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Kinotavr (Russian: Кинотавр^[2]), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival was an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[3]^[4] Alexander Rodnyansky said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us."^[3]

From 1994 to 2005 the festival consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF).^[5] As of 2008 it was the largest national film festival in Russia.^[6] There is a second film festival, known as Sochi International Film Festival and Awards.^[7]

The word Kinotavr is a portmanteau (in Russian) of "Cinema" and "...taur" (as in Centaur or Minotaur).

History

The history of the festival can be traced back to the Soviet era when in 1990 Mark Rudinstein organized his “Festival of Un-bought Cinema” in Podolsk, Moscow Region. It was an attempt to support national film production and distribution in the time of social, political and economic turmoil in the USSR when film financing (up until then provided by the state) was reduced and national distribution network had collapsed.^[8] In 1991 the festival got its nowadays name “Kinotavr” and was relocated to Sochi.

In 1994 it already consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF), registered with the International Federation of Associations of Film Producers (FIAPF).

In 2005 “Kinotavr” brand was bought by Alexander Rodnyansky, the management switched its focus onto national market and IFF part was stopped.^[5] Kinotavr now was aimed at becoming “a powerful mechanism in the development of a film industry”^[9] in Russia and then also continued to make "emphasis on international promotion of Russian product”.^[10]

That change also gave the festival permanent programmer Sitora Alieva an opportunity to "play down the rivalry between Kinotavr and the Moscow Film Festival, also held in June".^[11]

The last edition of the festival was held in 2021.

While preparing the upcoming 2022 edition, the president of the Kinotavr film festival, Alexander Rodnyansky, announced in March 2022 that the festival would not be held this year. According to the festival's president, "One cannot talk about festivals when Russia is waging an aggressive war".^[12]

In February 2023, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation announced that the festival would not take place that year either.^[13]^[14]

In October 2023, the festival's website was taken offline. The festival's president, Alexander Rodnyansky, was declared a "foreign agent" by the Russian Ministry of Justice on October 21, 2022.^[15] According to the Russian film industry publication "Exhibitor's Bulletin",^[16] citing its own sources, the state "would not restore the Sochi film festival in its previous form". De facto, the festival has ceased to exist.

Awards

The Grand Prize
Best Director
Best Debut
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Screenplay is called the "Grigory Gorin Award for the Best Screenplay"
Best Music is called the "Tariverdiev Prize for the Best Music"
The prize of the contest "Kinotavr: Short Film"

Over the history the following prizes have also been awarded:

The Grand Prize (Second Prize) for the second best entry
Special Prize of the Jury
"Diamond Rose" prize
Prize of the Guild of Russian Film Producers, for the best producer's project
Prize of the Guild of Russian Film Scholars and Film Critics
Prize of the Festival's Presidential Council
FIPRESCI Prize, by Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI)
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention

