Third Russian Documentary Film Festival

This year the festival will include a varied program of new documentaries by filmmakers in Russia and the Russian Diaspora in the US.

Event Venue:

Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street (at Laight Street, one block below Canal Street)
New York, NY 10013

Event Date:

September 30, 2010 to October 3, 2010

Tribeca Cinemas, New York City
September 30 - October 3, 2010

This year the festival will include a varied program of new documentaries by filmmakers in Russia and the Russian Diaspora in the US. Films of different genres, filled with concern and angst over the fate of humanity in today's world will be shown together with profiles of prominent artists and writers, and reports about everyday life in Russia.

This year, film director Andrei Tarkovsky, writer Yuz Aleshkovsky, poet Naum Korzhavin, conductor Valery Gergiev, and sculptor Ernst Neizvestny have been placed into the spotlight.

Among the directors coming to New York are Russian filmmakers Sergei Miroshnichenko (Twilight of the Gods, Yuz, Jazz, Irka and the Dog), Aleksei Burykin (18 Seconds), Angelina Golikova (Encounter), Alexander Gurjanov (State of the Moment), Elena Yakovich (Ernst Neizvestny's Bronze Age), and Russian Americans Dmitry Khavin (Across the Narrow Bridge) and Dmitry Trakovsky (Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky).

The Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York was founded by The New Review, Inc. (USA). The festival is being held with the help of a generous grant from the Russkiy Mir Foundation (Russia), as well as financial and logistical support from the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York; Panorama Travel; COJECO; the Russian Nobility Association in America; Princess Diana Bagrationi; Alex Soldier; Peter Tcherepnine; VK Studio; Victor Lazuchin, the Liberty Award, Peter Oudolsky, and the Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitallers. Information sponsors of the festival are Global Advertising Agency, the RTVi television channel, Nash Dom Multi-Media Holding, NTV-America television channel, Novoye Russkoye Slovo newspaper and the Positive Radio Station.

For flyer and schedule, please click here

For information please visit www.rusdocfilmfest.org

To order tickets: 212-941-2001
http://www.tribecacinemas.com/more-info/Russian_Doc_Film_Festival.html