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OPEN CINEMA is an annual competitive international festival of short films and animation held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Every year, the founders of the festival Lyudmila Lipeyko and Tamara Larina come up with, organize and implement this unique project. The festival is attended by author's feature, documentary, animation, experimental films, video art and musical show video. The festival presents other types of contemporary art: music, theater, street performances, interactive and exhibition projects.

Story

In 2004, the festival program of short films by world film classics was demonstrated for the first time as part of the international art festival VERTICAL. After that, in May 2005 the project was invited to Dresden with new program rare copyright films of young St. Petersburg directors. In the summer of 2005, the festival was first held at a new location - the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress, which became its permanent venue. In 2009, directors from 27 different countries of the world took part in the festival, submitting more than 800 works to the competition.

Festival concept

The conceptual core of OPEN CINEMA is a carnival synthesis of open-air arts - cinema, music, theater, interactive and exhibition projects. Developing and connecting with each other within the framework of the chosen theme, they form a new unity, creating an opportunity for the audience's co-creation and co-cognition.

The absence of academicism and strict rules is the main principle of the festival. OPEN CINEMA is focused on preserving and popularizing the director's view in modern cinema, making auteur cinema a democratic and fashionable phenomenon.

Founders and organizers

Founder and organizer: ANO "International Art Center "BEREG" (St. Petersburg).

International Film Festival "OPEN CINEMA" is supported by:

Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg,
Committee for Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg

Festival President: Lyudmila Lipeyko

Festival Art Director: Tamara Larina

Head of the selection committee: Irina Evteeva

Program

The festival program includes two sections:

LABORATORY - competitive program
PANORAMA 360 - non-competitive program
OPEN-AIR MARATHON - open-air program

The competitive part of the festival also includes SPECIAL PROGRAMS:

OTHER COASTS - geographical and metaphysical
WHITE CROW - strange people
WITHOUT ANESTHESIA - cinema without cuts and political correctness

SPECIAL PROGRAMS are formed from films that did not qualify for the main competition, but are worthy of special mention by the jury. The educational and enlightening block of the festival includes master classes, round tables, conferences, open discussions, and creative actions among young directors.

Nominations

The competition program of the festival is held in the following categories:

Best Feature Film
Best Animated Film
Best Non-Fiction Film
Best Experimental Film/Video Art/Music Video

The Jury may also award special awards.

Jury

During the existence of the festival, its jury in different years included:

Dmitry Meskhiev (Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg, director, producer)
Sergey Ovcharov (director, screenwriter, professor of St. Petersburg State University of Cinematography, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation)
Vitaly Mansky (documentary film director, producer, General Producer of the Laurel Branch National Award, President of the Moscow Documentary Film Festival ARTDOKFEST).
Irina Evteeva (film director, candidate of art criticism, honored worker of arts of the Russian Federation).
Konstantin Lopushansky (film director, professor of St. Petersburg State University of Cinematography, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation)
Andrei Sigle (film producer, composer, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation).
Anton Adasinsky (actor, director, screenwriter, head of the DEREVO theater (Dresden, Germany).
Mikhail Trofimenkov (film critic, candidate of art criticism, columnist for the Kommersant publishing house).
Robin Mallik (Director of FILMFESTDRESDEN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Dresden, Germany)

Every year, the founders of the festival Lyudmila Lipeyko and Tamara Larina come up with, organize and implement this unique project. The festival is attended by author's feature, documentary, animation, experimental films, video art and musical show video. The festival presents other types of contemporary art: music, theater, street performances, interactive and exhibition projects.

Story

In 2004, the festival program of short films by world film classics was demonstrated for the first time as part of the international art festival VERTICAL. After that, in May 2005 the project was invited to Dresden with a new program of rare original films by young St. Petersburg directors. In the summer of 2005, the festival was first held at a new location - the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress, which became its permanent venue. In 2009, directors from 27 different countries of the world took part in the festival, submitting more than 800 works to the competition.

Festival concept

Founders and organizers

Founder and organizer: ANO "International Art Center "BEREG" (St. Petersburg).

International Film Festival "OPEN CINEMA" is supported by:

Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg,
Committee for Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg

Festival President: Lyudmila Lipeyko

Festival Art Director: Tamara Larina

Head of the selection committee: Irina Evteeva

Program

The festival program includes two sections:

LABORATORY - competitive program
PANORAMA 360 - non-competitive program
OPEN-AIR MARATHON - open-air program

The competitive part of the festival also includes SPECIAL PROGRAMS:

OTHER COASTS - geographical and metaphysical
WHITE CROW - strange people
WITHOUT ANESTHESIA - cinema without cuts and political correctness

Nominations

The competition program of the festival is held in the following categories:

Best Feature Film
Best Animated Film
Best Non-Fiction Film
Best Experimental Film/Video Art/Music Video

The Jury may also award special awards.