Winners

Grand Prize

1990 – Revenge, dir. Yermek Shinarbayev)^[17]
1991 – Sons of Bitches (Сукины дети, dir. Leonid Filatov)
1992 – The Sun of the Sleepless (Солнце неспящих, dir. Temur Babluani)
1993 – Encore, Once More Encore! (Анкор, ещё анкор!, dir. Pyotr Todorovsky)
1994 – Little Angel, Make Me Happy (Ангелочек, сделай радость, Angelochek sdelay radost, dir. Uzmaan Saparov)^[18]
1995 – Peculiarities of the National Hunt (Особенности национальной охоты, dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin)
1996 – Prisoner of the Mountains (Кавказский пленник, dir. Sergei Bodrov)
1997 – Brother (Брат, dir. Aleksei Balabanov)
1998 – Time of the dancer (Время танцора, dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin)
2000 – Luna Papa (Лунный папа, dir. Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov)
2001 – Tender Age (Нежный возраст, dir. Sergei Solovyov)
2002 – War (Война, dir. Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov)
2003 – Old Women (Старухи, dir. Gennadi Sidorov)
2004 – A Driver for Vera (Водитель для Веры, dir. Pavel Chukhray)
2005 – Poor Relatives (Бедные родственники, dir. Pavel Lungin)
2006 – Playing the Victim (Изображая жертву, dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
2007 – Simple Things (Простые вещи, dir. Alexei Popogrebski)
2008 – Pal/Secam (dir. Dmitry Povolotsky)
2009 – Wolfy (Волчок, dir. Vassily Sigarev)
2010 – Truce (Перемирие, dir. Svetlana Proskurina)
2011 – Indifference (Безразличие, dir. Oleg Flyangolts)
2012 – I Will By Your Side (Я буду рядом, dir. Pavel Ruminov)
2013 – The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (Географ глобус пропил, dir. Alexander Veledinsky)
2014 – Test (Испытание, dir. Alexander Kott)
2015 – About Love (Про любовь, dir. Anna Melikian)
2016 – The Good Boy (Хороший мальчик, dir. Oksana Karas)
2017 – Arrhythmia (Аритми́я, dir. Boris Khlebnikov)
2018 – Core of the World (Сердце мира, dir. Natalia Meshchaninova)
2019 – The Bull (Бык, dir. Boris Akopov)^[19]
2020 - Scarecrow (Пугало, dir. Dmitry Davydov)
2021 - Freeze Dance (Море волнуется раз, dir. Nikolay Khomeriki)

References and notes

^ Leonova, Yevgeniya (19 April 2006). "Кинотавр" сократится вдвое. Nezavisimaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 2 March 2009.
^ A pun on "Minotaur"
^ ^a ^b "Alexander Rodnyansky announced the cancellation of Kinotavr this year - ePrimefeed". 24 March 2022.
^ Official website, retrieved on 2018-05-14.
^ ^a ^b "Кинофестиваль "Кинотавр". Досье".
^ "Russia's biggest local film festival starts". Hollywood Reporter. 9 June 2008.
^ Sochi International Film Festival and Awards, official website.
^ "Kinotavr". kinotavr.ru.
^ Birchenough, Tom (19 May 2005). "Kinotavr fest's focus is local pix".
^ Kontavr puts accent on Russia, Variety
^ Kinotavr fest’s focus is local pix, Variety
^ "Президент "Кинотавра" отменил фестиваль из-за "агрессивной войны"". Радио Свобода (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
^ "В министерстве культуры РФ объяснили, почему в этом году не будет "Кинотавра"". Российская газета (in Russian). 17 February 2023. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
^ "Стало известно об отказе от проведения фестиваля "Кинотавр"". Smotrim.ru (in Russian). 16 February 2023. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
^ "Foreign agent Friday: Ukrainian producer Alexander Rodnyansky, Russian reporters Alexander Plyushchev, Tatyana Felgenhauer, Mikhail Zygar added to Russia's 'foreign agent' list". Novaya Gazeta. Europe. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
^ "Министерство культуры отказалось от идеи проведения «Кинотавра»". www.kinometro.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
^ "Sochi Open Russian Film Festival (1990)". IMDb. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
^ Angelochek sdelay radost at IMDb
^ "Kinotavr". www.kinotavr.ru.

External links

Kinotavr official page in English.

[1] Leonova, Yevgeniya (19 April 2006). "Кинотавр" сократится вдвое. Nezavisimaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 2 March 2009.

[2] A pun on "Minotaur"

[auto-3] "Alexander Rodnyansky announced the cancellation of Kinotavr this year - ePrimefeed". 24 March 2022.

[:0-4] Official website, retrieved on 2018-05-14.

[tass-5] "Кинофестиваль "Кинотавр". Досье".

[6] "Russia's biggest local film festival starts". Hollywood Reporter. 9 June 2008.

[7] Sochi International Film Festival and Awards, official website.

[8] "Kinotavr". kinotavr.ru.

[9] Birchenough, Tom (19 May 2005). "Kinotavr fest's focus is local pix".

