"Spell your name" shown at Moscow Cinema Festival

"Spell your name" documentary about Holocaust tragedy in Ukraine by Serhiy Bukovsky was shown in "Oktyabr" multiplex cinema, Moscow. The documentary was co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk.

The film was shown within the framework of "Free thought", out-of-competition program of 29th Moscow international cinema festival. A request to the director of the film, Serhiy Bukovsky, to show the documentary within the festival made the organizers of the festival.

The ninth hall of "Oktyabr" multiplex, hosting 200 spectators, was packed with spectators on June 22, which is quite uncommon with a performance of a documentary genre. This being said, most of the spectators were young people. The premiere of the film in Moscow was also attended by cinematographers and cinema critics.

Though the festival format did not provide for any discussion of the film after its demonstration, there sparkled a live discussion between the spectators and the film director in the lobby of "Oktyabr" multiplex cinema house right after the show of the documentary.

The Moscow international cinema festival has been accredited by the International Federation of Cinema Producers Associations as a competitive one. The festival is held yearly by the General Board of International Cinema Festivals "MediaFest" supported by Ministry for Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography. The president of Moscow international cinema festival is a renowned Russian film director, Nikita Mikhalkov.

The program "Free Thought", representing masterpieces of contemporary documentary films, has been held within the framework of the Moscow Cinema Festival for the second time already. A number of movies presented within the program were awarded major prizes at various cinema festivals. This year, along with "Spell your name" documentary the festival is showing the following films: "4 elements" (the Netherlands), "49 years" (Great Britain), "Bagdad. Ambulance" (USA), "Great Silence" (France / Switzerland / Germany), "Do you play today?" (Sweden), "History of people at war and in peace" (Armenia), "Red Elvis" (Germany), "Inchzhou District Blood" (China / USA), and others.