White Nights Film Festival started in Saint Petersburg

White Nights Festival of non-commercial cinema has started in the city-on-the-Neva, as per TASS. Its bill includes features of various genres and styles. According to the non-commercial organization Festival Plus that initiated and organized this forum, festival agenda will last for three days and a winner is to be defined by the spectators.

Movies will be screened non-stop in Park Inn Nevsky Hotel. The entrance is free for everybody. Almost five hundred applications were sent for participation. Forty films and four scenarios were selected out of these applications. Organizers have noted that White Nights’ peculiar feature is that all movies are non-commercial and they doubt that they could be watched anywhere else. Their directors live in thirty-eight countries of the world; among them are European and Asian countries, US and Australia.

The best full-length feature, the best short film, the best documentary and animation movies, the best students’ motion pictures and the best scenario will be defined at the end of the festival. The jury award and the audience choice award will be handed over too. Such festivals are planned in Saint Petersburg every spring on.

The festival in the same format was organized two months ago in Sochi. There are plans to arrange it in Maykop, Saratov, Feodosia. “We aim at expanding our audience to promote the festival movement”, Festival Plus company explained.

Russkiy Mir