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Russian Film Festival presents a unique opportunity to meet some of the most prominent figures of contemporary Russian cinema and culture during numerous special events: film introductions, Q&A sessions, talks, panel discussions and master classes.

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Ruslan Grinberg

Director of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies
Ruslan Grinberg is the director of the Economy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Nik Powell

Deputy Chairman of Film Committee of BAFTA
He is currently director of the National Film & Television School in England, and he remains chairman of Scala Productions.

Alexander Rubensteyn

Deputy director of the RAN Institute of Economics
This year, he was awarded a European prize for his ‘Contribution to Economics’. With R.S. Greenberg, he co-founded the concept ‘Economic socio-dynamism’, about which more than 10 studies have been published, both in Russia and abroad.

Alexander Lebedev

President of the International Institute of Global Development
Mr. Lebedev’s career commenced in 1977 at the Russian Academy of Sciences, after which he spent several years as a diplomat, being posted to Russia’s Embassy to the UK as both Third and subsequently Second Secretary.

Tom Luddy

Film producer, founder of the Telluride Film Festival and jury member of numerous international film festivals
Tom has been the programme curator for the Documentary Film Institute, San Francisco State University since 2005. In 1974, Tom co-founded the Telluride Film Festival along with Bill Pence and James Card.

Dr. Hans-Joachim Schlegel

Film historian, lecturer, collaborates with Berlin, Venice and Montréal, Oberhausen, Nyon and Leipzig international film festivals
Hans is a film historian and theorist who specialises in Russian, Eastern and Central European cinema and has numerous publications to his name.

Martin Kanzler

Analyst of the Department for Information on Markets and Financing at the European Audiovisual Observatory
He is responsible for the field of film statistics and the LUMIERE database.

Ian Christie

Vice President of Europa Cinemas
Ian Christie joined the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media in Autumn 1999, as Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, having previously been Professor of Film Studies at the University of Kent (1997-9) and Visiting Lecturer in Film at Oxford University (1995-8).

Alexander Melnik

Director, 'Terra Nova'
In 2004 he created a new production company under the same name. Andreevski Flag produced Maria Saakyan's critically acclaimed debut film ‘The Lighthouse', and Sergei Bodrov's box-office hit ‘Mongol'.

Kirill Razlogov

Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies, Moscow
Kirill is an internationally renowned film critic and lecturer in directing and script writing at the Institute for European Culture in Moscow.

Andrei Plakhov

Film critic
Plakhov was born in Starokostiantyniv, Ukrainian SSR. After graduating in mechanics and mathematics from Lviv University, he studied history of cinema at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Evgeny Tsymbal

Filmmaker, historian
Evgeny Tsymbal is the only BAFTA-winning Russian film director. Little known to mainstream film goers, he is well respected in Russian and European artistic and intellectual circles as a documentary filmmaker, writer and film historian.

Vitaly Mansky

Dir. Virginity
He was born in Lvov in 1963 and graduated from the filmmaking school VGIK in 1990. His career in documentary films took off in 1999, when he became the writer and presenter of the Russian television show 'Real Cinema'.

Irina Smolko

Executive producer, 20 Cigarettes
Born in 1973, Irina originally studied general and experimental psychology. At the beginning of 90s she co-founded the consulting company "Alt".

Victor Kuvaldin

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO University, Moscow
One of the most renowned Russian political experts, he has worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science for many years.

Sergei Gazarov

Actor, 12
In 1990 he debuted as a film director with the film «Crazy», which was awarded the Grand-Prix of The Young European Filmmakers Festival in Angers (France).

Mikhail Efremov

Actor, 12
Son of the great Oleg Efremov (founder of the legendary Sovremennik Moscow Theatre), Mikhail Efremov is one of the most recognised and well-received contemporary actors.

Dmitry Sobolev

Scriptwriter, 20 Cigarettes
Dmitry was born in 1974 in Moscow. In 2000 he entered the scriptwriting department at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography.

Mikhail Evlanov

Actor, Live to Remember, Nirvana
Born in 1974, Mikhail made his debut in 2004 in the widely acclaimed film ‘Ours'. Since then Evlanov has appeared in eight feature films, including ‘Simple Things', ‘Nirvana', and a mega successful Russian blockbuster ‘9th Company'.

Darya Moroz

Actor, Live to Remember
Born in 1983, Daria is the daughter of the leading Russian producer and director Yuri Moroz and of the distinguished actress Marina Levtova.

Ershov Stanislav

Producer, Best of Times
Born in 1968 in Chelyabinsk, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics in 1991. In 2003 he became the general director of the Gorky Film Studio.

Eddie Berg

Artistic Director of BFI Southbank
Eddie is also contributing to the BFI's vision to develop a purpose-built international centre for film and moving image culture in London for 2012.

Marina Liubakova

Dir. Cruelty
Born in 1964, Marina Liubakova began her career in TV and documentary filmmaking, working for some of the leading national TV channels - NTV and ‘1'. She made her first short film ‘Chase' in 1994. ‘Cruelty' is her debut feature film.

Svetlana Proskurina

Dir. Best of Times
One of the most complex and mysterious Russian filmmakers working today. Svetlana's unique cinematic style and aesthetics have been highly acclaimed at various international film festivals - Lokarno, Montreal, Rotterdam, Venice, Cannes.

Vladimir Kozlov

Dir. Rock Monologue
Born in 1956, Minsk. Vladimir studied history at the Belarus State University. He then completed a course for assistant and second unit directors at VGIK (Moscow).

Mikhail Kalatozishvili

Dir. Wild Field
Born in 1959, in Tbilisi. Mikhail is the grandson of the great Mikhail Kalatozov, a Georgain-Russian filmmaker, who defined the entire period in Soviet cinema with his groundbreaking films like ‘Cranes are Flying' (1958) and ‘Soy, Cuba' (1964).
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