New East Symposium
St. Anna Film Festival Retrospective
Tuesday, 2 May 2000
Program running time: 92 minutes
Evgenii Zvezdakov: Close-Up, 1997.(Russia/VGIK)script: Evgenii Zvezdakov and Maksim Trapo camera: Maksim Trapo starring: Oleg Koloskov and Marina Fed'ko b/w, 35-millimeter, no dialog, 16 minutes First Prize for Fiction Film, 1997 |
Vasilii Fenin: Angel, 1999.(Russia/Yauf Studio)script: Vasilii Fenin camera: Farkhad Mamatkazin starring: Pavel Kassinskii color, 35-millimeter, subtitled, 8 minutes Third Prize for Fiction Film, 1999 |
Vadim Arapov: Poor Yorick!, 1998.(Russia/Yauf Studio)script: Dmitrii Voronkov camera: Vadim Arapov starring: Ivan Verkhovykh, Inga Monaenkova, Nastia Soboleva b/w, video, subtitled, 15 minutes Prize for Camerawork, 1999 |
Pavel Bardin: The Hero, 1999.(Russia/Yauf Studio)script: Pavel Bardin camera: Pavel Kapinos and Dmitrii Bazhenov starring: Pavel Kassinskii b/w, 35-millimeter, subtitled, 10 minutes First Prize for Fiction Film, 1999 |
Sergei Steblov: The Werewolf, 1999.(Russia/Yauf Studio)camera: Oleg Chernous starring: Sergei Steblov, Vladimir Zharkov, Timofei b/w, video, subtitled, 10 minutes Prize for Fiction Film, 1999 |
Iurii Kuzin: The Lefty, 1999.(Russia/VGIK)script: Iurii Kuzin camera: Artak Igitian starring: Nikita Moriakov, Evgenii Kindinov, Andrei I sepia, 35-millimeter, subtitled, 19 minutes Second Prize for Fiction Film, 1999 Russian entry for Cannes Film Festival, 1999 |
Aleksandr Kott: The Journey, 1997.(Russia/VGIK)script: Aleksandr Kott camera: Petr Dukhovskoi starring: Vadim Vil'skii, Sergei Badichkin, Konstantin Peganov color, video, no dialog, 4 minutes Classroom Exercise |
Aleksandr Kott: Photographer, 1998.(Russia/VGIK)script: Aleksandr Kott camera: Petr Dukhovskoi starring: Viktor Vil'skii, Boris Estrin, Natal'ia Klimutko b/w, 35-millimeter, no dialog, 10 minutes Third Prize for Fiction Film, 1999 Entry for Cannes Film Festival, 1998 |
About the St. Anna Festival
The St. Anna Festival for Student and Debut Films was established in 1993. It is held annually in Moscow at the end of February. The Festival is open to all student and debut films produced in the preceding year in the Russian Federation, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Baltic Republics. Films are accepted for screening in three categories (regardless of length, genre, medium, or academic level of the student): animation, fiction film, and non-fiction film.
In the six years of its existence, the Festival has become the premier venue for introducing works by the youngest generation of Russia's filmmakers. This is as much due to its policy of accepting works from all of the media, as it is to the consistently high-level of professionalism expected of and demonstrated by the Festival's juries.
The Festival is sponsored by the Russian Federation Union of Filmmakers, the Confederation of Republican Unions of Filmmakers, Kino-Center, the State Institute for Filmmaking (VGIK), and Studio A-B-A.