[10] Kontavr puts accent on Russia, Variety

[11] Kinotavr fest’s focus is local pix, Variety

[12] "Президент "Кинотавра" отменил фестиваль из-за "агрессивной войны"". Радио Свобода (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.

[13] "В министерстве культуры РФ объяснили, почему в этом году не будет "Кинотавра"". Российская газета (in Russian). 17 February 2023. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.

[14] "Стало известно об отказе от проведения фестиваля "Кинотавр"". Smotrim.ru (in Russian). 16 February 2023. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

[15] "Foreign agent Friday: Ukrainian producer Alexander Rodnyansky, Russian reporters Alexander Plyushchev, Tatyana Felgenhauer, Mikhail Zygar added to Russia's 'foreign agent' list". Novaya Gazeta. Europe. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.

[16] "Министерство культуры отказалось от идеи проведения «Кинотавра»". www.kinometro.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

[17] "Sochi Open Russian Film Festival (1990)". IMDb. Retrieved 18 May 2018.

[18] Angelochek sdelay radost at IMDb

[19] "Kinotavr". www.kinotavr.ru.

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-'''Kinotavr''' ({{lang-ru|Кинотавр}}<ref>A pun on "[[Minotaur]]"</ref>), also known as the '''Sochi Open Russian Film Festival''' is an open [[film festival]] held in the [[resort town|resort city]] of [[Sochi]], Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://eprimefeed.com/trending/alexander-rodnyansky-announced-the-cancellation-of-kinotavr-this-year/45350/|title=Alexander Rodnyansky announced the cancellation of Kinotavr this year - ePrimefeed|date=March 24, 2022}}</ref><ref name=":0">[http://kinotavr.ru/ru Official website], retrieved on 2018-05-14.</ref> [[Alexander Rodnyansky]] said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us."<ref name="auto"/>
+'''Kinotavr''' ({{langx|ru|Кинотавр}}<ref>A pun on "[[Minotaur]]"</ref>), also known as the '''Sochi Open Russian Film Festival''' was an open [[film festival]] held in the [[resort town|resort city]] of [[Sochi]], Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://eprimefeed.com/trending/alexander-rodnyansky-announced-the-cancellation-of-kinotavr-this-year/45350/|title=Alexander Rodnyansky announced the cancellation of Kinotavr this year - ePrimefeed|date=March 24, 2022}}</ref><ref name=":0">[http://kinotavr.ru/ru Official website], retrieved on 2018-05-14.</ref> [[Alexander Rodnyansky]] said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us."<ref name="auto"/>
-In 1994-2005 consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF).<ref name = "tass">{{cite web|url=http://tass.ru/info/5255006|title=Кинофестиваль "Кинотавр". Досье}}</ref> Now it is the largest national film festival in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/russias-biggest-local-film-festival-113402/|title=Russia’s biggest local film festival starts|date=June 9, 2008}}</ref> There is a second film festival, known as Sochi International Film Festival and Awards.<ref>[https://www.sochifilmawards.com Sochi International Film Festival and Awards], official website.</ref>
+From 1994 to 2005 the festival consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF).<ref name = "tass">{{cite web|url=http://tass.ru/info/5255006|title=Кинофестиваль "Кинотавр". Досье}}</ref> As of 2008 it was the largest national film festival in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/russias-biggest-local-film-festival-113402/|title=Russia’s biggest local film festival starts|date=June 9, 2008| website= [[Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> There is a second film festival, known as Sochi International Film Festival and Awards.<ref>[https://www.sochifilmawards.com Sochi International Film Festival and Awards], official website.</ref>
 The word Kinotavr is a [[portmanteau]] (in Russian) of "Cinema" and "...taur" (as in ''[[Centaur]]'' or ''[[Minotaur]]'').
 ==History==
 [[File:Александр Роднянский (пресс-подход) на VK Fest 5 (cropped).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Alexander Rodnyansky]]]]
