Monthly Archives: May 2011

The 2011 Cannes Film Festival Awards

Serbian director Emir KUSTURICA’s jury granted the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Award to Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV’s Elena (Russia). The Main Award was shared by South Korean filmmaker Kim KI-DUK’s Arirang and German filmmaker Andreas DRESEN’s Stopped on Track as co-winners. The Director’s Prize went to Iranian Mohammad RASOULOF for Au Revoir.

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Zvyagintsev’s Elena Won The Jury Award At The Cannes Film Festival

Elena by Andrei Zvyagintsev, one of Russia’s most trail-blazing contemporary director, won the Jury Prize in second-ranking competition program “Un Certain Regard” of the 64th Cannes Film Festival Award. The awarding ceremony ended tonight for Andrei Zvyagintsev who accepted the award from Emir Kusturica, president of the Jury. Elena features a middle-aged couple, who come […]

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Ridley Scott And the Dawn Of Perestroika

CANNES. May 16, 2011. Ridley Scott has reached an agreement with the UK production company Headline and Participant Media to direct and co-produce a Cold War drama Reykjavik (working title). Script by Kevin Hood. The film tells of the historic meeting between US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in the capital of Iceland in […]

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Russian premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

MOSCOW. May 11, 2011. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz and producer producer Jerry Bruckheimer visited the Russian capital to promote Walt Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The Moscow preliminary press screening of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean was launched by Moscow-based Walt Disney Company CIS (CEO Marina Zhigalov-Ozkan). The Moscow premiere opens […]

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Cannes Film Festival: Russia Boosts Its Presence in Certain Regard

Cannes. May 11, 2011. Faust by Alexander Sokurov has not been allegedly completed in time to lose the chance to be listed in The Selection Official, The Main Competition Program of the 64th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22). However, two Russian titles were among the films in the line-up competing for Certain Regard awards.

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