Luba Balagova and Mohy Quandour
IRIDA Award
Martha Fiennes
Vladimir Pozner
Luba Balagova, Alfie Best, Grant Miller and Elizabeth Jones
Joel Van der Molen
Vera Glagoleva
Oleg Hill, Luba Balagova Kandour, Nick Nolte, and Victoria George-Veale
Audience
Two Women (Russian: Две женщины, Dve zhenshchiny)
a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Vera Glagoleva, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud. It is based on Ivan Turgenev's 1872 play A Month in the Country (originally written as Two Women in 1855).
At the heart of the play lies the love quadrangle. Natalya Petrovna, the wife of the rich landowner Arkady Sergeich Islaev, falls in love with Alexey Nikolayevich Belyaev - a student, teacher Kolya Islaeva.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin - a friend of the family, has long loved Natalya Petrovna. Verochka - a pupil of Natalya Petrovna also falls in love with Kolya's teacher. Belyaev and Rakitin eventually leave the estate...
London Film Festival: 2013 nomination for Best Film.
Seven Moments of Robert Rozhdestvesky. Director Pavel Menyaylo, Russia.
He was a Soviet-Russian poet and songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer style of poetry in the Soviet Union.
SIFFA Competition and Non-Competition Program Selection
SOMN by director Cal M. Butnaru, United Kingdom
Tell me, RAI by director Enrique Martín Subías, Spain
Negative Skies by director Aidan Sherlock, United Kingdom
Shift Change by director Mark Hensley, United States
The Place by director Arkady Kogan, Russia (special screening)
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Russian: Москва слезам не верит,romanized: Moskva slezam ne verit) is a 1980 Soviet romantic drama film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova and Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981.
Special screening of Vysotsky by director Anatoly Balchev. The film is dedicated to that part of the life of the poet, singer and actor, which he spent in Europe and Russia. He starred in movies there and authored many songs.
The film includes a large amount of archival materials, the director specified. Balchev himself, according to him, collaborated a lot with Vysotsky. He began to create the film a long time ago, but the work went slowly, it was complicated by the search for archival materials.
The film was already screened by SIFFA last year, but because of the huge demand we decided to put it in our program again.
The jury panel for this year’s SIFFA Independent Film Festival in London has been announced, featuring a distinguished lineup of international experts in filmmaking, cinematography, and cultural arts...
The Independent International Film Festival and Awards (SIFFA) will present a new special award this year — the Mohy Quandour (Kandour) Award for Best Youth Focused Film...
This year, SIFFA takes place in the heart of London in Piccadilly at the Vue Cinema. This is its 13th edition and its 9th year in London...