-The history of the festival can be traced back to the [[Soviet_Union|Soviet era]] when in 1990 [[Mark Rudinstein]] organized his “Festival of Un-bought Cinema” in [[Podolsk]], [[Moscow_Oblast|Moscow Region]]. It was an attempt to support national film production and distribution in the time of social, political and economic turmoil in the [[USSR]] when film financing (up until then provided by the state) was reduced and national distribution network had collapsed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kinotavr.ru/en/history/|title=Kinotavr|website=kinotavr.ru}}</ref>
+The history of the festival can be traced back to the [[Soviet Union|Soviet era]] when in 1990 [[Mark Rudinstein]] organized his “Festival of Un-bought Cinema” in [[Podolsk]], [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow Region]]. It was an attempt to support national film production and distribution in the time of social, political and economic turmoil in the [[USSR]] when film financing (up until then provided by the state) was reduced and national distribution network had collapsed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kinotavr.ru/en/history/|title=Kinotavr|website=kinotavr.ru}}</ref>
 In 1991 the festival got its nowadays name “Kinotavr” and was relocated to Sochi.
 In 1994 it already consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF), registered with the International Federation of Associations of Film Producers ([[FIAPF]]).
 In 2005 “Kinotavr” brand was bought by [[Alexander Rodnyansky]], the management switched its focus onto national market and IFF part was stopped.<ref name = "tass"/> Kinotavr now was aimed at becoming “a powerful mechanism in the development of a film industry”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/kinotavr-fest-s-focus-is-local-pix-1117923205/|title=Kinotavr fest’s focus is local pix|first=Tom|last=Birchenough|date=19 May 2005}}</ref> in Russia and then also continued to make "emphasis on international promotion of Russian product”.<ref>[https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/kontavr-puts-accent-on-russia-1200335228/ Kontavr puts accent on Russia], Variety</ref>
 That change also gave the festival permanent programmer [[Sitora Alieva]] an opportunity to "play down the rivalry between Kinotavr and the Moscow Film Festival, also held in June".<ref>[https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/kinotavr-fest-s-focus-is-local-pix-1117923205/ Kinotavr fest’s focus is local pix], Variety</ref>
+The last edition of the festival was held in 2021.
+While preparing the upcoming 2022 edition, the president of the ''Kinotavr'' film festival, [[Alexander Rodnyansky]], announced in March 2022 that the festival would not be held this year. According to the festival's president, "One cannot talk about festivals when [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |Russia is waging an aggressive war]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/organizator-kinotavra-otmenil-festivalj-iz-za-agressii-rossii/31768963.html|title=Президент "Кинотавра" отменил фестиваль из-за "агрессивной войны"|website=Радио Свобода|access-date=2022-03-24|archive-date=2022-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324164742/https://www.svoboda.org/a/organizator-kinotavra-otmenil-festivalj-iz-za-agressii-rossii/31768963.html|language=ru}}</ref>
+In February 2023, the [[Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation]] announced that the festival would not take place that year either.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rg.ru/2023/02/17/v-ministerstve-kultury-rf-obiasnili-pochemu-v-etom-godu-ne-budet-kinotavra.html|title=В министерстве культуры РФ объяснили, почему в этом году не будет "Кинотавра"|website=Российская газета|date=2023-02-17|access-date=2023-10-30|archive-date=2023-04-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426031046/https://rg.ru/2023/02/17/v-ministerstve-kultury-rf-obiasnili-pochemu-v-etom-godu-ne-budet-kinotavra.html|url-status=live|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Стало известно об отказе от проведения фестиваля "Кинотавр"|url=https://smotrim.ru/article/3207805|website=Smotrim.ru|date=2023-02-16|access-date=2024-01-12|archive-date=2023-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326113837/https://smotrim.ru/article/3207805|url-status=live|language=ru}}</ref>
