Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova is a Russian actress.
Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist.
Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull, Elena in Uncle Vania, and Sonia in La doppia ora.
Kinotavr, also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival was an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alexander Rodnyansky said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us."
Sisters is a 2001 Russian crime film directed by Sergei Bodrov Jr. It is notable as being his first and only film as director due to his death while filming his second film the year after. It was awarded Grand Prix for the Best Debut at the 2001 Kinotavr film festival.
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov was a film director, producer and screenwriter from Tajikistan, a graduate of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His most internationally famous film is the comedy Luna Papa (1999). He won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his film Kosh ba kosh (1993). In 2000 he was a member of the jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.
In parallel to what happened in other Soviet republics, a cinema of Tajikistan was promoted by the Soviet state, and declined in the first years after the independence, before being revitalized through the efforts of the new government.
Anna Melikian is a Russian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with various awards at major international film festivals. After her participation at 2018 Sundance Film Festival she was listed in the TOP 10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine.
Kosh Ba Kosh, also known as Odd and Even, is a 1993 Russian-Tajik film directed by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov. It won a Silver Lion at the 50th Venice International Film Festival
Valeriya Gai Alexandrovna Germanika is a Russian film director dedicated to the topics of coming-of-age. She was awarded several awards for the feature film Everybody Dies But Me.
Merab Ninidze is a Georgian actor. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for the roles of Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa and Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier.
Vassily Vladimirovich Sigarev is a Russian playwright, screenwriter and film director. His plays Plasticine, Black Milk and Ladybird were first produced in the West by the Royal Court Theatre, in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. In 2002, Sigarev was named the winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright given out by the Evening Standard for Plasticine.
The 22nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 29 July 2000. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Polish-French film Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.
The Land of Oz is a 2015 Russian comedy film directed by Vassily Sigarev. The film premiered on 10 June 2015 as part of the competition program of the 26-th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr", where the film received the Prize. G. Gorin "For the best script", as well as the Prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics "Elephant". On a wide screen in Russia came December 3, 2015.
Waiting for the Sea is a 2012 film by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov with collaboration from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Germany, France, and Belgium. The film is set in the backdrop of the dried-up Aral Sea and addresses the impact of the ecological catastrophe on the fate of the people in that region.
The Suit is a 2003 film by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov with collaboration from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France. The film script is written by Oleg Antonov and is a free adaption of Ray Bradbury's 1958 short story The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.
Arrhythmia is a 2017 Russian drama film directed by Boris Khlebnikov. Participant of the contest Kinotavr. It was released on 28 September 2017. Filmed in Yaroslavl, Russia. This is a movie described a paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
Sitora Shokhinovna Alieva – film expert, director of the IFF “Faces of love” and the IIF Sochi, artistic director of the largest Russian national film festival “Kinotavr”, official delegate of Warsaw International Film Festival, lecturer at film schools and universities, juror at numerous film festivals, including Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, etc. Member of European Film Academy.
No Looking Back is a 2021 Russian dark comedy crime film written and directed by Kirill Sokolov. The film tells about three aggressive women's quarrels - a little daughter, her mother, and her grandmother are pointing guns at each other. It stars Sofya Krugova, Viktoriya Korotkova, and Anna Mikhalkova.
