepting applications for participation in the competition program. During all this time, 1,130 films have been received from directors from all over the world. Recall that the film festival will be held in Sochi for the first time from June 25 to June 30.
There will be 4 prize nominations at the film festival within the framework of the main competitions: full-length feature films, short films, documentaries and animated films.
The jury of the film festival is headed by People's Artist of Russia Elena Tsyplakova, among the jury members: Chinese director Liu Ming Xiu, director of the Central House of Cinematographers of Russia Ekaterina Golovnya, actor and director Rustam Sagdullaev. The film festival will be accompanied by a red carpet featuring the stars of the Russian screen: Ekaterina Shpitsa, Evelina Bledans, Nonna Grishaeva, Ivan Kokorin, Anastasia Ryseva, Larisa Luzhina and many others.
The festival will host the premiere screening of the film almanac "Safe Work", which includes short feature films "Helmet", "Taxi Driver", "Overload", "Petrovich", "Intern" and "First Aid with Anfisa Chekhov", which starred the stars of Russian cinema.
The International Film Festival, as well as the Safe Work film almanac, were created on the initiative of the Safety and Quality Association. The project partners are: the administration of the resort city of Sochi, the Rossiya-24 Sochi TV channel, the Sochi Concert and Philharmonic Association Winter Theater, the Technoprogress Institute for Advanced Training, the A. Mitta Film School, the Kurson educational platform and the Media Center of the Safety and Quality Association.