Moderators

Irina Smolko – producer “Danais Film”

Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich – scenographer and correspondent of “Russky Reporter”

In this session we plan to discuss the following themes:

• Creation of scenarios through cinema as a way of programming the future
• What new ideas can Russia offer through its films?
• Is there a basic distinction between “Author’s Cinema” and “Big Cinema”? Is “Big Cinema” being produced today in Russia?
• Is there a business-model for the development of the film-industry and capable of placing Russian Cinema among the leading nations? Why is this necessary? Is there a link to the messianic-drive embedded in the culture?
• What can contemporary Russian literature give to the World and to Russian readers?
• How are the achievements of avant-garde and futurism of the beginning of the 20^th century reflected in Russia today?
• What is changing in the perception of cinema, literature, painting, and music today? How will they be in the future?

Speakers for this session are:

• Kirill Razlogov, culturologist, cinema and tv anchorman for programs “Cult cinema”, director of the Russian Institute for Culturology and director of Moscow International Film Festival.
• Yuri Arabov, scenographer,  prose writer, poet, publicist, Russian Honored Professional of the Arts
• Georg Nersisyan, president of “Paradis” Producer’s Center, head of “Paradis” group of companies.
• Alexei Sochnev, head of the expert-analysts division of the cinematography department of Mosfilm.
• Svetlana Adjubei, founder of the Academia Rossica Fund
• Dmitry Rudovsky, general director and co-owner of “Art-Pictures Studio”