Russian Film Days to be held in Tehran

Tehran-based Farabi Cinema Foundation is set to review new Russian films in a program entitled Russian Film Days.

‘Elsa’s Land’ (2020), ‘Are You Alive?’ (2022) and ‘Don’t Bury Me without Ivan’ (2022) will be screened in the three-day program.

The program will begin on December 24 by screening ‘Don’t Bury Me without Ivan’ directed by Lyubov Borisova.

‘Are You Alive?’ is the winner of the Tatarstan President’s Prize for Humanism in Cinema and the audience award at the 2021 Kazan Muslim Film Festival.

The director of Russia’s Union of Cinematographers, Valery Ivanovich Tonkikh, director and producer Ivan Bolotnikov and several other Russian filmmakers and cinema experts have been invited to attend the event.

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