During the meeting with the audience after the screening of his film Baggage in the Cinema House, Danis Tanovic said that he’s actually quite a joyful person and loves to laugh. But in our conversation he was quite serious and said that certain things make him quite pessimistic. Going back through his films, it is easy to spot the humor in all of them, but it usually serves to lighten up a very dark situation, and to help you through it. Perhaps, the more seriously you look towards...

XI Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning Founded by St.Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union in 2001, Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning is held annually in autumn at the Cinema House, St.Petersburg, Russia.   Aims and Goals: To maintain international contacts, to broaden creative and professional contacts, to promote experience and ideas exchange among film schools To reveal tendencies towards development of young cinema in different countries...

SILVER SHARK May 22-24, 2009Kyiv, Ukraine SILVER SHARK International Underwater Art Festival is organised by Kiev Group of Companies “Silver Shark” with support of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and Honourable President of the World’s Festival of Underwater Image in the city of Antibes Daniel Mercier (France). SILVER SHARK Festival is held in Ukraine annually, since 2001, with a view to popularising underwater art and recreation and involving wide public in solving enrironmen...