From October 7 to 11, the Starry cinema will host the First Baikal Festival of Regional Cinema as part of the Family Circle program, all screenings will be free. The festival will open with the comedy Pakhabovsk. The Other Side of Siberia, and close with the documentary Departing Voices, awarded at the Valentin Rasputin Man and Nature festival. Competition screenings will be held October 8 to 10, and the films will be judged by Irkutsk film figures and invited Moscow professionals.
From October 7 to 11, the “First Baikal Festival of Regional Cinema” will take place as part of the Nationwide Program “In the Circle of Family.” According to the press service of the Irkutsk Regional Film Fund, all festival screenings will be held at the “Zvezdny” cinema and will be free for viewers. Screenings begin at 17:30.The festival will open with the comedy “Pokhabovsk. The Other Side of Siberia,” which guests will be able to see on October 7.
The closing film will be “Departing Voices,” which received the award for Best Documentary at the Valentin Rasputin International Festival “Man and Nature.” The screening will take place on October 11.
The festival’s competition program is scheduled for October 8-10. The schedule can be viewed on the film fund’s website.
The jury will include Irkutsk figures from cinema and the media, as well as invited professionals from the capital: actor Sergei Shustitsky, director Natalya Merkulova, and President of the Guild of Non-Fiction Cinema and Television of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Grigoriev.