The Voznesensky Center together with the Patriki Film Festival are launching a new festival of contemporary documentary films “OZA”, dedicated to the centenary of Zoya Boguslavskaya - writer, playwright, prose writer, wife and muse of the poet Andrei Voznesensky.
The international festival starts in the year of Zoya Borisovna’s centenary and will become an annual event. Seven foreign and Russian films are participating in the competition, the main condition is that the films must comply with the principle of premiere theatrical and online screening in Russia. Among the international participating works: film projects from Spain, Argentina, Egypt and Kyrgyzstan.
The chairman of the international jury of the festival this year will be film director and screenwriter Irakli Kvirikadze, besides him: film critic and film journalist Ksenia Rozhdestvenskaya, wife and muse of Italian director Tonino Guerra - Laura Guerra.
The OZA Film Festival consists of several parts: online screenings of competitive films from May 16 to 26, offline screenings that will take place from May 23 to 26 at the Illusion cinema and the Voznesensky Center, as well as film excursions, visits to exhibitions, poetry readings, lectures and other events. The name of the festival is taken from Voznesensky’s poem of the same name, dedicated to his wife in 1964.
The detailed schedule of the festival and the line-up of participating films will be announced on the website https://ozadocfest.ru/ and on social networks: VKontakte: https://vk.com/ozadocfest and Telegram: https://t.me/ozadocfest
The international festival starts in the year of Zoya Borisovna’s centenary and will become an annual event. Seven foreign and Russian films are participating in the competition, the main condition is that the films must comply with the principle of premiere theatrical and online screening in Russia. Among the international participating works: film projects from Spain, Argentina, Egypt and Kyrgyzstan.
The chairman of the international jury of the festival this year will be film director and screenwriter Irakli Kvirikadze, besides him: film critic and film journalist Ksenia Rozhdestvenskaya, wife and muse of Italian director Tonino Guerra - Laura Guerra.
The OZA Film Festival consists of several parts: online screenings of competitive films from May 16 to 26, offline screenings that will take place from May 23 to 26 at the Illusion cinema and the Voznesensky Center, as well as film excursions, visits to exhibitions, poetry readings, lectures and other events. The name of the festival is taken from Voznesensky’s poem of the same name, dedicated to his wife in 1964.
The detailed schedule of the festival and the line-up of participating films will be announced on the website https://ozadocfest.ru/ and on social networks: VKontakte: https://vk.com/ozadocfest and Telegram: https://t.me/ozadocfest