+In October 2023, the festival's website was taken offline. The festival's president, [[Alexander Rodnyansky]], was declared a "[[Russian foreign agent law|foreign agent]]" by the Russian Ministry of Justice on October 21, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-21 |title=Foreign agent Friday: Ukrainian producer Alexander Rodnyansky, Russian reporters Alexander Plyushchev, Tatyana Felgenhauer, Mikhail Zygar added to Russia's 'foreign agent' list |url=https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/10/21/foreign-agent-friday-ukrainian-producer-alexander-rodnyansky-russian-reporters-alexander-plyushchev-tatyana-felgenhauer-mikhail-zygar-added-to-russias-foreign-agent-list-en-news |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=Novaya Gazeta. Europe}}</ref> According to the Russian film industry publication "Exhibitor's Bulletin",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinometro.ru/news/show/name/otmena_kinotavr_16022023|title=Министерство культуры отказалось от идеи проведения «Кинотавра»|website=www.kinometro.ru|access-date=2024-01-12|archive-date=2024-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112222134/https://www.kinometro.ru/news/show/name/otmena_kinotavr_16022023|url-status=live|language=ru}}</ref> citing its own sources, the state "would not restore the Sochi film festival in its previous form". ''De facto'', the festival has ceased to exist.
 ==Awards==
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 * 1992 – ''[[The Sun of the Sleepless]]'' (Солнце неспящих, dir. [[Temur Babluani]])
 * 1993 – ''[[Encore, Once More Encore!]]'' (Анкор, ещё анкор!, dir. [[Pyotr Todorovsky]])
-* 1994 – ''[[Little Angel, Make Me Happy]]'' (Ангелочек, сделай радость, dir. [[Uzmaan Saparov]])
+* 1994 – ''[[Little Angel, Make Me Happy]]'' (Ангелочек, сделай радость, ''Angelochek sdelay radost'', dir. [[Uzmaan Saparov]])<ref>{{IMDb title| 0106281|Angelochek sdelay radost}}</ref>
 * 1995 – ''[[Peculiarities of the National Hunt]]'' (Особенности национальной охоты, dir. [[Aleksandr Rogozhkin]])
 * 1996 – ''[[Prisoner of the Mountains]]'' (Кавказский пленник, dir. [[Sergei Bodrov]])
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 * 1998 – ''[[Time of the dancer]]'' (Время танцора, dir. [[Aleksandr Rogozhkin]])
 * 2000 – ''[[Luna Papa]]'' (Лунный папа, dir. [[Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov]])
-* 2001 – ''[[Tender Age]]'' (Нежный возраст, dir. [[Sergei Solovyov (film director)|Sergei Solovyov]])
+* 2001 – ''[[Tender Age (2000 film)|Tender Age]]'' (Нежный возраст, dir. [[Sergei Solovyov (film director)|Sergei Solovyov]])
 * 2002 – ''[[War (2002 film)|War]]'' (Война, dir. [[Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov]])
 * 2003 – ''[[Old Women]]'' (Старухи, dir. [[Gennadi Sidorov]])
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 * 2019 – ''[[The Bull (2019 film)|The Bull]]'' (Бык, dir. Boris Akopov)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinotavr.ru/en/history/2019/laureates|title=Kinotavr|website=www.kinotavr.ru}}</ref>
 * 2020 - ''[[Scarecrow (2020 film)|Scarecrow]]'' (Пугало, dir. [[Dmitry Davydov (filmmaker)|Dmitry Davydov]])
-* 2021 - ''[[More volnuetsya raz]]'' (Море волнуется раз, dir. [[Nikolay Khomeriki]])
+* 2021 - ''[[More volnuetsya raz|Freeze Dance]]'' (Море волнуется раз, dir. [[Nikolay Khomeriki]])
 ==References and notes==
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 ==External links==
+* [https://www.kinotavr.ru/en Kinotavr] official page in English.
 * {{IMDb event|0000617|Sochi Open Russian Film Festival}}
 * [http://www.rudata.ru/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80_%28%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%8F%29#.D0.9A.D0.B8.D0.BD.D0.BE.D1.82.D0.B0.D0.B2.D1.80._.D0.A0.D0.B8.D1.81.D1.83.D0.BD.D0.BA.D0.B8 Foto gallery from "Kinotavr": Star carpet]
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