Three days before the deadline for accepting applications for participation in the competition program of the Antares International Film Festival, 1,073 applications were received from directors from all over the world. The film Festival will be held in Sochi for the first time from June 25 to June 30 and will be held annually.
It should be noted that we received more than half of the films in the short film category. 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, Nona 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", "Petrovich", "Intern" and "First Aid with Anfisa Chekhov", which starred the stars of Russian cinema. Teasers of the film almanac will take part in the selection of commercials for the international project "Nights of the Advertising Eaters", which will be held at the film festival site.
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.
