Photo: Cannes Film Festival website
Russian directors participate in the Cinefondation short films program of Cannes Film Festival, TASS reports. The program consists of student short films. Russian cinema will be presented by Complicated by Olesya Yakovleva from the St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television. Her competitors will be directors from France, Israel, Great Britain, Belgium and other countries. In total, seventeen short films will fight for the award.
The organizers note that they have received more than two thousand works that presented film schools from around the world. The lead role in Yakovleva’s feature was played by the lead singer of the Shor
tparis group Nikolay Komyagin.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival Special Look featuresthe Russian film director Cantemir Balagov’s Cornstalk.
Russkiy Mir reported earlier that short films by young directors from different countries would take part in the Cinefondation program. The participation in this competition often turned into an open door to the world of the big cinema for them. In 2005, Nikolai Khomeriki won the second prize in this program. Today he is quite a famous director. In 2016 his feature Icebreaker was released, in 2018 - Selfie. Konstantin Khabensky played one of the main parts in the last one.
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