Jury

During the existence of the festival, its jury in different years included:

Dmitry Meskhiev (Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg, director, producer)
Sergey Ovcharov (director, screenwriter, professor of St. Petersburg State University of Cinematography, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation)
Vitaly Mansky (documentary film director, producer, General Producer of the Laurel Branch National Prize, President of the Moscow Documentary Film Festival ARTDOKFEST).
Irina Evteeva (film director, candidate of art criticism, honored worker of arts of the Russian Federation).
Konstantin Lopushansky (film director, professor at St. Petersburg State University of Cinematography and Television, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation)
Andrey Sigle (film producer, composer, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation).
Anton Adasinsky (actor, director, screenwriter, head of the DEREVO theater (Dresden, Germany).
Mikhail Trofimenkov (film critic, candidate of art criticism, columnist for the Kommersant publishing house).
Robin Mallik (Director of FILMFESTDRESDEN INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Dresden, Germany)

Official Prize

The official prize of OPEN CINEMA is the hourglass "Manage time!" author's work of St. Petersburg artists. The clock is rated at 15 minutes, the standard time for a short film. The peculiarity of this watch is the presence of a sand flow regulator, which has a symbolic meaning for cinema: time management. Hence the name of the prize.

The prize is awarded in four main categories. In addition, the film festival awards winners with unusual diplomas and gifts.

Festival Venues

The main venue for the festival is the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress: the beach, the Engineering House, the Flag Tower and the Bastion. The professional part takes place at the largest cinema venues in the city: the Dom Kino cinema center, the Mirage-Cinema cinema center and others. More than 15,000 spectators visit the festival every year.

International Festival of Short Films and Animation.

International Festival of short films and animations OPEN CINEMA is an annual international competitive review of short feature, animated, documentary and experimental films, taking place on the open space of the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the central cinema sites of St. Petersburg. The festival has in its structure a competitive and informational part. The founder of the Festival is ANO “International Art Center “BEREG” (St. Petersburg). The OPEN CINEMA IFF is held with the support of the Government of St. Petersburg and the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.

The main goals and objectives of the festival

Demonstration to a wide audience of the high creative potential of the author's short films and animation, as well as various experiments in the field of visual arts.
Introducing the viewer to the art-house movement of modern culture, to the author's view of cinema.
The study of modern trends in the development of short films, animation and documentaries, the discovery of new director names and creative solutions.
Support for young filmmakers in Russia and the possibility of a live film dialogue with colleagues from other countries.

Open Cinema is:

A unique film festival that occupies a special place in the cultural life of St. Petersburg and Russia, which brings auteur cinema closer to the audience, making it a democratic and fashionable phenomenon.

The largest international film forum of short films in our country. Every year the festival gathers more than 15,000 people at its shows.

The only film festival in St. Petersburg in the OPEN-AIR format. The traditional venue is on the banks of the Neva, in the very heart of St. Petersburg - on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

An art-house festival that opens up new names, new topics, new countries and continents of contemporary cinematography for the Russian audience. Thanks to partnerships with leading Russian and foreign film festivals, studios and film schools, directors from almost all over the world take part in the festival programs.

Ideology

The principle of openness. OPEN CINEMA is a festival of small forms of cinema, animation, audiovisual arts. Our openness is dictated by the desire to unite the cinematographic communities of Russia and abroad into a single space. The inclusion in OPEN CINEMA of many independent film festival programs from all over the world is an opportunity for an objective look at the life and development trends of world auteur cinema.

The principle of independence and professionalism. The festival is focused on preserving and popularizing the author's point of view in modern cinema. In the era of the total domination of the glamorous style, we want to attract as many thinking people as possible to our side, both from the side of the viewer and from the side of the artist.

The main character of the festival is the director! The short film format is the best platform for an independent position and artistic experiment, because with the total domination of mass culture, the short film remains a space free from producer pressure and mainstream clichés. At the same time, our festival maintains a high professional level and quality level of programs. The criterion for the festival selection is the fundamental choice in favor of cinema that is "meaningful and artistic", experimental and professional.

Story

The history of OPEN CINEMA began in 2004. It was then that the program of short films by world film classics was shown as part of the VERTICAL international art festival in the premises of the Peter and Paul Fortress and was a huge success with the audience. After that, in May 2005, the project was invited to Dresden with its new program of rare auteur films by young St. Petersburg directors.

In the summer of 2005, the BEREG art center found the most precise and "exclusive" place for the project - the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Open space on the banks of the Neva with a magnificent view of the main architectural ensemble of the city. A movie screen was installed near the wall of Petropavlovka, and the audience sat on wooden stands and right on the sand. The program was called "Cities in cities": short animated and feature films-participants of international film festivals.

Scale

OPEN CINEMA has received well-deserved recognition from the general public over the years of its existence. The festival is known and loved not only in St. Petersburg, but also in other cities of Russia. The constantly growing audience of the festival testifies to its timeliness and relevance. More than 15,000 spectators visit the OPEN CINEMA film festival annually: on average, more than 8,000 people come to the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress alone, indoor venues also have impressive performance.

Among the sites of the festival are not only the Peter and Paul Fortress (beach, Engineering House, Flag Tower, Bastion), but also the cinema center "Dom Kino", the cinema center "Mirage-Cinema", as well as clubs in St. Petersburg.
The principle of relevance and democracy. One of the objectives of the festival is to involve as many viewers as possible in auteur cinema, so we choose the most relevant and popular forms of presenting an intellectual “product”. Namely: open-air format, the creation of many additional "atmospheric" elements of the festival, keeping up with the times.

The principle of synthesis of arts. One of the unique features of the festival is the creative synthesis of cinema and various forms of contemporary art: music, theater, street performances, fashion shows, art exhibitions, video installations and much more. A synthesis in which new ideas are born for the creators of cinema and new possibilities for perception - for the audience.

From 20 to 28 August the 7th International Festival of Short Films and Animation OPEN CINEMA will be held in St. Petersburg. The festival will become a meeting place for the creative ideas of filmmakers working in Russia, Asia, Western Europe, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Latin America

An energetic, innovative and large-scale program of a two-day open-air on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress will be accompanied by a cultural program.

On Saturday, August 20 OPEN CINEMA-2011 takes off to the sounds of "AEROKRAFT" - a musical-optical performance, the authors and actors of which are Nikolai Gusev (synthesizer, vocals, "Strange Games", AVIA, NOM), Andrey Sizintsev (electronic percussion, Russian engineering theater "AKHE") and Andrey Gladkikh (video sequence, film director). The project, designed for open space, was specially prepared for the opening of the festival.

August 21 Petersburg will witness a record-breaking non-stop animation show on the beach of Petropavlovka. The program includes an enchanting performance "Borders of Bathing" by POEMA Theatre, as well as "Ocean of cartoons" for children and adults.

Cinema "Aurora" and cinema center "Mirage-Cinema on Petrogradskaya" from 22 to 28 August will become official venues for OPEN CINEMA. It is in the "Aurora" will host the closing ceremony of OPEN CINEMA 2011, scheduled for August 27th.

Big competition (Main competition) traditionally will be held in four categories: fiction, animation, documentary and experimental short films. Films from all over the world are presented, many of which have already won prestigious festival awards. This year, as never before, directors from France have drawn close attention to themselves.

Parallel competition of the OPEN CINEMA Film Festival will be held in the thematic categories "Other Shores" /cinema of distant geographical and cultural shores/, "Without Anesthesia" /cinema without cuts and political correctness/ and "Great Expectations" /genre promising cinema/ - largely determine the style, style and character OPEN CINEMA. The paintings selected for the Parallel Competition contain extravagant ideas - both semantic and artistic.

Special screenings OPEN CINEMA 2011 will not do without those who are called "Asian tigers" - authors from Thailand, South Korea and Singapore. A rich selection of animated films will be presented by Southeast Asia's premier short film distribution company, Objectifs Films.

Daniel Mulloy complete retrospective will bow to the well-deserved Western master of the short genre, the award-winning director of international festivals in Melbourne, Hamburg, Oberhausen, Krakow, Clermont-Ferrand and Edinburgh (more than 70 world awards from leading film festivals). Daniel Maloy has twice been awarded the British Independent Film Award, several BAFTA awards, and was also nominated for the European Oscar. In 2008 he was awarded a special OPEN CINEMA award for the feature film "Son".

There are few Russian short films in the competition program: only a few films in the Parallel Competition. However, the festival, like last year, in an effort to support compatriot directors, selected worthy works in a special non-competitive program "Resident.ru" ("Resident.ru").

International non-competitive section "PANORAMA 360"- a special part of OPEN CINEMA. The program has almost a dozen participants - these are the most influential international forums from all continents, including Hong Kong in the status of a "special guest":

IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Multimedia Awards (IFVA Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards).
DOK-LEIPZIG International Festival of Documentary Film and Animation in Leipzig, Germany (DOK-LEIPZIG International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany)
RIVER TO RIVER Indian Film Festival in Florence, Italy (RIVER TO RIVER Florence Indian Film Festival, Italy)
BANJALUKA International Animation Festival in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BANJALUKA International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
ECU European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France (ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France)
PORTOBELLO Independent Film Festival in London, Great Britain (Portobello Film Festival in London, Great Britain)
KIMUAK- the leading short film distributor of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain (KIMUAK/Filmoteca Vasca - the leading short film distribution company of the Basque Country. San-Sebastian, Spain)
FICM Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico (FICM Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico)